Mildly Thriving

Send us Fan Mail On the season finale of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith tackle a question that's been keeping exhausted people awake for generations: why are we so bad at resting?  The ladies dive into society's obsession with productivity, the guilt that somehow appears the second you sit down, and the deeply ingrained belief that every moment of your life should be optimized or...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Meredith and Kimberly are talking about something that might sound a little strange at first: naked spaces. After a trip to a Korean spa, Meredith and another friend started wondering why it's so rare to simply exist in our bodies without judgment, comparison, or sexualization. In a world filled with filters, curated images, and endless pressure to look a certain w...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith tackle a tough question: Why did summer stop feeling like summer? You know the feeling. Somewhere between PTO requests, grocery shopping, and remembering to schedule your annual dentist appointment, the season of freedom lost a little of its magic. The ladies dig into why summer doesn't hit quite the same a...

Send us Fan Mail  On this episode of Mildly Thriving Meredith and Kimberly discuss the lost art of the “third space” - aka the places we used to exist that weren’t work, home, or doom-scrolling in bed. You know, those places you had as a child but have since forgotten about? We’re talking coffee shops, malls, skating rinks, bookstores, parks, and that one friend’s house where everyone somehow ende...

Send us Fan Mail  This week on Mildly Thriving, Kimberly presents Meredith with some extremely compelling reasons why Summer 2026 needs to become the Summer of the Sleepover. After attending a sleepover the weekend before, the ladies realized something important: why did we let slumber parties die after high school when they are clearly the superior form of socializing? From deeper friendships and...

Send us Fan Mail Fear: keeping humans alive for thousands of years… and also somehow turning into entertainment. In this week’s episode of Mildly Thriving, Meredith and Kimberly talk scary movies, adrenaline, irrational fears, and why our brains apparently think stress can be “fun.” In that case, cue the Microsoft Teams notification sounds and enjoy! Insta: @MildlyThrivingPod Original audio by Pat...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Kimberly hits Meredith with a realization: drinking just… isn’t the main character anymore. Somewhere in the last few years, cocktails stopped being mandatory, and more and more of their friends are either cutting back or calling it quits altogether. The girls dig into why this shift might be happening, what the data says, how their own relationships with alcohol have e...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Mildly Thriving, Meredith puts herself to the test with a solo date in Seattle…and let’s just say it’s a journey. From nervously riding scooters through downtown like she’s in a coming-of-age film (but more awkward), to fully convincing herself that everyone is watching her exist in public, Meredith shares every high, low, and socially awkward thought along the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kimberly takes Meredith on a trip down memory lane... or more specifically to the New Year's resolutions they made waaaaaaaaaay back at the end of December. In effort to hold them accountable, Kimberly realizes she completely forgot about a resolution soon after announcing it to the world and Meredith shares that she gives herself a B- because she's been...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever stopped to wonder what’s actually going on inside your brain… or worse, someone else’s? In this episode of Mildly Thriving, Meredith rocks Kimberly’s world by revealing that not everyone thinks, visualizes, or processes information the same way. (Like… at all.) The girls dive into how they picture abstract concepts like time, numbers, and memories. From mental calend...

Send us Fan Mail  In this week’s episode, Kimberly hits Meredith with the question we’re all thinking: why are we still tipping in 2026? As a mildly thriving history nerd, Kimberly comes prepared with a breakdown of where tipping actually came from… and let’s just say, she is not surprised by what she finds. From there, the girls dive into their very real, very relatable approaches to tipping in t...

Send us Fan Mail Most of us unknowingly carry the soundtrack of our childhood. From car rides to high school heartbreak anthems, the music we grew up with sticks with us in ways we don’t even realize. In this episode, Meredith and Kimberly dive into how songs shape our memories, emotions, and identities, and why hearing that one song can instantly send you spiraling back in time. They also take a...

