Ep 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.
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Ep 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.
Read MoreBONUS: 10 Books in my To Read pile + listener recommendations!
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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...
Read MoreEp 54: Best Books Lately with Jessica Turner + A Conversation about American Dirt with Stephanie Newman-Smith
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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.
Read MoreEp 53: Whose voice is inside your head?
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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?
Read MoreEp 52: What would YOU tell you to do?
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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.
Read MoreEp 51: Masterminds: How to create and structure a business peer group (with guests Jamie Golden, Bri McKoy, and Kendra Adachi)
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This episode is for you if you’re interested in creating a mastermind group to grow your business.
Read MoreEp 50: Who were you 10 years ago?
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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.
Read MoreEp 49: Where are your bandaids?
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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.
Read MoreEp 48: Should we post our kids on social media? (A conversation with Nish Weiseth)
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This episode is for you if you’ve ever second-guessed posting photos of your kids online.
Nish Weiseth - a friend I met through mommy blogging years ago - recently posted on Instagram that she was going to take a step back from posting her family online, because her kids are getting older and she started questioning her own motivations. I thought her take was really interesting, so I reached out and asked her to have a friend-to-friend conversation on this topic…publicly.
Read MoreEp 47: 10 Ways to feel better
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This episode is for you if you’ve ever needed to shake off a bad mood or a bad day.
I’m sharing 10 ways to pull myself out a funk.
Read MoreBONUS: Intentions, Affirmations, and Vision Boards, Oh my!
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This episode is for you if you’re thinking about setting intentions, starting affirmations, and creating a vision board for the new year.
On this episode, I’m sharing my (relatively recent) experience with setting intentions, writing down affirmations, and creating a vision board.
Read MoreEp 46: Book Club 2019 (Best, Worst, and Buzziest Books of the Year)
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Allllll the Best Of book lists are rolling out and of course I have to throw my two cents in.
This episode is a conversation with two friends from my real life book club, Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith. We are discussing the best, worst, and buzziest books of the year and we have a LOT of words.
Read MoreEp 45: 10 Questions for the end of the year
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This episode is for you if you enjoy end-of-the-year reflection and journaling.
It's the end of the year, and the end of the decade, and even though we're still a few weeks out from kissing 2019 goodbye and ushering in 2020, I'm posing these questions a little early so that you'll have time to think about your answers this month.
There are 10 questions in this episode meant to make you reflect upon on the last twelve months and get some clarity for what you want in the coming year. The prompts are a mix of light and deep, some to document a simple moment in time, others to help you grow.
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