We usually equate the phrase “trying hard” to trying, PERIOD. If you didn’t “try hard,” did you even really try at all?

In this episode we talk about:

• Is it possible to try easier, without trying LESS?
• The habits we work ourselves into around "trying," especially during times when we do need to give our all
• How to, logistically, shift your relationship with how you"try"
• ...and more!

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Maybe you've heard about the Five Love Languages, but maybe they've at times felt...kind of limiting? Confusing? Problematic, even? 

There's a reason for that, and you're not alone. That's why Anne Hodder-Shipp decided to reimagine some things: 

• What "The Modern Love Languages" are and how they're different than what we might already be familiar with (it's not just that there are 18 of them!)
• How you can apply The Modern Love Languages in your life way beyond your romantic relationships
• Whether or not it's important to find people whose love languages "match" your own
• The origins of the "original" Five Love Languages and why they might be more harmful than helpful
• Taking sex and relationship education onto social media in the 2020s
• ...and more!

ABOUT ANNE:

Anne Hodder-Shipp, CSE, ACS, (she/they) is an award-winning certified sex and relationship educator dedicated to providing accurate, expansive, and compassionate care. They are the founder and lead educator at Everyone Deserves Sex Ed, a sex ed and professional development organization, and they work with people and couples of almost any age to help build skills, knowledge, and confidence around identity, pleasure, relationships, and communication.

Most recently, Anne wrote the groundbreaking expansive love language ebook, Speaking from the Heart: 18 Languages for Modern Love, and its accompanying guide, The Speaking from the Heart Workbook: A Practical Guide to the Modern Love Languages.

SHOW NOTES:

themodernlovelanguages.com

The Modern Love Languages workbook

EDSE's sex educator certification

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True love, real love, "the one"... the way people describe love is pretty and aspirational, but ultimately super vague. What does love actually feel like? How do you know it's love and not just old habits or displaced desires? Is love even a noun at all, or is it an action?

In this episode, I talk to partners in life, love, and business, Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison and Holley Kholi-Murchison) about:

• How to truly be in relationship and partnership with someone else....and also honor yourself and your own desires.
• Re-evaluating and reflecting about the way you relate to love
• HOW THE HECK do you separate your own self-love from the love you experience from someone else — especially if that person fills many roles in your life?
• and more!
  
  (this episode is a Best Of The WANTcast rebroadcast — so if you loved it the first time around, listen again to gather even more gems you might have missed!)

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ABOUT HOLLEY

Holley M. Kholi-Murchison is an artist and cultural geographer began her career more than 15 years ago. She is not just a writer, a strategy consultant, an entrepreneur, a speaker—she is an explorer and a trailblazer, forging her own path and teaching others to do the same.

ABOUT KHOLI

Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison, also known as Kholi, is a writer, editor, critical thinker, entrepreneur, and growth strategist. She’s been helping individuals and organizations realize their visions for more than a decade.

We've all heard "it's what's on the inside that counts" — but what the heck does INNER STRENGTH actually mean, and how do you cultivate it beyond just knowing it's important?

• What this stage in the process of writing a book has been bringing up for Katie in the background
• The call with a friend that served as a metaphor for Katie's experience with STRENGTH
• Why some of the tangible qualities we choose to go after in our lives are important, but not enough
• How to turn your focus onto what you CAN'T see vs. what's visible and measurable
• and more!

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Know what you want but struggle to untangle yourself from the feelings of obligation that somehow always seem to get in the way?

Tricia Huffman believes that "should" is a word that is actually able to be nixed from our vocabulary altogether and replaced with something way more powerful and proactive.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why and how Tricia decided to pay attention to this ONE word on such a granular level
• How to handle the "positive shoulds" and why Tricia believes there's really no such SHOULD
• Suggestions for how to nix SHOULD from the heaviest of situations to the lightest
• The importance of boiling down your message, and how that opened up even more possibility for Tricia as she approached her debut book
• and more!

SHOW NOTES:

Tricia on the WANTcast in 2018!

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F The Shoulds. Do The Wants.

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People talk about being "more brave" in their lives...but what does that actually MEAN, and how do we do it??

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why Katie doesn't consider herself a naturally BRAVE person
• How we sometimes misuse the word BRAVE, and how it differs from fearlessness
• Katie's BRAVERY a-ha moment, and how she's defining bravery (and being brave!) in her life moving forward
• How to reverse-engineer however you hope to be by changing your perspective on yourself
• Why easy things, like emails, are so damn hard
• ...and MORE

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