By Talia Pollock
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In this second episode of Existennial I explain my strong đof giving general life advice. (How-to's like how to layer rugs, keep a baby alive or pair wine with curry are guidance I appreciate.)
I then talk about why I much prefer sharing ideas and sparking stuff for people with STORIES. I quote a Spanish philosopher's thoughts on being a teacher and then recap a smart psychologist's studies on "narrative identity," --> basically whether you're aware or not, we're each stringing snippets of our life together so our existence at least makes a little sense and isn't just some random series of events. Yeah, we go high brow.
After that, I storytell my personal narrative ie. what happened with my [most recent] existential crisis.
I wrap with some strong opinions on cheese, a major warning about The Bachelor Franchise, and a paraphrase of Neil Patrick Harris.Â
I hope you find value in this!Â
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Welcome to Existennial, a podcast where I shoot the shit about how we shape our life's own meaning on this random-ass planet and do so without miserably copy-and-pasting someone else's life or drowning in a pee-infested pool of personal responsibility anxiety.Â
It's where we'll investigate intentional living through a smorgasbord of science, spirituality, psychology, philosophy, pop culture, eavesdropping, and thoughts-I-have-in-the-shower.Â
I'm Talia Pollock, an author, columnist, and lover of the yoga pose pigeon. I've been questioning the meaning and mocking the absurdity of life since diapersâand I've been writing about it since tampons.
If you're a millennial going through an existential crisis otherwise known as a quarter-life crisis..or a mid-life crisis.. a .33333333 life crisis or just a regular damn Tuesday, I am oh so glad you've landed here.Â
To sign up for my frequent-ish newsletter filled with all sorts of fun meaningful things that I'm hoping to be like an Orange TicTac in your inboxâsomething delightful, refreshing, and peppy, click here: https://taliapollock.substack.comÂ
(That's also how I'll send you a written version of each episode if you sometimes fancy reading a la phone a la toilette.)
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This episode might come as a shock. Or it may not. Either way itâs here and youâre listening to it so how bout I stop guessing what emotion it might bring and just let it bring it! It has been the journey of all journeys to go on this ride with you. I thank you from the very bottom of my heart for giving me your most precious resource, your time and lending me your hopefully not too waxy ears to speak into all these hours over all these years.Â
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If you have ideas for what you might want to hear more of as I rethink how I want to continue podcasting in the future, email me at [email protected]. And on www.taliapollock.com/hello you can also sign up for my newsletter which is the best place to stay up to date with all my things! Of course, if you want the greatest thing to come out of this podcast, my book, stuffed to the brim with all the puns and healthy nuggets youâve eaten up in this here podcast, my book Party in Your Plants is a thing you can buy wherever books are sold.Â
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If the past 207 episodes has taught me anything, itâs that my hypothesis about partying in our plants was right on the money. In fact, I said it in episode 1 of the podcast: our greatest health & happiness comes from eating way MORE PLANTS than you do CRAP.Â
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And The only way to guarantee weâll ACTUALLY eat the plants is to take the HELL out of HEALTHY, which I think we did mighty well in this year ERA of the PIMP podcast.Â
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So with that I say eat your plants with a smile, monitor your mental health, love AND BLOW yoâself and iâll catch you in my new projects so stay in the loop with me at taliapollock.com/hello so I tell you about future projects. LOVE YOU GOODBYE.Â
Sheâs a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, a professional chef, a trained nutrition specialist, a food psychiatrist, the author of This is Your Brain on Food and just overall foodie brainiac. This chat with Dr. Uma Naidoo covered how the state of your mental health often starts with what you ate for dinner. As she says, âHappy gut, happy mood!â We talked about so much mood-boostinâ stuffs including how the gut and the brain are waaaay more closely linked than you thought. (Heard it here first before it goes mainstream!) Now, this is a chat that will have you turning your ahhhh to hahas and will have you revamping your shopping list. Yes, if youâre on a prescription, it wonât hurt to try out these brain food tips and no, Iâm definitely not telling you to swap out your meds. As Dr. Uma says: you have to eat anyway, so adding healthy brain food to the plate is kinda a low hanging fruit. Her pun, not mine. Surprisingly!Â
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BUY MY BEST SELLING BOOK, PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS
Where to buy Amazing Grass goodies and save 30% with code: PLANTPARTY30
Where to buy Four Sigmatic Magic Mushroom Products and save 15% with code: âPARTYINMYPLANTSâ
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Where Iâd much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!
