Last week we looked back to the movies and female characters who helped shaped the way we see the world women inhabit…and could inhabit. It was a great reminder that pop culture can play a significant role in influencing people’s lives. So is i

We See Ourselves

May 2nd, 2021 1h 2m

Awards season is officially behind us, and while both of us did a lousy job of keeping up this past year, we couldn’t help but stop and ponder the role movies have played in each of our lives. During our formative years we were lucky to see wom

Your Body is Your Brain (Part Two)

Apr 24th, 2021 57m 2s

In part one, we covered the mind-body connection through lots of angles with the help of Dr. Dan Ratner, a psychologist who specializes in the alleviation of physical symptoms deriving from, or exacerbated by, psychological causes. In part tw

Your Body is Your Brain (Part One)

Apr 18th, 2021 54m 24s

For the first episode of our “Not All in Your Head” series, we each shared the many ways our anxiety, trauma and physical health keeps crashing into the other. While our individual sources of emotional pain may be different, we’ve both experien

Voices Carry

Apr 11th, 2021 1h 10m

We’ve all had this experience - sitting in a room, listening to another person share their personal story and being emotionally moved. Words matter. They can create deep empathy, inspire action, or speak directly to a part of us that has been h

Thank You For the Music

Mar 26th, 2021 1h 2m

A wise philosopher (okay Madonna) once sang it best…music makes the people come together. Inspired by a recent social media questionnaire, Dara’s love of list making and a desire to create a series of superlative episodes, in this episode we sp

Not All in Your Head

Mar 17th, 2021 1h 8m

It’s no secret (or surprise) that a global pandemic would create anxiety - we’re only human after all. But the ways in which people have been experiencing that anxiety varies a great deal, including the unexpected anxiety setting in as people c

Women Be Shopping

Mar 5th, 2021 54m 50s

A scavenger hunt. An escape from real life. Me time. A means of exploration. Pure convenience and simplicity. Online shopping is a wormhole unto itself for so many reasons. In this episode we examine what shopping, in general, has meant to us h

Who are You Wearing?

Feb 25th, 2021 1h 18m

We don’t know about y’all, but we needed something light and fun this week. A palate cleanser if you will - after all, stopping to appreciate something just for pleasure is definitely a Not Small Thing. It’s Golden Globes week, and while this y

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Feb 10th, 2021 56m 47s

Here’s a Not Small Thing…knowing what we value, and living our lives in alignment with those values. This is easier said than done because that can mean seeing that we need to do something differently. As humans we like patterns and we like fit

Are We...Anti-Social?

Feb 2nd, 2021 52m 2s

In this episode, we talk about the Not Small Things we have learned from spending so much of the last 5 years on Facebook. We’ve both watched “The Social Dilemma” and know the problems with Facebook are legion, but there’s been a lot of good th

We Begin

Jan 31st, 2021 1h 4m

For our first episode we talk about the not small things about this historic moment in time: things that were quietly groundbreaking about the way Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ran for office, things that have stuck with us from the Inauguration

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