Podcasts about reading my tea leaves

Why haven't we been talking about JLo more here? Well, we're about to remedy that—and fill ya in on more, more, more design trends that are speaking to us right now.   The women artist biographies/books Claire will be picking up include Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five PaAnne Truittinters and the Movement by Mary Gabriel, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt, and Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase.   If you're also looking to do a JLo deep-dive, we recommend reading How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder, Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman, the story of the full-page ad Ben took out back when, Vulture's Peoria, Illinois, analysis re: Marry Me, and this GQ article about THE dress. Also, listen to Just Like Us: The Tabloids that Changed America hosted by Clare Malone and watch the music video that Ben made to “On My Way To You” for Jen for Valentine's Day.   In the home-design realm, some inspiration comes from two incredible New Orleans hotels, Hotel St. Vincent and Hotel Peter and Paul.    Fellow lovers of yellow furniture should bask in Billy Cotton space for Grace Morton, Sophie Ashby's giant yellow velvet couch, and this kid's room.    If you're thinking of doing some furniture-painting on your own (inspiration: Matilda Goad's London home!), see Erin Boyle of Reading My Tea Leaves make-over a dresser on IG and read her guides for refreshing trim and kitchen cabinets.    Wood paneling—SO COOL. See: Sound View Hotel, ​​Les Arcs ski resort, Jane Hallworth for Tinder co-founder Sean Rad and his Wife Lizzie Grover Rad, and Wall for Apricots.    On the Swedish tile stove front, we love painter Mary Nelson Sinclair's dining room, Victor Hugo's fireplace, Lindholm Kakelugnar, and this explainer from Messy Nessy Chic.   Your favorite niche JLo stories need an audience! Share ‘em at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, or @athingortwohq.   So many more recs coming at you with a Secret Menu membership!   Get professional counseling with BetterHelp and take 10% off your first month with our link. Download Best Fiends—it's free!—on the App Store or Google Play. Grow hair that's thicker and healthier with Nutrafol. Your first month's subscription is $15 off with the code ATHINGORTWO. Help those muscles chill: Try Theragun for 30 days. YAY.   Produced by Dear Media  

Longtime hero and first-time guest Atoosa Rubenstein is our plus-one today, and, whoa, is she delivering SO MUCH wisdom—you know, exactly the sort of stuff she was known for as the editor of CosmoGIRL! And Seventeen, but now built for adults. (Related: You've gotta sign up for her newsletter Atoosa Unedited.) Before we get into it, though, we need to talk about a term that's as useful as it is aspirational: public affluence.   Public affluence further reading: “Every Child on Their Own Trampoline” by Jeremy Williams and the 1958 book The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith.   More on the Buy Nothing Project. See also: this post and this one from Reading My Tea Leaves.    Sign up for Atoosa Unedited, Atoosa Rubenstein's newsletter—you want in on this!—and read the breakup installment we reference. Oh, follow the Atoosa Unedited Instagram, too.   Tiny, baby Erica interviewing Atoosa in 2004 for Roadtrip Nation.   Some Atoosa go-tos: It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn, Goop, Armchair Expert, SmartLess, Tara Brach, and Page Six.   Direct your feedback to @athingortwohq, podcast@athingortwohq.com, and 833-632-5463.    Um, are you signed up for Secret Menu?!   Download the (free!) Zocdoc app and schedule the doctor's appointment you've been putting off. Get a handle on your fertility with Modern Fertility's finger-prick test. It's $20 off when you use our link. Try Nutrafol for thicker, healthier hair. Your first month's subscription is 20% off with the code ATHINGORTWO. YAY.   Produced by Dear Media

This episode originally aired in June of 2016. Our guest is Erin Boyle, the blogger behind Reading My Tea Leaves and author of "Simple Matters: Living With Less and Ending Up With More". It's a gorgeously photographed and written book and its focus is on the joys of living with simple pleasures in a small Brooklyn apartment that Erin shares with her husband and young child. We cover all kinds of aesthetics on the podcast and have celebrated both maximalist and minimalist styles, and everything in between. Today, we think you'll be delighted to hear about Erin's very pared down, minimalist style that comes from a place of true happiness. We love that, for her, simple living is not about deprivation but about the beauty she sees in everyday ordinary things.

Congrats to Cam on his first bday and to Claire on her one-year motherhood anniversary! We’ll get into all of the learnings—and bathtime struggles. But first: a rabbit whose diet is raw, vegan, now grain-free. How very 2020 of her.   The linkage: Ash’s wonderful vet, Catnip & Carrots. Meaghan O’Connell on breastfeeding and hormones for The Cut. For pelvic floor and postpartum incontinence stuff, look into Michele McGurk of Danu Physical Therapy in Brooklyn and Rachel Welch of Revolution Motherhood in Manhattan, in Brooklyn, and on the internet. Underwear for the fourth trimester! From Nyssa. To understand baby developmental leaps, give The Wonder Weeks app a download. Products! You knew they were coming. It’s all about the Snoo (which you can rent), the BabyBjorn Bouncer, the Colugo compact stroller, and the Charlie Crane levo baby bouncer. Erin Boyle of Reading My Tea Leaves shares intel on the Buy Nothing Project here.   www.Biossance.com w/ Code ATHINGORTWO20 for 20% off your full-sized purchase   Produced by Dear Media

