The Best Life Podcast
by Danny-J Johnson & Jill Coleman
Welcome to The Best Life podcast!Here we talk about everything from:success, money, relationships, entrepreneurship, productivity, honest communication, positive psychology, and an abundance mindset.Creating a life that YOU choose.
Episodes
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Ep. 652: The Vacation That Went On Forever
After a (seemingly) eternal vacation, Jill is back and happy to be in the swing of things. We love travel, but there’s an inherent anxiety in being away from your routines and sometimes, that stress manifests in stupid fights (IYKYK). But Jill’s trip is all said and done, and now we’re looking...
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Ep. 651: Develop Your Discipline
After a few years of some subconscious sabotage, Danny J wants to re-develop her relationship with discipline. Without the right goals in mind, discipline can feel like deprivation, and it’s easier to give up on your future self. Eating fast food feels easy, even though it’s unhealthy. Buying...
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Ep. 650: Fixing Bad Money Habits
We girl math-ed too close to the sun, and we’re not too proud. It’s been years since Danny had a job with a steady pay check, and now that she does, she finds herself buying small things here and there with reckless abandon. $20 doesn’t seem very expensive, until you’ve made so many $20 purchases...
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Ep. 649: It's Not a Woman's Job to Fix Men
Why is it always that when a man acts shitty, it becomes a woman’s job to fix it? And we get the added bonus of being called “too sensitive” or a nag when we do! In case you missed it, comedian Shane Gillis (though he’s not really funny enough to be called a comedian) recently made a “joke” about...
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Ep. 648: A Perspective Reset
Many years ago, we had our first ayahuasca experience, and lived to tell the tale here on this podcast. Fast forward a few years, and now Danny has experienced a few more ayahuasca ceremonies. She’s now back from a 2 week long dieta (it’s not what you think it means) in Puerto Rico, and she’s a...
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Ep. 647: Perfectly Timed Appendicitis
It’s been an eventful week. Hot off a big launch in her business, Jill jumped right into a brand new endeavor: getting appendicitis. In less than 24 hours, she went from closing cart to full abdominal surgery. Thankfully, everything worked out fine and Jill is doing her best to recover—which may…
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Ep. 646: Going to Europe in a Private Jet
The thing we’re best at in the world is talking about nothing. We’re so good at talking about nothing that we’ve recorded 646 episodes now of talking about nothing, and you’re still here to listen to it. Sure, there’s only 3 of you left, but you’re our Besties! And Besties, we have some tea for…
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Ep. 645: Men's Biggest Ick For Women
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s this: men on the internet need to shut up. With every new day, there’s a new man online spewing nonsense and we wanted to chat about one such Instagram Man complaining about women who are “bad at receiving.” Cue the eye-rolls. Anyone who has been a...
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Ep. 644: Letting One Door Close, and On to the Next Chapter
If you’d ask the opinion of the only people that matter, they’d say we’re the funniest people on Earth. And in case you were wondering, we’re the only people that matter. And you too, Bestie, but only if you agree with us. Sometimes our best episodes happen without any planning or real topic of...
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Ep. 643: Crying for Attention on the Internet
We love a good, cathartic cry as much as the next person, but when it comes to filming ourselves crying and posting it online for the world to see… we’re not sold. Sharing vulnerably is an important part of building a personal brand, but at some point, the vulnerability can become forced, and…
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Ep. 642: Entering our Misandry Era
It’s been a rough week. Dolly Parton died, women are filming themselves confronting their cheating husbands, and Danny is attempting to masturbate. All that to say, we’re tired. Life in our mid-40’s looks like getting attached to our CAVA routines and going to bed by 8pm, so if everyone else…
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Ep. 641: Should We Be Taking Things Personally?
We’ve made a practice of not taking anything personally but maybe we should be taking things *more* personally. We came across a reel that got us thinking… if we’re all grown ups then surely we know what we’re doing when we hurt people, right? So when someone hurts us, maybe it is personal, and...
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Ep. 640: Even Masturbating Takes Too Much Work
Maybe it’s the trauma of betrayal, the changing of our hormones, or just general exhaustion, but sex is off the menu. We’ve seen enough non-contextual dicks and had our hearts broken enough time to last a life time. Opening up again sounds like way too much effort, and frankly, so does the act of...
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Ep. 639: Grieving The Life You Thought You'd Have
Life looks really different than how we once imagined it would, and we know we’re not alone in this. Maybe you never got to have the things you wanted, or maybe you got everything you thought you wanted, but things still feel empty. Whatever the situation or the circumstance, there’s a real grief...
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Ep. 638: When Sharing Becomes Over-Sharing
Do we need to be sharing more about our buttholes in order to be successful online? This era of the internet is shaping out to be all about the personal brand, and one way we see people doing that is by sharing some really, really personal things about themselves (no exaggeration about that...
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Ep. 637: Age Is Just A Number
In our younger years, being 40 years old seemed like the worst possible thing a person could be. Now we’re well into our 40’s and while we don’t feel ancient yet, we are starting to see the appeal of having a mid-life crisis. Life is short, but it’s long as hell at the very same time, so if we’re...
