This is Your 20s

A complete recap of Season One! Listen in as Mer and Elyse talk about the highlights of each episode and thank the guests who've come on. We've learned SO MUCH, and we hope you have too. Thank you to everyone who's been along on the ride of this journey! We'll see you in Season Two! Follow us: @elysenaoma & @meredith_breda Email us what you wanna hear in Season Two: [email protected]

Why do we drink? What is the REAL reasoning behind substance abuse? Mer ane Elyse dicsuss a controversial and rare topic. This is no guilt trip, but it's a discussion that everyone who turns up on the weekened should hear. Listen in! Follow us: @elysenaoma_ & @meredith_breda Email us: [email protected]

A Mormon, a Muslim, and a Christian walk into a bar...  We are SO amped about this episode with our amazing guest Remsha Khan. We talk all about faith, religion and spirituality and how each of us makes sense of the differences between them, and our sometimes blurry understandings of them. We dive into our personal backgrounds and how our upbringings in specific faiths have shaped into our current realities. It’s a heavy one, so buckle up as we try our best to dive into our understandings of the universe and a creator. This is our most esoteric episode yet!!! Follow us: @elysenaoma_ & @meredith_breda Email us: [email protected]

Check out this episode with our special guest Jay Klein, a college senior looking to play professional soccer after graduation. He gives his insight on taking a non-traditional, alternative career route that most of his peers aren’t following. If this sounds like you, or is something you might be interested in, prepare for some wise words on how to take those next steps in the face of the unknown, and how to handle each obstacle with the right mindset! Follow us on insta: @elysenaoma_                             @meredith_breda Email us at [email protected]

2020 brings a new decade- this is a big deal! What’re your goals for the New Years? Why are these goals important? This episode talks about our personal goals, as well as what we want for this podcast in 2020. Listen now!   Email us: [email protected] Follow us: @elysenaoma_ @meredith_breda

IF YOU’RE A CREATOR THAT DOESN’T KNOW WHERE TO START, THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU.    It’s already Episode 5?? WOW   In this episode, Meredith and I got to sit down with DePauw Alum Uriah Brown. Uriah is an aspiring actor, artist, and overall creative. In this episode, Uriah explains what he’s learned so far in preparing to pursue a career in the arts. Meredith and I learned a lot, and so will you! Thank you Uriah for giving us some wisdom and love. Listen up!   As always, email us at [email protected] Follow us: @haskell_the_rascal and @meredith_breda

In this episode, we sat down to talk about self-care and the stigma behind mental health. This will be an on-going theme in this show, but this episode specifically talks about the growth we’ve seen in each other in the past few months with self-care and how we’ve been able to maintain a healthy lifestyle. In your 20s, self-care can often be put on the back-burner, but this is NOT ACCEPTABLE. Put yourself first, and you’ll be able to do things you never thought possible.

Mer had to miss this one, but I had the pleasure to sit down Levi Townsend and Luke Amaral, two talented and upcoming music artists in Indy. In this episode, we discuss pursuing your goals, their journey with making music, and lessons they’ve learned from being in their 20s. LET ME TELL YOU, these two have such a good head on their shoulders. I truly learned so much from them, and you will too! Tune in!  Thank you Luke and Levi for being on “This is Your 20s!” Check them out on Spotify and Apple Music! Levi Townsend: https://open.spotify.com/artist/02JuzP8ehRuOr00Y0lklwA?si=cC97b17GQrKafkvSJV4CQQ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/levi-townsend/1240432725   Lukey: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Sk3tH76OQwdjLRJn41Nqa?si=C9-3nnbZR7eEAozSUV71qg https://music.apple.com/us/artist/lukey/1378167377   Email [email protected] for suggestions on what YOU want to hear on this show.

EVERY SINGLE PERSON CAN LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE. We had the pleasure to sit down with Taylor Hickey, body positivity activist and future law student, to talk about all things self-love and body-positivity. With today's never-ending rat race of posting on Instagram, it can be so easy to quickly compare yourself to others and forget how to love yourself. In this episode, we discuss how to OVERCOME today's distractions and get to a point where you truly love every bit of yourself in a healthy way. Thank you so much Taylor for sharing your thoughts on this extremely important topic. We learned so much, and you will too! Tune in! As always, email us: [email protected] FOLLOW US-- we post good things :) Elyse Insta: @haskell_the_rascal Meredith Insta: @meredith_breda Taylor Insta: @tay_hayes_ TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE: 1) You need to appreciate yourself every single day. This means taking the time to look in the mirror every day and point out the parts about yourself that you love. 2) Stop being so hard on yourself for eating “bad”-- it’s not worth your stress, especially around Thanksgiving and Christmas time! 3) You may not feel like you're making progress with self-love, but ANY progress you make, is good progress. Consistency--- check in with your mindset every day. 4) Self-love and becoming 100% body positvite takes so much time, keep reminding yourself of where you want to be and continue working on it!     See you next week!

Welcome to the show!! This is your guide to being in your 20s.    We know these years are stressful, confusing, and fast-paced, so we are here to make sure you thrive. We will be keeping it real with all things adulting, advice for pursuing a life that makes you happy, and helping you figure out what you were meant to contribute to this world. Trust me, we don't have our sh*t figured out either, but we are here to help! Email us topics you think should be discussed: [email protected]