Nicole & Kate Can Relate

Splitting the dinner tab, BYO Meat, taking your shoes off in the house, entertaining company… there are endless situations we find ourselves in where social etiquette comes into play. What’s the “right thing” to do?

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences and feelings when it comes to how to behave in a variety of situations.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Is it weird to not be invited to a party, but your spouse is? 
• How do you handle situations where the dinner tab comes and someone wants to split it evenly - when all you’ve had is maybe a salad?
• Do you feel obligated to entertain company when they come to visit? 
• We discuss these situations and so many more - and our thoughts on the social etiquette we saw play out

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Is BYO Meat weird? Plus other social etiquette dilemmas.

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Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

Do you do it, too? …Make sure that everything in your kitchen and bathroom is in its place, that your calendar is color-coded, and that your files are fully up-to-date? 

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences (and really, our obsession) with organization - and how being organized has helped us feel an overall sense of confidence, calmness, and peace of mind in so many areas.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• The ways in which organization has helped us get ahead - in business and in life 
• Where did we pick up this obsession with organization (and is it a personality trait?)
• The role organization plays outside of work and home
• Time management, planning, efficiency and organization - are they all intertwined?

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Marie Kondō’s Spark Joy

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Wish you were more organized?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgment, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

Regret. It’s something we don’t love feeling. But how do you make great decisions while simultaneously making sure you won’t regret the outcome - or the experience itself?

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with regret - choices we wish we would have approached differently, and how our regret has helped us shape our decision-making process today.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Regret and safety (or staying in your comfort zone) - are they related?
• How past regrets have helped us shape our current decision-making process
• Is there a second “checkpoint” for regret?
• How do other peoples’ opinions factor into our decision making process?

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Will I regret that?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

We sometimes have pretty high expectations for ourselves… with work, with goals, with house stuff, with our overall appearance, with the amount of time we dedicate to (fill in the blank!) Can you relate?

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences battling our own high expectations, and we’ll also share a few tips we’ve used to manage those expectations. Because let’s be real: no one is perfect!

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Being disappointed by our performance because of the high expectations we’ve set for ourselves
• How our expectations are oftentimes very unrealistic
• Things we’re putting into practice to help manage our expectations

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Am I too hard on myself?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgment, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

Getting older means a whole lot of things - slower recovery time, a bit of resistance to change, a stronger focus on our health, sometimes a tad of fear around the unknown, a bigger weight put on the decisions we’re making…

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with getting older, and how with each year that passes we’re finding ourselves wiser, yes, but also more cautious and aware of how our actions impact our future.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Our ability to perform physically with sports and the like as we get older
• A more cautious approach to decision-making
• How we view things, like regret, risk and worry a bit differently than 20 years ago
• How time flies faster with each passing year

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: That’s part of getting older, right?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

What are some things you “sign up for” when you commit to being a business owner? It’s a question you probably don’t ask yourself beforehand; rather, something you start to experience as you get into it.

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with fielding hate comments, reading bad reviews, and we’ll also discuss some stories from others in the business space who are dealing with consequences they probably never expected.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• No matter the size of your audience, you can still be a target 
• The various mindsets we’ve called on when facing haters  
• Some of the “not-often-thought-of” responsibilities (and consequences) of being a business owner

Mentioned in this episode:

• Elon Musk Article
• Taylor Swift and Paris Hilton docu’s
• MamaMia.com article (Angela’s)
• Angela’s podcast response: The Toughest 36 Hours in Business 

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: What are the consequences of being a business owner?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

Finding your voice, speaking up, asking for what you want… It's not always easy.

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with the discomfort and nervousness that can sometimes come along with speaking up.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Kate shares a story of a major shift in her perspective on the importance of speaking up
• Nicole talks about some struggles she’s faced with speaking up - and an experience where it wasn’t any trouble at all
• We share a few ways we’ve learned to move past the imposter syndrome when it comes to sharing our voice
• Why it’s critical to face your fears when it comes to speaking up

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Do you hesitate to speak up?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

Work-life balance is something we all strive for, but what is it exactly? And how do you know when you’ve accomplished it?

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with work-life balance, including our own definitions of what it is - plus, how we’re working to achieve it in our own lives.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Does work-life balance exist? 
• What we’re each doing to become better at work-life balance
• Deciding which buckets you want in your life (and what belongs in each bucket)
• How this idea of balance changes throughout your life 

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Swami’s Yoga Retreat in Aus

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Do you struggle with work-life balance?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

With a bit of hesitation around the whole idea of visioning, we’ve both experienced it - and we’re hooked!

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with how visioning has helped us through some really difficult times - in addition to it helping us bring to life some of our biggest dreams and goals.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• How Kate first discovered visioning 
• Nicole’s experience with visioning
• The power behind seeing something before it happens
• How we’ve continued to harness visioning in all areas of our lives!

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Nicole’s app (meditations / affirmations for your surgery)
• Headspace 
• Jeff McMahon (virtual personal trainer)
• Carrie Green’s talk from YouPreneur Summit 2017 

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Have you tried visioning before?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.

Cancel culture has been around for a while now, but it might be something you’ve just recently started hearing more about - this might even be the first time!

In this episode we’ll share our own personal perspective on cancel culture, including whether it’s productive, plus how we’ve experienced or seen it play out in our own lives.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• What is cancel culture? 
• Some of the research and examples we’ve both come across in our research
• How we’ve experienced cancel culture or seen it play out in our own lives
• Whether cancel culture is productive

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Pew Research: A 2020 study on how Americans view / experience “cancel culture”: Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment
  
  
• Vox article: Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture

Excerpt from this article: “Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, for example, has faced intense criticism from her own fans since she began to voice transphobic beliefs, making her one of the most prominently “canceled” individuals at the center of the cancel culture debate. But following Rowling’s publication, in June 2020, of a transphobic manifesto, sales of the author’s books actually increased tremendously in her home country of Great Britain.”

• Vox article: The second wave of “cancel culture”
  Excerpt from this article: In 2019, former President Barack Obama decried cancel culture and “woke” politics, framing the phenomenon as people “be[ing] as judgmental as possible about other people” and adding, “That’s not activism.”

• NYT article: The Long and Tortured History of Cancel Culture

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Is cancel culture productive?

Don’t forget to follow or subscribe to Nicole & Kate Can Relate for more episodes like this one! 

Our mission with this podcast is to share a candid convo one time per week to help provide love, support, and space for women to share without judgement, speak without hesitation, and learn from each other - even when we don’t agree.