What We Said

Jaci and Chelsey recently celebrated eight years of the What We Said Podcast! It’s been a wild ride full of unexpected turns. From advice columns and horror stories to tender moments and jaw-dropping drama, the girls have shared so much alongside you, their listeners. Along the way, Jaci and Chelsey have learned a lot, and they’re using today’s episode to share some of the lessons that have genuin...

Coming off last week’s Love Island recap, Jaci and Chelsey are craving all the sizzling summer romance. They asked you to send in your favorite summer fling stories, and you absolutely delivered. We’re talking sneaking away with your secret vacation man every summer for years (yes, years), flying across the world to visit that dreamy beach boy studying abroad in hopes he finally gets the hint to p...

Jaci and Chelsey have heard your cries for their thoughts on the current season of Love Island USA, and they’re finally here. The girls kick things off by breaking down the villa after Casa Amor turned everything upside down. Almost every relationship (if you could even call it that) is hanging by a thread, so there’s lot’s to discuss! Then they move into something just about every boy on that sho...

This week on the What We Said Podcast, Jaci and Chelsey are sharing listener submissions about wedding days that went up in flames. No, like literally—one of the weddings actually caught on fire. The rest are metaphorical: heinous comments from in-laws on the day of the ceremony, getting ostracized for not going into debt to attend a destination wedding, being fat-shamed by the bridal seamstress,...

Home sweet home. This week, the girls finish recapping their Italy trip, and let’s just say the travel chaos wasn’t quite over yet. Chelsey gets stranded again, done dirty by the London airport for a second time before finding herself stuck in Dallas too. Jaci also falls victim to the London airport, but manages to turn the setback into bonus vacation time with an extended stay in Italy and a stop...

The girls are back at it again, coming to you from their Italian villa. This week, they’re sharing their summer must-haves, do’s, eats, and sees. You’ll notice some are heavily inspired by their current vacation, like hanging laundry out to dry in the open air, and then some wild cards, like unique ice molds and fresh recipes to keep you feeling refreshed and healthy all summer long. Maybe this we...

Ciao from Italy! Jaci and Chelsey are finally reunited in Capri — but not before a series of very unfortunate events. The girls are recapping their Euro summer adventures so far, and much like the island they’re recording from, the trip has come with some very high highs and some sea-level lows. Chelsey shares the saga of getting stranded at London Heathrow (worst airport ever?) and how she eventu...

  This week, the girls are planning their dream Italian summer vacation. Chelsey shares what she’s most excited about as her family heads to Tuscany, while Jaci reveals an extra stop on her itinerary in the Cotswolds, a storybook region in the English countryside, before the families reunite in Capri. They get into the fears of traveling internationally with kids for the first time, how they’...

This week, the girls are diving into your craziest best friend stories, for better and for worse. Jaci and Chelsey react to listener submissions featuring everything from a boyfriend driving a wedge between childhood besties to unknowingly being pimped out by your ride-or-die, and even getting publicly humiliated by someone you thought you could trust. Don’t worry, things end on a much sweeter not...

In this episode, we’re creating our ultimate Summer Bucket List and talking about how we want this season to feel—not just what we want to do. We discuss living more analog (or at least a lot less digital), slowing down, finding inspiration in everyday activities, and creating a summer that feels intentional and beautiful. From building seasonal color palettes to watching nostalgic summer movies,...

This week, the girls are back for another monthly advice column and covering everything from friendship dynamics and bridal/baby shower burnout to pregnancy body image and baby timing expectations. Chelsey gives advice on a question about dealing with the mental side of watching your body change (as she is actively going through it), while Jaci shares thoughts on showing up for your friends withou...

This week on the What We Said Podcast, Chelsey opens up about being pregnant and some of the struggles that have come along with it, from feeling sick and exhausted to navigating such a huge life change while still trying to show up for her three boys at home. The girls talk honestly about the parts of pregnancy people don’t always prepare you for, how isolating it can feel at times, and the press...

