HeyJaredOnly Gets Better
Welcome to the place where midlife is just the beginning. We’re two women with a wildly optimistic view of getting older, here to laugh loudly, dig deep, and hold space for the messy, magnificent reality of midlife.
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Remote Work, Real Exhaustion. (opens the original)
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This week on Only Gets Better , we’re talking flexible work - you know, that magical modern invention that was supposed to give us freedom but somehow just gave us more tabs open in our brain. Flexibility is great until it quietly morphs into being permanently available , juggling paid work, unpaid work, invisible work, and the work we forgot was work. We get into why setting boundaries at work is hard, setting boundaries at home is harder, and how over functioning eventually turns into not func
Adulting: How Did We Become the Grown-Ups?? (opens the original)
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How did we get here? When did we become the grown-ups? Adulthood is wild: one minute we're binge-watching in our trackies without so much as a plant to water, the next we're carrying the world on our shoulders. Meanwhile, our parents are exhausted by a trip to the pharmacy. We get into a deeper discussion about the confidence that comes with midlife and how it requires going through some life-altering hardship and getting serious about your values. We have a great laugh and accidentally stumble
Midlife Reinvention: Are You Feeling the Itch? (opens the original)
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Episode 15: If you have ever thought to yourself, "I just want to move to a country I've never heard of, renovate a castle, start an animal sanctuary, and grow my own food", this episode is for you! This week we're talking about midlife reinvention, and the itch so many women feel in their 40s to do something...different. We get into the inspiring science behind Heather's upcoming book about the evolutionary purpose of menopause and how there might be some science behind the need to reinvent our
Why Don't I Get To Be the Fun Parent? (opens the original)
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Episode 14: This week Selin got a bit of a gut-punch. She's not the fun parent. And it hurts. This week we unpack how we became default parents, even though neither of us really planned that. We talk about resentment, expectations, invisible labour, and how even in a solid, loving marriage, somehow you can end up with one parent overwhelmed while the other one is go-karting. Do we solve the problem? Not really. Do we laugh a lot and make each other feel less alone? Absolutely. If you've ever mut
The Olympic Sport of Not Asking for Help (opens the original)
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Episode 13: Why is it so easy to help everyone else, but so hard to ask for help ourselves? Somewhere along the way, many of us became fiercely independent, highly capable, and completely unable to say, "Actually, I could use a hand." In this episode, we're talking about why asking for what you need is a life skill most of us never learned. If you're constantly worried about inconveniencing people, chances are you're not taking advantage of anyone. And good things tend to happen when you do ask
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