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10 Things To Tell YouEp 274: I've Seen What I Needed To See (a birthday episode!)It's my birthday week! Which means it's my annual birthday episode.This year I'm sharing the phrase that keeps running through my mind and the many ways I'm applying it to my past and my present.(Plus there's a special announcement at the end of this one. Don't miss it.)JOIN SECRET STUFF HEREFULL SHOW NOTES HEREMENTIONED in this episode:Ep 265: How Have You Changed in the Last 10 Years? (with Meg Tietz)Ep 259: 10...
2025-06-2033 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 273: A Substack TutorialWondering why all of your favorite creators, journalists, and writers are moving to Substack? Have you signed up for a few but are basically confused about how to navigate the Substack universe? This episode is for you.I moved my longtime newsletter the Secret Posts and membership community Secret Stuff to Substack back in December, and I have lots of thoughts about this trend and how to make it your Substack user experience better.Click HERE to sign up for the Secret Stuff Substack, where you'll get all my Secret Stuff essays for...
2025-06-1849 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 271: The Birthday JournalHow to mark your special day with a dedicated Birthday Journal. Whether you're celebrating on your actual birthDAY, or your birthday week, or taking your whole birthday month to look back and look forward on your life, these ideas and prompts will help you make the most of this period of introspection. The 4 sections of the birthday journal:TimelineWho I WasWho I AmWho I Want To BeFULL SHOW NOTES ARE HEREMENTIONED in this episode:
2025-06-051h 0210 Things To Tell YouEp 270: 10 Things About Surviving Breast Cancer (with Bethany Winters) REPLAYIn 2016, at age 47, Bethany Winters was diagnosed with Grade 3 Stage IIB Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. What followed was a year of intensive treatment, including chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, and total hysterectomy.In this episode, Bethany shares 10 Things about breast cancer survivorship, and how it's not ever really over even when declared "cancer-free." This is a tender and important conversation. This episode originally aired in 2021. As part of my effort to highlight the best of my past episodes, I wanted to replay this important conversation. 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in...
2025-05-291h 1210 Things To Tell YouEp 269: Tremaine Family Check-InThis episode is a conversation with my husband, Jeff, and our two teenagers Lucy and Finch. We're answering listener questions about family dynamics, living in LA, how the kids feel about their parents' careers, and what they picture for their futures. Other Tremaine family episodes:Ep 59: Marry the person you could quarantine with (the Tremaines wave hello from lockdown)Ep 69: 22 Things Out Family Watched in QuarantineBONUS: Tremaines Wave Hello From One Year of the PandemicEp 138: 10 Questions To Ask Your Kids (with Lucy...
2025-05-2251 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 268: Believe In Yourself So Much That You're Delusional (a ONE THING conversation with actress Fiona Rene)I had no idea how much I needed this conversation with actor, producer, director, writer, and musician Fiona Rene. In just one hour she taught me the value of believing in yourself above all else, more than anyone else, almost to the point of delusion. You might know Fiona Rene from her roles on Lincoln Lawyer, NCIS: Hawaii, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and her leading role in the #1 CBS show Tracker, but Fiona and I immediately connected over our Oklahoma roots. In this ONE THING conversation - where I ask my guests about...
2025-05-1552 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 267: Sharing As Part of Grief (REPLAY)This episode with my friend Amy Ortloff originally aired in August 2021 with the title Teaching People To Grieve With Me. As part of my effort to highlight the best of my past episodes, I wanted to replay this conversation, which is one of the most important I've ever shared.Content warning: Child loss and suicideIn 2017, Amy Ortloff lost her middle child Ryan to suicide. Ryan was just 17 years old. Less than a week after his death, Amy took to her personal Facebook page and starting sharing every single day. Sh...
2025-05-081h 0710 Things To Tell YouEp 266: Best Books LatelyMy favorite topic, any time of year.Join the SECRET STUFF BOOK CLUB where we're about to kick off the 5th annual STEPHEN KING SUMMER!FULL SHOW NOTES HEREBooks I'm Looking Forward To Reading:The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie BostwickPlayworld: A Novel by Adam RossBroken Country by Clare Leslie HallRun for the Hills by Kevin WilsonThree Biographies:Sister Sinner by Claire...
2025-05-011h 0510 Things To Tell YouEp 265: How Have You Changed In The Last 10 Years?This episode is the very core of what 10 Things To Tell You is about: reflection, growth, and great conversations.And this conversation happens to be with one of my oldest friends and very favorite person to be on the microphone with: Meg Tietz. We're talking through the many ways we've changed in the last 10 years - since 2015 - in our home & family, career, and spiritually/emotionally. We have so much to say about our mid-30s, mid-2010s selves, and we're encouraging YOU to reflect on your own changes from the last decade....
2025-04-241h 2910 Things To Tell YouBONUS: Are you underestimated?Have you ever felt underestimated? Of course you have. Maybe YOU'VE underestimated yourself (which can somehow feel worse).My friend and fellow podcaster and author Mary Marantz joins me to talk about her new book Underestimated: The Surprisingly Simple Shift To Quit Playing Small, Name The Fear, and Move Forward Anyway. I just love Mary and love what she has to say about taking our future into our own hands.Click HERE to get Mary's preorder bonusesLearn more about Mary MarantzFollow Mary Marantz on Instagram
2025-04-2249 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 264: Lessons Learned While Staying PutYou'll love this conversation if you've ever wrestled with the fact that achieving your dreams can look and feel different than you expected.Annie B Jones is most well known for owning The Bookshelf bookstore and for her book-focused podcast From the Front Porch, but now she's on the other side of publishing industry as she releases her debut book of essays Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put.In this conversation, Annie and I talk about how dreams don't always look the way you planned, like living near your hometown, owning a...
2025-04-1753 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 263: Make Bold Choices (In Your Home And In Your Life)I have been waiting for the right moment to feature this conversation with interior designer Michelle Fahmy, founder of Haus of Meeshie, about bringing bold color and unique style to your home and life. For the past two years, Meeshie has helped bring fresh life to our family's home in Los Angeles, bringing a whole new vibe to our living spaces.Since I've long preached the power of our spaces on this show, I knew Meeshie (with her very bold style) would be the perfect person to talk us through this topic. But this conversation ended...
