25% Friends

Oh, transitions. Life is all about transitions. From the big, like moving or getting married, to the small, like the changing of seasons, life is just one big transition! In this episode, we discuss: +What transition means to us, how we deal with change +The level of transition we’ve experienced in our life and how we’ve dealt with the change +Dealing with uncertainty +What’s next for us in terms of transitions – Kim taking a new job, Sarah’s kids all in school in the fall! We also share that we’re taking a summer hiatus as Kim navigates her new job and Sarah navigates a summer with all three kids at home all day, every day. Keep up with us online! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

Were you popular in high school? Did you care? In this episode we chat all about popularity throughout the years. We discussed: +The need to be liked and why we feel that way +Our experience with popularity (or lack there of) in school +What defined the popular crowd +Popularity as adults +Internet popularity and the need to be liked We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

Today’s episode is all about confidence and body positivity. We discuss: +What confidence feels and looks like +When we felt confident as young girls and women and when our confidence changed +Body positivity, what it means, how we can cultivate a positive self image +The realms of life that make us feel more and less confident We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

What did you love to do as a kid? In today’s episode we chat about our childhood hobbies (like swimming, running around the neighborhood unsupervised, being adjacent to other kids setting fires, and playing in dirty creek water) to hobbies we love now as adults. +Kim and Sarah both share what they loved to do as elementary schoolers, teens, and young adults. +We discuss how our past hobbies inform our current hobbies. +The role of hobbies in our lives now. +How watching TV and reading are hobbies, too. We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

We can all agree is cool to be kind. But what if we’re not feeling all that nice? In this episode we explore being kind to ourselves, being kind to our family and friends, and being kind to strangers. +How we show kindness and compassion to ourselves – and what happens when we don’t +Showing kindness towards our family – and why this is hard sometimes +The kindness of strangers – and how we can be kind to strangers +Why kindness is so important +How we can cultivate more kindness We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

Digestion. It’s a fact of life! And it can tell us a lot about our health and how we’re feeling. In this episode we talk all about digestion, or, sometimes, lack there of. The gut is a fascinating topic, and there’s much to discuss! We chat about: +Our digestion history and how it’s changed over time +Our food sensitivities and how what we eat affects our gut +How worries and anxieties affect our gut +Why gut stuff can be a taboo topic and who we chat about our guts with (and who we don’t!) +Kim’s squatty potty! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

Today Kim and Sarah sat down and caught up with what’s currently going on in their lives. They chat about what they’re currently reading, eating, drinking, listening to, watching, etc… We also share what we’ve been up to recently and what we’re currently loving…and not loving so much. What are you currently loving, not loving, reading, drinking, eating, etc? We want to know! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

What’s good at Costco? We give you the low-down on all the stuff we like to buy in bulk! We got pretty much aisle by aisle, giving your our Costco picks, tips, and tricks! Do you love Costco? What’s your favorite Costco item? We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

We love chatting about personality types, so today we’re dedicating the entire show to the Enneagram! +We discuss what the enneagram is and all the types. +We chat about our type and what we agree/disagree with about our type. +We also discuss how our Enneagram Type plays with our Myers Briggs and habit type. +We also go off on lots of fun tangents related to our Enneagram. We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

25% Friends // Podcast #50 // The Self Care Edition

It’s a new year, a time when many of us want to create new habits and get rid of habits that don’t serve us. We’ve talked about habits before (here is part 1, part 2, and part 3), but in this episode we dive deeper into habits through a discussion of Gretchen Rubin’s new book, The Four Tendencies. We talk about: +Each of the habit styles +Our habit type and how we’ve changed, if at all +The pros and cons of our habit type +The habit type of other people in our lives and how that affects how we interact +What we’ve learned about ourselves through our habit type We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

To kick off our first episode of 2018 and our third season, in this episode we’re interviewing each other with surprise questions! We asked each other about: +Our very first jobs. +What we wanted to be when we were little. +Would Sarah have another child? Or ever get a tattoo? +Are there differences between a same-sex marriage and a male-female marriage? +What we wished people knew about us. +Our bad habits. +Self-care rituals. +Our biggest fears. +What we love about ourselves. +If we could live in any time period, when would we want to live? +Body image. We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

We love taking listener questions, so we’re devoting this entire episode to you! Answering your questions we received via Instagram, text, Facebook, email, and even in person! +Daily routine in terms of supplements, other forms of medicine, self-care, etc… +Photo storage and organization +Biggest regret/missed opportunity from this past year +How we get stuff done +Travel bucket list +Life bucket list +How we stay connected as friends +Current favorite apps, books, music, etc… We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!  

