PODCAST · religion
let’s NOT talk about dating
by Lydia & Bri
POV: you’re thirteen years old at your first retreat. This beautiful woman with perfect hair comes on stage. She shows you a picture of her gorgeous husband, and she starts telling you all about her story, their love story. You try to relate, but you have frizzy hair. You don’t look like her. You’ve never been asked out because you’re thirteen. Then you heard about being a woman of God, kind of. Fast forward, and all of a sudden you’re 25 and single and not sure what to do with that as a woman following Christ. Who am I? What am I supposed to be? Yea girl, us too. Let’s talk.
Episodes
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Our Parish Experience (basically a love letter to Saint Ambrose)
Let's talk about our experience at our Parish! We promise we know our Parishes are not perfect, and the Holy Spirit is always looking to bring about better community. But we want to share the positive things, the things that have changed our lives for the better, to communicate just how important...
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What does the Church say Parish Life Should Be?
Let's talk about Parish Life, especially in your 20s. Let's talk about what Parishes should be, and what they could be if we all invested well. Let's talk about Canon Law and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (because Bri is a little bit of a nerd). We are going to talk a bit about what the...
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Community Life Leads to Spiritual Growth
Let's talk about community life and its impact on our spiritual journey. This week, we reflect on Acts 2 and the two parts of community life that are essential: prayer and food -- because no good party is complete without either. We talk about the power of communal prayer and shared meals in...
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Embracing Life Transitions
Let's talk about life transitions and how they remind us of God's plan for our lives. Whether its transitioning to married life, leaving your hometown, or from being a child to entering adulthood and all of the things that come with that, life is full of changes that can be both exciting and...
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New Year's Resolutions: Happy Quitting Week!
This week, Lydia vents her hatred of New Years' Resolutions. Just kidding, kind of. We talk about the importance of self-examination, and the ways we can and should make decisions to improve our lives, but maybe how New Years' Resolutions are not the most effective way to do that. You'll also…
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The Gravity of Mary's Fiat and Life of Sacrifice
Let's delve into the profound and powerful moment of Mary's "yes" to God. In this episode, we discuss how her unwavering faith and complete surrender to God's will can serve as an example for us as we learn how to imperfectly surrender to the Lord in every little way. Through the lens of Mary's...
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Fostering Family Culture and Rituals
In part 2 of discussing family culture, we dive into the topic of developing rituals, traditions, and routines. We explore how family dynamics and values play a crucial role in shaping our identities as women and as Catholics. Growing up, many of us have been raised with certain traditions and...
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Culture, Rituals, and Traditions (Part 1!)
What is culture? What do the things we do day in and day out say about our values, our life? In this episode, we talk about “family culture.” How do we establish it, how has it impacted us, and why is it important to intentionally establish? What does it look like to be intentional about values,...
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Liturgical Living: Finding Faith and Rhythms in Everyday Life
As Catholics, we are blessed with a rich tradition and a calendar filled with special feast days and seasons. But how can we incorporate these celebrations into our modern routines? How do we find balance between work, family, and spiritual practices? We'll discuss practical tips for embracing…
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Promo: LNTAD 2.0!!
We’re back!!!! After a self imposed sabbatical, we are back and ready to talk about anything other than dating. If this is your first time here, this is our formal invitation to take a seat and join our conversation as we talk all things Catholicism, femininity and pop culture. Oh, and of course,...
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We aren’t perfect. But we are called to bear fruit
let’s talk about MERCY. let’s talk about how God calls us anyway, even though we’re broken, our lives are messy, and we don’t know what we’re doing. let’s talk about the way the Lord doesn’t need to use us, but He wants to, even in our mess. We don’t have to be perfect and then say yes, we just...
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Fruitfulness in emptiness feat. Tangents about how our lives are not our own
let’s talk more about fruitfulness. let’s talk about the fruit we don’t get to see, and that seeing the fruit of our labor is a gift, not a right. let’s talk about the fruitfulness of emptiness, and let’s talk about spending ourselves. all of this whole getting to know my good friend and amazing...
