Minor Fears
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In honor of spooky season, we're revealing – and laughing over – our minor fears. Find out why you too should be terrified of: arts and craft, a trip to the zoo, sending a friendly text, and more.
For Friends of the Show on Patreon, we're each sharing a time we had to overcome a fear.
Also for Friends of the Show, mark your calendars for Sunday, November 16 at 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern for our live Holiday Hangout! These are casual and fun conversations chatting about our holiday plans, stresses, gift ideas, and more! Become a Friend of the Show for just $5/month and get access to all our bonus content and past live hangouts!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Girl Next Door. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:07.0 | In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends. |
| 0:13.5 | We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet. |
| 0:20.1 | In honor of Halloween this week, |
| 0:22.3 | we are doing a whole episode about minor fears. So not the big terrifying existential fears that |
| 0:29.0 | many people have, but those silly, very specific fears and tiny phobias that we're almost |
| 0:35.6 | embarrassed to admit and are actually kind of hilarious. |
| 0:38.6 | So we will include some cute fears we had growing up and that our kids had when they were little. |
| 0:43.6 | Also for Friends of the Show over on Patreon, we'll be continuing the chat as we always do by |
| 0:48.1 | talking about a time we had to overcome a particular fear. |
| 0:51.9 | Also, while we're talking about Patreon, we have our annual live holiday hangout |
| 0:57.0 | for Friends of the show coming up on Sunday, November 16th at 12 p.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. |
| 1:04.9 | So please mark your calendars. These online hangouts are just like a casual and honest version of the show, just live and raw. |
| 1:12.8 | Plus, you get to see our faces. |
| 1:14.8 | The holiday hangout is always just like a holiday huddle among friends to get into the holiday spirit, a little pep talk, make some plans, strategize about those inevitable holiday stresses. |
| 1:26.7 | So that is Sunday, November 16th at 12 p.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific |
| 1:31.4 | for Friends of the Show. And there will be more details over on Patreon. And we hope to see you there. |
| 1:38.1 | All right. Let's start with this. What was something that you were afraid of as a kid that turned out to be a |
| 1:42.8 | pretty minor fear? Okay, I asked my parents |
| 1:45.7 | about this. One of these things I remembered and then they shared another anecdote that I had |
| 1:49.9 | forgotten about. My first one is baby bunnies. Oh, specifically. Specifically baby bunnies. |
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