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Bad On Paper

2025 Mid-Year Goals Check In

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Skincare, Beauty, Society & Culture, Comedy, Advice, Books, Arts, Careers

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to check in on our 2025 Goals! Are we on track with our writing goals? Did Becca reduce her screen time? Did Olivia manage to give up Jarlic? Keep listening to find out! 

 

Obsessions

Olivia - Bose Ultra Open Headphones

Becca - Stick Season (Her Version) by Deeps

 

What we read this week

Becca - Hazel Says No by Jessica Berger Gross (out 6/17), The Knight and The Moth by Rachel Gillig, Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood

Olivia - Slanting Toward the Sea by Lidija Hilje

 

This Month’s Book Club Pick - All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

 

Sponsors

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Wayfair - Head to Wayfair.com to shop a huge outdoor selection.

 

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Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone and welcome to Bat on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman. And today we have our mid-year

0:25.3

goals check-in episode where we talk about all the things that we wanted to do this year and whether or not we

0:31.7

are actually doing them. So this snuck up on me, but it's here. We're doing it. Okay. Okay. I want to dig deeper. I want to

0:40.2

temp check on how you're feeling. But first, more importantly, tell me your high. Highs.

0:46.7

I have many highs this week. And I needed a week with many highs because I've had a very anxious

0:52.3

couple weeks. So I'm feeling good. I'm feeling

0:55.9

high on life. First and foremost, most importantly, I do not have skin cancer. So that's always great.

1:03.1

I'm so relieved for you. It took about a week to get the results, but they called me and I was like,

1:08.8

oh my gosh, the receptionist, I think, was like, wow, this person is so excited because I was just thrilled. And then before that, it was actually

1:16.5

nice because I had this distraction of going to the Jenna's Book Club Festival in Nashville with my mom.

1:24.9

Tell me everything. We need to know. No detail is too small.

1:30.9

I could do like an entire episode of this.

1:34.0

I have so many thoughts.

1:35.7

It was wonderful.

1:37.7

Like I'm almost hesitant to hype it up too much because I feel like next year it will sell out pretty much instantly if they do it again,

1:44.2

which it seems like they will.

1:46.4

It was just absolutely worth every single penny.

1:50.3

It was quite pricey, but like the people were great.

1:54.1

The environment was amazing.

1:56.0

The food was delicious.

1:57.5

The panels were excellent.

1:59.4

The discussions were incredible.

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