No Small Thing

What is NOSTALGIA? Do you think you have your head wrapped around that concept? Does the idea of philosophical and personal pontifications about nostalgia sound interesting to you? Then you came to the right place! Nostalgia is a feeling or phrase or concept that comes up in our discussions a lot. It may be a driving feature of No Small Thing!? We're not sure! But Nostalgia seems like a pretty imp...

SUGAR. It's part of our everyday lives. We all have nostalgic memories that involve sugar and yet its actually pretty harmful to our bodies and mental health. How do we hold these two things in tension? When we started talking about recording this episode we thought it would be mostly silly and goofy (and it is in some parts), but we soon realized that sugar is actually pretty problematic...Also.....

This week we are back at it with another enneagram episode! We are circling back through all the types meaning Macie is on the hot seat again to discuss all there is to being an Enneagram Four. Unsurprisingly this conversation is emotionally deep, highly introspective, sometimes a bit tragic, and quite quirky. Macie brings the honesty and Scott brings the open energy and space for them to both dis...

This week we got a chance to interview one of our heroes- Dr. John Perkins. The occasion for this interview was a mission trip to Mississippi where we got to sit down and talk to a man who has spent his whole trying to help people wrestle with the concept of reconciliation...

This is a super rambly and personal deep dive on emotions, everyone! We can't have a conversation about emotions without a deep dive on our own personal relationships with our own emotions so we go ALL IN. We talk about our own personal journeys with our emotions, the current state of our emotions!, and what we believe are good, healthy, and wholesome ways to express and make space for emotions in...

This week we approach yet another huge topic as lay folk (aka non-experts!). We have our second conversation on STYLE. We talk about our personal style and our OPINIONS on style (particularly clothing) and we also interview ALYSSA who has just recently started a style/ fashion instagram account that highlights the unique styles of friends and insta acquaintances. Not only is her instagram account...

What is a home? Not an actual physical home...but on a more philosophical level....and a literal level! It's an interesting, complicated, sentimental...(yet sad?) concept. At times we are longing for home and other times we think we have found it. In this episode we try to unpack what the important elements of Home are. We hope it helps you get curious about your own definitions of home and how yo...

So far we have covered the basics of each enneagram type. Now we seek to go deeper by discussing the wings and variants of each type. In this episode we talk about Enneagram type fives. It just so happens that Scott (co-host of No Small Thing) is an enneagram 5 ...and a 5 wing 4/ Sexual 5 to be specific. And Scott's son JACK is a 5 wing 6. This week we try to compare the nuances and differences th...

Introversion and Extroversion seem to be frequently at odd as misunderstood. These are temperaments that need to be understood and appreciated. Scott skews introvert and Macie skews ambivert and both of them find temperament to be extremely fascinating and interesting (of course). In this episode Scott and Macie deep dive what it means for us to learn to continue to make space for each other throu...

Do you ever have doubts about your faith or The Bible or just about life in general? Do you feel like your questions and your doubts mean you're slipping or that you're somehow detached from God and life? What if your questions and doubts actually signified that you were getting nearer to God or to the heart of life? What if our questions are what draw us into a more rich and dynamic faith. On thi...

This week on NST we are deep diving defense mechanisms, specifically CONTROL and INTROJECTION. It's our third time sitting down to have a conversation about defense mechanisms because they seem to be super huge when it comes to our personality development, and the language is SO HELPFUL for healthy introspection. Scott researched control as a defense mechanism and explains the myriad of ways we ca...

We believe curiosity is an essential element to thriving as humans. Its also a core value of our podcast. In this episode we try to explore what curiosity is, why its important, and how to get more curious.

In this week's episode we deep dive the complicated and mysterious history of The Enneagram. Have you been told the The Enneagram is "an ancient tool"? We have! And it's true- The Enneagram IS ancient...but that statement can sometimes be lazy and misleading. In this episode we really try to unpack the mysterious origins of The Enneagram. We discover a lot of interesting things! And a lot of WONKY...

Originally coined in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, this week the NST team unpacks and unravels a discussion around the phrase, "Beauty will save the world." What is beauty? And what do we mean by saving the world? Join us as we wonder out loud about art and the role it plays with inspiration, transcendence, religion, and basically life. We begin by philosophizing and meandering around the topics of beau...

This week we try and discuss the concept of sports! So generic, right? We talk about our personal journeys with sports...what was good and what was bad. We rant a little bit about what is problematic about sports, but we also try to see the good and discuss listener questions. Sports truly is No Small Thing. It seems to be everywhere. Hopefully this discussion helps spark some curiosity about this...

This week on NST we are deep diving the idea of 'Conversion' as Scott unpacks from a week of learning with/alongside Peter Rollins. Peter Rollins is a major theological/philisophical/psychological thinker who is discussing some cool stuff. Macie curiously asks Scott questions as he processes/shares some of the deep wisdom and interesting concepts Peter brought up during his "learning festival", wa...

Color is part of our every day lives and probably in ways most of us don't appreciate. During this episode Macie and Scott take up the challenge of having a conversation about COLOR. What kinds of emotions does each color evoke, why are colors important, and what does it mean for Macie as a painter? This conversation is pretty out there! We hope you enjoy it! If you're short on time and would like...

This week is all about Enneagram type Nines! These are the calm peacemakers in our lives who love to maintain connectedness with the people around them. They have heaps of empathy and an almost magical ability to see things from other people's perspectives. Their attention on others, however, often means they sacrifice their own sense of inner motivation. This week we interview our good friend Dan...

This week on No Small Thing its a Macie takeover! Scott is out of town this week so it’s just Macie embarking on a curious conversation about the Holy Land. Macie sat down with her dear friends Adrienne and Kierstin who invite us into their pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Israel/Palestine). They share about all the different places they visited, as they walked where Jesus walked. They also spoke to t...

We are back this week to do a follow up episode on one of our very first episodes....The Art of Playlist Making. About 10 months ago NST released an episode where Macie and Scott sat down and spout off about the significance of playlists in their lives, how to make the "perfect playlist", and played fast and loose with the word "art". Following that episode we received an epic email from our frien...

Is this the most generic title to a podcast ever!? Maybe! Are there other podcast episodes merely titled "Phones". It doesn't appear so! In this episode Macie and Scott talk about everything from their early experiences with phones, texting etiquette, read receipts, and much much more! This episode will leave you wondering about your own relationship with your phone and your friends and hopefully...

What even defines friendship? What qualities make for a "good" friend? What expectations come with friendship? Why do we even need friends? Are there levels of friendship? Why does friendship even matter in the end? This topic is one that we ALL can relate to, and all have something to say about it. This week Scott and Macie do their very best to share some of their thoughts and opinions all about...

Bold, brash, brave, exciting, lustful...just a few of the appropriate descriptors often used to explain Enneagram type 8's! They don't want to be controlled, people! In this episode we interview two enneagram type 8's (Hannah Keyes and Rebecca Bernstein) with the hope that their thoughts and stories will help you understand enneagram 8's better! We do enneagram episodes every 5 episodes because we...

Defense Mechanisms are "invisible methods by which we exclude unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness." Sound interesting!? We sure think it is! And we sort of feel like talking about Defense Mechanisms is an important calling for us. It syncs up well with therapy, wellness, enneagram, spirituality..and so much more. Knowing about your Defense Mechanisms will help you be a more AWARE per...

This week we have a fun yet sometimes serious conversation about the history of social media and how it impacts us personally on a daily basis. We discuss social media etiquette, debate its relevance in our lives, and even ennea type each social media platform! This is a fun and curious conversation about something that is extremely prevalent for most of us these days!