2025-04-101h 1110 Things To Tell YouBONUS: I Thought It Would Be Better Than ThisOver the last few years I’ve watched my friend, Jessica Turner, privately and publicly walk through her husband’s coming out and their subsequent divorce as well as her efforts to find her equilibrium in this new family dynamic. Jessica has done it all with grace and kindness and honesty, sharing her story with incredible strength and vulnerability. Her newest book, I Thought It Would Be Better Than This, chronicles this journey and the lessons she’s learned from it.In this conversation, Jessica shares what it was like to navigate her own grief about the en...
2025-04-0834 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 262: Searching for a Best FriendThis episode is for anyone who has gone through a friendship breakup, or who desires finding a best friend as an adult. Every week on this show I encourage you to take the prompts and topics to a best friend in order to have a deeper conversation and better connection. But what if you don't have a best friend? What if you used to have a best friend but now you don't and that pain still lingers? What if you want a best friend, but have no idea how to find that person?I...
2025-04-0353 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 261: Favorite Things Winter 2025I'm sharing my current favorite beauty products, apps, books, charities, and experiences of the last few months.JOIN SECRET STUFF to hear me share a few extra goodies like the current podcasts I'm bingeing, as well as a few not Favorite Things.What are YOUR favorite things in this season? Winter 2025 has been a doozy, so making a list of the things we love right now can give you such a boost of gratitude. I also really like how these lists mark a moment in time.FULL...
2025-03-201h 2310 Things To Tell YouEp 260: How To Backup and Digitize All Your Old Sentimental Photos (with Miss Freddy)Professional photo organizer Casey von Stein (aka Miss Freddy) is BACK and this time she's helping us handle all those old, sentimental photos we all have stuffed in boxes in a closet somewhere.Miss Freddy is answering my questions on how to make the physical photos into digital files and then how to organize and back them up online so we never have to worry they'll be lost or damaged in the future. She also says something to me about the 30,000 photos I have stored on my phone that might have just changed my life.
2025-03-1353 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 259: 10 Questions for the Anniversary of a Big EventThis month marks 5 years still the Covid-19 pandemic turned our lives upside down.In this episode, I'm sharing 10 questions that can be used as journal prompts or conversation starters on the anniversary of any big event.I'm focusing my answers to these prompts on the five-year mark of the pandemic, but each question is crafted to be universal for any big event in your past.JOIN ME ON SUBSTACK for a JOURNAL PARTY on this topic with the members of Secret StuffI'll also be posting all of the...
2025-03-0649 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 257: How To Survive on Social Media in 2025As the headlines get harder, the politics more divisive, and the platforms themselves more corrupt, many of us are rethinking our social media usage in 2025.Yeah, sure, we've all said this before in the past. So we take breaks, or delete the apps off our phones, but we always come crawling back. Social media is just an ingrained part of our lives now. It's where we get our news, it's how we connect with others, it's a source of entertainment and expression.And yet...there is something different about this moment in internet history. People...
2025-02-2057 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 256: Here Be Dragons: Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma (with Melanie Shankle)Sometimes you read a friend's book and you're jealous they wrote something this good. This is how I felt when I read writer and podcast Melanie Shankle's latest Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma.This book is about Melanie's very complicated relationship with her mom, woven together with her own Big Feelings about the mean girls that took over her daughter's high school experience. As someone who regularly preaches that all of us should be sharing our stuff, my jaw dropped at some of the stories that Melanie is...
2025-02-1344 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 255: Making R-Rated Art As A MomNow THIS is truly a conversation you won't hear anywhere else. My friend, television show runner Stacy Rukeyser, joins me to talk about making R-rated art when you're a mom.Stacy has written on some really great shows over the years, but she was tasked with creating Netflix's first foray into erotica with her show Sex/Life back in 2021 and it brought up some questions about making this type of creative content when you're a mom. Stacy rightly points out that men likely wouldn't be asked (or be asking) the same type of questions, but it was...
2025-02-061h 1710 Things To Tell YouEp 254: If I Started A Podcast Today...Continuing my look back on 15 years of working on the internet (and the last decade as working as a podcaster), I'm addressing a question that I've gotten fairly often recently: Any advice on starting a podcast?Based on my own mistakes working on three different shows, and observations about the podcast listening community and industry, in this episode I'm sharing what I would do if I started a new podcast today. While I speaking pretty specifically about podcasting in this episode, I also think that a lot of what I talk about applies to most creative endeavors...
2025-01-301h 0010 Things To Tell YouEp 253: Regrets and Reflections on 15 Years of Working on the InternetThis month marks FIFTEEN years that I have been pursuing a career primarily by sharing myself on the internet. Starting with the Hollywood Housewife blog in January 2010, then building a social media presence, then becoming a podcaster and an author, and I have so many stories and thoughts to share about the last decade and a half.On this episode, I'm talking about the things I did right, the things I definitely got wrong, and how I've evolved right along with the World Wide Web.Join SECRET STUFF to hear even MORE behind-the-scenes stories.
2025-01-231h 0910 Things To Tell YouEp 251: 10 Things I Learned In 2024It may already be January, but it's time for my annual year-end reflection with 10 of the biggest things I learned that I hope will also resonate with you.2024 was a weird year in so many ways. My lessons were all over the place, from examining self-confidence vs. self-esteem, finding out who I am in a crisis, being honest about what home renovations can bring up emotionally, facing my addiction to the news cycle, and discovering the big thing that motivates our family decisions.It was a year full of light bulb moments. I hope this...
2025-01-021h 3410 Things To Tell YouEp 249: 4 Ways To Journal (For People Who Don't Like Journaling)I know why you don't journal. I also know why you should journal.In this episode, I'm sharing all the benefits you'll gain from the occasional journal session and how to combat the (many) obstacles that keep you from starting. Then I'll share the 4 types of journaling that you can try in order to see growth and clarity in your life.FULL SHOW NOTES HEREMENTIONED in this episode:My favorite plain notebookThe Artist's Way by Julia Cameron SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell Y...
2024-12-121h 0610 Things To Tell YouBONUS: Becoming A Romance WriterMy friend Nora Dahlia Zelevansky is a journalist, a novelist, a wellness writer, and now she's a romance author! As we celebrate the release of her latest book PICK UP, Nora and I chat about her writing trajectory, the differences between publishing and marketing the romance genre, and why she decided to write this book using a different name.We also talk about how fiction helps us process our pasts, and especially how our high school selves might not have grasped the full story, and how we wrestle with that in adulthood.So many aspects...
