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WWYBD is our ‘What Would Your Bestie Do?’ segment where we anonymously answer questions our community submitted via our website. If you have a question, you can ask it in our question box anytime and we’ll save it for the next WWYBD episode.

In today’s episode, we also catch you guys up on what’s been going on in our lives lately! We’ve missed you and wanted to take the time to candidly talk.

We answer your questions about navigating an alcohol-free lifestyle with friends who still drink often, how to maintain a social life once you’ve entered adulthood and have a lot of responsibilities, ways to avoid gossiping, creating a healthy relationship with food and what to do when you want to change careers but have already invested a lot into your current industry.

Checkout our Spring Clean Episode from last spring.

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MENTIONS:

Spring Cleaning List Ceara’s Using

TikTok About Gossip

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Financial wellness is the ability to meet basic needs and manage money in both the short and long term. We know money can be a stressful topic so we wanted to make this conversation approachable and relatable.

We wanted to bring on a guest that lives a similar lifestyle to most of us - loves to shop, travel, buy $8 lattes, live in a cute place and hang out with friends but has also found a way to prioritize saving, investing and planning for their future. We connected with Erin via social media. She works full-time as an auditor but is also a content creator on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube where she transparently shares her weekly spending, finance tips, budgeting tips and resources with her 200k+ community.

In this episode, Erin shares her story how she has been able to learn financial literacy, create a budget for herself, live within her means and contribute to her long term goals. We dive into the topics of good and bad debt, saving strategies, bank accounts, credit cards, emergency funds and ways to improve one’s financial situation. Erin says to her, “financial wellness means setting up my life so that money is no longer a stresser nor the main driver in decision making day-to-day.”

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Book Recs:

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

The Simple Path To Wealth

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Set For Life

Podcast Recs:

Bigger Pockets

ChooseFI

Erin Confortini - LinkedIn

Erin Confortini - TikTok

Erin Confortini - Instagram

Erin’s Budget Spreadsheet

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Allison's Socials: Instagram, TikTok

Ceara's Socials: Instagram, TikTok

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Continuing with our ‘8 Dimensions of Wellness Series,’ we are joined today by Sydney Adams! She is a fitness and lifestyle influencer with over a million followers across her social media channels where she shares content about her daily routines, workout tips, healthy habits and nutrition. Sydney is a certified personal trainer and nutrition consultant.

She was the first person we thought of to have on the show for the physical dimension of our wellness series. Sydney has a positive mindset that is incredibly contagious and is super passionate about helping others find confidence and be the best version of themselves. Her content has inspired people around the world and we’re so grateful she came on to share her journey and advice.

MENTIONS:

Sydney Adams - TikTok

Sydney Adams - YouTube

Sydney Adams - Instagram

Sydney Adams - Website

Allison’s Walking Pad

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Already Friends Socials: Instagram, TikTok

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Diving into the realm of environmental wellness for our ‘8 Dimensions of Wellness Series,’ we are joined today by Terri Cumming of Healthy Home by Design. Terri helps people create homes that they love, that feel good and that are healthy. It's that simple. Terri Cumming loves sharing her knowledge of Design, Holistic Living & Energy to help us all create a home environment we love, feel safe and inspired in.

In this episode we talked about:

• How Terri got into Holistic Interior Design
• How getting an awful night’s sleep led her down this career
• What is dowsing and how to do it to your own home
• EMF wave’s potential effect on one’s well-being
• What makes a home a sacred and comfortable space
• Potential downsides of renting and moving often
• What is the ‘command position’ for sleeping, sitting and working
• The best bed placement for a good night’s sleep
• Design by bringing the outdoors inside
• Why your home should emulate your favorite places
• How making small steps have a lasting impact
• Taking the pressure off and doing what works for you

By definition, environmental wellness is having good health by occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being. It promotes interaction with nature and also creates an enjoyable personal environment (both in and out of your workspace).

MENTIONS:

Terri’s Free Checklist For A Healthy Home

Terri Cumming - Instagram

Terri Cumming - TikTok

Book - Heal Your Home

Tim Walter - House Healing

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Diving into the realm of environmental wellness for our ‘8 Dimensions of Wellness Series,’ we are joined today by Terri Cumming of Healthy Home by Design. Terri helps people create homes that they love, that feel good and that are healthy. It's that simple. Terri Cumming loves sharing her knowledge of Design, Holistic Living & Energy to help us all create a home environment we love, feel safe and inspired in.

In this episode we talked about:

• How Terri got into Holistic Interior Design
• How getting an awful night’s sleep led her down this career
• What is dowsing and how to do it to your own home
• EMF wave’s potential effect on one’s well-being
• What makes a home a sacred and comfortable space
• Potential downsides of renting and moving often
• What is the ‘command position’ for sleeping, sitting and working
• The best bed placement for a good night’s sleep
• Design by bringing the outdoors inside
• Why your home should emulate your favorite places
• How making small steps have a lasting impact
• Taking the pressure off and doing what works for you

By definition, environmental wellness is having good health by occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being. It promotes interaction with nature and also creates an enjoyable personal environment (both in and out of your workspace).

MENTIONS:

Terri’s Free Checklist For A Healthy Home

Terri Cumming - Instagram

Terri Cumming - TikTok

Book - Heal Your Home

Tim Walter - House Healing

SPONSORS + DISCOUNTS:

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ALREADYFRIENDS and get on your way to being your best self.

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SOCIAL LINKS

Already Friends Socials: Instagram, TikTok

Allison's Socials: Instagram, TikTok

Ceara's Socials: Instagram, TikTok

Already Friends Patreon: $5 a Month for Bonus Episodes

Let's be friends - join the Already Friends FB Group!

