Steph and Mags Podcast

Happy Valentine's Day! You are loved! We wanted to give you some tips and encouragement today no matter where you are at, relationship, situationship, or flying solo.

Along with 4 tips on finding and keeping love we give some real honest insight into our relationship and open up in a way that we have yet to. We are not here to say or act as if our relationship is perfect but we can offer advice and share from our experience.

We hope you guys enjoy this episode!

Thank you for your support and encouragement. It means the world to us!

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Mags - @mag.hill

Steph - @stephone_allen

Welcome to ATG with Steph and Mags! We are so glad you are here and we can't thank you enough for spending your time and energy with us! We hope this episode brings you a lot of value in order for you to grow into the person you want to become!

For today's episode, we dive into Dieting! Mags and I have a wide range or experience when it comes to dieting. Both in our personal life and experience and through coaching others. We talk about our relationship with food, emotional eating, weight loss.. etc.

Our goal with this episode is to bring a lot of insight into what we think about dieting in general and as well as giving you a look at our personal experience with dieting and how it has shaped us through the years.

Make sure you stay tuned through the very end because we give you some very practical and actionable advice that you can take action on TODAY in order for you to start working on your relationship with food, mindset around dieting, and of course making real progress towards your goals!

Thank you for all the support! Enjoy the episode.

P.S. If you don't already make sure you follow us on Social media:

Steph - @stephone_allen

Mags - @mag.hill

P.S.S. We are releasing a BONUS episode on Valentines Day (2.14.2024)! So, make sure you keep an eye out for that! It's going to be a GREAT episode!!

Love yall!

Steph and Mags

It's FINALLY HERE! Our very first in person interview for the ATG podcast and we couldn't be more excited to share this episode with yall today!

The mission with this podcast is to connect yall with REAL people who have REAL stories.

In today's podcast, we interview Morgan Boyles. She is the Owner and Founder of Broadway Hair Co. located in Downtown Columbia, MO. Her lifestyle as a successful entrepreneur hasn't always been the way it is. From getting pregnant as a teenager, moving out of her parents house, working 4-5 jobs at a time to support her and her son, to now living a completely different life, her commitment to being a successful mom, business owner, and leader is truly inspiring!

You will be able to take away so many valuable lessons from this episode because Morgan doesn't hold back from all she's been through in order to get to where she is today.

The best part about her story is she is just getting started! Which is why we will absolutely be doing a part 2 with her!

Thank you so much for your time, energy, and attention! We appreciate it and will make the most of it during today's episode!

To connect with everyone on today's episode, check us out on our social media platforms:

Steph - @stephone_allen

Mags - @Mag.hill

Morgan - @broadwayhairco.with.morgan

Today's episode topic was sparked by a piece of content Maggie came across earlier this week and it got us thinking. Why do so many of us live life on autopilot? Why do we so easily go through the motions?

We can both admit, we've experienced seasons of our life where we were completely on autopilot, just going through the motions. In the moment, we didn't realize it. I don't think anyone really does. But, as we have grown (and we still very much working to grow more), we can look back and see that there were a lot of times in our lives that we weren't very present.

We just went through the motions, did what was familiar / comfortable.. etc. But, where did that lead us? Better question is what value did that bring us?

Not only are we living this "Against The Grain" lifestyle now, but we are living with so much more intention and focus. For us though, the question becomes "How can we get others to get off autopilot, and encourage them to start living with more intention?"

In our episode today, we actually get into a great conversation about concepts you can start doing TODAY in order to help you in this area. One thing we both can admit is that living life with more intention is SO MUCH better than living on autopilot. It slows things down for us. It allows us to enjoy more experiences and create more memories.

We hope you get a lot out of today's episode but we also hope you TAKE ACTION as well!

You can live the life you want to live! It's going to require you to go against the grain in some ways, but that is truly living!

Thanks for all the support and we hope you enjoy today's episode!

Follow me (Steph) on Instagram - @stephone_allen

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When Mags came to me in the middle of December and asked me if I would do no sugar January with her, I shut it down pretty quick. What I love about Mags is when she believes in something, especially when she knows it will benefit both of us, she is resilient and consistent. Not in a pushy way but in a very patient and loving way.

After I initially turned down the idea, she would randomly talk about what she was going to be doing, how she was going to execute, and sharing some facts and statistics with me about sugar.

One fact that she shared with me (which ended up being the one that really shifted my mindset) was that 75 grams of sugar can suppress your immune system 40-50% for up to 5 hours at a time.

For some reason that really hit me hard. I immediately thought of myself and my kinds and how this time of year, us getting sick is very likely. So, it got me thinking... "With all the holiday festivities, late nights, traveling.. etc that we all do this time of year, on top of all the foods, sacks, and drinks that are sugar-filled and we consume.. no wonder why we are so likely to get sick..."

After processing that I was in. I was looking at this as an opportunity to do an experiment with myself to see how no sugar for 31 days would impact my body. Would I feel better? Would I be more focused? Would my sleep improve?

I looked up all the ways sugar impacts our body from a negative standpoint and it was alarming. I thought to myself "I literally want to experience the opposite of those things."

So, here we are, with a little over 1 week left and WE BOTH feel amazing!

Today's podcast is more of an informative one. It's one that we you will walk away from learning a lot about sugar and the impacts it has on your mind and body.

But, that isn't it! Listen through to the end because you will also leave this episode FIRED UP!

We hope you learn and grow from this episode! We poured a lot of time and energy into it. We hope it's helpful to you and if so, we ask that you share it with your friends and family!

If you do share it, tag me (@stephone_allen) and Mags (mag.hill)

Thank yall so much for the support! We love and appreciate yall!

You are your most FREE when you are TRUE to who YOU are!

This is something we've realized has played a huge impact on our life and our growth. Mags and I have both live a large part of our life based on what others wanted us to do or how we were brought up.

No saying that is a horrible thing, BUT if we stop and think for a second we that a lot of our decisions are due to our upbringing or what others around us might say or think. Rarely are we making decision based on our own truth.

In today's episode, Mags and I go into a deep dive about ways we have grown in this concept AND we give yall some important things you can start doing to live YOU life they way YOU want to!

We hope you enjoy! Thank you SO MUCH for your support!!

With Love,

Steph and Mags

Welcome (and welcome back haha) to our second attempt at our podcast! We did this early last year and got in a handful of episodes but we definitely were not committed and eventually it faded. HOWEVER, we are BACK, focused, and so excited to grow with yall this year!

My name is Stephone (a.k.a. Steph) and my co-host is my girlfriend, Maggie (a.k.a. Mags) and this is the "Against The Grain" Podcast! Where it's our mission to help you become the best version of yourself through authenticity living!

We believe that path to the best version of you is when YOU live your life in the most real and authentic way that you can! This is how we lived the entire 2023 year and we hope that through our example, stories, struggles, and lessons learned, we can help you do the same.

In today's episode, we talk about what you can expect from this podcast, how the growth we experienced in 2023 impacted our lives, and a deeper dive into the community we will be working to build here!

Sit back, relax, and enjoy today's episode. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts for the support!

Every like, share, comment, and review means so much to us! We hope we become better through this journey and even more importantly, we hope that you experience as much growth as possible through this podcast!

All love!