Latest Tshoxenreider Podcast Episodes
Body Image + Sabbaticals | 198
Simple - June 07, 2019 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsJust in time for summer, Tsh and Christine talk about simple (but not always easy) ways to overcome negative body image issues. Then, Tsh shares why and how she’s going on sabbatical for a month in July. In our productivity-obsessed world that’s a petri dish for all sorts of limiting beliefs ab...
A Multicultural Family & My Good List | 197
Simple - May 31, 2019 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsThe U.S. is a melting pot, so what does it look like to incorporate your ancestral heritage into your day-to-day family life? Tsh chats with Jacqui Skemp, who shares small, simple ways she weaves her culture — as a first-generation Mexican American — at home with her husband and small children. ...
Changing Your Mind + Investing In Help | 196
Simple - May 24, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsIn what ways have you changed since high school? If you're normal, you've changed in so many ways you've lost count. Tsh shares how (and about what) she's changed her mind regarding her values, worldview, and perspective in the 20+ years since she graduated. (Spoiler: It's good to change our min...
Friendships + Habits | 195
Simple - May 17, 2019 11:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsFriendships: in this chat Tsh and Katherine talk about why we need to take the time for them even when life is busy, plus little ways we can better cultivate them. (The Internet, for all its foibles, can also be a really beautiful breeding ground for cultivating some of our best friends!) They...
Nature + Teaching | 194
Simple - May 10, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsWhat’s important about learning the names of things like flowers, trees, frogs — the stuff we usually drive by and don’t think about? Andrea’s loved nature since she was a kid, but she’s re-embraced this side of her as a city-dwelling adult. She gets into why paying attention to nature is import...
Social Media in Work + Life | 193
Simple - May 03, 2019 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsWe’ve gotten into this episode’s topic off and on here, but Crystal’s a bit unique: while she doesn’t use social media for her own personal work, a huge part of her job is helping others use social media for their work. She knows what it’s like to use it both for connecting her real life with th...
Fasting, Feasting, & Intuitive Eating | 192
Simple - April 26, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsYep …Our relationships with food. Christine articulates what it means to feast, to embrace a season of coming around the table to share a meal and how that pairs really well when you also embrace more fasting in your life. This is especially great now that we’re in the season of Eastertide. Ts...
Weekend On-Ramps + Easter | 191
Simple - April 19, 2019 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsTsh shares a little practice she's been doing the past few months to help her weekends go much smoother. To anyone around her, it probably looks like nothing — but to her brain, it’s been a game changer. And Katherine’s not only a local pastor, but by golly this is Holy Week — so, we get into ...
Hometown Tourism + Abundant Mindset | 190
Simple - April 12, 2019 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsWhat's the difference between a scarcity and an abundant mindset? It really comes down to gratitude as the ultimate antidote, whether it's fear, overwhelm, jealousy, or good old-fashioned FOMO. What does it mean to be a hometown tourist? It’s also about mindset, discovering where you live with...
My Good List | 189
Simple - April 05, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsThis is a regular series here on the show — and in this one, Tsh talks to her good friend, Emily P Freeman. She’s a fellow writer and podcaster, and she’s got a new book of the same name (it might be Tsh's favorite of hers yet). Emily’s been on this show a few times; the last time was last sum...
Analog Living + Reading Classics | 188
Simple - March 29, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsChristine is a farmer: in this chat, she gets into what she’s learning about the value of slowing down, of learning to embrace our full plates (while eschewing “busyness”), and the beauty of “delightfully misplacing our phones.” And because Tsh recently wrote about what books she read in March, ...
Apartment + Fixer-Upper Life | 187
Simple - March 22, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsThere’s this idea that home ownership is the destination that crowns you officially a grown-up. In this chat, Andrea and Tsh agree this simply isn’t true. Andrea’s in her mid-30s and has rented an apartment with her husband for the past six years — and loves it. Tsh and her husband are two years...
Decluttering + Travel | 186
Simple - March 15, 2019 12:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsCrystal's recently learned stuff about herself via something she’s never done before as an adult: decluttering her own closet. She and Tsh talk about discovering personal realizations when you do something as surprisingly vulnerable as weeding out your wardrobe. And to pair Tsh's own recently pu...
Placemaking | 185
Simple - March 08, 2019 13:38 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsWe’ve got another in our series called My Good List: a thing, a habit, a work of art, and a philosophy. (Don't worry, we're not nixing our new format! We're simply still doing MGLs every now and then...) I’m talking to my friend Christie Purifoy, a former English professor turned writer and ga...
Busyness + Gurus| 184
Simple - March 01, 2019 12:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsWhat happens when you're hit with the truth that you're WAY busier than you thought you were? Katherine shares real-talk truth she gleaned after she wrote out a recent day-in-the-life recap — seeing her day broken down by the hour helped her realize a truth lots of us can relate to: she's busier...
