Family Friends with Kirstie Lee and Ashley Yang

“No gifts” sounds simple until you’re the parent arriving empty-handed. Ashley and Kirstie unpack the unspoken rules, awkward choices, and mounting pressure around kids’ birthday parties, from gift etiquette to whether your friends even make the guest list.Listener question: How do I know whether to have another kid?

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Comparison can make meaningful work feel like failure, especially when you’re measuring your behind-the-scenes against someone else’s highlight reel. Kirstie and Ashley get honest about business, motherhood, hormones, and the ways friendship can help you see your own progress more clearly.

A little bit about us! Our moms were besties when we were literally in the womb, so we grew up together play Spit on Friday nights until 2 am (our parents would NOT stop talking). We went to the same elementary and middle school, and we cried about boys in high school. But eventually we got married and pregnant together. And now we have left our tech jobs to pursue creative careers. Each episode we catch up on our crazy weeks, we talk about parenting but also pull back the curtain on having your own business, a creative career and juggling it all. We started as family friends, but now? Now we’re friends that are like family.

Ashley and Kirstie unpack the patterns behind the hard days of self doubt at work, managing toddler restraint collapse and the guilt that makes moms feel like their own time is optional.Together they explore why transitions consume more capacity than we expect—and how making space for creativity, rest, and your own interests can actually help you become more patient, present, and engaged with your kids.

Ashley and Kirstie recently when on a revealing group vacation where all the husbands exhibited some seemingly inconsiderate behavior that turns into an honest examination of boundaries, introversion, and the different ways partners show love.

Networking does not have to mean awkward small talk or figuring out what you can get from someone. Ashley and Kirstie share a more human, low-pressure approach to building meaningful connections online, at events, and in everyday life.

A year that’s down 87% can still be a year of progress. Ashley and Kirstie get honest about business “flop eras,” the failures that linger, and how to tell when it’s time to keep going, change course, or give yourself a break.

Ashley and Kirstie unpack why doing something completely pointless, low-stakes, and new can reset your brain more effectively than a doomscrolling break.