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Body hang ups, overworking, keeping up with the Jones’ and more - there is a bunch of stuff we are happy to leave in the past! How about you? Join us for our candid and vulnerable discussion, and you can even participate in a “guess-what-you-can-ALSO-use-this-for” quiz! As always, lots of laughs and lots of inspiration…

Eydie and I talk about our dads this week and give them kudos for some ways they have influenced our lives! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com

Eydie has been racing around clandestinely watering neighbors’ plants and Leah is double batching brownies to share. Also, Leah continues her mockery of Real Simple magazine, highlighting  ridiculous tips that have allegedly changed people’s lives. More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com Recommendations: L'oreal Telescopic Mascara

Eydie and Leah are in training for summer! Come along for the ride and design yours along with us! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com Recommendations: The Last Mrs. Parrish - Liv Constantine The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles The Body - Bill Bryson Anna: The Biography The Power of Moments - Chip and Dan Heath

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Eydie is looking for someone to video chat with her cat, and Leah is searching for ‘short-ass’ movie recommendations on Netflix! We also dive into how to ask for help, who to ask, and how you might share your gratitude. As always: fun, stories, and some take-aways that might just help you get exactly what you want! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com Recommendations: The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath Rob Lowe’s Autobiography - Stories I Only Tell My Friends Rob Lowe and His Son to Star in Netflix Comedy 'Unstable'

Leah is not only sans Eydie but goes wildly off-script today, sharing how she is doing in the ‘current unpleasantness,’ to steal a term from Liz Dolan of the Satellite Sisters, my favorite podcast in the world, next to ours. I talk about what’s happening in Beijing and how I'm dealing with it in addition to dipping into some social anxiety I am experiencing. Getting vulnerable, folks! Hope you have some good takeaways… More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com

Do we ever have recommendations this week, friends! Books, Podcasts, Music, and TV - we’ve got it! Also, you’re not going to want to miss hearing about Leah’s pottery room fiasco with her peasant skirt! Instant Pacifier Technique: Place the tip of your tongue just behind your front teeth Exhale with a whoosh Close your mouth and inhale through your nose for a count of 4 Hold your breath for a count of 7 Exhale with a whoosh to a count of 6 Repeat three times What We’re Reading: Friend of the Pod, Theresa Yosuico Stahl, has published a book! Eydie and I both love it, so here is the Amazon link: I'm Full: Remindful Eating Tips to Feel Great and Make Peace with your Plate Finding Me - Viola Davis The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher Tell Me Three Things - Julie Buxbaum The Outlander Book Series (I was calling it THE OUTLANDERS in the podcast - just one of them - THE Outlander!) What We’re Listening To: Audible: Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band Focus Music on Youtube Sarah Vaughn wherever you can find her: I listen on Spotify! Podcasts: Oprahdemics Satellite Sisters Double Date What We’re Watching: The Great Pottery Throwdown: HBO Max Abbott Elementary - ABC The Marvelous Mrs. Maizel: Amazon Prime Inventing Anna - Netflix More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com

Leah and Eydie talk about getting real and not trying to sugar coat what’s going on in their lives. We toss around the phrase “toxic positivity” as we come to grips with our gripes. More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Endorsements: Olive and June Manicure Boxes

Confession: we kept this podcast short because we both had to pee! Speaking of which, listen in to Leah’s upstair’s neighbor taking a shower as she shares her fascination with celebrities in the bathroom below. Yes, she is continuing to podcast from her daughters’ water closet. Perhaps next week she will have found a better place to record. Meantime, hear about Eydie’s aspiration to work at Dollywood as well as a most excellent cookbook hack. You don’t want to miss this shortie but sweetie of an episode! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/

Want to rev up your routine? This week’s episode will give you many options depending on your current status and what you’re aiming to accomplish. Leah dishes on her Nespresso woes and how she's thinking about investing in a percolator while Eydie is experiencing heart palpitations from the amount of coffee she’s consuming. We’ve got answers for ourselves and for YOU! Join us for scintillating conversation about Eydie shivering in her socks and a fluffy sweater with snow still on the horizon in Wisconsin while Leah is living it up in the land of cherry blossoms, dining alfresco while wearing her sunnies and a light sweater. Warning: Leah continues to record from her daughters’ nasty (and tinny) bathroom so she can let her family sleep, now that the recording time has changed to Saturday mornings China time. More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Recommendations: Composed - Roseanne Cash Boys in the Trees: A Memoir - Carly Simon (Eydie recommends the audible versions of these two books!) Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan-am - Julie Cooke Focus Music from Youtube (Leah uses this in her middle school homeroom every morning and often when she is trying to get some things done.)

