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Screen-Free Travel with Kids…How to Keep Your Sanity

In this podcast episode, we discuss how Jen and her husband drove over 10,000 miles with their three littles ones across the country, 7 and under… 100% screen-free travel in the car. And believe it or not… all while staying mostly sane. The summer of 2022 our family of five...

Add More Hygge to Your Home This Fall

In this episode, we are kicking off Sammy’s favorite season, fall, with one of Jen’s favorite topics – HYGGE! What the heck is hygge, you may ask? Hygge is defined as ‘a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment and wellbeing’ by Oxford Languages, but...

Feng Shui For Beginners with Lauren Bragg

In this episode, we are excited to talk to our dear friend, Lauren Bragg from the Feng Shui Collective! Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art of arranging buildings, objects, and space in an environment to achieve harmony and balance’ (National Geographic). As Lauren states on her website, “Your space...

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Relishing the Gift of Rest: with Alexis Girvan | Season 2 Episode 9

In this episode we have our first interview, with Alexis Girvan, for a segment we would like to call “Millennial Pioneer Profiles”. These are people we have met and know who are embodying this lifestyle that we have been diving into… intentional, value based, slow living, etc. So, in the...

Living Debt Free | Millennial Pioneers Podcast

We finally have gotten around to doing an episode on slow living and getting out of debt! This has been a long time coming for us. We skirted around the conversation in episode 5 in season 1, “Keeping Up With the Jones‘”… but we got to deep dive on the...

Slow Living in Nature | Millennial Pioneer Podcast

In this episode, we continue our conversation around the topic of slow living, while diving deep into the topic of nature.  Find us on iTunes, Spotify, Audible, iHeartRadio, and more In this episode we will cover: Resources from this episode: Connect with us: Jennifer Araza blog | newsletter Sammy Davis website | email  Cover Art by Amanda Leigh of A &...

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Homemade Bread Recipe… The Best You’ll Ever Have…

This is truly the best, from-scratch, bread recipe you will ever have. I have full intentions of at some point building this post out more thoroughly, but for now, I just need a place to have this recipe live instead of searching through hundreds of text messages to try to...

Slow Living + Anxiety | Millennial Pioneer Podcast

We actually had an entirely different episode planned, but after Jen texted Sammy with overwhelming feelings of anxiety… we decided to take a different turn with this episode. Anxiety is prevalent. There is more cases of anxiety today than ever before. It makes you wonder, doesn’t it? In this episode,...

Slow Living in the Kitchen | Season 2 Episode 3

I am loving the direction that season 2 is taking with a focus on “slow living”. What better place to deep dive on this topic than heading straight to slow living in the kitchen. In our homes, the slow living kitchen truly is the heart of the home. Where full...

Slow Living: A Call to Slow Down | podcast season 2 episode 2

For season 2 of the Millennial Pioneer Podcast, we’re feeling the nudge to talk more about “slow living”. Maybe it’s the high levels of anxiety we’re experiencing as a culture, maybe it’s the onslaught of “cottage core” and homesteading romanticization… but there is something that is nudging us all to...