Talk Thirty To Me®

When 30 hits, it doesn't come with a handbook on how to survive. It simply assumes you've prepared. What happens when you get hit with unknowns you can't ever imagine preparing for? How about when you're knocked completely off course by a life-changing event you could never fathom? Join us as we journey down that road and discuss how a comeback from even the most devastating life changes in your 30s can be overcome - it just might take everything you've got.

The guys are joined by Brandie Freely - writing coach, author - as they dive into the essence of adult-level procrastination, why writing a book can teach you a lot about yourself, how love manifests itself in many different ways and more!

This week Turg and Randy Z took a trip out to the beautiful 41st State Assembly District in Pasadena, California to connect with Assemblymember Chris Holden as he shares his journey through his 20s and 30s in the political arena as well as insights and tips for how to join the noble fight as an activist in your community.

Another one for the road – Turg and Randy Z sit down for yet another 1-on-1 conversation that touches on the depth of our human emotion, how we can use (our) children as a conduit to better understand our own emotion and how all of this relates to what helps push us through our 30s.

The guys are joined by LaKitia Woodard - Founder of A Sister's Truth and a strong survivor of sexual abuse as she shares her story and what inspired her to help others overcome their own challenges in life - no matter how big.

What if we could be whatever we wanted. What would you be? Would you start your life over again if you knew then what you know now? This is such a cliche, but what if we can change all of that without changing our primary earning potential? The guys sit down with Jonathan - lawyer and once-upon-a-time rapper - to discuss these points and more.

Join Turg and Randy Z as they are joined by guest and friend-of-the-show Leslie Antonoff - blogger, writer, cooking star - as they discuss how daily growth and experience can help propel you to the next level in your life

Where does a journey start and end? Janice shares with the guys how she managed to navigate her way through a tumultuous period in her 20s and still tackle her goals to land her dream job.

This week Turg and RandyZ as they redefine one of the many 'isms' that define the Millennial generation: "Faking it until you make it" with their guest Erin Rivera - photographer, videographer and brand storyteller. There are times when life just takes a turn and just going with it is the best bet. But what happens when that takes a turn for the worst and you end up stuck at a crossroads?

Growing up confused about your cultural identity can really mess up your 30s. The guys are joined by Rediate Tekeste - Founder of the Ethiopian Diaspora Fellowship - as they discuss her journey through 30 from growing up in the world of Cedar Falls, IA all the way to Los Angeles, CA.

Join Turg and Randy Z as they are joined by their lovely guest Gretchen Bonaduce - ex-wife of the Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce and recent published author of the book titled Surviving Agent Orange: And Other Things I Learned From Being Thrown Under the Partridge Family Bus" as they discuss her new book from a perspective of being 30 in a marriage surrounded by drug use and abuse, adultery,and the specter of fame.

Randy and Sankeyz are joined by this week's special guest the lucky Anahit - wife of Turg - as they discuss marriage, motherhood, being a career driven working mother, feeling purposeful in making decisions involving family, taking on new journeys and experiences when life takes unprecedented turns.

The guys are back from a month-long hiatus where some questions were asked and then left unanswered. Who has returned from the break the most changed? Does Turg have another baby on the way? Did Sankeyz decide to become a lawyer? Did Randy ever find that house he's wanted to buy? All these questions answered and more!

Join Turg and Randy Z as they sit down to get real about the strategic approach to mastering your 30s. Enough.,enough when it comes to home buying. When do you call it quits? Strategy and finances isn't always easy, so how do we do it at 30? Were our parents this bad at their 30s? How do we take the experiences from those around us now approaching their 40s and try not to repeat history? How can we master our 30s for the benefits of our 40s?

When transitioning to a new town at 30 how do you approach forming new relationships? We can't always succeed when we try, so how do we keep moving past the failures? Friendships are great, but what about the love interests? What happens when finding the right person suddenly becomes more difficult than expected? What about our 30s allows us to manipulate our approach on how we navigate through our adulthood?

