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We all want our house to look cute AF, our outfits to be on point, and our life to feel like we are truly "that girl" that we see on Instagram and TikTok. The truth is, you can achieve these things without breaking the bank, it just takes a little creativity and some time! This week we share all of our tips and tricks for how to live an aesthetic life on a budget.

This week we got the TEA on what it is actually like becoming a new mom! Justine Martinson was our very first guest on G&G and she is joining us again 4 months after the birth of her baby girl Elle. She was so kind to let us pick her brain on her pregnancy, her birth story, and how she has been navigating the highs and lows of postpartum and life with a new baby. It was amazing to get this insight and we thank Justine for her openness and honesty! We hope you all enjoy this weeks episode as much as we do!

This week we interviewed some of the ladies in our lives including our moms, aunts and grandma to get the inside scoop on motherhood! We asked them what was their favourite parts about being a mom, what the most difficult parts were/are and what they have learned. It was so interesting to get some insight from women who have been through it themselves and gain their perspective! We want to wish a very Happy Mother's Day to all of you mamas out there! 

Whoop it's been a few weeks since Lex was in Vegas but we sit down and chat all about her first experience in Sin City, what she did and her recommendations for things to do and places to eat. Have you been to Las Vegas before? Let us know your faves!

We are SO excited to bring you this weeks episode where we got to sit down with Medical Aesthetician and Holistic Nutritionist, Jen! Jen is the General Manager of Lipstick Empire LaserSpa and has been working in the aesthetics industry for over a decade. We picked her brain on her favourite skincare products and treatments for acne, anti-aging, you name it AND got the low-down on some common skincare fads going around. Check Jen out @lipstickempire or @moderation.made.simple for her Holistic Nutrition services! 

Spring cleaning doesn't just mean scrubbing the kitchen and overhauling your closet! We can do some spring cleaning of our mind, our attitudes, our relationships and even our habits. This week we chat all about different ways to take inventory of what is serving you right now and how you can turn it around for a fresh start this season.

It is already hard enough knowing what to do with your money, how to budget, and what to save BUT when you factor in the pressure we get from our peers and people we see online, it gets even harder. Social pressure to have it all, make more money, and live a perfect life increase more and more as we get older so today we break it down and chat about how to navigate this!

Summer is just around the corner which is a great motivator to start implementing some healthy lifestyle changes in order to be the best version of ourselves. Today we chat about some of the goals we have for living a healthy lifestyle and the mindset shifts we are trying to achieve! 

This week we take a deep dive into accountability. We all have the power to choose happiness and to grow as a person, there is no one stopping you except yourself! We discuss how you can start to shift your mindset to create the life you have always wanted and how to be happy NOW. Things don't have to be perfect and you don't have to wait until you have reached a certain goal in order to feel success! 

Do you have perfectionist tendencies? Perfectionism means more than just being detail oriented, it can take many forms in our lives and be pretty harmful! We break down what it means to be a perfectionist, areas of our life where we experience it and how to overcome it!

This week we are bringing out our tech-side and sharing with you some of our favourite apps of all time! We have both some apps for your phone and some browser extensions that we know you will love. 

This week we are doing a little life update and taking about how we are currently trying to change our mindsets in order to achieve our current goals. We chat a bit about health, mental wellbeing, some travel plans we have post Covid and things to look forward to in the coming months! 

This week we reflect back to 10 years ago when we were in high school! Back then, everything seemed like the end of the world but in reality, high school is such a small part of your life. You just don't know it at the time. We chat about some of the things we wish we knew back then that would have made life a whole hell of a lot easier! Would you go back to that time if you could? 

This week we welcome our second guest of 2022! We sat down with the Owner and Founder of Empathie Creative Studio (formerly YEG Marketing) to pick her brain about what is was like starting a successful business in her 20's, all of the challenges she has faced, and how she conquered her fears in quitting her 9-5 and going after her dreams! We also chat about being a female in the 'corporate' world, tips for how to stand up for yourself as a woman, and how to find balance between work and personal life when you are a business owner. 

This week we are getting girly and talking all things related to women's health and menstrual cycles! We have brought back Jill Sanford (aka Jill April Fitness) for a THIRD time to the podcast to chat about the effects of hormonal birth control, balancing hormones, PMS symptoms and more. Jill has recently started offering an online course called Period Problems to educate women about their bodies and their cycles. We discuss our history with hormonal birth control, what it actually does to your body and how you can tell there is something off balance with your hormones. Check out Jill's services at www.jafitness.ca!

This week we dissect the idea of FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out. We're sure you have experienced FOMO at some point in your life and today we talk about some of those times and why we think it is so prevelent in our lives today. We also talk strategy on how to overcome it and not let it affect you so much!

This week we are spilling the TEA on all things we think are both overrated af and totally underrated! We chat about everything from Marvel to making your bed and everything in between. Do you agree with our opinions?

This week we decided to chat about the things in life that we are grateful for in true G&G fashion. Sometimes adulthood can be stressful and difficult but if you choose to look at things with a positive outlook then life is a little bit better! 

This week we took a look back at last years episode where we set out some goals for 2021. Did we achieve the things we wanted to? Join us as we chat about how the past year has been and what we are looking forward to in 2022!

This week we are finished off 2021 with some life updates! Lex got into a car crash and relays her experience and Hails finally got the results of her CPA exam so we spill the tea on that too! We also chat about our plans for the Christmas break and what to expect from us for 2022!