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Today we’re chatting about one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make: to have, or not to have, kids. +How we both came to the decision to have and not have kids. +The timing of kids – and how many. +The challenging conversations between partners about the decision to have kids. +The pros and cons to either a child free or child full life. +Kim’s suggestions on creating a full life without kids. +Sarah’s thoughts on the challenges marriages face when you’re raising young kids.

Or, alternately titled: Kim and Sarah don’t share treats. HA! In this episode we talk all about TREATS! +Treats vs. rewards +Treats for all the senses +Favorite treats +Treating other people +Sharing (or, in our case, NOT sharing treats) We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a

Today we’re talking all about pets! We’re sharing: +Our pet history. +Our current pets and their personalities. +Our favorite thing about having a pet. +Taking care of pets. +Kim’s dog, Levi, and his heart condition that led to Mighty Hearts Project. We also answer a listener question and chat about what’s making us happy this week! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask

Today we’re chatting all about creativity! Oh, creativity, the ever allusive entity we’re forever trying to catch! In this episode, we talk about: +Using creativity creatively vs. professionally. +Is creativity taught or learned? +What makes us feel super creative. +Barriers to creativity. +Strategies to cultivate creativity when the well has worn dry! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or

In this episode Sarah and Kim chit chat about what’s going on in their lives. These are all the things we’d tell you over a coffee date! +Sarah kills a giant bug while recording. +How Sarah’s house is basically CONTAGION. +The Buddha Board +The challenging nature of toddlers. +Avoiding a “can’t you just” moment. +How Kim almost vomited while teaching RPM. +Low blood pressure and trying not to faint after teaching class. +An update on how far Sarah’s gotten on her Gretchen Rubin Coloring Book.

Today we’re chatting about all things personality! Specifically, where we fall on the DISC and Big Five personality assessors. +Why we love personality tests. +What is the DISC? And where do we fall? +What we agree with/disagree with when it comes to our DISC results. Sarah finds a difference between enthusiasm and dominance that didn’t come through right for her. Kim discusses how she would answer differently depending on the circumstances. +The Big Five test and where we fall. +We ask YOU for recommendations on

Today we’re chatting all about being beginners. It can be so hard to be a beginner. But, also, so fun! Our recent newbie experience learning modern brush script inspired this episode all about being a beginner. +We took a class from Michele Fritz of Meant to be Calligraphy. She teaches all over the DC Metro area, so check her out! +Stylish Patina’s Rough Luxe Warehouse hosted the class. If you live in the Northern Virginia area, go check it out! +How being a beginner makes

Today is all about embarrassing moments! +Physical vs. verbal emabarrassment +Kim and Sarah each share embarrassing moments from their past. +Would we tell other people if they had their fly down, spinach in their teeth, etc… We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you can also email us at 25percentfriends@gmail.com Also,

We LOVE productivity! In this episode, we give our tips, ideas, and strategies for staying on task! +We chat about when we’re the most productive. +Multitasking and performing process in parallel. +Productivity tips, ideas, and strategies. +Being finishers vs. openers. +Routines and habits. We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from listeners. Ask us a question or leave us a comment about the show. And you

For the love of our community! In this episode, we chat all about our love of community and the importance of community in our lives. +What community means to us. +What communities we are a part of and our roles in each of the communities. +How to break into a new community. +How to you foster strong relationships within your communities. +Sarah’s Creative Colleagues group. Come join! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with

For the love of athleisure! It’s the first 25% Friends Live Edition! +What is athleisure? +How has athleisure changed over the years. +Is athleisure appropriate for all (or most!) occasions. +Kim’s athleisure business suit and Sarah’s collection of vinyasa scarves. +Is athleisure elitist? +And lots and lots and lots of listener Q+As! You can WATCH the show here! We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with us on our Facebook page! We love hearing from

Caution! We are adults having adult conversations, so this episode is not suitable for young ears! +When and how Kim and Sarah learned about sex, thoughts on puberty. Talking to kids about sex. +Why sex is so taboo and shameful. +How the love language of Physical Touch plays into sex. +What is important in a sexual experience. +Sex between a man and a woman and sex between two women. We also answer listener questions about our LIVE PODCAST AT LULULEMON! Basically: come one, come all!

In today’s episode, we’re presenting the counter to negative self-talk: self-compassion and resiliency. +We chat about resiliency: what is it, what it means +How we cope with challenges, set backs, issues that come. +Why we cope well, and why we don’t. +How we get ourselves out of a negative loop. +Self-compassion: what it is, what it isn’t. +The difference between self-compassion and self-esteem. We also answer a listener question about fairy tales and give our “what’s making us happy” moment. We started an IG account!

Today we’re talking all about that not-good-for-us habit of negative self talk. +What is negative self talk? And what are the obvious and not so obvious ways it sneaks in? +Strategies, tips, and advice for changing that loop of negative self talk. +We talked about how Sarah uses Voxer to vent/release negative thoughts. We both us talks with our good friends and spouses to challenging our thinking. +Not believing every thought that enters our heads. We also answer a listener question about fairy tales and

Woohoo! It’s our first episode of 2017! +We talk about our reflections on 2016, the good, the not so good. +We discuss picking a word for the year. Sarah picked YIRAH. +We chat about what we learned this past year. +Goals, plans, manifesting, making things happen. We also answer a listener question about the gym in January. And we share a NEW segment: what’s making us happy. We started an IG account! Please, come say HI! We want to talk to you! Please connect with