This week's episode is a little bit of a plot twist as Katie turns the tables and allows someone else to ask the questions. And who better to do that than Katie's trusted friend, Stephanie Ganser. As we kick off a series about quitting and saying no to resilience simply for the sake of being resilient, Katie felt it was time to share a bit about her story. Listen in as Katie shares her experience with quitting career fields (twice in a decade) and how she's learned the importance of writing her own permission slips.

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This week's Amazon purchases:

Katie's frother

Stephanie's plant food

This episode is an intro to a series of episodes to come in the next few weeks. While listening to another episode recently, they briefly touched on the topic of "saying no to resilience". Essentially they were advocating that sometimes we should tell society no on the expectation they have of us to push through and walk way from something for sake of our own joy or mental health. They only talked about it for a few brief moments before moving on. In that moment, a podcast series idea was born in Katie's head. Listen to this week's quick intro to learn more and then stay tuned in the next few weeks for ways The Rest of Us say no to resilience.

In this week's episode, Katie shares a portion of the interview with Agnes Krahn that was edited out of their interview that released in January (see episode 9) about the concept of the soul child. This conversation with Agnes came to mind during a trip to Charleston, SC this past weekend and Katie felt compelled to share it with the rest of us now. In this episode, Katie and Agnes both share a portion about their soul child and Katie invites each of us to reflect on our own. 

Welcome back for episode two in this friendship series! This week we will hear from our single friends and their answer to the question, "What do you wish your married friends knew?" As you listen, you will hear that some of what is shared is in direct contradiction to what another person shared. As you listen along, feel free to chuckle when it happens, but then ask yourself "Which person would my friend agree with on this one?". After all, the goal of both last week's episode featuring our married friends and this week's episode with our single friends is to encourage the rest of us to have these conversations with our friends out in the open. Instead of keeping those thoughts and feelings inside, consider picking one friend to be honest with this week.

In this week's episode you will hear from some of the listeners of this podcast who are married. They were asked a simple prompt, "What do you wish your single friends knew?". Some of them shared dating advice, others cleared up misperceptions single friends can have of them, and others shared their perspective on how we can show up for one another regardless of marital status. Hopefully their responses will serve as food for thought in the minds of those of us who are single and even prompt conversation in our married friendships. After all, the goal of today's episode is to air out what it is our married friends wish those of us who are single knew and most likely, it's because we have never given them the chance to tell us. 

Single friends...you are up next week! If you haven't yet, take a minute to record what you wish your married friends knew and then upload it here. 

This week's episode is short and sweet. But don't worry, Katie has a plan for those extra minutes in your week! Listen in as Katie shares some context around what to expect in the episodes released over the next two weeks and then asks for your input in this Google form. As we learned in the Holidays with the Rest of Us episode, the more perspectives we hear from, the more impactful the episode will be - Katie hopes to hear from YOU!

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Regarding the concept of Soundtracks mentioned in the podcast, learn more from Jon Acuff:

Soundtracks book

Podcast Interview with Jon & daughters on Broken Soundtracks on Annie F. Downs' That Sounds Fun podcast

Ariana Modi is a wife and daughter, an avid crafter, and a recently certified life coach. Each of those details makes her worthy of a podcast episode to share her story, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. In today's episode, Ariana shares part of her story, including some of the hardships she faces on a daily basis, and the choice she has made to persevere, even when doctors and medical textbooks said she wouldn't. In the sharing of her story, I hope we each find a reason to chase our dreams and choose resilience. 

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In today's episode, Ariana references two tools she has used in her own journey. They are linked for your reference.

Spoon Theory Metaphor for Chronic Illness

The Chronic Illness Workbook