Ep 66: Do you have a morning routine?

Ep 66: Do you have a morning routine?

This episode is for anyone looking for an anchor to their day.

I promise I'm not going to tell you to get up at 5am. I hold the word "morning" pretty loosely in this context, but I do think a time to pause and commit to ritual at some point in your day can bring much needed structure.

On this episode, I'm sharing my personal morning routine and giving you a few different ways to think about this topic.

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Ep 65: Summer Reading Guide with Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs Darcy

Ep 65: Summer Reading Guide with Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs Darcy

This episode is for anyone who is excited for summer reading!

I am so excited to welcome Anne Bogel, three-time author, blogger at Modern Mrs. Darcy, podcaster at What Should I Read Next? and someone who reads more books than anyone else I know!

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Ep 64: Love Flood

Ep 64: Love Flood

I'm sharing my experiences with Love Floods, from my days as a summer camp counselor to current friendship and colleagues.

Mentioned in this episode:

Radical Compassion by Tara Brach

Ep 51: Masterminds: How To Structure and Maintain a Business Peer Group

10 Things To Tell You Connection Group on FB

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Ep 63: Working from home (A conversation with Emily P Freeman)

Ep 63: Working from home (A conversation with Emily P Freeman)

This episode is for you if you are working from home right now and need some tips or mindset shifts to be less distracted and more productive.

My guest is Emily P FreemanThe Next Right Thing author and podcaster. Her work-from-home structure of Theme Days is something I adopted months ago and on this episode we talk about her approach to this schedule and how she's modifying it during the Covid 19 stay-at-home orders. 

We also talk about the things that we're measuring to feel accomplished, and how social media is making us feel right now when our main connection with the outside world is the internet.

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Ep 60: 10 Favorite Things (Right Now) volume III

Ep 60: 10 Favorite Things (Right Now) volume III

Every twenty episodes, I’ve been sharing my current favorite things. (Check out Episode #20 and Episode #40.) It’s perfect to put all the things I want to tell you about or recommend all in one place!

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Ep 59: Marry the person you could quarantine with (the Tremaines wave hello)

Ep 59: Marry the person you could quarantine with (the Tremaines wave hello)

This episode is for anyone needing a little light distraction.

The Tremaines are waving hello from week 3 of self-isolation to stop the spread of coronavirus. This episode ended up being an accidental model for the type of conversations you could be documenting in your life and family right now during this historic time.

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Ep 58: 10 Ways to write your own history

Ep 58: 10 Ways to write your own history

This episode is for you if you're looking for ways to document your life during the everyday (or during a historic moment).

As the world fights a global pandemic, we are part of a pivotal moment in history. Whether you're hunkering down at home, in an essential job to keep the economy afloat, or on the front lines in the medical profession, this is a time for us to write our OWN stories. Don't simply trust what the history books will say. Document it for yourself. 

I'm sharing 10 simple ways to write your own history, for your own private documentation or to share publicly. All of these methods are simple and easily available.

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BONUS: Anxiety always makes sense (A conversation with Dr. Becky from DrBeckyAtHome)

BONUS: Anxiety always makes sense (A conversation with Dr. Becky from DrBeckyAtHome)

This episode is for you if you need to understand and better cope with your anxiety.

Dr. Becky from Dr. Becky At Home is a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping people cope with anxiety and stress. I found her on Instagram when someone shared one of her posts, and what followed is one of the best and most important conversations I’ve ever had on this show.

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Ep 57: Is it anxiety or is it intuition?

Ep 57: Is it anxiety or is it intuition?

This episode is for you if you have a hard time distinguishing between your anxiety and your intuition.

As someone who talks openly online about both my lifelong anxiety and following my intuition, this is a question I get a lot. I don't have all the answers, and don't always get this 100% correct, but on this episode I'm talking through how and we can conflate these two things, and the #1 question I ask myself to know the difference.

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Ep 56: Who were your cultural icons when you were young?

Ep 56: Who were your cultural icons when you were young?

