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The Grinding 20's
"Welcome to the Grinding 20's! A podcast for those that are grinding when society says we should be thriving. Society tells us that we should be exploring the world in our 20s, but instead we are more focused on discovering ourselves." This podcast shares our experiences as 20-something-year-olds with diverse topics from education, ghosts to toxicity and relationships, and provides our audience with our own takes and life lessons on these. In addition, please feel free to provide any useful suggestions or questions that we can address. We hope you enjoy!
Budgeting, g-strings, and what else? What weird things are you fantasizing about as you get older? Listen to this week’s episode for our quirks and changes.
Caught yourself having some of your parents’ habits? Creating new habits or behaviors? In today’s episode we discuss habits we’ve noticed and our newest updates.
We’re back! Tonight Perth and Athens discussed toxic/false positivity and how this is actually damaging society and our own self development.
What would you like to do to spice up your regular routine? We talk travel, tattoos, dating, dancing, and more.
F*** buddies, friends with benefits, what are your boundaries/expectations? We discuss ours and more.
Welcome back to the Grinding 20s! We went missing for about 2 months because of, well, life. But we’re back! In today’s episode, Cairo and Athens discuss top 5-7 crushes we’ve had, how we know when someone crushes on us, age limits we may have, and lessons learned from all this. One of the top lesson: we now know to always look for someone who gives us the same level of effort we give to them.
Welcome back! For this episode, we’ve got a special guest, Georgetown/Georgie, joining us. We asked her about her journey to and experiences in China, learning to adjust, and becoming more open to a support system in a completely foreign culture and land. As always, we discuss some key lessons learned in our grinding 20’s. (Excuse us for the background noises!)
Welcome back everyone! On this week’s episode, we discussed dating standards, what if scenarios, and guessed our types. What are your standards?
Welcome back! Tonight, we discussed some difficult or confronting situations that some of us are dealing with, or were even cheated out of. Also, has anyone ever made assumptions about you? We discuss this further and wish you a happy Valentine’s Day ;)
“We don’t sacrifice what we want most for what we want now” - Perth. “It’s better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” - Cairo. “Don’t make assumptions, ask well-rounded questions instead.” - Athens. Misunderstandings, favorite quotes, public masturbations, and bathroom ‘assaults’. Tune in for another Grinding 20’s episode!
Welcome back to the second season of the Grinding 20’s! We’re finally off our break and we’re ready to start the next season and grow this year. What are your hopes and challenges in 2022?
Hello listeners! We’ll be taking a 3-week break to recharge and handle our business. Stay tuned for a splashing new season next year!
In light of the holidays, we discussed our own gratitude and what we are thankful for. From our supportive friends, dynamic families, unique pets, and house plants to our self-reflections and life changes. What are you thankful for since last year? Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Making friends in your 20’s, loneliness, boredom, Botox, and robbing banks. What’s next?
Welcome back! We have a short episode today on the social media/Facebook outage, how it made us realize our over reliance on social media, and our usual daily rants about anxiety and life. How are you coping with your anxiety? How often do you use social media daily?
Join us in this weekly rant on how frustrating it is to fail escaping the political in a hyperpolitical society.
In this episode, we talk about how our interpretation of value and what is valuable affects our capacity to communicate in our friendships. How hyper productivity culture leads to burn out and can ruin friendships.
Welcome back to the Grinding 20’s! Tonight’s episode is about so many different issues and once again adulting. From calling people out, adapting to different environments to doing the little things that make you happy, we just went all out. We hope you enjoy!
Burned out Grinding 20s here. We hope you enjoy tonight’s episode of “BURNED OUT? So are we.” We discussed being burned out with life, several issues surrounding failure and success, and more. How do you process or cope with burn out?
Welcome back listeners (or better yet the Grinding 20's Team). Sorry for the delay again with our postings, but we've been quite busy moving and dealing with life, as it goes.
Have you ever been guilt tripped? Today, we discussed our experiences with guilt tripping and the stigmatization of aging and women. Just another episode of our unprofessional assessment of life's issues.
Oh, and stay tuned for the blooper at the end of the episode of our technical difficulties XD
Welcome back to the Grinding 20s! Tonight, Perth and I (Athens) discussed our own learning trinkets in adulthood, letting yourself take that needed break, Teletubbies, and how important it is to collaborate and help each other in adulthood. What tricks have helped you with ‘adulting’?
