This episode is part pep talk, part permission, and part mindfulness around the nuance and energy of friendship. I'm sharing about loneliness, the benefit to shallow friends, the necessity of friends who make you talk, and the call to look closer at old friendships (and whether or not they're all serving you). Related or mentioned episodes: Ep 2: Are you lonely? Ep 49: Where are your bandaids? Ep 75: Who are you talking about? Full show notes here. SPONSORED BY: BetterHelp. Go to BETTERHELP.com/YOU for 10% off your first month. Sunbasket. Go to SUNBASKET.com/YOU and use promo code YOU for $35 off your first order.   Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Join the 10TTTY Connection Group Sign Up for Episode Emails Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time for another round of Favorite Things! This episode is a list of my current favorite things, and as usual, my picks are all over the place. I’m sharing my new project management app (which has changed my work life), a podcast recommendation, interesting people to follow on Instagram, what I’m getting my husband for his birthday, a new (old) beauty product, and more. I hope this list encourages YOU to share your current favorite things! Full show notes here. This episode is sponsored by BRADDOCK face masks. Go to BRADDOCKUSA.com and use promo code YOU for an additional 25% off your first purchase. This episode is sponsored by NOTECUBE. Go to THENOTECUBE.com and use promo code YOU for 20% off your purchase. Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Sign up for episode emails Join the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Explore the power of mantras and affirmations for self-belief and coping. Hear personal stories and examples of empowering mantras from listeners. Learn how positive self-talk can shape beliefs and counter negativity.

This episode is for anyone interested in raising their hand. Jenna Arnold is an educator, entrepreneur, activist and mother who lives in New York City, and her new book is Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Front Lines.  In this BONUS episode, Jenna and I talk through a few of the reasons white women statistically stay silent about important issues: perfection, performance, and peacekeeping.  I really liked Jenna's book and am excited to share this conversation with you.  Follow Jenna on IG Buy Jenna's book Full show notes here Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Join the 10TTTY Connection Group Sign up for episode emails   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for anyone who needs a good, long, catchup with girlfriends.  It's been awhile since we've had a huge dose of girlfriend chat on the show, but great conversations are the driving force of 10 Things To Tell You. In our long overdue conversation, Meg and I each share five things we need to catch up on. We talk loneliness, Real Housewives, true crime obsessions, the perfect amazon purchase, shoes, and intuition.  Meg Tietz created and hosts the Sorta Awesome podcast (where I'm a former co-host), and she just launched a new daily show called Awesome Today. She also runs the fantastic FB group called Sorta Awesome Hangout. Follow her on IG. Thanks to our sponsors: SKILLSHARE. Go to Skillshare.com/YOU for 2 months free premium membership.  RAYCON. Go to BuyRaycon.com/YOU for 15% off wireless earbuds.  Full show notes for this episode here. Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Join the 10TTTY Connection Group Sign up for episode emails   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode looks at your life like a movie.  What's your BIG story? The main narrative arc to your life? The story that is central to your identity? Anyone who knows you well knows this story. Maybe it happened in childhood. Maybe you're currently in the middle of it. But we all have one, big, main story.  In movies and in literature, they call this the Hero's Journey. It's one of the the most common storytelling devices in art. On this episode, I'm sharing my own BIG story. The thing that I arrange events into Before & After. I can't wait to hear yours. Buy my book! (Out 2/21) This episode is sponsored by BETTERHELP. Go to BetterHelp.com/YOU for 10% off your first month. This episode is sponsored by NATIVE Deodorant. Go too NativeDeo.com/YOU for 20% off your first order. Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Sign Up for episode emails Join the 10TTTY Connection Group on FB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for anyone who could use an honest evaluation in the middle of something. (And maybe a reset.) In the beginning, we make plans. Set goals. Hope for the best. At the end, we evaluate how it went. We make notes for next time. We accept our trophies or don't. But what about in the middle? Don't we need to stop down and ask some hard questions in the MIDDLE? To see if we're on track? To make tweaks? To define what it means to "finish well"?  Here are 10 Questions to ask yourself when you're in the middle of anything. The middle of a project or the middle of a season, all 10 questions apply. For me, I'm answering from the middle of the year. It's hard to believe, but we are still in the very middle of 2020. And I have LOTS of feelings about the first half, and the tweaks I want to make for the months remaining.  Full show notes for this episode here. This episode is sponsored by BETTERHELP. Go to Betterhelp.com/YOU for 10% off your first month of online counseling.  Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Sign Up for episode emails Join the 10TTTY Connection Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for anyone who had felt icky, gleeful, guilty, or triumphant after talking about someone else. Look, we all do it sometimes, right? We gossip or vent or judge someone in conversation with friends. But does talking about someone behind their back REALLY say more about us than it does about them? Let’s discuss. This episode is sponsored by SUNBASKET. Go to Sunbasket.com/YOU for $35 off your first order. Full show notes for this episode here.  Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Join the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group Sign up to receive episode emails   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for anyone who can't get enough of the book talk. We didn't have time for me to share ALL the great books I've been reading on the recent reading episode, so this is a little bonus to tell you all about my current book stack, including a new novel that's a contender for favorite of the year, and a nonfiction book that I am forcing myself to read with an open mind. I'm also sharing a few of the books in my immediate To Read pile, plus the three books that I've preordered for fall release.  Full show notes for this episode can be found here.  Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Sign up to receive episode emails Join the 10TTTY Connection Group   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is a midsummer reading check-in.  It's time for another episode about BOOKS and this time I'm joined by my good friend Sarah Bessey. Sarah is a writer, speaker, and all around woman of wisdom. She is the author of Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts, and the spiritual memoir Miracles and Other Reasonable Things. She is also the cofounder of the Evolving Faith conference.  On this episode, Sarah and I each share the best books we've read lately, including popular novels, Canadian authors that fly under the radar, and social justices resources. The full list of books discussed can be found in the show notes. You can also view them on Bookshop.org. This episode is sponsored by SKILLSHARE. Go to Skillshare.com/YOU for 2 months free premium membership.  Follow Sarah Bessey on Instagram and Facebook Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Sign up for episode emails Join the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices