Already Friends

In this honest and transparent episode, we share what moving in with our boyfriends has actually been like (the highs and lows included). To make the episode more widely relatable, we also include stories about all of our different living situations throughout our lives, such as our home life growing up, college roommates, sorority living, living abroad, and more! As we’ve both learned from our ma...

Is anyone else exhausted from having the same light-hearted easy conversations all the time? It can be even more tiring to pretend “everything is fine” and keep it casual than to just actually discuss real, honest topics. This week we open up through a series of personal questions developed by psychologist Arthur Aron and colleagues (and famously featured by the New York Times) that are meant to a...

Rather than a basic gift guide list of trendy items to buy, we want to help you think about giving gifts in a different way this year so that it doesn’t seem like you’re just swapping $20 bills with everyone you know. We divided this episode into a few segments. To start off, we do include some physical gifts that we recommend and why we think they’d make a great gift. Then we talk about giving ex...

A highly requested topic from our listeners, we share how our daily habits lay a strong foundation for success.  We talk about personal care tips, creating a tidy organized space that you can thrive in, incorporating more mindfulness into additional areas of your life and how showing gratitude can lead to more abundance.  While we call these “simple” habits, they aren’t always “easy” but we wanted...

We talk about the 75 Hard program quite a bit in passing and some of you have started it as well! If you’re a little lost on what’s going on - don’t worry. This episode is here to help clear up your questions.  Allison and Clay sit down to tell listener’s what the 75 Hard Program entails, their experiences with it, what they learned and advice for someone who wants to give it a try. They finish th...

In today’s social climate, creating a presence online is more crucial than ever. 70-90% of employers consider a candidate’s social media activity before making a hire. You want your social channels to work for you, not against you. We share our best tips on how to figure out your personal aesthetic, how to create a brand for yourself, and how to sustain posting regularly. We talk pros and cons of...

This week, Allison and Ceara get to catch up as besties and have some fun casual conversations! We share what we’ve been up to with all of our recent travels, Allison’s birthday, Ceara’s work projects, and some things we have been loving lately. Conversation topics include skincare, kombucha, pumpkins, wellness, healthy habits, getting a good night's sleep, astrology and books. All of our favo...

We are joined by Ceara’s older brother, Brady Kirkpatrick. Brady is a Certified Financial Planner and shares all kinds of valuable money advice with us in a fun, casual way. We know learning more about finances can be really overwhelming so we wanted to have someone on the podcast who is very personal, young, and makes the information digestible. There can be a lot of negative thoughts around mone...

We had the opportunity to chat with a super special guest, Cyd B, and let us tell you guys, this has easily become one of our favorite conversations. Cyd is such a kind soul with an incredible work ethic and mission for her business, and we're so excited for you to get to know her in this episode. Cydney Barber is the founder of Into Light, a sustainable emotion-based clothing company. We sat...

Another travel episode for you! This time, we dive deep into road trips - specifically in the US. We are fortunate that both of our families took lots of trips by car throughout our childhoods so we’ve had the opportunity to visit many states and remote destinations. We just got back from our own road trips as well so we thought we’d share more details about our routes, rental cars, packing, sleep...

We are super honored to have Corie Fay as today’s guest. At the age of 27, Corie is a full-time consultant (which she'll explain what that actually means). Boston homeowner, and a girl who takes nearly every opportunity she can to travel. With 40+ countries on her resume, we were excited to ask her how she balances working a 9-5 (*8am-8pm*) while jetting around the globe. Corie shares adulting...

In today’s age of hustle culture, the grind, and working to live - we know how easy it is to participate in this mindset. As two high-achieving entrepreneurs, we’ve certainly learned the hard way that overextending yourself will lead to burnout. You guys know that we love to challenge ourselves and have a lot on our plate but we are not here to romanticize grinding 24/7. It’s easy to think that pu...

In our first Travel Like Us Episode 21, we talked about how we got started traveling, solo trips, where to stay, do’s and don’ts, and more. After that episode went live, we had listeners ask some follow-up questions and that they wanted us to share some funny travel stories! You guys know we love traveling and could talk about it all day every day, so we were stoked to record another episode about...