2024-12-0658 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 248: Taylor Swift (Laura's Version)As Taylor Swift ends her earth-shattering Eras tour this weekend after a year and a half of dominating the charts and the headlines, I'm sharing how her music and her professional presence has shaped me as an artist, a mom, a business woman, and a former angsty teenager.I hope this episode inspires you to share your own favorite Taylor Swift memories, songs, lyrics, and more.FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HEREMENTIONED in this episode:Kate Kennedy’s Be There in Five podcastFollow Kate Kennedy on IG...
2024-12-0557 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 247: The Perfectionist's Guide To Losing Control (a book club meeting with author Katherine Morgan Schafler)One of the books that has made the biggest impression on me in the last few years is The Perfectionist's Guide To Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler. I have talked about this book EVERYWHERE and insisted that even people who do not self-identify as "perfectionists" would get something out of it.So you can imagine that I was thrilled with the Secret Stuff members chose TPGTLC as a book club pick and I was doubly thrilled when author Katherine Morgan Schafler agreed to attend our regular monthly book club meeting to discuss it.JOIN...
2024-11-2858 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 245: 5 Routines and Rituals That Keep Me GroundedWhen the world feels hard, and our lives feel loud, it can be difficult to find equilibrium. In this episode, I'm sharing 5 practices in various areas of my life that make me feel a little more like myself, a little more like a human, a little more sane and calm.FULL SHOW NOTES HEREMENTIONED in this episode:Learn more about #OneDayHHJoin our Secret Stuff community for regular Symposium conversationsMiracle Morning by Hal ElrodEpisode 195: Why Do Smart People Love Dumb TV? with...
2024-11-1459 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 244: 10 Journal Prompts To Finish The Year StrongWith less than two months left in 2024, I'm sharing ten questions that will help you finish the year strong. We're talking achievable goals, mantras, connecting with others, and lingering decisions that need to be made. These questions will give you clarity for the weeks ahead and and let you set intentions for how you want to feel and who you want to be at the end of 2024.As always, you can take these questions to your journal for introspection and growth, or use them as conversation starters with friends and family.FULL SHOW NOTES...
2024-11-0759 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 242: How To Plan A Girls TripI want you to go on a girls trip in 2025. I want it to be a priority. But if you've never been on a girls trip - or it's been a long time - the logistics can be daunting. So I'm helping you out! In this episode, I'm sharing thoughts and tips on:Deciding the vibeChoosing the guestsWhere to goWhere to stayWhat to eatWhat to doHow to documentProviding fun extras...and more. You will leave this episode excited to plan your own little getaway, whether it's a staycation with one friend or a milestone...
2024-10-241h 0210 Things To Tell YouEp 241: Prepping Teenagers for the WorkforceLori Zuker Briller co-founded a staffing and recruitment agency almost 20 years ago, and in the last few years she's noticed a concerning trend among the young people who are applying for positions in various industries: a decline in professionalism, a lack of understanding of the job market and job search processes, and an overall deterioration in etiquette.As a mom of two daughters herself, Lori set out to create something that would help teenagers get back to the basics of professionalism and prepare for the adult world.In this conversation, Lori and I discuss how...
2024-10-171h 1710 Things To Tell YouEp 240: Favorite Things Fall 2024My favorite things for the Fall of 2024 include a bra, a neck alignment thing-y, a documentary, a book, what's making me feel pretty, and two unexpected events that turned out to be some of my favorite moments of the year (so far).We share our Favorite Things around here because a) it's fun b) it forces us to notice our life and c) it serves as a gratitude list of sorts.BONUS: this episode also contains a dozen recommendations from fellow listeners and members of the SECRET STUFF community.JOIN SECRET STUFF
2024-10-101h 2210 Things To Tell YouEp 238: The Conversation That Changed My YearBack in February, during a casual, late night conversation, my friend Kendra Adachi (aka The Lazy Genius) asked me a question that completely that changed my year.The answer to a question I had never thought about came to me with such clarity. And since her question (and my answer) was about the Big Picture plan for my life, it only felt appropriate to ask Kendra to talk through it all with me here on the show.Kendra Adachi's new book is called The Plan: Manage Your Time Like A Lazy Genius and it's out...
2024-09-261h 0010 Things To Tell YouEp 237: How To Look Better In PhotosThis episode is for anyone who has looked at a photo of themselves and wondered if that's what they really look like. Professional photographer Jess Koehler is my guest today as we talk through all the hangups that keep us from taking, sharing, or displaying photos of ourselves, and how we can overcome them.This is not a typical "tips and tricks" episode (although we do weave tangible and emotional tips throughout). Jess and I are talking about WHY we should document ourselves, maybe even on our hardest days. We're talking about the benefits of having professional...
2024-09-191h 0710 Things To Tell YouEp 236: Discovering What Was Always There (a ONE THING conversation with Joy Cho)This is the latest episode in the ONE THING series, where I host conversations with interesting people and ask them the ONE THING they would tell you. You might know Joy Cho as the bright, stylish, happy face and founder of Oh Joy!, a lifestyle brand with millions of followers and whose products and designs have appeared in Target, Petco, House Beautiful (to name a few) and in collaborations with Keds, Casetify, Calpak (and more).But even with a soaring career, Joy experienced a midlife crisis after a hard season in her family and a...
2024-09-121h 0510 Things To Tell YouEp 235: 4 Lessons After Publishing 2 Books + Listener Q&AThis is an episode for writers, aspiring authors, readers, and anyone who likes a peek behind-the-scenes.We're going to talk about the publishing industry as it stands, how it's changed in the last few years, the rise of self-publishing, conquering self-doubt, money, and so much more.I'm sharing 4 lessons I learned after achieving my lifelong dream of becoming an author. My first book Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. published in 2021, and my second book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs published in 2023.RELATED Episodes:Ep. 73 I wrote a...
2024-09-051h 3410 Things To Tell YouEp 233: 10 Ways To Achieve Kitchen PeaceThe kitchen may be the heart of the home, but it's also the place most likely to collect clutter and be full to the brim of stuff. Professional organizer Tara Bremer of @house.peace shares with us 10 ways that we can achieve peace in the most used room in the house.FOLLOW @house.peace on IGSIGN UP for the House Peace newsletterAs I'm in the middle of a kitchen remodel, I've been thinking a lot about how to make this space feel and function the way we want. I share a...
2024-08-2256 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 232: 10 Weird Things I've DoneThis episode is inspired by Snoop Dogg at the Olympics.In the early 2000s, I worked on Snoop's short-lived MTV show Doggy Fizzle Televizzle and when I made a joke about this on social media, my DMs quickly filled with questions and I realized this was a story I hadn't told in awhile.So in this episode I'm sharing 10 weird things I've done - from watching Drew Barrymore crawl through a second-story window to calling the cops on a teenage prank gone wrong.I hope you enjoy my weird stories, but even more...
2024-08-151h 0610 Things To Tell YouEp 231: 3 Rules + 3 Mantras For This Busy SeasonAugust is such a crazy month - the second "new year" as it's often called, except without the fresh start and instead with the idea that we're all gearing up for school, fall chaos, and, of course, all of that bleeding into the holiday season.But I don't want the second half of the year to feel frazzled, so I'm setting myself up for (better) success with a few rules and mantras to live by.FULL SHOW NOTES HEREMENTIONED in this episode:Secret StuffUnreasonable Hospitality by...
2024-08-0845 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 230: Favorite Things (Right Now) Summer 2024We're back with all new episodes and kicking it off by sharing my favorite things of the summer!In this episode I'm recommending books, podcasts, documentaries, and more favorites from this season. I'm also sharing details on our current home renovation and an update on my sister's recovery from brain surgery.FULL SHOW NOTES HEREJoin my SECRET STUFF Patreon community for more favoritesJoin us for STEPHEN KING SUMMERFAVORITES in this episode:Home renovations NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century listKindle remote page t...
2024-08-011h 2010 Things To Tell YouEp 229: The Big Business of Celebrity Fish Tanks (with Nic Tiemens of Infinity Aquariums) REPLAYThis episode originally aired in November 2021 and is a very fun departure from my usual interviews. One of the strangest things about our life in Hollywood (and there are many, many strange things) is our enormous fish tank. Every time I share a little bit about our fish tank on social media, I get flooded with questions that I mostly can't answer. So I finally recorded a conversation with someone who could! Nic Tiemens is the co-founder of Infinity Aquariums and not only does he take care of the Tremaine Tank for us every week, he ha...
2024-07-251h 0510 Things To Tell YouEp 228: 10 Tips for Hosting Houseguests (REPLAY)This episode originally aired in August 2021, and is one of my personal favorites. Ready to bust out the air mattresses? This episode is FULL of practical, logistical, and emotional tips for hosting people in your home. I'm sharing everything from the 4 things that keep (most) guests happy, to the mindset shifts that will keep you from being overwhelmed or resentful.Look, if there's one subject I can give many (many) words to, it's hosting houseguests. Since I moved to Los Angeles 20 years ago, I've hosted friends and family of all group sizes, from c...
2024-07-1852 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 227: Time Anxiety (REPLAY)This episode originally aired in November 2021, and has been one of the most downloaded and referenced episodes of the show. Have you ever had the thoughts:I don’t have enough timeTime is passing me byI’m wasting too much timeIf this is something that really affects your mood, your schedule, and you're full of frazzle, overwhelm, or a continuing existential crisis, then you may have Time Anxiety. (Not an official thing - just a name I gave to something that affects me regularly.)In t...
2024-07-1142 min10 Things To Tell YouBONUS: How To Be FineAre you thriving or are you just...fine? What about your friendships?Two podcasters I've listened to for YEARS are tackling a new series this summer on friendship (the topic on everyone's tongue). I was so excited to welcome Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg from the How To Be Fine podcast (formerly By The Book) to the show to talk about their podcasting roots, their relationship as business besties, their experiment of living by the advice of self-help books, and their latest project on friendship.Listen to the How To Be Fine podcast...
2024-07-0930 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 226: Hollywood Horror StoryThis is a story about growing up feeling like an outsider and finding a book that made you feel less alone. And then growing up to create an adaptation of that book for the screen, in a dream project that took years to complete. This is a story about my friend Jill Killington and her work on the tv adaptation of Stephen King's THE STAND.You don't have to like horror or Hollywood to appreciate this conversation. Jill gives us a behind-the-scenes Hollywood perspective that was new and fascinating to me even after knowing her for 20+ years...
2024-06-271h 3010 Things To Tell YouBONUS: 10 Ways To Support A Friend Going Through Crisis or Chronic HardshipSince I write and talk about friendship so much, a frequent question comes up around supporting a friend when they are going through something difficult. I think the answer on this can vary, depending on the particular hardship, but my guest today is someone who knows what friends need when their difficult life circumstance is ongoing.Jessica Patay is the founder of We Are Brave Together, a nonprofit organization that provides respite, community, and resources for mothers caring for children of any age with disabilities, unique needs, or other medical or mental health challenges. She is is...
2024-06-2545 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 225: Change Happens When You're Looking The Other Way (The Birthday Episode)It's my birthday week! I'm turning 45. And every year around this time, I do a birthday episode looking back and looking ahead.This year's theme is about the quiet changes that happen when you're distracted, or busy, or not paying attention.Last year on my birthday I was convinced that something HUGE was going to happen in my 44th year. I thought I had an intuition about it. I journaled my heart out about what was coming for me. And then...when I approached the end of 2023 and then eventually the end of my 44th...
2024-06-2053 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 223: You Only Die Once (a conversation about living with Jodi Wellman)Jodi Wellman is focused on death. And she wants you to think about it more, too.Death is (clearly) not a popular topic, and something most of us avoid thinking about at all costs. But Jodi believes that knowing you have something to lose can help you live like you mean it. Her new book You Only Die Once: How To Make It To The End With No Regrets can walk you through making the most of your time on this earth.In this episode, author and speaker Jodi Wellman shares 5 ways to live like...
2024-06-0648 min10 Things To Tell YouBONUS: 5 Things About Modern Friendship (with Anna Goldfarb)Obviously friendship is a big topic around here, but one of the aspects we don't touch on much is how these important relationships have changed in modern culture. We now have hundreds of connections in our daily lives, where our ancestors probably never met that many people in their entire lifetime.Friendship writer Anna Goldfarb brings us 5 Things to think about in our modern friendships that she expounds upon in her new book Modern Friendship: How To Nurture Our Most Valued Connections.Called “the New York Times’ friendship correspondent,” Anna Goldfarb's reporting on friendships has appear...
2024-06-0452 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 222: Stephen King Starter Kit Part II (What To Read + What To Skip)This episode is ONLY book recommendations. The original Stephen King Starter Kit episode has more of the author's biography and why I think reading Stephen King matters. You do NOT need to listen to Part I to enjoy Part II.LISTEN TO STEPHEN KING STARTER KIT Part I In this episode I'm sharing my personal favorites, what I would recommend if you don't like scary/horror (because there are plenty to choose from!), what I recommend for teenagers, and which Stephen King books I would never recommend you start with (even though they're popular).
