As humans, we recognize and connect with people in a multitude of ways. We notice obvious things like mannerisms, body language, facial expressions, colloquialisms, and styles. But there are more subtle and deeper ways too such as recognizing a person's energy, beliefs and values. As we develop over the years, understanding these points of recognition usually expand - how about for you?

It's fundamentally challenging to change and grow our own opinions and beliefs without the interaction of other people. Trusting another person to have deeper discussions about things that matter, helps us decipher what's most important to us and why. How often do we trust ourselves to have deeper discussions with those that think differently? Choosing to do so helps us develop our own awareness, feelings and self confidence.

Ben Lampron, author of Jumpstart Your Future joins JJ and Melissa to talk about how young adults are not often aware personal finance, relationship building, and career development focuses. Ben highlights lessons learned, offers practical tips and tools, and teaches how self awareness for young people can make a massive difference in their ability to stand out from 'everybody else' and get ahead in their own lives.

Being an introvert or extrovert is not just about our impact and interaction with others. It's much more about how our feelings create an internal experience. This pod explores when introverts and extroverts feel uncomfortable, and how they naturally try to 'adjust' the interaction in very different ways.

What personal actions and energies do you choose before, during and after your vacation? Do you feel you've lost (or maybe never had) the ability to check out and truly recharge yourself? Today's conversation revolves around our core beliefs, work ethic, and the emotions we go through so we can vacation.

Picking the path of least resistance can simply be choosing thoughts and actions that feel good, rather than thoughts and actions that don't. Unfavorable thoughts cause us resistance and bad feelings, and even push us to avoid things we shouldn't. This pod helps us connect between what we think and the resulting emotional response. Further, it helps us understand how easy it is to actually choose happier thoughts to feel better.

There are many different ways to consider your own self worth. Depending on your perspective, you either compare yourself to what you are doing for others or what you are doing for yourself. This pod explores how we identify worth with ourselves and those around us.

JJ and Melissa speak frankly about personal biases, and how those biases are formed. They also dive into how we get to grow and adapt to new ways of being as we open ourselves to learn. This pod is not about judgement or politics. Rather, it's about learning WHAT we believe and HOW we can make ourselves more consciously aware of those beliefs.

In today's world, we physically and mentally switch gears from one project or person to another, multiple times during the day. Yet we often don't pay attention to how much energy is required emotionally to do such. And without that awareness, we often make mistakes that we feel bad about. With just a bit of practice, we can become aware of our own feelings to make consistently easier choices for ourselves.

This conversation further explores a previous live event about advocating for ourselves. Advocation can be both proactive and reactive yet the energy between the two is vastly different. Proactive advocating is a confident assertion and reactive advocating can be laced with guilt, shame and anger.