Manny is a farmer & Rancher, Ashley is a Counselor and Mental Health Consultant and together this husband and wife duo dive deep into relatable mental health tools to help you live life fully at work and at home.
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Short fiction torn from today’s headlines. Each week, our favorite authors write an original story inspired by the news. Featuring Curtis Sittenfeld, Roxane Gay, Colum McCann, Carmen Maria Machado and more. Because in a world gone haywire, sometimes art is the only thing to make sense of it all. Hosted by Ashley C. Ford.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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"October’s Children" is an episodic full-cast paranormal mystery/horror audio drama set in a small college town in New England. "October’s Children" focuses on a small, diverse group of 20- and 30-somethings trying to survive the trials and tribulations of ‘everyday’ life in Wolfbrook, New Hampshire. Unbeknownst to them at series start, the group will face increasingly strange and dangerous situations as the boundaries between our world and another fade, and monstrous creatures begin to infi ...
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22. Colostrum benefits, Dairy Sustainability, Faith, and The Gut Health and Mental Health relationship with WonderCow Founders
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This Episode is full of take homes! We hear from the Founders of Wonder Cow Rob and Erica Diepersloot. We talk about: Parenting Prioritizing family time Working together with your spouse Being intentional How their faith has impacted them personally and in their work Morning routines How the got to where they are What colostrum is our gut health an…
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During this Episode you're going learn how embracing imperfection can propel you forward in life and business and you'll walk away with 3 ways to embrace the imperfection. 3 books that I recommend to people who struggle with perfectionism: Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown The Imposter Cure - Dr Jessamy Hibberd The Anxious Perfectionist: How to M…
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20. How You Can Use The Same Goal Setting Method as Some of the Largest Companies in the World
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In this episode I walk you through the goal setting method that some of the biggest companies in the world use called the OKR Method. We talk about why the OKR goal setting method is more effective and different the other goal setting methods. I walk you through how to put together your own goal setting method This episode is the second in a series…
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19. 3 Tips to Create a Vision Board That Actually Works
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In this Episode we go over - How to put together a vision board that will actually works How a vision board can be effective Why some vision boards are ineffective Over the next 6 weeks I have a series of episodes planned that build on top of each other to get you ready and in the right mind set for the new year. 1. Vision Boarding 2. Goal Setting …
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18. Real Talk Parenting: Your Questions, Our Answers
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We’ve been getting a couple of parenting questions lately. We don't feel like we’re parenting experts by any means and are learning new things about how we want to parent every day. We spend time answering the following questions - Favorite thing about being parent? what it means to be a parent? Favorite Memory since you became a parent? How do you…
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17. Magic Moments, Mountain Moments and a Q&A
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With the hustle bustle of school and activities we can often find ourselves talking but not connecting. In this episode we talk about the “Magic Moments Mountain Moments” exercise that we do every night at dinner time. This exercise helps us to keep learning about each other, what each other likes and dislikes, and about each others day to day. At …
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There a lot going on in the holiday season and it can sometimes bring a lot of pressure. Often times we can end up living and doing things because of what other people want. Rather than pausing and taking the the time to ask, “Is this what I actually want?” In this episode we do an exercise that is going to help you process and understand tradition…
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Today we answered a listener question around gift giving. First - we share the way Manny and I share gift ideas with each other so that were both still surprised.. in a good way. Second - we talk about setting expectations around gift giving. Third - I asked listeners to write in with funny gifts they’ve been given. Make sure you listen all the way…
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14. Beat The Winter Blues: 9 Tips to Boost Your Mood and Energy
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Today we have a solo episode talking about winter blues and seasonal affective disorder. I talk about my own experience with winter blues and I give 9 tips that are going to help you through the winter, no matter your location. I asked you, the listeners of this podcast what their favorite things are during winter and share some of my winter favori…
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13. Practicing Gratitude: Strategies for a Healthier, Happier You
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Today’s a solo and we’re deep diving gratitude. You're going to walk away with an understanding of how gratitude can positively affect us, how it can rewire our brain for the better, and how to effectively practice gratitude. We then go over some gratitudes that the listeners sent in, and my 3 thankful's for the day. Thank you so much, and I'm happ…
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12. Building Of The West with Jessie Jarvis
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Today Jessie Jarvis and I talk about about her business, Of The West and all the ways that she is helping to keep people agriculture and the things we can do to support the agriculture sector. Thank you so much, and I'm happy we're here together! I would greatly appreciate if you could hit the plus or follow button or share with a friend. You can f…
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11. Using Music as a Tool For Your Mental Health
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Today Manny and I talk through using music for your mental health, how you can use it to help process emotions, and we are sharing an anxiety reducing song. Thank you so much, and I'm happy were here together! I would greatly appreciate if you could hit the plus or follow button or share with a friend. You can find me Ashley on instagram at @byash…
