Honestly Ever After
Honestly Ever After is a relationship podcast for young adults navigating relationships, growing up, and building healthy partnerships in their twenties and thirties. Julie and Faith are a mother-daughter team having real, honest conversations about love, boundaries, dating, and what it actually takes to create secure, lasting relationships.
Episodes
10 episodes
Bonus - Grace Got It!
My older daughter joins me for a double-length special to finish out Season 1. She brings a new voice and a different perspective to our discussion of boundaries, adaptations, inner child work, and how to show up as a wise adult.&nb...
Boundaries, People Pleasing, and Food Service
In our most real-life, relatable episode yet, we tell stories of life in a restaurant, parenting in the age of social media, and how gender and power dynamics play out in ordinary days.Boundaries are a much needed tool for working out wh...
Boundaries (or none)
Nobody taught us to say no — and in this episode, we're talking about why.Join us as we get candid about the ways we learned from a young age to be agreeable, selfless, and endlessly available. We share our own stories — as mother and d...
From Romance to Real Love (cont)
It can feel like the lessening of romance means something is wrong. In reality, it means the relationship is asking to grow up. This episode reframes the shift from early intensity to long-term partnership as a necessary developme...
From Romance to Real Love
In this episode, we're having an honest conversation about love — what we're taught it should be, and what it actually takes to make it work.We start by unpacking the romance myths you grew up with: the movies, the cultural scripts...
Staying Yourself without Blowing Things Up
Staying Yourself Without Blowing Things UpHow to be honest in love without becoming cruel—or disappearing.Most people think they only have two options in relationships:Be honest and cause damage.Or stay qui...
Conflict Isn't the Problem, Part 3
Conflict in relationships isn’t necessarily a sign something is broken—but avoiding it or trying to win often is.In this episode, we explore why conflict itself isn’t the real issue in relationships, and how couples get stuck in un...
Conflict Isn't the Problem, Part 2
Carrying on from Episode 2 - Most people think conflict means something is wrong with their relationship. But what if the real issue isn't the conflict itself—it's how we handle it?In this episode, Julie and Faith continue to explore why...
Conflict Isn't the Problem, Part 1
Most people think conflict means something is wrong with their relationship. But what if the real issue isn't the conflict itself (it's inevitable)—it's how we handle it?In this episode, Julie and Faith explore why conflict is inevitable...
The Myth of Effortless Love
"If it's right, it shouldn't be this hard… right?" We've all heard it—real love should feel easy, natural, conflict-free. So when relationships get difficult, we assume we picked the wrong person or something's fundamentally broken. In this epi...
