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Ah the magic of friendship! In this episode, Zee and Rissa explore the natural changes in friendships while we parent toddlers--- the celebrations and also grief of trying to maintain these meaningful connections. We start the episode off with imagining our parallel universe selves coming up with a new TV show that involves matchmaking parents with other parents (because, finding parent friends is so much harder than finding a friend just for you--- especially after our 30's!), followed by a dialogue that has us talking about the waning and waxing of relationships as we navigate parenthood. xoxo,  Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay    Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected]  And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY  Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

What is pretty? Oh so pretty? It's apparently Eurocentric and patriarchal dictated and it's the WORST. Zee and Rissa dialogue about the harmful expectations of beauty on Filipina women, how we've seen it intentionally and unintentionally perpetuated in our childhood, and our daily efforts to combat its harm as it continues to rear its ugly head as we try to live our life free from its manicured, dangerous grasp. xoxo,  Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay    Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected]  And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY  Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

Ay Bastos!! If you're Rissa or Zee's parents, for the love of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph--- do not listen to this episode!⁠ Rissa and Zee get bare (lmao) about their feelings and perspectives about love, sensuality, and sexuality and dialogue about how coloniality impacted various aspects of the three topics. The two dialogue about their respective and different journeys of sexual liberations, sensuality, and sexuality after giving birth, and the impact of their Catholic upbringing and its impact to today and propose a reality tv show that needs to happen because #Filipinxrepresentation is so crucial!⁠ xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay) If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected] And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

Guess who just turned one?! We are so excited to reach our first year mark! As we turn over a new year, we follow our mantra of grounding and growing and reflect on where we came from (delving into our different immigration stories and our unique and shared experiences) and where our show will be going. This episode is jam packed with some shout outs from previous episodes so if you hear a reference from an episode you've heard before, drink you dirty mother*! *Mother in the most inclusive sense xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay) If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected] And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

Maligayang Pasko (Merry Christmas in Tagalog), dirty nanays*! For this episode, we invited one of our favorite people to play a little game to (hopefully!) help fellow Filipinx folks who experience mixed feelings about going to a Filipinx party a little less alone. What's the game you ask? It's a frankenbaby of D&D and escape rooms where we play a protagonist who just really wants to get through a Filipinx party without losing her shit. If you like role playing games and escape rooms, boisterous Tita laughter, drunken decision making, and hearing what you wish you can say to toxic comments--- this episode is for you! * moms, dads, parents, titos, titas, caregiver, pamilya xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay    Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected]  And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY  Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

HAPPY HALLOWEEN and HAPPY FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH! This episode required a ton of liquid courage as we dive into the frightening world of Filipinx horror folklore! We talk about a couple of our favorite Filipinx monsters and analyze how folklore impacts our upbringing, how they play a role in our parenting, and of course, its association with coloniality! Lay down, relax, or drive, or chest feed, or sit there in silence after getting your baby to finally go to sleep... but whatever you do, make sure you don't bother the mumo when you listen to this spooky episode! xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay    Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected]  And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

Hello Dirty Nanays/Tatays/Titos/Titas/Mga Kapatid! We are so excited to be back after 3 months of family time, self-care, big transitions and [frightening] but memorable vacations that will leave a lasting impact. After a quick-ish update (that’s a lie—it’s not quick, but it’s meaningful #qualityoverquantity), we dialogue about our experiences as Working Nanays, and trying to find ways that we don’t lose ourselves in the rat race. Enjoy our long ass episode—we had a lot to say after 3 months of not seeing each other’s faces! xoxo, Rissa & Zee  Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay    Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"  If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)  If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected]  And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat!  Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

MaliGAYang Pride Month part dalawa!! We are still celebrating Pride month and we are super stoked to invite back a special guest! Can you guess who? We play a fun game that involves Vicks (cuz you know, Vicks fixes everything...) and we get to spend time with a special Tita! We like to celebrate the creative Filipinx LGBTQ+ artists and celebrate their stories because narratives of color need to be amplified. xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay   Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay) If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected] And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

MaliGAYang Pride Month!! In this episode, the nanays sit cozy with their drinks in a space filled with warmth, laughter, and honesty as their special guest Ti, helps them create an environment that facilitates their dialogue about coloniality's impact on living authentically as a queer Filipinx. The nanays reflect on their pasts to create a future that ensures that their children can live in authenticity. xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay  Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay) If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected] And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

May was a big month! We had Mother’s Day on May 9, AAPI Heritage Month, and Mental Health Awareness Month, and we had one opportunity to make an episode, so instead of a couple of episodes, you get one long ass episode where we address ALL of this. This Halo Halo Episode is filled with tearful storytelling, and boisterous Tita laughter as Rissa and Zee invite one of their friends, Jen, to some heart to heart dialogue followed by a drinking game. We celebrate the averageness of being Dirty Nanays, because , at the end of the day, Nanays (in the most inclusive meaning—that means you too, our nonbinary cousins, adoptive parents, etc.) are extraordinary people.   xoxo, Rissa & Zee   Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay  Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay  Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour"   If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay)   If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected]  And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY  Maraming salamat!   Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

Yes, we are a week late (and no, this doesn't have anything to do with a pregnancy reference). WE HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING!! Not only are we exhausted as social justice workers and Filipinx parents, we literally have no answers on how to address the rise in Asian hate crimes and supporting our Black Community because we are dealing with our own stress and emotions when it comes to holding space for ourselves, for our family, and for our BIPOC community. So, let's address the elephant in the room! We have a candid conversation on what has been weighing on our minds and on our hearts and find inspiration on Native American/Indigenous people's concept of a healing circle. I hope this conversation resonates with all of you.  xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay) If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected] And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats

YO! WE HAVE BEEN IN QUARANTINE MODE FOR 1 YEAR! Here are some direct quotes from Rissa and Zee: "This was supposed to be 6 weeks!" "We will be done by Easter..."... Remember that?! Well, this episode is a nod to our fellow Filipinx parents (and all parents/guardians out there) that had to parent and DID THE DAMN THING during the pandemic. Is it worth a "HAPPY QUARANTINE ANNIVERSARY"? We think of who we were prior to the pandemic and who we have become during this pandemic. This was a difficult year for everyone, especially with all the social justice issues that have occurred. We witnessed a rise of protests for #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate... it was an exhausting year! Cheers to continuing the fight on social justice and being caregivers of the next generation! And because we are being real, apologies for Zee's sniffling and the echoing from Rissa's wonky mic. xoxo, Rissa & Zee Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtynanay Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dirtynanay Join our interactive private Facebook group (open only to Filipinx parents/caregivers/caregivers of Filipinx children): search "Dirty Nanay: Happy Hour" If you feel inspired and want to help with the success of our podcast, consider joining our Patreon page, become a monthly patron, and receive some fun benefits and rewards exclusively from us (www.patreon.com/DirtyNanay). If you want to show us some love, you may email us at [email protected] And you can now leave us a voicemail/text message to show some love! Reach us at: (805)83-NANAY Maraming salamat! Intro/Outro Music: "6 Months Old" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats Segway Music: "The Kong Quest" - Shubzilla & Bill Beats