Heyooo, listeners, it's another BONUS eppy from your favorite deep conversationalist sister duo, Meg and Fran. Here we have somewhat of a cringe-story session that ends up being therapeutic in the end (still with a lot of cringe, don't worry). From our first dates to our most embarrassing moments, we realize how much we've grown in our twenties. 

Link to full video: https://youtu.be/ZoW6NMf4uQI  

IG Socials:
@deepconvospod
@meg.sales.14
@fransales

Email: [email protected] 

Music: https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/visions 

Heyooo friends! We're back after an eventful Father's Day/Juneteenth Weekend. This week we talk about the PITS OF COMPARISON. Basically, we are happy (ish), and content (ish), and we're blessed. And we "should" be satisfied, right? But... it feels like there's something still missing. And... it feels like our friends and peers have that "thing." They seem to have it together. Or have the stability/job/relationship/career I don't have. Or, do they? (We get emotional blue balls as a result.)

Timestamps:

(00:01:30) our weeks.

(00:15:25) part 1: yeah my life is good but I wish it was more. Practicing contentment. It feels like everyone’s having kids. The shits. Unfollowing some people. We’re meanest to ourselves.

(00:42:50) part 2: strategies. Getting clear on what matters to YOU. The pits of comparison. Everyone fights their own inner battles. The neighbors window (short; link below). The blue balls of thinking.

(01:01:35). what we’re loving this week: Pinterest app, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Alfre Woodard in Clemency, Insecure season 4. bye!

Links:

Link to episode video: https://youtu.be/BE7Jtrj9ZkE 

The neighbor’s window: https://bit.ly/2V77h4z Meg’s Pinterest board: https://bit.ly/2VaIXPl

Socials/Email:

@deepconvospod @meg.sales. 14 @fransales deepconvo [email protected]

Music by https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic (thank you!)

In this bonus episode, Meg and Fran ask each other deep existential questions that they randomly sourced from the Internet just for kicks. It gets pretty real. (One key finding: LOVE TRUMPS ALL. And also Black Mirror covered it all.)

Socials:

@deepconvospod

@meg.sales.14

@fransales

[email protected]

Music:

https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle/70s-tv (Thank You!)

Heyooo listeners, it’s yet another episode of Deep Convos Podcast. This time we bring talented musician, Fran’s friend Alethea Buchal to speak with Meg and Fran about the complex minefield that is friendships between two straight friends of the opposite sex. Is it possible? What are the parameters? From friends with benefits to the friend zone, we cover it all.

TIME STAMPS: (00:03:15) Our weeks, immediate George Floyd aftermath, deeper investigation into our ingrained beliefs. (00:14:47) Part 1: our personal experiences & the current landscape, how marriage affects this, is it possible? does age matter? the “assessment stage,” the “tension,” girlfriends, relationship status. (00:42:50) Part 2: bio breaks, compliments to the chef (chef’s kiss), relationship status continued, trust & jealousy in relationships (Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell), unique challenges of opposite-sex friendships, distance makes the heart grow less fond; friends with benefits & friend zoning; trust & support each other as women. (00:01:27) Part 3: Examples in the media. What We’re Loving This Week: So Delicious Cookies & Cream Coconut Milk Ice Cream, Ramy Season 2 (this is a repeat, we know), Carly Rae Jepsen (Dedicated Side B), Quote of the Week, Good bye! 

SOCIAL

IG: @deepconvospod

Email: [email protected]

Alethea’s IG: @akb_music

Alethea’s FB and site: facebook.com/akbmusic, www.akbmusic.com

MUSIC

Intro/Outro: https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle/wish-you-were-here

Transitions: https://soundcloud.com/mundaner-than-you/hello-mr-princeton-otis-mcdonald (Thank you!!)

"To be silent is to be complicit."

Meg and Fran didn't feel right not speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement. As Asian Americans, we're sure we are not alone in having stayed comfortable in the sidelines for a long time. And we go one step further in this conversation: we explore and come to terms with the fact that we grew up, benefited, and were complicit in a culture steeped in the mindset of white supremacy -- and that in coming to the U.S., we wanted to stay complicit in a similar, tiered racist system; we continue to stay comfortable and benefit from that system by being a quiet, so-called "model minority" citizen (while it continues to kill our black siblings). And Fran and Meg have to actively, uncomfortably, change that -- and we are calling on our fellow Asian Americans to DO THE SAME. |

A couple of things first:

1) LISTEN TO BLACK VOICES FIRST. What are you doing here? We recommend listening to these podcasts first:

• Ibram X. Kendi on how to be anti-racist on Today Explained: https://bit.ly/37dRCoN
• Ta-Nehisi Coates on why he's hopeful on the Ezra Klein Show: https://bit.ly/3dLFeig
• Pod Save The People: https://bit.ly/30okoS7
• Code Switch: https://n.pr/3f7mQRs