Welcome back everyone! Sorry for the delay in podcast episodes. Life just happened and we were not able to post, so we hope you understand. Today, we talked about some things in adulthood people don’t always tell you about. Things that you wouldn’t expect to happen to you. #Adulting #TheManyComplexitiesinAdulting
We totally smashed it. Today, we reviewed our experience with a “smashit” room and our take on processing mechanisms, such as for stress and your emotions. How do you destress?
Welcome back listeners! This week we discussed the importance of showing gratitude while adulting and with the ones in your life making that effort. Everyone is different and in that way, shows their gratitude and love in various ways. How do you show your gratitude and love?
Welcome back listeners! Today, Perth and I (Athens) discussed the importance of our own timelines in becoming independent in a variety of ways. From your own car to self-love and self-management, everyone becomes independent in their own way and time. Stay tuned for next week's episode with Cairo!
Welcome back to the Grinding 20’s! Thank you for patiently waiting. Today, we discussed the complex concept and pursuit of happiness. What has been your quest to find happiness and your reckoning as to what it actually achieves?
Hey everyone! Welcome back to part 2 of last weekend’s episode. Today, we discussed more endings in life as well as our analogy of beginning and ending books, not chapters. We did go a little off track at the end, but hopefully this episode got you thinking too.
Welcome back to the Grinding 20s!
Today, we discussed the ending of what we prefer to call as "books" to our life, whether we mean closing the part of our life from a job or ending different types of relationships.
Stay tuned for next week's continuation of this topic! Thank you.
Hi everyone, welcome to the Grinding 20's again!
Today, we discussed how we're out of touch with social media and the next generation. From Tik Tok to slang, we're out of reality. Next on the list? Our bucket list. Where do you want to be? Go? What do you want to do? Have? Create? We have ours ready.
Today, we discussed some drunken stories, hangovers, and international hangover "cures", as well as some of our own "cures". What "cures" and stories do you have?
Thank you for your patience with our episode posts!
Welcome back listeners! We are a little late today, but here we are again. Thank you for your patience. Today, we discussed traveling, exploring and finding new things in your own neighborhoods.
We may have gone off track a bit sometimes, but don't worry, as per usual, we're still funny and inappropriate. :D We hope you enjoy!
Hello listeners! Sorry we missed last week's episode, unfortunately it was actually due to some unforeseen BS. Please enjoy this week's episode on some BS we have dealt with in life.
From an unhappy job, the ill behavior of others to maintaining expensive healthy lifestyles, we discuss some of our own takes on BS.
Good evening, listeners! We hope you enjoy our late episode on the issue of politeness and society's expectation to be polite when it is unnecessary for you to do so. From awkwardness to rudeness, we have all experienced a situation where we may have acted polite when we don't need to, or were questioned on our "politeness". Stay tuned for next week's episode!
Happy Saturday Night!
Watch out for assumptions! Tonight we discussed how important it is NOT to make assumptions about each other. From stereotypes to struggles in life, you have no idea who a person really is and what they have been through until you do. Even then you may not know all sides of them.
We discuss our own hardships and experiences. We hope you enjoy and stay tuned for next week's episode!
Welcome to our 20th episode of The Grinding 20s! Today, we discussed a topic that has impacted us and has been very significant in our lives. We explored our own awareness with body image at a young age, our confidence, diverse health issues and nutritionists, as well as society's bulls*** standards and judgments. We hope you enjoy our take on our own life and stay tuned for next week!
Have you ever had people behave or communicate in a way that's pretty shitty? Or just isn't what you're about? This week we discuss and reflect on some of our experiences with the opposite sex and behaviors we wished were better from both ends. Of course this can also apply to every type of relationship. Stay tuned for next week's episode on misogyny.
Do you wish to collaborate with us? Are you someone that wants to provide a unique perspective of your own? Feel free to message us per email or on our instagram for a respectful collaboration.
Welcome back, listeners! Tonight we discussed our own issues with parenting from our upbringings and what we envision to do ourselves. Our take on the good, bad and toxic of parenting. What's your take?
Welcome back to the Grinding 20s!
Today, we talked about some of the different types of health and how school and life doesn't prepare you soon enough for it. From financial, mental, physical to relationship health; each type deserves its own depth.
How do you view different perspectives or lessons learned in these areas? We discussed our own take.
Welcome back to our next episode! We're a bit late due to delays, so our apologies. Today, we had some juicy takes on sex toys, sexuality, roasts, and the like. As we say. "You need to know who you're getting kinky with."
