Soft Life

How to Be Fine

Kristen and Jolenta

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of How to Be Fine, Kristen and Jolenta talk about the “soft life” trend and its origin story. Plus, they offer up advice on how to start a new career journey, and how to stop picking facial blemishes. Do you have an advice question for us? Email us at [email protected], or tweet us @jolentag, @kristenmeinzer, or @howtobefinepod. And if you haven't already, please join our How to Be Fine (formerly By the Book) Facebook community! https://www.facebook.com/groups/kristenandjolenta Sources: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/soft-life/#:~:text=The%20term%20soft%20life%20and,popularity%20among%20young%20Black%20women https://fortune.com/2022/09/11/the-soft-life-of-dar/ https://www.insider.com/how-young-black-women-are-manifesting-a-soft-life-2022-12 https://andscape.com/features/the-softlife-isnt-as-easy-as-it-looks-online/ https://hermoney.com/earn/work-life-balance/is-living-a-soft-life-the-secret-to-success/ https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wellbeing/a42740284/soft-living/ https://mashable.com/article/soft-life-quiet-quitting-trend https://www.bustle.com/wellness/soft-life-black-women-self-care https://houston.momcollective.com/soft-life/ https://www.essence.com/health-and-wellness/living-the-soft-life/ https://heragenda.com/p/tips-for-living-a-soft-life/ https://africasacountry.com/2023/05/pitfalls-of-the-soft-life https://www.inhersight.com/blog/mental-health/soft-life-without-quitting-your-job https://www.ellecanada.com/culture/society/living-the-soft-life https://nordot.app/981848352915898368

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to How To Be Fine. I'm Jolanda Greenberg.
0:11.0	And I'm Kristen Meinser in each episode of How To Be Fine. We weigh in on what's happening
0:15.8	in the world of happiness, health, and betterment, and we offer a bit of advice to those who
0:21.3	want it.
0:22.4	Full disclosure here, we are not psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors of any kind, but
0:29.4	we are experienced self-help critics. We have lived by the rules of almost a hundred
0:34.6	self-help books for our other podcast by the book, which is available here in this same
0:39.6	feed if you just scroll back. So needless to say, we've tried on almost every kind of
0:44.4	wellness trend out there. So you can maybe trust our opinions.
0:49.8	And besides we're not here, promising to make all of you the best, richest, happiest,
0:53.9	most productive versions of yourself, if all goes well, will just help you to feel a little
0:58.5	closer to fine.
1:02.5	Okay, Kristen.
1:27.9	We have a couple really interesting advice letters to get to later in this show, but first,
1:33.7	as we always do, we are starting off with our hot topic. And Kristen, you are bringing
1:39.8	us the hot topic this week. What is it?
1:42.8	Today's hot topic is The Soft Life.
1:46.5	Oh, The Soft Life. I feel like I've heard of this.
1:52.5	You have, I'm guessing you have, but confession here, I personally only heard the term soft
1:59.1	life recently from our executive producer, Nora, but when I did some digging, I found
2:05.8	it everywhere. Gelante, you are always on TikTok about a thousand times more often than
2:10.5	I am. So I'm guessing you've seen it there. There have been loads of articles written
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