2) DISCLAIMER: We make some generalizations here about Filipino culture because it's easier than disclaiming something every 5 seconds (here is the disclaimer at 00:33:05). This doesn't mean we think "all so-and-so group of people are such-and-such." We just mean the majority, in our experience. |

Part 1: Growing Up Complicit in the "White Mindset." (00:13:00) |

Part 2: Hiding Behind Our Light Skin and Hiding our Asian-ness to Not Make Waves in the System. (00:36:00) |

Break: What We're Loving This Week: (00:47:25) Now, Discover Your Strengths (book), Ramy Season 2, Just Mercy (movie about Bryan Stevenson), 13th |

Part 3: It's Not Our Movement, But We Need to be Active--Not Passive--Allies. It's NOT a "Black/White Thing." Calls to Action (00:57:25) |

Closing: Quote of the Day, Stay Safe Out There, Goodbye! (01:07:00) |

REFERENCES:

• Audre Lorde quote: https://bit.ly/2UoAwQ5
• Asia Jackson's "Magandang Morenx" campaign: https://bit.ly/3cN6snr
• Atlantic article on Filipino "family helper" culture: https://bit.ly/3cJQFpv
• Hasan Minhaj's "We Cannot Stay Silent": https://bit.ly/2ANqOjg
• Ibram X. Kendi's "How to be Anti-Racist": https://bit.ly/3f33yfN |

WHERE/HOW TO EDUCATE YOURSELF/DONATE/OTHER EFFORTS (Google them!):

• PROTEST SAFELY (If you can) -- or be the tactical contact for your friends who are out there.
• Visit blacklivesmatters.carrd.co.
• Donate to organizations like Reclaim The Block, Campaign Zero, Black Visions Collective, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Communities United Against Police Brutality, ACLU, your local bail fund, George Floyd's/Breonna Taylor's/Ahmaud Arbery's GoFundMe campaigns--and SO MUCH MORE.
• Sign petitions and call your local reps to hold police accountable for their actions, defund the police and reallocate those funds, and end police brutality.
• VOTE. In your local elections. In November.
• LISTEN TO BLACK VOICES AND STORIES (through your black friends/loved ones/colleagues, podcasts, social media, movies, Ted Talks, feature articles, fiction, non-fiction, etc).
• CALL YOURSELF out, then call your Asian, non-black, and white loved ones out. And do your own research and SHARE this research with them. |

We are doing this with you. Let's go. |

SONGS:

Transitions: https://soundcloud.com/cluelesskit/groove,  

https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/me-2-feat-julian-avila,

Intro: https://soundcloud.com/iamryanlittle/wish-you-were-here (Thank you!!)

IG: @deepconvospod

Heyoooo, your favorite DEEP conversationalists are back with yet another episode of Deep Convos…and this time, it’s all about PERIODS. That’s right, we said it, MENSTRUATION. Because it’s NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED ABOUT, and in fact is something to be proud of. From EUPHEMISMS to MEDIA PORTRAYALS to PERIOD SEX, we try to cover it all. (This the first in a series of conversations Meg and Fran are going to have about TABOO TOPICS, so stay tuned.)

TIME STAMPS

(00:03:35) Our weeks, Meg can eat again!! (00:11:00) Periods Pt. 1, our first times, our mom’s reaction, how our relationships w/ our periods have changed (00:23:30) what goes on inside our bodies, we should all look into this, the luteal phase, HORMONES, birth control (00:28:38) period products, how meg’s eating disorder had affected her period, cloth pads & menstrual cups, the “pink tax”?!, cloth pads for breast milk lol, PMS/cramps/the moods, euphemisms, “down to clown,” other countries/cultures’ treatment of periods (00:41:28) What we’re loving this week: Koala Kloth, smoothie bowls, Nature’s Path Pumpkin Seed + Flax granola, Broad City, Friend-ologues, Parissa Waxing Kit/Warmer (00:51:22) Periods Pt. 2, how guys talk about periods, period sex/intimacy, shaming, women’s part in this, do we really know what guys think?, are POVs changing? (01:00:37) media portrayals---blue liquid in ads?!, period panties (Thinx), political uproar, unpopular girl trope, “Menstruation Orientation” (Key & Peele), body hair digressions, WOMEN COMEDIANS, Vicious Cycle podcast (01:11:52) quote of the day, goodbyeee! 

What are your thoughts/experiences about periods? Hit us up!

IG: @deepconvospod 

Meg: @meg.sales.14 

Fran: @fransales 

Email: [email protected] 

Video of this episode: https://bit.ly/2AkMQcX 

LINKS TO THINGS: 

Blank Slate Body (my friend Sara's fitness project!) https://bit.ly/3eD6MGP

Luteal phase: https://bit.ly/2XLhYtZ 

Koala Kloth Microfiber: https://bit.ly/2MbX8OX 

Parissa Waxing Kit/Warmer: https://parissa.com/

Menstruation Orientation (Key & Peele): https://bit.ly/3eCG558 

Vicious Cycle: https://bit.ly/2XLA1QF 

SONGS USED: 

https://www.toneden.io/john-joseph-james-digiacomo-sofia/post/dreamwalk-feat-cay-caleb 

https://soundcloud.com/mundaner-than-you/hello-mr-princeton-otis-mcdonald 

(THANK YOU!)

