Brit & Brooke

💕WELCOME TO THE BRIT & BROOKE POD 💅🏼

Get to know Brit & Brooke and how their journey led to this friggin' podcast!

🎙️ In this episode, Brit & Brooke talk about their upcoming trip to New York, the millennial myth "Do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life", what our "Day in the life" looks like, and how we are working to navigate working smarter, not harder.

✨ You'll learn about the hustle culture millennials were raised upon, and how that looks in our day-to-day while also trying to listen to what our mental & physical health needs

✨ You'll hear about what it means when you cross the line as a studying artist to a person that chooses to create their art as a career

✨ You'll hear about our day-to-day & how we are trying to adjust our schedules to better our own lives & futures

✨ If you are ready to pull up your seat with your besties, pour a drink, kick back, and get ready for some deep-hearted convos with plenty of laughs.

In this episode:
0:00 Welcome to 6:00am, ya’ll!
1:52 Gratitude to all of our supporters & listeners
2:22 Special shoutout to our Executive Producer Amy DePaola, Pink Among Men
2:37 It’s official - we are off to The Big Apple
3:39 New York is very special to both Brit & Brooke
5:03 Brit went to grad school at NYU 
9:09 Brooke is working on several projects in NYC  
10:30 Brit & Brooke coming to NYC & ready to work: Reach out with recs or collabs!
11:28 Millennial Myth of the week: “Do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life”
13:35 Art changes when it is not just heart-driven, but rooted in capitalism
15:52 We can control what we love, but we cannot control the systems they are rooted in
16:18 “Day in the life”  for Brit: a high school theater educator & director
20:32 Education is where everything starts
21:11 “Day in the life” for Brooke: Director / Actor / Producer / Writer 
24:15 The life of a creative comes with sacrifice 
26:04 You don’t have to have life figured out, and you can start over at any time
27:06 When you do what you love, you never stop working
28:00 Overcommitting was the norm for us
32:26 Differences between when we were in high school & high schoolers in 2026
37:00 Get X raising Gen Z
38:50 Do what you love, and you’ll work your effin’ ass off for the rest of time
39:00 The word “boundary” was not part of our childhood
44:19 The work it takes to break down subconscious beliefs
45:00 “Starving artist” needs to be a phrase we stop putting in young artist’s minds
46:40 Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
48:00 Looking back and seeing you were being led through life, and pain is still part of it
49:22 Announcing next week’s episode -chatting with Melissa Krupa, a Nurse Practitioner focusing in female wellness, perimenopause & hormones 
51:00 See you in NYC, ya’ll!

WE ARE SO HAPPY TO BE HERE - THANK YOU FOR JOINING US! xoxo

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Follow Us:
Instagram: @britbrookepod
TikTok: @brit.brooke
Email: [email protected]
Brit's Instagram: @queenbkenyon
Brit's TikTok: @queenbkenyon
Brooke's Instagram: @brooketrantor
Brooke's TikTok: @brooketrantor
Pink Among Men: @pinkamongmen

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Executive Producer, Amy DePaola
www.pinkamongmen.com
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💕WELCOME TO THE BRIT & BROOKE POD 💅🏼

Get to know Brit & Brooke and how their journey led to this friggin podcast! 

EPISODE 1: Chicken thighs, Freak Show, and women loving women

🎙️ In this first episode, Brit & Brooke talk about how they met, what made their friendship become stronger after 20 years of being across the country from one another, and what they want to build together.

✨You'll learn about the struggles of the current Millennial experience and why we are fed up with it all & ready to come together and build one another up.

✨You'll hear about what 20 years of growth as artists can look like, and what being a woman in the arts can do to your soul.

✨You’ll also hear about inspiration, highs and lows, food allergies, shitting your pants in traffic, vomiting in public, using rage to inspire action, and much, much more!

✨If you are ready to pull up your seat with your besties, pour a drink, kick back, and get ready for some deep-hearted convos with plenty of laughs.

In this episode:
00:00 Welcome to Brit & Brooke
00:43 Meet Brit
1:41 Meet Brooke
3:28 Friends of TWENTY years & we are starting a fucking podcast
5:52 FIRST MYTH of childhood we were promised that we are going to debunk
6:00 Myth: "Other women will always be your greatest competition."
9:08 Brit & Brooke met in their own "competition" when they were up for the same role
12:39 IMPROV enters the chat
13:06 Brooke's intro to Improv in childhood saved her life
14:44 Improv strengthened our friendship
15:30 Brit almost wins Endurance competition in college
17:51 It's Britney, Bitch!
18:23 Celiac Queens - bonding over our autoimmune disease
19:31 SHIT MY PANTS
23:00 Struggles in casting & acting
24:48 Brit directs Brooke in "FreakShow" for May Term in college
27:53 Brit finds purpose & strength in directing
33:28 Why did we want to start a podcast?
36:54 Taking the reins of our own lives
39:00 Building COMMUNITY rooted in KINDNESS
43:29 Brit talks Brooke
44:50 Brooke talks Brit
WE ARE SO HAPPY TO BE HERE - THANK YOU FOR JOINING US! xoxo

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Follow Us:
Instagram: @britbrookepod 
TikTok: @brit.brooke
Email: [email protected]
Britnee's Instagram: @queenbkenyon
Britnee's TikTok: @queenbkenyon
Brooke's Instagram: @brooketrantor
Brooke's TikTok: @brooketrantor

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Subscribe to Brit & Brooke's channel here: 
https://www.youtube.com/@BritBrookePod 

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Listen to Brit & Brooke Podcast 🎧 
https://britbrookepod/spotify
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https://britbrookepod/amazonmusic 

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Want to see more of what these two are up to?

www.brooketrantor.com
Email: [email protected]

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Brought to you by Pink Among Men Productions
Executive Producer, Amy DePaola
www.pinkamongmen.com

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"The Queen" by Jasmine J Walker
2021, Chasing Freedom EP 
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