Find out why Leah has to record in the bathroom this week and a magnificent tip using a pot scrubber. Tricks for the dishwasher? We’ve got ‘em! And where to donate for the folks of Ukraine? We’ve got that too! In this episode Eydie and Leah help one another grasp for gratitude in hard times. Let’s just say we both came away considerably cheered up and so will you! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Recommendations Al Rempel e-transfer link to help our cousins' rescue efforts in the Ukraine: allanrem@telus.net Rivet and Bezel - Drew is a jewelry artist from Milwaukee, WI/like her on FB https://www.facebook.com/rivetandbezel Skin the Cat Plotting Method

We go deep on style this week - all the way down to your decolletage - and we also go wide on finding and embracing your own joie de vivre with fashion! Join us for tips, tricks, and mishaps. You won’t want to miss Leah’s tale of a bra fitting gone awry in Taiwan or Eydie’s ex-factor game changer. More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Recommendations Ruta Septys - I Must Betray You

Back off, Boogaloo! According to Eydie, this is what you say if anybody is getting into your space. She also introduces us to the word FARCH! You’ll hear about ‘salami hands’ and, of course, a scintillating discussion on the things we want to grow. More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Recommendations The Great Wall of Lucy Wu - Leah’s Young Adult fiction recommendation Target Rabbit Plates Wordle NYT Wordle Archive - if one a day isn’t enough for you

The title says it all. Join us for commiseration, encouragement, some laughs, and lots of grace. More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Recommendations: Bibliophile Notecards by Jane Mount

Eydie is going to get you creative juices flowing today as she goes solo, sharing her delight in the artistic process and the people who inspired and nurtured it. She also gives you some tips on how to get yours bubbling! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Endorsements: Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera

Will Winter ever end? Will the spring spring already? We have some solid suggestions that will have you feeling better now AND getting prepped for the season that is just around the corner. Meantime, Eydie is NOT giving away any of her hair appointments to her kids, even if they end up looking like Ringo Starr, and Leah is not on board with the dolphin skin trend. Listen in for laughs and lots of takeaways that you can start implementing IMMEDIATELY! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!) Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ Endorsements: PIXI Glow Tonic Serum (This is the Amazon link, but it is also available at Target)

Do some speed skating over to the Chit Chat Coop on Facebook where Leah has been our “unofficial correspondent” for the Beijing Olympics, and has been busy posting videos all around Beijing during the Olympics. Meantime, welcome to the Olympic edition of 2CCC! We talk about memories of the Olympics, our Olympic aspirations, Olympic tips (ice swimming, anyone?), AND what we think we would win the gold, silver and bronze medals for in OUR VERSION of the Olympics. More From Us: Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Yes, we’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. (And Leah’s videos!)Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/

Leah is busy with her live Olympic correspondence from Beijing this week, but is sparing a bit of time to talk about her TV crush and her favorite TV shows. Meantime, Eydie is all about the music, and she has a bone to pick with Yoko. Tune in for Harry Potter, the Beatles and MORE. It’s an episode about reading, viewing, AND admiring! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - so many original and fun cards! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/

How have you done with taking action in January? Eydie and Leah examine their values and determine to align their actions with their values. Learn how many hours the average person “scrolls” per year, get some breaking makeup tips, and hear about how Leah plans to cover the  Beijing Olympics. It’s introspective, it’s fun, it’s the TWO CHIT CHAT CHICKS! More From Us: We’d love for you to join us at the Chit Chat Coop on FaceBook and respond to this week's challenge. It’s a fun place to come for loads of positive energy and encouragement to live your best lives. Eydie is a collage artist who has a greeting card company: Prairie Girl Etsy Site. Check it out - new cards are on their way! Here are our individual blogs: Eydie's is: littleranchhouseintheprairie.blogspot.com Leah's is: newstarteveryday.blogspot.com You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/2chitchatchicks/ And here’s the credit for the guitar lick on our Campfire Chat this week: Weekend by LesFM | https://lesfm.net/acoustic-background-music/ Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/