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nah fam
by Jim
An audio diary.Disclaimer: This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Any views or opinions expressed herein are ours and ours alone and are not intended to provide personal or professional advice or guidance. We rarely edit this podcast and do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. In fact, we can almost guarantee mistakes and misstatements will be made and assume no liability for any errors or omissions.
Episodes
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Episode 127 - Summer 2026 UK and Republic of Ireland Holiday Explained.
In this episode Jim sits down with his wife to relive and process their big family vacation of summer 2026. They visited London, Edinburg, Galway, Dingle, and Dublin. They road in planes and trains and automobiles, indulged in the pub life, saw some must see tourist attractions, had a lot of…
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Episode 126 - Is Jim a Slopper? Slopper Diaries. Brush with Celebrity. Turks and Caicos.
After two months away from the mic, Jim had an itch to sit down and catch up on life. Jim has been increasingly relying on 'chat' in all the areas of life that he finds of utmost importance and Jim's wife is curiously assessing this relationship. Spoiler; some patterns are emerging and we are not...
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Episode 125 - If Jim could risk seeming 'weird' he'd be more himself. And what is his deal with chaos and scrabble pieces? It's weird. 47 and still hitting snooze on the call to individuation.
If only Jim could be like Matt Damon, because then he could be himself. Unpacking Jim's fear of the scrabble pieces. It's weird. Mamas and toddlers and being 47...the throughline is striking. Is all the biohacking showing us something about mortality avoidance? Mama birds' regurgitation feeding...
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Episode 124 - Book Club. Knives Out (Movies) Debriefing. "Ok, Internet." ChaptGPT and Jim Get in a Fight.
This is a episode of spoilers. Jim and his wife read "The History of Sound" by Ben Shattuck, and they discuss their reactions and reflections on the book, so be prepared for spoilers. They also discuss the most recent Knives Out movie, "Wake Up Dead Man" and that discussion is also full of...
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Episode 123 - Take Me to Church, Family of Origin and The [Post] Heroic Journey of Frodo Baggins.
Welcome to Nah Fam's last episode of 2025. It's a good one. Jim and his wife explore what has been meaningful and personal to them throughout the year... and what can't be said. They find themselves in a time of transition, 'crisis', reflection, grief and of course...growth. ChatGPT compared…
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Episode 122 - Concerts, concerts, concerts (and a marathon, and a trip to Mexico)
Join us as we discuss our various concert experiences over the last several months with many of our favorite artists including but not limited to; Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, DMB, The Lumineers, Mt Joy, and MUMFORD AND SONS! We also recap Jim's recent marathon completion and a brief but beautiful...
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Episode 121 - Summer 2025 Winds Down
Summer is winding down and we find ourselves in that in between space-caught between the freedom of summer and the structure of autumn. In today's episode, Jim sits down with his wife to catch up on life. He's been pushing through the season's most intense heat in preparation for his upcoming...
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Episode 120 - Turn The Page
Jim and his wife sit down to record for the first time in months to talk about the recent passing of their dog, marathon training, Aruba, family, their relationship and acceptance of reality. Enjoy!
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Episode 119 - January 2025 !
This episode was recorded two weeks ago. Jim and his wife talk 10 year wedding anniversary, new hobbies, that podcast called The Telepathy Tapes, whether or not Jim is brained washed, his wife's ever evolving journey inward, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni ... and so much more.
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Episode 118 - Home For the Holidays. Water[cup] Gate. In the [Not] News. Past Lives (the movie) Spoilers and This Life.
Welcome to the end of the year. In today's episode Jim and his wife talk about what has been going on for them in recent days as well as the thing about a nightstand, a full cup of water and an iPad...The kids have been home for the holidays! Drones and Hollywood and local comedy club shows. Jim...
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Episode 117 - The Peloton and Seeking Nirvana. More DMB. Psyche Diaries. Flat Tires.
Hello and we are back coming at you with so many updates as life keeps on keeping on. Jim and his wife have been learning so many interesting things about themselves and most of this episode is a conversation about those things... Enjoy.
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Episode 116 - Hometown Highschool Football v. NFL. Jim's Wife on Psychobabble and Feeling Exposed. The Fam.
Jim and his wife are talking about the current headlines in their little world today. Enjoy.
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Episode 115 - Jim's Rockstar Crush. News. The Fam. Rebirth. Parenting One.
