Costa Rica Recap & Hanging with Our Inner Children

Do You Think You're Lucky?

After Harley has one of those weeks with a GI bug relapse, head-to-toe bug bites, and the dreaded red light at airport customs, Brian declares it's officially her unlucky week. That simple comment sparks a conversation about luck, mindset, and the stories we tell ourselves when life doesn't go according to plan. We talk about why Harley has never considered herself an unlucky person, David R. Hawkins' Map of Consciousness and why blame isn't always the worst first reaction, and what goes through Brian's mind when he loses a cooking competition.

Costa Rica Recap & Hanging with Our Inner Children

This week’s episode starts with a conversation about how to have more meaningful interactions with strangers… and then goes a little deeper. We recap our Costa Rica trip and why we love the Pura Vida life so much. We also talk about discovering Danielle’s bossy inner child “Rosie” on this trip and how Brian’s near death experience still impacts our relationship today.

Baby Purgatory

We’re 10 months into trying to conceive and still very much in it. This episode is about that in-between phase where nothing is technically wrong, but nothing is happening either. We talk through what this has looked like for us so far, how it’s felt day to day, and Brian shares what it’s like going through this in his 50s and thinking about having young kids again.

We're Engaged!

We’re engaged! This isn’t a polished, fairy-tale recap. We get into the week leading up to the proposal, the hard conversations, and the moment Brian almost backed out of marriage entirely. We also talk through the pros and cons of marriage for each of us. Then we end with the full proposal story and how it all came together. Sweet, funny, and perfect.

Reclaiming Sensitivity as a Superpower

Before modern society, sensitivity wasn’t a weakness — it was survival. We needed to read the weather, sense danger in the forest, feel shifts in our tribe, and attune to one another for safety. The most sensitive people were often the most perceptive, intuitive, and protective. Somewhere along the way, “you’re too sensitive” became an insult. In today’s episode, we explore how sensitivity is actually a superpower — and how many of the most reactive, hardened, or even destructive people among us may have once been deeply sensitive children whose tenderness was shamed, abused, or exploited.