Month: February 2024

The Top 5 Most Influential Albums for Keith and Laura.

We get nostalgic trying to pick the top 5 albums that influenced us, supported us, made a significant impact in our lives. This is nowhere near a comprehensive list. 

A couple themes develop as Keith and Laura discuss their top albums. They’ve both seen Keith’s picks play live in concert. If music grabs hold of Keith, he dives into an artist’s catalogue and their influences to discover more great music.  Laura is drawn to music that utilizes piano and  uses music to keep her company in various situations.  

When music speaks to us, we feel confident in our power, connected, seen, and comforted by the music that resonates.

We love to share and discover music and hope you all find some “songs of significance.”

Thanks for joining us. 

Laura’s Top 5

• Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morrisette
• Dookie, Green Day
• Hamilton: An American Musical
• Begin to Hope, Regina Spektor
• Special, Lizzo

Keith’s Top 5

• Metallica (The Black Album), Metallica
• This Year’s Model, Elvis Costello and The Atttractions
• Once (Music from the Motion Picture)
• We Are, Jon Batiste
• Love Lines, LP

Honorable Mentions

• Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Weezer (Blue Album), Weezer
• Riot Act, Pearl Jam
• The Carpenters
• Silent Alarm, Bloc Party
• Like a Virgin, Madonna
• Blue Hearts, Bob Mould
• Sunshine Rock, Bob Mould
• Purple Rain, Prince
• Purple, Stone Temple Pilots
• Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
• Wide Open Spaces, The Chicks
• The Empyrean, John Frusciante
• Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• ..and out Come the Wolves, Rancid

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On our journey, as we’re growing, as we’re learning, not everything happens the way we plan or expect. 

In this episode, we talk about what it feels like to be lost, what tensions we notice and attend to as we find our way forward, and how to potentially get back on track. If we don’t course correct, we likely keep going, going, going in a circles. 

What’s important and essential when you feel stuck or lost? 

Keith and Laura focus the discussion around ideas that bubbled up as they listened to Greg McKeown’s latest visit to The Tim Ferriss Show. You may have heard of McKeown’s books Effortless and Essentialism.

We also watched the documentary Stutz, a documentary on Netflix about psychiatrist, Phil Stutz, his tools, and relation ship with actor Jonah Hill.

Thanks for joining us as we look for a way to get from here to there, wherever that may be.

**I’m Lost –  Episode 25**

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▾ Here are select works and resources we enjoy and find helpful ▾

● Greg McKeown,  Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less 🎧📕

● Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most 🎧📘

● Stutz on Netflix – 🍿📺

● Maslow’s forgotten pinnacle: Self-transcendence 

● Nichol Bradford, Big Think 
 Humanity’s Greatest Challenges Aren’t Technical – They’re Human 

● Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule 🎧📙 

● Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist 🎧📙 

● Seth Godin, This Is Marketing 🎧📙

● Seth Godin, Poke the Box 🎧📙

● Seth Godin, The Song of Significance🎧📘

● Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being🎧📘

● Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies 🎧📘

● Marie Forleo, Everything Is Figureoutable 🎧📙

●  Fusebox the podcast hosting and player we use. Check it out! 💻

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It’s not always easy. Do we rise to the occasion or pull back?

On her recent work trip, Laura went down a rabbit hole. She was listening to Mel Robbins’ The 5 Second Rule, Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, and Keith had shared a letter, he received at 18, from an amazing friend who had just passed away. 

Laura knew Keith needed to talk. He was grieving. With all that swirling around, Laura gently and kindly makes space and attempts to coax Keith out of his shell. Sometimes, she’s too subtle. We start by pondering our journey, transition to moments where we jumped in or held back, and then shift to finding small steps that lead to happiness, and finish with the beauty of chasing dreams.

How do you react to that gut feeling, the moment when a choice arrives that can shift your trajectory? Do you leap, even if it’s scary? 

Things could have been different, they almost were. Here’s to loving the journey and creating a life you love, a life in which you are truly happy, a life you want. 

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We are both so thankful we experienced part of the journey with our amazing friend, Denise. Confronting the complete heartbreak is only dulled by the pure love that we will always feel, cherish and hold when we think of you. We are dancing with letting go. At the same time, we will never stop looking for signs and you will never truly be gone.  

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A Love Story –  Episode 24 

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▾ Here are select works and resources we enjoy and find helpful ▾

● Mel Robbins,  The 5 Second Rule 🎧📙 

● Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist 🎧📙 

● Seth Godin, This Is Marketing 🎧📙

● Seth Godin, Poke the Box 🎧📙

● Seth Godin, The Song of Significance🎧📘

● Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being🎧📘

●  Fusebox the podcast hosting and player we use. Check it out! 💻

*Some Links are affiliate links. If you buy something using one of our affiliate links, we’ll receive a small commission.* 🤗

Thanks for joining us.