If you enjoyed this episode, we would really really appreciate it if you left a rating and review on Apple Podcast / Spotify or share the show with a loved one. This helps us grow the show so that we can keep doing what we are doing! Thank you so much for the support!

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Diving into the realm of nutrition for our ‘8 Dimensions of Wellness Series,’ we are honored to be joined by Iliriana Zeneli who is the CEO and founder of Live Healthillie. Illie is a holistic health coach, certified personal trainer, and wellness influencer with over 275,000+ followers on Instagram and TikTok.

In this episode, Illie shares her journey from someone who used to unknowingly promote harmful brands to realizing her body needed a lifestyle change and to now building a business dedicated to advocating for the cleanest ingredients on the market. She believes her purpose in life is to help others live a low tox life and to be able to truly experience complete wellness. We touch on all these concepts today and more.

You can shop hundreds of products that she has vouched for on her website livehealthillie.com.

Links:

Illie of Healthillie - Instagram, TikTok, Website

Dr. Shannon Curtis, ​​Holistic Acne Doctor - Instagram

Ashley Taylor Wellness - Instagram

Natural Nurse Mama - Instagram

Heal with FiFi - Instagram, TikTok

Real Foodology - Instagram

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Already Friends Socials: Instagram, TikTok

Allison's Socials: Instagram, TikTok

Ceara's Socials: Instagram, TikTok

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We are halfway through our ‘8 Dimensions of Wellness’ series so we are taking this week to reflect on how much we’ve learned over the past six weeks. WWYBD is our ‘What Would Your Bestie Do?’ segment where we anonymously answer questions our community submitted via our website.

In today’s episode, we talk about our favorite ways to take care of ourselves, how we stick to healthy habits when life gets busy, how to navigate friendships when you no longer live the same lifestyle, our thoughts on non-hallucinogenic mushroom extracts, how to balance alone time when you live with a roommate or partner and how to hold yourself accountable.

If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you might have seen that our first group trip is on the calendar for October 15-21, 2023! Our sign-up link is live as of today. Space is limited. If you’re wanting to come on the trip, we definitely recommend booking sooner than later! We can’t wait to meet everyone.

MENTIONS:

Costa Rica Booking Link

Costa Rica Trip Information

Allison’s Bamboo Bedding Ettitude (Code allisonwetig)

Allison’s Mushrooms

3 Levels of Consciousness TikTok

ADHD Dopamine Relationship Article

WWYBD Questions Submit Here

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Already Friends Socials: Instagram, TikTok

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In celebration of our two-year anniversary, we are launching our “podcast bible” which is our 35-page PDF guide of everything we’ve learned from equipment to software to growing your audience to monetization to building a community. It’s everything we wish we would have known before we started. It’s available for $25 on our website alreadyfriendspodcast.com/shop

In this episode, we transparently share some of the hardest parts about having a podcast, as well as some of the most rewarding parts! All around, we would definitely say it’s worth it to start one but definitely take some time to listen to the episode all the way through if this is something you’ve been thinking about doing. We want to help shorten your learning curve and spare you the many headaches we went through.

As always, a huge thank you to our listeners for being a part of our growing community. We are so honored you choose our show week after week. Cheers to two years of the already friends podcast! Here’s to many more.

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MENTIONS:

Purchase our Podcast Bible PDF Guide -

alreadyfriendspodcast.com/shop

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This is Part 2 of our conversation with award-winning anthropologist and TEDx Speaker Dr. Chelsea Shields. After working with clients all over the world to help them better understand how humans have evolved and what they’re socially influenced by, she has developed a theory about the five friends you need in life to contribute to your social safety net.

Ideas we discuss in this episode:

• Finding a third place outside of social media
• Code-switching and its impact on how we portray ourselves online
• Why we struggle to be fully authentic online
• Why you should utilize social media primarily for marketing
• Red flags to look out for in unhealthy communities
• Greens flags to look for in a strong, healthy, reciprocal community
• What is social capital and being on the peripheral means.
• Why you need to improve your social intelligence
• How your own mental health affects long-term relationships
• How to develop deep, authentic friendships
• Why isolating after breakups isn’t the best solution
• The importance of intergenerational friendships
• The five friends you need in life

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Watch Dr. Shields Ted Talk here.

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In continuation of our ‘8 Dimensions of Wellness Series,’ we are honored to bring on Dr. Chelsea Shields who is an award-winning anthropologist, founder of Brandthropologie, a research and strategy consulting business, and multi-time TED fellow, speaker, and speaking coach.

Dr. Shields thinks about social wellness in terms of a safety net. An intricate weaving of people in our community who we depend on. As people start making more money and as technology becomes more prevalent, people start hiring out social roles that they used to have to accommodate for. It’s crucial to our well-being to foster relationships on a very real intimate level. She suggests having 5-6 close quality friends that you can lean on in times of need, as well about 15-25 close acquaintances. She explains that if you don’t have this quality safety net then events like divorce, death and bad accidents can cause more suffering than they would have otherwise.

“Invest in the people that give you reciprocity.”

“I think our generation is missing multigenerational relationships.”

“People understand emotions before they understand logic.”

“Social pain is pain. It’s the same neural pathways as physical pain.”

“Routines are what keeps things the same. Rituals are what makes things different.”

MENTIONS:

Plant-Based McDonalds - Mr. Charlie’s

A Fave LA/NYC Restaurant - The Butcher’s Daughter

Funny TikToker - @TK.California

BOOK RECS:

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by E.O. Wilson

Behave by Robert Sapolsky

Rat Park TedTalk - Johann Hari: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong

SPONSORS + DISCOUNTS:

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try atbetterhelp.com/ALREADYFRIENDSand get on your way to being your best self.

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Already Friends Socials:Instagram,TikTok

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