A podcast

dedicated to all of our precious half-formed thoughts.

You know, the ones that are just on the tip of your tongue. The ones that almost come to the surface, but have to take a back seat for the time being in this busy season of life. The ones we’re afraid to recognize. The ones that get pushed aside amidst the daily grind, the lack of time for introspection, or little ones asking you to look at something completely regular and arbitrary for the hundredth time.

After the Kids Go Down wasn’t always a podcast. It started as a time — a mere point in the day — where two friends got together to decompress, focus on their love of writing, encourage each other to expand on an incomplete thought, and dive into the something more that felt a little small during the daytime hours.

Bona and Eileen soon came to realize that the conversations that were taking place after the kids went down felt so therapeutic and necessary for their independent growth. What started off as nights of writing exercises turned into recording conversations. They got some more professional equipment, brainstormed and messed up a million and a half times, and laughed (maybe cried) at their cute ass learning curve. From this, the podcast was born.

It’s all intertwined — the conversations they were having, the reasons they’re committed to making this podcast, what they aim to do. Bona and Eileen want to kick perfectionism in the ass with courage and vulnerability. They want to talk about it all — What eats at us? What drives us? What are we afraid to admit out loud? Why are we the way that we are? They’ll let you in on their thoughts and expand on them together.

Join your hosts, Eileen and Bona, as they dive into conversation ranging from mental health, questioning social norms, the relationships that surround us, raising our kids, growing up Asian American, things they’ve been struggling to name, haven’t had a real moment to process, and of course, relatable daily experiences sprinkled with self-deprecating humor. And whatever thought du jour that plagues us.