Two Open Minds

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! It’s been about 4 months since our last episode, so we felt it would only be right to give you guys an update on our lives. We begin with the question of the day which is, “If you were granted one wish, what would you wish for?” We then dive into what we’ve experienced and learned over the past 4 months, and end with a short discussion about the pandemic and our opinions about the quarantine! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we spontaneously decided to discuss the racial issues within our educational systems. We talk about the Medical College Admiration Test (MCAT) that Elmira just finished, and what that entails. We discuss potential racism within the Universities, how that might affect potential students, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! We’ve managed to keep ourselves busy for the past few weeks, but we’re excited to be back! In this episode we are simply catching up on life’s events over the past few weeks! We talk about what has changed, what we’ve learned, and what’s to come! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we continue our discussion about letting go! We begin by catching up on each of our lives and on how Elmira is handling her big move to Texas. We then discuss how we go about letting go of friendships, romantic relationships, our strategies for managing the aftermath of a breakup, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! We took a short break due to Elmira making her long move to Texas; but we’re back and better than ever! In this episode we planned on continuing our conversation about “letting go”. But with everything that’s been going on with the George Floyd incident we couldn’t help but dive into a conversation on that exact subject. We talk about our opinions on law enforcement, how we feel things should have been handled, if it’s possible for this to lead to a positive outcome, what should be done from here on out, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is episode number 37; and in this episode we discuss letting go. We begin with the question of the day which is, “When was the last time someone frustrated you? How did you react? And how would you react differently if you could?” Then we discuss different times where we had to let go of religious ideals, personal opinions, personal objects, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is part 2 on our discussion about attraction! We begin with the question of the day which was “How do you continue to be and cultivate your obsession with certain topics?” Then we dive into how media influences what we find attractive, how to avoid being negatively influenced, how someone’s personality can influence their physical attractiveness, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we share our opinions on attraction! We begin with the question of the day which is “What is your ideal date?” Then we talk about our eventful days, what we’re most attracted to, if it’s possible to overlook physical appearance in a relationship, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! First and foremost we’d like to apologize for some of the glitches that occurred within the podcast. We’re obviously still working out some of the kinks with recording remotely. But aside from that this was a very fun episode to record! We start with the question of the day which is, “How do you maintain your discipline?” Then we move on to our discussion about loneliness. We talk about why we think Americans are suffering from loneliness, if we’ve ever experienced true loneliness, how we would find connection if so, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is episode number 33! In this episode we have a very special guest; her name is Elyse! She’s been on the podcast before and was nice enough to join us for another podcast! She’s a phlebotomist studying to be a physician’s assistant and is still working on the frontlines. So it was amazing to get her opinion about everything going on with this COVID-19 outbreak. We start with the question of the day which is, “What is something one of your enemies would say about you?” Then we talk about our opinions on the Coronavirus’s impact on the economy, what we’ve gained from this, how we can help others who are in need, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is episode 32; and in this episode we’re recording remotely! We’re following the “quarantine” guidelines and practicing social distancing, so hopefully the rest of you are doing the same. In this episode we begin with the question of the day which is, “What does your ideal day look like?” Then we discuss our opinions about the COVID-19 outbreak, how it has affected us personally both positively and negatively, and much more! We hope you enjoy! Stay healthy, and stay safe everyone!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is episode number 31! In this episode we begin with some COVID-19 talk, then we move on to the question of the day which is, “What is one thing that you’ve learned about yourself during quarantine?” Then we continue with our discussion about mentors and role models. We expand upon who we should and shouldn’t follow, what makes a good mentor, if a virtual mentor is just as beneficial as an in person mentor, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is episode 30! And to begin with, our thoughts an prayers go out to all of you. We both hope all of you are staying calm and healthy during the COVID-19 outbreak. In the next episode we’ll be sure to speak about the outbreak and discuss our thoughts on the topic as things unfold. But as for this episode, we are discussing our experiences with role models, and mentors! We start with the question of the day which is, “What are the things you take for granted in your daily life?” Then we dive into speaking about the personal role models we’ve had, as well as the equally important virtual role models and mentors we’ve had, how their influences have benefited our lives, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is Episode 29, and in this episode we continue our conversation on appreciation! We start it off with the question of the day which is, “Do you think everyone has the potential to be great and achieve great things? Or are there people who are destined to be in the background?” Then we dive into the personal habits that we use to cultivate a greater appreciation for life, how we think people who are less fortunate maintain their greatness, what we do when we feel unappreciated, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we open with the question of the day which is, “What are 3 cookies in your David Goggins cookie jar?”. If you don’t know who David Goggins is we definitely recommend checking him out! We then continue to talk about appreciation. We discuss our opinions on why we think western civilization is so ungrateful, how we maintain our appreciation for life, our history with being appreciative, or unappreciative, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! Like we promised in the last episode, we’re talking about long distance relationships for episode 27! We start this sick episode off by talking about the question of the day which is “What was the last challenge you gave yourself and completed?” Then we dive into if we believe long distance relationships can work or not, personal experiences, strategies to maintain a long distance relationship, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we continue our conversation about dating! We start with the question of the day which is “what are your top 3 pet peeves?”. We then dive into our opinions on online dating, first date conversations, flirting, who should pay on the first date, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we discuss dating! We open with the question of the day which is “Who are your top 3 celebrity crushes and why?” Then we talk about what we look for in a potential date candidate, how we get their attention, where we go on a first date, what we ask, what we don’t ask, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we continue our discussion about morality and ethics! We start with the question of the day which was “Why don’t you do more?”. We then talk about our opinions on whether morality is subjective or objective, if we’d still have the same morals today if religion was erased from history, and much more! We also announce our brand new Instagram page! So if interested, you can find our page on the Instagram app, with which our name is “twoopenminds”. So feel free to give us some feedback on what you enjoy about the podcast, what you’d like to see more or less of, etc. