THE INTERVIEW K + L are here, as always, to have real, honest conversations — ones that challenge us, make us uncomfortable, and help us grow. This conversation with Thaís Sky on white privilege and white fragility from 2018 is one of those. These are important parts of who many of us are and what we experience that we need to look at in order to be better and do better. Our hope is that you are inspired to dismantle your attachment and support of systems that, for centuries, have contributed to...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 332
THE INTERVIEW We are honored to have had many powerful conversations with the black women featured in this episode. They are teachers, leaders, writers, activists, travelers, artists, mothers, wives,and daughters. We invite you to reflect, listen, learn, and act on the advice, experience and teachings from the voices you hear in this episode as we all come together in this revolution, to fight against racism and injustice.. You will hear from Angela Manuel-Davis, Lalah Delia, Larayia Gaston, Rac...
Jun 09, 2020•48 min•Ep. 331
THE INTERVIEW Aaron Rose is the coach that K + L have been working with to help them uncover unconscious biases, be more intentional, and nurture inclusivity. There can be so much information, news, and things we’re seeing daily that can be very triggering right now. We hear that word a lot, trigger, and it’s important for us to unpack what that really means and how we can work against that. It’s okay to be triggered, but there’s something underneath that trigger that needs to be examined. How d...
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 330
THE INTERVIEW This week we’re bringing back an interview we had with Rachel Cargle in December of 2018 because it is incredibly relevant to things that are happening in our world today. She has done an amazing job building a platform and resources for people, she raises money for marginalized communities, and she hosts The Great Unlearn on Patreon. We’ve talked about white fragility, white supremacy, allyship, and the issue of race, and these are all things that need to be brought back to the fo...
Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 329
THE SOLO We’re stuck at home, and sometimes searching for something to help stimulate us. That yearning inspired Lindsey to ask herself, “What can support me, what can stimulate me, what can make me feel better?” During this time in quarantine, Lindsey has been focusing on the little things that bring her joy to bring her back to a state of gratitude. In today’s episode, Lindsey shares some of her go-to things that she’s using during this time to give her more energy, inspiration, grounding, or ...
May 28, 2020•46 min•Ep. 328
THE INTERVIEW Welcome back to the podcast, John Wineland! He is an icon for everything conscious relationships and intimacy - he is one of our absolute FAVORITES. And he’s here to share about how our nervous system is the central point connecting our spirit, our mind, and our body. Who said science can’t be sexy? Our nervous system responses are what lead us to believe emotions are there when what we’re really experiencing is just a natural reaction, and understanding that is key to changing you...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 327
THE SOLO Confidence is so key. Yes, we’ve all heard it before, but some things are cliché for a reason. K + L each offer three tried-and-true tips for being more confident, all born from their personal experiences. But remember — confidence is always going to be something personal to you. It doesn’t have to look the same as someone else, and it doesn’t even have to look like sunshine and rainbows. Confidence is something you work on getting closer to, and you never quite get there fully, but it’...
May 21, 2020•46 min•Ep. 326
THE INTERVIEW Shall we retire? Glennon Doyle joins us today on Almost 30!! Due to the current situation on planet Earth, we met over Zoom and she confirmed what we thought. Glennon shows up for ev-er-y-thing with her whole heart and completely present. We will hold this conversation close to our hearts forever. . We talk about “Untamed”,what it means to live untamed, how she is feeling in the midst of the pandemic, liberating ourselves (and others) with the truth, honoring your family by honorin...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 325
THE SOLO Everyone loves a quitter! No, really. When you’re working at a job you hate, it is so energizing to quit at the right time and in the right way. This week, Krista talks about the good — how she messed up first quitting experience — and the bad — the time she quit in order to go full-time with Almost 30. She shares what both experiences were like, how she prepared (or didn’t), how she actually knew she was ready the second time, and what happened behind the scenes. She helps demystify th...
May 14, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 324
THE INTERVIEW When you speak to Ryan Weiss, you feel like you’re the only person in the room.. It’s truly a testament to his teaching that “listening is everything.” He’s a life coach, spiritual counselor, writer, speaker, and the creator of Waking Up With Ryan, where he helps people start their day centered and grounded. In today’s episode K + L chat with him about anxiety, something he’s struggled with in his life and the thing that he’s dedicated his work to alleviating. We talk about what an...
