August 25, 2020

Ep 79: 10+ Mantras and affirmations for RIGHT NOW

August 25, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

This episode is for anyone who needs a little help with their attitude and self-talk right now.

I know I beat this drum regularly, but I really believe that the way we speak to ourselves shapes the way we move in the world. And these days, my self-talk can be all over the place. On this episode, I’m sharing my own personal current mantras and affirmations, and also just talking about how these things can work in your life. (Hint: it’s not magic. It’s brain science.)

But the best part of this episode is hearing from the listeners who sent in THEIR own mantras. So many great words out there.

August 21, 2020

BONUS: How white women can stop avoiding hard conversations. (A conversation with Jenna Arnold)

August 21, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

In this BONUS episode, Jenna and I talk through a few of the reasons white women statistically stay silent about important issues:

perfection,

performance,

and

peacekeeping.

August 18, 2020

Ep 78: Trust your intuition, use your brain. (A conversation with Meg Tietz)

August 18, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

This episode is for anyone who needs a good, long, catchup with girlfriends.

It's been awhile since we've had a huge dose of girlfriend chat on the show, but great conversations are the driving force of 10 Things To Tell You. In our long overdue conversation, Meg and I each share five things we need to catch up on. We talk loneliness, Real Housewives, true crime obsessions, the perfect amazon purchase, shoes, and intuition.

August 11, 2020

Ep 77: What's your BIG story?

August 11, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

What's your BIG story? The main narrative arc to your life? The story that is central to your identity? Anyone who knows you well knows this story. Maybe it happened in childhood. Maybe you're currently in the middle of it. But we all have one, big, main story.

In movies and in literature, they call this the Hero's Journey. It's one of the the most common storytelling devices in art. On this episode, I'm sharing my own BIG story. The thing that I arrange events into Before & After.

August 04, 2020

Ep 76: 10 Questions to ask yourself in the middle of anything

August 04, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

This episode is for anyone who could use an honest evaluation in the middle of something. (And maybe a reset.)

In the beginning, we make plans. Set goals. Hope for the best. At the end, we evaluate how it went. We make notes for next time. We accept our trophies or don't. But what about in the middle? Don't we need to stop down and ask some hard questions in the MIDDLE? To see if we're on track? To make tweaks? To define what it means to "finish well"?

July 28, 2020

Ep 75: Who are you talking about?

July 28, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

This episode is for anyone who had felt icky, gleeful, guilty, or triumphant after talking about someone else.

Look, we all do it sometimes, right? We gossip or vent or judge someone in conversation with friends. But does talking about someone behind their back REALLY say more about us than it does about them? Let’s discuss.

July 24, 2020

BONUS: More great books to read!

July 24, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

We didn't have time for me to share ALL the great books I've been reading on the recent reading episode, so this is a little bonus to tell you all about my current book stack, including a new novel that's a contender for favorite of the year, and a nonfiction book that I am forcing myself to read with an open mind.

July 21, 2020

Ep 74: Best Books Lately with Sarah Bessey

July 21, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

It's time for another episode about BOOKS and this time I'm joined by my good friend Sarah Bessey. Sarah is a writer, speaker, and all around woman of wisdom. She is the author of Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts, and the spiritual memoir Miracles and Other Reasonable Things. She is also the cofounder of the Evolving Faith conference.

Follow Sarah Bessey on Instagram and Facebook

On this episode, Sarah and I each share the best books we've read lately, including popular novels, Canadian authors that fly under the radar, and social justices resources.

July 14, 2020

Ep 73: I wrote a book! (Agents, publishers, writing, and editing.)

July 14, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

This episode is for anyone curious about the process of writing and publishing.

June 30, 2020

Ep 72: Has the internet ever changed your mind?

June 30, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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.

June 23, 2020

Ep 71: Kendra Adachi is The Lazy Genius

June 23, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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.

June 16, 2020

Ep 70: Age is just a number, right?

June 16, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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.

June 14, 2020

Ep 69: BONUS! 22+ Things our family watched in quarantine

June 14, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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.

June 09, 2020

Ep 68: Hometown: A conversation about race with LaToyia Brown, Monica Pickens, and Danielle Williams

June 09, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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.

May 19, 2020

Ep 66: Do you have a morning routine?

May 19, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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.

May 12, 2020

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

May 12, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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!

May 05, 2020

Ep 64: Love Flood

May 05, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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

April 28, 2020

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

April 28, 2020/ Laura Tremaine

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.