Spill Podcast

Indecision is a security blanket -- by avoiding a decision, you avoid risk and potential disappointment. But you also lose opportunities. Why are endless choices so overwhelming, do the choices you make even matter, and WTF does Fleabag have to do with it?

Written by: Kelly Engemoen

Music by: Young Presidents

Bly Manor, middle school awkwardness, and the desire to feel “whole.” Ey, Poppins!

Written by: Kelly Engemoen

Music by: Young Presidents

Belonging feels like a tight hug. It’s warm, cozy, safe. But maybe there are valuable lessons to be learned — and even power to be gained — from those times when you feel like you just *don’t* belong.

Written by: Kelly Engemoen

Music by: Young Presidents

"Patience is a virtue" is a piece of advice so trite that it inevitably feels condescending when it’s used on you...Yet, it's often true. So why is patience so hard, why is it so uncomfortable, and does it ever get easier?

Written by: Kelly Engemoen

Music by: Young Presidents

When we talk about purpose, it’s always these grandiose Mother Theresa type visions — curing cancer, running for president, solving the hunger crisis. 

But what if — your presence is your purpose? What if the most important thing we’re all here to do is to opt in and show up? To be there for other people?

2020 is an objectively bad, traumatic, where-is-my-escape-button vibe. A real-life haunted house that just won’t end. As someone who has always taken pride in being strong, not asking for help, and not letting people see me sweat, I’ve realized...that ain’t going to work anymore. We as people need to process, share, be vulnerable.

We need to spill.