May 12, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 323
THE SOLO K + L have been wanting to connect with the community two-on-one for a while and are so excited to finally share the first of many conversations in their new series, “Community Call”! We’ve been wanting to hear from YOU - Almost 30 nation - and how you’ve been impacted by the show, taken the messages shared by guests or other members of the community, and have made serious, positive changes in your life. Joining them this week is Emily Feikls, who first discovered the podcast when she w...
May 07, 2020•40 min•Ep. 322
THE INTERVIEW Dr. Laurie Santos teaches a course at Yale called Psychology on the Good Life that was inspired by her experience with her college students and their depression. She took a microscope to happiness, breaking down the why and how so that she could create science-based, tactical strategies for staying happy. Dr. Santos makes it so easy to understand the value of what people usually see as “fluff.” We talk about how to honor those who are struggling (while still maintaining our own sov...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 321
THE SOLO Trust is so, so important in any healthy relationship — that’s obvious, right? It shouldn’t be any different when it comes to ourselves. Trusting yourself and the way you live your life is transformational. We all reach a moment where it’s time to break up with this expectation — whether from our parents or someone else — of how our life was supposed to go and to trust ourselves to live life the way we want. Lindsey shares her experience making the transition from not trusting herself t...
Apr 30, 2020•53 min•Ep. 320
THE INTERVIEW Ramit Sethi’s book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, is an absolute game-changer in the finance world. He is charismatic, grounded, and relatable — not to mention one of the most progressive voices in the financial literacy and wellness space. He does not sugar coat things, and when it comes to finances and getting really good at managing them, you have to be real about it. He infamously pushes back against the tired advice of “cutting out lattes” in order to save money. Instead, Ramit...
Apr 28, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 319
THE SOLO Instagram loves to kindly remind us of photos we’ve taken in the past, which can be great! But it can also invite us to criticize and compare ourselves. When this happened to Krista, what she noticed so clearly was the ways in which her body has changed over the past few years — namely, weight gain. A few months ago, Krista was in New York City reflecting on the habits and mentalities around her body and how she has shifted away from the behaviors that kept her at the lowest weight she’...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 318
THE INTERVIEW Debra Silverman is on to give us a much-needed astrological update on what’s currently happening in the world. She shares what was written in the stars when the virus came and things started to shift, when it looks like we’re going to get out of it, what every sign needs to be doing during this time, what transitions in astrology we need to be aware of over the coming year, and what the new normal will look like on the other side of this. (Don’t worry too much. There’s opportunity ...
Apr 21, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 317
THE SOLO Although we’re all living very different experiences in these uncertain times, many of us feel like we’re stuck in an uncomfortable and chaotic rut. So, K + L took some time to reflect on when they’ve felt stuck in the past and how they were able to break free. You may feel stuck now, and it’s okay to grieve for the loss of normalcy, but this too shall pass. We also talk about: Trying not to overanalyze The forms that ruts can take Focusing on serving others Shaking up your routine Sett...
Apr 16, 2020•38 min•Ep. 316
THE INTERVIEW A modern renaissance woman, Marianne Williamson is one of the most impactful activists, authors, and spiritual leaders of our time. She’s an unshakable force, even during this period of uncertainty, and she is fully anchored in what we need to do to move through it. Her activism is a call to action for what needs to be done. During this conversation, we talk about what it was like running for president + how she felt choosing to end that campaign, the chronic disengagement from pol...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 315
CATCH UP WITH K + L K + L want to serve the community in any way that they can during this time and beyond. So they’re hosting digital courses with some of their favorite healers, leaders, and teachers available every Saturday! You can find out more about this on almost30podcast.com/events. They also have their Inner Peace course, created by K + L to leverage all of the tools they’ve learned over the last three years. This course is available on Teachable. THE SOLO All of us are experiencing som...
Apr 09, 2020•46 min•Ep. 314
THE INTERVIEW In times like this, we all need a little art in our ears — and IN-Q is the oasis of inspiration that our souls are craving right now. He’s a national poetry slam champion, an award-winning poet, a multi-platinum songwriter, and his new book Inquire Within is out now. If you ever get the chance to hear him live, do it. Listening to him recite his poetry live is so powerful and mesmerizing. Even though he’s sharing his own thoughts and feelings, he invites the audience to go inside t...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 313
Krista felt called to share something very personal to her that has had a profound impact on her relationships — relationships with partners, with female friends, with coworkers.We are all experiencing so much change right now, so Krista shares with us how we can confront and process change in order to move forward with hope during this complicated time. Krista explores how she approaches change in herself and in her relationships, how she balances not needing to change other people while not al...
