

Almost 30
Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik
Welcome to Almost 30—a supportive space to fuel your conscious evolution. Join us, best friends Krista Williams + Lindsey Simcik, for heart-centered, hilarious conversations and raw, impactful interviews with brilliant guests. We dive deep into everything from modern spirituality and health + wellness to self-development, dating, and relationships. With every episode, our mission is to empower you, expand what you think is possible, and make you laugh—a lot. We’re honest, open, and above all, human, learning right alongside you.With millions of listeners around the world, Almost 30 has grown into a highly engaged global community. Now, we are also the authors of Almost 30: A Definitive Guide to a Life You Love for the Next Decade and Beyond—the book we wrote to help you navigate life’s biggest transitions.Join us for new episodes every Tuesday + Thursday!
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Oct 25, 2022 • 1h 45min
556. Decoding Your Gene Keys and Playing in a Vibrational Reality with Blu
Journey through the eyes of modern mystic, Blu – motivational speaker, artist, musician, and entrepreneur – as she opens her heart and mind to our community, sharing her personal path from hearing loss to unlocking her soul’s true potential. With the course of her entire life shifted, she was ultimately guided into a deeper understanding of herself. Through the use of techniques, learned over the past decade, she's now devoted to helping others. Harnessing tools like Gene Keys (a treasure map into your DNA) and Florescence (a Modern Mystery School for women), she focuses on beauty, love, unity, and discovering your higher purpose.Her unique energy inspires us to inject spontaneity and joy into the everyday mundane, helping us to unlock our divine potential and embody a life of absolute magic!We also talk about:
Unlocking your divine purpose
Discerning the vibrational energy of words
Tapping into the frequency of magic
Restructuring your DNA
Engineering your internal conversation
The divine responsibility of leaving a legacy
Social media and the rise of disempowering conversations
Being a voice for those without a platform
Action steps to shifting narrative paradigms
Playing in a vibrational reality
Bringing lightness back to the narrative of spirituality
Resources:
Instagram: @bluofearth
YouTube: Blu
Website: blucosmiceagle.com
Course: Florescence Women’s Mystery School
Explore the work of Richard Rudd
Read: The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd
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Oct 20, 2022 • 49min
555. How Quitting Alcohol Changed My Life + Perpetuated Spiritual Growth
In this episode, Krista shares her journey with alcohol consumption, and why she stopped drinking alcohol during her spiritual awakening when she was 26 years old. She also dives into what she noticed about herself, others and the world while she was still drinking versus what she noticed when she adopted a sober-living lifestyle. Krista shares her heart—how she yearned for more than just surface-level conversations, as well as how we should be thoughtful and truthful with ourselves about how we’re spending our time when we want to pursue our dreams and live a life we love. We also talk about:
Awakening moments in our life
Negative perceptions of being wasted
Struggles of anxiety and depression from a young age
Familiarity with suicidal ideatations
The experience of a spiritual awakening
Drinking to fit in
Benefits of not drinking alcohol
Bacteria degeneration of food from alcohol
Resources:
Episode 206: Sober Curious: A New Way to Think About Our Relationship with Alcohol with Ruby Warrington
Episode 521: Rich Roll Makes His Process Public: Purpose, Sobriety and Partnership
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Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 13min
554. Conscious Loving + Operating In Your Zone Of Genius with Gay Hendricks
Today’s guest is renowned psychologist, writer, and teacher Gay Hendricks, PhD, best known for his work in the field of body intelligence, relationships, and personal growth. The curtain is pulled back in this one, revealing what’s keeping you from living and expressing fully, discerning between growth and misalignment in relationships, and finding center within your personal genius zone. Don’t miss this heart-filled conversation, as K+L reveal the profound effect Dr. Hendricks’s work has had in their own lives (during their Saturn return) and how it formed an important foundation for the early years of Almost 30, inspiring us to support people in their own evolution. Start a path toward harmony of mind, body, and spirit today – and share this episode with a friend who’s on the journey with you. We also talk about:
How your upper limit affects your career and relationships
Discover what you love doing and do more of it
Taking a big leap into your genius
Unconscious vs. conscious loving
Roadmap for conscious relationships
Communicating authentically
Taking responsibility in your relationships
Your body is a parfait
Honing your ability to receive
Resources:
Instagram: @hendricks.gay
Facebook: Gay Hendricks
YouTube: hendricksinstitute
Website: hendricks.com
Foundation: foundationforconsciousliving.org
Read: The Big Leap, Five Wishes, Conscious Loving, Conscious Loving Ever After & more
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Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 20min
553. Psychological Astrology: Unlock Your Potential
Today’s guest is the brilliant Jennifer Freed PhD, a renowned psychological astrologer and social and emotional education trainer. Almost 30 Nation is no stranger to astrological concepts, but today’s conversation introduces a new twist – as Jennifer connects her background and experience in clinical psychology to the mystic meaning in our birth charts.Don’t miss an intimate reading of Krista’s seventh house and how K+L share opposing moons that drive their creativity. Share this episode with your astrology-minded friends and family – as we get to an eye-opening 2023 toward the tail end of our conversation with Jennifer (Hint: it gets easier if we make it so!).We also talk about:
What is psychological astrology?
