Owning It: Life, Mid-Edit

Being spread too thin can feel like a tidal wave, but it rarely happens all at once. It often happens one (possibly ill-advised?) yes at a time. In this episode, Nicole and Alicia talk about making hard choices and how to set yourself up to make the call that’s right for you, right now.

When we were kids, friendships came with the setup: schools, teams, the kids next door. As adults, especially in the middle of a career change or a new chapter, nobody hands us a group to belong to. In this episode, Nicole and Alicia talk about the awkward, brave work of making new friends as grown-ups and why it’s so important.

We often need to listen to our intuition more. Sometimes that means taking the plunge when it feels uncomfortable; sometimes that means walking away. In this episode, Nicole and Alicia unpack stories of feeling like an imposter, cover the gap between looking competent and feeling competent, and share what they’ve learned to help the body and brain show up steady.

It’s been a few months of Messy Middle. Alicia and Nicole take time to pause for an important, uncomfortable question: What are we proud of so far? And why is it so hard to own that?

From corporate ladders to wellbeing to something harder to name - in this episode Alicia and Nicole reflect on how our definitions of success have evolved over time, and what we’re still resolving about it.

It sounds so simple. “Set a boundary.” Yet it’s often more complicated. And what actually is a boundary? This episode goes deep on the messier reality and what we’re learning as we navigate the grey.  

This week we're talking about those moments when the ground feels shaky, and you're not sure how to find your footing again. We dig into what resilience can look like when you're in the middle of it, and we share our ongoing journeys to feeling steady again.

This week we're talking about the plans that just... didn't happen. Nicole and Alicia swap stories on career curveballs, calendar chaos, and the honest question of how you know when it's time to change course.

Both the messy middle and entrepreneurship are a feeling of a rollercoaster AND a feeling of steadying. We are finding that paradox both comforting and discomforting. In this episode, we discuss how to own these waves and explore finding rhythms to manage the rocky parts.

Nicole and Alicia dig into the blurry line between 'work' and 'job', paid and unpaid, and who actually gets to define it. This episode explores what work actually means when you're in the middle of redefining it, who shaped those definitions in the first place, and why unpaid doesn't have to mean unvaluable.