Make it Make Sense with Dr. Mary McDonald and Maureen Yarborough
Sep 1, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
The advice that changes everything is rarely complicated - it’s usually a quiet nudge to trust your gut, go first, and build the kind of village you actually want to live in. Dr. Mary McDonald and…
Mary McDonaldHost
Maureen YarboroughHost
Emma McDonaldGuest
My advice to her, my advice to anyone in their early 20s probably and moving away would be to trust your gut.
you know in your gut when something is right or when it's wrong, whether it's a decision or an action or anything.
And when I was younger, I had trouble, I think, trusting myself But she'll be okay.
know, when you do move away from home, because I was married, but only for a year when I moved away.
But then all of a sudden, there's no built-in support system that you grew up trusting.
And so you have to discern or make it make sense of who can you trust now? How do you build that new support system? Where do you go to do that?
You know, you just took me right back to when we were, it was just Joe and I in a city where we didn't know anyone and we had to become each other's best friends.
know, and it was, it was like, I didn't have friends to like go out with or to, or to, you know, complain about.
Until you found friends, and then they found them first, and then their parents became
My advice to her, my advice to anyone in their early 20s probably and moving away would be to trust your gut.
you know in your gut when something is right or when it's wrong, whether it's a decision or an action or anything.
And when I was younger, I had trouble, I think, trusting myself But she'll be okay.
know, when you do move away from home, because I was married, but only for a year when I moved away.
But then all of a sudden, there's no built-in support system that you grew up trusting.
And so you have to discern or make it make sense of who can you trust now? How do you build that new support system? Where do you go to do that?
You know, you just took me right back to when we were, it was just Joe and I in a city where we didn't know anyone and we had to become each other's best friends.
know, and it was, it was like, I didn't have friends to like go out with or to, or to, you know, complain about.
Until you found friends, and then they found them first, and then their parents became
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