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Welcome to Here’s the Thing, a weekly podcast for young adults who want to make their “Decade of Decision” a little more dazzling and a little less disastrous.
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Ep.86 Building Your Adult Toolkit: The Decisions Episode (opens the original)
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What if the hardest part of making a decision isn’t choosing—it’s wondering whether you chose wrong? In this episode of Building Your Adult Toolkit , we look at the full lifecycle of a decision: preparing, choosing, living with your choice, learning from it, and deciding what comes next. We’ll talk about loss aversion, anticipated regret, and why our brains are so good at imagining everything that could go wrong while giving far less attention to what we might gain. We’ll also use the Circumstan
Ep.85 Building Your Adult Toolkit: The Job Episode (opens the original)
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How do you become good at your job when nobody is teaching you what you need to know? And how are you supposed to build a life outside of work when your job takes up so much of your time and energy? In Episode 2 of Building Your Adult Toolkit, we're adding two practical tools to help you navigate both sides of working life. First, you'll learn how to direct your own mentorship, ask better questions, and build confidence and competence at work—even when you're afraid of making mistakes. Then, we'
Ep.84 Building Your Adult Tool Kit: The Money Episode (opens the original)
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You move into your first place feeling pretty capable—and then you realize the rent is late, your account is overdrawn, or three automatic payments hit at once. Suddenly, instead of feeling like an adult who’s figuring things out, you’re thinking, “I should have known.” In the first episode of the Building Your Adult Support Kit series, we’re talking about money—but not in the way you might expect. This isn’t a lesson on how to make a budget. It’s about what happens in your brain when you make a
Ep.83 How to Travel Well (opens the original)
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What does it actually mean to travel well? In this episode, we’re talking about the difference between a vacation and a trip, why getting outside your usual bubble is so valuable, and why you definitely don’t need a passport—or a huge budget—to start exploring. We’ll also talk about travel snobbery, why famous tourist attractions are often famous for a reason, and how to plan a trip around what you genuinely enjoy instead of somebody else’s list of things you’re supposed to do. Whether your next
Ep.82 Hope (opens the original)
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What does it actually mean to have hope—and what do you do when you’re having a hard time finding it? In this episode, we explore the surprising psychology of hope through two powerful real-life stories: a dramatic rescue at sea and a refugee family building a life they never expected to live. Then we turn to psychologist Charles Snyder’s Hope Theory and the three ingredients that help hope become more than wishful thinking: having something worth moving toward, finding possible pathways to get
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