We, Krystal & Kenecia, share our epiphanies, reflections, and candid stories about health, money, creative goals, and wanting to really EXPERIENCE life!

Did you have epiphanies when you turned 30, 40, 50, 60, & beyond? We’d love to hear your take on the clarifying and potent insights that come with the privilege that is aging!

As always, we'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries @ proton.me or find us on Instagram or YouTube at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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We'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries @ proton.me or find us on Instagram or YouTube at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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Catch us breakdown how we had to prioritize their health as women and eldest daughters. This episode focuses on sharing some personal health stories, how we maneuver through them. Krystal explains her functional medicine journey while Kenecia shares her fibroid/PCOS journey.

A GENTLE HEADS UP & CONTENT WARNING:

• There will be mention of health, body and medical hardships and trauma in this episode. This topic carries a lot with it so if you are not in the head space to explore this topic right now, you can always come back to it. Please be gentle with yourself. If you’re listening from the US (and likely other places, too), each of us have been through a lot in the medical system so please proceed with care.

• We are not therapists or counselors and are not giving advice. We are simply sharing our lived experiences, stories, and encouragement. We hope that in sharing, we all walk away feeling a bit more connected with each other on a topic that is very complicated and complex. 

We are here as a vessel to share our story to our fellow eldest daughters. As always, we'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries@proton.me or find us on Instagram or YouTube at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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In this episode of Eldest Daughter Diaries, hosts Krystal and Kenecia explore our careers in tech, sharing our personal journeys and the challenges we face. We discuss the importance of community support, the impact of being an eldest daughter on our careers, and the significance of leadership and identity in the tech industry. The conversation emphasizes the need for women to recognize our leadership potential and the value of asking for help. We share reflections on the higher purpose of our work in tech and an invitation for listeners to engage with the community.

Catch Kenecia nerd out talking programming languages and hear how Krystal planned an overseas event with no invitation to attend (BOO!). We both express how being in tech has impacted how we are through being eldest daughters through curiosity and even overachieving. As always, we'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries@proton.me or find us on Instagram or YouTube at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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Today, we talk about:

• How we came to know about solo travel
• Solo travel as a learned skill
• Building confidence in solo travel often starts with small steps
• Exploring different cultures is synonymous with personal growth
• The loneliness is real
• Navigating new environments can be both challenging and (mostly) rewarding
• Safety is important while traveling
• Travel can help you connect with different parts of yourself
• Solo travel can lead to unexpected adventures!
• Adventuring in your own company can change your life endlessly for the better!

As always, we'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries @ proton . me or find us on Instagram at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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As always, we'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries@proton.me or find us on Instagram at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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Today’s Topic is Surviving the Holidays: How Not to Overdo It.

Your hosts, Kenecia and Krystal, discuss the challenges and joys of navigating the holiday season as eldest daughters with do-it-all impulses. #iykyk

We share personal stories about our favorite holiday traditions (think: FOOD!), the importance of setting boundaries on our time and energy, and the need for self-care practices amidst a multitude of events, gift-buying, and most of all, family dynamics.

We really have made the holidays our own by leaning into our creativity for gift-giving, prioritizing rest (before, during, AND after), and the importance of creating new family rituals that fit who we are now. Most of all, we hope to embody the permission to revisit rituals that are “just how its done” to make it work for your life, current context, and capacity.

As always, we'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries @ proton . me or find us on Instagram at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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Today’s Topic is People Pleasing.

A quick content warning: This topic can bring up a lot. Please ensure you're in a good headspace to listen in and if not, we'll be here to listen in later! Also, we are not therapists or counselors and are not giving advice. We are simply sharing our lived experiences, stories, and encouragement. We encourage you to seek support if this is an area that is really causing hardship for you and send you absolute love and respect for your courage to do so.

In today's episode we explore:

• What is people-pleasing?
• How each of us experience it uniquely (we're all so different!)
• Common traits of people-pleasers
• Seriously though, why do we do this?
• The unexpected blessings that came from people-pleasing
• Our personal self-care practices to keep us in healthy relating
• Journal prompts for self-reflection
• Some helpful words of encouragement

As always, we'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, journal prompt replies, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries @ proton . me or find us on Instagram at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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Today you're getting to know us! We're talking our Big 3, how we met, how our familial role formed us, how we grew beyond it, and how we learned to thrive...with a lot of therapy support! You'll hear about upcoming topics we'll be diving into including everything from being women in tech to solo travel to people-pleasing and so much more.

We hope you giggle along side us, get to know us a bit better, and know that we're here cheering you on along the way!

We'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, journal prompt replies, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries @ proton . me or find us on Instagram at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.

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In today's episode, your hosts, Kenecia and Krystal, vulnerably share the ins and outs of how to best decide who to share life updates with because as eldest daughters --> We deserve to be heard. Having boundaries around who we share with and what we share is crucial to cultivating spaces where we are deeply seen and valued.

We discuss the importance of consciously choosing how we share life updates, the struggle to be heard within family dynamics, and some candid shares on the tools that we've found useful along the way.

We'd love to hear from you! Send your questions, journal prompt replies, reflections, and love notes by emailing us at eldestdaughterdiaries @ proton . me or find us on Instagram at @eldestdaughterdiariespod.