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Mood: cosmic, romantic, short-and-sweet, fun, light Happy Valentine's Day, This Is Fine! family! We've got a short-and-sweet cosmic lesson from our astrology queen Shannon Aganza, helping you figure out which signs you'll vibe with. Friends, lovers, soul connections... falling 'in like' or falling in love...  it all comes down to the elements of astrology (fire, air, earth, water) and Shannon...

What are your ins and outs for 2023? What's in for 2023, and what are we leaving behind in 2022? Dominique shares her thoughts on this TikTok topic. Spoiler alert: raw onions are out.

Mood: saucy, travel-inspired, personal, silly, happy hour vibes Meet the REAL Emily… or should we say, Emilies (plural!)… in Paris: Amanda Rollins ( @americanfille ) and Morgan Hizar ( @bisousmorgan ). Two Americans who left their chilly hometowns (in New England and the midwest, respectively) and went to Paris searching for a fresh start and a romantic life. One’s a francophile, one’s never taken...

Mood: empowering, validating, self discovering + improvement Confidence and mindset coach Jenny Gaither (host of Mind Your Confidence !) is BACK for a Trauma Hour™ session with Dominique to unpack a recent traumatic experience they had on a hot girl walk. We're using this as a jumping off point to chat about BOUNDARIES, dealing with NARCISSISM, and what GASLIGHTING really means. Feeling taken adva...

Mood: medical, educational, informational, accessible 👩🏼‍⚕️ Welcome back to part 2 of our two-part hormone series with Dr. Catharine Marshall, board-certified OB/GYN in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Marshall answers listener questions about hormones, including working out during your menstrual cycle, treating PCOS, why we don’t use the term ‘geriatric pregnancy’ anymore, how to make sure your hormones are ‘...

Mood: wellness, education, learning something cool Welcome to the world of TCM — traditional Chinese medicine — including acupuncture, herbology (yes, like Harry Potter, but REAL!), gua sha, cupping, tongue diagnosis, yin and yang, elements, and more. Licensed acupuncturist and face reader Sara Sas, L.Ac. of Beauty Point By Point in La Jolla, CA , guides us through an educational-yet-accessible in...

Mood: therapy, mental health focused, upbeat, how-to Our therapist is back for another “session” — Dr. Kevin Gilliland, PsyD (who you’ll remember from episodes 2 and 24 ) joins us to discuss New Year’s resolutions and how to be happier in 2023 . With mental health resolution suggestions , happiness tips, and some shocking stats about news/media and our mental wellbeing, this is a must-listen to ki...

Mood: empowering, tips, how-to, practical Happy 2023!!! Dominique guides you through — wait for it — New Year’s resolutions (Resolutions? In January?? Groundbreaking!!!) to help you identify pitfalls in your goal setting, how to work around them, and strategies for setting goals you can actually keep to improve your life. It’s a lot shorter than listening to a self-help audio book… like a self imp...

Mood: astrology, horoscope, hopeful/upbeat Happy winter solstice! It’s our last episode of 2022, and we’re closing it out the best way we know how: with our astrologer extraordinaire/This Is Fine!'s mystic mom Shannon, forecasting the year ahead. This one’s a doozy — we’ve got all the big themes of 2023 on lock, including: Saturn in Pisces Pluto in Aquarius Jupiter in Taurus Nodal Shift to Aries-L...

Mood: therapy, mental health focused, upbeat, how-to Happy holidays!! If you haven’t booked your holiday therapy sessions, fear not… we’ve got a therapist here (one of our favorites on planet earth!!) to walk us through holiday and winter mental health strategies for stress, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Kevin Gilliland , PsyD, clinical psychologist and director of Innovation360 in Dallas, TX, has...

Mood: glam chat, interview, beauty and skincare The best of beauty 2022, and the trends you’ll see in 2023, forecasted by the pros. We tapped New York beauty guru (and one of our fav Geminis) Zoë Weiner, sr. beauty editor at Well+Good , host of Zoë Tries It All on YouTube and the Routine Rundown Podcast. Dominique and Zoë chat about skincare, beauty standards, doing less (a favorite theme, here) a...

Mood: shopping guide, beauty picks, being ~*~influenced~*~ From French pharmacy haul must-haves to Dominique’s extremely unrealistic personal wishlist, your unfathomably niche holiday shopping guide has arrived! Since Dominique considers herself a tiny white Oprah, she did a Dominique’s Favorite Things 2022, which ended up being a lot of skincare, travel, perfume, and some random things you might...