In this bonus episode of Deep Convos Podcast, Meg and I RANT our asses off. (Or rather, only Fran rants her ass off and Meg stays admirably happy and zen.) From the trivial ("PUT THE SHOWER HEADs BACK THE WAY THEY WERE!!") to the significant (people's refusal to put masks on in public) -- nothing is safe.

ENJOY -- and we'd love to hear YOUR rants! Send 'em here:

IG: @deepconvospod

email: [email protected]

LINK TO TWEET:

https://twitter.com/ShantiAkers/status/1262229406774431745?s=20

VIDEO OF THIS EP here: https://bit.ly/2zunklu

SONG USED:

https://soundcloud.com/mundaner-than-you/hello-mr-princeton-otis-mcdonald

(THANK YOU!)

Heyooooo your hosts Meg and Fran are back with another COVID-ition episode of Deep Convos Podcast. This time, we bring in Fran's friend Jack to help us tackle the topic of how our relationships have changed in the time of corona.

TIME STAMPS:

(00:03:40) Intro: our weeks; how long is this gonna last?, did the zombie movies prepare us?, enjoying our own company (00:11:18) the art of a phone call is a lost one, resting Zoom face, all things Zoom (00:15:47) friendships that matter--or not, your energy is finite, old friends come back, reciprocal friendships, cutting ties (00:30:20) partnerships/romantic relationships: breakups pre-Covid, Meg's married life, Jack's long-distance relationship, ways of communicating, 2 types of texters, voice memos! (00:42:50) what we're loving this week: chili, (Jack hates racism and lack of sleep), Marriage Story, Barbershop Chronicles (National Theatre Live), 3-ingredient smoothies, Married at First Sight (00:58:15) partnerships part 2: single as a Pringle, subconscious self-sabotage, down-talking to ourselves, love yourself first and others second, Teal Swan and an overturning-your-beliefs exercise, AA and inventorying (01:12:25) quote of the day, good-bye! (How have YOUR relationships changed during quarantine? LET US KNOW!)

VIDEO: bit.ly/3gis3aj

SOCIAL:

IG: @deepconvospod

email: [email protected]

Meg: @meg.sales.14

Fran: @fransales

jack: sterlixandsix.com, @sterlingandsix

SONGS:

Music: Hello Mr Princeton - Otis McDonald https://youtu.be/J962etJEYKA

Better Days – Lakey Inspired https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/better-days 

(Thank you!!)

In our second bonus episode, your beloved deep-thinking hosts tackle quarantine life's biggest, most existential questions: "To eat pizza for every single meal, or to eat no pizza for five years?" "B.O. on yourself and not know it, or smell B.O. on everyone else?" or, one of our faves: "Wear the same socks for a month, or the same underwear for a week?" (Basically, WE'RE KILLING TIME. AT LEAST 15 MINUTES OF IT.)

What would YOU guys rather? Let us know:

IG: @deepconvospod

#extraextra #deepconvospod #womenwhopodcast

Email: [email protected]

Meg: @meg.sales.14

Fran: @fransales

SONGS USED:

https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights 

(Thank you!)

Heyooo listeners, it's your two favorite sisters, just out here talking about how they take care of their mental and physical selves during quar (yes we said "quar"). But this time! They're joined by cousin Keith, who brings in the unique perspective of going through quar in Vancouver, Canada (and being a dude with a fiancee). Stick around to hear about how we loosen up or wind down outside of work/other projects. (00:03:23) mailbag, the no. 1 thing WE need to best work from home (00:12:25) After-work routines Part 1: ab/yoga workouts, watching YouTube, 2-hour walks, podcasts, SAY NO sometimes, "me" time, TV-show-workout games, meditation, be friends with yourself, IT'S ALL TEMPORARY (00:37:45) what we're loving this week: Bad Education (HUGH JACKMAN), Staying In with Emily and Kumail (podcast), Tuesdays with Morrie (book), cooking/mindful shopping (00:47:34) After-work routines Part 2: taking your time cooking & eating, intentional grocery list-making/shopping, approaching life with play, taking care of your physical body & environment, routines, "hygge," talking/journaling (01:05:08) quote of the day, HOW TO HIT US UP

FULL VIDEO of the ep here: bit.ly/2AAXb4y

How do YOU take care of your mental/physical health outside of work/other projects? Hit us up because we'll take all the tips we can get:

IG: @deepconvospod

#thebestyou #deepconvospod #womenwhopodcast

email: [email protected]

Meg: @meg.sales.14

Fran: @fransales

Keith: @keithdanielleano

SONGS USED:

Song: LAKEY INSPIRED - Blossom

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Acoustic/Folk Instrumental by Hyde - Free Instrumentals https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic

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