Three Way Call

Finding your personal style can often be a daunting task, especially in a time of quick trends and over consumption.

In this episode we break down our fashion journeys from high school uniforms to figuring out our personal styles. We will dig deep into what it means to dress for your body type and actionable steps to learn intentional shopping. Ultimately, we hope to inspire you on the journey of finding your personal style. So, tune in and make it a three way call!

In this episode we tackle the concept of flirting, but this isn’t a how-to. We really want to unpack how the underlying actions of flirting are often expressions of connection, extraversion, and comfortability with others. Using this framework "flirting" as a mode of authentic connection, we will dive into our experiences from childhood to adulthood and how depending on our environments and contexts, “flirting” meant something entirely different. By using flirting as our lens, we’ll talk through how to be more comfortable being ourselves in spaces where our open-ness will be valued; ultimately, uncoupling flirting from its negative connotations.

A big trip with your partner can often be a microcosm of your relationship. From miscommunication to conflict styles, so much can come up when you are travelling together. In these make or break situations, how can you avoid the strain that travel can put on your relationship?

In this episode, we dive into Amanda and Nikta’s different experiences with travelling, both with their partners and with friends. Ultimately, through combining the lessons we’ve both learned along the way, we offer our perspectives on travelling and how it can actually strengthen your relationship!

So tune in and make it a three way call! 

“Grind Culture” might be ruining your life. It's everywhere--all over our social media feeds we see the perfect pilates princess, the workaholic finance man, or the bodybuilding gym rats. However it shows up, grind culture tries to convince you that if you don't give 150% to whatever you are doing, you might as well not do it in the first place.

In this episode, we explore ways we have seen grind culture pop up in our lives and methodologies through which we’ve found balance. We dive into Nikta's experience with grind culture in grad school and how exploring her personal motivations has helped to find work-life balance. We hope this episode may challenge the presence of grind culture in your own life and motivate you to find a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

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These days, planning a wedding means being inundated with content surrounding wedding horror stories, advice, and of course…capturing it all in the perfect TikTok. With Nikta currently planning a wedding and Amanda already married, in this episode we break down three major topics that we’ve seen the most discourse about online:

1) What is worth spending your money on.

2) Choosing the wedding party.

3) How to make people happy while not compromising what is important to you.

This episode should help those deep in the wedding-planning trenches remember what is most important to them throughout the process.

So tune in and make it a three way call!

“Manifestation” is a buzzword in the cultural conversation around achieving your dream reality; however, does this simply mean thinking something into existence?

In this episode, we explore methodologies through which we’ve seen manifestation applied successfully. We dive into Amanda’s experience with manifestation, from a young age being exposed to “The Secret,” and how these techniques resulted in goals actually being achieved throughout her teenage and adult years. By aligning the concept of manifestation alongside actionable steps to achieving your imagined goals, we hope this episode may challenge your presumed assumptions around the concept of manifestation.

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Being a “stan” has become a guilty pleasure for many adult women; however, we want to unpack what it means to be a ‘stan’ and why it's a practice of community building and joy for all genders and ages. Why does stanhood’s association with young girls and feminine joy make it distasteful in the current cultural conversation?

In this episode, we dive into Nikta’s experiences as a lifelong super fan of boy bands and kpop and how these experiences have shifted through the isolation of adult fan culture. With Amanda’s experiences in marketing, we get into the power behind women’s interests and how the industry is shaping itself around the very audience that is shamed online. Ultimately, through combining our different experiences from both the consumer and producer perspective, we offer a new perspective on being a ‘stan’ and the power it brings. We hope this episode will convince you to be a ‘stan.’ 

So tune in and make it a three way call! 

These days it feels like every influencer on social media is pushing us to romanticize our lives…through buying the perfect products, of course.

In this episode, we explore what it means to romanticize your life. Diving deeply into the history of romantic literature and romcoms and then assessing the modern move towards romanticizing one’s life, we aim to separate romanticization from hyper-consumerism. By sharing Amanda’s journey with romanticization and how it led her to land her dream job, and choose to give it up, we offer a new perspective on romanticizing your life – ultimately exploring whether romanticizing your life is helpful or harmful (or maybe something in between). 

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With the widespread shift towards cancel culture, we’ve found that forgiveness has become a very black and white topic. In this context, does an apology actually mean forgiveness?

In this episode, we dive into Amanda and Nikta’s starkly different experiences with forgiveness growing up, and how repetitive apologies or lack thereof informed our adult tendencies towards feeling resolved after conflict. Ultimately, through combining the lessons we’ve both learned along the way, we offer a perspective on forgiveness which prioritizes intentionality and grace in reaching resolutions. It’s this topic which, most of all, has formed the foundation of our podcast and we hope you can learn from each of our differing perspectives.

So tune in and make it a three way call! 

We’ve all, at least once, been asked the question, “What’s your type?”. We’ve also heard the popular answer, “I don’t have a type.” 

In this episode, we explore how to answer the question, WTF is my type? We investigate the reasons why, oftentimes, when we describe our types, integral parts of our vulnerabilities and fears are revealed by what we conceal in our answers. By sharing Nikta’s experiences with dating and the advice that helped shape her relationship with vulnerability, we hope these experiences will bring you closer to answering the question, WTF is your type? 

So tune in and make it a three way call!