We're taking a brief hiatus amidst the chaos of summer so it's a great time to get caught up on all the season 1 episodes of 'The Assignment with Annah & Shannon. There can be a lot of pressure on SUMMER, so if you're struggling with making time for self-care, or how alcohol-centered some of our summer activities can be you may find solace (and sanity) in our episodes on those topics. Thanks for listening and enjoy the sunshine everyone!

Has Anyone Checked on Ken?

There's been a lot of discussion about what's going on with men these days. It has become somewhat of a lightning rod in the cultural zeitgeist. Annah and I decided to title this podcast "Has anyone checked on Ken?" As we move towards equality of the sexes and the roles of gender in our society evolve, are men losing some of what women are gaining? We love men and we want to approach the subject matter from a place of love and compassion and an attempt to understand. We also want to acknowledge a little bit of enjoyment on our part, a little schadenfreude, in seeing some of the privileges that men have enjoyed on the top of the patriarchy food chain have migrated our way. Ultimately though this episode has been a love letter from both of us to the men that have shaped our lives. Let's get into it.

In this episode we talk about the changing views of spirituality, both individually and as a society, for many this means moving away from more organized religion towards esoteric exploration of consciousness and intuition. And for us, it simply means asking ourselves a few honest questions about the topic.

In our final episode of the 3-part series on News Chaos we look back to the biggest news stories of our time, the Covid Pandemic, the 9/11 attacks and the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting and how our experience of them through watching them play out on the news shaped us.

As world events continue to spiral at an increasingly rapid rate, people's mental health and its relationship to how closely they are paying attention to the news has come to the forefront of our consciousness as a society. Exploring our relationship with what we pay attention to is now a critical part of how we move through the world. In episode 2 of the 3-part series on this topic we explore news as "entertainment" vs. what we get out of avoiding the news. We deep dive into how growing up in a time of relative-peace has left us unprepared to deal with the impending doom or our time.

As world events continue to spiral at an increasingly rapid rate, people's mental health and its relationship to how closely they are paying attention to the news has come to the forefront of our consciousness as a society. In the first episode of our 3-part series we explore our first experiences with news and how it impacted us as children.

As world events continue to spiral at an increasingly rapid rate, people's mental health and its relationship to how closely they are paying attention to the news has come to the forefront of our consciousness as a society. Join us as we explore our relationship with the news from vastly different ends of the attention spectrum. Let's get into it!

Welcome to our episode on Modern Wellness and Self Care. where we talk about the 'ways we take care of our little human bodies, minds, and souls'. We explore how we define self care both historically and presently and how our experiences and relationships to the idea of self care have shaped how we care for ourselves. We explore the ways that wellness and privilege intersect in our capitalist culture and how we can take back the idea of self-care to work for our own benfit instead of trying to attain an impossible to reach ideal. Let's get into it!

Welcome to the Assignment, episode 2 on exploring our experiences with Sobriety. We left off our last episode at the moment that we made the decision to stop drinking. This episode we deep dive into early sobriety and the changes that quitting drinking have brought into our lives.

The topic we're discussing today is one that is personally close to both of us. Both of us at a point in our lives have made the difficult decision to give up drinking alcohol. Sobriety is a journey. One that for many starts early and can change your life in exhilarating and excruciating ways. Let's get into it.