Coming Home to Her

My brother Marcus is finally on the podcast.

In this episode, we talk about what it was like growing up in Maui, both leaving home in different directions, and how our relationship has changed as we've built separate adult lives away from the place we came from.

We get into the strange feeling of missing home while also knowing you're not meant to move back, what it means to reinvent yourself somewhere new, childhood memories, sibling dynamics, and whether we'd actually be friends if we weren't siblings.

He also shares his first memory of me. Mine of him involves lipstick. You'll understand when you get there.

Everyone starts posting online thinking it'll be fine. It is not fine.

In this episode, I sit down with Sabrina — content creator and business lawyer — who has been posting for seven years and has had videos reach over a million views.

We talk about what it actually felt like to start, why having people you know watch is scarier than strangers watching, how she kept videos on her phone for months before posting them, and what finally made her stop caring so much about who was watching.

Plus — do 16K followers feel different than she imagined? The honest answer might surprise you.

People talk about romanticizing your life like it’s an aesthetic. Matcha, linen, golden hour walks.

But I think it’s actually something else entirely.

In this episode, I talk about a moment I had on a flight going through old photos — realizing I was romanticizing memories I wasn’t even fully present for when I was living them. I also share a piece of advice someone gave me during the hardest winter of my life that I will genuinely never forget.

Does romanticizing your life actually make you happier? I think it can — but not for the reason most people think.

Lucky Girl Syndrome is everywhere. Girls swearing that walking around expecting good things to happen actually makes them happen. And honestly? I can't fully decide if it's genius or unhinged.

In this episode I share why I think there's actually something real in it — including a memory from when I was 14 sitting on a playground in Copenhagen that I still think about. Plus where I think it completely falls apart and what I actually believe the whole thing is really about.

You know you've become a local somewhere the day you stop using Google Maps.

Today I'm talking about how a new place actually starts to feel like home — not one big moment, but small things repeating until they add up. The metro you used to fear. The cafe that knows your face, not your name. A street you no longer need a map for.

If you've ever moved somewhere new and wondered when it would feel like yours — this one's for you.

Today’s episode is a little lighter, a little more opinionated, and honestly… slightly hypocritical.

I’m talking about things I think are overrated — from “that girl” routines and the 5AM club to cold plunges, dating apps, situationships, LinkedIn culture, and the idea that your 20s are automatically the best years of your life.

Some I respect. Some I do. Some I simply cannot get behind.

It’s not that deep. Welcome home 🤍

Making friends as an adult is so much harder than anyone warns you about.

When we're younger it just kind of happens. Same environment, same people, forced together until suddenly you have a best friend. But as an adult — especially when you've moved somewhere new — you actually have to try. And trying is awkward.

In this episode I talk about why it gets so much harder as we get older, what's worked for me across every place I've lived, and the weird vulnerability of putting yourself out there when everyone already seems to have their people.

Because making friends as an adult is strange and discouraging and nobody tells you that. But it's also proof that it's never too late to find your people.

I used to be so sure about certain things.

That real friends never drift apart. That adults had everything figured out. That confidence meant never doubting yourself. That moving abroad would magically solve more than it actually did.

In this episode I'm looking back at ten things I genuinely believed at 22 — and what happened when real life proved me wrong.

Some of them are funny. Some of them I'm still unlearning. 

Okay we’ve been pretty emotionally deep lately. So today — no identity crises, no emotional unpacking.

Just me talking about the random things I’m currently obsessed with, what life/routine has genuinely looked like lately, and a little Vienna life update.

We’re talking coffee rituals, my unhinged skincare situation, workout classes, emotional support cafés, Caesar salads at an unreasonable frequency, Wiener Schnitzel, what I’ve been watching lately, a purchase I’ve become weirdly evangelical about, and why I cried from the airport home in -8°C.

Plus a rapid fire round at the end because why not.

You know that feeling when you leave someone and you're just... exhausted. And nothing bad even happened.

Some people don't drain you dramatically. They just slowly use up all the space.

In this episode I talk about what heavy energy actually looks like, why the guilt of it is the hardest part, and why your exhaustion around certain people is information worth listening to.