Misty walked around the house for about a week singing, “I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger…” After several days of this constant loop, we decided this was great episode material. Have you ever wanted to crawl back through time to give your younger self a message? We reached out to our friends and listeners to ask what words of wisdom they would share with their former selves.
In this episode:
• The one time Randy doesn’t join in song.
• Randy strolled around our old stomping grounds and pondered this subject.
• Movies about time travel have us fearing the Butterfly Effect.
• Is anyone ever really smart enough for marriage or parenting?
• People feel strongly about education and student loans.
• Misty can’t recall where she had a recent conversation. Last week’s episode, duh!
• One of us really doesn’t want to be pigeonholed. Let her do all the things, ok?
• High school graduates barely have an inkling of the career possibilities available to them.
• We bemoan the nobility placed on white collar jobs because we basically love electricity and working sewer lines. All hail the electricians, plumbers, and the all-important guy who keeps our air conditioner blowing cold.
• The gap year debate.
• Misty wishes she would have taken her wanderlust factor into consideration when she was making education decisions.
• Learn why Randy would tell himself to take learning seriously and how he would “guilt” his younger self.
• Nobody really knows what they’re doing.
• Poltergeist and Geraldo are the perfect cocktail for creating a long-term scaredy-cat.
• Randy asks Misty to save his manhood.
• There are plenty of untalented people with amazing careers.
• Tenacity and work ethic will pay off for a lifetime.
• Now you get a glimpse of Randy’s Olympic obsession. If Aven had been a girl, her name would have been Olympia Rose.
• The allure and heartbreak of zookeeping.
• Randy completely contradicts himself.
• Finding your tribe of crazies and refusing to let others define you.
• Misty would give herself permission to be as big, untamed, bold, dramatic, and emotional as she needed to be.
• Shabby chic and dumbing yourself down.
• Be kind at all costs, even if you have to kill ‘em with kindness.
• You’re never as fat as you think you are.
• We have a moment of confusion and disagreement, but Randy’s not going to beat himself up about it.
• Misty discusses her evolving faith and embracing the mystery of God.
• We both would tell our young selves to dance more and learn to dance well.
• Keeping yourself limber. Toes to your nose. #stretchselfies
• Hanging out with older folk may be better for learning to live in the present than meditation.
• Brilliant parenting advice from a mama of four. It involves sandbags and rushing rivers.
• Letting go can be so hard to do but often the best move.
• A piece of cryptic advice.
• Would your younger self take any of this advice? Will you take any of it now?
• All we need is a time machine. But do we dare?
• The most useful advice Misty’s mom gave her and the wise advice of another beloved lady.
• Randy avoids offense.
Randy said:
Are there things outside my bedroom right now that are about to kill me? Tweet This
I probably have some more advice to myself along these lines that I wouldn’t take. Tweet This
Misty said:
Worry is just meditation gone awry. Tweet This
I’ve spent a long time learning that the things that put other people off, were really my superpowers. Tweet This
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