Hello! Today we are reporting on Jim's "obsession" with Noah Kahan and the news that most captures his attention... and why? We connect over our reflections on our ever-evolving family. Jim's wife is realizing that she is experiencing a rebirth, in a way.... We dialogue some about psychoanalysis...
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Episode 114 -Eleven Years. Our Most Recent Realizations. Leaning In or Letting Go? People Pleasing Parent or Possessive Parent? Repeating History. The Royal Road to Awareness.
Eleven years together. Our most recent realizations about ourselves come from the kids moving out. Leaning in or letting go with what we fear? People pleasing parent or possessive parent? You're probably leaning in the direction of one or the other. Repeating history, the idea of…
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Episode 113 - Sorry For The Delay. All The Pretty Girls. Rock Bottom? The Eras. Freedom Can Be Terrifying.
This episode is far and wide reaching in topics... Jim's puzzling communication, aging parents, aging kids, weird times. The move to a new home that still does not feel like home even though you know eventually it will era. A reflection on parenting and owning controlling behavior blind spots and...
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Episode 112 - Move In Day. Adjusting to a New Normal
It has been a bit chaotic over here for the past couple of weeks. We sat down a few days ago to record but we were interrupted in the middle of our conversation. We had planned to return to recording but then we didn't. However, we wanted to share what we have of a discussion over our experience...
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Episode 111 - Childish Gambino. Teatime. St Elmo's Fire. Step Family Epiphany. Nathan's Hot Dad. In With the New [Clothes].
The Childish Gambino concert was out of this word. We watched St Elmo's fire the other day and by the end we were hysterically crying. Literally. Jim's wife had a timely, and moving epiphany this week as it relates to our family, and it left her full of gratitude, and love. Nathan has a very...
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Episode 110 - The West Side [of MI]. Trivial Things and Not So Trivial Things. Midlife Boredom /"Generativity v Stagnation".
A recap of our travels to the unsalted coast last week. How we did with changing a tire on the expressway. What to do about lettuce in toilets. We like social districts and quaint Lake MI towns and when they’re together, its the bee's knees. Can we please just have one episode where we don't talk...
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Episode 109 - The 1980's! The Movies, The Food, The Activities, The Jobs.
This week our nostalgia tour took us to the meeting place of our adult self with our child self and it was weird. Today we are taking another trip down memory lane and revisiting some of our childhood favorites as some long-lost core memories resurface. Our memories include but are not limited…
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Episode 108 - Biking. Who/How We Hope To Be When We Die. Eastern v. Western Thought. Enemies. Peace v. Truth
We've been biking a lot lately. Jim is asked how he'd like to be at the end of his life. Dissecting the intersection (is there one?) of eastern and western thought...integration and transcendence. What are the motivations and actions of our respective enemies? On the flip side, what is it about…
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Episode 107 - The U.P. Eh. Career Moves. Family Transition Status Report. No Politics Until We Do.
Jim and his wife just returned from a trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In true UP fashion, it was a trip full of picturesque landscapes, okay food and a couple of magical experiences. We are getting ever so closer to losing 75% of our children to 'adulthood.' We are not going to talk about...
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Episode 106 - Romantic Era. Reel Life and Dogs. Jim and Awesome. "Still Face".
Jim is recapping his wife's romantic gestures as of late, and the current canine scene in the house. Then, Jim talks about his relationship with the word 'awesome' and the underlying force which drives its overuse in his vocabulary. Jim tells us what his coach says about his wife and finally,...
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Episode 105 - Jim's Big Ideas
Jim's big ideas about big ideas. The meme that broke Jim.
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Episode 104 - New Office. DMB Diaries. Going Back to School at 45? Personal Style. Pink v. Purple. Chemistry.
The new home office. DMB Diaries; the venue, the parking, the pit, the setlists, the people, the dynamics. Jim's wife is hoping to go back to school. Personal aesthetics; how we organize and reveal ourselves through what we wear and how we make our home...and er, Jim's socials. Pink v. Purple....
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Episode 103 (And Addendum) - Graduation Parties. Where Do They Go From Here? Jim's Wife Facing Herself In The Mirror. Jim and Authority. A Rabbit Hole Conversation.
We hosted the high school graduation parties this weekend. What is next for the graduates? Jim's wife had a bit of a full-blown reality check on her anxious parenting ways. Jim's most recent coaching session asked him to consider his relationship with internal and external authority. And in the...