Mood: medical, educational Ah, hormones. It’s a complicated, complex, and often overwhelming topic, but hormones impact every second of our lives. Want to learn more? You’re in luck! Today, we’ve got a guide — board-certified OB/GYN Catharine Marshall, MD, from La Jolla, CA (the Shangri-La of healthcare) — to walk us through women’s hormones, specifically. Estrogen, insulin, progesterone, testoste...

Mood: mental health focused, educational, empowering, how-to The therapist is now in session! Today’s highly anticipated guest, Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble , comes to us with an exceptional mental health background, decades of research and pioneering clinical experience… and a whole lot of love and light! She breaks down the basics of therapy for us, including how to find a therapist, how to choose t...

Mood: mystic, educational, astrology forecast Spooky Szn is here… and so is ECLIPSE SEASON! 🌑👻 But these ghouls and goblins are actually our inner demons (fun! love that for us)...  As we begin Scorpio season and charge like a Taurus bull, full steam ahead, into a Scorpio New Moon eclipse on 10/25, we’ll be living through some intense cosmic weather. This culminates with the most intense ec...

Mood: validating, chill, thought-provoking, wellness vibes Welcome back to our October series, Take Better Care of Yourself Month! (This is also the second episode of our Validate Me Harder Daddy collection) Today: since when did self care become an over-the-top, overwhelming, expensive thing? Dominique brings in her longtime friend-slash-manager Zan to talk about the wellness industry, and how he...

Mood: educational, how-to, short-and-sweet Hey there, geniuses! Ready to use your brain? Curious about learning a new language after high school, college, and beyond?  Dominique breaks down her three pronged approach to fast-tracking fluency, with tips on how to pick up language skills for free. She's been learning French by herself for the past few years, and picking up Italian, Spanish, Jap...

Mood: eye opening, thought-provoking, wellness vibes Welcome to “Take Better Care of Yourself” Month on This Is Fine! For the next four weeks, we're going to provide ideas, inspiration, advice, instructions, and tools for you to  How’s your relationship with social media? Even if you follow wellness influencers or are exclusively on HealthTok on your FYP, your relationship to these feeds migh...

Mood: empowering, inspiring, laid back conversation Sorry you’re not sorry! Ladies, you don’t need to apologize for taking up space — start claiming that space and embracing your power. Maggie Herron, CPT, CHES, MPH — a coach, doctoral student, and health educator — chats with Dominique about ways you can tap into that power, feel more confident, and overcome past conditioning (spoiler, one tip is...

Mood: mystical, educational, astrological, fun Welcome back to your Astro 101 coursework, with our second lesson: your rising sign! Shannon and Nina are back for their hit series, with today's crash course on the Ascendant (also known as your rising sign); after some brief context, we'll go through all 12 so you can get to know your own. You’ll learn why you shouldn’t read a horoscope *just* by yo...

Mood: educational, mental health focused, medical, empowering Welcome to our mini series, Adventures With Antidepressants (part A) with licensed therapist (and antidepressant aficionado) Rachel Wright, LMFT , host of The Wright Conversations podcast . Rachel has decades of experience as both a patient and a clinician; today she and Dominique share their personal experience with antidepressants, sp...

Mood: educational, mental health focused, medical, empowering Welcome to our mini series, Adventures With Antidepressants (part A) with licensed therapist (and antidepressant aficionado) Rachel Wright, LMFT , host of The Wright Conversations podcast . Rachel has decades of experience as both a patient and a clinician; she and Dominique discuss the importance of talking about antidepressants and me...

Mood: spiritual, transformational, chill Find yourself a comfortable place to lay down and reset, folks! Breath work coach (and psychic medium!) Candice Rebollo guides you through roughly 15 minutes of transformational breathing that’ll give your brain a solid reboot (we start around minute 23, after we interview Candice). If you’re ready to dive deeper into your practice, Candice has set up speci...

Mood: mystical, chill, educational, fun, comforting, optimistic  Astro girlies, are you ready? Shannon is back with a forecast for Dominique’s (extremely biased) two favorite seasons: Virgo and Libra. This is fondly known — only to Dominique, really — as VIBRA season. If you’re feeling overwhelmed lately, THIS is the antidote. We’re kicking it off with the New Moon in Virgo on 8/27, talking a...

Mood: unhinged, silly, educational, validating  Today is the day where we make two things clear: #hotgirlswithstomachproblems is a bonafide phenomenon, and talking about poop can save lives. And that’s according to hot doctor Susan Kais, MD , an IBS/IBD warrior herself, and a board-certified gastroenterologist and medical director. We also have Dominique’s bff Olivia Luce in the house, regula...