Almost 30

Miki Agrawal, co-founder of THINX, TUSHY, and WILD, is a dynamic entrepreneur, author, and mom inspiring women to challenge the status quo. In this enlightening discussion, she shares what inspired her book 'Disrupt-Her' and her journey of self-discovery. Miki explores the transformative power of conscious relationships and how to break free from societal norms. She emphasizes the importance of adult friendships and the need for open conversations around intimacy in the modern world, pushing listeners to embrace their voices and passions.

Charity Lighten, a chief nutritionist and co-founder of Silver Fern, shares her poignant journey as her husband battles stage four colon cancer. She discusses the importance of embracing love, navigating grief, and finding joy in everyday moments. Charity opens up about balancing family life with normalcy, the significance of hard conversations, and her spiritual journey of listening to divine guidance. Her insights on health, resilience, and personal growth inspire listeners to cherish relationships and prioritize happiness amidst life's challenges.

On today’s podcast episode, Rachel Rosen joins us.  We were blown away by a talk Rachel gave at Spark Portland, which was incredibly informational and inspired action .  Rachel is the founder of SPARK, an interactive and inclusive card game, and she is on a mission to bring more empathy to the world. In her over six years as a coach and facilitator, Rachel has supported communities to come together across racial, gender, sexual identity differences, and cultural differences, facilitating conversations about implicit bias, systemic oppression, and racial equity. We talk about where her desire for her mission came from, her experience with working in and with school systems and why the system isn’t broken, and how SPARK is serving as a fun way to facilitate all types of conversations.   We also talk about… A teaching moment she recently had Her first day teaching + the pivotal moment in her career Creating her card game What unconscious biases are + how to consider them What the card game, Spark, is all about and how to play Facilitating conversations with people of all ages Rachel sharing love for her partner   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more: rachelvrosen.com ; spark4community.com Instagram: @rachelvrosen ; @spark4leadership Facebook: SPARK Leadership The National Equity Project   Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853    March 26th: Rachel Rosen Event   Sponsors: Kopari | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% your first order at koparibeauty.com Spindrift | Head to spindriftfresh.com and use code ALMOST30 for 15% off. “The launch of Spindrift Lime is a direct response to requests from the Spindrift community. Our fans are always submitting new flavor ideas and lime has long been one of the most popular requests.” says Bill Creelman, founder and CEO of Spindrift, “Lime is actually the most popular flavor in the flavored sparkling water category, but Spindrift is the first brand with scale to make it with real squeezed lime juice.” In the excitement to tell the world about the new flavor release, the team noticed that there was a whole basket of fruit emojis – but no lime. Enlisting the help of their community, Spindrift looks to rally those on social media seeking to complete their citrus expression with the tiny lime emoji. To support Spindrift’s commitment to giving back, during the WHY #NOLIMEEMOJI? campaign, Spindrift will donate $1 for every Instagram or Twitter post using #NoLimeEmoji to Whole Kids Foundation (up to $50,000 dollars) through March 31, 2019. Woo More Play | Use code ALMOST30 for 10% off at www.woomoreplay.com   Silver Fern | Use code ALMOST30 for 20% off your first order at silverfernbrand.com Honeybook | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off the first year of Honeybook at honeybook.com The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have Pia Baroncini joining us on the podcast!  Pia is always 100% real, a magnetic quality that attracted us to her immediately!! Pia is the creator of LPA, a clothing brand under the Revolve house label, that carries a long list of celebrity brand fans. We love how real she is in all she does, and the total vibe of honesty and vulnerability that she carries wherever she goes. In our conversation today, Pia shares about the intense year that she went through, from losing her father, to problems that occured at the label, and so much more. Pia also shares the beautiful and heartbreaking experience of traveling to Italy to be beside her mother-in-law who became very ill right before their wedding, losing her father and how she’s been since, and the story of how Pia and her now husband met and dated.   