The Meltdown City Podcast

On this episode, Nicole and Ali share #meltdownmoments, talk about what they have been up to. Ali talks about her side hustle game and tries out being a ghostwriter for a dating website and Nicole talks about going her intentions going to TravelCon and blunders with writing. Laughter ensues.

People/things mentioned in this episode:

Lighthouse of the Blind http://thelighthousefortheblindinc.org/

Melanie Wimmenaur @melaniewimmenauer

Al Simmons Sound

Swiped documentary about modern dating https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4867110/

TravelCon https://travelcon.org/

Book Reommendations

Just Kids, by Patty Smith

Nicole and Ali continue to talk about the ideas in their heads about what they want to do, what they are doing now and ways to practice how to manifest their future life. They continue with #meltdownmoment segment.

People Mentioned:

Jeff Kober

Books mentioned:

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Confidential-Updated-Adventures-Underbelly/dp/0060899220

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Group Mentioned:

Lady Bosses 

Place to do a have a side hussle:

https://www.indeed.com/

On this episode, Nicole and Ali interview their dear friend and amazing woman, Courtney Erwin who is living a very different kind of life abroad in Morocco. She is lawyer, a religious scholar, fluent in Arabic, French and Spanish. On this episode, she discusses how she ended up there, what her “career” is and how life in America is different than life in Morocco.

Here is Courtney’s instagram https://www.instagram.com/courtneypaigeerwin/?hl=en

Here is a link to her Moroccan TV show:

Courtney is also a co-leader of Illuminated Tours:

http://www.illuminatedtours.com/courtney-erwin-co-leader-for-morocco.html

Nicole and Ali decide to share their most recent BIG career changes and really open up about some very personal, vulnerable times. Risky Business. Ready? There is even mention of a murder. Have you every made big scary professional decisions? If so, what were they and how did you handle it?

Thanks for listening!

Nic & Ali

Nicole and Ali start their podcast journey outside in the summer of 2018 while planes fly overhead – don’t worry, they take it indoors the next episodes. They are newbs! Go easy. Here they discuss where they are in their careers, embracing midlife crisis and riff about all the creative things they could be doing.

The following people and ideas get a mention in the first episode in no particular order:

People mentioned:

Amy Johnson @amyjohnsonphoto , Courtney Erwin @courtneypaigeerwin, and Melanie Wimmenaur  @melaniewimmenauer

Nick Williams @hoboarchitect

Boondocking boondocking.org 

TravelCon travelcon.org

James Swanwick, entrepreneur jamesswanwick.com, CEO of Swanwick Sleep www.swanwicksleep.com and the 30Day No Alchohol Challenge 30daynoalcoholchallenge.com and host of the James Swanwick Show and professional coach

Podcasts

My Favorite Murder, the True Crime Comedy Podcast, www.myfavoritemurder.com/ with Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff

The Knowledge Project by Shawn Parrish

U up? Podcast with https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/u-up/id1313996383?mt=2 with Jordana Abraham and Jared Fried

The Heart Wisdom Podcast https://beherenownetwork.com/category/jack-kornfield/

Authors

Ryan Holiday, author of the Obstacle is the Way and The Ego is the Enemy – https://ryanholiday.net/

Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity  https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060753641/mating-in-captivity/

Pema Chodron, author of Comfortable with Uncertainty https://pemachodronfoundation.org/