With the fall semester starting back up, things are quickly getting busy again. More events, football games, class, homework, projects, and weddings. Fewer days basking in the sunshine. If this has you feeling a little squirmy, anxious, and overwhelmed - we got you. This week, Allison and Ceara wanted to talk about how to find balance in the midst of what feels like chaos, how to prioritize everyt...

As two older sisters ourselves, we thought it would be fun to share our *big sis wisdom* with our listeners who either don’t have an older sibling to lean on or just want to hear our perspective. We asked you on Instagram @werealreadyfriends to submit your questions and we provide some thorough heartfelt answers. Of course, no episode is complete without first catching up on Allison and Ceara’s li...

Part 2/2 - We expand upon our conversation from Episode 29 with our boyfriends, Clay and Connor. Part 1 was focused on sobriety and our own experiences with drinking and smoking. Part 2 dives into healthy lifestyles from a physical and emotional perspective. We felt that the two topics go hand-in-hand as having a clear mind has motivated us to “clean up” other areas of our life from our homes to r...

Everyone has a unique personal relationship with substances - whether they don’t like using them, are indifferent, dabble here and there, party, or abuse them. We live in a drinking-obsessed culture. Everywhere you turn, it seems alcohol is celebrated at the forefront from brunch, to happy hour, to sporting events, weddings, birthdays, holidays, and just because it’s the weekend. We wanted to shed...

What could be more fitting for the Already Friends Podcast than an episode about friendship! Particularly the power of female friendship, how friendship actually impacts our health, how to move on from friend breakups, and tangible strategies for making new friends. Danielle Bayard Jackson is now a certified friendship coach after being a high school teacher and working in public relations. She re...

Confidence is a muscle we all have to work on all of the time. It’s a lifelong battle as we age, face challenges, and enter new stages of life. We believe that confidence starts from within and we challenge you to think about your current level of self-esteem. Are you avoiding events because of how you look? Are you holding yourself back from your dream job because you don’t think you have the ski...

This week we have on Megan Homme, world traveler and content creator! Megan is a (now, former) member of the United Airlines social media team where she has the opportunity to travel the world creating content for the United social channels. Who knew you didn’t have to be an airline attendant to get all the perks?! Not only does she do social media as her 9-5, but she also has a massive social med...

With summer going on, it seems like everyone is traveling (or has the travel bug and wants to go somewhere). To help satiate our itch to travel, this week we had on Liza Miezejeski to talk about all things travel and living abroad. Liza is originally from Connecticut but currently lives and studies in Prague, Czech Republic. Liza is also a content creator on TikTok (her account @shlyyzz has over 2...

This week, we decided to add a little bit of ✨ spice ✨ by serving you some of our most unpopular, potentially controversial, opinions on some funny topics. Since the Honest Tea was already flowing, Ceara and Allison share some of their personality traits that could be deemed… a little bit toxic. But hey, the first step to improvement is self-awareness. Laugh along at this casual and very relatab...

We believe hot girl summer isn’t just about looking good and having fun (that too) but about being truly confident, self-aware, intentional, and living with purpose. “You can’t be hot on the outside without being hot on the inside.” We share all our tips, tricks, and routines on how to make this the best summer yet. This episode is jam-packed with our advice about journaling, daily walks outside,...

This week’s guest is Ceara’s amazing younger sister, McKenna. She gives us all the warm fuzzy girl talk that we’ve been needing in our lives. She’s loyal, kind, genuine, supportive, stylish and effortlessly cool. We talk about playing volleyball in college, dating a guy from the Netherlands, journaling and fashion. To start off, we catch up on life, daily routines and our peaks of the week. Alliso...

Allison and Ceara have definitely both had their fair share of traveling. With Allison having visited over 25+ countries, and Ceara being a professional trip planner, these two could talk on this topic for hours. But today they decided to stick with the basics. They talk about how they fell in love with travel, budgeting tips, their favorite places they’ve visited, being a traveler vs. a tourist,...