hi hello hey, and welcome to 2024! More importantly though, welcome to season FIVE of Rare with Flair!

We’re thrilled to be kicking off another calendar year of the pod. After a short holiday break, we were in the new year spirit and wanted to let you all in on our hopes and goals for 2024 by sharing our vision boards with you! Casey has been creating vision boards for a few years now, and Cassandra decided to get in on the fun.

We don’t share everything we’ve put on our vision boards since there are some things in the works for both of us this year. We’ll be sharing little by little as they happen, so make sure you stay tuned this year to get the tea!

hi hello hey, and happy new year (well, almost)!

Unbelievably, we find ourselves at the end of another year! As is our tradition on RWF, we’re always excited to do a year in review episode that gives a more personal glimpse into what our respective years have been like. These episodes are special for us because they feel like little time capsules we can look back on to remember how we felt at the close of each year and anticipated the next. However this year has been for you, we hope you enjoy getting to know us a bit better as we go through highlights of each season (and we each have an exciting personal accomplishment to share!).

We’ll take a short hiatus (read: one week) off before jumping back in so we can enjoy spending Christmas and welcome 2024 with our friends and families, but we can’t wait for you to join us for our FIFTH season!

hi hello hey, and welcome to the holiday season, officially!

No matter what you celebrate, the end of the year holidays are always a special time to spend time with family, eat delicious food, and enjoy giving and receiving gifts. We love Christmastime and gift-giving, so what better way to celebrate than with a gift guide?

Although anyone could use this gift guide, we created it to highlight some of our favorite things that would make great gifts for the blind or chronically-ill person in your life (or yourself!). We hope you enjoy this festive listen as you shop for your loved ones, wrap presents, or bake cookies!

hi hello hey!

First, happy Thanksgiving week to our fellow listeners in the U.S.! We hope you enjoy spending time with family this week and eating great food. Rare with Flair would just be conversations on FaceTime if we didn’t have listeners, so we’re very grateful to each and every one of you!

Speaking of our lovely listeners, you guys made our first Q&A possible with your great submissions on our Instagram and Facebook. We had a blast answering questions on cartoons, fictional destinations, disclosing disability, and more. If you liked this or have more questions, feel free to reach out on Instagram, Facebook, or email ([email protected]) and we’ll answer in the beginning of future episodes, or we’ll do another Q&A!

hi hello hey, welcome to our world.

By “our world,” we mean the world of music we love! You may know we love talking about artists we love, starting with our music episode in 2020 and continuing as we talk about our Spotify Wrapped each year. We wanted to reprise our original episode and talk about how our tastes have evolved, but stayed the same as when we were teens.

hi hello hey, welcome to fall!!!

As you know, we are self-proclaimed “fall girlies.” We’ve already recorded a fall episode back in 2021 (and a Thanksgiving one last year!). Instead of just talking about our love for fall, we’re being intentional to make the most of our favorite season. Of course, we won’t be devastated if we don’t complete our “bucket lists,” but we hope to use them to make the most of the season.

We hope you all enjoy the coming months wherever you are (even if it isn’t fall where you live). Have a happy season from both of us!

hi hello hey, we don’t have children!

In all seriousness, it’s no secret that we’re both very close with our own parents. We’re each grateful to have had very loving and supportive upbringings. We don’t claim to understand the joys and difficulties of parenthood, but we still wanted to create an open letter to parents, especially parents of visually impaired children. This episode is also a nod to our own parents, and the things we appreciated that they did for us as we grew and as they learned with us.

For the parents, we hope this encourages you to continue to understand your child and inspire them to advocate for their needs. Even if you’re not a parent, we hope you enjoy some fun, childhood stories about growing up low vision.