#123: Life Updates & Season Closing
Toni & Michelle get personal, sharing the joys and pains of life and how they’re learning to navigate those meaningfully. Listen in to this heartfelt convo about everything from losing loved ones, finding JOMO, and the best books, music, recipes, and more that you may need in your life!
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This is one of our most personal and intimate episodes every season—wrapping up a wonderful podcast season while also sharing life updates and connecting with you!
Toni shares the ups and downs of working in content creation, including the exciting new workspace she built to inspire even more great content creation. She also shares about some exciting travels while also reflecting on the joys of reconnecting at home and JOMO - the joys of missing out!
Michelle gets vulnerable and shares about some heartbreak she’s facing but also reflects on how to navigate life and find joy in difficult seasons. If you’ve been struggling, don’t overlook the power of leaning on friends, going to therapy, listening to good music, and reading inspiring books.
Toni and Michelle also share some of their favorites this season, including a personalized playlist Toni made for Michelle, book recommendations, rethinking the role of TV in your life (it may not be what you think!), and of course, a food rec that is so easy and so cheap but so versatile and delicious.
This lovely episode is a great way to kick back with friends - whether you’re a faithful listener over our six(!!) seasons or new to the fam. We are SO thankful to have you on this journey with us and it means so much to be able to share with you in this way.
We can’t wait to kick off another season, but in the meantime, we have so many timelessly relevant episodes you can go back and explore. Let us know what you find that inspires you!
EPISODE SHOW NOTES
- How Toni is battling the algorithm to get valuable content out into the world
- Toni’s new workspace and how she outfitted it
- Travels around the world and also the joys of being home
- How Michelle is facing a low season, including the grief of losing a parent
- Ways to navigate the unbearable in this life, feeling the pain but also the joy in life
- The value of friendship, being vulnerable, reaching out, and relying on people
- The powerful role therapy can play in facing the difficulties of life
- Music and books that have inspired us
- Some of our favorite things this season, including red lentil tofu
- The old school TV show Toni’s loving but also going TV-free and TV outdoors
- Finding JOMO - the joy of missing out!
- Michelle & Toni’s conflicting views on camping
RESOURCES
- Toni's Taylor Swift Playlist (Spotify)
- Red Lentil Tofu recipe (World of Vegan)
- Green Goddess Dressing recipe (World of Vegan)
BOOK RECS
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
- Mary Oliver poetry
- Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
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