Advice Not Given

As we transition out of spring and into summer, what are we expecting? Claire and Kellie check in with listeners, discuss the "re-opening" of the country, and wonder what boundaries others are observing since there's mostly radio silence on social media. 

Mentions: 

• The Daily: The Governor and The Protestor
• Focaccia Gardens
• Who you should let into your Coronavirus quarantine orbit? 

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This week we're discussing the stages, cycles, and stasis of this pandemic and isolation.

"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui" - Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher with a penchant for nihilism. You, know... Just keeping it light today. ;)

Mentions:

• Intuitive Eating
• Kübler-Ross Model: 5 Stages of Grief
• The Liturgists, “Grief”
• “Ennui”- /änˈwē/ a feeling of being bored and mentally tired caused by having nothing interesting or exciting to do
• Forbes: Flatten, Fight, Emerge
• “How Brands Are Shifting Ad Campaigns Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak”

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And why Claire is pressing shower curtains. 

Mentions:

• Cape Fear Regional Theater
• Savanna Kaye Photography
• Science Mike’s Book: You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass)
• The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s
• Some Good News
• Melatonin 
• Wine Monitor Video

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Mentions: 

• April 12 Weather + Easter tornadoes
• Grief during social distancing
• Enneagram types in stress
• Milspo Gurus Enneagram Milspo Snapshots
• Brené Brown’s podcast, Unlocking Us: Anxiety, Calm, + Over/Under-functioning
• Apple, Google, and the Coronavirus 
• HBO’s Westworld
• “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting”
• Kellie’s favorite 1990s icon
• Send us your Welfare Check to [email protected] or [email protected]

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We're back for another Welfare Check episode, and this time we brought friends! Listen in to our check in with each other, and hear how some of our listeners are also doing. 

Mentions:

• Kanban Method (Project Management System)
• “That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief”
• Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
• Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
• ANG, Drink Less (Episode 21) 
• Drinker’s Helper app
• Milspouse Matters, Temporary Homeschooling During the Coronavirus Pandemic
• #alonetogether
• Plausible Deniability
• The Big Three
• Get to Work Book
• Focus on What You Can Control
• Send us YOUR UPDATE

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It's time for another Corona Virus Welfare Check, and lucky for you we've had time to binge everyone's obsession -- The Tiger King on Netflix.

As we enter week three (for most of us) of quarantine/shelter-in-place/social distancing, Claire and Kellie check in with each other and compare what coping strategies, impulse purchases, and nonsense distractions are helping pass the time and alleviate anxiety. We actually packed a lot into this conversation, as well as featuring some advice and checkins with a couple of listeners!

Mentions

• The Berkey Water Purifier 
• Can you still get takeout without risking contracting coronavirus? Yes. 
• The Theory of Information Processing: Cataloguing experiences while you sleep. 
• Find Your Local Farmers - They Might Be Delivering! 
• Brief synopsis and all the memes you can handle for The Tiger King. 
• "I Saw a Tiger" cover by Kellie's high school classmate. Amazing. 
• The Late Show at Home
• Enneagram Mapmakers Podcast
• The Daily by New York Times: A Kid's Guide to Coronavirus
• Some Kind of Crazy by Terry Wardle
• Dave Barnes' Instagram feed with Corona Characters
• So Many Thoughts by Elizabeth Holmes
• Escape or Stick it through? What do you think? Hot take on an insta influencer's reaction to Stay Home orders. 

If you would like to share your Covid Check-in with us - please head over to the episode page for directions. We'd love to hear from you and add your voice to the show! 

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We decided to break format to make space for the events of the world and honor the emotions we're experiencing during the Coronavirus outbreak. So, we'll be doing weekly "Welfare Checks" with each other and with all of you for the foreseeable future. 

These episodes will be short and sweet, and we'll strive to bring you something to smile about and appreciate as together we navigate complex feelings, anxiety, lack of focus, and who knows what else.

Also, we want to hear from you! What advice do you have for others? How are you faring this storm? What are you doing to carry on? What are the good things in your life and day that you'd like to share? Send us a recording using your phone's Voice Recorder app (to [email protected] or [email protected]) and we'll air your message on the following week's episode. Report back to us how you're doing on a scale of 1-to-Cray. Seriously. We need to know. ;) 

Remember, we're in this together and together we'll thrive. 

