Twenty Something with Olivia Burnett

Grief doesn’t only happen when someone dies. It can show up after a breakup, a major life change, losing a job, losing a version of your future, or saying goodbye to a person or chapter you thought would always be there.

In this episode, Olivia sits down with Patrick McCarthy (@misterpjm) for an honest conversation about what grief actually does to us, emotionally, physically, and even in the way we see our lives.

After losing ...

Can I be a good mom and still miss my old life? Can I love my kids more than anything and still want time alone? Can I be ambitious, love my career, and not feel guilty for wanting something outside of motherhood?

These are the hard questions so many moms ask themselves — and the ones we don’t always say out loud.

In this episode, Olivia sits down with Kylee Noorlander, founder of Come Home Collective, to talk about what ...

In this episode, Olivia sits down with Richard Ostler, host of the Listen, Learn & Love podcast, to have an honest conversation about LGBTQ+, faith, and the LDS Church. Richard is the author of Listen, Learn & Love: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and has spent years listening to and sharing the stories of queer Latter-day Saints through his podcast, which now has more than 900 episodes and 8 million downloads.

Richard sha...

Politics and the news can feel impossible to keep up with. There’s always another headline, TikTok, breaking story, opinion, or person telling you what you should believe; and sometimes trying to stay informed just leaves you feeling even more overwhelmed. So what do we do? A lot of us get overloaded and stop paying attention altogether.

In this episode, Olivia sits down with 10x Emmy-winning journalist Spencer Joseph to talk ...

Tyler Hall was in New York City preparing for one of the biggest moments of his career when he got a call that changed the course of his life: his wife, Brooklyn, was being rushed to the hospital.

What followed was a flight home believing he may have already lost the person he had known and loved nearly his entire life.

In this episode, Olivia and Tyler talk about the experience that divided his life into “before” and &ld...

NFL wide receiver and former BYU standout Chase Roberts joins Olivia to talk about what it looks like to choose faith when you have absolutely no idea what comes next.

After injuries disrupted his NFL Combine preparation, Chase was advised not to run the 40-yard dash. He chose to run anyway, and finished with the slowest time of the receivers who participated. But for Chase, that moment became about something bigger than a number: d...

Life doesn't always go the way we thought it would. Sometimes it's losing someone we love. Sometimes it's heartbreak, a friendship ending, a diagnosis, a career change, or simply realizing the life we pictured for ourselves isn't the life we're living.

Krista Jones learned that lesson earlier than most. She lost her dad to cancer when she was just seven years old, was raised in large part by her grandparents before eventually losing...

Aaron Martin never imagined he would leave the hospital with his newborn son, Parker, without his wife by his side.

After what began as a normal Valentine’s Day turned into an emergency C-section, Aaron and his wife, Natalie, welcomed their baby boy into the world. Hours later, complications from internal bleeding took Natalie’s life, leaving Aaron to navigate becoming a new father and a widower on the same day.

In this e...

There are some experiences that force you to grow up long before you should have to.

In this episode, Olivia sits down with Adi Tanner to talk about growing up with a mother struggling with addiction, losing contact with her for ten years, and the emotional journey of reconnecting after a decade apart.

Together, they explore what forgiveness really looks like, how to set healthy boundaries without closing your heart, and why healing ...

Do you ever feel like you're reacting in ways you don't fully understand? Like you keep falling into the same emotional patterns, making the same decisions, or feeling stuck but you can't figure out why?

In this episode, Olivia sits down with entrepreneur, speaker, and Counterfeit Emotions expert Curtis Morley to explore one of the most life-changing concepts we've ever discussed on Twenty Something: counterfeit emotions.

Curtis expl...

PSA to every woman: This episode will CHANGE the way you understand your body. It did for me.

Have you ever felt emotional, exhausted, anxious, unmotivated, or completely unlike yourself and wondered what on earth is going on inside your body? Or maybe you’ve blamed something you couldn’t explain on a sentence like, “Hm. Must be my hormones,” while having no idea what that actually means.

In this episode, Oliv...

For years, women have been told that smaller is better. Smaller waist, smaller jeans, smaller number on the scale. But what if the goal was never to become the smallest version of yourself? What if the goal was to become strong enough to actually live the life you want?

In this episode, Olivia and Lacey Bruschke talk about what it really means to build strength physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Lacey is a Registere...

Olivia sits down with Alexa Norton, creator of Grief Shine, for one of the most honest conversations yet about what it actually means to live after losing someone you love.

After losing her dad in a tragic skiing accident at just 22 years old, Alexa found herself navigating the kind of grief that no one can truly prepare you for. Together, Olivia and Alexa talk about what those first days felt like, why grief never really "ends," an...

In this episode of Twenty Something, Olivia sits down with Todd Sylvester, a mental fitness coach, substance use disorder counselor, bestselling author, host of the Belief podcast, regular host on Good Things Utah, and one of the 2024 Freedom Award honorees.

After battling addiction, self-hatred, and despair, Todd found himself at one of the darkest points of his life. Then one word led him to ask for help, and that moment became th...

There is more advice available to us than ever before, but somehow, it can make us feel more stuck. More podcasts. More books. More TikToks. More opinions. More people telling you how to build a successful life.

So how do you know what to actually listen to?

In this episode, Olivia sits down with Jimmy Rex, entrepreneur, podcaster, author, and founder of We Are The They, to talk about how to stop getting trapped in learning mode ...

What does it actually mean to live in alignment with what you want? And how does that change your life?

In this episode, Olivia sits down with Shawn Moore, founder and CEO of COVE and a board member for Humanitarian Experience, to talk about health, happiness, purpose, and what it really looks like to build a life that feels true to you.

Shawn shares key decisions he made that initially scared him, but ultimately led him to a more in...

In this episode ofTwenty Something, Olivia sits down with Rylee Thompson to talk about why your 20s are not about having everything figured out. They’re about trying, changing your mind, following your curiosity, and becoming confident enough to trust your own timeline.

Rylee shares how moving to a new state, pursuing her career, content creation, health and wellness, and deepening her faith have helped her build a life that f...

Self-doubt will keep you waiting for permission that is never coming.

She was cut late in her sport. Many said she couldn't do it. Then she ended up at her dream school. How did she do it?

In this episode of Twenty Something, Olivia sits down with Eliza Smith, a D1 soccer player at the University of Utah, to talk about what it actually takes to build confidence, chase big goals, and become the kind of person who follows through.

Eliza...

What happens after we die? And what can near death experiences teach us about the way we live now?

In this episode of Twenty Something, Olivia sits down with Martin Tanner to discuss the stories, patterns, and life-changing lessons he has heard from interviewing more than 700 people about their near death experiences.

Martin is the host of the Religion Today podcast and radio show on KSL, co-founder of Utah’s International Asso...