Making The Effort Podcast

In this episode, we talk about rebranding to a more casual format, so we decided to start Casual Catch-ups to just talk about things that we've been into lately, because at the end of the day, this podcast is for us to make the effort to communicate with each other. Apologies for my mic quality - I messed up recording somewhere along the way. Show Notes: Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

A great, big Happy New Year from Chris and Nichie! We hope 2020 treats everyone with kindness, love, and adventure! Let us know what you're looking forward to in the new year! Show Notes: Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

This holiday season, we ruminate about what kindness is. Show Notes: Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

Chris and Nichie would like to wish our listeners a Happy Holidays, and a very merry week of relaxation, self-care, time with the most important people in your life. Show Notes: Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

People look to different places for inspiration and motivation. We talk about who and what inspires us, and what it means to live as an inspiration to others. Corrections: Nichie talks about FIFA World Cup 2008, she really means FIFA World Cup 2010 Show Notes: Insta Repeat: https://www.instagram.com/insta_repeat/ Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

We talk about our experiences with travel, things we've learned and tips we've taken away. And Nichie talks about her experience travelling as a minority. Travel subreddits: r/JapanTravel, r/Onebag Icelandic Pledge: https://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandicpledge Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

Welcome to our special Halloween episode where we talk about fear, and how the things that scare us can help define us. (Twitch Streamer with Doctorate) Cazgem: https://www.twitch.tv/cazgem/ "The Healing of Anger" by Timothy Keller: https://gospelinlife.com/downloads/the-healing-of-anger-5382/ "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear" - Ambrose Redmoon/James Neil Hollingworth "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I’ll try again tomorrow" - Mary Anne Radmacher Note: We are not authorities on mental health. If you are stuggling with mental health, or you or someone you know is in crisis, please call 911, or your country's crisis hotline. Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

Large corporations aren't out there to teach you how to take care of yourself, but rather to guilt you into buying more and more of their products to make money. In this episode we talk about what the media and people online try to tell you that you should be doing for self-care and what we think you really should be doing to help make you the best you that you can be. “Self-care isn’t glamorous. It’s the everyday work you do for yourself to make you a little bit happier and healthy,” ― Huffington Post Self-Care For Women Is More Work Than Buying Products “True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from. And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.” ― Thought Catalog This Is What ‘Self-Care’ REALLY Means, Because It’s Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

Your mid-twenties is a good time to look back at your life. In this episode, we talk about how our mindsets have changed as we’ve grown up. We talk about the things we’ve left in our childhoods, the new things we’ve embraced as adults, and the important things we've learned along the way. “Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you. Some people believe that life is happening to them, and because of this, they get weighed down when something bad happens. Other people believe that life is happening for them, and that each incident — good or bad — is shaping them into the person they’re meant to become.” ― Tony Robbins “I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable--if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them.” ― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

In this episode, we tackle the topic of careers: on finding your purpose, the elusive “dream job”, and why it's not quite enough to love the work that you do, with insight from this week’s guest Ayn, Digital Content Creator and Entrepreneur. Find more of Ayn on her YouTube channel. Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/aynbernos Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AynBernos Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aynbernosdotnet And her brand at Morena The Label: http://instagram.com/morenathelabel/ Game Grumps Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RuEjGvx_4A Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays

Welcome to Making The Effort podcast: A show where your hosts, Chris and Nichie, two partners looking at the world through independent lenses, navigate and discuss topics that allow them to grow together, in a safe and open environment. From mundane hobbies, to "adulting", to relationships, and more, join us as we make the effort to understand the world by seeing it from a different perspective. Listen to Making The Effort on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CNnFYlX5oU1gqjM0uOSyO Email us at: makingtheeffortpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/540562943352867/ Making The Effort Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingtheeffortpodcast/ Nichie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nichiedesu/ Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mooseandpup/ Chris' Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/poppieplays