Maximalist Life

Ep 47 - The Episode About Nothing

Episode Summary: We start with absolutely nothing and somehow end up everywhere - New York food marathons, chaotic travel stories, spicy book opinions, ADHD care frustrations, and a very real plan to take dating offline with a live pitch-your-friend singles event. Big laughs, blunt truths, and a strong reminder that community doesn’t live on an app. 🍔 Late-night dinners, the Comedy Cellar, and the audacity of a $52 burger  ✈️ Carry-on plants, airport etiquette, and overhead bin politics  🗂️ Work resets, delegation, and actually building a daily schedule  📚 Kindle vs paper, BookTok wins, and very loud misses  📈 Business guru hot takes and why some advice does more harm than good  🧠 ADHD diagnosis disputes and learning how to advocate for real care  📱 Dating app burnout, mansplaining icks, and sober dating trade-offs  💬 Why speed dating misses the mark and how people actually want to meet IRL  🍹 Creating a “Pitch Your Single Friend” event with mocktails and chaos  🔍 True crime documentaries and book-to-screen adaptations we can’t stop watching Stay Connected: 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @maximalistlifepodcast  🎙️ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify – it helps us so much!

Ep 46 - The Anti Perfect Holiday Episode

Episode Summary: We’re rethinking holiday expectations this year and choosing peace over perfection. No more forcing traditions that make us want to hide in the pantry. No more guilt for not doing it “the way it’s always been done.” ✨ choosing smaller celebrations that actually fit real life  💛 letting go of guilt and setting honest boundaries without apologizing for it  👥 coping with split families and rotating holidays like adults  🍽️ kitchen politics truce by doing opt ins, assigning roles, or going full disposable  🧼 paper plates vs plates and cleanup strategies that save everyone’s sanity  🍷 the case for dinner out so you skip both dishes and resentment  🏡 local traditions like turkey trots, coffee runs, and then fully chilling  🌙 building low pressure rituals when kids are older, gone, or doing their own thing  💞 navigating relationship pace on holiday trips and mismatched energy levels  🛌 remembering it will all be over soon so choose rest whenever you can Stay Connected: 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @maximalistlifepodcast  🎙️ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify – it helps us so much!

Ep 45 - Soft Girl Spooky Season

Episode Summary: We’re leaning all the way into early spooky season with fall food cravings, blunt book opinions, and two community events we’re finally launching. Between new studio set reveals and a full Napa spa day recap, we’re talking boundaries at home, reading rituals, and what actually makes a plot twist worth screaming about. 🍲 early fall cravings for soups, carbs, and cozy reading setups  📚 romance novel misses vs the rereads that still slap  🕵️ thriller speculation with spoiler tag etiquette because some of y’all are unhinged  📖 reading rituals we swear by and our non negotiable home privacy norms  ☕ local coffee and matcha pop ups we’re obsessed with  💐 coffee book flower collab day details  💘 Pitch Perfect Singles Edition format, flow, and the rules we need people to follow  🎃 studio spooky sets and the creative concepts we cannot wait to shoot  💆 spa day highlights and service notes for the girls who need the tea  🍁 fall porch décor ideas and a little microbusiness talk because of course Stay Connected: 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @maximalistlifepodcast  🎙️ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify – it helps us so much!

Ep 44 - Our Favorite Hobby: Overcommitting

Episode Summary: We’re diving deep into stress (aka our toxic little life companion) and how it shows up in our maximalist lifestyles, our relationships, and our to-do lists that never end. 😵‍💫 Chatting about where our stress levels are at right now and how they’ve evolved (or exploded) over the past year 👩‍👦 Navigating family stress, especially the joys of parenting tweens and teens ⏰ Pinpointing our biggest triggers — like time management, or more accurately, the lack of it 📦 Admitting we’re the queens of overcommitting, procrastinating, and turning every “simple task” into a full-blown production 📝 Breaking down how we manage our chaos with to-do lists (and why we still swear by a good old-fashioned notebook) 🥴 Talking about how stress shows up in our bodies before we even realize we’re overwhelmed 🏌️‍♂️ Laughing through the stress of modern dating — including golf dates that never happened and people expecting soulmate-level energy from a first text 🔥 Wondering if we actually thrive a little on stress and chaos (just enough to keep life spicy) 💇 Coping mechanisms we use in the moment, from deep breathing to aggressively brushing our hair 😴 And why sleep is basically the foundation of our sanity and everything starts to unravel without it Stay Connected: 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @maximalistlifepodcast  🎙️ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify – it helps us so much!

Ep 43 - Daddy Issues and Other Fun Baggage

Episode Summary: We get really personal in this convo — diving into our own childhood trauma and how it still shows up in our adult lives. From relationships to careers, parenting to sex, trauma has a sneaky way of shaping who we are. And while it looks different for everyone, the patterns are hard to miss: hypersexuality, avoidance, trust issues, or even behaviors we develop just to cope. ✨ Sexual abuse in childhood and the ripple effect it has on intimacy and relationships  💔 Abandonment issues that can make us either clingy AF or totally avoidant 🩹 The “small traumas” that quietly shape how we see ourselves and the world 👯‍♀️ Growing up as “the fat friend” and how those body image wounds stick around 🧠 When undiagnosed ADHD (and other conditions) get mislabeled as flaws 🛋️ The game-changing role therapy plays in actually healing instead of numbing 🔥 Turning trauma into fuel — creating purpose, art, and ways to help others 🌱 Breaking generational cycles so our kids don’t carry the same weight we did ⚡ Taking your power back by facing it head-on instead of running from it 😂 Using humor as survival — and a way to rewrite the story on our own terms Stay Connected: 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @maximalistlifepodcast  🎙️ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify – it helps us so much!