A Beautiful Mess Podcast

In this week's episode we're sharing our Spring Bucket List since it's officially the first week of Spring. It's still pretty cold where we live, so a lot of this is wishful thinking, but it's fun to plan things to look forward to. We're also sharing an extra hot Hot Take Debate about kids and iPads.
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Elsie:
Get new hair & general glow up for the joy of it
Read all the Brontë novels
Start buying fresh flowers & practicing making little arrangements
Paint all the time
Finish our Mouse Mansion!
Emma:
Easter baskets
Decorate entry way
Refresh fairy garden
Start walking outside again
Wallpaper the kitchen
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In this week's episode we're talking about the highs and lows working from home and how we balance our career dreams with raising young children. We've got several great listener questions to cover and we'll share an extra hot Hot Take Debate.
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Our home work spaces:
Elsie - Uses her sunroom as her art studio and moves around to different spaces in her house with her laptop
Emma - Extra bedroom is office, sometimes works from coffee shop or library
Pros and cons of working from home:
Pros - Good way to keep life balanced
Cons - Lots of distractions
How you deal with distractions:
Set timer to get tasks done
Time boxing
Use a reward system
Book Reports:
Elsie: The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Emma: Twisted Love by Anna Huang
HOT TAKE DEBATE Anne: Here's my hot take: we don't need any more movies based on books. They're different mediums! Let books be books and movies be movies. I want to see more movies that were written to be MOVIES and tailored to that medium, written to take advantage of all the cool things you can do onscreen. Same for books: I want more authors to take advantage of the cool things you can do in a book that you CAN'T do onscreen. I've read books that felt like they secretly wanted to be screenplays. Play to the strengths of your medium! No more crossing the streams!
A Joke & A fact with Nova.
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This week, we're talking about mindset shifts that changed our lives. Sometimes, before your life can change, your perspective has to change first. We're also doing a rapid fire hot take debate with a bunch of listener submitted hot takes.
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Mindset Shifts:
What's the best that could happen?
Why not me?
Cheer for yourself like you would others
Practice being an optimist
We overestimate what we can get done in a day but we underestimate what we can get done in a year
Learn to see patterns, possibilities and opportunities
 
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This week we're talking about the inevitable experience of failure and how to hone the skill of starting over. Setbacks can be crushing, but they only turn permanent if you quit. In this episode, we're sharing our own vulnerable failure stories and the things that have helped us to get back on our feet.
 
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Mindset shifts:
Sometimes you have to quit
no one owes you anything
 
BOOK REPORT
Emma: Uprooted By Naomi Novik
Elsie: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
 
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This week we're sharing winter comforts that reliably get us through our least favorite season of the year.
 
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Winter Comforts:
Elsie: Books in bed!
Emma: Snow Suit
Elsie: Hot water - tea, coffee, apple cider, hot toddies, hot tubs, and bathes
Emma: Daydream, redecorate, and organize your house
Elsie: Go out with friends. (get out of the house!!)
Emma: Game of fire, cozy life
 
Guilty Pleasure Treasure:
Elsie: Christopher Nolan movies
Emma: Turkish Delights and Vanilla powder from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
 
Book Report:
Elsie: The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maas
Emma: The Ministry of Time
 
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