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Ep. 636: Our 10 Year Friendiversary
We’ve been friends for 10 years now, so we’d like to think that we’re experts at friendship. It’s easy to maintain a friendship when you see each other often, but it’s taken real and deliberate effort to stay close emotionally even though we’re physically far apart. A big part of our friendship…
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Ep. 635: The Female Loneliness Epidemic
There’s a lot of chatter about the male loneliness epidemic, but men aren’t the only ones who are lonely. Plenty of women are lonely, too, and lonely inside of their marriages and relationships. Women have been holding things down for a long time, and most of us are just tired and resentful now....
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Ep. 634: The Transactional Relationships Built in "The Room"
There’s a lot of talk in certain pockets of the online space about “being in The Room” (whatever that means). In our experience, “The Room” is full of mean girls who only care about you as long as they can get something from you. If that kind of transactional relationship sounds fine to you, then...
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Ep. 633: An Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood
Back for the third time since his original introduction 7 years ago, today we’re talking to Mr. JillFit himself, Keith Lockwood. At the beginning of Jill’s and Keith’s relationship, neither one wanted to get married. We all know how that turned out. What changed? What caused the change of heart,...
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Ep. 632: AI Keeps Moving the Attractiveness Goal Posts
As AI gets more advanced, we’re seeing an influx of AI “influencers” and it’s getting hard to tell, y’all. And even when we know an account is AI, we still find ourselves comparing our looks and lives to the fake ones, and feeling shitty in the process. We know that “83 year old model” is fake…
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Ep. 631: When Hustle Culture Becomes Too Much
Some entrepreneurs would have you believe that the only way to be successful is by grinding 24/7. We’re not so sure. There’s certainly a time and place for working long hours, but if that’s all you ever do, it’s going to kick you in the ass at some point. A busy needs rest at some point, and is…
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Ep. 630: The Sad, Lonely Life of Internet Trolls
Trolls are everywhere online. No one can escape them and everyone hates them, but what if trolls are only trolls because they hate themselves? We all know the old adage that hurt people hurt people, and internet bullies are no different. People can take all the pain and suffering they’ve been...
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Ep. 629: Having A Crush Outside Of Your Relationship
We’re pretty sensitive to cheating and the harm it causes a person (we’ll give you three guesses as to why) so we found ourselves wondering if are crushes ever okay while you’re still in a relationship? There’s no stopping the rush of feelings when it comes to having a crush, but we do have some...
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Ep. 628: Sharing Your Sexual Fantasies
Knowing your partner’s sexual fantasies has the possibility to be really really hot, or really really off-putting. Fantasy can mean a lot of things to different people—some may want their fantasies to stay in their heads, and some may want to try them out—so if you and your lover aren’t aligned,...
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Ep. 627: Dating is Dead
Trying to find love has been a shit show since… well, forever. We’re just getting better and better with age, but the dating scene, and let’s be honest, men in general, seem to be getting worse. Dating apps are dead, singles events make us feel like pigs being sold for slaughter, and meeting...
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Ep. 626: ChatGPT Ended My Relationship
We would probably all agree that listening in on your partner’s therapy sessions or reading their journals is wrong, but what about reading their ChatGPT history? More and more people are working through issues in their personal lives using their AI chatbots as a journal-meets-therapist, and that...
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Ep. 625. We Forgot Everything
Are we old now? Because we can’t remember anything anymore. Maybe it’s because of our hormones, or maybe it’s early-onset dementia, or maybe (okay, almost definitely) it’s due to our algorithm-trained brains forgetting how to focus on anything for more than 1.7 seconds. No matter the true cause…
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Ep. 624: Pick-Me Behavior
Nobody likes a girl who hates on other girls, especially for the benefit of men. Once upon a time, when we were younger, we would brag about how we “weren’t like other girls,” but now we know better. Our female friendships have saved us from our darkest moments, and we’d be honored to be exactly...
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Ep. 623: We Create What We Consume
Our algorithms feed us the things we consume the most, and unfortunately for us, we love looking at memes about men being evil. But as funny as the people of the internet are, we do want to be mindful of what we’re consuming because what consumer colors our perception of the world—and believe it…
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Ep. 622: Are Men More Emotional Than Women?
No one is more dramatic than a man who gets his advances rejected. We don’t mean to speak for every woman, but also… we’re pretty sure every single woman has either had an experience where a man lashed out at her for saying no, or she had to lie instead of saying no out of fear of backlash. We’ve...
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Ep. 621: The Logistics of a Break Up
Break ups are hard enough as it is, but the longer you’re with someone, the more of a logistical mess it is to end your relationship. There are finances, housing, and even family members to consider as you separate your lives—but none of those are good reasons to stay if your heart is already...
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Ep. 620: The Single Tax
Being in love is great and all, but the real benefit to being in a relationship is the opportunity to split costs. It’s ridiculously expensive just to be alive, which leaves single people unfairly disadvantaged—they have to take care of everything on their own. And it’s not just the financial...
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Ep. 619: Can We Force Our Partners to Go to Therapy?
