Lara Wellman

28: Are we setting too many boundaries? And is it making us lonelier?

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

27: Aging against conformity with Julie Broczkowski

I went on my friends Lara and Rowan's podcast.

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22: Embracing Uncertainty Because Anxiety Loves it When We Don't

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.

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

20: Who we are online (and why) Personas, curation and oversharing on our 20th episode(!)

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

That 70 thing came from some pretty bad role models when i was young about what it meant to get older

19: Aging and Your Career with Dani Donders Much of society thinks of retirement as the end of something important.

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

18: Expectations In which we toss some rules into the sea

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.

17: On the differences in all of our brains Or: Neurodivergence is the actually the norm

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!

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15: Talking mental health and asking for help Or: Rowan Goes Back on His Meds

@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.

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

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

13: On Aging and Ageism Lara just turned 49 and has been thinking a lot about how 50 is right around the corner.

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

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

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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!

So many of my favourite people are people k met online :) 💕

Episode 3: Perfectionism My, my, my… How are we already on our THIRD episode?

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

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Also, my family wasn’t invited on this adventure (and I don’t feel guilty at all)

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

So excited to launch this into the world!

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

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 💕

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White woman with long brown hair and glasses wearing a hoodie with mushrooms and the words resting isn’t lazy

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’m so glad you like it!! 💕💕

Sooooo yummy! I might dream about that soup ;)

Yes! It doesn’t need to be one or the other! 💕

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.

Both solid options!

Oooh, wizard core?

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