We are back! This is a quick little update episode to let everyone know the state of the podcast and what's to come!

Sneak Peek

Our first episode in over a year! This was a long time coming but we are finally back on the grind. In this episode we talk about leadership. What do people get wrong about leadership, and what makes a good leader? As always, let us know if you enjoy, and feel free to suggest topics for future episodes. Enjoy!

What is Leadership?

This episode is about being open minded. What does it mean? What does it look like? How can we be more open minded? This was recorded a while ago so I'm not sure exactly what gets said but it was a good talk.

Open Minded

We dive into the depths of friendship, brotherly love, and the cosmic force that connects all of us. Take our hands on this journey of verbal liberation. Together, we shall unravel the perplexities of friendship. 

Introduction Audio Credit -Song "Cold Funk" by Kevin Macleod... We do not own the audio, nor did we create it. The audio was slightly altered by being cut to only a few seconds.

Friendship and Identity

In this episode, we discuss toxic masculinity and which aspects of masculinity are harmful to men themselves. Our discussion makes us realize we have perpetuated some toxic aspects of masculinity.

We've scratched the surface of this topic and plan to do more episodes on this in the future!

Toxic Masculinity

Does social media connect us to distant people or disconnect us from present people?

A guest joins us to discuss that and more on our episode that just dropped!

The Social Media Effect

Living your life in an echo chamber? Listen to us talk about how and why to create more diversity of ideas in your life.

Societal Echo Chambers

We’re welcoming the new year with an episode about motivation.

We discuss where motivation comes from and how it relates to comforts zones, values, and more.

Motivation

Does conquering fear in one aspect of your life give you confidence in all areas? Listen to our take on how fear and confidence interact.

Fear and Confidence

We’ve got a new episode exploring personal fears. One idea we discuss is how do we control fears that are controlling us? Savannah joined us to share her insight.

Controlling Your Fears

New episode! We discuss the difference between good and bad sacrifices, how to know what’s worth sacrificing for, and more.

Annie Palmer joins us again to share her thoughts.

Listen in with the links below

#podcast #sacrifice #realtalk

Sacrifice and Values

Ever been in a relationship that feels like it isn’t progressing? We’ve been there and it’s frustrating.

In this episode, we discuss:
-Why vulnerability is important in dating.
-How not being vulnerable can be emotionally draining.
-How vulnerability allows you to date with purpose.
-How to become vulnerable again after being hurt when you were vulnerable.
-If vulnerability is connected to the pace of the relationship.
-How to be hurt less by being vulnerable in a relationship.

Vulnerability in Dating

Do you struggle with comparing your relationship to couples? Where do your dating expectations come from?

In this episode, we discuss:
- Comparing your relationship and how that effects it
- Establishing your own expectations and shedding those imposed on you
- How culture can effect your dating life
- What role should dating play in our lives
- How social media effects dating

Dating: Expectations and Comparisons

Do you struggle with accurately depicting what others think of you or your actions? 

In this episode, we discuss:
- How to accurately define what others think about you
- What good and bad narratives look like
- What is and is not important to put a narrate in your life
- How we effect our long term happiness through narratives
- How we effect our relationships through narratives

Happiness and Reliable Narratives

What can males do to stop the objectification of women in our everyday conversations?

In this episode we talk about "locker room talk" and how it affects women. 
We talk about similar speech that occurs in the presence of women, or directed at women
We discuss things we can do to remedy the problem.

Locker-room Talk

Would it help or hurt you to step away from social media?

We dive into the benefits social media in this episode! We discuss:
- Connection
- Finding support
- Exploring your interests
- Building a business
- Leverage unused potential

The Power of Social Media

Is there is a wrong way to deal with a breakup?

In this episode we discuss:
- Self care post breakup
- Staying friends or not
- Prioritizing yourself
- Letting yourself be sad
- Bad habits each of us have

Dealing With Breakups

How are you affected by stress? Do you understand when stress is good or bad for you?

In this Episode we look into:
- The difference between good and back stress
- How to tell when stress is bad for you
- How to identify where you stress comes from
- Minor ways to deal with stress

Understanding Stress

Can you honestly say you know what you want for your life? How do others opinions influence that?