2024-05-3149 min10 Things To Tell YouBONUS: Is Everyone Happier Than Me? (4 Ways To Be Happier Online with author Sarah Bragg)It's a question we've all asked ourselves at some point....Is everyone happier than me?A relatable thought made worse by the perfection of social media and knowledge that life could go take us on a hundred different paths. Did we choose the right one?It's also the title of Sarah Bragg's new book, where she explores this topic with essays and stories from her own life and parenthood.In this episode, Sarah gives us 4 ways to be happier online (since that's such a huge contributing factor to this question).I...
2024-05-2843 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 221: 10 Questions for a Road TripIt's almost road trip season!I'm giving you 10 prompts for great conversations in the car. I purposefully designed these to work with any age, and any type of relationship.They're a mix of fun and deep, and in the episode I share alternatives or tangents you can take with each prompt, as well as sharing my own answers and stories.Happy travels!FULL SHOW NOTES HEREJoin me for the STEPHEN KING SUMMER BOOK CLUBSUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You...
2024-05-2348 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 220: The Future of the Beauty Industry (with Urban Decay and Caliray Founder Wende Zomnir)Every now and then I have a guest on this show that just knocks my socks off and beauty industry pioneer Wende Zomnir is the latest fascinating person to get that title.In the 1990's, the top makeup and beauty brands were formal, stodgy, and established. Urban Decay disrupted the industry with their bold colors, heavily pigmented formulas, and modern branding. My guest Wende Zomnir describes what it was like to create Urban Decay and how lucky connections and a broad vision contributed to it's success.But now Zomnir is back with a new brand...
2024-05-1654 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 219: 10 Things My Mom Taught MeMy mom has taught me some really important things like:Don't look for the shortest line, look for the fastest cashierandYou don't want a marriage, you want a weddingand so much more.I'm sharing 10 of my favorite life lessons that my mom has taught me in the last 40 years.FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HEREMENTIONED in this episode:Ep 177: How To Find Your Signature StyleEp 123: How To Feel Pretty (When You Don't)
2024-05-0957 min10 Things To Tell YouBONUS: 5 Things About Writing Your Own Story (with author, ghostwriter, and book coach Allison Fallon)Ally Fallon is an author, ghostwriter, and book coach, which means she is exquisitely qualified to share tips on writing your story.It doesn't matter if you plan to publish the story you want to tell, or just need to get it out onto the page for yourself, the insight she shares in this episode is so valuable. I also love following Ally on IG and have pointed my own journaling students towards her book The Power of Writing It Down.Her new book is called Write Your Story: A Simple Framework to Understand Yourself...
2024-05-0746 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 217: Ask Me Anything (Family, Hollywood, and Career Questions from YOU)I'm answering listener questions like:Do you ever wish you'd had more kids?Is life in LA portrayed correctly on Real Housewives?Will you ever write another book and on what topic?JOIN SECRET STUFF for a few more BONUS (personal) questions about money, travel, and woo-woo stuff I've tried It's always fun to hear what's on your mind through the questions you ask. I hope this episode also gives you a few questions to ask around your own tables.FULL SHOW NOTES ARE...
2024-04-251h 1810 Things To Tell YouBONUS: 5 House Rules To Create A Home You Love (with The Nester)I have been following Myquillyn Smith's home decor advice online for years and am so happy to welcome her back to the show to talk about her new book HOUSE RULES.This new book from Myquillyn (aka The Nester) is not only gorgeous, it just lays it out bare in list form: these are the "rules" to create a space you love and want to be in.In our conversation here, we talk about our favorite house rules and I also ask her to dive deeper into some of the rules I didn't fully understand.
2024-04-2338 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 216: Stop Deferring Your Life (a ONE THING conversation with Amy Harris)Introducing a new series of the podcast called ONE THING where I host conversations with interesting people and ask the ONE THING they would tell you.I'm kicking the series off with my friend Amy B. Harris. Amy has been a producer, writer, and show runner on some of the most iconic shows of our lifetime. Her credits include Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, The Comeback, The Carrie Diaries, The Wilds, and more. She's also a mom raising her daughter in Hollywood, which is how we met and became friends.My conversation with Amy...
2024-04-181h 0910 Things To Tell YouEp 215: How To Center Yourself (When You're Spinning Out)Maybe it was a weird conversation or an offhand remark or a comment on a social media post, but whatever happened, you're spinning out. This circumstance has tapped into all of your securities and now you're filled with self-doubt or anger or unworthiness.How do you recenter yourself? I'm going to share 5 ways I've learned to quiet my mind amid chaos and guess what - I am NOT recommending journaling or meditation. I love both of those things (and they can be helpful), but I want to give you a few new tools to consider when you're...
2024-04-1155 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 214: A Friendship ReckoningThe first story I tell in my book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs is called A Friendship Reckoning. In this chapter, I share about a painful conflict with a friend that almost led to the end of our deep friendship, and how we reconciled with one big, meaningful, conversation in my backyard.I chose to keep that friend anonymous in the book, but she revealed herself in an episode my Secret Tapes podcast series and I'm airing it publicly here for the first time.There is so much about this conversation that gets...
2024-04-041h 0810 Things To Tell YouEp 213: Anxiety Always Makes Sense (with Dr. Becky Kennedy from Good Inside)This episode is important for anyone with anxiety or anyone with a loved one who suffers from anxiety.Four years ago, in the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, I stumbled across a video of clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy giving advice on how to manage the increasing anxieties of the lockdown. I asked her to be a guest on the podcast and we then recorded one of the most important conversations of my life.I aired that episode as a BONUS in March of 2020, and decided that I wanted to replay it now as...
2024-03-2852 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 212: 10 Questions For Every Room You're In (with Emily P. Freeman)One of my greatest teachers of the last few years is author, podcaster, and speaker Emily P. Freeman. I have learned so much from her work and devoured her latest NEW YORK TIMES best selling book How To Walk Into A Room: The Art of Knowing When To Stay and When To Walk Away.Emily says, "Our whole life is like a house, and every commitment, community, role, and relationship is like a room." In this conversation, Emily and I continue her room metaphor and she asks 10 Questions from her book that we can use to discern...