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Episode 102 - ARCHETYPES. The Power of The Power Couple. Jim Finding His Voice. Jim's Relationship with Anger. Is Transcendence Real?
There is not more to add in the notes that is not already in the title. Enjoy!
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Episode 101 - Jim's Coaching Status Report. Yoga This Week. High School Graduation. Loss. Grief. Parting.
Jim leads off this episode with an update from coaching. We had a very emotional high school graduation day. (Trigger Warning/Disclaimer: This conversation includes a brief discussion about a recent unexpected death of one our kids' classmates.) Soaking in quality family time where and when it...
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Episode 100 - Today's Yoga Lesson. Couple's Therapy (The Show) and Couple's Therapy For Real. Hozier. Family D & D.
Happy 100th episode to us! Today's yoga lesson asked us to consider the concept of improving self over proving self. A few years ago, we started watching the show Couple's Therapy and this week we rediscovered it. Have you seen it? We absolutely love this show, and we think you will too. You'll...
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Episode 99 - HBD, Jim. Jim as Coach. The Crying Wife. Sick and Tired. Jim's Coach. What We Crave From One Another is Probably What We'll Never Get From One Another.
This conversation is really quite loaded with a lot of honesty, tears, frustrations, perseverance, and gratitude. Listen if you dare. Enjoy!
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Episode 4 - New Year's Goals and How We Ended Up Here
This episode was originally posted on 12/31/2022 Listen to some live, real-time conversation about where we are today, how we got here and what's in store in the new year for each of us.
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Episode 98 - Amateur Dream Analysis; A Look Inside Jim at Night.
Jim has decided to start seeing a Jungian life coach and in preparation for that, he is beginning to record his dreams. His first dream focuses on brick and mortar... R style vs J style, electrical unions...confronting bullies, and face cream in a mirror. Wild stuff. Do your dreams have a theme?…
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Episode 97 - Dungeons and Dragons Character Test. When Duty Calls. Barefoot Running. Mother's Day. A Call to Yoga. D&D Curious.
Have you taken your D & D character test? We are D & D curious. We know just about nothing about D & D but we might try and learn more. Maybe. Jim's wife answered a call to duty this week, and Jim did not. Yet, he scored higher on the D & D character level portion of the character test. How did…
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Episode 3 - This Old House This New Love
This episode was originally posted on 12/28/2023. Our love story with this old house.
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Episode 2 - All Things Podcasting and Boundaries (and then some)
This episode was originally released on 12/28/2023 Podcast insecurities, setting boundaries, relationship dynamics, and some.
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Episode 96 - Sound Bath Visions. David Sedaris. The Fifth Agreement- Share it with Your Kids. Grieving Sue Johnson. Validation Sticky Spots. Can You Do Religion Wrong?
Sound baths and blue eyed white wolves. On boobs and telepathy with David Sedaris. The Fifth Agreement- Share it with Your Kids. Grieving Sue Johnson, Emotion Focused Couple's Therapist. Why does Jim clean the bathroom sink with his bare hands but leave the countertops soiled and grubby?...
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Episode 95 - The Tension of Opposites. Water Wars. Barefoot Running. The Second Wive's Club. Confessions from a Step Family.
Hello! Today Jim and his wife are talking about the tension of opposites. Where is it showing up and what is going on? Jim's wife dreamt about her greatest parenting fears and it presented as a game of high school water wars. Non dominant hand drawing, and barefoot running- let's go! Turn…
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Episode 94 - Hybrid; Book Club and What We Usually Do. Why We Love the Smartless Podcast. The Batemans. Jim's Archetypal Energy.
We really love this episode. We read The Four Agreements this week. Have you read it? It's pretty good and here we do a synopsis of what we took away from it. Jim actually leads this discussion (sorta) so you won't want to miss it. Also this week, Jim's astrology AI affirmed his ADHD. His wife…
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Episode 1 - Getting to Know Us
This episode was originally posted on 12/27/2022
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Episode 0 - The Pilot
This episode was originally posted on 12/25/2022 This is the first of our recordings and was recorded without the intention of every being posted, and then...it was posted.
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Episode 93 - Myth. Relationship with Story. A Path Towards Purpose. The Path to Integration.
