122 Avoid

122 Avoid

Kimberly throws a curveball right out of the gate. Instead of treating "avoid" as a verb, she splits it into a noun and lands on something unexpected: the comfort of being in a void. What follows is a winding conversation about designing your life around silence, aging into the brain you actually have, and why "neurospicy" captures something that "neurodivergent" never will. Cara brings her inclusivity training framework into the mix, and they both end up in a creek. Screaming. It makes sense in context.

The "Is It Just Me?" segment takes a sharp turn into trust - specifically, what happens when you lose trust in people you've never even met. Kimberly unpacks the Olympics, the White House, and why the U.S. Women's hockey team declining an invitation twice in one day might be the most powerful "no" of the year. Cara drops Stephen Covey's one-liner that makes trust stupidly simple: make a commitment and keep it.

From there, it's consent culture versus hustle culture, why no one owes you a no with a smile, and a drag queen's masterclass on the difference between "no" and "oh..."

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Episoder(35)

133 Distractions

133 Distractions

Cara and Kimberly take the word "distractions" apart while Cara records from the car halfway into a ten-hour round trip and Kimberly walks in low-energy and honest about it. They open with the statist...

8 Jun 40min

132 Mirror Neurons

132 Mirror Neurons

Cara and Kimberly take "mirror neurons" apart and follow them from the Duchenne smile (the real one, eyes and mouth, contagious by design) through con-artist body language and into a piano study where...

1 Jun 40min

131 Lampreys

131 Lampreys

Cara and Kimberly take the word "Lampreys" apart and find the punchline buried in the bite - these little eels leave a tiny smiley face on whatever they snack on, because of two big pointy teeth and a...

25 Mai 19min

130 Rebellion

130 Rebellion

Kimberly and Cara take the word "Rebellion" apart and follow it from Cara's eco-village ("the rebellion comes with strawberries, y'all") through guerrilla seed bombing, Princess Leia, a Krispy Kreme s...

18 Mai 39min

129 Exceeding

129 Exceeding

Kimberly and Cara take the word "Exceeding" apart on a Friday where both of them are fried, which turns out to be perfect research material. Kimberly mishears the first syllable and her brain runs wit...

11 Mai 36min

128 Redshirt

128 Redshirt

Cara and Kimberly pull the word "Redshirt" and follow it from Star Trek's expendable crew members to Hollywood's expendable actors to the rules in your life that have outlived their usefulness. Along ...

4 Mai 37min

127 Interaction

127 Interaction

Kimberly and Cara pull the word "interaction" and immediately fall down the rabbit hole - starting with the life Kimberly's mom never got to live (physics at Emory, derailed by marriage) and landing o...

27 Apr 36min

126 Stardate

126 Stardate

Kimberly and Cara pull the word "Stardate" from the Dino Cup and promptly scatter in every direction - from binary stars locked in tragic orbit to Stargate SG-1 binges, sound sensitivity revelations, ...

20 Apr 1h 4min

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