2024-03-211h 1110 Things To Tell YouEp 211: The Cell Phone Contract (a conversation with my kids)My daughter Lucy is 14 and has had a cell phone for about a year and a half. My son Finch is 12 and will get his first cell phone in just a few months. While we're in the transitional time as a family, I thought it would be a good time to sit down with them and talk through all the feelings, convenience, and concerns that comes with teen cell phone usage.This conversation surprised me. Both kids said things I'd never heard them say before. I hope that this episode is a fun peek into our family...
2024-03-1456 min10 Things To Tell YouBONUS: Kate T. Parker is a Force of NatureI have followed photographer Kate T. Parker on Instagram for years now and continue to be inspired by her depictions of her fierce and dynamic daughters (and their friends). I love seeing her raw and authentic sports photos since I have two little athletes in my house. You'll probably recognize Kate's work from her books Strong Is the New Pretty and Play Like A Girl.In this BONUS episode, I wanted to chat with Kate about her origin story, her work, and especially her new book Force of Nature.Learn more about Kate T. Parker
2024-03-0523 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 208: How My Anxiety Has Changed In My 40sIt's been awhile since we've talked directly about mental health, and I wanted to give a personal update about what I've noticed is different about my lifelong anxiety in the last few years. I attribute these changes to aging, and evolving lifestyle, and a few different habits that I have really prioritized since I turned 40.As always when I share on this topic, it is meant to be purely my own experience and is not medical advice.FULL SHOW NOTES HEREMENTIONED in this episode:Sorta Awesome Episode 26: The...
2024-02-2252 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 207: 10 Tips To Build Your Best WardrobeI always thought that a benefit to getting older was that I would settle into a signature style, but the truth is that my 40s has been sort of a fashion roller coaster. Maybe it's a changing body, maybe the pandemic led to some lazy dressing habits, or maybe our personal style is just always evolving.Alison Lumbatis is a professional style confidence expert and her tips on social media over the years have been so life-giving to me. (You also might remember her from Ep 134: 10 Tips To Wardrobe Confidence.) In this episode, she is sharing 10 tips...
2024-02-151h 1210 Things To Tell YouEp 206: What have you been wrong about? (Kelly Corrigan Asks 10 Big Questions)The tables are turned in this episode as author and podcaster Kelly Corrigan asks Laura 10 big questions:1. Best live performance you’ve ever seen?2. Last book that blew you away?3. If your high school did superlatives, what would you have been most likely to become?4. What’s your go-to mantra for hard times?5. Is there anyone you would like to apologize to?6. When was the last time you cried?7. What’s something big you’ve been wrong about?8. If you could pass one law...
2024-02-0852 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 205: 10 Things All Podcast Fans Should KnowThis episode is not just for 10 Things To Tell You podcast fans, but for all podcast fans IN GENERAL.You might have heard rumblings about the state of the podcast industry, as popular shows get canceled and massive layoffs keep happening at some of the largest audio companies. It's true that podcasting as a whole is going through some growing pains, and this is not just at the corporate level. Big and small shows are affected by these changes and listeners (YOU!) might already be feeling it.In this episode, I'm walking through 10 things I...
2024-01-301h 0710 Things To Tell YouEp 204: Didn't I Just Feed You? 10 Tips for Saving Your Sanity in the KitchenPublishedJan 23, 2024Didn't I Just Feed You? is such a relatable mom thought and is also the title of the popular podcast from my guests Meghan Splawn and Stacie Billis, two professional cooks with a collective 20+ years of experience in test kitchens, on television, at food publications, and more.They know their way around a kitchen, and want to make your life as the family cook easier. In this episode, Meghan and Stacie are sharing 10 Tips for Saving Your Sanity in the Kitchen. These women made me think, made me laugh, and made me ac...
2024-01-2600 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 203: Meditation for BeginnersPublished Jan 16, 2024Mindfulness meditation has changed my life. It has helped with my anxiety, productivity, and inner peace. But even though I'd been hearing about the benefits of this practice (and even read several books on it!), it took me years to get started. Mostly this is because I thought meditating had to be formal. I thought it required a certain amount of time or a certain personality type. But this isn't true! Anyone can meditate. You can start as small as one minute at a time. In this episode, mindfulness educator Laurie Cou...
2024-01-261h 0710 Things To Tell YouEp 202: The Secret To Good Goal SettingPublishedJan 09, 2024Do you find goals motivational or defeating? Does all the hubbub around the first of the year feel fresh or frustrating? In this conversation with professional goal coach Abbie Schiller, we unpack all the reasons that setting goals makes us groan, and why it doesn't have to be that way. Instead we can look at goals as a framework that moves us forward to create better lives.Abbie and I also discuss what happens when you don’t meet your goals, how to identify the obstacles that get in our w...
2024-01-2649 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 201: 10 Things I Learned in 20232023 was an unexpected roller coaster for me, both personally and professionally. I'm sharing 10 things I've learned in the last twelve months, from losing money in my business to a mistake I made in my parenting. This episode is one of my favorites that I put together each year because it forces me to take a clear look at what's working and what's not in my life. I hope it's helpful to you to hear someone else process through some of these things as we start a new year together. Happy 2024! FU...
2024-01-021h 0910 Things To Tell YouEp 198: 10 Questions for the End of the YearIt's my favorite time of year! Not because of the holiday season, but because I love getting reflective, looking back over the last twelve months and looking ahead to changing of the calendar. The 10 questions in this episode are meant to bring introspection (if you work through them alone) and connection (if you bring them up in conversation). Bring these to your journal, to your travel companions, to the holiday table, or just let them flow through your mind in these last few weeks of the year as we wind down 2023 and gear up for 2024. FU...
2023-12-121h 0910 Things To Tell YouEp 197: Modern Manners for TeensThis episode is for anyone who loves a teenager. I'm the mom of a teenager and a preteen, and cultural norms and expectations have definitely shifted from my own childhood in the 80s & 90s. Sometimes I feel like I'm learning modern manners alongside my kids instead of teaching them from a place of authority. My guest Brooke Romney believes that the only thing harder than parenting a modern teen is being a modern teen. In this episode, Brooke and I talk about a few of the rules that stuck out to me from her guide 52 Mo...
2023-11-2842 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 196: Symposium: Britney Spears's New MemoirA few times a year, I like to let you listen in on the conversations we're having in the Secret Stuff patreon community. Each month we meet twice over zoom to talk about something culturally relevant (we call this Symposium) or to talk about books (a pretty traditional Book Club). This Secret Stuff meeting was a bit of a mashup of the two. When it was announced that icon and legend Britney Spears was releasing a memoir this fall, I knew it would make a splash in the publishing industry and in the celebrity world. And it d...