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10- Calli Thorne: The Power Of Saying How You're Actually Feeling
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Today Calli Thorne and I talk about about the importance of building coping skills, we touch on the power of saying how you’re actually feeling, and winters in North Dakota. Thank you so much, and I'm happy were here together! I would greatly appreciate if you could hit the plus or follow button or share with a friend. You can find me Ashley on ins…
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Today Manny is off the ranch and he and I are talking about some things we like, introducing a fun new segment and you will walk away from this episode with my go to tool for how to work through when you make mistakes. Because we all make silly mistakes sometimes and this episode is going to help you learn how to process it and move forward. I hope…
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8. The Power of Small Daily Habits with Emily Reuschel
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Today Emily Reuschel and I talk about how small habits can change the trajectory of your life, her You Do You 82 habit challenge, and progress over perfection Thank you so much, and Im happy were here together! I would greatly appreciate if you could hit the plus or follow button or share with a friend. You can find me Ashley on instagram at @byas…
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7. Empowering Self-Acceptance and Joy Regardless of Body Shape with Coach Kiah
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Today Coach Kiah and I talk about body imagine, that you can have fun and enjoy life no matter the body you're in, and and how body image ish can be generational. Book Recommendations: More Than a Body and More Than a Body Work Book Thank you so much, and I'm happy were here together! I would greatly appreciate if you could hit the plus or follow b…
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Today I pulled Manny off the ranch to talk through asking for help. We talk about why it feels scary to ask for help sometimes, and why it feels uncomfortable. Knowing who to ask help from and an outline on how to ask for help. Thank you so much, and I'm happy were here together! I would greatly appreciate if you could hit the plus or follow button…
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5. Journaling: Your Next Tool In Your Mental Health Tool Box
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Today in a short quick solo episode, I share what makes journaling so impactful to our mental and brain health. I also talk about how journaling can improve your confidence, how it can can help you navigate your experiences, lower symptoms of depression and improve your overall health. Lastly, I share 3 journal options. Whether you're already a ser…
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4. Three Breathing Exercises to Help with Stress
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Today we go over 3 different breathing exercises , how breathing they can improve stress, and improve your overall life. I teach you how to do the exercises effectively for lasting impact! Thank you so much, and I'm happy we're here together! I would greatly appreciate if you could hit the plus or follow button or share with a friend. You can find …
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3. How to Find Balance, Better Time Management During Harvest, and Overcoming Loneliness
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Today I have the girls from the Beyond the Crops podcast, Jena Oschner and Mary Pat Sass. We talk about balancing it all through harvest, connection, communication, field meals, and loneliness. Whether you're in the Ag space or not you'll walk away with perspective and tips on how to make it through the busy season in life. Be sure to listen all th…
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2. Why Trying Something New Is Scary and How To Overcome the Fear
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Today I pulled Manny off the ranch to talk through the idea of trying things for the first time and why that can feel scary. We also give 5 tips to remember, so that fear doesn't hold you back. I share why I waited so long to start this podcast and Manny talks about starting his first calf ranch. Be sure to listen all the way until the end for the …
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1. Tops Tools in our Mental Health Tool Box
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Today I pulled Manny off the ranch to talk through our favorite mental health tools. We talk about why they're our favorites, how they have affected our lives, and how you can implement them into your life. We then do a fun rapid fire and go over why we're doing this podcast. Be sure to listen all the way until the end for the breathing exercise. T…
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Hey, I'm Ashley Machado, a counselor and mental health consultant, and this is M Well, the podcast. Are you one of the over 40 million people that is working on their mental health? Or maybe you know someone who is, or maybe you're just looking to better your life by learning new tools for your mental health toolbox. Well, you're in the right place…
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CW: Violence, Gore, Loud Noises, Abduction, Samuel and John finally meet. Jeff, Conrad, and Xerxes try to determine their next steps while Victoria Beaumonte does the same. Grace gets ready for a date and gets an unexpected visitor. Renee and Monk make some unsettling discoveries at the library. Sophia tries to warn everyone of what's coming. Ollie…
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The show creator and producer sit down with some of the cast to talk about what it was like creating 5. Town Hall Meeting If you enjoy our BTS content you can find more on our patreonBy ArcanaCast
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CW: violence Mrs. Castellanos finds strange markings gouged into the trees near her house, Jeff and Renee come to investigate. Conrad and Ollie talk while walking down "The Wrong Street" Xerxes and Monk try to salvage what they can after the attack at the scrapyard. Ashley has car trouble and gets help from an unwelcome source Episode 8 Should Old …
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CW: Violence, Loud noises, Guns, Descriptions of gore, Smoking and alcohol, Bugs Ashley interviews various locals about strange goings on and receives a series of interspliced stories: Getting lost in spaces that shouldn't exist, getting abducted by alien bugs, the legend of "the skull-sucker of Wolfbrook" as well as conflicting tales about Mrs. Ca…
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Don't forget to buckle your seatbelt, this road isn't the safest... K I L L FM is the brainchild of a bunch of audio drama creators who wanted to make some extra special and spooky. Transcripts and segment credits, descriptions, and links are available on: kill-fm.com Content Warnings: explicit language, otherworldly whispers, unreality, cult behav…