Party in My Plants on Instagram
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Nikki Brafman is a human design expert (in fact, sheâs MY human design expert!). So much about what I teach is about living in alignment, stepping up to be your best self and living a life that is self loyal. Without human design, I wouldnât be living my best, fullest and truest life. Or at least I wouldnât have the verbiage to describe myself. If you read my recent Mindbodygreen article I shared how Human design legitimately changed my life. I am so thrilled to have Nikki to thank for showing me the Human Design ropes. And telling you all about the magical ropes too, in this here chat. >> PS. Get your free Human Design chart here to help you understand this episode better! <<
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BUY MY BEST SELLING BOOK, PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS
Where to buy Four Sigmatic Magic Mushroom Products and save 15% with code: âPARTYINMYPLANTSâ
Book me to speak at your college, conference or company!
Where Iâd much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!
Party in My Plants on Instagram
Party in My Plants on Facebook
Party in My Plantsâ Videos on YouTube
Miss Simi Botic is a barre instructor, a health coach, the author of Letting Go Of Leo and the smarty yoga pants wearing brain behind Unmeasured. That last one is basically a ballet-meets-pilates class⌠but one that focuses on body positivity and self-compassion. (As in diet culture turns of phrase arenât allowed and body punishing mentalities will be kicked to the curb!) This chat was all about embracing movement that we love in a self-compassionate way that has nothing to do with earning food or shedding calories. This is the podcast episode where we kinda just said it as it is: that there are ways to enjoy your studio or gym or road time because of the joys that come with it. Joys that have nothing to do with weight or body composition! And you know what, just like healthy eating, your workout doesnât have to suck! For the story on how Simi went from a compulsive exercise obsessed gal to the one who teaches a warm-hug-of-a-body-positive barre class, press play!Â
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BUY MY BEST SELLING BOOK, PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS
Where to get Sunwarrior - my favorite plant-protein powder- for 20% off with code: PARTYINMYPLANTS at checkout
Where to buy Four Sigmatic Magic Mushroom Products and save 15% with code: âPARTYINMYPLANTSâ
Book me to speak at your college, conference or company!
Where Iâd much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!
Party in My Plants on Instagram
Party in My Plants on Facebook
Party in My Plantsâ Videos on YouTube
My lady Tricia Huffman a.k.a. The Joyologist a.k.a. affirmation queen a.k.a. the shitty thought police (OK, enough of the a.k.a.s, we get itâŚ) is my latest and greatest guest. The woman is more super than a superfood itself and as such, this lilâ chat was even more invigorating than my post-run heaped-with-greens smoothie. Tricia has a background as a sound engineer, has spent so much of her life on the road and pivoted her whole lifestyle to be one focused on joy, positive affirmations, cultivating career success and happiness, and staunchly askewing the word âshouldâ and all that it represents. Her whole *fig*gin jam is to wake people up to the joys that exist RIGHT NOW in their lives. My friend, donât let these great days perish like wilted romaine lettuce that you forget at the back of your damn fridge! Listen to find out how to fill your life with joy ASAP.Â
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BUY MY BEST SELLING BOOK, PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS
Where to buy Amazing Grass goodies and save 30% with code: PLANTPARTY30
Where to buy Four Sigmatic Magic Mushroom Products and save 15% with code: âPARTYINMYPLANTSâ
Book me to speak at your college, conference or company!
Where Iâd much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!
