Surviving The City

In this episode, we talk through our shared decision not to have children. We share the evolution of our process from adolescence to now (late 30s), how we investigated our own thoughts and feelings that emerged, and how we moved through our own impasse individually and as a couple with regard to this topic. We ultimately offer our story to bring more nuance to a conversation that is rarely shared publicly.

In this episode, we talk minimalism with native New Yorker, multimedia artist, and self-identified minimalist Roberto Enamorado aka Roberto in Love. Roberto's minimalist philosophy grounds the way he lives and moves through the world not only to reduce his personal carbon footprint but also to live a more joyful, imaginative, and liberated life. He shares multiple examples of how the minimalist approach extends beyond the physical space and how we can all start to embrace minimalism right now as a tool to maximize our capacity to live with greater clarity and presence.

In this episode, we delve into relationships and the impasses that many couples inevitably find themselves confronted with. We ground our conversation in theory outlined in a book, authored by a marriage and sex therapist, that we consider to be a relationship bible. We also share how multiple concepts discussed in the book (e.g. emotional fusion, differentiation, intimacy versus unconditional validation) have shown up in our own relationship and how we continue to move through them. Listen to find out the title we are actually referencing!

In this episode, we are joined by Josh Carrera, native New Yorker, activist, and project coordinator and member of The Mayday Space Collective in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Together we talk about The Capitol Siege and share our ongoing processing of January 6th along with the lead up to the moment. We also pose difficult questions connected to current and future possibilities for the US.

In this episode, we are joined by our first guest, Nova, a seminary student, new thought practitioner, and aspiring spiritual leader who pushes us to think about ritual as a transformational practice and way of being. They talk us through the ways that ritual can be conscious or unconscious and can cause harm or be liberatory. Together we also delve into the body's connection to ritual and how powerful conscious embodiment can be with respect to healing bodily trauma and humanizing our existence and connection to each other.

In this episode, we talk holidays and rituals (those that we've personally experienced.) We'll get into why we never fully got down with Christmas (until recently) and our personal favorite love to hate ritual, weddings! Funerals took our most glowing review-- who doesn't need to grieve the dead?

In this episode, we explore two main topics from the 2020 elections. First, how did Trump make gains with various demographic groups particularly among Black and Latinx voters? Second, what are the two narratives taking place around why Democrats did not garner more votes and which ones are valid?

In this pilot episode, we discuss the main overarching theme of the podcast which is to question and explore what it means and looks like to find and cultivate beauty, integrity and purpose in our current times. We briefly delve into the following topics that we hope to discuss in greater detail in future episodes: community, politics, justice, mental health, spiritual growth and expansion. Please join us!