In this episode we talk about the following:
- Why is authenticity hard?
- How authenticity changes from person to person
- What influences our decisions for school, work, etc
- Understanding the difference between your dreams and the dreams of others
- How do we evaluate our authenticity?

Living Authentically

This week we sit down with Levi's brother Abe, as well as our friend Dan, to have a more specific conversation about superficiality in family relationships. Questions pertain to the nature of family relationships and how they change over time. We have some great input from a pair of siblings in Levi and Abe, and there are plenty of thoughtful perspectives brought up.

Superficial Relationships in the Family

In this episode we talk about the difficulty of growing up. We touch on the following:
- How expectations and dreams change
- The reality that life will be hard
- How to react when life doesn't go the way we want
- The process of constant self-discovery

Growing Pains

Land your dream job, find your soulmate, write a book, travel the world.

In our latest episode, we don’t talk about any of that. BUT… we talk about getting more out of life by making goals personal, and who doesn’t want that.

Making Goals Personal

Our newest episode offers some great perspective on relationships, dating, and marriage, and expectations through it all.

We discuss some of the following topics:
-How do you know the person you meet will be the one?
-How was realizing he/she is the one different than you expected?
-How marriage in real life compared to what you thought it would be like when you were younger?
-What was falling in love like?
-Biggest fears and concerns related to marriage

If you’re not currently in a relationship, we promise you might could possibly be in one within two hours after listening to this.

Finding Love And Getting Married

In this week's episode, we talk about different aspects of LDS church culture.

At one point or another, each member has probably been negatively impacted by church culture. We share some personal stories and talk about how we often give ourselves the benefit of the doubt but not others. We discuss how criticism of church culture is a criticism of the members and we are part of that group. That means we should consider if we are part of the problem.

LDS Church Culture Part 1

In this week's episode, we continue our discussion about LDS church culture.

We discuss how we are to blame, in part, for the culture that exists in the church and how it is up to each of us individually to change it.

LDS Church Culture Part 2

In this episode, we explore the positive and negative aspects of culture. How to identify and change negative culture. And how to perpetuate positive aspects of culture.

Listen in and you just might become more cultured than a petri dish.

Positive and Negative Culture

This episode marks one year since we started the podcast, and is a fun look back at the past year. Take a look at where we've been, how we've changed, and how the podcast has affected us in this episode!

Behind One Year of Podcasting

In this episode we talk about how living a life with more empathy could help us. We touching on understanding others experiences, different view points, lifestyles, and discuss why empathy is important and what stops us showing it.

Empathy

Join us this week for a riveting conversation about finding meaning in life! This episode started with us the balance between how much our circumstances and attitudes affect how happy we are, but it became something else. Why is the grass greener on the other side, and what can we do to keep a positive attitude when our circumstances are less than ideal? Listen to us discuss these questions and more with our guest Abe. Enjoy the episode!

The Pursuit of Meaning

Failure is something we all experience, and this week was inspired by failures that both Levi and Ethan have been through in the past few weeks. How can we learn from failures? When we work hard and fail, does that mean we've wasted our time? In this episode, we try to learn from failure in the past and discuss how we might be better prepared to deal with it in the future.

Overcoming Failure

In this episode we talk about the positivity that abounds in a world filled with negativity a fear from Covid-19. We talk about the big acts of kindness from those with large amounts of money, and the things we can do in our everyday lives. Please Excuse the audio quality issues. It's all Ethans fault...

Positivity Through Covid-19

We have to be honest... this pandemic has really thrown our routine off. Regardless, we are back! This episode is all about dealing with this self isolation and other challenges we have been facing. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Handling Self-Isolation

After our long break, in this episode we talk about activism and how each of us can better define how to be an activist, what it means for us personally and why we should do so.

Activism

Keep It 100

New episode! This week we think not only about how independent we are, but how independent can we really be? How independent should we really be? Is there a cost to independence, and is that cost ever too high? Are we averse to depending on those around us for a good reason? What do you think? Listen and let us know!

Independence

In this episode, we talk about pivot points. When have you had to make a pivot to better deal with your circumstances?

Pivot Points

Our podcast provides young people with an opportunity to hear other young people discuss various ideas and issues that weigh on our minds. With a dose of humor and a lack of expertise, we attempt to dissect some of our own experiences to see what lessons there are to be learned.

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