This episode is for you if you're in the mood for a little light-heartedness.

Today I'm taking a walk through the cultural icons of my youth and what it says about who we were drawn to when we were kids. Whether it's actors, fictional characters, musicians or sports stars, the people we wanted to be when we were young say something about our personalities.

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Ep 55: Living Abroad with Kids (10 Takeaways with Julie Stillwell)

Ep 55: Living Abroad with Kids (10 Takeaways with Julie Stillwell)

This episode is for you if you've ever dreamed of living abroad with your family for a year. 

I've been dying to share this conversation with my dear friend Julie. In 2018, Julie Stillwell and her husband Tom took their two young daughters to live in Amsterdam for one year. All four had lived in Los Angeles their whole lives, so this was a family adventure with a hundred takeaways.

We talk about the logistics of moving abroad and the emotions of both leaving and adjusting. We talk living without a car and sending their kids to the International School. We talk about style and food in Amsterdam versus the United States. We talk about why life seems simpler and slower in this part of Europe, and how temporary absence can actually deepen relationships.

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BONUS: 10 Books in my To Read pile + listener recommendations!

BONUS: 10 Books in my To Read pile + listener recommendations!

This Best Books lately episode ran longer than I expected and I didn't have time to tell you about all the awesome books in my MASSIVE To Read pile. I chose 10 of the books waiting on my kindle or on my bedside to share with you, and then listed the rest over on the blog. (You can find my full To Read list here.)

I love hearing what YOU'RE reading lately, and so the last few minutes of this bonus episode includes listener recommendations, straight from their own mouths. So now my To Read pile is somehow larger than it was before I recorded this...

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Ep 54: Best Books Lately with Jessica Turner + A Conversation about American Dirt with Stephanie Newman-Smith

Ep 54: Best Books Lately with Jessica Turner + A Conversation about American Dirt with Stephanie Newman-Smith

This episode is for you if you love to read (and follow literary controversies).

Book episodes are the best episodes! We spend the first half hour talking about the best books we've read lately with Jessica Turner, and we take a brief detour to talk about #Bookstagram and our current reading habits (including a new hobby Jessica picked up and the #ReadYourBooks challenge she's hosting online).

In the second half of this extra long episode, I'm joined by my real-life book club friend Stephanie Newman-Smith to talk through the layers of controversy around the novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. We talk about who can tell what stories, how the publishing industry is complicit in silencing non-white voices, and the bizarre marketing missteps around the novel that Oprah picked for her book club.

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Ep 53: Whose voice is inside your head?

Ep 53: Whose voice is inside your head?

This episode is for you if you struggle with negative self-talk.

A lot of have a critical voice in our head telling us all sorts of ugly things that lead to second-guessing and self-doubt. But where did that voice originate? Did it come from a parent? An old coach or similar authority figure from your youth? An ex?

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Ep 52: What would YOU tell you to do?

Ep 52: What would YOU tell you to do?

This episode is for you if you're stuck on a decision.

This is simple. This is basic. But next time you're spinning out on making a decision (any decision), ask yourself:

What would YOU tell you to do?

This little exercise can bring immediate clarity when we're lost in a sea of Pro/Con lists and justifications.

On this episode, I'm sharing how this has applied to my own life, especially when I lost myself for a bit in my mid-thirties.

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Ep 50: Who were you 10 years ago?

Ep 50: Who were you 10 years ago?

This episode is for you if you forgot to self reflect about the new decade on New Years Eve. 

Happy first birthday to 10 Things To Tell You! 🎉

We're celebrating one year of good questions and solid conversations. In the beginning of this episode, I share some of the best episodes of the past year (both statistically and personally) and reflect on making these first 50+ episodes. 

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Ep 49: Where are your bandaids?

Ep 49: Where are your bandaids?

This episode is for you if you're using a flimsy bandaid over something that needs stitches. Metaphorically.

On this episode I'm sharing three ways in which I have used a bandaid to cover up something that really needed more attention: a medical problem, a relationship strain, and a frustration in the house.

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