Just Two Friends Who Like To Talk About Serums.
Mini-Ep 72: Relationship Roles
Doree and Kate receive a nostalgic email about the Singles building, hear from a listener about their lack of initiating hangouts, give recs for getting over a breakup, and advise someone wondering how to support their husband who recently came out as trans.
Mini-Ep 71: Don't Go Chasing (Hard) Waterfalls
Doree and Kate get an email with advice for Kate about her phone journey, receive a vegetarian recipe site rec, hear from a listener seeking tips for haircare with hard water, and share their experiences with a listener who’s wondering if they’ve found “the one”.
Mini-Ep 70: How Do You Dupe
Doree and Kate receive an email about childhood passions and reading for pleasure, discuss product dupes, hear from someone who’s started dancing daily (thanks to Liz Gilbert!), and give advice to a listener about how to maintain friendships.
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Mini-Ep 69: Girls Just Wanna Have Pun
Doree and Kate get some follow-ups about body acne, hear from a listener who’s finally living her best life in her 40s, discuss regional dialect differences, receive a voicemail from someone wondering how to celebrate their body, and lend advice to someone with roommate issues.
Mini-Ep 68: Body Acne Struggles with Priyanka Mattoo
Former F35 guest Priyanka Mattoo comes on this week’s episode to help Kate and Doree respond to listener questions. Priyanka answers someone who wants to know how she’s managing her life now that she has a second child, and then they hear listener suggestions for how to deal with body acne and encourage someone to brag about themselves in their bio.
Mini-Ep 67: Thank You Notes and Shoulder Stress
Kate and Doree receive several suggestions for tense shoulders (including one from a PT!), establish Thank You Note Forgiveness Day, hear from a Zumba lover who’s embracing not caring what others think, and lend advice to a listener contemplating leaving life in the big city to move back home.
Mini-Ep 66: Sun Sleeves and Starting Over
Doree and Kate receive several recommendations for sun protective clothing, lend advice to a couple of twenty-somethings who are wondering what to do with their lives, and hear from a pregnant listener struggling to relax.
Mini-Ep 65: Sunscreen and Wanderlust
Kate and Doree swap affordable sunscreen tips, discuss self-care while your partner is away, and receive an email from a listener who feels a “phantom itch” for something more. Plus they share listener responses for the mother who wrote in about her young daughter getting compliments on her looks.
Mini-Ep 64: Stop in the Name of Love
Kate and Doree hear from listeners about what they’ve stopped doing for the sake of self-care, get a response regarding last week’s discussion about handling anger, lend advice to a woman who wants to support her deceased best friend’s daughter at her wedding, and share a listener voicemail full of helpful tips for job rejection.
Mini-Ep 63: Brush Hands
In Doree’s inaugural return to the mini-eps, she and Kate get some responses regarding beauty mishaps of the past, including a caller who comes to the realization that they don’t have to do any of the beauty things we’re “supposed” to do! They also hear from a listener who wonders what she’ll do whilst on maternity leave and lend advice to a PhD student who is wondering how to handle feeling overwhelmed and angry.
Mini-Ep 62: Confidence Songs with Samee Junio
Once again, Kate is joined by the one and only Forever35 producer aka Uncle Pod, Samee Junio. They talk their love of dogs, the joys of using Q-tips, and give listeners advice about self-care whilst dealing with career rejection and handling guilt when you live far away from your parents.
Mini-Ep 61: Digging for Goals with Jackie Johnson
Natch Beaut host Jackie Johnson joins Kate on this week’s mini-episode! They lend advice to a woman who’s not feeling appreciated by her family, discuss their favorite cheap eyeshadow brushes, and reminisce about past beauty mistakes. Plus, Kate responds to listeners who wrote in after a past mini-episode discussion about an unwanted third pregnancy, and shares exciting news from a listener featured on a previous episode.
Mini-Ep 60: Wholehearted Living with Ellen Fondiler
This week, Kate fields listener questions about work and jobs with career strategist and past Forever35 guest Ellen Fondiler. They lend advice to a listener dealing with imposter syndrome, consider what it means to be a good manager, give tips for dealing with burnout, and dig into wholehearted living.
Mini-Ep 59: Fake It Till You Make It
Doree and Kate receive a follow-up email regarding the woman who called about her boyfriend’s wardrobe, give a pep talk to a listener who wants to improve her confidence, and offer advice to a nervous newly pregnant mother.
Mini-Ep 58: Waxing Poetic
Doree and Kate break down their fave lip colors, strategies for pubic hair removal, hear from a non-binary listener about chivalry, and discuss dating younger men.
Mini-Ep 57: Gaslighting at Work
Doree and Kate offer advice to a skincare newbie on how to start a regimen, get some insider info from a therapist, hear from a woman being gaslit by a colleague, and discover a new holiday: Email Debt Forgiveness Day.
Mini-Ep 56: Flex Your Joy Muscle
Kate and Doree hear from a former ballet dancer about body positivity, discuss the deliciousness of ranch dressing, offer words of wisdom to a woman mourning the end of a toxic relationship, and consider how to help a friend who just received a cancer diagnosis.
Mini-Ep 55: Lip Stains and Therapy Tips
Kate and Doree receive a voicemail about how to actually pronounce Ikea, get reccs on hospital bag must-haves, discuss their favorite lip stains and sheer glosses, and offer tips on getting back into therapy.
Mini-Ep 54: Failing Safely
Kate and Doree hear from a child psychotherapist, a social worker, and a surgeon about how they approach struggles with perfectionism, discuss the sexist roots of chivalry, and lend advice to a woman who continually get “mansplained” at the gym.
Mini-Ep 53: The Great Micellar Debate
Kate and Doree finally put an end to the "micellar" controversy, and hear from listeners about castor oil in skincare and affordable birthday celebrations. Plus, they offer advice on planning a cozy bachelorette party for a friend and get tips from a listener on managing social media time.