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 there, welcome to Almost 35 Podcast. Hey everybody, welcome to the show, it's Lindsay and Krista. As always, just really glad you're here.

We are writing solo dolo today, we've had a lot of requests for a solo episode. And so here we are, feels good.

Feels good, feels good, we needed it. We get reminded we're like some of our friends will message like I just listen to the beginning and it's like yeah, I guess that's okay.

Listen to the whole thing, would you? I'm like, hey listen to the end. We need those clicks. Welcome, welcome, welcome to almost 30. You don't need to be 30 to listen.

You don't need to be 30 to be part of our community. We've been doing this for about six or seven years now. And we have a beautiful brand and community of people all over the world that are interested in supporting themselves and their conscious evolution.

So we talk about things like wellness and spirituality and relationships is one of the topics that we often talked about on the show.

It was a huge focus at the beginning. We would go through dating profiles and go on dating apps for Lindsay. And I would like to count my dates.

Yes, it was all the tea. It was cringe. It was a little cringe, but fun. I know a lot of people related to what we were kind of moving through and talking about. But when I look back, I'm like damn no one consented to be talking about them on the bottom.

Did you have names for them? I forget if we had names for them. Like did you have nicknames? I always had nicknames just like between friends I would. And then on the pod. Yeah, I had a nickname. I don't think I showed this one on the pod of like

this one guy that I dated briefly. I called him poppins because like he would always carry this like huge Mary Poppins looking on brella. That's amazing. Anyway, it's funny because nicknames.

There's actually scientific studies that prove that when you have a nickname with your partner in a relationship, you're more likely to have a relationship that lasts longer. But then there is also like the nickname that you don't use to their face that people kind of disrespectful.

Yeah, it's almost like a I think we got that from sex in the city because sex in the city was like, oh, this is big. This is burger. This is all of the men's names. And you would kind of like have them more like characters.

And it is like a sex in the city thing that I think is where we got it because now so many people do that. So many people kind of reference the person that they're dating is like a nickname. And it kind of keeps you, especially at that age. So at that point when we started the pod, we were in our late 20s.

Like 27, 28. And I was still kind of like old for this shit anyway, so do old. But I was like kind of fucking around. So like the nicknames between friends about the people that you're dating.

Kind of kept it in this like surface level, fun, not really serious, not really allowing the feelings to drop in, not really allowing the challenges that you're experiencing or like whatever to actually be felt.

I found that that was one of my tactics where I'm like, let's just talk shit about this or laugh about this every day rather than actually show up for potentially a relationship that's starting, you know what I mean?

Well, it's rejecting them before they reject you. And it's just yeah, it's like keeping away from intimacy. But through the journey of us talking about relationships, we've talked about falling in love, we've talked about breakups, we've talked about various parts of the relationship process.

And I think our journey with almost 30 has made it become more of the emotional component rather and like the depth and the intimacy and the opportunity for growth that relationships provide relationships are just like a really beautiful opportunity to grow.

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