While Charlotte is already looking at wedding venues in the UK, Helli has finally found an apartment without mould in Vietnam. But together this week we’re talking about the value of small, gentle goals and how our mindset towards tangible, measurable goals has shifted over the last year. Big New Year goals can often lead to more stress, but gentle goals are all about a “better you” without giving you more on your plate to stress about – those 1% changes each day that build a foundation for the bigger goals further down the line.

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

Do Age-Gap Relationships Work? – The Age Gappers They say they’re happy. Why is it so hard to believe them? Article on The Cut

All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

We’re a week into the year and we’ve already found a podcast episode that totally changed Charlotte’s outlook on overwhelm and a book that Helli is saying could be the best book of the year! Yeah, we’re setting the bar high this year. We’re also diving head first into a conversation about identity, self-perception and how this inevitably changes as we grow. But when it’s something that we see as integral to our personality, how do we reconcile that change and how do we maintain our authenticity?

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

Fool Me Once on Netflix

The Food Medic Podcast: Season 9 Episode 6 with Grace Beverley

The Great Alone

Candice Brathwaite’s Reel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Happy New Year!

We’re back with our first episode of 2024 discussing how we can all approach change without the fear and discomfort that is so often associated with change. Where does the idea that we should fear change even come from? We’re chatting about how our own mindset towards change has shifted and how we’re approaching changes in our own lives in 2024.

Our 200th episode is coming up – let us know what you’d like us to cover!

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street on Netflix

Airalo eSIM app for data abroad – use code “HELENA2613” FOR $3 off your first purchase (affiliate link). You can also use their monthly discount codes an unlimited number of times for 10% off, these codes change each month but are MONTH10 (so January is JAN10, February is FEB10 etc)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

WE BOTH HAVE BIG UPDATES!

Here’s the episode we never expected to be recording at the end of 2023 but we’ve both got big life updates and we’re also approaching the end of this year slightly differently. Usually we talk about goal setting, but this year we’re sharing the habits that have had the biggest impact on our lives so far. Incremental changes and strong foundations are something we always talk about when it comes to habits.

So if you’re not sure how to approach big goals for the New Year, maybe think about smaller shifts and habits you can start to implement that have a bigger impact over time.

We’ll be taking a short break over Christmas and the New Year but we’ll be back in January with more episodes.

p.s. apologies for the patchy sound quality on Helena’s end, the wifi in the Philippines is patchy!

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

The Friendship Problem article on Substack

Em the Nutritionist recipes on TikTok (@emthenutritionist)

Also mentioned:

James Clear – Atomic Habits

Glucose Goddess

Whering outfit planner

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Snow roads, aprés skiing, “intimate” flora and how we’re coping with that classic end-of-the-year-overwhelm…it’s safe to say there aren’t many things we *don’t* discuss in this week’s episode. It’s that point in the year where we’re all starting to feel *it*. The tiredness is kicking in, we’re reflecting on what we have (or maybe haven’t) achieved and we’re looking ahead to a brand new year. Even though it’s such an exciting time of year it’s also the easiest time to have the overwhelm creep in, but when that tiny little thing pushes you over the edge (catching your jumper on a door knob as you walk past, anyone?) you can take comfort in knowing you really aren’t alone. We’re sharing why it happens, how to pick yourself up and ways we’re trying to prevent it for next year.

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

Believe in Magic on BBC Sounds

Free Soul Greens (Here’s my referral link if you want to save 20% on your first order https://herfreesoul.mention-me.com/m/ol/ti8lb-charlotte-hales – not an ad, but who doesn’t love to save!)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

This week we discuss the word of the year (don’t worry, we hadn’t heard of it either!), Christmas in Japan and the joy of embracing diverse friendships. We’ve noticed in the past few years we’ve built more friendships with people who have had different careers, upbringings, and experience to us, who might be in a different life stage to us even though we’re similar ages or who have similar priorities despite being a different age.

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill by C S Robertson

Get Gotti on Netflix

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

We are back after an unexpected break which is also the longest we’ve gone without a call in our 11-year friendship! We’re explaining where we’ve been, what grief has (and hasn’t) made us do, the little joys we’re trying to find in day to day life and just having a good old catch up, which we’ve really missed being able to do for the last month!

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

The Billionaire, The Butler And The Boyfriend docuseries on Netflix

Blackberry (the movie)

Other things we discussed:

KFC at Christmas in Japan

AI Hallmark movie script

Cecilia Blomdahl who lives in Svalbard

Hannah Waddingham Home for Christmas

Alexa Chung 40 pieces of advice at 40

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

This week we discuss *the* Netflix documentary of the moment, two books we can’t stop raving about and one of our favourite topics, nuance. We get into why nuance is so important, how it can sometimes be uncomfortable but why we need to embrace it.

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

Beckham on Netflix

Unnatural Causes by Dr Richard Sheppard

Yellowface by R.F Kuang

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

TW: At the start of this episode we do have a brief conversation about grief, if this feels like something you don’t want to hear right now then skin ahead to 6:03 to dive straight into our recommendations.

In this weeks episode we’re discussing why being the most confident person and becoming more self-assured doesn’t mean you have to be the loudest person in the room. We talk about how there’s power in living more quietly, keeping your plans private and celebrating when you finally reach your goal.

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

Taste The Nation by Padma Lakshmi on Disney+

Air on Amazon Prime

The Last Dance on Netflix

Cinnamon Social from Ole & Steen

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

What’s the latest “it-girl” aesthetic? It’s boring. No, seriously, being boring might just have become the new cool and the ultimate marker of success. If you can live a life that looks both boring and successful then you truly have it sussed. After a chaotic few years we’ve come to realise that really the most successful people out there are the ones with seemingly boring, normal lives. Why? Well that’s what we’re going to discuss in this week’s episode. Whether it’s the fascination we have with “dull” celebrities like Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen or just seeing normal people romanticise the mundane, there’s a lot to be sed for embracing the boring aspects of everyday life.

We’d love to hear from you, if you have any thoughts on this episode or any future topics please get in touch on the contact details below:

growthinprogresspod@gmail.com / @growthinprogresspod
charlottephoebe.com / @charlotte.phoebe
helenabradbury.com / @helenabradbury

Recommendations

Our Place – The Always Plan 2.0

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Podcast: Play in new window | Download