Riffing On Realness™

In this episode, we explore one of our favourite topics: procrastination! A long-time companion for us both, we get curious about what we might see fresh about this juicy topic. It was great fun to explore how our relationship to procrastination keeps evolving. Expectations and agreements also guest-starred in this episode.

In this episode, we took our time to decide if we wanted to explore getting vulnerable. As our podcast is called Riffing on Realness, we decided to go ahead and explore vulnerability. When your primitive brain gets activated, we can get scared, dazed, and confused.

In this episode, we explore the 'upper limit' on our happiness. When things are going well we can get afraid of the 'other shoe' dropping and that keeps us from enjoying the present. Is the upper limit real? We look at trauma responses and explore what we see that might be helpful.

In this episode we explore freedom. What is freedom? We have all kinds of ideas about freedom. In the US, when we think of freedom, we often think of financial freedom. A question we might explore is 'how much is enough?'

In this episode, we explore what it is to celebrate and how we can bring more celebration into our lives. It may seem there's not much to celebrate with all that is going on in the world. When we find ourselves overly serious, celebration can be a way to mitigate that.

NOTE: We had a few technical issues with the sound. We appreciate your patience.

In this episode, we explore playfulness, something we can easily overlook if our minds are full of heaviness. Research shows people learn best through play and we get curious about how we can access a more playful vibe. Even those of us who tend towards seriousness usually have a playful, silly side. Yet we can feel uncomfortable around silliness. We wanted to explore what's up with that.

In this episode, we explore simplicity in terms of material things. Rather than leaning into a political discussion about material wealth, today, we're curious about simplicity and our relationship to what we have. We get curious about what is enough and why we celebrate people with vast material wealth.

In this episode we explore simplicity. When it looks like we are up against a mountain of things to worry about, think about and manage, we often find other people's advice, at best unhelpful and often just irritating. We wanted to explore whether there is a simpler way.

In this episode we explore belonging and loneliness. We all want to belong. There seems to be so much disconnection in the world, not digitally but in our own minds, there can be a deep sense of aloneness. Without the possibility to be among people and have that physical comfort of being together, many feel isolated and lack community. But what is that desire to belong and where does that sense of belonging really come from?

In this episode, we explore the topic of money. A real hot topic for most people. We get vulnerable around our experience with money and riff on this topic to see what we might see fresh around abundance and scarcity. As educated, white women, we acknowledge we are speaking from a place of privilege around money and yet still want to explore to see what else we can discover that might be helpful for listeners. We also want to acknowledge that we had some connectivity issues which led to some audio distortions from time to time. Thank you for your patience with us.