COVID-19

72: Worth the Lipstick?

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify Regardless of your sexual orientation, age group, or where you live, dating in 2025 is more of a don’t than a do.  We are swiping left, swiping less, or not at all; many are simply tapping out.  Face-to-face human connection has become so 2000.  It is…

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66: Find Your Ikigai! Here’s Why

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify Social connection is a basic human need that is essential to our overall health and wellbeing.  But as the world evolves from technological advances and person-to-person contact becomes more limited, those feel-good hormones that we get from simply being together are being replaced by shorter attention…

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65: Less Me Time + More Togetherness = A Healthier You

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify We all need healthy alone time or “me” time for self-care and quiet, down time.  It’s a good thing, right?  The fact is that too much time alone can lead to loneliness, isolation, and experiencing a lack of connection with others.  The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr….

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64: Trump, Kamala, and Your Pursuit of Happiness

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify With less than 95 days until the election and all that has happened recently, the race for the presidency has shifted into high gear, already full of monumental, historic events and eliciting heightened negative emotions.  Regardless of your political affiliation, all of it is making us…

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30: A Tale of Two Teachers: Back to School 2021

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify Back to school is always a mixed bag of excitement, nerves, fears and change. Things are a somewhat better – we have vaccines and boosters too – but the tension and confusion, on top of a year and a half of living in a pandemic, has…

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29: Power Shift: Employees in Control

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify With the promise of higher vaccination rates, the U.S. economy continues to reopen.  But as unemployment numbers drop, companies are having a hard time figuring out exactly how to get employees back to the office.  Doing it safely because we are still in a pandemic is…

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28: The Therapist is in: John Tsilimparis, MFT

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify We continue the discussion on how we adjust and readjust as we emerge from our homes and re-enter society. LA-based Psychotherapist, John Tsilimparis, MFT, joins the conversation to help us navigate the post-pandemic path to a new reality with less restrictions, masks, and mandates in a…

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27: Do we hug? Masks down, awkward up

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify In this podcast, we’re diving into how many of us are moving forward in the wake of COVID-19 and redefining the new normal. Do we hug again? How about just an elbow bump? We explore what our worlds are looking like now that we’re emerging from…

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26: Is The Juice Worth The Squeeze?

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify In a follow up to our last episode, we continue the discussion on the effects the pandemic has had on personal and professional relationships from a millennial mindset as special guest, Ashley Hall, joins the conversation. Are the societal changes we are seeing permanent or just…

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25: Dating, Mating and Hibernating in Captivity

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play | Spotify Living through a pandemic has changed how we date, and even who we date. The very way we are relating to each other as humans has shifted and changed. A year, and more, of isolation forced us all to slow down, giving us time to focus…

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