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Welcome to The Best Life podcast! Here we talk about everything from: success, money, relationships, entrepreneurship, productivity, honest communication, positive psychology, and an abundance mindset. Creating a life that YOU choose.
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Christian Felix and Shonali Bhowmik became fast friends while working as temporary workers at a huge law firm in Manhattan. They share a love of laughing and giving each other hell. They may be called hipsters, old school, mainstream, irreverent, classic, country, gangster, or rock n' roll. All labels apply. Special guests, music, and attitude every episode. Past guests include: Jeremy O. Harris, Chelsea Peretti, Hannibal Buress, Keisha Zollar, H Jon Benjamin, Amber Tamblyn, JD Samson, Sanji ...
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Sponsored by United Nanny Agency, using a human touch with a tech edge to create happy families, and the only agency offering nanny training and a matchmaking gold touch to match family and nanny faster and simpler. Learn more at www.unitednanny.org This is the family, nanny, and nanny agency approved podcast, here to give you the best advice on how to find a nanny and then keep them. Reach out and connect at [email protected] More: Danny J Rosenthal is the author behind Nanny ABCs: The ...
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Lately, Danny has been taking more girls’ trips in an effort to maintain some individuality outside of her relationship. We love our partners, and we love nurturing them, but when your sole sense of self is tied to your partner and their needs, your own sense of self and your needs start getting ignored, and before you know it, resentment starts gr…
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Ep. 523: An Epidemic of Dishonesty in the Online Space
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We all know social media is full of smoke & mirrors but, like clockwork, we’re seeing a new disturbing trend: influencers sharing their “mindset transformations” without being upfront about how they’re actually transforming—with the help of weight loss drugs and other procedures. Bestie, you know we’re all for doing whatever makes you feel confiden…
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Ep. 522: 4 Tools To Overcome Impostor Syndrome
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Trying something new is scary enough, but even more so when you’re trying something new. Impostor syndrome happens to all of us, and that’s okay! But Bestie, what we never want is for impostor syndrome to prevent you from taking action and living the life you dream of. Today Jill is sharing 4 tools you can use to help overcome impostor syndrome. Tr…
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Ep. 521: The Power of a Daily Meditation Practice
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Look, Bestie, we never want to say we’re better than you. Buuuuuuut Danny’s been meditating every single day for a month, so…. Kidding, of course, but these last 30+ days have been life changing for her. What started out as a years-long unfulfilled promise turned into curiosity, which turned into a real, daily practice that feels like the kind of p…
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We’ve been entrepreneurs for a while now, and we’ve learned quite a few lessons. The highs are high, the lows are low, but through it all, we’ve pivoted and learned everything we could, and as a result, we’ve become better people. When it comes to business (and life) it all boils down to taking action in the face of paralysis and realizing that you…
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With the rise in popularity of beauty influencers and reality shows like Love Island, there seems to be a new standard of beauty, and it requires a lot of effort (and frankly, money). Lash extensions, hair extensions, botox, fillers, and a full-face of makeup daily is becoming increasingly popular… but are men even into it? Do we have to get work d…
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Ep. 518: Our Changing Relationship to Drinking
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In the aftermath of our divorces, we turned to alcohol maybe a little more than we’re proud of. But hey, you gotta do what you gotta do, and sometimes that means not always having the healthiest coping mechanisms. But since then, we’ve stopped going out at much, met our significant others, and developed new goals around longevity, so our drinking h…
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Some people find doing everything on their own to be difficult, but for us, it’s asking for help that ends up being the harder task. Asking for help can feel like admitting to failure, not being good enough, or opening ourselves up for judgement and it feels safer to struggle alone than to admit we need assistance. But when we think about it, we LO…
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Ep. 516: Thinking Of Starting A Side Hustle?
