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Melinda and Diahn have a jam session about Covid life, election stress, and podcasting lessons learned. 

Diahn and Melinda explore the idea of boundaries in interpersonal relationships.

Melinda and Diahn discuss how the pandemic has changed their retail therapy habits, what they've learned from the restrictions on their shopping patterns, and what kinds of changes are needed to carry forward into the new world order.

Diahn and Melinda tackle the unexpectedly difficult topic of creativity. What is creativity? Do you have to be a painter or musician to be considered creative? Where does it come from? Is it nature or nurture? Listen in as we dig deep into the topic with surprising results...

Diahn and Melinda discuss how their original plan for the podcast has evolved into what it has become over the past 13 weeks, how implementing a daily intention check-in with each other has changed their weekly routines and why Diahn gets so fidgety when talking about her feelings.

Three weeks into the pandemic, life starts to look less like a crisis and more like an opportunity to delve into what really matters and how to hit the reset button on some of the bad habits we've developed over the years. How can we effectively change and move toward the best versions of ourselves?

Melinda and Diahn discuss life in the midst of the COVid-19 pandemic - how they are handling the stress and anxiety associated with being on safer-at-home regulations and the things that are bringing them joy and peace in the middle of the weirdest month ever.

Melinda and Diahn chat about the importance of the female friendships in their lives, how their own mothers modeled having friendships and how their own friendships have changed as they've aged. 

Melinda and Diahn break down their self-care habits and make goals to improve their overall mental and physical well-being. Apparently, there's more to self-care than just hot baths, mani-pedis and massages! Who knew?

Diahn and Melinda dig deep and discuss their struggles with practicing good self-care habits. This episode gets a little long but it's filled with good insight and information into how women often view self-care in various ways...

Melinda and Diahn explore their Enneagram Personality numbers to try and determine how their personalities affect their relationships with all the people they care about and what they can do to make those relationships even stronger. 

Melinda and Diahn break down the joys of aging in today's culture by examining what's really going on all up in here.

In this episode, we talk about how we met and became life long friends - we also share a few of our favorite things!

In this episode, Melinda and Diahn tackle the question of what happens when the parenting skills you inherit from your own parents were the wrong things to pass along to your own children. This is part 1 of a two-part episode.

Diahn and Melinda discuss the various loads we carry as women - children, grandchildren, parents, marriage, health - and the ways they try to balance all the different pieces without dropping everything entirely.

We are part of what is known as the sandwich generation - basically, two best friends trying to muddle our way through middle age. So, we hope you’ll join us weekly, starting January 16, as we try to navigate this sandwich generation bullshit of being stuck in the middle of a bunch of people who ask way too much of us and come out still possessing a sense of self and purpose.