Nicole & Kate Can Relate

Relationships are one of our top priorities, and we’re the first to admit that moving around a lot, traveling, changing jobs, having children - any number of things can make it a little tougher to maintain, nurture, and grow your relationships.

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with building - and keeping - important relationships in our lives, what it’s like to make new friends as we get older, and why we think the saying “you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with” is something to really pay attention to.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• How our relationships with people have changed over the years
• The value we place on relationships
• Dissecting the infamous saying “you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”
• The critical role relationships have played - and continue to play - in our lives

Mentioned in this episode: 

John Levy’s TED Talk: What’s Make us Influential?
Study on Obesity and Influence 

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: what are relationships to you?

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.

Create a daily routine, stick to it, and excel in every area of your life! Sounds pretty great, but is it really that easy? Well, not exactly...

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences when it comes to the power of a morning routine, what happens when our daily routines don’t go as planned, and how we get ourselves back on track after the unexpected happens.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• We each share our own daily routines 
• What happens when your morning (or day) doesn’t go as planned?
• How routines can vary from person to person
• MINDSET: what’s possible is exactly what you think is possible

Mentioned in this episode: 

Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: What is your daily routine?

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.

Age is a funny thing. For some of us, our age determines a lot: how we dress, how we talk, the things we participate in, and how we think about what’s possible. But should it? 

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with how we feel at our current age (Nicole at 43 and Kate at 38), what getting older feels (and looks) like for us, how age has changed our perspective on certain things, and - about death.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• How we feel at our age now
• How age affects our decision-making
• Assumptions we’ve made about age
• Witnessing family members age
• About death

Mentioned in this episode: 

You’re going to die: A framework to happiness, by Neville Medhora 

5 Regrets of the dying, Bronnie Ware

We Croak

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: is age just a number?

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 1 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.

No matter how efficient we are, no matter how great of planners we are, and regardless of whether we have kids, a business, a job, are taking care of family members… We ALL know what it feels like to be OVERWHELMED.

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with what makes us feel overwhelmed, how we deal with overwhelm when it creeps up, and how we decide what to say yes to and what to say no to.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• What makes us feel overwhelmed
• How we manage overwhelm
• Our dual obsession with lists and calendars
• How goals can help you stay on track - and away from overwhelm
• How we decide what to say yes to and what to say no to

Mentioned in this episode: 

Derek Sivers book Hell Yeah or No: What’s worth doing

The acronym HALT (from The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert) 

Essentialism by Greg McKeown
The $100 MBA Show Podcast
The Working While Traveling Experiment - MBA887

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Can I make overwhelm go away?

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 1 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.

Confidence. It’s a sneaky thing. Struggles with confidence have been a part of our lives since… almost as long as we can remember! And we have a feeling that we’re not alone. 

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences and struggles with confidence, decision-making, and how we’ve built confidence in specific areas over time. Because when you put focus and effort towards improving something like confidence, anything is possible.

Points Discussed in this Episode

• We share - on a scale of 1-10 - our confidence level on things like our business abilities, making big life decisions, style, and health & wellness
• How our confidence levels in different areas have shifted over time
• We each share a specific story about how we’ve built up confidence in a particular area
• We each share our biggest tips for building confidence
• We chat about whether confidence is different for men and women - and why

Mentioned in this episode: 

The film Nicole created during her studies in New York City

John Fowles - The Magus -1965 

“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women - and absurd. I will tell you what  war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships.”

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences and struggles with confidence - plus how we’ve learned to improve our confidence over time!

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.

Putting yourself out there isn’t always a super comfortable thing, but for those of us running a business, we know it’s part of the package. 

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences with being vulnerable, (and what that actually means), plus share our perspectives on the question of sharing and how much is too much?

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Our public versus private selves
• Judgement, criticism, and consequences
• The fear or hesitancy with sharing parts of our lives
• Vulnerability, what’s fake and what’s real?
• When it comes to sharing, how much is too much?

Mentioned in this episode: 

Ted Talk - The Power of Vulnerability - Brené Brown

Brené Brown: The Call to Courage (2019) - Netflix 

I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: How much is too much?

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.

Every woman experiences it at some point in their lives - and for many of us, it’s a recurring question we ask at different stages of our lives. 

To start a family, or not to start a family?

We understand that not every woman has this choice, and our hearts go out to those who struggle with infertility or who have suffered the loss of a child. 

In this episode we’ll share our own personal experiences grappling with this question, and how we each came to our own decision: one of us to not have children, and one of us to try to have children!

Points Discussed in this Episode

• Why we think this is an important topic to discuss
• How our family, upbringing, and culture might play a role in our decision
• Outside influences and pressures that might affect our decision-making process
• How Nicole came to decide to not have children
• How Kate came to decide to try and have children

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode where we share our own experiences answering the question: Do I want to start a family?

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.

A brand new podcast from good friends and entrepreneurs, Nicole Baldinu and Kate Erickson.