Want to learn how to make your vocabulary more gender inclusive? Amy and Alix talk about some of the things we do as educators to help our language be more gender neutral. Of course we also have a fun game we teach you to practice they/them pronouns. Play along with us, A+ followers!

To cap off our month of love we asked Mike Lawlor to give us some insight on his business built on love, Lawlor Jewlery.

Mike encapsulates the energy we envisioned for our podcast. He has his roots in small town life, he is a great role model as a husband and dad, and he even drops our trademark word “journey” unironically in the interview!

Be sure to check out Lawlor for some STUNNING pieces 💎

The month of love continues with this week’s episode focusing on the bond between siblings. Amy’s sister Lorrie joined us to highlight their relationship. The Smith sisters are closely connected, supportive, and fun loving (and they sure do like to talk!!).

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, Alix and Amy wanted to put together a special episode on love. We brought of special guest Lluvs to take part in a game show “Could You Love Me”. Amy (or should we say Mama Sugar Lips) hosts a series of questions to prove how well Alix and Lluvs know each other. These two rad women were brought together by their mutual love for Fernie and hope to meet there one day in the future.

Our first episode of love surrounds the most important love of all: yourself!

Amy and Alix play spin the bottle (no, not THAT spin the bottle) to ask each other questions about loving yourself. Follow along as we talk about our inner dialogue, actions, and intentions to help us all reflect on our own relationships with ourselves.

Moral dilemmas are so interesting. Even though Alix and Amy are on the same page with many things, we definitely have some different opinions on these moral dilemmas. Listen to our episode to see where you land and head over to our Instagram @smalltownnotsmallminds to answer the questions yourselves.

We interview Amy’s teaching colleague and friend, Matthew. He is a model in many ways. As a teacher, he is a model shaping young minds. As a citizen he leads by example, one could call him a model citizen. And lastly, he’s a literal model.

Bra burners. Man Haters. Crazy. Extremists. Yup, you guessed it, we are talking about FEMINISM. A word so simple, but somehow is still surrounded by stigma.

In this episode, Alix and Amy bust some myths around feminism with their new game: Wheel of Feminism

Amy and Alix talk to guest CJ Oprea who owns and operates CrossFit Stettler. What started out as a podcast about fitness turned into an inspiring dialogue of how we have the power to make changes in our own lives, all we need is the right mindset.

Amy and Alix ring in the new year with an episode all about goal setting! Listen to hear some of the ways we say goodbye to the olde year and set intentions for the new year. If you are looking for some of the reflection resources we mentioned in this episode, check out: http://thehappinessplanner.com/ or http://yearcompass.com/