Do you take time to celebrate everyday? Truthfully, I don't! I find myself falling in this 1 or 100, black or white type mentality and I end up missing so many reasons to stop, pause, and celebrate every day! Today's conversation gave me more than a fresh perspective on every calibrations though, it opened my eyes to a conversation much deeper. As I read through the book Everyday Grand by today's guest, Jocelyn Delk Adams, I came to pick up on stories that talked about the connection of food, culture and race. In our country right now while there are conversations happening about diversity and race, very few are connected to food...which meant I HAD to explore it. 

• Through this drool-worthy and insightful conversation with our joy filled guest you will hear topics such as: 
• How to connect each recipe to an everyday celebration, and find more reasons to celebrate
• How to rewrite the ways we look at failure, learn to embrace and celebrate it 
• How to talk about our experience with foods from other cultures as we try them. 
• The risk of loosing the heart of cooking, time spent recipe developing and being in the kitchen with family 
• The incredibly eye-opening conversation of the connection between food and cultural appropriation 

If you like food, and like to smile, this conversation is for YOU (So basically...everyone!) Our guest today not only has an incredibly accomplished career, but more than that she is relatable, so kind and someone I know we'd all be instant friends with!

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and through her website here!

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I cannot believe I'm saying this but my TEDx talk is live on YouTube!

Head on over to YouTube to watch it and then visit us on Instagram @gatherintentionalliving to share your thoughts after watching it! 

Of all the things that have come from my career this far, this is by far what I am most proud of! 

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Thanks for celebrating with us! We LOVE and appreciate you!

As I move into adulthood I find that friendship is something so many of us are trying to figure out. We crave it, recognize the need for it but somehow always find ourselves longing for more insight and direction. This bonus episode is a profound, insightful, and empowering excerpt from Laura Tremaine's newest book The Life Council: 10 Friendships Every Woman Needs.

Specifically talking through Five Friendship Philosophies, you will NOT want to miss this sneak peak!

More about the Author:
Laura Tremaine is a writer, avid reader, and enthusiastic podcaster. She is the host of the 10 Things To Tell You podcast and author of The Life Council and Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First. Laura grew up in Oklahoma and moved to Los Angeles sight unseen when she was twenty-two years old. She worked in film and television production for many years at MTV, VH1, Fox, and Paramount Pictures before pursuing writing full time. Laura has been sharing her life online for over a decade. She writes about friendship, anxiety, motherhood, and marriage. Her posts and podcast episodes resonate with women looking for ways to connect more deeply with others as they transform from one era of life into another.

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Hands up if you would call yourself a perfectionist! Sometime along the way, we were taught that hospitality needs to be perfect, have you heard this messaging? It's safe to say that across life we are taught that it's safer to hold on tightly and don't let go. Or on the flip side, if things aren't going quite the way you hoped and dreamed that we can control the outcome. One way or another, we all likely could say that we would wonder what it's like to get a taste of freedom from this. To be able to live life and host with surrender. Through my conversation with Podcaster and Author Tara Sun, we talk through some of the relatable and insightful themes in her newest book Surrender Your Story. You can expect to hear conversation topics like:

The Myth of control, Is control really safer?
What we learn when things come crashing down
What chronic illness taught Tara about control
How to build the muscle of surrender
How to break patterns of control for the perfectionists
& More!

Whether you would call yourself a full out perfectionist OR you feel like you have just a little to learn, you will love this conversation with our new ray-of-sunshine friend Tara Sun!

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Do you find yourself looking ahead at a new week dreading another week of cooking? Does mealtime come and you get the same pit in your stomach knowing that you have cook but...don't have any ideas. Maybe you love to cook, and just wish there was a way to simplify and enjoy the process a bit more. Wherever you're at with your relationship with your kitchen, What if I told you that there's a better way. What if I told you what you've been taught about meal prep and organization actually, may be, all wrong! 

I welcomed on our new friend and meal prep expert, Catherine McCord from the wildly popular platform Weelicious to give us a fresh and inspiring perspective! 

• What the pandemic taught her about navigating her kitchen 
• The cost of NOT meal planning AND what happens in our lives when we do
• How kitchen organization puts you in control and at peace with the cooking process, instead of making you feel like you need therapy from it! 
• How to make meal planning and prep flavor rich, practical and crave worthy for all times of the day 
• How to cook meals that you can prepare in advances, enjoy later and even repurpose into left overs 
• How you can make your meal prep even easier with her meal delivery service One Potato! 

Whether you are a season chef or newlywed learning to navigate the kitchen, this episode is light hearted, inspiring and will give you excitement to get back in the kitchen! 

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Have you ever felt like you and your spouse are on different pages when it comes to hosting? We were married not even a year  and I packed our social calendars FULL. Looking back we had plans in our house nearly every night and my party loving, people loving self was ecstatic. It didn't take long for a conversation to happen between Colby and I about expectations. It didn't even cross my mind that maybe, just maybe, someone may need to balance hospitality with quiet time. We learned quickly what this balance looked like for us, and truthfully we ended up healthier because of it!

