This week we are throwing out the rulebook on productivity and replacing it with something way more our speed: compassion, curiosity, and the radical act of being devoted to yourself.

In This Episode

🎉 Our summer selves are here! An update on Anna’s European adventure and recap of Bracey’s habit tracking.

🧠 Soft discipline: trying softerTurns out forcing yourself to do things you hate isn’t a long-term strategy.

📵 Phone usage makes an appearance because of course it does.

🔄 Discipline is out. Devotion is IN.It’s the same concept but without the shame and pressure.

🎨 Utilizing 20-minute windows is annoying but it worksBracey shares her low-lift setup for squeezing in creative time.

💪 Motivation: it ebbs, it flows, it disappears for weeks at a timeBoth of us get honest about our relationship with motivation.

✅ Consistency doesn’t mean daily, and that’s the whole pointStructure as freedom! Routines as bumpers on a bowling lane!

Highlights You Don’t Want to Miss

* A fun Laney story with all the personality we expect.

* The realization that beating yourself up for not doing something costs MORE energy than just doing it

* Anna commits to 10 minutes of morning reflection in June, tracked out of curiosity (not shame!) — we love character development

Come Find Us!

Got hot takes on motivation? A devotion era success story? We want to hear it.

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* 📝 Substack: likehearted.substack.com

Talk to you soon. 💛

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This week we got nostalgic (remember post secret?!), got into our feelings about group chats, and somehow ended up more connected than ever.

What we got into

💌 How our parents actually did it. A time before dinners and drinks were normal. We genuinely cannot.

📱 Group chats: gift, curse, or chaotic neutral? We present the evidence. You decide.

🛋️ The great in-person vs. virtual debate. Bracey makes her case and Anna’s opinion does NOT survive the episode intact.

📸 Instagram, TikTok, and the strange intimacy of watching someone’s life on a 6-second loop.

💬 GChat nostalgia hours. A moment of silence for the away message era.

📞 Phone calls, texts, video chats — what each one actually says about how much you care.

Tell us how you keep in touch

Are you a voice memo person? (If so, please voice memo Bracey) A meme-as-love-language person? A “sorry I’m bad at texting” person who’s actually great at texting certain people? We want to know. Email [email protected] or leave a comment on Substack with the whole thing — no judgment, only curiosity.

Stay connected

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In this episode

Anna’s clocking her monthly mental health day like a pro (with permission from the principal, no less), while Bracey has officially entered Day 10 of Mystery Illness #11. Spoiler: do NOT fly with congestion unless you want to spend the midnight hour googling “is my eardrum ruptured.” But emotionally? She’s crushing it. Astrology course enrolled, journaling intensified, vibes immaculate.

What we got into

🌱 Hard seasons as compost. Bracey landed on the reframe of the year: “I haven’t felt like myself lately. I must be growing.”

💪 Self-efficacy as a tool, not a buzzword. Why finishing tiny things matters more than starting big ones.

🛬 Kristen Bell, the coffee, and the one cream. Adam Grant + K-Bell on people-pleasing as a selfish act (we know, we know).

🔢 Attitude numbers, decoded. If you’re not living in alignment with yours, you’re being messy.

🌀 The transition problem. What solitaire, sudoku, and oranges have in common.

🇯🇵 Seven Japanese cures for “laziness” (which they’re calling a DISEASE, harsh). We do not endorse calling laziness a disease. We DO endorse the tips.

Tell us your panic lies

Seriously. We need them. Email [email protected] or leave a comment on Substack with the whole story — no judgment, only awe.

Stay connected

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Anna and Bracey crack open The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad — and it turns out, a book about journaling has a lot to say about the work of becoming. Suleika gathered wisdom from 100 writers, artists, and thinkers to explore how creativity can carry us through our hardest moments. In this episode, Anna and Bracey share their favorite chapters (yes, the Jon Batiste one comes up), try out a few journal prompts on each other, and talk about how a creative practice can double as a growth practice. If you’ve ever stared at a blank page — or a blank chapter of your life — and wondered where to start, this one’s for you.

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Anna and Bracey are chatting about spring plans! On this episode, we get into what we’re listening to, what’s sparking joy, and what we’re hoping to work on this spring. As per usual, there are a few fun tangents, including our thoughts on the importance of rugs and Bracey’s big growth update.

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In this episode, Anna and Bracey are getting curious about self-concept—the personality types you claim, the roles you fall into, and those very on-brand patterns that keep repeating in your life. From relationships and friendships to work and personal growth, we’re unpacking those big-picture beliefs about how life “works”.

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Anna is teaching us how to analyze our dreams! Hear Bracey’s weird chicken sandwich dream and how it could be about group dynamics. Bracey also shares some possible ghost activity in her home and Anna recaps the energy reading she had on her house.

Some questions to consider when analyzing the symbols and objects in your own dreams:

* What was the symbol or object doing in your dream?

* What did it look like?

* Where was it?

* How did you feel about it while you were dreaming?

* How do you feel now when you think about it?

* What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of this symbol?

Happy dreaming!

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​The Big Growth Update

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Anna and Bracey are back behind the mics for another Q&A episode! From the weirdest recent dreams they can remember to the things their younger selves would be most surprised about today, the conversation wanders in all the best ways.

They also swap icebreaker fun facts, talk about what’s been inspiring them lately, and share some exciting things they have coming up this year.

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Anna’s financial planning update, Bracey’s surprising growth update, and all the random thoughts you usually expect, plus a discussion about the various types of grief. Big G Grief, little G grief, and all the ways we avoid grief. We’d love to hear your thoughts on grief if you have them!

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In this week’s episode, we’re diving into all the things currently taking up space in our brains — from ambitious reading goals and fantasy fomo, to the art of rethinking our opinions (inspired by insights from Think Again by Adam Grant).

We also unpack the realities of convenience culture — how it shapes our time, habits, and expectations — and why we’re feeling the pull to slow down. That naturally leads us to thrifting: the thrill of the hunt, sustainability, and what secondhand shopping says about our values in a fast-everything world.

It’s thoughtful, a little opinionated, and full of the everyday reflections that spark the best conversations. Grab your coffee (or take us on your thrift run) and come think out loud with us.

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