Deep meaning of your seventh house
Chart readings for K+L
Fire, air, water, earth – a map to your soul
2023 astrology report
Self-care rituals related to psychological astrology
Who's in your sacred crew?
Her new book: A Map To Your Soul
Resources:
Instagram: @drjenniferfreed
Facebook: Jennifer Freed Official
Twitter: @drJenfreed
Website: jenniferfreed.com
Book: A Map To Your Soul by Jennifer Freed PHD
Explore the work of Liz Greene, Richard Tarnas, Caroline Casey, and Steven Arroyo
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Oct 11, 2022 • 1h 17min
552. How Heartbreak Opens Our Experience with Danielle LaPorte
An established, respected voice in our space and major personal inspiration for the show, author and speaker, Danielle LaPorte, drops in for this, her second appearance with K+L. Fresh off her latest book release, How To Be Loving, the chat is free-flowing – bursting with love, wisdom, and all of the divine forgiveness in between (catch a thoughtful deep dive on that concept within).Danielle touches on Krista’s recent theme of empathic living, the depth and meaning of feelings and how to best process them, and her spiritual practice of simplicity. As ever, Almost 30 is honored to share the airwaves with a personal hero and so happy to hear that she joins us from a place of strength and clarity as her newest work hits bookshelves. Danielle has so much positive energy to share; you’ll want to soak up as much as you can from this one.We also talk about:
Inspirations for her new book
Feeling great is not the end goal
Asking ourselves a new question
Feeling the feelings
The divine power of forgiveness
Love as a virtue
How heartbreak opens our experience
Unconditioning the mind
Simplifying your life
Resources:
Read: How To Be Loving by Danielle LaPorte
Read other work by Danielle LaPorte
Instagram: @daniellelaporte
Website: daniellelaporte.com
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Oct 4, 2022 • 1h 6min
551. Rupi Kaur Reflects on Being Almost 30: Boundaries, Friendships and Grief
Bestselling poet and author, Rupi Kaur, joins Krista for an intimate conversation on where she’s at in her life – mentally, emotionally, physically – as she nears her thirtieth birthday. In this raw, honest conversation, Rupi opens up about the deep grief she feels for herself, the mounting pressure that her success has brought into her life, and the realization that she needed time away from the noise.She also takes us behind the scenes on the process of writing her latest, Healing Through Writing, a book of prompts and writing exercises that began as a personal practice to stimulate creative ideas. On that subject, Rupi adds that each and every person is innately creative – and invites us to embrace and cherish that energy in whatever way we can.We also talk about:
Feeling it all + carrying the weight
Checking in before turning 30
Grieving the past
Leaving the chase behind
Lessons from her parents
Being bad at boundaries
Nurturing friendships
Healing Through Writing
Resources:
Instagram: @rupikaur_
Get tickets to Rupi’s world tour: rupikaur.com
Read: Healing Through Words by Rupi Kaur
Read: Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Read: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Watch: Rupi Kaur Live on Amazon Prime Video
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Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 6min
550. Just Married: Lindsey’s Wedding Recap
It happened so fast that maybe you missed it – but, with only ten weeks of inspired and aligned planning, Lindsey and Sean celebrated their marriage a few weeks back. Hosting a non-traditional two-day event, they made their own dreams come true with friends and family in New York City and set the standard for their life together from this point on.Lindsey drops in for this intimate solo episode to talk about the important energetically aligned decisions that went into her wedding weekend, how she and Sean built an even deeper trust in one another by splitting up planning duties, and how – even with only two weeks to find hair and makeup artists – she never spiraled under the pressure of it all.We also talk about:
Setting very clear intentions
Changing your perspective on spending
Splitting up planning in a real way
To botox or not to botox?
