This week, we ask ourselves what it means to compromise. We also share what we've been reading, watching, listening to, and following recently. 

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What you'll hear:

• How we define compromise
• When is compromise worth it and when is it not?
• The fruit of compromise in relationships
• What pop culture tells us about romance
• What we're reading, watching, listening to, and following

Can I quote you on that?

• "Compromise can be simplified to this: putting someone else's needs before yours." Maggie
• "I don't want to get my way all the time." Maggie
• "If you're compromising and not speaking up because you don't want to have a fight or because you are doubting your own voice or your own right to say something, then that is an unhealthy compromise." Jacey
• "In relationships, you may have an ideal, but a person is not going to reflect that ideal back to you because that person is going to be imperfect." Maggie
• "I still kinda wanna be the type of girl who can go to sleep with bugs. But I'm just not, and that's ok." Maggie
• "Close relationships sharpen and hold up a mirror to our most broken places." Jacey
• "Uggh. Podcast nerds." Jacey

Links:

• Start Your Podcast: transform your podcast idea into your first episode
• Going Zero Waste
• Trash is for tossers
• The Gilded Years
• Andra Day: Cheers to the Fall
• The Head and the Heart: Signs of Light
• Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert (Recommend episodes 201 & 202)
• Finding God in the Waves
• Mike McHargue as Science Mike on his podcast and twitter

Thoughts, questions, comments?

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• Maggie on Instagram, Twitter, and her blog
• Jacey on Instagram, Twitter and her blog

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