In this video I'll show you how to make a vision board for the new year to manifest your best year yet in 2024! I'm sharing my process for creating vision boards, my words for 2024, and all the things I'm hoping to manifest and invite into my life in the new year.
Do you make vision boards? What kinds of things do you like to add to them?? Let me know in the comments!
Read MoreReset for 2024 with these 4 steps to reset your home AND your headspace for the new year!
If you're looking for tips to reset your life and your home and refresh for 2024, follow along and be sure to check out the FREE Notion worksheet we made to go with this video!
Read More"The best revenge is success".…How many times have you heard this? Maybe you've never heard it personally said to you before, but chances are you're familiar with some version of this idea.
Kate here, and having been in the entertainment business my entire life, this is something i've heard a million times. Whether someone was trying to give me advice after a bad breakup or a big business deal that didn't work out, it seemed like people always responded with some version of, "Oh, don't worry - the best revenge is success! Just go out and become super successful and they'll regret not treating you better or working out this deal."
Today I wanna share why I think this the worst success advice you could ever give (or take).
Read MoreAlthough we’re still inching our way into consistently warm weather here in NYC, I’ve already catapulted myself into spring cleaning mode.
Courtney here—and today I’m talking about a few non-toxic household item swaps I’ve made in the past few weeks that are a little “cleaner” than the ones I had before.
After I read about all of the toxic chemicals in everyday items, I decided to start slowly. I began with the items that appear to be the worst offenders, and will slowly build up my arsenal of cleaner, greener products from there.
Read MoreIs it just me, or is decorating with your husband or partner a seemingly impossible task? If you’ve ever felt discouraged or experienced the familiar, all-consuming urge to throw breakable things during a conversation with your partner about decorating your place, this post is for you.
I’m writing this post from the very same boat, because my husband Brett and I have spent the past 13 years building quite an extensive resume of decor-related arguments. It’s not so much that we don’t like the same things - what’s crazy is that we actually do for the most part. There’s just something about trying to decorate as a couple and put your house together with someone else that can, at times, get tense.
Today I’m sharing my 4 best tips for how to decorate as a couple without fighting!
Read MoreIf you’re anything like me, the start of a new year or season often brings about moments of reflection, reevaluation, and a renewed sense of perspective.
In early January, I was sitting on the couch after work, and out of nowhere, a thought popped into my head that said, “I’m not engaging with my life.” I’d never even heard that idea before—or at least I don’t remember hearing it, but all of a sudden, I had this moment of clarity where I was like…I don’t want this to be my status quo.
Read MoreI don’t exactly know when it happened, but at some point in my early adult life I think I accidentally stopped having hobbies. Can you relate?
Today I’m sharing some of the best life advice I ever got, and spoiler alert - it’s all about how having hobbies makes us happier.
I’ve been wanting to write about hobbies and why we should be deliberate about having them for awhile, because it’s a topic that gives way to an even bigger conversation about how we choose to spend our time and what’s important to us.
Read MoreThis is a post for anyone who, like me, once again finds themselves an unwilling participant in the month of January’s favorite games. These include (but are certainly not limited to) games such as Question What The F*ck You’re Doing With Your Life, Attempt Implementing Impossible Resolutions, and Hold Yourself to Hilariously Unattainable Standards. Sound familiar?
For most people, this time of year has always been one of putting pressure on ourselves to make changes and start finally becoming whoever we want to be. That part is nothing new. But the current state of events has somehow rendered this January even more restless than the Januarys before, and to put it simply, it’s just a lot.
Read Moreit’s kind of crazy to be saying this, but it’s coming up on the 10 year anniversary of me and my husband Brett living together. if I’m being real, we met about this time ten years ago and moved into a tiny apartment together three months later (!). though I’m well aware that’s a pretty fast track move compared to how most people do it, it’s been awesome and we wouldn’t have done it any differently.
looking back on the past decade, I wanted to share some of my favorite tips for moving in together and living together in general that we’ve learned over the years. we’re definitely not experts and we’re learning every day, but read on for the advice that worked best for us when we took the moving-in-together plunge!
Read MoreWe’ve officially arrived at the part of the pandemic where all the headlines have started celebrating the ‘return to normal,’ and while I love to see it as much as anyone, I’m also - for lack of a better term - kind of freaked out. Kate here, and today I wanna unpack why it’s more than okay if you’re anxious about going ‘back to normal.’
Part of the reason this influx of ‘get ready for back to normal’ content seems so off-putting to me is because it all seems to be presented in a cheeky, lighthearted voice usually reserved for ‘get ready for back to school!’ tips. And I get it - we all could use a healthy dose of light-hearted ANYTHING right now, me included. But does anyone else feel like we’re all just kind of glossing over the fact that this is still very much going on, here and elsewhere??
Read MoreHey guys, Courtney here. If you’re someone who has struggled to not define your worth by your career and your professional contributions, I am totally with you. I would definitely consider myself to be a multi-passionate person. I currently work in marketing, but within the past five years, I’ve been genuinely serious about being an elementary school teacher, going to culinary school, writing a book, and becoming an actress.
