Can’t Handle It

This month we share some news highlights, as well as our favorite summer reads and TV shows! We chat about our opinions on And Just Like That (we have a lot of them) and Natalie shares her latest obsession with The Summer I Turned Pretty. 

Our Book Recs:

The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Daisy Jones and the Six

Meet Me at the Lake 

Lessons in Chemistry

Want to try out Natalie's favorite recipe of the summer? Thank Ina Garten for this one and get the recipe here! 

This week we were supposed to chat about just anxiety in general, and instead, we ended up diving into navigating friendships as people with anxiety. Listen in for a heartfelt and very honest and open chat on how we have learned to handle it and how sometimes we simply can't handle it. 

In this week's episode, we sit down and chat all about the steps, tips, advice, and tricky challenges of homebuying!  Natalie, with her background as a real estate agent and new homeowner, shares all of the things she feels are important to know when considering buying a home.  Give this one a listen whether you're currently house shopping, in the beginning stages of planning for a purchase, or if you're not there yet but know you will be in the future!

This week we break down the highlights of our new favorite read, "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi. When we say this book is life-changing, we REALLY mean it. We chat about creating and building a healthy relationship with money, how to create and maintain an achievable and conscious spending plan, along with so many other tangibles you can take away to use in your everyday life. Ramit really finds a way to make spending and saving money accessible and doable to even the most inexperienced money handlers. You do NOT want to miss this episode!

Check out Ramit and all of his great tips @ramit on Instagram or at https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/

It's our 20th episode and we having some seriously exciting breaking news this month! Tune in to hear a big secret revealed and hear all of Lauren and Natalie's recommendations this month! 

Don't forget to try Natalie's recipe rec from Half Baked Harvest! 

On this episode of Can't Handle It, the amazing Katherine Huskey joins us to share her journey to becoming a mother. Kat quickly shows she is an open book by sharing her struggles with infertility,  eventually leading her to make the decision to go through IVF treatment and receive the best gift of all--her sweet daughter. In this episode, Kat shares with our audience the ups and downs of infertility and IVF and the ways she was able to push through and soldier on through some of the most trying times of her life. 

Even if you are not a parent, this episode brings so many beautiful pieces of advice on how to support your loved ones trying to get pregnant and better explains the IVF process through the eyes of Kat, who has experienced it firsthand.

You can find Kat at @thehuskeyhouse on Instagram or listen to her podcast @asamotherpod on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

In this episode, we're honored to welcome Laura Santos of @coreinspiration!  In the interview, Laura walks us through what life is like building and running a successful business on @teacherspayteachers (a platform teachers can use to purchase resources and curriculum for their own classrooms).  

In addition to that, we discuss what it takes to create and sustain a business while also being a mom and a wife.  She offers insights and tangible tips about how she made it happen, sharing wisdom about how to chase big, scary goals.

In this episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Vicky Venter, a Marriage & Family Therapist with an expansive career spent helping individuals, families, and couples.  She believes that with a commitment to and a deepened awareness of ourselves, we can grow our compassion and reconnect in a profoundly beautiful way.  We chat about different relationship types (friendship, marriage, and romantic partnership) and how to navigate challenges and healthy communication. 

This episode is truly for everyone - Vicky shares so much wisdom and gives so many great tangibles about loving yourself and those around you in a healthy and positive way. Give it a listen, share your favorite takeaway in your IG stories, and tag us so we can thank you for being here!

Link to Vicky's website

Link to Hedy Schleifer's TedTalk "The Power of Connection"

This month, catch up on what's going on in our lives and listen in while we break down the tragic ending to the missing Titanic submersible, some celebrity and film gossip, and share some of our newest faves from parenting books to the new Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne show "Platonic". 

This episode we share our space with our dear friend, Hannah. An amazing step-mom and mama, and seasoned veteran in building blended families in a healthy and constructive way. We talk all about the steps she took and continues to take to nourish and strengthen her blended family, navigate being a step-mom to two teenagers and manage momming her little 2-year-old as well. All parents are superheroes, but Hannah reminds us that each one of us are special and superheroes in our own unique way. If you are a step-parent, apart of a blended family or know someone who is, this episode will bring so much insight and inspiration into navigating the heavy, challenging waters of bringing two families together or stepping into the role of step parent. Enjoy!