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In the journey of pursuing your dreams, where is the line of living to work or working to live? John joins us to talk about what a work life balance looks like.

The holidays can be stressful, and though they would never admit it, family can be the most stressful part. Kayla Davis joins us once again to talk about learning to navigate the toughest of family dynamics

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In celebration of Growing Pains‘s one year anniversary, Jordan Teegardin our guest from the very first episode joins us again to reflect over the past year and what growth has looked like in our lives.

As kids we are often encouraged to play sports, but what happens when sports become your life and there’s the day that the sport ends? The search for identity after having an identity given to such an early age is a hard one and Tyler comes on the podcast to talk about her own experience finding identity after the identity of being a sports player was stripped away

With burnout comes bitterness, John and Ani sit down and have a very real conversation about the reality of burnout in everyday lives, and how they individually deal with burnout in their own lives.

As kids we almost got kidnapped and though we didn’t really realize it then, that event sparked a harsh reality of the world, Makenzie joins us to talk about learning to not let fear overcome us. And hey we as humans are drawn to true crime.

Bri is a photographer based out of northern California, she joins us on the podcast to talk about her journey in finding out that photography was her passion and how she has not only grown her business but how she has grown as a person through capturing the moments of others. you can find her at @bribischof go check her out!https://www.instagram.com/bribischof/https://bio.site/bribischofphotography

Actually Starting a Podcast

This weeks episode is all about Ani’s individual journey with Christianity in finding faith. Through the life and death of a friend she saw the importance of having God in her own life, this episode is an expression of her own experience, and journey of becoming a Christian. Through the pain of losing a friend she was encouraged to continue his strength and was inspired by his own walk of faith to start her own journey with Christianity. If you have any questions there will be resources posted to the Instagram @growingpainswithani

Ryan joins us on the podcast to talk about the year he has dedicated to creating videos, creating is one of his passions and he decided that he was going to take a year and make two videos each week in order to help fuel this thing he loves to do, we discuss what it’s like when you actually give time and effort into the things you enjoy doing, in the hurdles that it brings. You can watch all of Ryan’s YouTube videos on his channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC0rYdCgifdgkmOmAQlxaCzwYou can also listen and watch John and Ryan on their video podcast “What the Podcast” available anywhere or you get your podcasts

On this episode we are joined by the founders of plant-based meals, they share their inspirational story of how they started their business, and their heart behind spreading awareness on the power of plant based eating. Starting a business from scratch is not easy and there are plenty of growing pains so if they have experience.https://www.plantbasedmealsnow.com/

We welcome Lauren back on the podcast, in this episode Lauren and Ani share their own experiences with eating disorders. They share stories and explain how they have grown from struggling with eating disorders. https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/eating-disorder-statistics/https://anad.org/get-informed/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/

Having been adopted from Russia as an infant, Sophia has heard all of the questions and knows all the stereotypes. She joins Ani on the podcast to share her experience and how she has forged her own identity. “You are more than the things that have happened to you” -Sophia BrownVideo link: ‘What Adopted Children Think you should know’ https://youtu.be/QuRPKITqmxE

We grow up knowing that one day we will say goodbye to grandparents and parents, but when you have to bury a friend at 21 thats different, a different pain and a different growth, we welcome Brynli back on to share her perspective of going through grief alongside friends

At times in life it feels as if the world is holding us back, we have somewhere to be and now because of no fault of our own we are running late, almost as if we are stuck in traffic.