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**BONUS EPISODE**

Our "No Advice | Just Opinions" podcast is typically reserved for our Patreon Subscribers, but we recorded this one as a departure from our regularly scheduled content on Advice Not Given. We wanted to add some thoughts to what's going on in the world to hopefully provide some solace for those making the unpopular and uncomfortable choice to follow extreme social distancing (as Claire and I both are). Enjoy! And stay home. ;) 

We mixed things up today and hosted a Facebook livestream of our recording of this episode, and we'll also release this one publicly for our entire community (normally these episodes are reserved for Patrons only). 

Today we discussed all things COVID and Claire dropped wisdom on how to "school from home."

To watch the Facebook Live: https://business.facebook.com/milspogurus/videos/207028890608652/

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What areas of your life do you need to recognize where you need to “quit forcing it?” Learn how mindfulness and recognizing natural life patterns may help you give yourself the patience, grace, and love you need to relinquish that need for control.

Mentions: 

• Kelsey Timas of Guiding Wellness
• seven year cycles of life
• shadow side
• Richard Rohr, Universal Christ
• Kellie and Claire’s conversation (starts at 42:50)
• The number seven in the Bible
• Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man
• You are not a human doing. You are a human being!

Actual Advice Guest: Kelsey Timas
Kelsy Timas is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Author, Speaker/Coach and Wellness Educator assisting the world in discovering and recovering a life in balance. A lifelong yoga practitioner with a professional background in quality management and emergency medicine, Kelsy is on a mission to serve humanity in their journey and return to holism. Recognized as an industry leader and sought after as a subject matter expert, Kelsy invests her time and talents in people, organizations and communities looking for wellness solutions that move us toward a more productive and integrative world. Her 20+ years of clinical experience, evidence based holistic strategies and vision for the future of collaborative health care is the driving force behind the growth and development of her national Health and Wellness company, Guiding Wellness Institute Inc. Kelsy’s drive and success can be attributed to her deep desire and commitment to creating accessible and sustainable solutions that serve performance, resilience and recovery; pillars of support that allow people to create and live their best life. A natural entrepreneur and pioneering spirit that has never been afraid to create solutions needed in order to find “a better way”, and the sincere belief that she is in service of her life’s calling, Kelsy has blazed a trail that will support many generations to discover, recover and maintain their balance in an ever changing world. Kelsy is the Program/QM Director and Lead Faculty for Warriors at Ease (WAE), 2019 Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year by Reeves Business school and the Author or LIVE WELL Magazine and BE WELL Podcast.

Devoted to her role as a military spouse and her military family, Kelsy serves, directs and advises many non-profit organizations serving those who serve and their families that sacrifice so much. When she is not teaching or at work running her national operation, Kelsy spends time with her six dogs, her family and close friends, living the message of “Be well” she shares with the world. She loves cooking from her home potager and taking time for regular sunshine and the outdoors, her favorite people call her “naynay”. Kelsy also enjoys reading, writing, pottery and house projects along with her deepest passions of yoga, meditation and mindfulness. 

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How are you maximizing your personal productivity? Join us as we share some of our favorite productivity hacks to help manage time and most of all set us up to be living out our priorities. 

Mentions: 

• Keep a digital profile for each of your own “personas” (Chrome extensions) 
• Time Blocking
• Last Pass password keeper
• Keep a portable version of hard copies of vital documents 
• Turbo Scan and Genius Scan
• Wunderlist
• “The Sunday Night Meeting” 
• Write the vision and make it plain
• Apple Pay
• Launch Notebook (transcripts, ACT scores, test scores, online account passwords)
• Seasons of My Military Student
• Fill out one copy and then ask the admin person to photocopy it in multiples before you personalize it with each child’s information
• Adam Grant

Actual Advice Guest: Lauren Rothlisberger

Lauren Rothlisberger is a Mom to four kids and milspouse minivan driver. She focuses on mindful productivity and project management. She is interested in being productive not for the sake of being productive, but as a way to be creative, useful, valuable, and fruitful.

Lauren believes in building out the week and curating targets for each day in order to navigate the interwoven timelines of work and life. You can find her resources at www.laurenrothlisberger.com.

IG: @lauren_rothlisberger

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