2023-11-211h 0510 Things To Tell YouBONUS: 4 Rules For Sharing Your Story (Especially When It's Hard) with Carmen Rita WongI love memoirs. I love hearing other people's stories in their own words. And, of course, I champion the idea to Share Your Stuff. But what if the story you need to tell is really difficult? What if it's hard to do justice to the truth while also protecting (or not protecting) other people? My guest for this conversation is author Carmen Rita Wong and she is sharing her own 4 rules to doing this well. Carmen Rita Wong's memoir is called Why Didn't You Tell Me? and is a book about secrets and identity. L...
2023-11-1744 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 193: 10 Things To Help With Grief and LossThis episode is for anyone walking through grief or for those wanting to support a loved one who is grieving. The world is especially heavy right now. From global events and also from a season of what feels like unending loss and pain. In this episode, guest Christy Knutson joins us to share 10 things that will help us to keep in mind when we're grieving or anticipating loss. Christy Knutson is the co-founder of NEAR, a website on a mission to improve the way we care and connect during times of serious illness or grief....
2023-10-3151 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 190: Whose voice lives rent free in your head? (And how to mute them)This episode is for anyone who struggles with outside influences they can't shake. I thought when I turned 40 that I had turned a corner in my personal developement, that the shift into caring less about other people's opinions would also mean that my inner critic would pipe down. But here I am, a few years down the road, and the voices from my past live rent-free in my head and their chatter can affect my confidence and my choices. In this episode, I'm talking about the five types of voices that rattle around in...
2023-10-1033 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 189: About the Hollywood Strikes (and How They Affect You)This episode is for anyone who cares about tv and movies. I have 10 things to tell you about the historic Hollywood strikes of 2023. The Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild have been fighting for wage increases, protection against artificial intelligence, and more. Think it doesn't affect you? Think again! Here are the 10 Things I talk through in this episode: What are the basics of the strike? What is the history here? What exactly do Hollywood writers do? How do they get paid? So why a...
2023-10-0347 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 188: Moms and the Mental Load (with Dr. Morgan Cutlip)This episode is for moms who are drowning in this season. After years of rarely talking about parenthood on this show, this topic suddenly continues to find me. I'm not sure if this because of my kids' ages (11 & 13) or just the season I'm in, but motherhood is something I want to talk about more now than I did when the kids were young. My guest today is Dr. Morgan Cutlip, a highly sought after relationship expert, who has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide learn how to form and maintain healthy relationships. Dr. Morgan ha...
2023-09-2649 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 184: 8 Questions for the End of the SummerThis episode is for anyone looking to transition well between the end of summer and beginning of fall. Whether you mark the end of summer by the school calendar, the weather, or football season, we have come to the end of the season. In this episode, I'm walking through 8 questions to ask yourself as we close one chapter of the year and enter into another. As usual, these questions work best when you share them with a friend, partner, coworker, or the whole family. They're also great for taking to your journal and sitting with yo...
2023-08-2932 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 175: How To Have Hard Conversations With Friends (with Danielle Bayard Jackson)Over the last few months of talking about the many layers to adult friendship as I promote my new book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs, I've received so many questions about friendship conflict and how to navigate it with grace or end a friendship with love. I've answered these questions to the best of my ability with my own life experience, but I also know when it's time to call in a certified expert. Danielle Bayard Jackson is a female friendship coach and educator who speaks nationally about the science of women’s platonic connections. Her...
2023-05-2345 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 171: Favorite Things (Right Now)!It's time for another episode of Favorite Things (Right Now)! As a reminder, we do Favorite Things episodes because they're fun and also because thinking about what we're really into right now is another way of making a gratitude list. Plus who doesn't love hearing and sharing awesome things?! On this episode, I'm sharing a variety of favorites, including: The Life Council Book Tour New Favorite Alarm Clock The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler Neon Sign Big bl...
2023-04-251h 1010 Things To Tell YouEp 167: Five Friendship Philosophies (an audiobook excerpt from The Life Council by Laura Tremaine)My new book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs launches in ONE WEEK! BUY THE LIFE COUNCIL NOW This episode is an excerpt from the audiobook version of The Life Council, read by me. The sections I'm sharing here are called A Friendship Reckoning and Five Friendship Philosophies. If you like what you hear, and want more on this topic, THE LIFE COUNCIL is available in hard cover, ebook, audiobook, and paperback on April 4! And if you PREORDER one of those versions before midnight eastern standard time on release day (A...
2023-03-2851 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 160: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: Betrayal. (Melissa's Story)This is a conversation about infidelity. Welcome to another installment of the FRIENDSHIP STORIES: a new series where guests share their experiences of the friendships that have shaped their lives. In this episode, Melissa tells us about her best friend "Lauren." This story has several jaw dropping moments, but this isn’t a perspective only about scandal. There are also so many details here about those friends - or sometimes even acquaintances - who met Melissa in the moment, just when she needed it most. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE Preor...
2023-02-0750 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 159: Reading Roundup January 2023My favorite thing in the world to talk about is books and while I will always have occasional reading episodes here as part of 10 Things To Tell You, did you know that I do a reading roundup every single month as part of my Secret Stuff membership? Every month on Secret Stuff I share what I've been reading lately (the good, the bad, and the unfinished), and I wanted you to have a sneak peek to what one of those episodes sounds like. FULL SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE ARE HERE
2023-01-3146 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 155: 3 Affirmations and 3 Habits for the New YearHappy 2023! As we kick off a new year, it's natural to think about what we want to do differently going forward. For me, I want to return to some habits that promote work/life balance and I'm activitely working to shift some of my mindsets by using affirmations. Somewhere along the way I got out of the affirmation habit (I really stopped doing my whole morning routine in general) and while it was fine for awhile, I'm definitely noticing it now. The simple repetitions that you write in a journal or put on a sticky no...
2023-01-0354 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 153: Best Books of the Year 2022It's the FIFTH annual Best Books of the Year episode with my real life book club friends Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith. This is one of my very favorite conversations every single December and I do not apologize that it is super sized! Yasmin, Stephanie, and I share 3-4 of our favorite books of 2022 across all genres. As usual, there are some suprises, some curveballs, and LOTS of opinions. FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE Laura’s Picks: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
2022-12-202h 1810 Things To Tell YouEp 152: Favorite Things of 2022I'm sharing my Favorite Things of 2022 including my favorite style choices, kitchen items, apps, and gadgets and more. At the end of the episode, a few listeners share their favorites, too! We share Favorite Things on this show because it's fun and as an act of gratitude. If you share your stuff on social media, make sure to tag @10ThingsToTellYou. Sign up for the SECRET POSTS newsletter by 12/31/22 and get the annual Not A Gift Guide FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE MENTIONED in this episode: ...