Party in My Plants on Instagram
Party in My Plants on Facebook
Party in My Plantsâ Videos on YouTube
Weâve heard about making our bank accounts work for us, weâve heard about making our businesses work for us⌠but what about our home sweet home? Jamie Gold is a home design marvel and the author of a new book: Wellness By Design, A Room-by-Room Guide to Optimizing Your Home for Health, Fitness and Happiness and her whole philosophy is that if you wanna get healthy, start with your space. We covered so much in this episode from revamping the kitchen, organizing the damn stacks of papers (I know you got âem) on your counter, embracing hacks that are going to make your home more comfortable and really thinking through how we put together the rooms that now have multiple purposes. (Home-office-turned-gym-turned-reading-corner, Iâm looking at you!) I know I learned a thousand things about how to make my space work for me so that I can live my best, healthiest, sanest, life. (Even if it includes getting the dorky cushy floor mat) Of course, we brought some planty magic to turn this housewarming party up to 11.Â
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BUY MY BEST SELLING BOOK, PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS
Where to get Sunwarrior - my favorite plant-protein powder- for 20% off with code: PARTYINMYPLANTS at checkout
Where to buy Four Sigmatic Magic Mushroom Products and save 15% with code: âPARTYINMYPLANTSâ
Book me to speak at your college, conference or company!
Where Iâd much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!
Party in My Plants on Instagram
Party in My Plants on Facebook
Party in My Plantsâ Videos on YouTube
This week on the pod is all about less stuff, more adventure, more freedom and the MOST fun chats with Miranda Anderson. ICYMI, I had a major move last year where Jesse, Tommy and I carted our stuff away from tiny apartments in NYC and into an amazing home in the woods where plants grace my presence the minute I walk out the front door. Behind the scenes on this whole transition was Miranda Anderson, established blogger and author of More Than Enough: How One Family Cultivated A More Abundant Life Through A Year Of Practical Minimalism whose book I listened to on repeat at least three times. In this talk we discussed how your stuff is holding you back from adventure, why practical minimalism is bound to bring fulfillment, why lipstick is freaking awesome and why open mindsets can lead to Puerto Rico or Texas or the woods oâ New York or wherever your heart leads you. Iâd say this episode with Miranda left me with more than enough! Â
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BUY MY BEST SELLING BOOK, PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS!
Where to buy Amazing Grass goodies and save 30% with code: PLANTPARTY30
Where to buy Four Sigmatic Magic Mushroom Products and save 15% with code: âPARTYINMYPLANTSâ
Book me to speak at your college, conference or company!
Where Iâd much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!
Where you can go to suggest a guest (yourself or someone else) for the show!
Party in My Plants on Instagram
Party in My Plants on Facebook
Party in My Plantsâ Videos on YouTube
When it comes to the good olâ socially distanced plant partying, Tara Kemp is the guest of honor. Tara specializes in something so, so important and so, so valuable that I have the utmost respect for this gal. She helps women struggling with eating disorders recover through a plant-based eating philosophy. Having struggled with an eating disorder herself (which btw, she attributes to crippling anxiety that was left untreated) Tara, who is pursuing her phd in psychosocial health, knows a thing or two about exerting control over food, and the mental health roots in disordered eating. Her story is an empowering one. But the empowerment doesnât stop with this special womanâs journey⌠we also chatted about deciding how you want to interact with food, movement, and in deciding which information to live by and which info to take with a grain of celery salt. I might as well call this one the Suit Yourself Episode.Â
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BUY MY BEST SELLING BOOK, PARTY IN YOUR PLANTS!
Where to buy Amazing Grass goodies and save 30% with code: PLANTPARTY30
Where to buy Four Sigmatic Magic Mushroom Products and save 15% with code: âPARTYINMYPLANTSâ
Book me to speak at your college, conference or company!
Where Iâd much appreciate you leaving a review for the show in iTunes!!
Where you can go to suggest a guest (yourself or someone else) for the show!
Party in My Plants on Instagram
Party in My Plants on Facebook
Party in My Plantsâ Videos on YouTube
The podcast currently has 211 episodes available.