Welcome back listeners! We complete our second part of GHOST! stories this week with poltergeists and possible stories of closure. Do you have any stories to share with us on the podcast? If so, please feel free to email us at grinding20s@gmail.com or send us a message through instagram, (grinding20s).
Stay tuned for next week's episode and topic!
They're creepy and they're kooky! Fair warning: perhaps try not to listen to this at night, unless you want to. Today, we discussed our own ghost stories, from creepy to perhaps heartwarming, we've got it all. Keep listening next week for part 2 on GHOST! stories.
Welcome to the Grinding 20's, Episode 13: Roommates and Neighbors. Human and Not. Today, we discussed our own roommate and neighbor stories. Hold on to your seats for the nasty, awkward, annoying, haunting and sweet, amazing stories of having roommates, both human and not. Stay tuned for next week's episode on Ghost Stories!
What are your Valentine's Day plans? Today, we not only discussed our own plans, but also how we celebrate and support our loved ones, as well as our own preferences to spend the day, being vulnerable and the challenges of self-image. Disclaimer: Again, this is our own take from our experiences and beliefs, so we may not be 'experts', but the purpose is to share.
Fellow listeners, sorry for the delay again! But as we know we are grinding and not everything comes perfectly in place. Today, we explored issues with the health, fitness and beauty industries. We went off track a bit, but enjoy our back and forth about Tiger King, Florida Man, and who knows what else.
Good evening everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting, we had some issues with availability, but here we are. Today's episode will be about some issues and stories relevant to debt, bills, food security and safety, and more. Yes, it can be quite a depressing theme, but it is part of life and we need to address such issues.
Good morning everyone! Welcome again to your weekly dose of The Grinding 20's! Today, we discuss our tips on what to do for interviews, our stories, some good habits to keep for jobs and interviews, and what qualities to look for in jobs. We hope these help you with your job and career endeavors! Excuse us for some technical difficulties in this episode.
Happy Saturday from all of us! We hope you enjoy this episode as we recount stories with awkward, funny, nasty and weird elements during our times in school and work.
Welcome back everyone! Today we will go over our own strategies for searching and applying for jobs, graduate schools and university funding. #Adulting 💃🏻
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you celebrated well and are ready for a new year! Today, we discuss our own new year resolutions that are important to us and our growth. Stay tuned for next week's start to the upcoming theme: CAREER.
Happy Holidays listeners! We hope you are having a great holiday and reflect on the year while it ends. 2020 has definitely been eventful, to say the least, with difficulties of the pandemic, as well as personal and professional. In today's episode, we reflect on the year, what we are thankful for and what we have learned.
Good day listeners! Today we talk, laugh and highlight the importance of setting and having boundaries when it comes to different types of people and relationships. Whether it's your family member, friend, a classmate or even strangers and acquaintances, setting boundaries and knowing what's appropriate is key, but knowing how and when to communicate these boundaries is an important point of growth as well. Please enjoy our episode on setting boundaries and advice! If you have any questions, concerns, comments, suggestions, or feedback, please free to message us on Instagram @grinding20s or our email at grinding20s@gmail.com. Stay tuned for next week's Saturday episode when we recap how we handled and reflect on 2020!
Good evening everyone! This episode is a bit late, but we managed to do it! Today we discussed more about college experiences, but in particular experiences with professors, good and bad. There is a trigger warning at the start of the episode, please be advised.
If you have any comments, questions, stories or concerns, please let us know at grinding20s@gmail.com or on our Instagram page, grinding20s.
We hope you enjoy our episode! :D
Hello people! Welcome again to the Grinding 20's! Today we discussed different experiences we have had so far in our undergraduate and graduate programs. We spoke about making friends and acquaintances, particular strange and burdensome experiences, and recommended qualities and skills for college. Please excuse any background noise or mishaps, we are still getting a hang of this!
Stay tuned for next week's episode on professors and more!
Hi everyone! Welcome to the Grinding 20's! We are Athens, Cairo and Perth, and this is our introduction episode. We will be introducing ourselves with our education backgrounds and how we formed our friendships. This is our first episode, so please excuse any mishaps, any slight swearing and our very talkative ways with each other.
Welcome to the Grinding 20's! A podcast for those that are grinding when society says we should be thriving. We are three mid-20-year-old ladies in graduate school, who are trying to make our way through life. Our pseudonyms are Athens, Cairo and Perth. We hope you enjoy our take on life and the advice we can share!