We also talk about… How she feels in her 30’s The way she handles social media Dealing with grief after her father's passing What Pia is drinking every morning + how she takes care of herself Everything that Pia is excited for in 2019 What 2018 taught Pia   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more: lpathelabel.com Instagram: @piaarrobio Gabrielle Reece goop Interview Gwyneth Paltrow on Oprah’s podcast   Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853      Sponsors: Alterra Pure | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% off at alterrapure.com Skinny Dipped | Use code ALMOST30 for 20% off at skinnydipped.com Robinhood | Robinhood is giving listeners a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help build your portfolio! Sign up at almost30.robinhood.com Four Sigmatic | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% off your order at foursigmatic.com/almost30 The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Valentine’s Day, Almost 30 Nation!  It’s just us today! We discuss candidly our personal journeys to self love, and our favorite ways that we are now practicing self love. We hope that this episode serves as a way for you to reflect and explore this topic for yourself as well.   We also talk about… Facebook relationship statuses The boundaries with family and other relationships Being more honest + speaking your truth Honoring where you are as you grow Living intentionally   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Self Love article Almost30podcast.com Instagram: @almost30podcast ; @hundredblog ; @lindseysimcik Facebook: Secret Almost 30 Podcast Group     Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853     Sponsors: Woo More Play | Use code ALMOST30 for 10% off at www.woomoreplay.com   Further Food | Use code ALMOST30 for 30% off your purchase at shop.furtherfood.com/discount/ALMOST30 Thrive Market | Use code ALMOST30 to save 25% off your first order. Visit thrivemarket.com/almost30 peep and purchase our morning ritual essentials! Chosen Foods | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off at chosenfoods.com/almost30 The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back at it with another solo episode from Lindsey! Today, Lindsey is shining a light on something she is working on in real time.   Sparked by her recent energy healing session with Milliana Snow (episode 103), this episode explores “holding patterns”.   Lindsey speaks to where she thinks this patterning started, the areas of her life that tend to get stuck in a loop, and the ways that she’s been able to break free of them. From relationships, career, family to health, and of course, her personal relationship with herself, this conversation covers it all in hopes that you can relate.   Lindsey also talks about… Being born with an intuitive feeling + how that changed Stuck in the side-gig holding pattern The holding pattern of romantic relationships + how therapy is helping break this How the drinking culture is affecting holding patterns Being stuck in the creative holding pattern Ways she recognizes her patterns   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more: lindseysimcik.com Instagram: @lindseysimcik   Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853   Sponsors:   To Be Magnetic | Use code ALMOST30 for 10% off any workshop at www.tobemagnetic.com   Chosen Foods | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off at chosenfoods.com/almost30 Hourglass | Use code ALMOST30 for free shipping on hourglass.com/almost30 when you purchase Caution Mascara Kopari | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% your first order at koparibeauty.com The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Founder and CEO of Bulletproof, Dave Asprey is BACK. If you haven’t listened to his first episode (139) on the podcast, be sure to give it a listen! In today’s conversation with Dave, we talk about his newest book, This book is our go to for a daily dose if inspiration and information to optimize how we feel and how we think. There is a big emphasis on life’sintangibles– whether it’s the words you choose to use and the limitations they create, or the importance of nothingness so your brain can rest and recharge. We also talk about the importance of blue blockers, and Dave’s brand, True Dark, that has a line of the HEV blue light blocking glasses.   We also talk about… Smart drugs Balancing the research and the biohacking What Dave has learned about listening to his body Dave’s toe shoes What you should be doing today to better perform as you age Practicing gratitude and forgiveness   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more: blog.bulletproof.com ; truedark.com Instagram: @dave.asprey Listen: Almost 30 Episode 139 ; Bulletproof Radio podcast Twitter: @bulletproofexec Read: Game Changers ; Head Strong ; Bulletproof: The Cookbook ; The Bulletproof Diet Oura Ring ; Heart Math   Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853 February 9: Unlocking Self-Love     Sponsors: Silver Fern | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% off your first order at silverfernbrand.com Alterra Pure | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% off at alterrapure.com Four Sigmatic | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% off your order at foursigmatic.com/almost30 Hourglass | Use code ALMOST30 for free shipping on hourglass.com/almost30 when you purchase Caution Mascara The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, author, former fashion model, and meditation leader, Light Watkins joins us on the podcast. Light has been active in the wellness space, first as a practitioner, and later as an apprentice to his Vedic Meditation teacher, and finally in 2007 as a meditation teacher himself. He writes articles on meditation and happiness, leads sold-out meditation trainings and retreats, and produces The Shine—a global pop-up inspirational variety show with a mission to inspire. Light also sends out a popular daily inspirational email each morning called The Daily Dose of Inspiration.  