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We’re really passionate about women making money for themselves. Obviously in an ideal world, women in partnerships don’t have to worry about being the primary financial provider if that’s not what they want to do, but having a way to financially support ourselves during our unexpected divorces was pivotal for us, and we want every women to have th…
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Ep. 515: Having Access To Your Partner's Phone Password
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Would you break up with your partner if they didn’t allow you access to their cell phone? It certainly seems like a weird dealbreaker to have, but after going through infidelity at the hands of our exes, we can empathize. Private cell phones (and computers for that matter) are causing new problems that weren’t possible before, and while everyone de…
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Ep. 514: Being "Realistic" About Our Dreams
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We consider ourselves dreamers and big believers in what’s possible, but we do believe in the utility of being “realistic.” At least, being realistic about what you’re willing to do, and realistic about the timeline you want to achieve things in. Every human achievement seemed impossible at one point, and to realize them, it took people who were bo…
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Ep. 513: Catching Up on Our Personal Lives
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It’s been a while since we recorded a personal episode of this podcast and we felt like it might be time to catch you up to date on what we’ve been doing, Bestie. The world is just as chaotic as ever, meanwhile we’ve been sick, vacationing, and grieving. You know, all the usual stuff. We promise not to be so distant and keep you more in the loop ne…
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Ep. 512: 5 Must-Do Bucket List Items For the Newly Divorced
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When we started this podcast, we were somewhat newly divorced and trying to navigate the world on our own for the first time in a long time. We weren’t sure how to be alone, but we had to. Maybe you can relate—when is the last time you did something all by yourself? Today, Jill shares a 5-item bucket-list for you to try out if you’re newly divorced…
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Ep. 511: The Side Hustle You Didn't Know You Needed
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There’s a new kind of side hustle you can do from almost anywhere: user generated content. After Danny saw a friend making thousands a month for seemingly little output, she had to do some investigation. For the past few months, she’s been dabbling with UGC so she can give you to lowdown on the the truths, the lies, and what’s possible if you decid…
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Ep. 510: Minerals, Metabolism, and Mindset with Tina Haupert of Carrots N Cake
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There’s so much more to being healthy than just being “thin” and the closer we get to perimenopause and menopause, the more we realize that. Today Jill is chatting with Tina Haupert of Carrots N Cake about minerals, metabolism, mindset, and how important they are to maintaining our health. We always hear about macronutrients, but no one seems to ca…
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Ep. 509: Knowing How Much Money is "Enough"
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We’re the kind of women who love to work and yes, we love to make money. There’s so much moralizing about money and whether having it makes someone good or bad, but to us, money is just a tool. So how do we know when we’ve made “enough” of it? American culture is so focused on always striving for more, and while that’s not necessarily a bad thing, …
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Ep. 508: A Partner's Permission to Change Your Looks
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We’re independent women and we don’t need men to validate us—but we do still care what our partners think. But there’s definitely a balance that needs to be struck between changing your appearance whenever you want and asking your partner for permission to change. We want to be attracted to them, and for them to be attracted to us, so it’s not a ba…
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Ep. 507: Is There An Age Limit to Starting an Online Business?
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Are you too old to start an online business? The short answer is yes. The long answer is of course not! Look, we don’t know about you, but we don’t want to take a 20-year-old’s advice about anything. The older we get, the less we care about impressing the younger generations or about looking like we once did. Now, we see bad-ass women in their 50’s…
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Shitty things happen in life, and don’t we know it. And we all know that healing isn’t linear, but haven’t you ever though to yourself, “Why aren’t I over this yet?” Emotional wounds cut deep, and they’re often compounded childhood wounds, which just means that it’ll take longer to “heal” than you might expect—or want. But Bestie, you’ve been throu…
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Ep. 505: 10 Ways to Cultivate Meaningful Friendships
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There’s a part of getting older that we never expected: it’s getting harder to maintain meaningful friendships. The people who were once our tight-knit circle have become strangers as career, families, and lives change. It’s not a crime to outgrow friendships, but if we want meaningful connections, then we’re going to have to make a real effort in …
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Ep. 504: The Results of Our 30-Day Instagram Reels Challenge
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We’re fresh off a 30-Day Instagram Reels Challenge and our results were… nothing like we imagined they would be. When we started our businesses online, we never predicted that we’d somehow have to turn into videographers, too. So we figured we’d lean in to Reels and see how it changed our followings. Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Well, at least not in …
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Ep. 503: The Three M's of Building A Personal Brand
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We’ve been in the online space for decades now so we’ve become somewhat of experts at creating personal brands—it’s why you’re listening to this podcast today. And despite the space feeling “saturated” there’s never been a better time to start an online business than now. If you’re hopeful about starting an online business, or even if you already h…
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If we were trapped in a forest, would we rather be stuck with a man or a bear? If you’re a woman, you already know our answer because yours is probably the same: the bear. It’s not that we hate men, but in our experiences, men can be scary, unkind, and unsafe. Every single woman we know has a story about some man acting creepy and aggressive. “No” …
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Ep. 501: Inspiration Porn, Fake Vulnerability, and Performative Good Deeds
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Is it just us, or is everything on social media just engagement farming now? People are posting videos of them crying or doing “good deeds” because it get views, and it feels really phony and a little bit cringe. We’re all for vulnerability online, but there’s a difference in sharing vulnerably and pretending to be sad so that you get likes on Inst…
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Ep. 500: How to Stay Motivated When Nothing Is Working
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Life isn’t always direct. Sometimes while we’re working towards a goal we take a few more steps back than anticipated and it gets discouraging. But if we want to make a positive change, in ourselves and in the world, we have to keep moving forwards. Today, Danny shares some tips on how to keep going when nothing seems to be going right for you. You…
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