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Glory Stories with Bri and Lydia
let’s talk about a few of the thousands of ways women have born fruit in our lives. let’s talk about how the Holy Spirit has used us to bear fruit in the lives of others. let’s talk about what it means to be connected to the vine, and how we have to fully depend on the Lord in order to bear any...
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Be Fruitful and Multiply
let’s talk about this command the God gives. let’s talk about what fruitfulness is, what it looks like, and how to do it. let’s talk about ways we “bear fruit” without actually “bearing fruit,” ya know?
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We’re Back!!
let’s talk about what the heck we’ve been up to for the last month, what we are doing this summer, and all around just catch up on life! we’re SO excited to be back, we’re going to introduce season 3 next week, so let us know what you want to hear! we missed you TONS!
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intentionality feat. tv shows, movies nights, champagne, and Lydia agreeing with herself
let’s talk about intentionality. this word gets thrown around A TON, so let’s talk about what it actually is, what it isn’t (or at least what it doesn’t have to be all the time) and where vulnerability fits into all of it. let’s talk about pushing our friendships to the good.
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you are what you consume. feat. Lydia and Bri talking themselves out of tv and music
let’s talk about what we watch and what we listen to. let’s talk about how it actually impacts us in a real and lasting way. let’s talk about how if we want to be holy, we have to be radically different when it comes to entertainment.
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how gloriously different are the saints feat. our favorite Saints and crazy stories
let’s talk about the Saints. let’s talk about how holiness is not a personality trait, and the Lord can’t use us to build His Kingdom if we are all the same. let’s talk about living radically in the ordinary circumstances of our lives.
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living your best life. now. (also SO SORRY we talk about dating)
let’s talk about your life starting now. let’s talk about how you are your own person, and sometimes the world we live in, especially within Christian circles, tells us your life is only half full before you are living your primary vocation. we have to live an abundant life right now, no matter…
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best advice we’ve gotten! saying yes, doing things alone, choosing joy, etc.
let’s talk about choosing joy. let’s talk about living a full live for your whole life, even pre your primary vocation. let’s talk about the importance of brotherhood of the men in our life. let’s talk about desert days and letting God be God. honestly, let’s talk about all the things today!
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you can take a nap! we were created for leisure. also waffles>pancakes
let’s talk about REST. and not Netflix binge or even spa day rest, but the kind of rest that re-creates us. let’s talk about how we were created for leisure, not for work, and how our world flips that. let’s talk about how productivity does not define our success, and how we are created for…
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your 20s are all about transitions
let’s talk about change. let’s talk about transitions in life. let’s talk about how to talk about it all. meet our friend Meredith who has navigated so many transitions in her early 20s with so much grace, and hear her story of the last five years. she’s a gem, we love her and her wisdom and we...
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missionary zeal: defending and explaining (with all the love!) the life we live
let’s talk about those times when people in our lives don’t understand what we do or what we believe. let’s talk about how it feels to not be supported, and how to choose to love people anyway. let’s talk about how to maintain that missionary zeal in a world that rejects the radical-ness the…
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modesty! everyone’s favorite topic *hint of sarcasm* also Lydia meets boys at lemonade stands?
let’s talk about virtue. let’s talk about how we live out the virtue of modesty. let’s talk about the way the world (and the Christian world) limits modesty to the way we dress. let’s talk about how it is so much more than a dress code, and why its important.
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Loving people you disagree with and disagreeing with people you love feat. Dobbs vs. Jackson
let’s talk about HARD THINGS. let’s talk about how we empower women. let’s talk about abortion. let’s talk about creating a culture of life and how to love people disagree with and how to disagree with people we love.
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Becoming saints, conquering grief, and our mental health
let’s talk about mental health. let’s talk about the balance between Jesus working through prayer and the Sacraments, and Jesus working through medicine. let’s talk about not being afraid to get help, search for answers, and become the saints we are created to be. featuring the iconic Megan Davis!
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Season 2 Premiere feat. *let’s not talk about dating* life updates, processing emotions, and Red
you realized [we’re] harder to forget, than [we] are to leave; if you’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time; then we just like hanging out with you all the time. welcome back to let’s not talk about dating, where we are just dancing like we’re made of starlight. (If this isn’t...
