How often do you relive the origins of your love story with your partner? It’s one of the ways to keep your relationship happy, healthy, and strong. Elizabeth is celebrating ten years with Jay, and we’re celebrating love all around. It’s time to watch Love Actually again, just skip the weird porn bits.

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Margery:

Watch: 

Justified Hulu 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/justified

Read: 

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson 

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/25/1130433140/banned-books-all-boys-arent-blue-george-johnson-lgbtq-ya

Listen: 

Smartless on Amazon

https://wondery.com/shows/smartless/

Elizabeth:

Watch:

Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory on Disney+

https://disneyplus.com/series/animals-up-close-with-bertie-gregory/68dHgeRaJoXX?sharesource=iOSI

Read: 

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

https://bookshop.org/p/books/braiding-sweetgrass-robin-wall-kimmerer/16712606

Listen: 

https://www.lukestorey.com/lifestylistpodcast/the-secret-intelligence-of-water-as-the-liquid-language-of-god-w/-veda-austin-410

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More people believe, in order to be happy, they should focus on a career more than marriage. Well, what does that mean to a culture? To all of us? We’re using some statistics from this piece to guide the discussion: 

NYT Opinion Article – author David Brooks

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/opinion/marriage-happiness-career.html

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Thanks to The New Yorker and writer Nicole Rose Whitaker for inspiring this week’s conversation. Her piece “Your Personality, Explained By Your Annoying Household Habits” is just fun. 

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Thank you for all the support! In the follow-up today, we are exploring the path to compromise and how that can often be uncomfortable. 

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We have an expert!!! Yay us!!! Author Kelly Smith joins us to talk about her new book Meditation for the Modern Family. 

You can also listen to her podcast Mindful in Minutes.

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We recorded this podcast just a day after Elizabeth’s house was broken into. Minneapolis, like many other cities, is dealing with an increase in home invasions. Please be a part of the conversation, and let us know how your community is fighting crime. You can find us on Facebook or Instagram. 

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Dr. Jennifer Smith shares her concerns about technology and how it is changing family relationships. Her specialty is human development and family studies, and she has great advice for how to handle kids and the tech coming into our homes. She recommends these books: 

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Margery

Watch: 

Hijack  Apple +

Woman in Gold Netflix 

Read: 

Lotus in a Sea of Fire, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Listen: 

Theft by Finding Diaries 1977-2002 Audible 

Elizabeth

Watch:

Dark Pale Amazon Prime

Read: 

Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf

Listen: 

KFAN the Initials Game

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Ian Punnett is our guest today, and we’re chatting about his new fictional podcast and how it’s inspired by True Crime. We look back to our own histories and examine how they influence what we consume. Find Ian’s podcast, Vaudeville for the Frightened, here: 

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-vaudeville-for-the-fright-116171840/#:~:text=Ian%20Punnett's%20Vaudeville%20for%20the,It's%20a%20podcasting%20original

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