In a world where we’re constantly being bombarded with distractions and anxieties, our mental health is at an all-time low. Anxiety, depression, PTSD, and ADHD are being reported in record numbers and it all feels so impossible to fix. Luckily for us, we got to chat with Dr. Laura Gouge, a naturopathic physician who works with women like all of us to treat our mental health problems, especially ADHD, holistically. We’re not against medication here, but our gut health, hormones, and nervous...

When something looks too good to be true… it probably is. We’ve talked about buying followers, downloads, and likes here before but hey, even we aren’t perfect. Recently, Danny saw an opportunity to bury some bad reviews, but unfortunately, things didn’t turn out as good as she’d hoped. This episode is a little embarrassing, but it’s real, and we hope you don’t laugh too hard at our misfortune 😅 The time Danny got extorted [1:01] Cutting corners is never worth it [10:26] Why someone leaves a...

Shakespeare once asked the question, “what’s in a name?” and lately we’ve been asking ourselves the same thing. After learning that her ex-husband is getting remarried and then running into him and his new fiancee (all in the same week!), Danny has been rethinking what it means to share a last name with her ex. Changing (or not changing) your last name when you get married is always a personal choice, especially because our names, in a way, become a part of our identities. Sharing a last name...

Friendships are so important to nurture in our lives, but whether we like it or not, sometimes friendships fade. We grow apart, we miscommunicate, and we get in fights that slowly corrode relationships with friends that used to be our whole support system, and fuck—it can get awkward. Our relationships with friends take effort, and it’s painful when that effort slowly fades away. Through it all, the people who want to keep you in their lives will make an effort, and you should too. When your...

Life in our 40’s is so much different than we ever could have imagined at the beginning of our 30’s. It was a decade of finding ourselves amidst a lot of chaos and upheaval, and no amount of warnings could have prepared us for all that happened. There are so many pieces of advice we didn’t take (and wish we did) and even more advice we wish we had, but at the end of the day, we’re grateful for every little thing we went through. What advice would you give to your younger self? Advice for...

It’s no secret, Danny has fake boobs and she’s always liked it that way. That is, until, several people she knows have started having breast-implant horror stories—now she’s thinking it’s time to get them out. Just like our hair or our skin or our clothes, as women, we tie a lot of our identity to our bodies, and especially our boobs, so saying goodbye isn’t easy. But as we get older, our priorities change, and where we once mostly cared about looking a certain way, now our health is a bigger...

S****y things happen to us all the time, and while it’s never your fault when someone wrongs you, it is your responsibility to heal from it. No amount of wishing or righteous anger undoes the past, and no amount of trying to understand “why” bad things happen, will take away the pain. Sometimes, you’re just left to pick up the pieces alone. But if you’re able to practice that emotional resiliency, you’ll be light years ahead of everyone else. You’ll be a healing ninja. It’s not your fault...

We don’t have the shiniest of social media reputations—if you saw what we were up to in 2017 and 2018, no you didn’t—but nowadays we tend to practice a little more “digital modesty.” For us, we just aren’t up to as much mischief as we once were, but there are some who use their digital modesty to seem more appealing to potential romantic partners. There’s definitely something to be said about attracting the kind of person you are, and with social media being so present in everyone’s lives,...

Look we’re marketers, so we know all the tips and tricks being used in modern marketing. Try as we might to be upon front and honest with our marketing practices, there are still tons of people out in the world making sales in less than integrous ways. And while we’d love it for everyone to be up-front about the products that they sell, unfortunately assholes will always be a*****e, scammers will always be scammers, and it’s up to us to decide what’s a good investment or not. Snake oil...

If you’ve ever thought about starting an online business, you need a way to make yourself stand out from the crowd. We all know someone with the “it-factor” but is that something that people are simply born with, or can it be taught? We think it can! There are so many voices and personalities online, and the best way to truly stand out is just to be yourself! People can sense authenticity, and as long as you lean in to what makes you, well… YOU… you’ll always stand out. What is the It-Factor...

Whether in life or in business, there are seasons of quiet and there are seasons of busyness. When shit gets hectic, feelings of resentment start to build and burnout starts to loom closer and closer. You can’t always force your life to be “less busy” so how can you manage the feelings of burnout, so that you can live your own life without hating every single second of it? It’s #TheBestLife, not #TheBurntOut life, and we want to feel exited and refreshed to start our days. While it may not...

As much as we all love being petty (and you know we’re good at it, too) there is something to be said about being the “bigger person.” While the un-evolved versions of ourselves might like pointing out when Brenda is acting like an idiot, that kind of negativity never brought out the best in anyone. Whether you realize it or not, people are looking to you to see how you act. Are you proud of the way you handle conflict? Do you respond to situations rather than react? Maybe it’s less “fun”...

