A Beautiful Mess Podcast

This week we're sharing our Poolside book recommendations as well as Elsie's favorite hot takes.

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Elsie's Pollside Books:

The Paper Palace By Miranda Cowley Heller

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Emma's Poolside Books:

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This week we're sharing our favorite date night ideas including date nights at home and a listener topic about the trend of romanticizing everything.

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Elsie's Favorite date nights:

Movie

Double date

Concert

Weekend getaway

This week we're sharing the top places we've visited as well as places we thing might be overrated and a listeners hot take on faux plants.

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Elsie's Best Places:

1. Paris
2. New Orleans
3. Venice/Florence

Emma's Best Places:

1. Norway
2. Iceland
3. Switzerland

Elsie's Overrated Places:

1. Nashville
2. LA

This week we're discussing comfort objects- little things that bring inordinate comfort into our lives. We're also sharing our cozy rituals and ideal way to spend a day.

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Elsie's comfort objects:

1. Hoodies and quilts
2. A blank journal
3. Books / Library ladder

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This week we're sharing what's on our Summer bucket list and discussing a hot take about shoe-free rules in homes.

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Elsie's Summer Bucket List:

1. Family vacation to New England
2. Summer Reading Goals
3. Teaching kids basic skills
4. Establish a family movie night
5. Draft a new novel

Emma's Summer ...

This week we're discussing Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke and taking a quiz on what kind of genius we are. We'll also chat about a listener hot take on whether or not kids should be taught euphanisms.

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The 6 Types of Genius:

Wonder

Discernment

Invention

Enable...

This week we are joined by our bestie Katie Day who is here to share the five minute practice that changed her life. We'll also discuss a hot take about white tennis shoes.

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Katie's 5 minute practice:

1. Get water

2. 3 things you are grateful for

3. First person goal

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This week we're getting honest about what it's really like working with family. We've been working together since our early 20s and people always ask how we do it so today we're spilling the tea. We're also discussing what we're reading and a hot take about long vs short books.

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Biggest Pro: Time spent together

Biggest con: More risk to the rel...

This week we're talking about the books that genuinely shifted how we see the world — not just 5 star reads, but the ones that rewired our thinking and books we still find ourselves talking about years later.

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This week we're entering a world in which there are no iPhones, no internet, no apps, no online shopping, no social media no steaming and no smart tech of any kind. Yes: We're traveling to a land where you get advice from magazines, information from encylopedias and to speak to someone you must pick up the phone and dial numbers.

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This week we're talking about how to develop your creative palette and style without being derivative. This is a subject that applies across different creative practices from art to writing and even how you dress or decorate your home.

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Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Steps to develop your creative palette:

Ste...

In this week's episode we're diving into how to make vision boards and 5 year plans. If you're in the mood to think about your goals and dreams, you're in the right place. We're also answering some listener questions and engaging in a Hot Take Debate about whether romantic comedies are actually the worst.

How to make a vision board:

Create different categories for your goals (family, work, fitness, etc)

Write in present tense

Get p...

In this week's episode we're sharing our Spring Bucket List since it's officially the first week of Spring. It's still pretty cold where we live, so a lot of this is wishful thinking, but it's fun to plan things to look forward to. We're also sharing an extra hot Hot Take Debate about kids and iPads.

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In this week's episode we're talking about the highs and lows working from home and how we balance our career dreams with raising young children. We've got several great listener questions to cover and we'll share an extra hot Hot Take Debate.

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This week, we're talking about mindset shifts that changed our lives. Sometimes, before your life can change, your perspective has to change first. We're also doing a rapid fire hot take debate with a bunch of listener submitted hot takes.

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Mindset Shifts:

1. What's the best that could happen?
2. Why not me?
3. Cheer...

This week we're talking about the inevitable experience of failure and how to hone the skill of starting over. Setbacks can be crushing, but they only turn permanent if you quit. In this episode, we're sharing our own vulnerable failure stories and the things that have helped us to get back on our feet.

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This week we're sharing winter comforts that reliably get us through our least favorite season of the year.

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Winter Comforts:

Elsie: Books in bed!

Emma: Snow Suit

Elsie: Hot water - t...

This week, we're watching the 1995 classic Empire Records. We're also doing a hot take debate about technological advances, and we're bringing back our segment guilty pleasure treasure.

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Guilty Pleasure Teasure:

Elsie - American Funyuns

Emma - American Oreos

This week we are discussing core values. We'll share our results from the Values Bridge quiz, as well as our thoughts on how defining core values can improve your life. And in our hot take debate, we're discussing separating art from the artist and rounding it out with whether or not we refrigerate our butter. All the important things that you need to know.

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