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Diane Macedo is no stranger to the life of a night owl. As an early morning reporter and overnight news anchor and correspondent for ABC News, Diane learned the hard way how valuable sleep is. The longer she struggled to get it, the more her health began to deteriorate. When sleep pills no longer worked, she used her journalistic prowess to interview sleep experts one after another to get to the bottom of what keeps us from sleeping. This resulted in her book, The Sleep Fix, a sensible snooze bible that anyone can tailor to their specific sleep needs. We talk about what went into researching it, why so much sleep advice completely misses the mark, and, most importantly, what you can do to ensure you get a good night’s rest.
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Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke has been on the other end of tired and distraught parents at their wits’ ends as they struggle to manage their children's relentless, volatile, and often rebellious behaviors. In most cases, parents come to Mona looking to correct or improve their children's emotional landscape, only to be met with a new perspective – one that will not only support said child's behavior, but regulate and support the parent's nervous system as well. In Mona’s latest book, Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids, she helps parents understand what lies beneath the surface of their child’s behavior with a bottom-up approach sure to help parents and kids alike thrive. We dive into her background, her own experience being a parent, and why anyone managing to survive these past two years deserves a freaking award.
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Mental health, once a taboo topic rarely talked about in the open, is quickly becoming one of the biggest discussions of our time. The past decade has brought about a more open, less stigmatized dialogue and we are seeing a paradigm shift in public attitudes surrounding mental health in general. Thanks to people like Ellen Vora, MD, those discussions are getting a lot more helpful as well. She wrote the bible on anxiety, “The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body’s Fear Response,” and her approach is – by my estimation – exactly what many of us need.
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The pandemic has taken an immense emotional toll on humankind. It’s thrown all of us into unprecedented situations – such as the changes to living, working, and schooling from home. Understandably, that’s put serious pressure on some relationships. Families may welcome the opportunity to spend more time together, but confined, existing flaws are only going to become harder to ignore. Aparna Sagaram joins us to discuss where we go from here, what makes some couples thrive, and others just barely survive (or not). How can we understand ourselves and the role we play in our relationships better?
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Over the history of this podcast, some of our most resonant episodes were the conversations I had with Micah about parenting – the raw, real talk about what it is to have a child. So we’re making this a recurring event – The Parenthood Remix – where, once a month, Micah and I will dedicate our discussion to the moms, dads, and caretakers who take on this job, day after day, and do the best they can. We’re going to look at “the big lie,” why we overlook how intensely difficult parenting is as a culture, and how to remain confident and sane through it all.
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Janelle Ginestra is a world-renowned choreographer and the mastermind behind Beyoncé’s Run the World video. She has toured the world dancing for P!nk, J-Lo, and more. Her art demands a level of presence and attention from those watching that is incredibly refreshing. She is also passionate about fitness and, inspired by her dance background, launched Naughty Girl Fitness, a one-of-a-kind badass choreography brand that has people burning calories all over the world. In this conversation we talk about supporting kids’ passions at a young age, ascending your craft, and redefining yourself.
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There are some tragedies in life that you could never imagine happening to you – until they do. And the sad truth is, they could come for any of us, which only highlights how precious our time on earth really is.
Karine’s emotional story is one that truly highlights this. A mother of three, Karine lost her husband, at just 42-years old, in a boating accident. But that is not the end of her story, it is just the beginning. Karine is a talented and successful writer and entrepreneur. Her background in filmmaking and storytelling became a powerful outlet for her grief process. She shares the difficult process of learning to live again after loss, how to want more from life, and how to see the wholeness of ourselves.
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Caroline Dooner is an incredible humorist, storyteller, and the author of The Fuck It Diet. She’s got a lot to say, and it’s all stuff you probably need to hear.
Her upcoming book, Tired as Fuck, is an exploration of burnout at the hands of diet, self-help, and hustle culture. Chances are, you’ve experienced (or are experiencing) burnout, and you don’t even know it. We all know the word, but it’s something so few of us really understand.
Believe it or not, the symptoms of burnout often aren’t tiredness. They’re usually more like dread, apathy, depression, an inability to focus, and feelings of laziness. If you can relate, tune in, because this episode is for you.
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We’re bringing solos back *yeah* with a sneak peek at what’s on the horizon for SkinOwl. In this episode, I share some insider skincare tips (you’re gonna hear “exfoliate” a lot) and answer a great question I got on Instagram: How do you make friends as an adult?
Let’s navigate the murky waters of knowing when to hold on and when to cut things off with friends, cultivating new meaningful connections, and going deeper with the relationships you already have.
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This episode is gonna be a bunch of bullshit. Cause guess what? It’s the first episode of the year and I’m fresh on the other end of a COVID diagnosis. Things are heavy out here, so all I can hope for is to start your year out with some laughs. It’s 2022, which is not all that different from 2021, so far, except that the plastic bags inside of cereal boxes are infinitely harder to open and pickle jars vastly easier than ever before. It’s time to count our blessings and seize our right to be happy.
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