Our value systems are deeply personal and influence almost everything we do in our lives. We all have core values, whether they’re obvious to us or not. Getting clear on what our values are can help us find direction in work, play, love, and life. It’s often said that you teach people how to treat you, and with a defined set of values, you get to set the tone for your interactions and future choices. Not all things in this life can be important, and when you know what your core values are,...

One thing the holidays bring about are those damn holiday parties, and what’s even worse than having to go to a work holiday party is choosing an outfit for them—what the hell does “smart casual” even mean?! Then, of course, you have to layer on what your parter is wearing too. Should you coordinate outfits? Will they dress too casually and embarrass you? If they show up looking sloppy, how does that reflect on you? The way we see it, the more direction we can get, the better, just as long as...

Have you ever had a partner so rough around the edges that they need some rehabilitation to be a passable partner, only for the relationship to end and all the work you put in goes to benefit some other woman? We’ve fallen for the project-boyfriend more times than we’re proud of, but there’s nothing more bitter-sweet (and a little bit rage-inducing) than watching your ex go be a better partner for someone else using all the things you taught them. It happens to the best of us, but if you keep...

We’ve talked about feeling insecure over your partner’s ex relationships before—and believe us, it’s normal to feel that way—but there’s another layer of insecurity and jealousy to work though when it comes to the different traditions and milestones they experienced together. Your partner can’t undo the past and they can’t un-experience the things they have, so don’t hold it against them. Just because your partner went to a certain restaurant or did a certain activity in their past, doesn’t...

As women, it used to be true that the worst insult someone could throw at us was “you’re going to die childless and without a man’s love,” but it’s not quite a threat anymore. More and more women are finding happiness and fulfillment on their own, and the days of “needing” a man to take care of us are long gone. Don’t take it the wrong way, we really do love men, but we’ve seen too many women in our lives lose everything because they depended on a man who didn’t have their best interest at...

According to some men (and we all know how reliable they can be 🙄) most women will have a partner in mind as a back-up option if the relationship they’re currently in doesn’t work out. We can’t deny that the fantasy of feeling like we could make any man from our past drop everything and run away because they’re obsessed with us sure sounds fun, but truthfully, there’s no person we’d even want to keep “on the hook” like that. The grass isn’t always greener and we know that some other romantic...

We’re in our zero-f***s era 💅 Over the last few years on the internet it’s felt like we have to be careful with every little thing we say, lest someone take offense to something innocently said. But lately, we just don’t have the bandwidth to care anymore. We can’t monitor every move we make, and when we spend so much time trying to please everyone, we limit the impact we can make to the people who actually care and limit our own realities. We feel better when we’re working hard and striving...

Having a celebrity Hall Pass—aka someone you’re “allowed” to have sex with outside of your relationship—is a somewhat common thing, but like… should it be? We know that the times in our lives we’ve been most obsessed with celebrities has been due to the fact that we didn’t really have anything else going on in our lives. But hey, a celebrity Hall Pass might be a better choice than a Hall Pass for your neighbor, Carl.  Having a crush on a celebrity [0:57] Caring more about celebrities than...

You know we love talking to experts on hormones and aging here—aging is coming for us whether we want it or not, and we won’t be going down without a fight. Today Jill is talking to Kim Schaper, metabolism and hormone expert for women over 35, about how our bodies change as we get older and what we can do to feel our best along the way. You can stay on a diet for your entire life, but at some point that stress catches up and you’ll be forced to slow down. Wouldn’t it be better to prevent the...

There’s a moment right before you end a relationship that might be the perfect opportunity to destroy the status quo and rebuild from scratch. Buuuuut just because you’re in this “destruction mode” doesn’t mean this plan will work every time. It may sound like a great idea—starting over again—but sometimes change comes a little too late, and you can’t erase the past and certain hurts. Relationships can bring out the best and the worst in people, and being together doesn’t stop us from...

Starting over in your life is one thing, but starting over in a professional sense is a whole other mind-f**k. We talk about mindset a lot here, but we’ve still been known to suffer from comparisonitis and negative self-talk from our own inner-critic—no one can make you feel worse about where you think you “should” be than yourself. Most people start off-and-on again, and even more people give up before they even get started. It’s harder than it sounds, but the best way to succeed is to just...

The holidays are quickly approaching, and if you’re anything like us, the coming weeks and months can be filled with stress from all around. Our families love us, but that doesn’t stop them from pressuring us to be certain ways, or accomplish certain life “milestones” that we don’t really care for, not to mention to pressure to travel, buy gifts, overindulge in food, and over consume alcohol. It’s not too late to start setting boundaries this holiday season about what you will and won’t...

The health of our brains is connected to every other function of our bodies, and especially our movement. As Meg Koppele-Duffy, co-founder of the Neuro Studio and movement coach for patients with neurological conditions, says, “every patient is a neuro patient.” We want to stay sharp (and happy!) as we age, and there’s so much more about the brain-body connection to keep in mind than we once previously thought.  Movement and mental health [2:04] Understanding what a neuro condition is...