Writing + Silence | 183
Simple - February 22, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsEven if you’re not a writer — or even in a sort of work where you create — you’ll find wisdom and inspiration in Andrea's life lessons she's learned from writing. And because I wrote about podcasts I’m currently into, in this chat I’m talking about the beauty and necessity of silence — why we al...
Dating + Marriage (With Kids) | 182
Simple - February 15, 2019 14:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsCultivating a healthy marriage sometimes looks different when kids are at different ages. Christine and her husband have kids under 8, so she shares how they find ways to date in the nooks and crannies of their life. Tsh and her husband have kids 8 and up, so she shares how they model their marr...
Partial Solutions + Her Good List | 181
Simple - February 08, 2019 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsCrystal and Tsh get into Marie Kondo, a new book they're both excited to read, and something Crystal's been doing weekly with her husband (and then Kyle & Tsh started doing this right after this conversation). And then springboarding off her somewhat-vulnerable post she shared this week, Tsh tal...
Reading More + Mindfulness | 180
Simple - February 01, 2019 13:53 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsAnxiety plagues a ton of people, and Andrea has been on quite a journey the past decade-plus learning how to live with it. In this episode, she shares a practice that helps her float through it (instead of fight or flight). Tsh talks about simple ways she incorporates more reading in her life, h...
My Good List + Yoga | 179
Simple - January 25, 2019 12:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsWhat's it like to be a full-time pastor of a local church, then decide to also become a certified yoga instructor? In this chat, Katherine talks about the misconceptions she had about yoga before she began a few years ago, as well as what it’s like to find fun surprises you didn’t know you neede...
Loving + Skin Care in our 40s | 178
Simple - January 18, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsGrowing older is a privilege denied to many people; it means we should celebrate the gift it is! In this episode, we’re talking about ways to celebrate birthday milestones in your life — Christine recently wrote a gorgeous essay about what it meant for her to turn 40 not too long ago. Then Tsh...
Life Seasons + Do-Able Goals | 177
Simple - January 11, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsCrystal shares why she loved logging a play-by-play day-in-the-life of what’s otherwise a mundane day for her (except that right now, everything is different from her normal). Tsh also shares what she thinks works SO much better than big-huge annual goals, and how you can create a framework that...
Changes! | 176
Simple - January 04, 2019 13:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsThe start of a new year is a perfect time to talk about changes, and that’s the topic of my chat here with Stephanie Langford. You’ll hear the changes in the very format of this episode (it’s what you can expect for new episodes in 2019!). Plus, a fun new segment with Haley Stewart! Related AoS...
Work: A Priest | 175
Simple - December 20, 2018 13:22 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsArchived in 2019, Simple hosted conversations about living well and ignoring the rest.
Founding a Crafting School | 174
Simple - December 18, 2018 13:24 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsJo Ellis started a nonprofit crafting school in her small town, where she and others in the community use their different crafting skills like sewing, quilting, felting, and painting to make an impact in her small town. She first saw overseas how teaching something like sewing could change the...
My Good List | 173
Simple - December 13, 2018 15:14 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsContinuing our series called My Good List, this time, I’m talking with a new friend named Jacqui Skemp, a California transplant living in snowy Minnesota. She’s a mom to three little boys, and chatting with her is like sipping on a calming, warm drink — I just love her taste, her ideas, and her ...
Work: A Calligrapher | 172
Simple - December 11, 2018 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsMaghon Taylor has a knack for hand-lettering and wanted to create a way to use her talents entrepreneurially. So, she started a company that features her unique handwriting on everything, from mailboxes and hats, journals to wine glasses. She also teaches online classes on how to turn your own...
My Good List | 171
Simple - December 06, 2018 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsWe’ve got another in our series! This time, it’s with my friend Stephanie Langford, who if you’ve listened to this podcast for a bit, you know her — she’s my fellow serial traveler and a dear friend to me. (As a reminder, in these chats I’m asking friends to break down their Good Lists in 4 ar...
Work: A Cookbook Author | 170
Simple - December 04, 2018 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsSonja Overhiser worked in the business world for 13 years before stepping out to run her food media business with her husband, Alex. When they became parents through adoption, they wanted to transition to a more flexible lifestyle. They stepped away from their day jobs and dove into this world...
My Good List | 169
Simple - November 29, 2018 12:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 862 ratingsRemember our “What’s Saving My Life” series? We’re still doing them — but now we’re calling them “My Good List.” (Same concept, clearer name.) In this episode, I’m chatting with Christine Bailey — remember her? She’s the farmer I spoke with in episode 140, where she shared her story about tran...
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