Episodes
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INSPIRATION: Reflection Through Our First Year of Podcasting
Episode 52: Jai and I started brainstorming about podcast names and topic ideas in late 2020. In January 2021, we released our first episode and set a goal to release a total of 52 podcast episodes this year. WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED THAT GOAL! Though it was quite an overwhelming goal in the beginning,...
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INSPIRATION: 5 Things 2021 Has Taught Us
Episode 51: 2021 has been an intense year, to say the least. Lots of laughs, cries, and all the other emotions you can think of. In this week's episode, Jai and I reflect on the triumphs we went through this year.
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FITNESS: 2021 USPA AV Desert Wars | Jai and Brennan’s very first powerlifting competition.
Episode 50: Hi! Jennell here. In this weeks episode, we talk about the long-awaited powerlifting competition that Jai has mentioned countless times in previous episodes. He competes alongside his best bud and number one fan to our podcast, Brennan! He joins us in this episode as I interview him…
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HEALTH: Six Lessons That Getting COVID Taught Jai
Episode 49: Jennell here! I've been out for almost two weeks because I got sick and tested positive for COVID which forced me to quarantine. That's okay because it gave Jai the inspiration for this episode! With me getting sick, it reminded him of when he had COVID back in August of 2020 and his...
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PRODUCTIVITY: Our 1 Year Reflection with Bullet Journaling
Episode 48: Bullet journaling is a method of personal organization that was created by Ryder Carrol. For Jai and I, it has shaped our lives completely. It has been 1 year since we've both implemented the bullet journal into our everyday lives. Bullet journaling is a safe space for us to document...
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LIFESTYLE: Setting Realistic Expectations in Life
Episode 47: "The less you expect, the happier you will be." Let's get real realistic. In many different aspects of life, we expect certain expectations. Most times those expectations may be too high or far-fetched. When that happens, it generally leads to disappointment and stages a negative…
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FINANCE: How to Budget When You're Broke
Episode 46: Being broke can seem like a never-ending cycle: We work long hours to receive a paycheck, just to spend it on bills and mindless transactions which lead to having no more money. Then we work more long hours and wait to receive another paycheck in two weeks. This is called living...
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FITNESS: Using Motivation and Discipline to Achieve Your Fitness Goals
Episode 45: Hey guys! Jai is back after battling bronchitis for two weeks. At the beginning of this year, Jai was motivated and set a goal to train 300 out of the 365 days. He has pushed to achieve this goal even though he's had an injury, no equipment, during vacations, and been sick multiple...
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INSPIRATION: Questions You Can Ask to Know Your Partner Better
Episode 44: Hiya! It's Jennell again. For this week's episode, I asked my girlfriend, Josie, to join me while Jai is out sick. We each gathered 10 questions and took turns asking and answering. It is very similar to the episode Jai and I did that consisted of the "36 questions that lead to love,"...
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INSPIRATION: How To D.I.V.E. Into Your Interests
Episode 43: Hi! Jennell here. As adults, we all fall into our routines and everyday habits. Sometimes we forget what it is we actually love or are interested in. We spend too much time, money, and effort to make a living that we often forget to live a little. In this week's episode, Jai and I…
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HEALTH: Taking Yourself on Dates
Episode 42: Hey! It's Jennell again. In this week's episode, Jai and I give 5 tips on how to become more comfortable with taking yourself on dates. It all starts with making things easy and changing your perception of being alone. Instead of thinking, "aw man, I have to go by myself." Adapt to...
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PRODUCTIVITY: How We Use Social Media As a Tool and Not a Distraction
Episode 41: Hi! Jennell here. In this week's episode, Jai and I talk about the different strategies we do to use social media to our advantage and how we use it as a resource and not a distraction. The majority of us spend a lot of time on social media, it's almost inevitable. Similar to the…
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LIFESTYLE: You Are the Average Of the People Around You
Episode 40: "Show me your friends and I will show you your future" Whether we recognize it or not, we are the result of the average of the people we surround ourselves with. What they say, we start to say. What they think, we start to believe. Their way of living can either lead you to success or...
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INSPIRATION: How A Nurse Transitioned To Managing A Social Media Marketing Agency
Episode 39: Hi guys! Jennell here. This week I have the honor of bringing on our second guest ever! My girlfriend, Josie. She has recently taken a huge change of direction with her career path and wanted to share with you all how she went from a nurse to a social media marketing agency. After…
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FITNESS: Training With vs Without a Goal
Episode 38: Guest and good friend Brennan joins the podcast once again! Jai and Brennan discuss what it feels like to train with a plan, a goal, a fitness competition on the horizon. With their powerlifting meet only 8 weeks out they noticed three notable changes: a set program is great, your...
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HEALTH: Our Experiences With Burnout and Tips On How To Overcome It
Episode 37: Have you ever worked so hard for days on end and felt burnt out? I think we all experience it at least once in our life. Jai and Jennell share times when they've felt burnout due to the career fields they were in. Even though most burnouts root from your profession, it can also play a...