Erin Boyle is the founder of Reading My Tea Leaves, a blog where Erin writes about slow, simple living in a big city. She is also mom to Faye, who just turned five, and Silas, who’s two and a half. If you live for carefully chosen things and thoughtfully considered words... and if clutter hurts your soul, then you’re going to love Erin Boyle. Side benefit: This episode is probably going to inspire you to finish your most recent Konmari-ing attempt. Show Notes: https://www.alsomom.com/erin Episode Highlights 2:05 - The story of how the birth of Erin's first child inspired her to do her own thing and start blogging full time. 4:38 - For those of you who wonder like I do, this is what it actually means to blog on a full time basis. 11:40 - Why Erin's reticent to be too prescriptive about how to do anything. 17:00 - Why parenting forums aren't Erin's speed. 19:24 - On listening to one's gut and why Erin doesn't consider herself an anxious parent. 26:22 - How becoming an aunt before becoming a mother prepared her for her first. 28:10 - How minimalism came into Erin's world. ("Oh there are words to describe what I was already doing?") 34:10 - Why Erin loves having little kids in a small space. For real. 36:55 - How Erin curates what makes it into her home and what doesn't. 44:07 - Erin's number one piece of advice: JUST START WITH LESS. 50:20 - Despite living a life of less... these are thing things Erin loved during the baby stages. 51:54 - Why buying a double stroller felt somehow counter to her values, but turned out to be exactly in line with her needs (and therefore, values). Linkable Mentions Reading My Tea Leaves - Erin's blog, where she celebrates a practical and purposeful approach to simple and sustainable living. (I love her weekly newsletter, Tea Notes, and I genuinely look forward to receiving it each week.) Sleep with Two Kids in One Room - Erin's blog post on the subject. Simple Matters - Erin's gorgeous book on simple living. (Think Marie Kondo minus the strange sock folding thing.) "The Perfect Mother" SNL Skit - Okay, the bare ass bit was hilarious, but the general tone of this was a bit too "Scary Mommy" for me personally. What did you think? Simple Birthday Parties - Erin's blog post on throwing birthday parties with less junk and more of the stuff the kids actually enjoy, like free play and fairies. Bill Nye - "The planet is on fucking fire." Buy Nothing Project - Do you have a buy nothing group in your area? (Read Erin's post about finally joining in.) Manual Breast Pump - A game changer for Erin. Umbrella Stroller - Because sometimes you don't need a behemoth stroller. Double Stroller - Because sometimes you do need a behemoth stroller. @readtealeaves - Where you can find Erin (and her simple space and her wonderful family) on Instagram.

#009 — Having children invites chaos into your life. So if your work focuses on minimalism and simplicity, how do you align those themes with the bedlam of being a parent? For Erin Boyle, she says she seeks out the simple moments: The time spent reading stories to your kiddos at bedtime. The moments when your child is calmly eating cantaloupe. The five minutes in the morning you spend sitting on the kitchen floor with your three-year-old, drinking a smoothie. The entire day isn't simple, but parts of it can have calm and peace.   Erin Boyle is the writer of and editor of the lifestyle blog, Reading My Tea Leaves. Based in Brooklyn, Erin spent time living in a 173-square-foot apartment which inspired her path towards a more minimal, and beautiful, lifestyle. She believes that the elements of living simply are beneficial and accessible to us all, no matter the circumstances.   Now that she is the mother of two children under the age of four, with a six-month old in the house, simple moments are even more precious to Erin. Today she shares how her background in history and public humanities led her to explore the idea of ‘living small.’ I ask Erin about her gentle approach to self-improvement and how she defines courage within the context of being a parent. Listen in to learn how getting comfortable with uncertainty a big part of parenting, why she cautions against speaking about pregnancy in universal terms, and how you can embrace the ‘idyllic and beautiful’ moments in your life.  FULL SHOW NOTES:  Get the complete show notes with episode quotes, photos, and time stamps at www.startuppregnant.com/009.  EPISODE SPONSOR & SPECIAL OFFER:    Thank you to the sponsor of this episode: HippoGive! HippoGive is a new app that donates your change by rounding up your everyday transactions to the nearest dollar and gives it to the charities and non-profits of your choosing.  If you’ve been wanting to donate to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, or disaster relief you can use this app and it’s a piece of cake. All you need to do is create an account, choose your charity and then set a weekly donation cap. Head to HippoGive.com to sign up.  All of our sponsor offers are available on our website for you to grab the perks and discounts offered to podcast listeners: http://startuppregnant.com/sponsors  LEARN MORE ABOUT ERIN BOYLE:   Erin Boyle is a minimalist who loves a good story. Her approach to living simply recognizes that life isn’t always simple, ‘but the curtains can be.’ She grew up in a very old house on the Connecticut shoreline and developed an interest in what life looked like in the past. E --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startuppregnant/message

Our guest today is Erin Boyle, the blogger behind Reading My Tea Leaves and author of "Simple Matters".  It's a gorgeously photographed and written book  and its focus is on the joys of living with simple pleasures in a small Brooklyn apartment that Erin shares with her husband and young child.  We cover all kinds of aesthetics on the podcast and have celebrated both maximalist and minimalist styles, and everything in between.   Today, we think you'll be delighted to hear about Erin's very pared down, minimalist style that comes from a place of true happiness.  We love that, for her, simple living is not about deprivation but about the beauty she sees in everyday ordinary things.

Get to know author and blogger Erin Boyle. Erin’s first book, Simple Matters, was released on January 12, 2016 and her blog Reading My Tea Leaves is an ode to simplicity and small-space living. Erin speaks with Erin & Rita about starting a blog, her focus on simplifying her life, her approach to shopping, and the process of writing a book as a new mom!

Have you ever considered de-cluttering your life by living with less? Erin Boyle of Reading My Tea Leaves did and now she can’t go back. In Episode 17 of the Pure Green Podcast, Celine speaks with...