Miss Happy Mess

As a new single mother, Kim chats with the woman who taught her how to single-parent: her mother, Lani Johnson. They discuss dating, working, and how being an introvert with a very social child can be really hard and sometimes embarrassing. 

On this Happy Hour, Jill and Kim discuss adult kids - no young adults - and the struggle of insurance, utility bills, interest rates, and just being a new adult. 

This week, Kim talks with her eldest daughter, Numia, about transitioning to college and then coming home for the first summer after freshman year. They discuss redefining parent/child relationship and how to parent an "Adult Kid." 

Jill records from her car, Kim from her closet, and this week they discuss the strength and vulnerability of journalist and author Carol Lin and announce the podcast's first fundraising campaign. Look for the QR code on IG! 

Kim chats with former CNN Anchor Carol Lin on Love, War, and the importance of allowing our daughters to see who we are completely  - mistakes and all. 

We're back, ready for Season Two! Jill and Kim chat about this season's first guest, the only female on the 1978 Hokule'a voyage, Marion Lyman-Mersereau; this season's theme- legacy; and whether individualism is the end of society. 

On our season 2 premiere, I talk with Marion Lyman-Mersereau, the only woman on the Hokule'a's 1978 fated voyage that ended when the canoe flipped 6 hours after its launch. Leaving the 16-person crew stranded in the middle of the Pacific for nearly 2 days. We discuss how the voyage affected her, her memory of the famous waterman, Eddie Aikau, and the effect Hokule'a has had on generations since its initial voyage 50 years ago.

All things The Odyssey. From Homer to Nolan to Akbar. All the different takes on this Epic and how they reflect our own lives. Our season one finale questions our values: does Jill want many boyfriends, who we are, and how we deal with our ever-changing lives?

Christopher Nolanʻs The Odyssey has just opened in theatres and this week Kim talks with Oxford-trained clinical psychologist and classicist Dr. Sam Akbar about her new book, The Odyssey Mindset: 7 Timeless Lessons on Strength, Resilience, and the Power of Purpose. A psychological toolkit that uses Homer's The Odyssey as a practical reference for navigating our own messy lives.  

Producer Jill and Kim chat about trauma bangs vs. Charlieʻs Angelʻs bangs, to hairscape or not to hairscape, and the killer of creativity...perfection.