The Best Life Podcast

We know the power of coaching when it comes to building an online business, both as coaches ourselves, and as people who invest in coaching. But there’s a new trend of coaches and marketers who are demanding high-level investment without much information before the purchase (and sometimes even after!). The idea is that a big investment alone will provide a big mental transformation. Yeah… we call...

Everyone needs a hobby, but should every hobby be monetized? We’ve all heard the saying, “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” We call bullshit on that. Yes, we love what we do most of the time, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have moments where we hate it juuuust a little. That’s true of any hobby-turned-business; when you start to put pressure on something you love, you mig...

Rest is super important, especially in a society that’s always pressuring us to do more… buuuuut sometimes you just don’t want (or need!) it. When is the right time to rest, how much should you take, and how do you even know if you need it in the first place? We hate to say it, but sometimes you kind of need to earn your rest. It’s all about knowing what season of life and business you’re in, and...

There are a lot of mentors and gurus out in the personal development space touting their specific routines and rituals as a pathway to success. Sure, a consistent routine might be beneficial for you, but no amount of cold showers on infrared light therapy at 4am is going to change your life. Sometimes too rigid of a routine can interfere with your Best Life along the way. Routines can be great, bu...

What makes a marriage a failure? Are people who get married and divorced shortly after somehow less than the rest of us? Of course not! Most people aren’t getting married knowing it will end, and there’s no way anyone can know the inner workings of a marriage, anyways. And a long marriage isn’t necessarily a happy or healthy one, either! All that matters is the happiness and personal growth of the...

Nobody likes putting away laundry. Well, maybe you do. But it’s a chore we hate, and there’s probably something you hate doing (or just don’t have time for) too. At some point, you have to stop doing everything by yourself! Hiring someone to do your dishes, or mop your floors, or watch your kids doesn’t make you a failure, it just means you have more important shit to do! That’s the Best Life. Hir...

Money is a sensitive subject. For most of us, the way we think about, save, and spend money comes straight from our childhood and our parents’ habits. Then, when we start to factor in a partner’s money habits, things start to get even more complicated. Maybe one of you saves every penny, while the other loves to spend on the finer things. What we do know is that nothing changes if you don’t talk a...

We’re 300 (and 2) episodes in! We’ve always joked about running out of things to talk about, and we finally did. Only a little kidding about that. Some of our best conversations come from our deep friendship, and that’s something we’ve been able to maintain over the past 5 years through relationships old and new, moves to different cities, business decisions, family matters, and everything in betw...

Making a mistake isn’t the end of the world (even if it really feels like it.) A lot of children are conditioned to fear “messing up” and those children turn into perfectionist adults. Sure, perfectionism might take you “far” places, but at some point, that same perfectionism is going to stifle your creativity and keep you stuck in the same places. If you want to go even farther, you have to learn...

The body positivity movement has been life-changing for so many people. Bodies come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and we ALL deserve to love ourselves, however we look. But we’ve noticed a weird trend, where body positivity turns… well, negative. Now if you show up online as a thin person, you’re shaming people who aren’t. Or if you express interest in losing some pounds or gaining some muscle...

The grass on the other side of the fence always looks greener… until you get over there and it’s covered in ants or dog shit, or maybe it was just spray painted green. And at some point, you’re still going to have to water and mow it. The grass may look greener, but that doesn’t make it “better.” Spoiler alert: we aren’t actually talking about grass. We’re talking about everything: relationships,...

When you have a personal brand or online business, you get a lot of comments from the peanut gallery—and by that, we mean that strangers feel like they get a say on what you post. Some times we get accused of posting pictures of ourselves for male attention. We definitely aren’t, but even if that were true… who gives a fuck? Your social media, your rules. Maybe what we post can be a little polariz...

If you’re brand new to business, there are a million different things you could be doing at any given time. You might be falling prey to shiny-object syndrome, just chasing after whatever seems like it’ll bring you success the fastest. But if you keep changing things up without any real commitment, you’ll never know what really works for you. Just like you wouldn’t switch from making cake to pie h...

Yes, food is fuel but it is so much more than that. Food is community and connection, and honestly, sometimes that shit is simply delicious. We used to be those kinds of people who weighed every ounce of food and cried if you asked for a bite—aka, we were obsessed and dysfunctional. Now we can share food without a second thought and it no longer has the same kind of power over us. If you’re stuck...

Have you ever felt emotionally hijacked when a loved one told you a choice they made that you didn’t agree with? Or maybe you’re the person who’s friends or family seem to judge every action you take. Even though someone’s choices rarely have anything to do with us, it can be a struggle not to take it personally. Like most things in life, it’s best to stay in your own lane as much as possible, and...

We’re all about female empowerment and confidence building here on The Best Life, but sometimes when we see another woman out there crushing it, our egos take a little hit. Why is that? Maybe we feel a little threatened, or maybe our societal conditioning tells us that women are supposed to be meek and insecure. Frankly, that’s bullshit. There’s a different way forward, and it starts with getting...

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade case that guaranteed the federal right to an abortion, effectively criminalizing abortion in several states across America. You asked our opinion, so here it is: it’s bullshit. Jill has never been pregnant, Danny has, and gave her daughter up for adoption, but their opinions are the same. A women should have the...

We’ve spent a lot of our lives obsessing over food and exercise. We see it happen to others all the time: someone finds an extreme regimen that produces results, then they’re terrified to try something new or give up their diet and exercise regime, which leads them to obsession and food phobias. Maybe you feel like extremes are the only way to keep results, but eventually obsession will break you....

If you’ve made bad decisions in the past, how can you feel like you can ever trust yourself again? Whether its a decision about your work, your relationships, or any other life event, nothing crushes your self-trust more than a choice that went “wrong.” But what if it wasn’t a mistake, even if it ended badly? And what if you could give yourself compassion for doing the best you could? What if—this...

Danny had a business trip planned this weekend… until her boyfriend had emergency surgery to have his appendix removed. Now she’s torn between being a loyal partner, and being loyal to her clients (who she already had to cancel on for this exact meeting). In life, love, and business we often have competing values and priorities, and it’s difficult to know which choice is the right choice. What we...

A lot of living the Best Life means having open and honest communication with those around you, but sometimes those conversations are difficult AF. If you need to talk with your loved ones, friends, coworkers, or team about something that might be unpleasant, and you need to know where to begin… Start here. Jill has a framework to share that she developed through tons of hard conversations she had...

A lot of us have jobs, but they’re just that: a job. They don’t fill us with joy or make us jump out of bed in the morning, filled with purpose. So how do we find something more, how do we find a career? The beauty of the internet is that anyone can make money doing anything! There are so many options out there, you just need to know where to look or how to make it work. If you work with the unive...

So, you accomplished everything you wanted… now what the hell are you supposed to do? Don’t get us wrong, it’s a great problem to have, but it can put you in a real funk when you feel like you don’t have anything more to achieve. But life isn’t just about being productive, and there is so much out there to try and look forward to. Goals can be fun and they can be bigger than just the tangible thin...

You’d be hard pressed to find a woman today who never hated something about her body. Our society is so focused on how we look, and it’s hard not to covet what we can’t have. But that’s the important part: we can’t have it. Sure you have have surgery, you can diet and work out, but so much of how we look comes down to genetics. But you just can’t change your DNA, no matter how badly you wish you c...

We don’t know about you, but after the past couple of years, we find ourselves craving a tropical vacation. The kind of vacation where the only thing we have to worry about is sun, sand, and relaxation. If you’re feeling the same, tune in to this episode, because we’ve been almost everywhere the sun shines and we can tell you the spots you definitely can’t miss, and the spots you may want to think...