All Things Good

Pull up a chair and grab your coffee (or your wine!) as the ladies catch up on life and our world! There are updates from the Hold and Walton families, some Mississippi news, and even some world news! They’ve got it all in this episode, y’all!

What are they loving this week? Johnna’s found some super fun disposable masks that are even individually wrapped (available in kids and adult sizes). And she’s giving us the skinny on her new favorite skin cleanser! Laura’s recently finished Hillbilly Elegy and is eagerly awaiting the movie release in November.

Order your It’s Fine and ‘Tis So Sweet tees before October 1 here.

The girls are continuing their conversation this week with some great insight from actual experts. If you missed last week’s episode (Episode 65), you may want to go back and catch that one first. They’ve done our research (AKA: Googled it!). Here are the links to the full articles that the girls chat through as well as some of tools for equipping our kiddos for handling conflict.

https://www.parents.com/kids/development/social/helping-kids-deal-with-arguments/ 

https://health.usnews.com/wellness/for-parents/articles/2018-03-30/to-intervene-or-not-to-intervene-that-is-the-question

https://psychcentral.com/lib/letting-your-kids-fight-their-own-battles

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2019/06/21/why-sports-parents-brawl/

What are the girls loving this week? Johnna’s loving her new shoes from On Cloud (she went with the grey and white!) and her new office renovation (Sherwin Williams Iron Ore, if you’re wondering!). Laura is giving the Tostitos Salsa Verde chips TWO thumbs up and found a great sports bra from Amazon.

Join them again next week and don’t forget to leave those ratings and reviews over on Apple iTunes!

Catch up a bit with the ladies as they share ALL THINGS GOOD despite a pandemic turning the school year upside down, health struggles, and dueling hurricanes in the Gulf! It’s 2020, y’all! What else would you expect?

Listen in to part one of a two-week conversation about parenting struggles with teens and tweens. Do you get involved? Do you offer advice? Do you bite the kid who’s bullying your kid…or someone else’s kid? We’ll be back next week with more of our discussion and more of your comments and advice, too!

What are we loving in the midst of the crazy? Johnna’s loving the new podcast “Nice White Parents” (Laura is, too!). They are also recommending “The Piketon Massacre” and “The Orange Tree,” if you’re into true crime. Johnna’s also finding more rest at night with these melatonin gummies. Laura’s heart is full after a quick trip last week to north Mississippi to see dear friends, and she has also found help for her curly hair with a new “fancy” hair dryer.

If you’d like to help with the recovery in the areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic where Laura worked for several years and Tropical Storm Laura caused massive destruction, donate directly to Hispaniola Mountain Ministries here.

If you’re looking for the amazing medical journals and resources we mentioned by Johna Jenkins published by Whitney English, you can find them here.

Wow! It’s been a bit since the girls have chatted and we’re inviting you into the catch-up session! They’re talking back-to-school, church reopening, good TV binges, calming oils, and adoption on today’s episode! Pull up a chair and share the laughs. Be sure to let them know what back-to-school looks like at your house!

“Hamilton” spoof by one creative Catholic priest: here.

Apple TV shows: “Defending Jacob” & “Outcry“

Great reads from Kristin Hannah: Firefly Lane and Fly Away.

Johnna’s loving the weekly show “Little Voice” on Apple TV and found a great “foot hammock” to help with swelling when flying. Laura’s loving her new “Calm” oil from Thistle Farms and recommends two great reads by Jeannette Walls: Half-Broke Horses (read first!) and The Glass Castle.

Join us next week for a conversation about parenting that you won’t want to miss!

Johnna and Laura are back with Part 2 of this fun conversation about college life and this week, you guys are bringing it! You’ve got some great advice for our college friends!

Johnna shares her favorite new bracelet stack from Espacio (she’s partial to the Perry Stack) and Laura recommends The Guernsey Literary Society & Potato Peel Pie Society book as a great summer read (There’s also a movie for any non-readers!).

Join the girls next week as they catch on all things travel, back-to-school and well, just 2020 LIFE!

Johnna and Laura are grateful you’re here to chat each week. If you love the show, they’d be so grateful if you’d tell a friend or share on social media. And be sure to leave a review on Apple iTunes!

It feels like yesterday was July 4 and yet here we are at the end of the month…and the end of summer. Join the girls as they chat family vacations and back-to-school forecasts

Johnna’s getting artsy with her favorite things this week and sharing a great watercolor set and paper for those moments when painting feels peaceful. Laura takes a hard right turn with her “good thing” and shares a new true crime podcast series, Park Predators.

Join us next week when we begin a two-part series that has us reminiscing about our college years and hopefully, laying down some wisdom for those precious souls about to embark on their own college experience.

If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode, press pause and start there, y’all! This is the second part in our “Conversation about Conversation.” You don’t want to miss the first part!

For more conversation starters, see the full list here: https://conversationstartersworld.com/questions-to-get-to-know-someone/

What are the girls finding GOOD in their lives right now? Johnna has two great reads she’s sharing: Stand All The Way Up by Sophie Hudson and An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Laura’s sharing a great teeth whitening system: Lumineux Oral Essentials (Use WELCOME15 for 15% off your order) and some cute new Bermuda shorts from Calia by Carrie Underwood available at Dick’s…unfortunately, they didn’t make Laura’s legs look like Carrie’s!

Join us next week when we travel back in time to give our college freshman selves some advice!

For a lot of us, we may be a little rusty on our conversational skills coming out of the quarantine life, so the girls wanted to share a few pointers and model what this could look like. Note that they say “could” and not “should.” Check out this great guide for conversation starters here:

https://conversationstartersworld.com/questions-to-get-to-know-someone/

The girls got so into this conversation exercise that they had to break the episode into two parts (shocker!), so join them next week for Part II of the conversation! Happy 4th of July, friends!

NOTE: You won’t hear their favorites until next week, but they just couldn’t wait to share them so here’s your sneak peek for next week’s conclusion and their GOOD things!

What are they finding GOOD in their lives right now? Johnna has two great reads she’s sharing with us: Stand All The Way Up by Sophie Hudson and An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Laura’s sharing a great teeth whitening system: Lumineux Oral Essentials (Use WELCOME15 for 15% off your order) and some cute new Bermuda shorts from Calia by Carrie Underwood available at Dick’s…unfortunately they didn’t make Laura’s legs look like Carrie’s!

Inspired by a social media post challenging folks to rethink their daily headlines, the ladies set out to find "new news" in the world today! They're not sticking their heads in the sand and pretending it's not a mess out there, but they are working on mental health and sometimes that means stepping away for some new perspective.

Links to all the news articles shared in this episode at www.allthingsgoodpodcast.com.

What else are the ladies loving right now? Johnna's dishing on another great skort from Target (comes in four colors!) and if you want an adorable outfit, grab this adorable "Be Kind" tank from Amazon to go with your skort! Laura's loving Flower cosmetics Lash Warrior mascara and is telling to you to RUN to your couch and binge "Just Mercy" and "Selma" for FREEEEEE on Netflix in June! You have permission!

Don't forget to share your "Florida Man" headlines with us on social media!