navigating nirvana

Live, Laugh, & Loving our way through phone addictions (#4 Madison Bailey)

Guest Madison Bailey joins us to discuss balancing a full blown phone addiction as nature girly. We also yap about the evolution of growing up- from sharing a room during college, fraternizing around and adopting craigslist pets, to Madison being a married homeowner going on beautiful eurotrips! She dives deep on her family secrets to turning 99 years old, paired with one's lifetime media consumption, and how important it might be at the core to just Live, Laugh & Love again. Madison is a Sr. Customer Success Manager at BigCommerce, former Miss Teen El Paso, USA, and was voted Most Unique in 8th grade, She studied nutrition at The University of Texas, is a doodle dog mom, and my longest very best friend!

The secret to making adult friends & finding love at first sight! (#3 Alyx Tighe DeJong)

Natalie sits down with Alyx, a fellow Texas Longhorn in Los Angeles, before Alyx’s big move to Pasadena to reminisce on: spirit group tryouts, being college transfer students, watercolor painting, millennialisms, and finding true love at first sight! And we discuss a little bit about The Last of Us’ zombie mushrooms, beware~ We chat about building an adult sense of community and the secret sauce on how to make new friends in your 30s! (…you might not like our answer) Guest Alyx Tighe De Jong is the modern RENAISSANCE WOMAN. Multitalented & an endlessly skilled extraordinaire of a friend! Currently the Paid Media Manager @ Fabletics [https://www.fabletics.com/] in Los Angeles, Alyx formerly founded The University of Texas spirit group: Texas Sunshines [https://www.texassunshines.com/] (and she’s a Luna Lovegood [https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Luna_Lovegood] doppelgänger!) See Alyx’s “maker” TikTok @alyxdejong & Instagram: @tighe_my_shoes [https://www.instagram.com/tighe_my_shoes/] Listen along as Alyx paints the town Pink [Pony Club]~ AI Artwork by Danny Villarreal

Romanticizing Vegas, celebs zodiacs, & reiki breakthroughs (#2 Cheyenne SCY)

Lawyer and content creator Cheyenne (IG: @scy.esq / TT: @scy2420) joins us to discuss her journey to nirvana- through reiki and paradise-like vacays to Vegas! Guest Cheyenne is works as a defense lawyer in Los Angeles, California, living life with her viral-comedian boyfriend; and she creates content on all things from beauty & fashion, to litigation how-tos. Cheyenne gets raw and real with us on how to bring joy and romanticize your everyday life and who she is inspired by in her career. Hear how Chey and Nat met in Beverly Hills and what they're up to next! #Besticals Cheyenne's favorite vanilla espresso coffee from Alfred: https://locations.alfred.la/ [https://locations.alfred.la/]

Breathwork, Babies, and Braindumps (#1 Emma McClurg)

Guest Emma McClurg joins us to discuss her journey to nirvana- through breathwork and big moments like her emergency c-section. Emma is a new mom living in Houston, Texas, with her husband, doggy, and baby boy Cam, working remotely as a senior digital producer. She gets raw and real with us on what becoming a mom for the first time is like! And how life compares between motherhood vs. previously being crazy roommates together with Natalie in Los Angeles. Link to NewYorkTimes Therapy Breathing Psychedelics: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/style/therapy-breathing-psychedelics.html?unlocked_article_code=1 [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/style/therapy-breathing-psychedelics.html?unlocked_article_code=1] Breathwork studio in Venice Beach, CA: O-P-E-N https://o-p-e-n.com/ [https://o-p-e-n.com/] AI Artwork by Danny Villarreal