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THE WAY FAM
by Zach Way, Hanna Way
Discussions on life, identity, marriage, parenting, simplicity, and relationships, hosted by average humans.
Episodes
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Mental Wellness
If your brain feels like it has 47 tabs open, this episode is for you. We’re talking about mental wellness, not productivity, not performance, just clear thinking. Hanna shares about the mental load of motherhood and her slow breakup with the scroll. Zach gets into why clarity is a gift to the...
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Environmental Wellness
Creating a peaceful, functional environment isn’t about becoming a hippy, minimalist, tree-hugging, eco-warrior freak (but hey, if that’s your thing, more power to you). It’s really about making your surroundings work for you, not against you. In today’s episode, we discuss environmental wellness...
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Physical Wellness
Let’s be real, getting exercise, enough sleep, and eating healthy can feel impossible some days. Today we share some personal stories, practical tips, and useful recommendations to help physical health. Zach nerds out about sleep while Hanna touches on the challenges of sleep, then we ramble…
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Emotional Wellness
Today, we’re talking about emotional wellness and how it works in our everyday lives. We talk about how emotions act like warning lights, signaling that something deeper might be going on. Zach shares his struggles with big emotions and practical tools that help, and Hanna talks about the...
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Avocational Wellness (aka hobbies)
Today we talk about the importance of hobbies and how they impact daily life. Zach has a Karen moment and rants about content creators. We talk about different hobbies and how they bring joy, foster creativity, and provide balance in a busy household. From sewing and leatherwork to baking, we…
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we want your feedback!
It’s been 4 years since we were into the podcasting game, a lot has changed since then. We’ve changed and podcasting has changed, and we're sure you and your season of life and interests have changed. We want your feedback, it’s important to us and we would love for you to reach out and share…
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Parental Wellness
Parenting is one of the hardest and most rewarding area of our lives, even if it doesn’t feel rewarding in the moment. In this episode, we discuss parental wellness and how it looks for us. We share our experiences and the strategies we’ve developed over the years to ensure we’re staying on track...
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Social Wellness
What is and social wellness and how important is it? This episode covers the challenge of making and maintaining deep, meaningful friendships as adults. We explore why social connections are essential for longevity and mental health and share practical tips for fostering social wellness. Making...
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90-Day Self-Evaluation
Over the past 3 years we created a system to help us avoid falling in the pit and becoming troll humans. We use this evaluation to help grow and be more self-aware in our lives and family. In this episode, we share why we started this practice, some insights from doing it regularly, and why we do...
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Rivers Birth Story
In today’s episode we talk about the birth of our fifth kiddo, how we felt when we found out, choosing a new midwife, and our second home birth experience. We also catch up on recent family news like a new dog, work challenges, and some fun stuff we've done together. Then we talk about the plans...
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Catch Up Episode
Wow, it’s been four years! We’ve got a lot to catch up on. In this episode, we discuss significant life changes since 2020, including adding two more kids, homeschooling, buying a house, getting a cat, getting a new (used) big ol’ van, carnivore diet, exploring new hobbies, and the importance of...
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Top 3 Reasons We Argue
By now we should be pro's, at arguing at least. We're still not relationship experts and are struggling along trying to do our best. Here are the top 3 reasons we get into arguments: Miscommunication Unmet expectations Lack of healthy conflict Recommendations: My new devotional podcast This Is…
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COVID 19 Mindset & Potential
Your mindset affects your potential pros and cons of responding to COVID-19. How we think has the ability to positively affect or negatively affect all 12 areas of wellness. How is your thinking affecting different areas of life during COVID-19? Han's recommendations: Coffee Recipe Mission House...
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Survive & Balance
Q: What is most important for us right now? A: Survival and balance. As parents with 3 kiddos, its A LOT with both of us working from home, homeschooling, making healthy meals, cleaning the house, trying to be intentional, and not dying/going insane. Here's some tips for how we're handling these...
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How to be a better team
Sometimes we're #bestfreindteaminc and sometimes we're just hanging on. Here are our three tips to help you focus more on helping each other thrive: Assume the other person is just trying their best Communicate your specific needs and/or desires Make a habit of asking each other: what/how can I...
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The Weird Thing About Time
This week we talk about time! Prioritizing, schedules, habits, being intentional! Recommendation: Apple TV Shows Dumb Phone Cold Water Exposure Plant Nanny App Big Water Bottle Screen Time Limits Bridgetown Podcast Episodes We would love to hear from you!!! Follow us on Instagram! Like us on...
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Habit vs Achievement Goals
Over the year, we have had various goals for different areas of life, and pretty much all of our achievement goals, we either reframed, rewrote, or rejected. We talk about how the goals that had the most impact and affected the most change were small little habits that were fruitful and…
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Intentional Gift-Giving!
