All Episodes

Episode 127 - Summer 2026 UK and Republic of Ireland Holiday Explained.

Episode 126 - Is Jim a Slopper? Slopper Diaries. Brush with Celebrity. Turks and Caicos.

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.

Episode 124 - Book Club. Knives Out (Movies) Debriefing. "Ok, Internet." ChaptGPT and Jim Get in a Fight.

Episode 123 - Take Me to Church, Family of Origin and The [Post] Heroic Journey of Frodo Baggins.

Episode 122 - Concerts, concerts, concerts (and a marathon, and a trip to Mexico)

Episode 121 - Summer 2025 Winds Down

Episode 120 - Turn The Page

Episode 119 - January 2025 !

Episode 118 - Home For the Holidays. Water[cup] Gate. In the [Not] News. Past Lives (the movie) Spoilers and This Life.

Episode 117 - The Peloton and Seeking Nirvana. More DMB. Psyche Diaries. Flat Tires.

Episode 116 - Hometown Highschool Football v. NFL. Jim's Wife on Psychobabble and Feeling Exposed. The Fam.

Episode 115 - Jim's Rockstar Crush. News. The Fam. Rebirth. Parenting One.

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.

Episode 113 - Sorry For The Delay. All The Pretty Girls. Rock Bottom? The Eras. Freedom Can Be Terrifying.

Episode 112 - Move In Day. Adjusting to a New Normal

Episode 111 - Childish Gambino. Teatime. St Elmo's Fire. Step Family Epiphany. Nathan's Hot Dad. In With the New [Clothes].

Episode 110 - The West Side [of MI]. Trivial Things and Not So Trivial Things. Midlife Boredom /"Generativity v Stagnation".

Episode 109 - The 1980's! The Movies, The Food, The Activities, The Jobs.

Episode 108 - Biking. Who/How We Hope To Be When We Die. Eastern v. Western Thought. Enemies. Peace v. Truth

Episode 107 - The U.P. Eh. Career Moves. Family Transition Status Report. No Politics Until We Do.

Episode 106 - Romantic Era. Reel Life and Dogs. Jim and Awesome. "Still Face".

Episode 105 - Jim's Big Ideas

Episode 104 - New Office. DMB Diaries. Going Back to School at 45? Personal Style. Pink v. Purple. Chemistry.

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.

Episode 102 - ARCHETYPES. The Power of The Power Couple. Jim Finding His Voice. Jim's Relationship with Anger. Is Transcendence Real?

Episode 101 - Jim's Coaching Status Report. Yoga This Week. High School Graduation. Loss. Grief. Parting.

Episode 100 - Today's Yoga Lesson. Couple's Therapy (The Show) and Couple's Therapy For Real. Hozier. Family D & D.

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.

Episode 4 - New Year's Goals and How We Ended Up Here

Episode 98 - Amateur Dream Analysis; A Look Inside Jim at Night.

Episode 97 - Dungeons and Dragons Character Test. When Duty Calls. Barefoot Running. Mother's Day. A Call to Yoga. D&D Curious.

Episode 3 - This Old House This New Love

Episode 2 - All Things Podcasting and Boundaries (and then some)

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?

Episode 95 - The Tension of Opposites. Water Wars. Barefoot Running. The Second Wive's Club. Confessions from a Step Family.

Episode 94 - Hybrid; Book Club and What We Usually Do. Why We Love the Smartless Podcast. The Batemans. Jim's Archetypal Energy.

Episode 1 - Getting to Know Us

Episode 0 - The Pilot

Episode 93 - Myth. Relationship with Story. A Path Towards Purpose. The Path to Integration.

Episode 64 - Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming; This Episode is Very FULL.

Episode 63 - Yah Fam Bonus Episode; Ordinal Linguistic Personification Stories

Episode 92 - Book Club; The Catcher in the Rye. Caulfield and Salinger

Episode 91 - Cancun. Rave Review. Sting Rays. Dysentery? The Stepfamily Feud Monday Morning Quarterback. Holden Caulfield.

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.

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.

Episode 87 - Yah Fam on Nah Fam! We Are Talking All Things College with Chris

Episode 88 - It's Been a Week. Personal Obstacles. Abandonment Wound vs. Rejection Wound. Jon Batiste. Fully Midlife.

Episode 89 - Executive Coaching or Couple Therapy? Truth. Jim's Chiron Potential. Celebrity Personality Doppelgangers. Malignant Politics. Presidential Picks.

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.