Join the guys as they are joined by their guest, long-time friend of the show and author/designer - Kristen Lem - to discuss the truth behind the freedom of setting financial goals and planning toward your future, relationship successes, failures, and quagmires, sexual feelings and the realities of dating in your 30s

Join the guys as they perform the now obligatory mid-year review. How has 2018 been for the guys thus far? Has the year shaped up to be as promising and full of opportunity as they had initially hoped? Tune in to find out!

Join the guys as they tackle the tough topics on social injustice, gender bias with their guest Sarah Rizkalla - founder and editor-in-chief of New York Minute Magazine and social justice entrepreneur. How do you make it being a social pioneer and voice for women in a world where no one wants you to succeed?

Join the guys as they engage their savvy guest Natalie Torres-Haddad as they discuss the realities behind finances and most importantly financial literacy - or lack thereof - in our lives and...Why we are not set up for financial success in school? What impact does culture have on financial transparency? How is property buying the key to unlocking financial freedom?

Join Turg and Randy Z as they blow bubbles and exchange giggles with their guest Chris McMullen (aka Seth Brundle) - Have you ever fallen out of love with a past passion that you suddenly gave up? Do you know your worth or can you even evaluate your worth at 30?Do you gravitate to mentors that can help you identify your worth or impact at 30?What is your definition of happiness? Investing in yourself at 30, how and when do you do it?

Join Turg and Randy Z as they get to know their guest Veronica Meza Tolentino - President and Co-founder of Dude Be Nice a socially conscious and unique designer clothing company - and discuss the basics of leveraging your passion and creativity to start completely over while going through an incredible amount of change and...What is it about 30 that brings about such radical change? Purpose and passion are not enough. Taking a leap of faith on ourselves. How important is it to build something in your 30s?

Join the guys as they journey through the avant-garde and the fear of being thirty in an era of experimentation and risk taking in exploring the depth of experimentation with their guest - songwriter, producer, and engineer Lorenzo Gordon - who shares his peculiar journey en route to his present day successes and why creativity is no longer unique, Trusting yourself is an important part of 30, How are you going to make 30 stand out? Embracing fear and failure is a continuing theme of our 30s.

Join the guys as they finally get around to discussing a topic that has been demanded by listeners near and far - making friends. When you hit 30, it's not easy making friends. So how do you do it? Tune in and find out!

Join the guys as they chat with their guest Brenda Gonzalez - the co-creator of the Tamarindo Podcast and proud civil rights advocate - about growing up undocumented, caught between circumstance and the law and learning to maximize every opportunity to help adjust to a world that doesn't quite understand your situation.

Join the guys as they identify that learning from change is an important part of the 30s - especially change that originates from the circumstances surrounding each of us throughout our journey. This week, their guest Betsy Aimee - the co-founder and Chief Content Creator of the Born in June Creative and host of The Currently podcast - gets deeply personal in sharing her life experiences from her 20s to her 30s.

Join the guys as they rediscover the hardships of turning 30 all over again with their guest Jayce Baron. Jayce - an LGBT community thought leader, social entrepreneur and newly inducted member of Talk Thirty Nation - covers his wide range of experiences throughout his journey to share how his success has come about.

Join the guys as they sit down with their guest Justin Riley as they discuss the obstacles toward our career and personal successes. When jobs get in the way of life and you’re forced to make a decision that may not agree with societal norms, what we eventually decide will redefine our 30s.

So, it’s March of 2018. Turg and Randy have been on hiatus since late in 2017. This is the anti-climactic way in which we kick off the 3rd Season of Talk Thirty To Me. In this episode, they discuss how they broke into 2018 with somewhat of a new year funk. A lot has happened since our listeners last heard from their faithful hosts and a lot of those happenings have contributed to the funkiness plaguing your beloved hosts.

Join the guys as they sit down with the controversial Producer of Talk Thirty To Me - Jonathan "Sankeyz" Sanchez and discuss the coming of age story that will bring a once unheard and arguably fresh perspective into the fray that will forever change the way that the guys discuss anything ever again on the show.

Join the guys as they walk down memory lane and recap the past two years of the Talk Thirty To Me podcast - the high's and the low's, the positives and the negatives, the hidden motifs, ideas that didn't quite make the show, some behind the scenes banter, and all of the in-between moments that weren't really transparent throughout the entire run of the show and...