Welcome to the What We Said Podcast’s May Favorites. As the girls get ready for their biggest live show yet (see you soon, SLC!), they’re wrapping up the month by sharing everything they’ve been loving lately. This month’s roundup includes a podcast so deeply concerning it’s keeping Jaci up at night, summer essentials as beach season officially arrives, a classic-but-always-amazing TV recommendati...

This week, the girls are reading your stories about the moment you knew you married the right person. After falling down the Love Trapped Podcast rabbit hole about a man who seemingly chose the wrong partner and is still paying the price, Jaci and Chelsey wanted to hear the opposite: the moments that made you realize, without a doubt, that you picked the right one. Listeners share stories of husba...

This week, the girls are back with another advice column after recapping Jaci’s quick Vegas trip and catching up on life. The listener submissions, centered around determining who might be overreacting in a situation, sparked a lot of strong opinions, especially around friendships and the weird expectations people place on each other during big life moments. One listener writes in after her friend...

Who doesn’t love a fake scenario? One thing’s for sure: the What We Said Podcast does — and apparently, so do you. This week, listeners submitted tons of hypothetical situations that have absolutely no basis in reality… but somehow still manage to raise your heart rate. What would you do if you caught your sister’s man liking your thirst traps? Or if you ran out of toilet paper in the bathroom at...

Longtime listeners of the What We Said Podcast know that Jaci and Chelsey are moms, loud and proud. But as this episode proves, motherhood also comes with plenty of moments you’d rather never speak about again. This week, listeners wrote in their most controversial and shocking mom stories. Classics like kids accidentally saying horribly rude things to strangers in public (and the desperate cover-...

Yes, another guest episode so soon — and this one is a good one. Jaci and Chelsey are joined by Payton Sartain Ross, lifestyle and fashion creator, host of the Note to Self podcast, and curator behind Chez Ross. Fresh off getting married to MLB player Joe Ross, Payton opens up about life as a WAG (and what that even means), navigating the uncertainty that comes with career slumps in professional s...

This week on the What We Said Podcast, the girls are back with another advice column episode, diving into your dilemmas. Listeners wrote in asking how to deal with gifts you definitely don’t want to keep (and the clutter guilt that comes with them), how to navigate mom guilt in a world where way too much is expected of women, coming to terms with the possibility that your family or future might no...

It’s been a while since Jaci and Chelsey have taken a trip down memory lane, and this time it’s less about how they met (we’ve covered that before) and more about how their lives — and the podcast — have evolved. They get into what it was really like starting What We Said, the blog that walked so the podcast could run, and all the random lore that’s built up along the way. Why pink and blue? Who s...

April has come and gone, which means it’s time for your What We Said hosts to break down their favorite things of the month. Entertainment takes center stage first, with TV show recommendations and a few good old-fashioned book picks. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Monthly Favorites episode without some head-to-toe product recs, including a standout skincare favorite. They wrap things up with an inte...

Kenzie Elizabeth — the What We Said girls’ favorite hosting queen — is back for another episode all about the grandma lifestyle. Kenzie, founder of Friend of Mine and host of the House Guest podcast, joins Jaci and Chelsey to chat about everything from her longtime hobbies like mahjong and needlepoint to her newest obsession: actual love (hi, Charlie). They get into romanticizing your routine, emb...

Would you rather tune in to this week’s episode of What We Said… or—actually, that’s your only option. Jaci and Chelsey are reading through some of the most impossible questions from the classic two-option game, and things get tricky fast. Some start easy, like flying private alone or first class with your friends (What good is first class if my sistas can't sit? - J. Cole I think), but then it es...

This week’s topic is dating nightmares — and it might be the most relatable episode yet for women. You know those moments that immediately make you rethink dating entirely? Like showing your date a picture of your best friend and him casually responding with “she’s hot.” How about waiting until ~ spicy ~ time for a confession that he maybe should’ve cleaned up a little better… And of course, it wo...

This week Jaci and Chelsey are joined by special guest Dr. Suzy Welch, creator of The Values Bridge, to dive into what really drives us at our core. The girls both took the assessment (you should too!) and break down their results with Suzy’s help — from the values they naturally prioritize to the ones they wish they were living out more fully. The test goes beyond surface-level personality traits...