Send us Fan Mail  When life kicks you in the d*ck, sometimes you end up in a funk. It's funking hard to pull yourself out of a funk. In this episode, Kimberly shares all the things she's trying to recover from the emotional toll her back injury has taken on her. What suggestions can you look forward to? Things like staying away from true crime, getting dressed even when you have nowhere...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever stepped on your bathroom scale and panicked at what it told you? Same, girl. Same. Meredith set out to prove that BMI is a bullshit number that should be completely disregarded. After wrapping up her research, she grabbed the headphones and mic to share what she discovered with Kimberly… and the information is humbling. Join us for a vulnerable chat as we talk about...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly arrives with a bold question: Why aren’t we referring perfectly decent men we dated but didn’t marry to our friends? Like a romantic hand-off. A relationship referral program, if you will. But before the girls dive into Kimberly’s matchmaking proposal, they cover the truly important life updates: sweating from weird places, Meredith ski...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone is obsessed with the same five shows and somehow… Meredith cannot press play. Why is that? This week we’re talking about the oddly emotional experience of starting new TV shows, quitting halfway through, and feeling left out when you don’t like what everyone else loves. We get into ADHD decision fatigue, novelty cravings, commitment avoidance (yes, even with Netflix), and...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode of Mildly Thriving , Kimberly pulls a full Meredith and shows up with ✨no outline✨ just a raw and unfiltered chat about life updates. What follows? A catch-up session where the girls compare life updates and quickly realize… one of them is thriving and the other is just… surviving with good lighting. They get real about the emotional whiplash of unexpected...

Send us Fan Mail Ever spend 45 minutes choosing a Netflix show and then just… go to bed? When an article about making “good-enough” decisions landed in Kimberly’s inbox, she felt seen. Understood. Mildly attacked. Naturally, she had to tell Meredith about it… who also felt personally victimized by the concept "good-enough decisions". Together, they unpack why we’re allergic to imperfect...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Meredith and Kimberly tackle the surprisingly morbid (yet oddly satisfying) concept of “death cleaning,” a Swedish tradition that’s basically decluttering… but with consequences. They unpack why inherited stuff is so emotionally loaded, how consumerism turned all of us into accidental hoarders, and why having a will is actually a gift, not a curse. Along the way,...

Send us Fan Mail  In this week’s episode, Kimberly absolutely rocks Meredith’s worldview by proposing a truly radical concept: platonic marriage . That’s right… two besties, legally married, doing life together… minus the romance. Watch Meredith process this information in real time as they interrogate why society insists marriage is ONLY for lovers and not, say, the person who already knows your...

Send us Fan Mail  On this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith tackle the most important question of our time: what actually makes a girls’ trip iconic… and not an emotional nightmare? Fresh off Kimberly’s recent cruise with three friends, the girls break down the essential what makes a good travel companion (and the red flags that should’ve stayed home). Kimberly recounts her topless...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith brave the horror of boredom, aka being alone with your thoughts for more than 10 seconds and having to poop without watching Reels. They reminisce about feral, screen-free childhoods, discuss our collective phone addiction, and unpack why constant stimulation might be killing our creativity. With plenty of personal confessi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mildly Thriving , Kimberly and Meredith reunite after the holidays to catch up, overshare, and unpack a truly important event: Meredith and her friends getting their auras read by a very drunk stranger during a night out. This naturally sparks a conversation about what auras actually mean (if anything at all) and how much we should trust spiritual insights deliv...

Send us Fan Mail  In this episode, Kimberly and Meredith unpack everyone’s favorite invisible life-ruiner: expectations. The ones society dumps on us, the ones we quietly dump on other people, and the ones we dump on ourselves that keep us awake at night. They chat about how unspoken expectations are basically premeditated disappointment, why “they should’ve just known” is a big ol' trap for...

Send us Fan Mail  Meredith and Kimberly share exciting end of the year updates about their biggest achievements... one of them might involve not shitting one's pants. On the cusp of a new year, the girls wanted to dive into why we even do this whole New Year's Resolutions thing and want to learn where they even came from. Join them as they Google things like "Where is Babylon?"...