Our community is always buzzing about meditation; Light shares with us how he discovered yoga and meditation, the last decision he made for money and what it taught him, and how he distinguishes between roadblocks. We also talk about how Light transformed his health and lifestyle, his mindset around the happiness myth, and what his movement, The Shine, is all about + how it’s sparking random acts of kindness.   We also talk about… Our meditation practices Being a model Listening to the different voices within The sleep deprivation we have as a society The different types of meditations Light’s book, Bliss More, and why he was inspired to write it   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more: lightwatkins.com ; theshinemovement.org Instagram: @lightwatkins Read: Bliss More Listen: Monique Benabou   Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853 February 9: Unlocking Self-Love   Sponsors: Dirty Lemon | Use code ALMOST30 for 1 FREE case in your first order at dirtylemon.com Kalumi | Use code ALMOST30 for 20% on kalumibeauty.com Thrive Market | Use code ALMOST30 to save 25% off your first order. Visit thrivemarket.com/almost30 peep and purchase our morning ritual essentials! Bioclarity | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off first month of a routine at bioclarity.com The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blake Mycoskie, the Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS, joins us today on the podcast. Blake created the One for One® business model. It is a business structure that helps a person in need with every product purchased.  In this interview, Blake brings us back to the birth of TOMs and how the giving model has evolved over time and continues to impact tens of millions of people all over the world every year. He is passionate about the latest initiative that TOMs has chosen to take a stand on: Ending gun violence.  Part of this initiative is to make it easy for any American to go online and send their local representative a postcard asking them to vote for universal background checks for the purchasing of guns.Currently, Blake is on an End Gun Violence Tour and needs our help. Please visit the link below to #endgunviolencetogether.   We also talk about… Where the drive for entrepreneurship came from Where the donated shoes from TOMs go Creating a giving business structure The challenges that Blake has faced in business Having conversations around gun laws and violence Blake’s newest business concept   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more: toms.com Send A Postcard Instagram: @blakemycoskie ; @toms Read: Start Something That Matters   Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853 February 9: Unlocking Self-Love   Sponsors: Spindrift | Head to spindriftfresh.com and use code ALMOST30 for 15% off To Be Magnetic | Use code ALMOST30 for 10% off any workshop at www.tobemagnetic.com   Perfect Keto | For 27% off site wide, visit PerfectKeto.com/almost30 and enter promo code ALMOST30   Kopari | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% your first order at koparibeauty.com Honeybook | Use code ALMOST30 for 50% off the first year of Honeybook at honeybook.com The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Travis Alabanza. Travis is a performer, writer and theatre maker, and has been noted by numerous publications, such as Artsy, ID and Mobo Awards, as one of the most prominent emerging queer artistic voices. Travis is also listed in OUT as an influential queer figure, appeared in campaigns with MAC X ASOS and performed across the country and internationally. In today’s conversation the three of us talk about who Travis was before the world knew Travis, how they got into the performance space, and the vocabulary around nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and trans, and how we can better approach those conversations. We also talk about Travis’ book, Before I Step Outside, and how the idea for the book came about, and what the process was like for them.   We also talk about… Their relationship with their mom Dealing with harassment Being an influential voice Their spiritual practice and connection The first open mic experience that Travis had Burgerz, next project for Travis   Find more to love at almost30podcast.com!   Resources: Learn more: travisalabanza.co.uk Instagram: @travisalabanza Read: Before I Step Outside [You Love Me] yourpodcastpro.com   Upcoming Events: College Tour: Email events@almost30podcast.com    Hotline : 1 (424) 272-1853 February 9: Unlocking Self-Love   Sponsors: Kopari | Use code ALMOST30 for 15% your first order at koparibeauty.com Woo More Play | Use code ALMOST30 for 10% off at www.woomoreplay.com   Hungry Root | Get $25 off two deliveries when you visit hungryroot.com/almost30 Third Love | Head to thirdlove.com/almost30 for 15% off! The Almost 30 Podcast is edited by Podcast Masters This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices