Better for the Boy

Hey - I'm updating the logo for the Better for the Boy podcast! Which one do you like? I'm having a tough time deciding.

For context, the podcast is a funny, smart, sometimes raw look at self-growth and parenting through personal storytelling and research.

I will have the opportunity to ask for changes to my top 4 so any extra feedback is helpful!

Thanks!! xo
Kayla

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Kids are so weird.

This is the image of the eels by .nov.art that I talk about in the most recent episode. Here's what she said about it:

"The eel embodies determination, constant forward movement, and endurance. It reminds us that we are, in fact, on the right path. And yet, the eel shape-shifts, observes, waits in the shadows. It knows that forward movement involves, at times, lying in the dark, in the most mysterious, clouded parts of ourselves, until it is time to strike with all the electricity our souls can muster.

Both personally and collectively, we are all lying in wait, in the muck and dust right now. May we have the patient determination of the eel."

https://www.buzzsprout.com/543106/7085647

As you may know, the pyrotechnics at one couple's party triggered the 11,000+ acre El Dorado wildfire... and the public is baffled/pissed.

What happens when you don't tell people the gender of your baby at all... ever? I explore that in the latest podcast episode of Better for the Boy:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-for-the-boy/id1477430131

Gender Creative/Neutral/Open Parenting is a new technique that more and more folks are using to rear their kids. You may have heard of "Theybies": babies whose parents choose not to assign them a gender and request that their communities use the non-binary pronouns They/Them.

In this episode I discuss the Gender Creative Parenting method and my own positive and negative feelings about it. My good friend, Mara, is using this approach to raise her awesome kid, Aster. She joins me for the second half of the episode to discuss her experiences. Fast forward to the 37 minute mark to skip straight to my chat with her.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kayla-ogden/better-for-the-boy

Better for the Boy For Kayla, there was no reason to be good. There was no god, nobody was important including herself, and she had no purpose. Suddenly everything changed and now she's trying to be better. In this podcast Kayla tells her stories on the way to improvement - the wins, the foibles, the wisdom and the WT...

Under my face mask I’m lip sinking this song like all day.

https://youtu.be/loOWKm8GW6A

twenty one pilots - Level of Concern (Official Video) twenty one pilots - Level of Concern (Official Video) official video for "Level of Concern" - available now on Fueled By Ramen. https://top.lnk.to/levelofcon...

People that are born today are going to live until they are 130+ years old! How is this possible? How can YOU signal the cells that make up your body to restore themselves and become young again?

Aging won't look the same as it did in the 20th century. When we reach 100 years old, we can be full of vitality.

This episode is a cup of elixir from the fountain of youth. I found it in David A. Sinclair's groundbreaking work entitled Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To.

I'll tell you all about it on Episode 9 of Better for the Boy on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://episodes.buzzsprout.com/kezdf6hwabxdlphnt8faxbxttui0?

I found this selfie. It was taken about three years ago after I went to my first AA meeting. I got home, flopped down on the bed and took this picture. I'm so glad I don't have to go back.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't listened to the latest episode! Episode 8 of Better for the Boy is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kayla-ogden/better-for-the-boy

Episode 8! Here are some images that go along with the latest episode.

It's the story about that weird time I went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. What is alcohol and how does it affect us?

Alcohol has gotten the best of me on more occasions than I'd like to admit. Lately, I think I'm in control. I'll tell you about it on Episode 8 of Better for the Boy on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kayla-ogden/better-for-the-boy

When someone asks me how is going:

What does this image mean to you?

Anyone else doing ? It's day 2 and I just found out there are 31 days in January...
My plan is to keep busy and failing that, embrace boredom. If you have any sobriety tips, humor or inspiration please comment below!

Episode 7! It's ALIVE! You can follow along with these images.

Did you know that being an Information Ju**ie can be a bad thing?

What the book Guns, Germs and Steel allegedly has to say about European power being a product of geographical luck.

I go over what I've learned from the docuseries RACE: The Power of an Illusion. How different are your genes from a person from a different race?

Oh, and is Thomas Jefferson the worst or was he just a nice guy who happened to live in a culture where black people were enslaved?

In conclusion, I have a little pep talk for Team Humanity.

Part 2 of a 2 part series. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

Here's the clip I was talking about in Episode 6 where Jack refers to Jamal's buff as a durag in Survivor this season.

https://youtu.be/vYWwLxHxIIg

Survivor - Jamal Teaches Jack About WHITE PRIVILEGE after his subtle RACIST Comment!! Jamal teaches Jack about white privilege after he made a subtle racist comment about black people as Jack appreciates his teachings

https://medium.com//we-should-stop-saying-people-of-color-when-we-mean-black-people-29c2b18e6267

This is what I was talking about in Episode 6:

We Should Stop Saying “People of Color” When We Mean “Black People” I understand why people in society use the term “people of color”: it replaces the outdated term “colored people” with one that is more…

1. Whoa it's Episode 6! Listen wherever you get your podcasts. It's scary to be a white person sharing thoughts on race. I can't seem to get out of it today though because I am currently a white person with a lot of thoughts about race and a podcast.

I ask what's up with the term 'People of Color'? Is it appropriate/politically correct?

I was raised in a small city with a huge majority of white people making up the demographics of the population. I thought I was colorblind and we were all the same. Turns out, it's a lot more complicated than that.

Lots of awkward stories about me fumbling around trying not to look racist.

2. Growing up in a white community, they showed us images like this and told us no matter what race we were, we were all the same.
3. Wait, this is a white person bar?! I had no idea!!
4. Screenshot from Solange’s beautiful video for her song “Don’t Touch my Hair”
5. Dave Chapelle in white face.
6. Jenny Slate and Captain American break up. I know nothing about their work, I know everything about their split.
7. The cultural iceberg illustrates all of the things our cultures influence about our selves.
8. Survivor season 39 contestants Jamal and Jack.
9. Documentary Aprille Flint recommended called RACE: The Power of an Illusion. Rent it on Vimeo and we’ll talk about it in the next episode!!

Okay I’ll admit - my diy, sustainable(?) baby Charlie brown costume may not have been the best costume at the library today but I think he really worked it.

Look alive, it's Episode 5! Here's images of a bunch of the stuff I'm talking about.

Yikes I told everyone I would shop exclusively at thrift stores for my clothing and now I have to actually do it! It's hard.

Also, in this episode I go full hypocrite on men wearing sweatpants outdoors after viciously defending yoga pants in a previous episode.

What's so bad about fast fashion anyways?

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Follow along with the Episode 4 of the podcast Better for the Boy:

1: Celebrities enjoying their exclusive TM practice
2. Carroll Dunham Paintings
3. Laurie Simmons Photographs
4. Books I’m talking about
5. My mom’s look when she got her groove back (this is Rachel Leigh Cook in Josie and the Pussycats)
6. Jill Taylor... the woman I fear I will become if I am not vigilant
7. The boy and his frump in Hawaii
8. We’re not the water, we’re the wave.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kayla-ogden/better-for-the-boy

Ever feel like this?

This is the speech by Greta Thunberg at the UN in Poland last year that I was talking about in Episode 2 of Better for the Boy. Isn't she amazing???

https://youtu.be/VFkQSGyeCWg

Greta Thunberg full speech at UN Climate Change COP24 Conference 15 year old activist Greta Thunberg speaks truth to power at the UN COP24 climate talks: "My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 15 years old. I am from Sweden. I s...