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INSPIRATION: Our Podcast Reflection Over An 8 Month Period
Episode 36: Today makes 8 months since Jai and Jennell have released their first podcast episode! They wanted to take the time this week to reflect on the impact this podcast has had our their lives. They've showed up every single Saturday even when they were tired, hungover, or just simply did…
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LIFESTYLE: The Traits Others See In Us
Episode 35: Jai and Jennell wrote down 4 character traits about the other person. After revealing what the character traits are, they take the time to recognize how or why they think these traits define who they are. The inspiration came from a video by CUT. Where two best friends paint each…
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INSPIRATION: Leaps Of Faith And What We've Learned
Episode 34: Jai and Jennell are back in the studio together after each recording solo episode over the past two weeks! This week's episode is all about leaps of faith and what they've learned from them. Leaps of Faith are moments you have to JUMP without knowing what the outcome will be. It comes...
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HEALTH: A Few Tips To Manage Stress
Episode 33: We all go through stress. It's inevitable. A lot of the time we stress about the things we can't control. However, one thing we can always control is our attitude toward these negative situations we are stressing about. Jennell does a solo episode and gets a little vulnerable about…
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INSPIRATION: 4 Things Jai Learned About Love...The Hard Way
Episode 32: We choose to love. It's more than just a feeling; it's an action. This week Jai takes on another solo episode. Because of the hopeless romantic that he is, he's passionate of talking about love. Through his personal experiences of short and long relationships, he's learned a lot. He...
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INSPIRATION: 10 of Our Bucket List Items
Episode 31: Laying on your death bed or sitting in your rocking chair with your 80 year old bones and arthritis, the last thing you want is to wish you were young again. In this episode, Jai and Jennell each shared 10 things that are on their bucket list. They took the time to think about the...
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HEALTH: A Check-In of Our Wins, Losses, and Folds.
Episode 30: When someone asks us “How are you doing?” A common answer is usually, “fine”, “pretty good”, or “great”. But are they really? That question gets asked around a lot as a form of politeness and is never really meant to be answered. Today we change that! On this episode of the Playing…
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HEALTH: Creating a Healthier Lifestyle With Macros and Conscious Eating
Episode 29: This is pretty big! In this week's episode, Jai and Jennell welcome their very first guest and long-time friend, Brennan! Just like Jai and Jennell, Brennan has a fitness and weight loss journey of his own. They invited him to the podcast to learn a fresh perspective of a similar...
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INSPIRATION: How to Manifest a Career That Makes You Happy
Episode 28: July is here and they're back as always with another episode! This week Jai and Jennell share with you how they manifested their way to their current career fields! Are you currently in a job field that you hate? Or do you love the field you're in, but your boss is an asshole? The…
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LIFESTYLE: Our 2021 Goals Check Up!
Episode 27: We are already half way through the year! I’m not sure about you guys, but this year is flying by extremely fast. Just like most of you, Jai and Jennell created goals and set their intentions at the beginning of 2021. They decided to use this halfway point to recognize the goals they...
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LIFESTYLE: A Coming Out Story In Honor of Pride Month
Episode 26: HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! This month is celebrated in honor of the Stonewall riots in 1969. Today, we celebrate with parades, parties, festivals, concerts to honor LGBTQIA+ voices and experiences. To contribute, Jennell and Jai agreed there's no better way to honor that than to create a...
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DRUNK: Truth or Drink with Bottomless Mimosas at 11AM
Episode 25: The theme for this week is a little bit different than our typical categories. We have a DRUNK episode brought to you by bottomless mimosas at 11 AM. It's' Happy Hour somewhere, right? We wanted to switch up the pace a little bit and have some fun with it! We play a game called Truth…
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INSPIRATION: 6 Life Changing Quotes
Episode 24: Quotes: They're just words, but they have a powerful way of conceptualizing our own thoughts and beliefs. They help to set a base on which you build your habits and values. In this week's episode, Jai and Jennell each share three life-changing quotes that have helped shape who they…
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PRODUCTIVITY: 5 Strategies to Help You Work Smarter and Not Harder
Episode 23: This week's episode is rough. Jai and Jennell struggled to get through this week's episode due to a lack of preparation and not giving this episode as much love as their others. They published it anyway as a reminder to you guys and a reminder to themselves that showing up and still...
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FITNESS: Beyond the Beginner Gainz
Episode 22: When you begin to work out the first thing you usually notice is losing fat. The double chin and love handle disappears. In the beginning, there's a higher incline of changes. However, when you've consistently put in the work, the noticeable physical changes decline. Some start to…
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FINANCE: Jai Paid Off All of his Credit Card Debt
Episode 21: HE DID IT! Jai paid off his remaining $3,000 credit card debt. With a big thanks to budgeting and a few other tricks, he was able to bring his 7-year credit card debt to $0. Most people don't know what to do when they open their first credit card line. How could they? It's not taught…
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LIFESTYLE: Our 1 Year Journey Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
Episode 20: March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that COVID-19 has changed our lives some way or another. We've learned new good and bad habits. We've transitioned from physical interaction to communicating online. We've also...