Join the guys as they prepare for colder weather, hot cocoa, and - of course - the holiday season and discuss the significance of coping with the changing attitudes toward the holidays that comes with getting further along in their 30s and the dynamics of food, family, football and "fun" and...

Join the guys as they dissect the importance of mental health in our 30s since being 30 comes with the increased focus on career success, the shifting priorities that include new family obligations and substantial changes in schedules and overall aspirations.

Join the guys as they talk about the constant need to be defined as something - or someone - by society and the lack of self-identification that comes with being 30 in a world that never seemed ready to accept things as they came; a society that helped create a problem, but offer no ways on how to fix it...and...

Join the guys as they sit down with their guest – Markus Allen, life hacker extraordinaire – and crack open the secrets of how to master financial success, wage war against a credit system that is waged against us and as they dismiss some of the major myth of the antiquated credit system and...

Join the guys as they discuss the importance of knowing how to properly manage finances at 30 and the many shortcomings of the Millennial generation in properly executing well-managed finances and...

Join the guys as they dive into the first in a series of shows dedicated to talking about the dynamics of finances and making the right financial decisions, how to manage your expectations for the big moments that matter, why these moments shape the rest of our 30s and...

Join the guys as they share stories about the experiences in our lives that are often unexpected and can sometimes catch us off guard, focusing on the experiences we set out to explore and how sometimes they fail to materialize into anything close to what we anticipated and...

Join the guys as they recap and rundown their year talking about what they have (and haven't done) almost three-quarters through the year while trying to set themselves up to have a successful year-end and killer 2018 for the podcast and their personal goals.

Join the guys as they take the discussion in a different direction and discuss probably the most mysterious aspect of living - dying - and how they view death through the lens of members of the Millennial generation and...

Join the guys as they wrap up their discussion around the Netflix Original Series Master of None - with ideas surrounding balance and other themes from the season finale of the second season of the show titled "Buona Notte" such as losing control in life, never looking back, and...

Join the guys as they interrupt their regularly scheduled programming to bring you a dose of reality and start this episode off in a somber fashion...

Join the guys as they get down to business talking about the perceptions that surround love and relationships, ideas featured in the Netflix Original Series Master of None - Season Two Episode Seven– Old People and...

Join the guys as they walk down memory lane in discussing the WAY back childhood memories and the friends made that may or may not have influenced their adult lives now and how they somehow paralleled to the very subtle, underlying themes in the Netflix Original Series Master of None - Season Two Episode Eight – Thanksgiving and...

Join the guys as they try and figure out why Randy's car is infested and talk about why making a conscious decision to walk away from something - either an opportunity or a person, place or thing - coupled with chance circumstances really resonated with them in the Netflix Original Series Master of None - Season Two Episode Seven– Door #3 and...

Join the guys as they catch up from a brief recording hiatus (that you would have never known about had we not mentioned it here) and discuss the next episode in the Netflix Original Series "Master of None" - Season Two Episode Six – New York, I Love You and hone in on not only what this episode meant in the actual scheme of things – but on a deeper level – why this episode meant so much to the guys and…

Join the guys as they revisit the next episode in the Netflix Original Series "Master of None" - Season Two Episode Five - The Dinner Party and discuss if relationships that form under curious circumstances are legitimately worth pursuing or if those feelings should be left undisturbed or...

Join the guys as they discuss more dating culture from a new perspective, fueled by the Netflix Original Series "Master of None" Season Two Episode Four titled First Date relationship in the world of love and...

Join the guys as they discuss the core topics portrayed in one of the more controversial episodes featured in the new season of the Netflix Original Series "Master of None" Season Two Episode Three about Religion and...

Join Turg and Randy Z as they rehash loves lost and discover more about their past as they dive into another relationship filled discussion that touches on themes touched on in the Netflix Original Series "Master of None" Season Two Episode Two and kick it off with...How long was your longest relationship? Old memories always make for great lessons, if you're not bitter. Breaking up isn't all sunshine and butterflies. Has heartbreak helped you find the answer?

Join the guys as they explore another topic featured in the Netflix Original Series "Master of None" as they go back to Season One Episode Two and talk about the one thing that most 30-somethings can't seem to wrap their heads around - parenting - and...