honey, tea, & steam podcast

This week we celebrate Galentine's Day! Bella and Lexi reminisce on their dating experiences being young women and all the red flags that come along with it. Dating can be fun, insane, and even a little traumatizing.

It is officially 2022 and HTS is, here again, to make some steamy hot takes for the new year! We do a fun recap of how our 2021 was and see just how accurate our predictions were for the year.

Happy Holidays! It's that time of year where HTS does their annual Christmas Cast with some fun, festive trivia.

We continue to bring the holiday fun with this week's episode! Get ready to debate and laugh with us for this year's holiday bracket.

It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday season! With gifting holidays right around the corner, it can be stressful to find unique, personal, and affordable gifts. In this episode, we give some tips and tricks on being the best gifter at the party on a budget!

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We wrap up answering your guys' questions!

We answer all of your amazing questions! From how we began to podcast, how to have a running podcast, and we even talk about a threatening lawsuit.

This week, we have only one question on our mind: "Texas, wyd??" Lexi and Bella decide to take this week to address the controversial topic of abortion in the United States while discussing TX SB8 and abortion through a pro-choice lens.

We talk about what to expect when you're up and moving out of your current home! In Lexi's case, that would be across the country in a 15-hour road trip and traveling over 1,000 miles. Tune in to find some tips on how to have a successful move, even when it's across the country.

We discuss some upcoming changes that are coming to the HTS Podcast while also announcing an exciting giveaway!

Moving out is such a large milestone for any young adult to experience, especially if it's for the first time on your own! This week we discuss a handful of useful and informational tips that one would need in order to have a successful moving out experience.

This week we decide to change things up and have a nice, relaxing spa day for ourselves. Lexi and Bella try a bunch of brand new skincare items that they have never tried before. Also, this week we discuss some pop culture stories that have been cycling around the media.

With the 4th of July quickly approaching, this week we decide to talk about patriotism and what it is like to be an American in modern-day America.

This week we revolve our episode around the greatest thing to be created—food. Lexi and Bella try a bunch of new exciting foods that they have never had before and some weird combinations of food that they never would have guessed to try. We also play a game called "Guess That Recipe."

This week we have Angeline with us, a self-proclaimed movie expert, to share with us about her overall dream movie experiences and reads us her own movie reviews. We discuss our movie preferences, the movie theatre experience, and even dive into the Bechdel Wallace test. The Boyfriends also create a movie trivia game for us to play.

In the spirit of Pride Month, this week we celebrate love and individuality with our two special guests Jes and Maliik. They talk with us about their experiences being a part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

This week we decided to do something a little crazy and bring the podcast on the road with us. Bella, Brenden, Caleb, and Lexi bring the pod on for our group vacation. We discuss traveling tips, vacation essentials, and our favorite things to do when we are vacationing.

In honor of mental health awareness month, we here at honey, tea, & steam wanted to spread awareness on the issues surrounding mental health.

This week we take discuss unpopular opinions. Some being ours and some being from our listeners. Unpopular opinions are ideas and beliefs that go against or completely contradict the conventional status quo. They can be steamy at times, while others may seem silly.

Do you have concerns about college? The debts, the variety, the degrees, everything can seem very overwhelming. It is, but you aren't alone. The college experience isn't a set track for everyone. It varies, and sometimes college isn't on the path for people at all. We are here to talk about our experiences with college, picking a school, paying loans, and the stereotypes of the college experience.

This week, thanks to the boyfriends, we each draft our dream astrology celebrity teams to face-off to find the ultimate zodiac winner. We are given different scenarios and send our teammates to stand off head-to-head. Who do you think is the best reflection of their sun sign zodiac?

This week Mollie, Lexi, and Bella sit down and discuss something a bit more serious. It is something that we all deal with as functioning people in society. Burnout. What is burnout? How does burnout affect us? Is there a way to prevent burnout? Listen and find out!

In honor of the upcoming national holiday that is 4/20, this week we sit and discuss our experiences with substances. Between alcohol and weed, we have quite a few stories to tell.

This week we all sit down and take the 5 Love Languages test together!

This week we have another special guest with us to discuss weddings! Becky has recently become engaged as of last year and she walks us through the wedding planning process. It's more than you would think! We learned a lot about not only her wedding plans but also wedding traditions and typical budgeting as well.

In honor of the upcoming March Madness brackets for the NCAA basketball tournament, the boyfriends have made the team a honey, tea, & steam "just girly things" bracket.

This week we go back into discussing astrology. However, this time we dive deeper into our natal charts as we have grown to learn more about astrology and its rule in our personal beings. Astrology breaks down the makings of a person's personality, so we go into depth about our big three (sun, moon, and ascendant) while also dipping into the big six. We get to do all of this with our special guest, Angelina, who is a triple of fire and she adds spice to the conversation.

This week we discuss setting and completing goals for yourself. We are joined by our special guest, Bryan, who shares with us about the health journey that he has been on for the last year. Setting goals for yourself is the first step into being the person you want to be whether it be short-term, long-term, financially, or career-based.

This week we touch on a requested topic. Datings apps vs. Meeting someone in person. The dating world is crazy as it, add a pandemic on top of it and you get a whole lot of chaos. Do dating apps make it easier or does it just complicate things even more?

This week we discuss body image and growing up in a society that made it so hard to love yourself. At the end of the day, it is your body that you get to experience life in. Representation in the media and form clothing brands influences us more than you know. Also, we discuss starting the process of daily "I am" affirmations.

We're back and better than ever! This week we celebrate Galentine's Day with chocolate strawberries, wine, and a fun dating show game made by the boys! Don't forget those Valentine's Day horror stories too.

The girls discuss the lives of sex-work and OnlyFans. They disclose how much talent and dedication these people have to make a living. Bella also spirals into a political rant and how we should all be progressive.

After taking a week off, this week we chat about the fluidity of sexuality as well as discussing our own sexual preferences. We focus heavily on the validity of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as taking a look at the idea of gender identity. We also play another game, created by the lovely boys, called Crime & Punishment.

As we go into the new year of 2021, we discuss what resolutions mean to them while also giving quick hot takes of how we all predict our 2021s will be going. We even have our first special guest Becky on to play a game of Incohearent with us!

This week Bella, Lexi, and Mollie talk about their first introductions to the world of social media. The first time you create an online presence is life-changing. They also discuss their issues with their own image online and how they deal with these unhealthy habits of constantly checking your timeline. Are there benefits of having a social media profile? If not, why do we all use it on a daily basis? We discuss that here! We also play a game of celebrity Twitter trivia.

For the holiday season, the girls thought it would be a great time to talk about Christmas horror stories. What better way to spend this magical time of year than talk about trauma? We have a lot of laughs and even talk about our good ole pal Santa. We even play a game made up by the boyfriend's where we have to guess holiday traditions around the world!

This week we talk about our astrology signs! We discuss the different zodiacs lightly and share our opinions on the different signs while also checking relationship and friendship compatibility.