This type of dynamic is SO normal, do you experience it too? Through years of listening to you and hearing your stories so often this tension or sorts, can keep either marriages divided or doors closed. With neither being ideal, it was time to bring the conversation to the table!

Do you feel like the communication leading up to having people over causes more harm then good? Do you  wish that you and your husband or wife shared the responsibilities before a bit better? Do you want to know the truth behind the way we say what we say and passive aggressive statements?

I knew my conversation with Dr. Glenn and Phyllis would be good, but I couldn't have been prepared for just how profound and transformational it actually was! Whether you are married, about to be married to waiting on your soul mate- this conversation will change you!

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This episode is quite possibly the most powerful, eyeopening and heart wrenching that I have hosted yet. As I welcome on our new friends, I found that I quickly realized how little I know about incarceration, the justice system and what families endure going through it. Through this conversation my hope is to give us all a new layer of education, information and hopefully in turn compassion and a call to action as community.

You have have noticed that there were a few weeks off from the show AND if you listen you will hear  big news as to why we took an unexpected break in the show!

Through this episode we discussed what Rob & Fox believed about the justice system before their own personal experience and the truths they faced on the other side of them.

Their profound story of getting married, opening a business and the despair that led to  taking money by force . All of which led to their arrest and the beginning of their experience with the justice system.

"It is a horrible place when you as an individual feel like you have run out of options". How we can all relate to and have compassion for the human reality of despair. 

How community came alongside them in the midst of incarceration and solo parenting. How we as community can come alongside families in similar situations as well.

The truth behind the way Hollywood depicts prison time. The reality of incarceration and why it's important to care.

How a story of despair can be rewritten to a story of purpose and hope

This powerful story makes room for all of us to grow in understanding on a difficult topic, yet, one that is so necessary for us to be aware of as part of community. Be sure to follow them, watch their documentary and purchase their newly released book!

Purchase their book here!
Follow them on instagram @foxandrob
Search their website Foxandrob.com

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There's WHAT in my muffins? Pairing vegetables and comfort food is a new concept to many of us. Conversations about vegetables in our mac and cheese and even pureed in our muffins may make many of us cringe but, what if I told you it CAN be delicious! We so often focus on kids who don't eat vegetables but what about adults and teens who could use some help with this too? Gone are the days of simply boiling or steaming vegetables, vegetables now make the most delicious main dishes AND secret ingredients in our favorite comfort foods. As a kid and teenager who ate a very simple diet, Nikki Dinki found herself avoiding fruits and vegetables most of her life, until she moved to New York as an adult. Her journey to learning to love vegetables started her on a unique culinary adventure that uses them in innovative and decadent  ways that can enhance all of our meal prep! Through this conversation with our new Gather friends you will hear more about:

-What it's like as an adult learning to love vegetables
-When you find what vegetables you like, how to eat them in new and creative ways
-how to get more veggies when eating your favorite comfort foods 
& so much more!

Follow Nikki on Instagram @NikkiDinki and purchase her latest book HERE!


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There never seems to be enough time in the day to do everything we care about. Somehow the days feel shorter, our lists feel longer and we find it difficult to make room for creativity and time together. Our culture constantly praises the hurry, but rarely talks about the cost. It's time we sit back and take a look at another way of approaching our time and priorities. In this conversation we invited on Crystal Paine to walk through how to juggle a lot, enjoy your like and accomplish what matters most!

- What is blame shifting: Why we are so quick to convince ourselves we can't make changes in our life
- Tips for those who want to procrastinate less
-Morning and evening routines that we can adopt to help us be more productive and create more time
- A new way to schedule called: Time Blocked To-Do List
- How to focus on the future when we make decisions today

Whether you find yourself at square one looking to make lifestyle changes or consider yourself an expert time organizer this conversation will inspire you. This year let's be intentional with our time so we can make more time for community, relationships and what matters most!

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“And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins." This quote is famously said by Ronald Regan, and truthfully I believe it applies to cultures around the world. There's something deeply profound about this and in many ways deeply intriguing. We watch movies, TV shows and see families sitting together, often leading us to glamorizing what could be. The table has the ability to develop emotional intelligence, heal and connect unlike any other place in culture. For something so important, it deserves more frequent attention and evaluation.
I brought our friends Ben and Corley Spell back on to talk about this very topic, and get back to the basics:

- Why does the table matter?
- How to get back to that space, if it's something missing in your everyday
- Making the table a foundation for kids and family
- How to ween off technology when at the table
- Emotional intelligence, conversation skills and more

Life is full, we're not short on commitments, but what if we changed the narrative? What if we stopped and saw that not prioritizing time at the table comes with a cost? This episode will leave you inspired and ready to take action to get back to the table.

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