Apr 02, 2020•48 min•Ep. 312
CATCH UP WITH K + L Even though the state of the world is uneasy right now, people are supporting people in such a beautiful way — and K+L want to celebrate that! Remember, all of the things that are happening in the world right now will pass as we step into our light. If you need some support in these times, you can find a community of super supportive women in the secret Almost 30 Facebook groups. THE INTERVIEW Julie Nguyen lived the first 30 years of her life believing that her health problem...
Mar 31, 2020•55 min•Ep. 311
THE SOLO These are interesting times. Whether you’re working from home, have lost work, or are unsure what each day will bring you as you go into work at an essential business, we’re all having our routines and lives disrupted in a way none of us have experienced before. It’s our mission at Almost 30 to provide you with the tools, resources and support you need to navigate life’s challenges, and now’s the time we need them most. Today’s episode is meant to provide tools, resources, thoughts, + p...
Mar 26, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 310
THE INTERVIEW Jen Gotch joined us just over a year ago for a really important conversation about mental health, figuring yourself out, and self-care. Jen is a huge expander for a lot of us in Almost 30 Nation — Krista and Lindsey included! — so we had to have her back for round two to discuss her powerful new book. The Upside of Being Down is an honest account of Jen’s mental health struggles and how that long journey, with all its ups and downs, led to her greatest successes in work and life. S...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 309
THE INTERVIEW We are beyond grateful to Melanie Monaco for inviting us onto The Self-Love Lifestyle for a deep + intimate conversation around, you guessed it, SELF LOVE baby. Melanie is a close friend of the podcast and SO essential to our growth, so her questions come from a thoughtful + heartfelt place. She inspires us to open up about our self-love journeys, our relationship with our bodies, growing the podcast, and how we’ve learned to show up in life as leaders. The self-love journey is nev...
Mar 19, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 308
THE INTERVIEW We are so glad to have author, filmmaker, health and science journalist Max Lugavere back on the show! Max’s new book, The Genius Life, is all about providing actionable research that anyone can use to start feeling stronger, happier, and healthier immediately. The truth is that most of us already know that there are things in our lives that we really shouldn’t put in, on, or around our bodies, but there’s such a disconnect between what we know and what we do. We dig into why this ...
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 307
THE SOLO Raise your hand if you’ve ever been overwhelmed. 🙌 At some point or another it’s a feeling we’ve all had to uncomfortably confront — you’re not alone. In today’s solo episode with Lindsey, she shares how she has dealt with the feeling of overwhelm head on. Although it is tempting to avoid, Lindsey has learned to embrace the feeling because it is one of the most powerful opportunities for growth that the Universe gives us. When we’re open to understanding how and why it happens, we can ...
Mar 12, 2020•50 min•Ep. 306
THE INTERVIEW Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt joins us today for a conversation on forgiveness. Her new book, The Gift of Forgiveness, gives readers an opportunity to deeply understand the act of forgiving and how doing so can positively affect everyone involved. But let’s be real: Forgiveness is SO layered. It requires us to be vulnerable, release the ego, and allow change. Katherine’s book speaks to those layers and how we can work out our “forgiveness muscle” daily. Newly married, Katherine gu...
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 305
CATCH UP WITH K + L K & L have some exciting information to share about the 2020 Almost 30 retreat coming up in May! Last year, 24 women attended the the retreat in Malibu and it was so transformative they had to do it again. They’ve invited their favorite healers, speakers, tarot card readers, astrologists, trainers, and more to support women through this life-changing experience! If you feel like you need four days away in a beautiful Malibu oasis to deeply connect with yourself and other ...
Mar 05, 2020•51 min•Ep. 304
THE INTERVIEW Today we are so excited to sit down with our good friend Kelly LeVeque, holistic nutritionist extraordinaire, to chat about her new book Body Love Every Day. A lot of the health and wellness books out there can be off putting, with an emphasis on aesthetics or diet, but Kelly’s message is about creating a holistic lifestyle approach. We dive into the four different archetypes mentioned in her book and how understanding our archetype can prepare us for success with our health and we...
Mar 03, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 303