2022-12-131h 1010 Things To Tell YouEp 151: 10 Questions for Starting OverWe all have to start over sometimes. A project, a job, a relationship, a new year. And for me, this podcast! 10 Things To Tell You is BACK and this week I'm sharing 10 (oops, actually 9!) prompts that will help you think through anything you're starting over. Take these prompts to your journal, to a business partner, to significant other, or anyone who is walking alongside you in your fresh start. NOTE: Your ears are not deceiving you - one prompt is missing from this episode. I accidentally skipped prompt #7. The question was meant to be...
2022-12-0652 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 143: Planning and Paper Planners (with Sarah Hart-Unger)We're in the home stretch of 2021 and plans for 2022 are starting to take shape. So I am so excited to welcome Sarah Hart-Unger to the show to talk about planning (rituals, philosophies, and more) and planning tools (paper planners, apps, and books). Planning and productivity is a side hobby of mine, but Sarah Hart-Unger is much more of an expert. She's a doctor, a mom, a blogger, and has not one but TWO podcasts on these topics. You can find her blogging daily at TheShuBox.com and on her podcast Best Laid Plans (all about planning tools) a...
2021-11-161h 1110 Things To Tell YouEp 142: The Tremaine Fish Tank (with Nic Tiemens from Infinity Aquariums)Well this episode is a bit of a departure. One of the strangest things about our life in Hollywood (and there are many, many strange things) is our enormous fish tank. Every time I share a little bit about our fish tank on social media, I get flooded with questions that I mostly can't answer. So I finally recorded a conversation with someone who could! Nic Tiemens is the co-founder of Infinity Aquariums and not only does he take care of the Tremaine Tank for us every week, he has installed and maintained tanks for so...
2021-11-091h 0810 Things To Tell YouEp 130: Favorite Things (Right Now) Volume VIIMaking a Favorite Things list is an act of gratitude. And I remind you of this every 10 episodes of 10 Things To Tell You by listing 10 of my favorite things that are always all over the map: gifts, books, beauty products, philosophies, whatever I'm using or loving or thinking about right now. And I want YOU to take a few minutes this week and think about 10 things that are bringing your joy. And then I want you to share those things somewhere, either with a friend or social media, or just in your journal or planner. FUL...
2021-08-171h 1210 Things To Tell YouEp 125: 10 Questions for CouplesThis episode is for you and someone else. These 10 Questions are meant for couples, but this isn't a big sit-down heart-to-heart. This is meant to be FUN. Stay open to your own answers and don't assume you know your partner's answers. Because the main point of these particular prompts is to build CONNECTION. The questions don't go too deep (in case you have a partner resistant to this type of conversation), but you should definitely come away from any discussion using these prompts feeling just a little bit closer. Most of the prompt episodes like 10 Questions for th...
2021-07-1352 min10 Things To Tell YouINTRODUCING: Secret Stuff by Laura TremaineI am so excited to let you in on a little secret: my latest project, a private podcast called Secret Stuff. SIGN UP FOR SECRET STUFF HERE I am so excited to combine the ideas behind my podcast 10 Things To Tell You, my book Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First, and my newsletter the Secret Posts into SECRET STUFF. Secret Stuff will be a membership hosted by Patreon. Monthly content will include: BONUS Books & Reading episodes (with all my honest reviews, Best Of lists, and secret content that didn't make...
2021-06-0105 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 111: Behind-The-Scenes of Publishing, Launching, and Marketing a BookThis episode is for anyone interested in the peek behind the curtain of the book publishing industry. Back when writing a book was just a dream, I made a promise to myself that if I ever published, I would share the experience openly and candidly. I used to crave all the information about agents and book deals and publicity and marketing and all the things that it seemed like authors very rarely talked about. Back on Ep 73: I wrote a book! I shared about everything I knew up to that point: getting attention from agents, s...
2021-04-061h 1110 Things To Tell YouEp 110: Favorite Things (Right Now) Volume VIt’s time for another Favorite Things episode! If Episode 100 was a Favorite Things HALL OF FAME, Episode 110 is back to my regularly scheduled Favorite Things RIGHT NOW. My current favorite reads, follows, apps, gadgets, beauty products, whatever I’m into currently lands on these Favorite Things episodes, and this one is full of great recommendations. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE Remember to sign up for the episode emails if you want the show notes to come straight to your inbox every week. You can also sign up for the Secret Posts, whic...
2021-03-3057 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 109: 8 Tips to Celebrate YOURSELFThis is not a suggestion to pour a glass of wine and take a hot bath. We're not talking self-care here. We're CELEBRATING. Whether it's a milestone birthday, a promotion at work, or anything else you deem worthy of a major moment, don't wait on someone else to throw you a party. You can host your own event celebrating...YOU. It's not weird. It's fun. And it's better than a pity party. I'm sharing 8 tips for celebrating YOURSELF, from weekend trips to simple birthday dinners. Attitude adjustments and practical things to think about.
2021-03-2336 min10 Things To Tell YouBONUS: (More!) Best Books of the Year (According to Laura)This episode is for those who just can't get enough book talk. On Episode 96, my real life Book Club shared our top 3-ish favorite books of the year. And while I loved that discussion, there are still so many great books from 2020 I wanted to share with you! So as promised, this is a BONUS episode with my full list of favorite reads in 2020. FULL BOOK LIST HERE. You can preorder my book! Buy Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. And sign up for the PREORDER BONUSES. *...
2020-12-3145 min10 Things To Tell YouEp 67: Social Shaming Around COVID-19 (A Conversation with Kristen Howerton)This episode is for anyone who has felt shamed or judgmental over choices made during the global pandemic. Admit it you’ve either hidden your own activity or judged other people’s choices in the last few months. I’m joined by blogger, podcaster, and author Kristen Howerton (who you may know from her blog Rage Against the Minivan or from her weekly self-care podcast Selfie) to discuss the social shaming that we’re doing and feeling during this unprecedented season of the coronavirus. PRE-ORDER Kristen’s new book Rage Against the Minivan (Out June 9!) Thi...
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