Ep 73: I wrote a book! (Agents, publishers, writing, and editing.)
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This episode is for anyone curious about the process of writing and publishing.
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Ep 72: Has the internet ever changed your mind?
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This episode is for anyone willing to examine what they bring to internet culture.
Has the internet ever changed your mind on an issue? Is it easier to hear a new perspective from friends and acquaintances or from strangers?
The episode is all about the ways that people’s social media posts ARE changing our culture, despite your cousin/coworker/neighbor who claims that no good comes from fighting on facebook.
Read MoreEp 71: Kendra Adachi is The Lazy Genius
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I am so excited to share this conversation with my friend Kendra Adachi (aka The Lazy Genius) because not only do we talk about being “work friends” and how that narrow relationship title offers us freedom in our friendship, but Kendra also applies her Lazy Genius principles to my problem prioritizing work tasks.
This episode is part friendship, part therapy, part work/life balance.
Read MoreEp 70: Age is just a number, right?
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Please indulge me in a little birthday episode.
I turn 41 this week and though it’s not the major milestone I celebrated last year, I still have things to say. This is a short list of things i’ve noticed and learned as I age.
Read MoreEp 69: BONUS! 22+ Things our family watched in quarantine
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On roughly week 11 of the Los Angeles lockdown due to the coronavirus, I sat down with my husband Jeff and our two kids - ages 8 & 10 - for a lighthearted chat about all the movies, documentaries, and tv series we watched during quarantine since this season meant a LOT more screen time for our family than usual.
Read MoreEp 68: Hometown: A conversation about race with LaToyia Brown, Monica Pickens, and Danielle Williams
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I’ve wanted to have this conversation with my hometown friends since I made the BIAS series on Smartest Person in the Room in 2018. I preferred to do it in person back then, but when the recent protests started over the murder of George Floyd, I asked if they would be willing to record online instead.
Read MoreEp. 67: Social Shaming during Covid-19 (A conversation with Kristen Howerton)
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This episode is for anyone who has felt shamed or judgmental over choices made during the global pandemic.
Admit it: you’ve either hidden your own activity or judged other people’s choices in the last few months. I’m joined by blogger, podcaster, and author Kristen Howerton (who you may know from her blog Rage Against the Minivan or from her weekly self-care podcast Selfie) to discuss the social shaming that we’re doing and feeling during this unprecedented season of the coronavirus.
PRE-ORDER Kristen’s new book Rage Against the Minivan (Out June 9!)
Read MoreEp 66: Do you have a morning routine?
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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.
Read MoreEp 65: Summer Reading Guide with Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs Darcy
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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!
Read MoreEp 64: Love Flood
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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
Read MoreEp 63: Working from home (A conversation with Emily P Freeman)
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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 Freeman, The 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.
Read MoreEp 62: Should you reread or burn old journals and letters?
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This episode if for you if you’re staring at that old shoebox full of memorabilia and aren’t sure what to do with it.
Read MoreEp 61: What if it's not that deep?
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This episode is for you if you strive to find meaning in everything.
I want you to think about whether everything deserves the energy you're giving it.
Read MoreEp 60: 10 Favorite Things (Right Now) volume III
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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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Read MoreEp 59: Marry the person you could quarantine with (the Tremaines wave hello)
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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.
Read MoreEp 58: 10 Ways to write your own history
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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.
Read MoreBONUS: Anxiety always makes sense (A conversation with Dr. Becky from DrBeckyAtHome)
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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.
Read MoreEp 57: Is it anxiety or is it intuition?
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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.
Read MoreEp 56: Who were your cultural icons when you were young?
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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.
Read MoreEp 55: Living Abroad with Kids (10 Takeaways with Julie Stillwell)
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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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