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43: Don't Yuck Other People's Yum

Rowan here, and I have a confession: I love Coldplay.

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Wondering what to do this quiet boxing day? Listen to @ericavogel.bsky.social and @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social chat about what people get wrong about trans people. 💕 open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

34: What Society Gets Wrong About Trans People with Erica Vogel

Hey everyone, Lara here!

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Boundaries are a hot topic! What do you think about our take on them in this episode of Unboxing it? @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

28: Are we setting too many boundaries?

And is it making us lonelier?

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I went on my friends Lara and Rowan's podcast. @larawellman.bsky.social @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

27: Aging against conformity

with Julie Broczkowski

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Rowan recently had a health scare and we tackled this topic in the middle of it. Uncertainty can be really tough. We shared some of our perspectives on what can help. open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

22: Embracing Uncertainty

Because Anxiety Loves it When We Don't

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Have any of you tried a Skool community? I tempted to create one but also have never been in one…

As two people who have been online a lot and for a long time, and been asked “who cares?!” a lot, @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I tackled the topic of being online in this week’s episode of the podcast

20: Who we are online (and why)

Personas, curation and oversharing on our 20th episode(!)

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Once upon a time a time I thought 70 was so old I wouldn’t want to live past that age. Thankfully my idea of what aging means and how it can feel has changed! Thank you Dani for joining Rowan and I on the podcast this week! @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social @curiouscrone.bsky.social

19: Aging and Your Career with Dani Donders

Much of society thinks of retirement as the end of something important.

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I’ve been overwhelmed by the expectations put on me by the world, and also catch myself putting unrealistic (or potentially harmful) expectations on the people around me. That’s what @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I talk about on this week’s episode of Unboxing It.

18: Expectations

In which we toss some rules into the sea

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Have you ever heaed of aphantasia? I’ve got it and it means I can’t visualize. We talk about it and other cool ways brains are different in this week’s podcast! open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

17: On the differences in all of our brains

Or: Neurodivergence is the actually the norm

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@mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I had another great conversation for this week’s podcast. We talk about when things get hard again. How easy it is to feel badly about getting help. How much resistance we can have to getting help. And most of all that getting help is good.

15: Talking mental health and asking for help

Or: Rowan Goes Back on His Meds

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Our latest episode is out. We got to talk about gender and allyship with Stevie Bees, designer of one of my favourite shirts. Ps before or after you listen to this episode, go check out their site and you can get a shirt of your own! steviesafespaces.com

14: Gender, Allyship and Stevie Bees

Pals, we’re stoked to bring you this interview with the incredible activist and stellar human Stevie Bees!

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I’m going to be fifty next year and I have feelings about that. So @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I talked about them :)

13: On Aging and Ageism

Lara just turned 49 and has been thinking a lot about how 50 is right around the corner.

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How do you deal with unexpected change? We talk about it in this episode and I also realize I might be in denial/have blocked out a lot of the difficult things I’ve gone through over the years. lol Unboxingit.substack.com #podcast #unboxingit @rowanjetteknox

They want us to fight each other because it saps our energy and divides us, and then we can’t fight them.

I've watched my friend Dani develop her wrapping skills and express her creativity using antiques, found materials and craft scraps, and I've been charmed by it. Now she's made a book, and she's a pro photographer, so it's a gorgeous book. If this is your kinda thing, go buy it and get wrapping!

Dani Donders@curiouscrone.bsky.social · last yr.

Well this is an amazing bucket-list achievement: I wrote a book! It’s a 54 page eBook with detailed instructions on basic rock wrapping techniques, supplies and materials, including 3 unique projects. And it comes with over 60 mins of YouTube tutorials too! curiouscrone.etsy.com/listing/4313...

Perfect perfect perfect. Or maybe not since I don’t really think perfection exists :) open.substack.com/pub/unboxing... @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

Episode 3: Perfectionism

My, my, my… How are we already on our THIRD episode?

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I’m leaving on an adventure Wednesday and I couldn’t be more ready!

So excited to launch this into the world!

Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦@mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · last yr.

The fantastic human that is @larawellman.bsky.social and I launched a podcast today called Unboxing It with Lara & Rowan! We’re rolling it out on all podcasting platforms but you can check out episode 1 on our substack. I’d love it if you did, too! open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

Fast-track this NOW. ON is in big trouble.

Vanessa Sarges 🇨🇦@vanessasarges.bsky.social · last yr.

People are asking: How do we stop Bill 5? #Bill5 lets Doug Ford override environmental laws, wipe out #endangered species protections, and silence #Indigenous + public voices — all to fast-track industrial projects. We only have until May 17 to fight back! Here's how.

My exciting news of the week is I’m launching a new podcast with @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social that starts next week!! It’s called Unboxing It and you should go check out our substack now so you can follow all the news about upcoming episodes 💕 Unboxingit.substack.com

Dressed in my resting isn’t lazy hoodie to record a podcast about how resting isn’t lazy. This is one of my favourite topics to talk about!!

I heard someone point out just how strange it is to revere being selfless. I agree. Revere kindness, revere goodwill, revere helping and supporting others. Don’t revere giving up your “self” in order to be a good person, we all deserve to be our full and complete selves, and to care about that self.

I’m so afraid of the millennial pause I keep cutting off the beginning of my words in videos and voice notes 🤪

I’ve been wondering what the real numbers were on this. That’s a lot less visits given both our population size and “February”

Alex Panetta@alexpanetta.bsky.social · last yr.

Cross-border trips to the U.S. reach COVID lows with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers in February www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

When you’re almost 50 and still wondering “What do I want to be when I grow up” - does that mean you’re a failure or does it mean something else? (This might have to be a topic discussed on my not yet launched new podcast ;)

One of my hobbies is finding supplies that can be reclaimed for art and sewing projects. Now I just need to figure out how I would ever get through even a fraction of it ;)

My feelings on striving for perfection

Apparently my dog is the boss of me because he annoyed me at my desk until I came to work on the couch with my laptop because that’s where he wants to be right now. But apparently only if I am also there ;)

Hostile Government Takeover It's a bop