then news meeting on Skype at 9:00 from home...

... then I feed the baby ..then I go to work." How it all started..

 "I've always felt driven to please people,

and got joy out of being a good worker and being rewarded.

Like when we were kids and Grandpa and Grandma would pay us 1 cent to pick up walnuts in the front yard.

I learned at a young age that you always got rewarded for hard work.

I got my first job at 14 at a hardware store. 

 I would walk --it was right across the lake.

 I worked there for 5 years and got promoted to different jobs.

Hard work always."

Stepping into Motherhood..

"We didn't want kids, 

but when Adam turned 30, he told me that he thought that we may regret not having kids.

He said "We can make this work, I can stay home."

I asked Lindsey what her biggest fear about having kids was,

and she says,

"I was afraid of being pregnant, I was afraid of being in labor, 

I was afraid of everything! 

I thought to myself, 'I didn't need this',

but Adam put it in my head.

It took 4 years, but at 29 I had Layla."

I asked Lindsey what her biggest surprise was when it came to motherhood.

She answered,

"how much no sleep would impact her."

With her first she didn't get good sleep for the first 4 and a half months,

so by the second time around she was more prepared for sleep deprivation only to find out 

that her second was a much better sleeper.

She says one of the challenges is that breastfeeding can be super hard,

so she feels lucky that she can work from home.

She notes her gratefulness for her husband who is able to stay home with the kids,

making her more flexible at her job.

I asked her how she got to where she is career wise,

and she says,

"from hard work, knowing the right people,

and pure luck". 

I asked Adam if he thought the luck thing was true and 

he says "no she's great, she's great at what she does, she's perfect".

Lindsey has received dozens of awards for her work.

Most recently including, "Best Radio Journalist of the Year" and

 2016 Best News Documentary, "Not safe to Drink", which covered the Flint Water Crisis.

This past month her and Adam visited New York for the first time.

She and her team accepted the award for best audio news documentary in the county,

"Not Safe to drink."

They were able to beat out big markets such as New York, LA, Chicago, and DC.

In her humble words, "It was a compelling story without me.

I just hope I did them some justice.

Also, its weird to celebrate when the water in flint is *still* not safe to drink with a filter.

This was not lost on us."

Can I add that my cousin Lindsey is the best example

of working hard and staying humble? ;)