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INSPIRATION: 5 Ways to Manifest Who You Want to Be
Episode 19: We all deserve to be exactly who it is that we want to be! Manifesting the life you want doesn't have to be as difficult as some may make it seem. As Jennell takes on her very first solo episode, she recommends 5 ways you can practice manifesting all the things you've always dreamed…
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HEALTH: Happy vs. Healthy Food
Episode 18: This week is a very special episode as Jai takes on his first solo recording! As most of you may already know, abs are made in the kitchen. You can workout for 3 hours a day and 6 days a week, but if you're still eating like shit, it won't matter. You can't outwork a bad diet! Jai...
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PRODUCTIVITY: Our Top 5 Productivity Strategies
Episode 17: We all have the same 24 hours in a day. How do you use it? Sometimes we wish we had a little bit more time in our day. In most cases, it's not time that we really need. It's creating systems and being efficient that will allow you to create a healthy work life balance and still be…
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HEALTH: How We Find Happiness in Everyday Life
Episode 16: Life can suck, life can be boring, and life can be mundane. These are all facts, but another fact is that starting right now you can learn to enjoy the little things in your life that simply put a smile on your face. In this episode, Jai and Jennell list 20 little things that make…
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FITNESS: What to Do When You're Lacking Motivation to Exercise
Episode 15: Do you ever feel like you're trying hard to achieve your goals, but occasionally fall off track? A lot of us rely on motivation, but it's not always there. In this weeks episode we share personal tips and tricks that we use to overcome the voice in our head! Remember why you started,...
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FINANCE: What to Do with Your Tax Refund and Stimulus Checks
Episode 14: It's Tax season! Along with tax refunds, people have been receiving their 3rd stimulus checks. $1400 + your refund is a lot of money. It can be quite overwhelming when giving this amount at one time. That's why we created this episode to share our recommendations on how to manage it...
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LIFESTYLE: Habits Tier List
Episode 13: Everyday habits are what form our life. The simple things we practice each day seem minor, but they are the compound interest of who we choose to be. After coming across a YouTube video called "The Habit Tier" list, we decided to rank 15 of our own habits into an A, B and C tier list.…
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INSPIRATION: The One Occurrence That Changed Our Lives
Episode 12: For this week's episode, we get DEEP! Jennell and I take turns answering the question, “what one occurrence in your life has had the most impact on where you are now?” Our answers vary from 15 years ago to what seems like just yesterday, from moving states and experiencing a new...
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PRODUCTIVITY: Bullet Journaling for Dummies
Episode 11: Bullet Journaling (Bujo) is a method of organization that we've been practicing since 2020. We both were introduced to bullet journaling after reading James Clear's Atomic Habits. The bullet journal was created by Ryder Carroll. Instead of blank, lined pages, these journals are…
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HEALTH: The Power of Saying "No"
Episode 10: The word NO is one of the shortest and easiest words to pronounce, yet it's often one of the hardest to say. We encourage you all to challenge yourself and say no because every time you say no to others, you're saying yes to yourself. We discuss a TEDx talk from Heidi Alamikkelä, who…
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FINANCE: Budgeting For Dummies
Episode 09: This episode is all about budgeting! Budgeting is a topic that we're very excited to be discussing. Listen in for our budgeting for dummies crash course featuring YNAB's 4 rules, our budgeting habits, and our tips and tricks that we wished we knew when we started. If you want to age...
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FITNESS: Our Fat to Fit Journey
Episode 08: Health and Fitness is the number one goal that we all have for the new year. We're already in the second month of the year and we're encouraging you to develop your fitness routine if you haven't already! In this episode, we talk about our ups and downs with our personal fitness...
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LIFESTYLE: 36 Questions That Lead to Love
Episode 07: Valentine's Day is coming up! In the episode, we share our answers to "The 36 questions that lead to love." We believe these questions are very powerful to get to know someone. Whether that's your significant other, someone new, or even just a friend. Listen as Jai and Jennell answer…
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LIFESTYLE: What An Interdependent Relationship Should Look Like
Episode 06: An Interdependent relationship is when two strong individuals are involved with each other, but without sacrificing themselves or compromising their values. A healthy relationship is finding the balance of who you are, what you like to do and keeping the relationship together as well....
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FINANCE: Our Past, Present, and Ideal Future with Money
Episode 05: In this episode, we talk about our relationship with money. We talk about the beginning of our relationship, how we're managing it now, and where we see our future with it. With the economic crisis we're going through now, we also give you a few ideas of how you could be making money...
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INSPIRATION: Why We Chose to Start a Podcast
Episode 04: 52 podcast episodes is our huge dedication for 2021. That's a big number, right? But when you narrow it down, it's just 1 episode a week for the year. In this episode, we discuss why we chose to build a podcast over other platforms. The reason is that we've tried other platforms and...
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LIFESTYLE: Debunking Common Top New Year’s Resolutions
Episode 03: New Year, New Me. It's bullsh*t! We looked up the top New Year's Resolution Goals that most people set for themselves at the beginning of a new year. We discuss those goals with a bit of humor and offer some ways to tackle them or just make them plain better. Such as being more…
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