Welcome to 2021, and no we didn’t leave all of the obstacles from 2020 in the past. Our host, Jarrett Carpenter, explores the Capitol riot and what lays ahead for the US.

For our first episode of 2021, I chat with Jen Ballou, who's a creative and graphic designer living in Hawaii, about all things New Year's Resolutions. She shares with us her own process on goal setting and why sometimes we all get lost on the journey to completing our professional, personal, financial and spiritual goals.

To wrap up 2020, we end with an episode dedicated to our 22 amazing guests.

Big thanks to all who joined us in 2020 - you truly made the podcast what it is today. Thanks & Gracias!

It’s not everyday that you go from picking up trash on a beach in Massachusetts to inspiring hundreds of people around the world to do the same. For our 29th episode, we highlight the inspiring work Sarah and Phil Burgess are doing with their grassroots project - Just 1 Bag 2020.

In this new frontier of remote work, there will be all types of physical and digital products designed and created to support this new working culture.

For this episode, we pick up where the previous episode left off and our host, Jarrett Carpenter, chats with Sam Hariton about the tech behind a virtual team he leads, how he and his team decided upon the products it currently uses and what the future of remote work and virtual collaboration could be.

Covid 19 has changed the way we do business and working remotely, while once seen as a non-traditional approach to office life, is now the new normal. In this episode, our host, Jarrett Carpenter, chats with Mike Lasky about all things working remotely. Mike is a team lead for Widelity and shares with us his insights into how to continually improve upon work culture when everyone in the office is working from their homes.

For our 26th episode, our host Jarrett Carpenter chats with the Founders of Hemp Brands CR about the potential and exciting future of CBD and THC in Costa Rica.

Our 25th episode features guest Emily Ouellet who's a childhood friend of our host, Jarrett Carpenter (@jcrpntr). In the episode, the two discuss Seasonal Affective Disorder, COVID, the 2020 election, and Emily opens up to us about her journey with IVF as she strives to become a mother.

This past summer, our host Jarrett Carpenter (@jcrpntr) participated in a Black Lives Matter march from City hall in downtown Beverly, MA to the Unitarian Universalist church in Marblehead, MA. The ending point was strategic as that congregation’s Black Lives Matter banner had been previously, over the last couple of months, vandalized or ripped down. It was at the end of the March, where local and community leaders shared their thoughts on race in America and the work that lay ahead. Of these speakers where this episodes guests - Nia Guzman (@nn1aaa) & Shelby Casimir (@sdollazzzz) This episode was recorded in two parts and shares their experiences of navigating white spaces as young black women.

For our 23rd episode, our host has a behind the beats chat with Ju$t Jill and N Fuego from B&B Music which is a Massachusetts based rap group. We review their first album titled city bars and explore the origins of all of its songs. City bars is empowering, uplifting and most of all it’s a fun listen. You can find them on SoundCloud under B&B Music and on Instagram @brainsnbars_music.