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CW: Violence, Loud Noise, Intentional Misgendering Xerxes is attacked in the scrapyard. The group decides that enough strange things are going on that they should form a coterie to investigate everything. Ollie makes a new friend at the coffee shop Conrad, Jeff, and Ollie go spooky spelunking Ashley and Renée make an unsettling discovery about the …
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CW: While Gardening Ollie and Grace talk about institutionalized prayer in public school, and Grace notices that something is very wrong with her garden. Ashley is pulled over by a police officer for no apparent reason. Over the phone, Captain Beaumonte assures her everything is perfectly fine and then makes a phone call of her own. Conrad takes an…
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CW: Violence, Gore, Loud Noise, Misgendering Ollie runs afoul of some campaigners outside of City Hall. Mrs. Castellanos calls 911 about something rummaging through her garbage cans. The group gathers at Mrs. Castellanos’s house, where they discover something strange. Ashley follows up a lead from the scene of the creature’s attack. If you enjoyed …
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CW: Ashley enlists Jeff’s help to find and explore the location of the attack. Renée takes Mrs. Castellanos into town to run some errands and finds unexpected company. Conrad gets an unlikely history lesson from a strange man. Ollie goes to the scrapyard at the edge of town looking for a new side-view mirror and hears from Xerxes Medina that strang…
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CW: gore, loud noises Something goes terribly wrong for a pair of locals driving through the woods on Andronicus Hill Road. Ollie Masteron, Jeff Trembley, and Conrad Feilding welcome a newcomer to town at the local coffee shop Unhallowed Grounds. Renée Simard, sentenced to community service for a D.U.I., helps a confused and doomsaying Sophia Caste…
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An introduction to the full cast paranormal/horror audio drama October's Children. Episodes release in September 2022. Hear Episode 1 on our IndieGoGo page. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/october-s-children/x/29451389By ArcanaCast
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As schools reopen across the country, parents are facing another round of pandemic fear and uncertainty: How safe will their kids be and for how long? And can life—and work—finally take on some semblance of normalcy? Tommy Orange, the bestselling author of There There, asks a more salient and troubling question: What are the kids thinking? Narrated…
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As protests erupted across the nation this summer, heavily armed militias stood off against Black Lives Matter supporters in some cities. In July, a Florida sheriff even threatened to deputize all civilian gun owners to protect Jacksonville from protesters. Dantiel W. Moniz, the author of the upcoming story collection Milk Blood Heat, takes this tr…
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Now that Joe Biden has selected a female VP and finally claimed the nomination, can we talk about his long, weird, handsy history with women? Laura van den Berg, the author of the new story collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, explores why some women risked all in coming forward with stories about Biden. And more importantly, what we can learn fro…
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The most uplifting news of the past six months? Two giant pandas in Hong Kong finally mate after ten years, when their zoo is closed to visitors due to Covid. But what if there was another reason it took so long for them to get into the mood? An alternate history of panda passion by Curtis Sittenfeld, the bestselling author of six novels, including…
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Hannah Lillith Assadi: The People of Music
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The New York Times recently revealed a top-secret Pentagon unit tasked with investigating encounters between UFOs and military pilots. Which got Hannah Lillith Assadi, the author of Sonora, wondering: If aliens touch down on earth in the near future, what will they find? And more importantly, what will they do?Narrated by Soneela Nankani. Hosted by…
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In late June, President Trump visited Yuma, Arizona to celebrate 200 new miles of border wall declaring, “It stopped COVID, it stopped everything.” John Wray, the acclaimed author of five novels, including most recently Godsend, imagines what the border barrier will look like long after Trump, in say, 2056—what will be standing, whom it will protec…
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Three billion birds have gone missing in North America over the past 50 years. Or is that fake news? J. Courtney Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including her most recent, Friends and Strangers, tells the stories of two sisters forever connected by birds and forever divided by politics. Narrated by Cindy Katz. Hosted…
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What if instead of dropping off our stereos, cocktail sets and coffee tables, all those sleek white vans that sneak through our streets took our possessions away? You might call them "Recovery Operations," imagines Ben Fountain, the award-winning author of Billy Flynn's Long Halftime Walk, and most recently, Beautiful Country Burn Again. In a time …
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Who knew extinction could be the hottest ticket in town? Manuel Gonzales, the author of The Regional Office Is Under Attack! and The Miniature Wife, imagines a time when people pay to attend Extinction Witnessing Events. It’s a dark, far-fetched idea. And uncomfortably plausible. Just remember: the larger and more beautiful the animal (say, your Am…
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Covid-19 has made us all prisoners of our homes. And at times, our families. If the pandemic goes well into 2021, what will an extended quarantine do to our relationships, our country, our daily lives? Roxane Gay, the best selling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, has some ideas. Sex? Yes. Vaccine? No. Narrated by Bahni Turpin. Hosted by Ashley C.…
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Michael Cohen, Trump's infamous fixer, was just released from prison to home confinement. Jess Walter, author of the international bestseller Beautiful Ruins, imagines Cohen's life in the slammer: betterment, celebrity, and the cellmate down the hall—The Sitch from Jersey Shore. And what about that tell-all memoir in progress? Jess Walter is the au…
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