This week, Laura joins Megan on the show, and they take some follow-up questions from listeners. What do you do when a friendship comes to an end? How can you work on a friendship the same way you would work on a marriage? Then the topic turns to books and they compare notes on all-time favorite authors and books. Finally, both of them reveal their lists of pop culture guilty pleasures.

SHOW NOTES

sortaawesomeshow on Instagram!

1) Hollywood Housewife: birkenstocks are (back) in style

Women’s birks on Amazon (affiliate link)

2) Facebook Groups app

3) The Mid: The Meta Friend

4) Hollywood Housewife: favorite books of all time

5) SortaCrunchy: Gatsby in the springtime

Find Laura on her blog, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Episode 21, a listener question about kids and YouTube safety inspired Megan and Rebekah to leave no stone unturned in exploring just what it is that makes YouTube so awesome. The history of YouTube, why millions of people are subscribing to channels, how much money professional YouTube personalities make, and what parents need to know to keep their kids safe - all of that and a whole bunch more gets covered today!

The audio in this episode is at times very UN-awesome. Thank you for bearing with us! 

SHOW NOTES

1) The Art of Simple : Date nights/Tate nights

2) The Skimm

3) Business Insider : History of YouTube

4) Channels mentioned on the show:

Evolution of DanceChocolate RainMy Drunk KitchenTyler OakleyGrace HelbigShaytardsBethany Mota5) Rebekah’s pop bottle sprinkler video

6) PewDiePie discusses how much money he makes

7) Common Sense Media: A Parent’s Ultimate Guide to YouTube

Find Rebekah on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Turner is the blogger behind TheMomCreative.com and is the author of The Fringe Hours. Today, she joins the show as guest co-host! As a working mom of three children, she knows the importance of creating efficient systems so you can free up time to have fun and pursue your passions. In this episode, she takes listener questions and shares her tips and examples of what this looks like in her life.

 

SHOW NOTES

1) Honest Company

epantry

2) AMC’s Turn

3) BONUS! The Fall; Bletchley Circle

4) Jessica’s husband, Matthew Paul Turner

World Vision

5) Fringe Hours website, Fringe Hours on Amazon

Find Jessica on her blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our incredibly awesome listeners have submitted some questions just for Megan, so Kelly returns to her journalist roots to pin her down for some answers. Topics include God and Myers Briggs, approaches to family planning, public school parenting joys and struggles, and the one item on her bucket list that might surprise friends and family.

 

SHOW NOTES

1) STORM app

2) Bialetti Moka Express 6 Cup Espresso Maker

From YouTube: Moka Express Review and Demonstration

3) Gary Thomas, Sacred Pathways

4) Toni Weschler, Taking Charge of Your Fertility

5) From SortaCrunchy: On feeling called to public schools, on (still) feeling called to public schools, the truth about urban schools

6) The Art of Simple: Create a family purpose statement

Find Kelly on her blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram!

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura brings her A-game this week to answer a listener question on how to actually enjoy hostessing without running around crazy in the kitchen. She’s been practicing the art of hospitality since long before she became the Hollywood Housewife, and her Top Five Tips for hosting parties are inspiring for beginner hostesses as well as those who are no stranger to hosting others.

 

SHOW NOTES

1) braingpickings.org; Musicked Down The Mountain: How Oliver Sacks Saved His Own Life by Literature and Song

2) Hollywood Housewife: mostess hostess posts

Hollywood Housewife: Spirit-Led Parenting release party, Jesus Feminist release party, Semi-Charmed Life release party

3) Mothering.com: How to host a crappy dinner (and see your friends more often)

 

Find Laura on her blog, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Megan and Rebekah talk about building a loving home. Whether you are single or married, a parent or not, tune and hear us discuss how to learn to speak a new love language, what to do when you are NOT feeling the love for those around you, and how to foster love (and like!) between siblings.

Click here to listen to Episode 17 of the Sorta Awesome Podcast!

