
Unpacking the Elephant
Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of a blended family is rarely the schedule on the calendar. It’s the unspoken stuff: the grief nobody names, the loyalty kids feel in their chest, and the pressure adults carry to make i

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Hosted by Greg and Jess · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 75 episodes
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Baggage Claim is a space for blended families, marriage, and friendship. Here, we dive into real-life conversations about the ups and downs of relationships, from navigating second marriages to unpacking the baggage we all bring. Hosted by Greg and Jessica, who both have rich experiences with love, loss, and family, this community is about sharing stories, learning together, and growing stronger as couples and individuals. Grab a drink and join us as we unpack, laugh, and claim our baggage—one conversation at a time
Greg and Jess hosts Baggage Claim, a society show with 75 episodes published.

Send us Fan Mail The hardest part of a blended family is rarely the schedule on the calendar. It’s the unspoken stuff: the grief nobody names, the loyalty kids feel in their chest, and the pressure adults carry to make i

Send us Fan Mail One awkward moment at a kid’s birthday party can expose years of unspoken tension. We’ve lived it: a family member warmly reconnects with the ex while the current spouse gets ignored in the same breath.

Send us Fan Mail Joy can feel like a missing person when bills pile up, the house is chaotic, and your brain won’t stop scanning for what could go wrong. We sit down as a real married couple with real pressures and ask a

Send us Fan Mail Something feels off, but you can’t quite name it and then one day you finally say it out loud: “We’re missing fun.” That’s where we start, with Greg, Jess, and Michael trading jokes, real confessions, an

Send us Fan Mail You can love each other and still be running a relationship on autopilot. We get honest about the hidden systems already shaping your marriage: the routines for money, schedules, and kids, plus the unspo

Send us Fan Mail A thriving marriage isn’t luck, and it definitely isn’t a roll of the dice. We’re six months into the year, so we’re doing a real-time marriage check-in and asking the question most couples avoid: if the

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to turn a normal day into a blowup is to “see” something that isn’t actually there. A cup on the counter becomes disrespect. A missed chore becomes proof they don’t care. A quiet drive ho

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to wreck a blended family isn’t a missed pickup or a messy schedule, it’s turning your kids into the place you dump your hurt. We get real about the quiet, everyday moments when bitternes

Send us Fan Mail Your marriage doesn’t need more pressure. It needs more room to breathe. We sit down with our friends Richard and Nibia Conley and the conversation goes everywhere we love: relationships, real-life stres

Send us Fan Mail If your home feels like a command center for schedules, bills, sports, and stress, we get it, and we’re not here to pile on more rules. We’re Greg and Jess, and we’re making a case for something that sou

Send us Fan Mail Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are supposed to feel simple. In a blended family, they can feel like a stress test for everyone’s emotions, schedules, and loyalty. We dig into what actually happens when ex

Send us Fan Mail You can say “I’d do anything for you” and still miss your marriage in the daily grind. That’s the tension we sit with today, because the biggest threats to connection usually aren’t dramatic, they’re sub

Send us Fan Mail Some nights we want to show up upbeat and polished, but real life doesn’t always cooperate. We’re recording after a week that feels way too heavy, and instead of pretending we’re fine, we sit in the trut

Send us Fan Mail Someday your child will describe your childhood home to someone you’ve never met, and they’ll focus on the parts that stayed: the feeling at the door, the tone at the table, the way safety and tension li

Send us Fan Mail Ever notice how a new relationship can start fresh… then somehow you end up having the exact same argument you swore you’d never have again? Tonight we get honest (and a little ridiculous) about why patt

Send us Fan Mail The smallest moments can reveal the biggest patterns. One of us walks into a room and talks to everyone, the other hangs back and watches, and suddenly you can see the same dynamic playing out at home: w

Send us Fan Mail A lot of relationship fights aren’t really about the dirty dishes, the unread text, or the vibe in the room. They’re about the ghosts that show up with us, old trauma, old trust breaks, old survival habi

Send us Fan Mail Real friendship is easy when life is easy. The test is what happens when the story gets complicated: divorce, remarriage, blended family dynamics, babies, exhausting work weeks, moving houses, and the sl

Send us Fan Mail We decided to do something risky: hit record with no plan and trust the conversation to take us where it needs to go. What starts as a fun question about conspiracy theories quickly turns into something

Send us Fan Mail Your phone can be a calendar, a camera, a workspace, and a dopamine machine, but it can also become the loudest unspoken argument in a marriage. We go from joking about road trip snacks to a topic that h
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