HeyJaredStart with Small Steps
Start With Small Steps is a practical, thoughtful podcast about making meaningful progress in everyday life—without overwhelm.
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The Calibration Friend: Who Do You Trust to Tell You the Truth? (opens the original)
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# The Calibration Friend Do you ever feel like you had to figure out everything alone? I did, and I built this whole podcast out of that feeling, one library book at a time. This episode kicks off a new series about the people who quietly filled in the gaps I didn't even know I had. **Where This Podcast Actually Started** Long before there was a show, there was a girl in a library trying to catch up on things everyone else seemed to already know. That habit of reading her way out of a gap, start
The Shame Loop That Keeps You From Asking Questions (opens the original)
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Last episode we named the gaps, the things nobody ever taught you. This one is about what happens after you notice a gap: the shame loop that convinces you to stop asking, and why curiosity, not confidence, is actually the way out. IT STARTS WITH EMBARRASSMENT, NOT A FLAW Not knowing something everyone else seems to know isn't a character defect. It's just a gap. But the moment of realizing it usually comes with a flash of embarrassment that sets the whole loop in motion. THE FOUR-STEP SHAME LOO
Gaps We Grew Up With: The Things Nobody Taught You (opens the original)
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I still remember not knowing how often you were supposed to wash your gym clothes, and genuinely believing I was the only kid in the building who didn't know. That gap, and a dozen others like it, is what kicks off this new series. The Gym Clothes Problem Some gaps in knowledge aren't about intelligence or effort. They're about information nobody ever handed you, and they tend to surface at the worst possible moment in front of the worst possible audience. More Gaps Than You'd Expect From restau
297 - Tools vs. Transformation: The Test I Run on Everything I Use (opens the original)
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I had this fantasy as a kid of a machine you could strap your arms into that would just do your bicep curls for you while you took a nap and still got fit. Obviously that’s ridiculous. But I realized recently I’d been making the exact same mistake in other parts of my life, just less obviously. This episode is about the difference between a tool that clears space for the work you want to do, and a tool that quietly convinces you the work already happened. Two kinds of doing. There’s logistics wo
296 - Nobody Is Guarding Your Time But You (opens the original)
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Who’s actually guarding your calendar right now — not who you wish would, but who actually does? In this episode of Start with Small Steps, I break down why nobody else is incentivized to protect your time, your family time, or your own personal goals, and what it actually looks like to hold that line yourself. This isn’t a boundaries pep talk. It’s a practical look at the specific fronts where your time gets taken without you noticing: work creeping into evenings, guilt-driven yeses, relationsh
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