All those things are virtually completely unrelated, but they are all things I consider myself passionate about.
I’ve tried to work through the anxiety of figuring out my career by listening to podcasts, taking career aptitude tests, and reading self-help books. In that process, here is the best advice I’ve heard about following your passion.
Read MoreHey guys, Courtney here!
As a 9-to-5er who travels to the office every week, the way I spend my time during my commute has become increasingly important to me.
Riding 40 minutes to and from work every day on the Metro means that I have a lot of time to listen to podcasts, music, and audiobooks. I unfortunately haven’t found a way to read (or barely text for that matter) given that I get extremely motion sick, but the audio versions have done wonders in passing the time.
Read Moreas a lot of you probably know, I’ve been learning French intensively for about a year now. I always had a fascination with languages and wanted to learn a second one, and over the past year I’ve started getting a bunch of questions about my favorite language learning methods.
today i’m sharing my favorite language learning resources and tools, plus the biggest tips and tricks that have worked for me and helped me stick with learning French over the past year!
Read MoreBefore the pandemic, “morning routine” wasn’t really in my vocabulary. I would pretty much roll out of bed, shower, and grab a granola bar on my way to work. Although sometimes it would leave me flustered and slightly disheveled, I just knew I was never going to be one of those productive-at-5:30am type people, and I decided that was okay.
Courtney here - and today I’m talking about my morning routine. Once the pandemic hit, I realized I needed some structure to my day to keep me grounded. If I don’t have at least some semblance of a plan going into my day, I will sit in bed on my phone or just stare out the window and overthink. That never really gets my day off to a good start (although I do admit that still sometimes happens), so I usually make a small (flexible) schedule in the notes app on my phone to plan out my day.
Read MoreIf we thought wedding planning was stressful before, trying to plan (and re-plan) one during a pandemic is a whole other story.
Hi guys, Courtney here — and today I’m talking about what has helped me plan a wedding during the pandemic. Like many other engaged couples, we postponed our wedding a whole year to avoid the COVID madness as much as possible. But the reality for a lot of us is, it’s still at the forefront of our minds even as we plan our postponed versions.
I wrote a blog in May of 2020, and it was essentially a letter of encouragement to other “corona brides” to let themselves feel all the feelings and know that their love is still special.
Read MoreI’m not quite sure how to even begin a post about New Year’s resolutions while we’re still in 2020, because let’s face it- no matter what the resolutions or goals we made for this year looked like it’s highly likely that they didn’t turn out the way we thought they would.
Kate here, and today I’m (cautiously) sharing my main resolution and goal for 2021. Even though 2020 has been the bad boyfriend that will now make me forever cynical about relationships going forward, I’m still choosing to believe in love (not sure what garbage teen movie metaphor I’m going for here but somehow it makes sense to me?)
Read MoreMoving is one of those things that I equally love and hate. On one hand there’s the joy of dreaming up all the new memories you’re going to make in your new place and imagining how you want each room to look, and on the other lies the all too familiar dread of inevitable stress, endless boxes of mystery items, and uprooting your life for weeks.
Kate here, and as most of you know my husband and I recently moved to a new place for the 5th time in 5 years. While I definitely don’t consider myself an extreme expert on the subject, I do think I’ve done this enough times to have some hopefully helpful advice to share.
Read MoreIf you, like me, are one of the millions of Americans who found themselves unemployed this year, I feel you — and I am sorry that you’re going through this on top of all the other crap this year has brought.
Courtney here — and today I’m writing about what has helped me during unemployment. At first, I wasn’t going to write anything about the subject, because honestly, I felt embarrassed. But then I thought to myself — if I’m someone who preaches the importance of vulnerability, it’s only right that I would try to connect with others who might be going through something similar by sharing my truth. The last thing we need right now is everyone pretending everything is perfect — because we all know it’s far from it.
Read MoreIs it just me or does this pandemic season somehow make me feel even less organized and level-headed than I was back when going places and seeing people was a thing? Kate here, and today I’m talking about that feeling of total overwhelm that we all know too well - the one that inevitably finds us every time we load our plate with too much stuff.
It’s really odd to me that I’m experiencing this feeling so much right now, during a time when I’m technically far less “busy” than I would be during a normal year. Last year at this time I had a gig on the west coast of the US and took a red eye flight to New York as soon as I got offstage, and then proceeded to get on a transatlantic ship to England the following morning. It sounds a lot more stressful than my current day-to-day when I write it out like that, but somehow here we are.
Read MoreI remember when we first entered quarantine in March, and I thought to myself, just a couple weeks — maybe a month — of this and we will be done and back to normal. Wishful thinking, huh?
Hey guys — it’s Courtney. Today, I’m talking about the small changes I’ve made since the beginning of quarantine that have helped ease my anxiety. Although the country is slowly opening back up, many of us are still at home way more than normal.
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