We all probably agree that men, as a group, need to be going to therapy. But when it comes to your individual man… is it okay to demand that they go? We know firsthand exactly how therapy can make relationships better so of course we’d want our partners to try it out, but therapy still carries a...
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Ep. 618: Dating Someone With Children
We’ve chosen not to have children of our own, but would we date a man with kids? Becoming a step-parent is no joke—it’s a lot of responsibility, often with very little credit, and you’ll rarely, if ever, be the priority in your partner’s life. All of that goes double if the kids in question are...
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Ep. 617: Navigating Friendship Breakups
We’ve been friends for a decade now and we’re not at all the same people we were when we met. Luckily, we’ve grown together, but not every friendship is so lucky. Sometimes we travel in an entirely different direction from our loved ones and it makes maintaining a relationship tricky, and…
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Ep. 616: Your Cringe Archive
When’s the last time you looked into your cringe archive? Everyone who has a personal brand has to go through some less than perfect posts before they get better—it’s a rite of passage. Too many people quit before they even begin because they’re too embarrassed to be seen posting something...
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Ep. 615: Selling Courses About Selling Courses About Selling Courses
Have you ever seen a course being sold by someone who teaches you how to sell courses about building courses? We love the internet business space and we think there’s so much good shit out there you can learn, but unfortunately for as many honest and hard working entrepreneurs there are, there…
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Ep. 614: Pretty Girls Make More Money
We know pretty-privilege exists, but is there another layer we haven’t been paying attention to? Some studies show that women who wear makeup make more money than their female counterparts that don’t. We’ve definitely noticed how much better people treat us when we look good—we do still live in a...
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Ep. 613: Asking Your Partner's Permission
Look, we’re not into asking permission from our partners to do anything, but there’s something to be said about being mindful of how they feel. Your partner’s feelings should (hopefully!) matter as much as your own, and if you can make them feel loved and cared about, why wouldn’t you? All that...
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Ep. 612: Not All Men, But...
Not all men are evil monsters, but whenever we have a troll insulting our age or appearance… well, it’s always a man. Maybe it’s just because we have such incredible men in our lives, but it seems like the men of the internet are always bitter and rude, and it’s kind of breaking our hearts. We…
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Ep. 611: The Value of Community and Connection
As we get older, we find ourselves looking back on our happiest memories and noticing that what makes them happy isn’t what we’re doing, but the people we’re with. Life can get monotonous, bogged down with the million-and-one little things we have to do to keep our lives running. That’s why it’s…
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Ep. 610: The Politics of Liking A Post
Somewhere along the way, liking (or not liking) someone’s instagram posts has become an act of politics. We like the things we stand for—or at the very least, the things we want to be seen caring about. So when someone you care about doesn’t give your post that double tap, it feels vindictive.…
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Ep. 609: What We're Cutting, and What We're Keeping This Year
It’s a brand new year, so now is the perfect time to think about what we want the next 365 days of our lives to look like. Things feel fresh and we’re finding ourselves craving some routine, so for this episode we did something we hardly ever do—we thought about what we were going to talk about...
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Ep. 608: Influence Isn't Important Anymore
As we get deeper and deeper into our 40’s, we’re finding ourselves less impressed with whatever everyone else is up to. Flashy lives and high follower accounts feel kind of meaningless and we’re happy to watch the next generation make all the same mistakes we did and care about all the things we...
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Ep. 607: Out With the Old, In With the New
2026 is tomorrow, so it’s out with the old and in with the new! Jill had a pretty great personal year while Danny-J had a pretty shitty one, so we’re wondering, what kind of year did you have? In any case, we’re feeling refreshed and excited for what 2026 has to offer us. Cheers to a new year,...
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Ep. 606: Learning to Let Things Go
Life is shitty to us in one way or another, no matter who we are or what we try to do to prevent it. It is, however, our choice on what to do about the shittiness. Blaming others, giving up, or leaving weird hate comments on Facebook isn’t going to make the pain of our pasts go away, so we have…
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Ep. 605: Quiet-Quitting Your Marriage
We’ve heard of quiet-quitting when it comes to work, but what about quiet-quitting your relationship?—not really leaving, but not putting in any effort beyond the bare minimum either. We saw something recently that claimed many women over 40 are quiet-quitting their marriages. Nothing good comes...
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Ep. 604: Navigating Holiday Arguments
The holidays are around the corner and with visiting family inevitably comes arguing with your weird uncle about some insane thing happening in the news. There’s a time and place for walking away from discussions about politics—we can recommend this action highly—but maybe there’s a time for you…
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Ep. 603: Life Is Too Short Not To Celebrate
Today, Jill and Danny dive into everything from TikTok earworms and the chaos of keeping up with new platforms to Danny’s new “50 First Dates With Myself” challenge that has completely reignited her creativity and joy on social media. Danny shares how the idea was born, her experience returning…
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Welcome to The Best Life podcast!Here we talk about everything from:success, money, relationships, entrepreneurship, productivity, honest communication, positive psychology, and an abundance mindset.Creating a life that YOU choose.
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Danny-J Johnson & Jill Coleman
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