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In this episode, we delve into what constitutes gossip and the ways we tend to get pulled in despite our best intentions. We also talk through venting and how we can move beyond what can feel like gossiping and venting loops into either deeper ways of connecting or problem solving. 

With all the things to be angry about, in episode 18 we discuss anger. What it is, what it can do for us and what it can do to us. We explore cultural and gendered expressions of anger and we ultimately get into how identifying and connecting with our personal anger can have a collective positive impact. 

Join us for conversation with storyteller, artist, and multi passionate creative from the South Bronx, Azrael Encarnacion. We talk what it means to identify as an artist and to pursue play and presence and how that connects to creativity. We also delve into the varying ways he and we juggle multiple passions sometimes because we are compelled to contribute our work to a greater collective and other times to satisfy our internal worlds. 

Join us for this relationship retrospective! We review different stages of our relationship from the moment we sent our first okcupid messages to each other in 2012 until now. Who were we right before we met and who are we now? We of course share how we found each other and later outline various stages of long term relationship exploration and growing pain development. Bonus Vicky rant in the intro to hear about Neptune entering Pisces in 2011 and how it aligns with our personal spiritual evolution and perhaps that of the collective. 

Join us as we explore joy and share our attempts to cultivate it even amidst times of grief and despair. First we examine the distinctions between joy, happiness and pleasure and later discuss Jung’s infamous shadow work theory and how getting in touch with and integrating the painful and “ugly”parts of ourselves may unlock access to a brighter and deeper joy.   

Join us as we talk through surviving the family and how we aim to cultivate more awareness and presence while navigating family dynamics. We reflect on our personal journeys and specifically how we have drawn, pushed and loosened boundaries throughout the years with respect to time, shared activities and rituals, and conversation with our families. We also talk about the following in connection to family: communication styles, being bored, alcohol, and digging for family gold. 

In this episode, we talk time scarcity. We explain what time scarcity means to us and how the concept of “never enough time” can sometimes foster structure and groundedness that can make way for creativity and presence, while other times the real feeling of “time slipping away” can overtake our day to day life with an unrelenting appointment-like rigidity. 

In this episode, we talk through how grief and loss have shown up for us in their many, sometimes highly felt, sometimes highly disconnected, iterations: the collective kind, the end of relationship kind, the close but distant kind, the abstract forever in denial kind, the bearing witness kind, the intergenerational kind, the heart and soul breaking kind. Join us.   

Join us as we sit down with oral historian, socially-engaged artist, and native New Yorker Bridget Bartolini to learn more about the intersection of storytelling and community building. Bridget talks us through how stories can foster conscious community connection and even pride for where we come from and live. We also get to hear about what these ideas look like on the ground through her community projects. Learn more about Bridget's projects here: http://www.fiveborostoryproject.org/ https://34aveoralhistory.org/      

Tune into this densely packed episode to get some clarity on WTF body work is. Body worker & artist Chloé Cofresí shares with us what embodiment practices are and how life-changing they can be. We learn how the body functions as a living memory system and how we can create holding patterns from even the smallest moments of stress. She also talks us through how bodily traumas don’t fully emerge until we are ready and safe to heal them. Learn more about Chloé's practice: https://www.beamandflow.com/

In this episode, we talk through our shared decision not to have children. We share the evolution of our process from adolescence to now (late 30s), how we investigated our own thoughts and feelings that emerged, and how we moved through our own impasse individually and as a couple with regard to this topic. We ultimately offer our story to bring more nuance to a conversation that is rarely shared publicly.

Join us as we return for Season 2!   In this episode we talk through: *our recent move and the process of purchasing an apartment  *the shift of the vibe of our new building *power dynamics of giving and receiving  *community connections *Vicky's recent diagnosis and the overwhelm and empowerment that can come with a label *Key moving through lack of purpose and focus in his creative pursuits and recent inspiration from specific media content