Family Not Friends: Recent Episodes
Nyah Levine
Ever wish you could buy some free hope? Co-hosts Nyah Skye and "Bird" keep an ongoing record of the ups and downs of their lives -- which began to overlap when her mother introduced a 12 year-old Nyah to the man who would become her step-dad.
Now Nyah and "Bird" -- a 21 year-old college senior and a ... -old teacher -- squeeze recordings into their rare moments, and confirm that they have reached the most hallowed and impossible of goals, for daughter and step-dad: Family Not Friends
Maybe our smoothest episode ever--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
Title says it all. Completion = growth--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
And an ad for manifesting--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
Title kinda says it all. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
Bird keeps it real(ish) about his addiction to video games 🎮. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
Bird grapples with his mortality as he struggles overcome a cold. Nyah’s story continues to grow and evolve, away from the mic for now. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
Ride along with Bird as he takes a humbling drive to Beach Hardware on 30th Street, searching for the drill bit that will fit his Snap Toggle (or something like that?). Bird is successful, but only with the help of “The ParentNet.”--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
Nyah finds a beautiful roadside view as she continues on her lifelong hair journey. 💃 Salsa dancing 💃 is surprisingly awesome 👏 . Bird gets all sentimental like dads do. And — shoutout to Lawson in Brooklyn for the voicemail! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
Nyah Skye provides a beautiful description of not only the history of “Family Not Friends,” but the backstory of the current reality for…welp, she effortlessly explains that this reality isn’t “for” anyone, that we’re all just HERE, together, with peace and … love and… well… shit. Want to leave a voicemail for Nyah🌤 or Bird 🦅? Here’s the link: https://anchor.fm/normalfingpeople/message--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/normalfingpeople/message
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Bird 🐦 develops his self-esteem and reminds Nyah that she is awesome 👏
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Bird 🐦 spends 1 minute summing up the first week of Spring…then 3 minutes on the way to what could be a career-changing job interview.
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Nyah updates her “ANT Challenge” and admits it’s been harder than she expected. But — one Bubble Tea tragedy later — she remains as committed and curious as ever, to see what’s at the top of the anthill.
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Bird accepts Nyah’s challenge and gets right to work. A 12-minute marathon episode of positive
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(Any Negative Thoughts, that is). Nyah talks about an inspiring YouTube video she saw before her required daily Joe Dispensa reference. The episode closes with a challenge to listeners (family AND friends)
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After 3 minutes of forgetting the word “counselor,” 🐦 finally explains his original💡 “put your thoughts on trial.”
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Literally, that’s the whole episode
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Hi Ny. I just talked to my friend Bryan tonight for about an hour. We were friends in college and have worked really hard to maintain a connection.
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🦋 helps 🐦 find peace on a challenging day, with an assist from Ms. 👑
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🐦 is inspired by Nyah’s car and records an episode on his trip to get gas. But enough about 🌮 🔔
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I’m really proud of you. Go faster, you don’t have to wait up 🙏👍
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Nyah Skye and Bird take a road trip to Office Max and press record. Bird kicks off 2022 trying to find his natural self, a decade after he lost his confidence as a performer. Nyah is spitting fire out of the gate — and finding that as she’s talking, she’s getting more. (Part 1 of 2)
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Nyah takes Milo for a stroll through the streets of Norfolk and the inner-workings of her mind. What does a job say about you? Can we look ourselves in the eye, even if a voice in our head says we’re unworthy?
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In Part 2 of this 7 a.m. episode on the way to work, Nyah explains the realization she had the night before.
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Sometimes frustration can lead to a breakthrough -- https://anchor.fm/normalfingpeople/message — and that's exactly what happens in Part 2 :)
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Family struggles in different ways, but we struggle together
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Nyah talks about her hair journey and what she is going to do next.
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Nyah's Thoughts in the Car, Episode 2
Nyah discusses her journey from veganism to veganisn’t. Sometimes needing to be right is why we keep getting it wrong. Our diets are a dynamic part of us, changing as we grow through life.
That means there's no rock solid way to be better than "everyone who isn't _____ ." --- And that can be really hard to admit, when you're trying to keep up your image on Instagram.
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Nyah talks during her lunch break, infusing kindness and empathy into the topic of Race Relations and the Black Lives Matter movement
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In the beginning...
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