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Your relationship with yourself feat. tangents on our enneagram 3-ness and the word fiesty
Let’s talk about loving and taking care of ourselves. Let’s talk about how I am a body and a soul, with dignity and worth. Let’s talk about how God desires for me to REST. Productivity is good, but not what we are created for.
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embracing the awkward: talking platonic friendships with our friends.
okay, so honestly we do talk a little about dating today, cause when you talk about how to have good friendships with men it tends to come up as a side effect. BUT still come join us and our friends John, Cole and David and let’s talk about the importance of, and how to have, good, holy, healthy,...
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Sister, sister! feat. All things female friendships, special guests, lots of laughs
let’s talk about SISTERHOOD. let’s talk about female friendships, girls supporting girls, and choosing each other. let’s talk about humility and vulnerability. We’re also just so excited to introduce two of the lovely women we get to call our friends and sisters!
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The Holy Spirit feat. tangents, hard left turns, and being fully alive
let’s talk about the Holy Spirit. Let’s talk about how we understand Him, talk to Him, and have a relationship with Him. Let’s talk about why that’s important, why we need it, and how we become holier. Let’s talk about power, peace, and sanctity. Let’s also talk about running, being women who fix...
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God the Son: The One That Pursues
Let’s talk about our relationship with Jesus. Let’s talk about how Jesus pursues us, and how He redeems. Let’s talk about the important reality of God becoming man. Let’s talk about our need for salvation and our need for a best friend. Let’s also talk about Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter and...
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“Knowing the Father” feat. Abba (God not the band) and intimacy with God
Let’s talk about being strong, independent women who are also weak and dependent. Let’s talk about how we can be authentic with God the Father, how He loves us, chooses us, and how He is real. How we can be both completely dependent on Him while still being chosen, worthy and successful. Quote of...
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“Every woman is a mother” feat. Funny middle school stories and profound Edith Stein quotes
Let’s talk about our identity as mother. Let’s talk about spiritual motherhood and women who are a safe place for us to unfurl, to sometimes unravel, and to have a shelter from the storm. Secretly, we are really proud of this episode. Let us know what you think!
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“Where you go I will go” feat. Frozen 2, Kicking Satan Out the Door, and Our identity as sister
Let’s talk about why we can walk into a room with confidence in front of the people there, how we can put our identity as daughter to work by recognizing the dignity of daughter and son in the people around us, and encouraging them in who they are, and choosing vulnerability and humility to allow...
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“Oh to be chosen” feat. Gossip Girl, the Prodigal Son, and Radical Security
Let’s talk about the first of three key identities of a woman: daughter. We are created as daughters and can live in radical security because of our identity as daughter of the Heavenly Father. We each share times when we have learned this, whether its through experience of fatherhood on earth,...
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Bri & Lydia’s List of Things Femininity Doesn’t Have To Be
We promise we aren’t always this negative. BUT we are starting that way. In our first full episode (eeek!) we decided to spend time talking about some of the lies that both the secular world and Christian circles tell us that women should be that ultimately don’t encapsulate the truth of…
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Teaser
Who are we? Well, I’m going to let Lydia tell you. Take ten minutes to find out, and if we’re too much for you, that’s okay, but we want to know you, too! If you are a woman in your 20s, pretending you’ve got this whole thing figured out (or, you know, not even pretending anymore), join us. Cause...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
POV: you’re thirteen years old at your first retreat. This beautiful woman with perfect hair comes on stage. She shows you a picture of her gorgeous husband, and she starts telling you all about her story, their love story. You try to relate, but you have frizzy hair. You don’t look like her. You’ve never been asked out because you’re thirteen. Then you heard about being a woman of God, kind of. Fast forward, and all of a sudden you’re 25 and single and not sure what to do with that as a woman following Christ. Who am I? What am I supposed to be? Yea girl, us too. Let’s talk.
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POV: you’re thirteen years old at your first retreat. This beautiful woman with perfect hair comes on stage. She shows you a picture of her gorgeous husband, and she starts telling you all about her story, their love story. You try to relate, but you have frizzy hair. You don’t look like her....
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