Well, we were going to talk about supporting small business. Then the conversation evolved and we ended up talking about gift-giving, personal mission statements/rule of life, and Spartan racing. Recommendations: Our Christmas Playlist 2019 Bridgetown Church Audio The Ruthless Elimination of…
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What has changed since February
We had a miscarriage, celebrated our 5th anniversary, then what happened? We stopped doing the podcast. To be honest, it was like a hurricane of a couple of months, here we are at the end of the year, 23 days until Christmas. We decided it's probably time for us to write down our vision for the...
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Kauai
For our five year anniversary, we went to Kauai, without kids. It was such a beautiful place, and we had such a nice time. But it was weird and it took some time to actually just stop and relax. We were removed from our normal life and we weren’t distracted by business and work and all the things...
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Sabbath
I remember when we were young and took naps just because, but this is a little different. Having two kids, and two jobs, and a house to take care of and bills to pay and a puppy and a million things to do we recognized our need for purposeful rest. We want our house to be peaceful and we want to...
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Routines vs. Rituals
This week, we talk about routines vs rituals vs habits, how having a bad five minutes doesn’t mean you gotta have a bad day, but also that it is good to set yourself up for success by being intentional. Recommendations: Mint Tea About Time Movie Steeped Coffee January 2019 Playlist We would love…
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2019 Goals and Minimizing
WE’RE BACK 🤘🏼 this week, we talk about GOALZ - specifically our marital goals, and also a little bit about minimizing and a home project we’re working on. We would love to hear from you!!! Leave us a voicemail at 1(805) 242-6559 Follow us on Instagram! Like us on Facebook! If you have questions...
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we had a miscarriage part two
we had a miscarriage part two by Zach & HannaSupport the show
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we had a miscarriage
we had a miscarriage by Zach & HannaSupport the show
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Are Clothes A Tool?
This week we talk about clothes + minimizing again, specifically fit, fabric, and function! Are clothes just tools? What are clothes for you? Han’s recommendations: Key Lime LaCroix, Rice Dish Recipe Zach’s recommendations: Start investing with Acorns today! Get $5 when you use my invite link:...
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Can Distractions Be Positive?
This week we talk about positive distractions - do they exist? Can we intentionally set aside time to be positively distracted? What is the difference between rest and a positive distraction?! (PS if I had a nickel for every time we say the word ‘distraction’ on this episode 😬) Han’s...
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Thankful Closet Project
This week, we talk alllll about simplifying, getting rid of stuff, capsule wardrobes, the two types of ‘comfort’, and sentimental attachment to things!! Join our Thankful Closet Project FB group here! We would love to hear from you!!! Leave us a voicemail at 1(805) 242-6559 Follow us on Instagram...
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The Searchers 2.0
Jordan and Aneila are back! This time they drove from Virginia to California on their motorcycle and we talk all about their trip and motivation to start something/roadblocks we set up for ourselves. You can follow along with their photography and adventures over on Instagram @weddingandadventure…
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Plans & Goals & Roadblocks
YO this week we talk about goals (what else is new) and WHAT stops us from reaching them - is it excuses? distractions? circumstances beyond our control? WHAT IS IT? well, listen and maybe you’ll find out - but also maybe not, cause we don’t know all the answers either. Han's recommendations…
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Stuff We're Learning / You Can Do Hard Things
"Do one thing every day that scares you" - Eleanor Roosevelt When you get stuck, you just need a little jumpstart to get out of the pit. Starting something new is the most uncomfortable part about change. Seth Godin says: “Change your mind, change your life. The only way to get better is to do...
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Lower Your Expectations
Especially for this episode. But for real, in this episode, we answer a voicemail about relationships. Then we talk about how our unspoken expectations can disappoint us. We would love to hear from you!!! Leave us a voicemail at 1(805) 242-6559 Follow us on Instagram! Like us on Facebook! If you...
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Making Friends Is Awkward
Why is it difficult to make friends? Why is it important to make friends? As a married couple with kids, it’s difficult to make friends, but we think a lot of the reasons why begins with our avoidance of stepping out into potentially awkward situations. We could use the fact that we’ve moved 4...
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102: Tradition....TRADITION
Traditions are important and help make dull, monotonous things memorable. Sometimes all it takes is adding a little routine or rule and including more people to create a tradition. Like Friendsgiving or barefoot walks, or brushing your teeth together before you go to bed, folding laundry and...
