The Nuanced Life

Alli Worthington is an author, executive, business coach and consultant, wife, and mother of five sons. We talked to her about how she got started as an entrepreneur and how she has grown her business. We also talked about integrating faith and business. 

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We share more commemorations from listeners, including thoughts on breastfeeding, parenting, sex addiction, and grief. Talking about grief leads us directly into today's main segment. We ruminate on how we did and did not deal with our grief as a nation and as individuals after 9/11. 

Recommended Resources:

• Pantsuit Politics Episode on Sex Addiction
• Tribe by Sebastian Junger

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We love all the feedback we get from listeners. Today, we're sharing your thoughts on all sorts of things including parenting, grief, and friendship. We're also sharing several more of your commemorations. 

Showing Up: The Single Most Important Thing a Friend Can Do

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We share more of your commemorative moments, which lead directly into our main topic: therapy. We discuss the benefits to therapy, as well as some frequent questions and concerns about it. 

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We got lots of great feedback on our episode on gender sex disappointment. In response, we share our thoughts on gender reveal parties and their impact. In our main segment, we discuss apathy and empathy in friendship and how sometimes age and experience can offer insight into being a better friend. We also introduce our new segment commemorating moments in your lives. 

Recommended Resources:

• Sarah's Blog Post: How to Help a Friend Face the Unfaceable
• Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam
• Futureme.org

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We love Diana Butler Bass's new book, Grateful. On Tuesday, we talked with Diana on Pantsuit Politics about civic gratitude. Today, we discuss a more personal understanding of what it means to deeply experience true gratitude. 

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We discuss Mike's feedback about being present during his wife's labor and Kelsi's thoughts on efficiency methods being applied to people, then dive into one of Sarah's most important nuance backstories: her experience with gender disappointment, grief, and worry about her future relationships with sons. 

Recommended Resources 

 A Book That Takes Its Time

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We catch up on your thoughts about previous episodes, covering ways the rules are broken (and whether the rules are valid in the first place), why companies need to stop glamorizing work and start embracing talent, how we're all the stars of our own dramas, and what to do when you feel judged. 

Recommended Resources: 

Adam Grant v. Malcolm Gladwell on Revisionist History 

In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything

Ted Talk on capitalism

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan on The Tim Ferris Show

Shirley MacLaine - Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations

Explained

The Fourth Estate on Showtime 

Pick a hill to die. Art of Life

The Female Persuasion: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer

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Sarah talks with Tsh Oxenreider about her journey from "simple" mom to fiction writer and everything in between.

Resources:

At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe

Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World

Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living

Women's Work

TshOxenreider.com

The Art of Simple

The Simple Show

Tsh on Patreon

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We talk with Kendra from the Lazy Genius Collective about food and our relationship to communal eating, health, self-esteem and a whole lot more. 

Resources:

The Lazy Genius Loses Weight (her most popular podcast episode)

The Lazy Genius on Instagram 

Sarah meets Dean Cain

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