Are you a holiday lover? Or a Scrooge? Sarah admits to being a holiday Grinch while Kim is more amenable to the holiday spirit. +We chat about holiday traditions growing up. +The Great Christmas Card Debate. +Decorating for the holidays. +How religion does/does not factor into the holidays. We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

In today’s show we’re talking all about family! We each share our thoughts on Thanksgiving, family, values, and relationships. +Thanksgiving traditions +Thanksgiving food – what we like and don’t life +Traveling with family +Having kids, not having kids. Also send us questions for our upcoming listener question episode! We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!  

In today’s episode we’re chatting all about SAD – seasonal affective disorder. As the days get shorter, darker, and colder, we both feel a little blue. +Sarah and Kim talk about how their feelings for fall and winter have changed over the years. +Sarah doesn’t like fall at all! Kim doesn’t dislike it quite as much. +Discussion of fall-related activities and concepts and what, if any, resonate. We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

We’re obsessed with the dry, mysterious desert! In this episode, we chat all about our love of the desert. +Why we love the desert, and how we planned our desert trips. +Our love of the desert climate and landscape. +Why the desert feels so mysterious. +What we wear while navigating the desert. We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

In this episode we chat all about social media. The good, the bad, the funny, the weird, and more! +What did we do before social media?! How did we communicate? +Sarah recounts the exact moment when U.Va. got THE Facebook. Remember when it was THE Facebook? +The benefits of social media and our favorite ways to use social media. +The negative side effects of social media, and how we deal with realizing people are hanging out without us. We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

On this episode we’re participating in a podcast round up! We’re talking about community, and so are these other four podcasts! We teamed up with the following podcasters to tackle the important topic of community. Participating podcasts: Cohesive Home / Melissa and Kate, two laid-back moms, explore the topics you most want to hear about– family minimalism, adventuring with your kids, living by your values, and more– all in the time it takes you to brew your morning coffee. Sometimes ridiculous, always on point, the Cohesive Home podcast puts the fun back in parenting and creating your happier, simpler home. Girl Next Door / Listening to The Girl Next Door Podcast is like catching up with girl friends over a cup of coffee or a cocktail. Former next door neighbors Erica and Kelsey invite you to join them for candid, hilarious conversations about raising a family, marriage, living with intention, pursuing creativity, and building community. Minimalist Moms / Minimalist Moms is a bi-weekly conversation between two minimalist-living moms, Megan Ericson and Diane Boden. Our goal is to inspire you to think more and do with less. Friendlier / It’s like eavesdropping on a phone call between Sarah and Abby, long time friends—and now parents—who love to talk, read, and eat. Every episode they review books, share recipes, and explore a sometimes random/sometimes serious topic. We chatted about: +Belonging and fitting in. +Brene Brown’s new book, Braving the Wilderness. +Feeling left out, feeling different. +Finding where you belong. We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews!

We both recently completed our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training certifications, so in this episode, we chat all about our prior experience with yoga, our teacher training experience, and how we’re not really all that flexible. +Our previous yoga experience and thoughts about yoga. +The crunchy parts of yoga like mantras, chanting, and chakras. +Our favorite poses. +How we thought yoga teacher training would be – and what it was actually like. +Advice on going through a yoga teacher training and why we picked the programs we picked. +How we’re strong…but not that flexible. And we’re still yogis! We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also, we’d absolutely love it if you left us a review and rating on iTunes. It makes our day to see new reviews! Audio Player