Founder of No Better You and host of the Help! I Suck At Dating podcast, Vanessa Grimaldi, joins Taylor to debrief on their 3 1/2 week travel adventure.  The two reflect on their emotional experience at the Fireside Conference in Canada and how they handled travel anxiety, delegation of tasks, and the communication during their stay in Bali.  Lastly, the ladies ask...should they start a podcast together?! 

Co-host Kitt Bender is back and discussing expectations. Taylor and Kitt shed light on “birthday brain” and how to communicate your needs and wants to the people in your life.  

After a month of traveling, Taylor is back in Seattle and catches up with Bachelor family member Olivia Caridi as she enters therapy.  Olivia shares what she is hoping to work on in therapy including body image, depression, and the trauma of being on The Bachelor.  

Taylor’s first live recording at Fireside Conference with mental health advocate, sports broadcaster, founder of Sick Not Weak, and professional sharer Michael Landsberg.  Michael breaks through barriers of people, especially men, being “weak” because of mental illness by using his platform to spread the message that he is “Sick Not Weak”.  He shares his experience with depression, and how his journey of becoming a professional sharer has helped him.  

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Sick Not Weak

After appearing on the Help! I Suck at Dating podcast, Taylor invites co-host Jared Haibon, from The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise, on to get personal. Jared reflects on how he used to live his life out of fear and has transitioned to doing things out of love. As the two talk, Jared shares about his relationship with his father and how it has impacted his identity as a man.  

Licensed psychotherapist, author, speaker, and host of Vh1 Couples Therapy Dr. Jenn Mann shares her journey to becoming a therapist.  Dr. Jenn lends some wisdom to Taylor about being a therapist in the public eye, and the two answer listener emails.

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Jenn Instagram

Instyle

Relationship Fix

Super Baby

Raising Happy Confident Kids

Rockin Babies

The Bachelorette’s Dean Unglert digs deep into his layers of hurt and opens up about the years of trauma he experienced in late childhood and adolescence. Taylor challenges Dean to identify the feelings around his pain and together they process how he can deepen his connections with the people in his life.

Yale graduate and fellow Bachelor alum, Seinne Fleming, joins Taylor to bond over being ambitious women of color. Seinne shares her experience with forgiveness towards family at the Landmark conference. 

Taylor invites Kendall Long, from The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise, to discuss being a twin, her curiosity and love to learn about people and science, and how the show has impacted parts of her personality.  

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Unfuckwithable

WeWork 

Taylor and Kitt answer your questions about being alone. They define how loneliness and solitude are opposite ends of aloneness.  Taylor gets vulnerable and shares her journals from a lonely time in her life, and Kitt shares meaningful song lyrics about being alone.  The two discuss ways to move through loneliness to a content place of solitude.  

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Book: Untethered Soul- Michael Singer