86. Giving you fresh starts, career crossroads, and hustle guilt
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We’re leveling up in 2026! Making big moves in our career, family, and financial situations. If you’re thinking of starting your own business, time to turn on this episode and pay attention to what Jon and Alex have to say. They work together, have started businesses together, and their best move of all, parents to sweet Lucy. So if you can trust anyone to upgrade your life, its these two.
0:00 - Intro
36:57 - Am I A Lazy or Productive Parent?
43:02 - Financial Struggle With A Newborn
45:26 - Choosing A Career Path
48:29 - Working From Home
51:15 - I Want To Switch Careers
53:40 - My Husband Put Us In Debt!
59:34 - Starting Your Own Business
01:02:33 - My Family Is Taking Advantage
01:10:21 - Reading Your Secrets
01:10:57 - Recs of the Week
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.1 | Vows don't include lying. |
| 0:05.7 | Your vows, like, he broke your vows. |
| 0:08.8 | And so when you talk about marriage and good times and in bad, |
| 0:11.9 | it's when you're dealing with something, again, like a loss. |
| 0:15.5 | It's when you're falling on hard financial times. |
| 0:18.3 | It's when you still have a good partner, not a shuddy partner. |
| 0:20.4 | Exactly. It's when you still have a good partner, not a shuddy partner. |
| 0:28.5 | And welcome back to Give It to Be Straight. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Alex. And I'm John. |
| 0:30.2 | And where you are gracious, gracious, gracious, gracious host. |
| 0:35.8 | Don't you feel like we're officially now into the new year? |
| 0:38.4 | Officially, because we are. |
| 0:39.9 | I feel like in the beginning, it's like a slow burn into the new year. |
| 0:44.2 | Now it's like we're fresh. |
| 0:46.9 | We're ready to go. |
| 0:49.2 | I was refreshed. |
| 0:51.1 | Refresh. |
| 0:52.4 | No. |
| 0:56.9 | I just saw myself in the mirror, by the way. |
| 1:04.9 | And like, you know when you, a regular mirror with like low light, you're like, you look fine. But then when you see yourself in like a bright light, |
| 1:46.0 | 4K. The amount of hair, I have in my nose, I got all this hair up my nose. My lips are cracked and bleeding. Yeah. Damn. The cold weather is not kind to you. The cold has nothing to do with the fact that, like, I have a mustache. But, like, it just, the winter is for just being inside. Inside. And I think that's. But I want to get out. I know. Like, but that's why people hibernate like I get it the life of a bear the fact that I'm willing to like go on a walk is wild I hate walks should we plan a trip we should probably plan somewhere warm oh yeah should we just go to like Miami we could take lulu can no that's the thing there we go we go on a two day trip just us two days two nights |
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