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we discuss our personal morals and our opinions on present day ethics! We share our personal opinions on what people with “good” morals look like, we discuss how those morals can be broken and why, as well as how religion played and still plays a large roll in the development of our societies ethics, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we continue on the topic of love, and more specifically self-love! We discuss how we go about managing our own self love, how we’ve developed love for ourselves, why self love is important, and much more. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds, and Happy Holidays to you all! We continue our segment on love. In this episode, we talk about love within friendships! We discuss how to communicate with friends that we love, how we choose to give our love to our friends, what it takes to maintain love within friendships, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we continue our discussion about love! We continue to talk about romantic love on top of introducing what love in our friendships should look like as well! We give our opinions about what scares us about love what we love about love, the details about our experiences with love in the past, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we start an exciting new segment on love! We discuss the different forms of love, what love means to us, what true love means to us, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! The mental health saga continues, and in this episode we have an amazing guest! Alessandra is a driven entrepreneurial mind who focuses on both her own personal mental health and the mental well being of others. She has an amazing company called Band of Tolerance, which brings people from all different cultures, and backgrounds together to communicate, connect, and learn . We explore her experiences in mental health, depression, insomnia, as well as our own personal experiences in those subjects. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is episode number seventeen, and In this episode we’re recording in Jakes luxurious and distraction free truck! A little unorthodox, but when life tries to hold us back we keep pushing forward! As we mentioned in the last episode we are continuing our discussion about mental health! We talk about how we’ve handled our own depressive states throughout life, how diet, and exercise relate to depression, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is the first of many episodes on mental health! We believe that it is a very important topic to discuss and we hope to share our thoughts and opinions on it with you guys. In this episode we talk about Anxiety and Depression. We explore our personal experiences, our opinions, and discuss all of the research we’ve found over time dealing with these conditions. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! We both had a lot of fun recording this episode, and in this episode we talk about how we handle arguments or disagreements with unreasonable people. We discuss our personal experiences, how we handle certain situations, what type of language we use when speaking with someone who is unreasonable, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! We took a short break so that Elmira could pursue her medical school adventures, but we’re back and super excited to talk about the vast topic of religion! In this episode we we’re blessed with the presence of the lovely Elyse Pochmara! And we discuss our different views of religion, how it’s beneficial or otherwise to our lives, how we manage living with or without religion in our lives and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back and thank you for joining us for another episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we talk about the importance of having purpose, and what it means to have purpose in life. We talk about our personal journeys in finding purpose, how we develop purpose, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to another episode of Two Open Minds! This is episode number twelve, and in this episode the lovely Joanna returns to joins us in a conversation about the five love languages! We discuss our opinions on the importance of each of the five, along with our opinions about how to communicate in a relationship, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds podcast! This is episode number 11, and Jake is finally back from his journey through Oregon! The discussion today is on the large topic of vulnerability! We expand upon how we feel about being vulnerable, how being vulnerable can be helpful, how to apply vulnerability in relationships of all forms, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to The Two Open Minds Podcast! In today's podcast, while Jake is living his best life BMXing in Oregon - Elmira and special guest, Joanna, dive deep-ish about insecurities and self criticism. We hope that you take away some points on how to better look at yourself and not be so harsh on yourself. We also hope that us opening up about our insecurities helps you be more comfortable with who you are. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds podcast! This is episode number 9, and in this episode we continue our conversation about managing stress and anxiety! We were lucky enough to record on a beautiful duck pond in Carlsbad and while enjoying the view we discuss how we personally manage stress and anxiety, our views on having perspective, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds podcast! This is episode number 8, and in this episode we are attempting to cover the very large topic of stress and anxiety! This is a topic too big for one episode, so we’re breaking it up into a two parter. But here in part one we discuss our routines, how they play a roll in managing stress and anxiety, our personal battles with stress and anxiety, as well as how we deal with them, how we don’t deal with them, and much more! We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds podcast! This is Episode number 7, and in this episode we have a conversation about friendships! We both greatly enjoyed recording this episode upon a cliff overlooking the beautiful Carlsbad beaches and have a great conversation that covers many things all related to friendships. We cover our opinions of what friendships mean to us personally, what they should be, should not be, and much more! Thank you so much for listening and we hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds Podcast! This is episode number six, and in this episode we discuss communication. We both discuss what communication means to us, how miscommunication can arise, and the different ways in which people may choose to communicate. We hope to post a part 2 of this topic because we believe communication is so valuable and it is such a big topic to discuss.

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds Podcast! This is episode number five, and in this conversation we both rank our priorities in life, from least to most important. We discuss the certain things that are more important to us, why they are important for us, and how may it affect our future. We hope that you are able to take these few pointers that we discuss into consideration and possibly implement them into your own personal life!

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds Podcast! In this episode, we discuss how each of us manage negativity in our own personal lives. We hope that this episode provides a different insight that you could use in your own personal life.

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds podcast! This is episode number three, and in this conversation we are discussing self love. We talk about what our personal definitions of self love are, how society makes certain mistakes when it comes to making self love a priority, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to the Two Open Minds podcast! This is episode number two, and in this conversation we expand upon self confidence and lightly touch on how we deal with stress! We speak about our opinions of what confidence means to us, how we’ve developed confidence, how we maintain confidence throughout life, and much more! We hope you enjoy!

Welcome to the first episode of Two Open Minds! In this episode we begin by briefly describing ourselves and why we started a podcast! Hope you enjoy!