Just Chai

Adulting 101

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Were you handed a manual on how to be an adult? Didn’t think so. Your two favorite brown girls are answering listener questions and addressing complaints about adulting--bring it on! And there’s so much we heard from you (including advice), that we will have a follow-up conversation!

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Amy’s first name basis relationship with Jon Bon Jovi
  • Madonna has the answer to everything
  • Life as a musical (and….sound effects)
  • Adulting while still feeling like a kid
  • “Nobody knows what anybody’s doing.”
  • Hard work and misery?
  • The subjects on an adulting report card
  • (Dance break)
  • Rearranging the dishwasher -- Mom was right!
  • Answering listener questions
  • Wishing we were more prepared for life (life management classes)
  • Basic financial lessons/buying a house and costs of home ownership
  • Our experiences of money as children
  • Sultana’s teaching experience 
  • Amy’s financial education
  • It’s important to know what money means to you
  • Advice from a listener
  • Fixing things (or dealing with emergencies)
  • The importance of triaging problems
  • “Adult life is not as exciting as you imagine it will be.”
  • “Sex and the City” duped us
  • Drinking at work events
  • “Nothing’s really free”
  • Friendships as an adult (“like a game of tetris”)
  • “If I have to betray someone, it won’t be me”
  • The importance of communicating expectations and learning how to listen
  • Understand how you make decisions
  • Know thyself
  • Where’s my manual?
  • “You never really have it figured out”

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    Just ChaiBy Sultana Ali and Amy Chauhan
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