Energetic alignment with vendors
Avoiding negative spirals
Detailed visualization practice
Making the day our own
Wedding weekend details
Resources:
Wedding look hair by @miiki.hair
Wedding look makeup by @downtownpepper
Wedding photography by Natalia Wajda
Wedding videography by @mariah.films and @gio.visuals
Love Fest venue Legacy Records
High Priestess of Brooklyn
The Analog Girl Podcast
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Sep 27, 2022 • 1h 16min
549. Emotional Maturity and its Importance in Relationships
Prolific author and poet, Diego Perez, aka Yung Pueblo, sits with Lindsey for this special episode on the powers of meditation, living in partnership, the creative process, and so much more. We also talk about Lighter, his new book, inspired by the feeling of shedding weight and past traumas he’s experienced through his advanced meditation practice.Diego shares some great wedding tips and explains how he and his wife go ten, sometimes forty-five, days at a time without seeing or speaking to one another at meditation retreats – and how finding the practice has changed his worldview forever. It might sound cliche, but this conversation will leave you feeling lighter. Diego’s words and deep wisdom, especially outside of the questionable confines of social media (which we also unpack), are powerful and resonant. We also talk about:
Emotional immaturity vs. maturity
Preventative communication
Meditation practice
Finding your intuition
Living in partnership
Diego’s creative process
Who is Yung Pueblo?
Relationship with the past
Resources:
Pre-order Lighter by Yung Pueblo
Instagram: @yung_pueblo
Wisdom Venture Funds
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Sep 20, 2022 • 1h 2min
548. How an Empath Can Take Their Power Back and Fulfill Their Purpose
In today’s solo episode, Krista drops in for part two of her deep dive on empathy, codependency, and enmeshment to break down their similarities and importance differences. Who are you, really? And why is it so hard for highly sensitive people to untangle the answer from everything around them?Your empathic gifts don’t need to be a weight on your life, or a curtain blocking the light from coming through. If understood and acknowledged from a place of personal love and acceptance, they can be your superpower. We all have some of it within us; Krista gets extra personal in this one to illustrate that very point. We also talk about:
Powers of an empath
Intro to codependency
Krista’s childhood denying her gifts
Loyalty vs. low self-worth
Energy matching for safety
Empathy as performance
Validate me, internet
Speaking + living in truth
Attachment styles
Resources:
How to Thrive as an Empath: Understand The Shadow Side and Your Gifts #540
Healing The Mother Wound With Krista Williams #407
Krista Williams on Her Silent Retreat Experience #256
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Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 10min
547. The Betches Empire: Realness on Biz + Life from Online OGs
Jordana Abraham is one-third of the founding team behind OG online humor and content brand, Betches. K + L visit their New York headquarters for this one, as Jordana walks through how a parody blog they started in college has grown into a full-blown media empire.We talk about team dynamics and the delicate dance of dividing up business responsibilities amongst friends, and unpack the team’s shift into podcasting as a means to have deeper conversations about the world around them.Jordana is a breath of fresh air, a reminder that, considering the many stressors around us at any given time – we shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously. We are here to laugh and to love abundantly. And sometimes that means memes.We also talk about:
Balancing the Betches empire
Team dynamics working in a trio
The beginning of Betches
What makes a good podcast?
The meaning of a meme
Launching a product
Taking constructive feedback
The worst happy birthday text
Resources:
Instagram: @jordanaabraham
Oversharing Podcast: betches.com/podcast-channel/oversharing
Betches: @betches
Faux Pas: @drinkfauxpas
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