Welcome to the Almost 30 Podcast. I'm Lindsay and I'm Krista and we're your hosts, guides and friends on this path.

Almost 30 is not about your age, it's about the feeling. All of us are almost something, seeking community and resources to support the rumblings of transformation within us.

Our conversations are deep dives, shepherded by our insatiable curiosity and desire for connection and during inspiration and a sense of levity that we can all benefit from.

We're looking to find the magic in the human experience. Buckle up baby, your evolution is waiting.

Hello and welcome to Almost 30. Hi everybody, it's Lindsay and Krista. So happy you're here. Thank you for choosing this podcast. We know there's a bunch, but it's no accident you're here. I'm excited for you to discover why that ends.

Where your podcast besties podcast besties podcast big sisters, we have been in the game for a while now and this is our full time thing. We have an amazing team and brand that supports people all over the world through transitions. We like to support people and finding out who they are and loving who they are.

It's been I feel like especially through our late 20s. It's like you can't always see the light of loving who you are. There always seems to be like something you're trying to fix or heal or change.

And if you are in your 20s, we will say now in our early early 30s, 20s, that it really does get better.

It really does get better and these conversations hopefully serve as reminders and also a foundation for you to really make this your own.

I felt in my 20s that I had to do what everyone else was doing or like pick some parts of people's templates and be like, okay, I'll follow that. I'll follow that.

But it's been really fun to like finally trust myself in my 30s.

Yeah, especially on social media, you see so many templates, you see so many different people doing different things. That girl routine is so popular. You know, people are like, I'm that girl.

It's like that girl's like basically everyone doing the same exact thing. And I don't know if it's serving all of us to do all the same thing. But what ever.

I'm excited about this one. I love Nedra. We had so much fun talking. We were laughing. Our butts off before and after she's truly hilarious. I love her.

She's so cool. And her book is drama free. So we got to talk a lot about unhealthy family relationships, which is something that we've been exploring across the last couple of years is topics that you discuss in therapy such as unhealthy family dynamics.

And it was great to dig in with her about understanding the family. Their impact on you. And then really supporting yourself in the healing and freedom of having less.

I don't know less expectations. Yeah, less of a desire for your family to be anything other than what it is. Yes.

Yeah, I felt like I spent so much time wanting to either fix certain dynamics in the family, like be the fixer.

Or I would spend a lot of my energy harping on what maybe was a little bit dysfunctional or wrong rather than focusing on the go forward, which I think is like difficult when you're like in therapy. And they're like, so tell me about your childhood and all that.

So it's hard not to harp, but it was such an important shift for me when I realized that I could repair myself in a way.

I consider myself very lucky. I had amazing parents, but they're not perfect, just like anyone else's parent.

And it just put the power back in my own hands in a way that I hadn't felt in a really, really long time. And now because of that, it shifted like my relationship with them and just how I reacted, I don't react.

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