Better for the Boy

05/12/2023

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

https://99designs.com/contests/poll/05b88d0ca4

I’m running a logo contest on 99designs. Designers have submitted 51 designs so far. Please vote on your favorite as I’d love to receive your feedback.

04/22/2023

Kids are so weird.

04/04/2023

Season 2, Episode 1 of Better for the Boy has dropped! Find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

04/04/2023

We're back! Season 2 of Better for the Boy is happening! In this episode, I explore some recent social drama and the role I played in the gossip through the lens of evolutionary psychology.

Search for Better for the Boy wherever you get your pods.

If you like the pod, please hit 5 stars or even better, leave a review! xoxo

01/02/2021

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

01/01/2021

Happy New Year! This episode of the podcast is all about limiting beliefs: the stories we tell ourselves and the lies we believe that keep us from self-actualizing.

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

09/09/2020

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

08/17/2020

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

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...

05/16/2020

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) official video for "Level of Concern" - available now on Fueled By Ramen. https://top.lnk.to/levelofcon...

03/14/2020

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?

02/21/2020

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

02/16/2020

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