Ep 209: Best Books Lately (with Sara Hildreth of Fiction Matters)

Ep 209: Best Books Lately (with Sara Hildreth of Fiction Matters)

This conversation starts with a thoughtful discussion about reviewing books on social media (#Bookstagram #BookTok) versus being a literary critic and Sara makes some excellent points about the way we talk about books online these days. And then Sara and I each share four of the best books we've read lately, including a novel I just finished that may be one of my favorites of all time.

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Ep 208: How My Anxiety Has Changed In My 40s

Ep 208: How My Anxiety Has Changed In My 40s

It's been awhile since we've talked directly about mental health, and I wanted to give a personal update about what I've noticed is different about my lifelong anxiety in the last few years. I attribute these changes to aging, and evolving lifestyle, and a few different habits that I have really prioritized since I turned 40.

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Ep 207: 10 Tips To Build Your Best Wardrobe

Ep 207: 10 Tips To Build Your Best Wardrobe

I always thought that a benefit to getting older was that I would settle into a signature style, but the truth is that my 40s has been sort of a fashion roller coaster. Maybe it's a changing body, maybe the pandemic led to some lazy dressing habits, or maybe our personal style is just always evolving.

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Ep 204: Didn't I Just Feed You? 10 Tips for Saving Your Sanity in the Kitchen

Ep 204: Didn't I Just Feed You? 10 Tips for Saving Your Sanity in the Kitchen

Didn't I Just Feed You? is such a relatable mom thought and is also the title of the popular podcast from my guests Meghan and Stacie, two professional cooks with a collective 20+ years of experience in test kitchens, on television, at food publications, and more.

They know their way around a kitchen, and want to make your life as the family cook easier. In this episode, Meghan and Stacie are sharing 10 Tips for Saving Your Sanity in the Kitchen. These women made me think, made me laugh, and made me actually WANT to cook for my family. 

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Ep 203: Meditation for Beginners

Mindfulness meditation has changed my life. It has helped with my anxiety, productivity, and inner peace. 

In this episode, mindfulness educator Laurie Cousins walks us through 10 tips for the meditation-curious, those beginning a meditation journey, and anyone in need of a refresher for what a meditation practice can bring. 

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Ep 202: The Secret To Good Goal Setting (with Abbie Schiller)

Ep 202: The Secret To Good Goal Setting (with Abbie Schiller)

In this conversation with professional goal coach Abbie Schiller, we unpack all the reasons that setting goals makes us groan, and why it doesn't have to be that way. Instead we can look at goals as a framework that moves us forward to create better lives.

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Ep 200: What is the ONE thing you would tell? (Celebrating 200 episodes with past guests of the show)

Ep 200: What is the ONE thing you would tell? (Celebrating 200 episodes with past guests of the show)

TWO HUNDRED EPISODES! It's a milestone worth celebrating. 

We're going back to the roots of the show and asking ourselves, What is the ONE thing you would tell? Not 10 Things. Not 3 things. But the most important message you would share with others if given a pen, a keyboard, or a microphone. 

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Ep 198: 10 Questions for the End of the Year

Ep 198: 10 Questions for the End of the Year

The 10 questions in this episode are meant to bring introspection (if you work through them alone) and connection (if you bring them up in conversation). Bring these to your journal, to your travel companions, to the holiday table, or just let them flow through your mind in these last few weeks of the year as we wind down 2023 and gear up for 2024. 

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Ep 197: Modern Manners for Teens

Ep 197: Modern Manners for Teens

My guest Brooke Romney believes that the only thing harder than parenting a modern teen is being a modern teen. In this episode, Brooke and I talk about a few of the rules that stuck out to me from her guide 52 Modern Manners for Today's Teens. This was a conversation I didn't even know I needed to have, and I loved it. 

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Ep 196: Symposium: Britney Spears's New Memoir

Ep 196: Symposium: Britney Spears's New Memoir

During our monthly Symposium meeting, the Secret Stuff community had smart, thoughtful, and compassionate takes on Britney Spears’s memoir itself and on Britney's place in music history and our pop culture lexicon.

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BONUS: 4 Rules For Sharing Your Story (Especially When It's Hard) with Carmen Rita Wong

BONUS: 4 Rules For Sharing Your Story (Especially When It's Hard) with Carmen Rita Wong

I love memoirs. I love hearing other people's stories in their own words. And, of course, I champion the idea to Share Your Stuff. 

But what if the story you need to tell is really difficult? What if it's hard to do justice to the truth while also protecting (or not protecting) other people? My guest for this conversation is author Carmen Rita Wong and she is sharing her own 4 rules to doing this well. 

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Ep 194: On Endings and Intuition (with Meg Tietz)

Ep 194: On Endings and Intuition (with Meg Tietz)

10 Things To Tell You exists because Meg Tietz put a microphone in my hand nearly a decade ago when she launched the Sorta Awesome podcast and asked me to be a regular cohost. That invitation changed my life, along with the thousands of Sorta Awesome listeners who have been touched by Meg's words and wisdom for all these years. 

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