Diahn and Melinda tackle the unexpectedly difficult topic of creativity. What is creativity? Do you have to be a painter or musician to be considered creative? Where does it come from? Is it nature or nurture? Listen in as we dig deep into the topic with surprising results... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

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14. Creativity

Melinda and Diahn have a jam session about Covid life, election stress, and podcasting lessons learned.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

2.6 A True Jam

Melinda and Diahn finally decide to broach the subject they’ve been avoiding all year. Vulnerability. Brene Brown Resources referenced in this podcast: Books Wholehearted Inventory --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

2.5 Vulnerability, dammit

Melinda and Diahn discuss the topic of self-esteem and self-worth, how they differ, how they correlate, and how we perceive our value in business, creativity, and relationships. Show Notes: Self Esteem v. Self Worth Stuart Smalley --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

2.4 Knowing your Damn Value

Diahn and Melinda discuss what life feels like as introverts in a world that values extroversion. They examine the ways they tried to fit into a culture where extroverts are considered the gold standard and how they learned to appreciate the personality traits that make them unique. Find them on Instagram Send an email to thisbe@this-be.com Show Notes: The Maker City Creating Mindfulness Psychology Today Definition of Introversion Psychology Today Extroversion Introversion Test Extrovert, Introvert, Ambivert Test Quiet, by Susan Cain --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

2.3 Introversion

Melinda and Diahn break down the ways we deal with and dish out that sweet, sweet passive aggression. Is it ever appropriate? Do we handle it appropriately? Do we even know when we are using it as a defense mechanism? Find them on Instagram Send an email to thisbe@this-be.com Recommendations for the week: Gloria Steinem - My Life on the Road Small Doses with Amanda Seales - Side Effects of White Women --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

2.2 Passive Aggressive

Melinda and Diahn are back after a nice, relaxing summer pandemic hiatus. They discuss what's been going on since May and how the break helped them process so many of the topics they covered in Season One. Find them on Instagram: @thisbepod Email: thisbe@this-be.com Recommendations: Falling Upward by Richard Rohr  A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green A Good Hard Look by Anne Napolitano Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

2.1 Season Two

Melinda and Diahn recap their first season of podcasting in this season-finale episode. They discuss what they learned, what made them uncomfortable, what made them proud, and what podcasting has changed in their personal lives.  Here are some quick recommendations for books to read while you're waiting for them to come back... Untamed by Glennon Doyle Daring Greatly by Brene Brown The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd The Martian by Andy Weir You can always find them on Instagram, too - look for live stories from Florida over the next week! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

17. Prime Time

Diahn and Melinda explore the idea of boundaries in interpersonal relationships. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

16. Boundaries

Melinda and Diahn discuss how the pandemic has changed their retail therapy habits, what they've learned from the restrictions on their shopping patterns, and what kinds of changes are needed to carry forward into the new world order. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

15. Retail Therapy

Diahn and Melinda discuss how their original plan for the podcast has evolved into what it has become over the past 13 weeks, how implementing a daily intention check-in with each other has changed their weekly routines and why Diahn gets so fidgety when talking about her feelings. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

13. What it Be

Three weeks into the pandemic, life starts to look less like a crisis and more like an opportunity to delve into what really matters and how to hit the reset button on some of the bad habits we've developed over the years. How can we effectively change and move toward the best versions of ourselves? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

12. the Reset

Melinda and Diahn discuss life in the midst of the COVid-19 pandemic - how they are handling the stress and anxiety associated with being on safer-at-home regulations and the things that are bringing them joy and peace in the middle of the weirdest month ever. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

11. the Pandemic

Melinda and Diahn chat about the importance of the female friendships in their lives, how their own mothers modeled having friendships and how their own friendships have changed as they've aged.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

10. the Tribe

Melinda and Diahn break down their self-care habits and make goals to improve their overall mental and physical well-being. Apparently, there's more to self-care than just hot baths, mani-pedis and massages! Who knew? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisbe/message

9. Self Care (part 2 of 2)

Two women trying to navigate the sandwich generation - being stuck in the middle of a bunch of people who ask way too much of us and still come out possessing a sense of self and purpose.