Jim's wife sent him a podcast today from 'Living Myth' by Michael Meade. He listened to it prior to recording so that the two could break down their takeaways for this episode. What does your relationship with story say about you? The parts of a story that resonate most with a person is a…
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Episode 64 - Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming; This Episode is Very FULL.
Episode was originally posted on 9/26/2023 There is a lot of content covered in this episode. We explore early childhood behaviors that persist into adulthood. What do those behaviors reveal about who we are today? Stepfamily scenarios and reflection. Integrative therapies we like and others we...
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Episode 63 - Yah Fam Bonus Episode; Ordinal Linguistic Personification Stories
Have you heard of Ordinal Linguistic Personification? Its a form of synesthesia, it's rare, and it's pretty cool. Despite the fact that it's known prevalence is low (some sources estimate about 4% of the general population has some form of synesthesia-google it) there are four of us in this…
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Episode 92 - Book Club; The Catcher in the Rye. Caulfield and Salinger
This week we have been fully immersed in the world of the deeply feeling, highly perceptive, tragically wounded, Holden Caulfield and somewhat immersed in the world of his mysterious creator, Jerome David Salinger. After completely reading the book for the first time, Jim and his wife (who just...
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Episode 91 - Cancun. Rave Review. Sting Rays. Dysentery? The Stepfamily Feud Monday Morning Quarterback. Holden Caulfield.
Jim and his stepfamily just returned from their spring break vacation in Cancun, Mexico! They have returned to the US fully bronzed and not without some lingering battle wounds with Montezuma's Revenge. What is your relationship with Holden Caulfield? What does that say about you? Communication.…
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Episode 85 - First Names. Why Did Jim Try to Change His Name in Kindergarten? Crying Again About Kids Leaving the Nest in a Stepfamily. The Etiology of Valentine's Day Diva Behavior.
Beyond what is written in the episode title we also talked about the origins of Jim's problem with public speaking, our international audience, a recap on our respective reactions to LIB season 6, thus far and that big Taylor Swift victory from last week. Original release date: February 18, 2024
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Episode 86 - Politics? Our Favorite Covid Controversy Throwbacks. AI at the Vet, in the Dr's Office, in Mental Health, The Power of Prayer? Astrology, Astrology, Astrology.
There are some things that Jim's wife has been wanting to talk about.... And then we also want to talk about AI at the vet vs AI when it comes to mental health and the natural inclination toward resistance to change, especially as we age. Trigger warning; Jim's wife does share some of her...
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Episode 87 - Yah Fam on Nah Fam! We Are Talking All Things College with Chris
Chris is in the throes of college planning and asked if he could sit down with us today and talk about it and we enthusiastically accepted. Chris tells us about all that he's looking forward to, while his mom talks about all that she's not looking forward to and they both reflect on where they...
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Episode 88 - It's Been a Week. Personal Obstacles. Abandonment Wound vs. Rejection Wound. Jon Batiste. Fully Midlife.
It's been a week full of personal challenges for us both. Channeled journaling? Jim has been sticking to his heart shaped sticky notes of love. Why is it working? Jim's wife tells all. What are your relational wounds? Do you tend more towards a fear of abandonment or a fear of rejection? How can...
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Episode 89 - Executive Coaching or Couple Therapy? Truth. Jim's Chiron Potential. Celebrity Personality Doppelgangers. Malignant Politics. Presidential Picks.
Today, Jim tells us about his executive coaching session and how the mirror family therapy experiences. That through line of truth. Chiron in astrology is where our deepest emotional and spiritual wounds are represented. Jim's wife tells him a little bit about how and were his are represented.…
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Episode 90 - Copycat Jim. Jim the Prophet. Jim is Soooo Friendly. His Wife is Soooo Good at Work. Boundaries Are a Bid For Connection Not Division. Recent Personality Changes.
Developmentally appropriate packing lists. Why doesn't Jim wear his favorite expressions of clothing n some places or all places? Authenticity. Copycat Jim. Jim the Prophet. Jim is soooo friendly at work. Boundaries are a bid for connection not division. Recent personality changes. Swiss Miss and...
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An audio diary.Disclaimer: This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Any views or opinions expressed herein are ours and ours alone and are not intended to provide personal or professional advice or guidance. We rarely edit this podcast and do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. In fact, we can almost guarantee mistakes and misstatements will be made and assume no liability for any errors or omissions.
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