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Life Update & Purging
WOW! It's been a long time. We have our own house now and are getting back on track, but first, we had to purge our belongings and reorganize our lives. It's good to be back, we miss you guys. We would love to hear from you!!! Leave us a voicemail at 1(805) 242-6559 Follow us on Instagram)! Like…
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100: Understanding+Flexibilty>Compatibity
This week, we talk about interpersonal differences, specifically about the MBTI, Five Love Languages, and the Enneagram! We are both learning a lot about each other and our differences through conflict and conversation and thought it might be helpful for someone else too. Let us know what you...
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099: THE FIGHT
On this week’s episode, we talk about our recurring argument!!! we each share our point of view of the fight and how we are going about fixing it! we are literally the opposites of experts in this area and think it’s worth talking about, in case anyone else out there also has a recurring fight…
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098: Scarcity Mentality
Sometimes the beliefs you hold, end up holding you back. “I’m not good enough, I can’t, I don’t have enough time, I’m not as good as _____, I would if I had more money, this is how I am, I can’t change, if my circumstances were different I could”... etc. These beliefs cause us to think with a...
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097: Bids For Attention
Do you know when you are trying to get someones attention and they just aren’t getting it? Maybe their social skills are off, maybe they’re tired, maybe your gesture or question wasn’t direct enough or maybe they’re distracted. Whatever the case, it’s kinda frustrating and can lead to not only...
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096: Is It Selfish To Want To Have Kids?
Everyone is selfish to a degree, some have more selfish motives than others but… Is wanting to have kids selfish? A listener brought up a great question that we discuss in this episode along with a couple voicemails and even a listener submitted joke! You guys are the best! Recommendations…
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095: Finding A Mentor & Making Friends
095: Finding A Mentor & Making Friends It’s 10:10PM on a Sunday night, everyone else is in bed because I guess the time change hit us harder than expected. I’m sipping coffee and bourbon (mixed obvi). Daylight savings time is sweet because we get more time to catch the sunset but it also messes…
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094: The Babcocks Are Back (stop trying to make vero a thing)
Using friends and making social media, wait, scratch that reverse it. The Babcocks are back with us again, its crazy to think its been two years since they first joined us. We talk about their recent trip and social media obvs. We would love to hear from you!!! Leave us a voicemail at: 1(805)...
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093: Feeling Unappreciated
Why do you feel unappreciated? We would love to hear from you!!! Leave us a voicemail at: 1(805) 242-6559 Instagram: @thewayfampodcast Like us on Facebook!: If you have questions or suggestions or jokes or ideas, ask us : Tumblror email us at [email protected] we love ya!! xoxoSupport…
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092: Schedules
Are you a free spirit or a nerd? What’s important and what’s urgent and how do you differently between the two? If something isn’t urgent it seldom gets done, even if it’s important. By scheduling out our time we have the ability to make prevent something important from becoming urgent. Do you…
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091: Emotions
This week we talk about emotions, how we deal with them, both unhealthy and healthy ways, aaaaaaand Han has the weirdest laugh of her life. This topic is one we REALLY want your input on, so please - send a message or an email, leave a voice mail, comment on Insta! We wanna know your thoughts on...
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090: Q/A
We answer some questions, we talk about our wedding and Ireland, and a little bit more about personality tests! Han’s recommendations: Philz Coffee First Aid Kit new album : https://open.spotify.com/album/5l2Ts5Hd4BN2O28rZksznR?si=bR_6SHfsS7avDGuKhRiyHQ instagram.com/MorganHarperNichols Zach’s...
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089: Personality Styles
DISC, Myers Briggs, 5 Love Languages, Introvert/Extrovert, Enneagram, Gems, etc… There’s a million different types, why should you bother and how should you use the results? Recommendations: Reading People: http://a.co/3qr6lPj The Road Back To You: http://a.co/0Xp7KH0 Sleeping at Last:...
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088: Anxiety
What makes you anxious ? What can you do to avoid that? What can you do if you can’t avoid it? Recommendations: Risen Motherhood Podcast: risenmotherhood.com/podcast/ Read Scripture App: readscripture.org Permission To Screw Up: http://a.co/1vk5wNd Anxious For Nothing: http://a.co/dn34KWS...
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087: Decisiveness
The average American is faced with 35,000 decisions a day. What do you you base your decisions on? What things are you DECISIVE about and what things are you INDECISIVE about? Do you have a hard time making decisions? Do you spend a lot of time thinking about what to wear or what to eat or what…
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086: New Year, Same You
Good goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant( be yours) and time-bound. Set goals early, write them down and display them publicly. Only 3% of Americans do this, most Americans fail at their New Years resolutions by January 15. Here’s some categories, define what your areas…
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Discussions on life, identity, marriage, parenting, simplicity, and relationships, hosted by average humans.
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