THE ORIGINS OF THE CAR MOM - LIZZ'S VERSION
4/22/202633 min
It's an all-Lizz episode of the Carpool Podcast today. This week, she tells her side of the story of how the Car Mom came to be. Hear how a call from Kelly led to her moving back home from Texas, quitting her job and working on the Car Mom full time. She also reveals why she initially disliked the name and what would happen if they ever fought over money. Plus, answering your questions from Instagram!
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz.
Lizz St. John· Host0:07
Actually said, I was like, "I think that's an amazing idea. The only thing is is I don't think The Car Mom [laughs] is, like, the right name. So I think we need to workshop the name, but I, like, love the direction you're going in." Anyway, like, the next day, she sends me a logo, she sends me, like, she's got the trademark going, like, "We're going with The Car Mom." And you know what? Some things you just don't need to rework.
Speaker 10:27
Your mom time off starts now.
Lizz St. John· Host0:32
Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with just Liz today. Kelly ha- and I have some travel this week, um, so just with travel schedules, childcare schedules, um, we could not get both of us to record the podcast in time. So it's just me today. I'm hoping we can have a Friday episode, but the only way we can do that is if I bring some of our podcasting equipment with me, with us on our, our four-hour car drive to Iowa. So if I'm able to successfully have us record a podcast whilst driving, we will have one on Friday. The likelihood that, like, technical difficulties arise i- is kind of high, 'cause we've never, never recorded in a car before. Um, so if it doesn't work for whatever reason, that's why we won't have a Friday podcast, but I am going to do everything in my power to try and make it happen. But today,