SHOW NOTES

1) Mystery Show from Gimlet Media. Starlee Kine on Twitter

2) Acoustic Covers playlist on Spotify

Imagine Dragons cover Blank Space (YouTube)

3) 5lovelanguages.com  The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, Gary Chapman

Five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, Physical Touch

4) Simply Rebekah: Six Simple Sanity Savers for When I Feel Like I’m Going to Lose My Mind

5) Dr. Laura Markham ahaparenting.com

How to stop siblings fighting

Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber

Find Rebekah on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What a delight to welcome my long-time blogging friend and acclaimed author Rachel Anne Ridge to Sorta Awesome! Publisher’s Weekly listed her book Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances one of their Best Summer Books 2015. Today, she joins us to talk about coffee, parenting (especially parenting teens! eek!), and a donkey named Flash who changed everything for their family.

 

SHOW NOTES

1) Joy Williams on VENUS song by song at Medium.com

2) Heather King :: The Extraordinary Ordinary, Your Hard is Hard

3) Book Trailer for Flash

4) FlashTheDonkey.com and Flash on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

Find Rachel Anne at her blog HomeSanctuary.com and on Twitter

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Show notes for every episode of Sorta Awesome are available at sortaawesomemegan.tumblr.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kelly is my co-host and we are giddily geeking out about all things Myers Briggs. After we share our Awesomes of the Week (red lipstick! great movies!), we dig into some fantastic listener questions about the Myers Briggs personality typing system. Which type is the most introverted of the extroverts? And can a cabin in the woods help you discover which type you are? Take a listen and find out! We would love to hear your type, too! Find us on Twitter @SortaAwesomeMeg or in the Facebook Group: Sorta Awesome Hangout

pic here

Click here to listen to Episode 15 of the Sorta Awesome Podcast

SHOW NOTES

1) Sephora’s The Red

2) Creativity, Inc. 

3) Pop Culture Happy Hour episode on Inside Out

4) Monkey See blog: Why the Key Character in Inside Out is the One Who Isn’t There

5) 16personalities.com

6) Davesuperpowers on Youtube

Find Kelly on her blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram!

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 14 brings our Hollywood Housewife Laura back to the show and we have a deluxe edition of Sorta Awesome for you this week! We are talking all about friendship: the good, the bad, and the Facebook. Laura shares the two ways she was able to overcome loneliness as a newcomer to LA, and we talk about the key ingredient to building strong friendships as grown-ups. We would love to hear your advice on the topic of friendships! Find us on Twitter @SortaAwesomeMeg or in the Facebook Group: Sorta Awesome Hangout

 

SHOW NOTES

1) Hollywood Housewife : Creating community after the lonely years

2) Hollywood Housewife: How to start a book club

3) Tiny Prints & example of Mommy Card at Tiny Prints

Find Laura on her blog, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebekah is here for Episode Lucky Number 13! Today, we are all about telling you HOW-TO on a fantastic array of topics. Listen in to hear us tell:1) How-to get your summer sizzling with a beloved series premiere 2) How-to make a super frugal backyard kid-pleaser3) How-to navigate a seat-squirming awkward dinner with friends4) How-to potty train a toddler boy (I used a lifeline and called a friend on this one!)5) How-to start a blog!

 

SHOW NOTES:1) Rebekah’s viral video (and the post from Simply Rebekah)2) Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, Piper Herman3) Meet my friend Lora Lynn of Vitafamilae.com Vitafamiliae: Potty Train like a Pro4) Amy Lynn Andrews, How to Start a BlogMad MimiMailChimpTypepad.comSquarespace.comKat Lee’s How They Blog

Find Rebekah on her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

As always, thanks to Progger for allowing us to use the song Strut! Find more from Progger at Proggermusic.comFeedback on today’s show? Sign up for the show’s mailing list at tinyletter.com/SortaAwesome or leave a comment below (click the date link). And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!

Show notes for every episode of Sorta Awesome are available at sortaawesomemegan.tumblr.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices