Two Mics, Two Hearts, One Season of Healing

The journey from heartbreak to healing rarely follows a straight line. In our Season One finale, we celebrate crossing the finish line of our first 15 episodes with surprising revelations about the global impact of our sisterly conversations.

What started as casual banter between two sisters sharing their post-breakup experiences has connected with listeners across 23 countries and 270 cities. We're genuinely touched that our vulnerability has resonated with so many of you, creating a community where heartbreak feels less isolating.

Looking back at our favorite episodes—from canceling weddings to co-parenting challenges, from our brother Chad's male perspective to our deeply personal letters to ourselves—we reflect on what these conversations have taught us. Maressa shares her perspective on truly forgiving her ex-fiancé while acknowledging she'll never forget the pain, while Natalie explores the unique challenge of maintaining boundaries when complete separation isn't possible.

The podcast journey has given us unexpected lessons in patience, vulnerability, and trusting our intuition. As Natalie wisely puts it, "We're sharing our raw stories to give other people the ability to be vulnerable for themselves." It's this exchange—our vulnerability for your healing—that makes the sometimes exhausting work of producing a podcast worthwhile.

As we take a summer break before launching Season Two, we leave you with these truths to hold close: give yourself grace during difficult times, trust that triggers will pass, remember you are enough exactly as you are, and know that you are worthy of future love. Your past doesn't define you, and even on the darkest days, there is sunshine waiting after the rain.

Thank you for being part of our healing journey. We can't wait to reconnect with you this fall with fresh perspectives, new guests, and more authentic conversations about life after heartbreak. Subscribe now so you don't miss our return!

Chapters

• 0:00 Season Finale Introduction
• 5:34 Podcast Stats and Global Reach
• 8:02 Favorite Episodes Reflection
• 13:00 Forgiveness After Heartbreak
• 22:02 Lessons Learned From Podcasting
• 27:42 Sisterly Advice and Final Thoughts

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:00

Starting the finale with how it started. First episode, tap, tap, tap. Ready? Insert round of applause now. Oh, I love that our little gadget has that option. I love that a lot. It's funny because we did Funky Town the first couple of episodes on accident. That was totally my fault. I pushed a button and it was Funky Town. No, that's amazing that there's that round of applause. It deserves a round of applause. It does. Because one, we started something that we, most people, and I feel like I've mentioned this before, creating a podcast is a lot of work, a lot of time and effort. And there's so much behind the scenes that a lot of people aren't aware of. And you and I have kind of witnessed that firsthand, there was commitment that we had to give. And there were times where we felt like it was a second job, which in reality it somewhat was. So for us to complete a season, you know, starting in January, ending in May, I think that that truly is a goal that we accomplished. And I'm proud of us because we made it, made a commitment to ourselves of doing this and we stuck through the plan. It started as an idea of, over just some shooting the shits, and we should have our own TV show, we should have our own podcast, and we did it. And, you know, we took a, you know, towards the end, we started to feel that stress of just life, right? I mentioned in a previous episode, the kids' end of school is a lot, and adjusting to all those things field days and graduations and parties and yada yada we had birthdays in there too so we're gonna we're happy to have crossed off you know season one it ended with 15 episodes a lot of them were great episodes there was some production issues you know at times and I'm gonna be honest we've tried recording this episode now for two days um And we wanted to have video, but I... We need a production team because I think it's a very humbling moment because I feel like I'm pretty tech savvy. And something happened at work too, where I was like, I swear I'm tech savvy. My mom and my family come to me for tech problems, but I don't know. We just can't figure it out. Yeah, there's something going on, but we will research and do some due diligence so that when we come next season, we will be more prepared and maybe have better... equipment, you know, because we've kind of invested in some basic ones, I would say, which isn't horrible, right? Again, we started this off as a fun project and we will continue on, but maybe that means investing in some better equipment. Yeah. Or figuring something out. Um, but one thing that, that I do want to just mention is, um, Oh, where's my water? Dang it. It's okay. Throughout this, we've put a lot of ourselves out on the line. We've kept it classy. We haven't. We said in episode one we were going to rise above. We weren't here to talk ill of our exes or of our experiences. We wanted this to be a safe space where Marissa and I can come and just talk and um share with you guys that life isn't easy and heartbreak does happen and how you overcome it is is the story that we're sharing um yep so we're this episode episode 15 we're taking the summer off um but we kind of just want to recap some of our thoughts why don't we do you want to marissa has her phone pulled up with some statistics that she wants to share some little accolades um of just some things that we kind of accomplished because when we started this we thought our 20 friends you know or however many people say i mean i think i have more than 20 friends okay but what i what i mean is like our let's just say 200 friends i don't know okay that's pushing that's like really big but like again we didn't know the amount of people that would actually listen in and tune in and the people reaching out to us, DMing us and saying like, I listened to your podcast and it brings me joy or I really appreciated the vulnerability and the rawness and people that we've known or that we haven't talked to in years or friends of friends that have shared it and then they shared it to someone else and just building that relationship, I thought was so beautiful and the fact that we have the stats that we do, I do wanna give us a pat on the back and read some statistics. Another round of applause. Okay, so luckily with our podcast application we use, we have stats. So we have the all-time downloads as of now. So this is pre-episode 15 listens. We have had 2,728 listens. So that means that any of our episodes have been listened to that many times. So huge number for us personally. I think that's a big accomplishment. And then this is where it gets really cool. This is personally my favorite. The countries. So we have had 23 total countries listen in. So obviously coming in first place was the 95% is United States. But we have Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Canada, Is this your sister that lives in, your sorority sister? Yeah, Tanzania. Tanzania, United Kingdom, Colombia, Russia, concerning. Australia, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, Hong Kong, also question mark. But all of these countries, they're huge. And for us to have these listens in different countries, I think is really a really cool thing. But then diving down a little bit further, we have had a total of 270 listeners. cities that listen in. So our nifty tool can give us statistics on not only the country, but the city. So I just thought that that was a really cool shout out. Our OGs have been listening in. Some have listened to all, some have listened to a couple, but I just want to thank all of you guys for listening in on all of our episodes, because again, it just brings us joy. And to know that our vulnerability is helping you in a way just puts a smile on my face. Yeah, so it's definitely bigger than our reach itself, right? Yeah, totally. So we thought a lot of the listeners would be in Georgia, in our college town, in the surrounding towns where our friends live, but it's definitely reached much wider. Now, too bad that didn't land on a podcast deal, but we're not doing it for that. We're doing it as therapy. Yeah. So yeah, let's talk. Why don't you talk about some of like, what was one of your favorite episodes and or memories? Well, you know, looking back, so I'm pulling up all of our episode titles and stuff. There's, there's just so many good ones, right? Because Within the five months of us doing this, we have really dove in onto some of that healing journey we've been leaning in on. And that's kind of how we started off, right? The first episode is called The Road to Healing and Self-Love. So it clearly is starting off talking about how we are on that road. Each episode has its kind of like... funness to it because the second episode we were doing it about our birthdays and then it just kind of flourished in different topics right obviously the um the one where i talk about my birthday was really cool and my yoda marissa and then you're talking about like the oopsie um The match. The oopsie match. That was also a really good one. And then, of course, the one with Chad, our brother. That one was such a fun one. And he was our one and only guest for the season, right? Because we figured slowly but surely we'll keep adding people that we want to have conversations with about heartbreak, which more to come on that. Season two, we have some ideas. And then I personally, personally love the last two episodes we did. And it was when we wrote ourselves and each other letters. I think that was just such a high to end the season because it truly was a beautiful reflection of everything we went through. Yeah. That was, that was a good one. Um, so you kind of touched on a lot of them. So I mean, there's not really one that I'm like, Oh my God, I love it because all of them were fun and had its flair. Yeah. Most of them, you were just, you know, bullying me in a sense where you, no, that's not true.

UNKNOWN: 9:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 9:55

That's not true. Lies, lies. Lies, lies, lies. Have you listened to the new Morgan Wallen album? Yeah, but I'm not going to lie. I've been streaming the heck out of some T-Swift, some rep, some debut, now that our girl's got her rights and owns all her music. That's fair. That's fair. But yes, I had a good week of Morgan Wallen, but now it's just going to be T-Swift for a little bit. But it's like some deep shit. Honestly, some of those songs, I was like, woof. The one that was about better than you or something like that. Oh, I'm Better. I Got Better? Yeah, I think that's- Or Superman? No, not Superman. That's to his son. Son? Yeah, that's- He's a kid? Morgan Wallen has a child. I have no idea. Yeah, he's like three or... Oh, okay. Between two and four. But yeah, the Superman is, to his kid, it's the I Got Better. I Got Better? Yeah. That one is a good song, for sure. For sure. Yeah, there's another one. I think it's... Oh, I think this one, like kiss her in front of you. That one's kind of a, now you got to stop fucking yawning. It picks up, hella picks up. Okay. You got to edit that. Okay. But anyway, so Morgan Wallen, 37 songs, hour 57, freaking long damn album. But every now and then I'll shuffle through the album and I'm like, this is some good, this is some good music. It's a good, a good drop. Yeah, a good drop. Yeah, okay. Well, my favorite episode. Yeah, I was literally going there, Natalie. Like, way to take the, like, I was about to be like, okay, so what was your favorite? Way to be the hostess with the mostess, sis. I was getting there, Jesus. So my favorite one was probably, episode one was good. Episode one was a good intro. We talked a little. It caused a lot of drama in my life. But you know what? We rose above. We rose above. I think we always do. Yep, yep. And I think the episode about you talking about how you canceled the wedding, that one was a good one. It just shows... your full circle moment, how you've moved on. And we were talking about forgiveness earlier tonight, um, unrelated to the podcast or unrelated to, um, anything like relationship wise, but we were just talking about forgiveness and, um, how you forgive, you have forgave in forgave, forgiven, forgiven. Okay. There we go. How you have forgiven your ex. Um, And it's, it's a fine line, right? Like forgiveness, but you'll never forget. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I think you, you asked me a question because again, as Natalie mentioned, we were talking about something a little bit more personal and it was about anger and resentment. And while it had nothing to do with my ex and, She asked me, she straight up asked me, she was like, have you forgiven your ex? I don't think I've asked you that question before. That's why in that moment we were talking about it, unrelated to your ex-fiance. Yeah. I was like, wait a second. We're getting ready to record. Did you, have you, do you, do you forgive or are you just... Forgetting. And it's like, it really, it's a humbling moment because you're like, shit, do I forgive and forget? But I think I'm at a point right now where... I've mentioned this before. I am so content with everything going on in my life that I have truly forgiven him, but I won't forget that pain and suffering he put me through and I've moved on from it. Honestly, it's so easy. Okay. Scratch. It's not easy. It's hard, but it's very easy when you, when you fully completely cut the tie with that individual that they are no longer in your life. right like when you date someone and it doesn't go well and you break the you guys stop dating like that's it you're done you blocked them you removed them you know there's no more and then in the weird case that they show up somewhere you're like weird but again block what the fuck yeah um no yeah you know why I said that I totally know why you said that because that just happened I know That literally just happened. I know. That's why I said that. I had to block someone. Oh, I was talking about me. Oh, I was talking about me blocking someone. Oh, yeah. I literally just blocked somebody from my... I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about me. I'm not throwing you under the bus deliberately here. Okay. But yeah, you had to block somebody. I had to block somebody. So it's very... Yes, I see where you were coming from that perspective. But that's what I was saying. When you... It's... I don't think people understand the beauty of not ever having to see them again or fully severing the ties. It sucks. And my heart is with you in the moments of sadness and grief and overcoming that trauma, the sadness, and all those emotions. But you are blessed in a sense that you... are done with that individual. Yeah, totally. Yeah, because I have nothing correlated to him. So when I say I forgive, it's because I forgive because I have nothing left to give. Because I am so far removed from everything about him that nothing is reminding me of him anymore. Versus in your situation, you still share, you know, you have a family, you have children, so you have to co-parent. So it's a very different situation of forgiving and forgetting. Yeah. But I think it's a humbling moment too. A very humbling moment. Yeah. Yeah. So when you asked that, I was like, well, that kind of threw me for a loop, but I also appreciated the thought process because while I'm not forgiving something else that is going on in my life for my own personal reasons, Natalie asked me, have you forgiven your ex? And I straight up said, yes. I do. I just think that you maybe have forgotten. Yeah. Not necessarily of the heartbreak, but you have forgotten about him. He is erased and removed and you've disassociated. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, totally. Completely. But that episode myself is also a fun one because... on my shitty situation, I was able to make, um, a really fun, you know, party party. Yeah. Agree. A banger of a party. You know, I love, um, like you'll have memories of that forever. And even though you might not have had a wedding while dad was still here, like dad celebrated that with you. Yeah, absolutely. I, I will have, you know, and I mentioned that in that episode, I dance with dad, um, And I will have that forever dance with him. Yeah. And then my other favorite episode is probably the, like, you crushed your letter. Thank you. To yourself. Thank you. Hold on, hold on. You crushed it. You really did. It just shows your maturity and your growth through it all. You know, after some recent situations in my life, I feel like I... have been sort of masking some of my emotions and going back to my fight or flight in the sense where I'm not processing. So I think I'm going to spend the summer and my time off the mic. You know, going back into my cleanse, my mental cleanse, and getting in a good headspace. Because... Being angry, and I'm not saying this for you, but being angry just doesn't do anything. And, yeah. Is everything okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I just got a text.

UNKNOWN: 18:40

Oh.

SPEAKER_00: 18:40

okay well let's see so we finished off season one and Chad's episode was so good I think we might have to bring him back on a some people have been asking me if we're bringing him back and personally I would love to bring him back I've even had a couple of friends like say like you should have him like talk about a guy POV of like what it's like to date and what that process is because obviously we talked a little bit of our horror stories of dating on the apps and I'm sure Chad has a handful of that he can mention as well. So yeah, there was just a lot of ideas. And then there's a couple other girls that are close to my heart that I know went through a really painful breakup. So I would love to like maybe shed some light on that different scenario in the sense. So where to come, right? Like, again, we're open to ideas. People giving us feedback is always, always welcomed. And we will continue this road of Our podcast journey. Remember, I used to say that all the time. I know, it was so annoying. You have to stop saying your podcast journey. Yeah. I'm like, this is a journey. I know. We're on a podcast journey together. It is. And yes, but you're like every episode, you said it three times, I think. And I was like, okay, Marissa, you hear how many times you have to hear. It also doesn't help that I was the one that was doing all the, what? Why are you rolling your eyes at me? Because you're going to say, I was the one doing the editing. So I was the one hearing you saying it all the time. Yada, yada. You were literally throwing me under the bus. I was doing the editing. Marissa, were you doing the editing? No. But when you edit something, you have to make... I was cutting things out. And I had to make sure it flowed well. So I kept listening back to the five seconds. And it was, of course, every couple of seconds, it was... And it was a lot. And I was like, oh God, shoot me. Well, I tried to remove it from my vocabulary. You did. So, but. Okay. So. So our favorite episodes. Yeah. What would, okay. My question to you is what have you learned in this? I'm going to say in this podcast. Annoying. Oh my God. Okay. I would say that I learned, oh, I was listening to a podcast on the way here and I it kind of goes hand in hand with what I'm about to say. Being vulnerable is important and it allows people to relate to you. But in this case, you and I are not, we are being vulnerable in a sort, but we're also not. And here's why. Okay, I was gonna say why. Because we've already experienced through that. Like right now, we're not being vulnerable in talking about our past. What we're doing right now is sharing our stories, but that's different than being vulnerable. However, I will say when we were going through those things, I was being vulnerable to my close friends and family. You were being vulnerable to your close friends and family, but like you weren't being vulnerable for everybody to see. Yeah. In a sense. That's fair. Right. So, and I'll be honest, here, in live footage of my life, there's a lot of things that I don't talk about because I want to be mindful of the parties and respect them in a sort. So in that sense, I'm not being vulnerable. I'm more than comfortable to talk about a story that's happened that I've already kind of overcame. But that's that. It's sharing a story. We're sharing our raw stories to give other people the ability to be vulnerable for themselves. Whoa. That was a mic drop. Yeah. That was awesome. But I was listening to another podcast and they were talking about trauma and breakaways and behaviors of certain types of individuals. And that's kind of what they said. So I think learning to be more vulnerable yet respectful and is something that I want to kind of be able to do more of. Yeah. And that's mature and admirable very much so. Because like you said, you are protecting specific areas of because you are trying to be mature, but you also want to help people understand that vulnerability in that moment for them. Yes. Yeah. What about you? What is one thing that you learned throughout this? Patience. Patience is a virtue. Okay. The amount of times you and I have, um, like recorded, re-recorded tech issue and, um, There was even, I will vividly remember, there was a time where we were at such like a crossroads. And I was like, Natalie, I'm in a mood. I'm getting pissy. I was like, I'm hungry. Let's go get some Mexican and a margarita and then record. And we did that and it reset me because your girl loves Mexican food and margaritas. But it's just like, it made me realize that we have to have so much patience with each other and with the podcast because there's a lot that goes into it. Well, so many, so much of it is beyond our control. Like in this case, it was tech and I think we were trying to figure out the video. That was the day we were trying to figure out video. Yeah. And, um, that, that video platform is a headache and that we're back to just audio now because fail-proof audio radio style we're watching our voice what is this called like the sound bites move yeah what are they called I don't know but tracks it's kind of weird because I did kind of become used to looking at the voice tracks yeah yeah seeing our faces oh oh yeah that's fair because we would see our faces and also do audio yeah I mean and eventually the goal is to do more video right we gave it a shot but we're just going back to audio since we really wanted to wrap up the season and not have have tech issues be our barrier. And give you that last episode. Yeah. And this is our season finale, and we are really pumped to take a break, a very needed break. And who knows when we come back from Spain, what stuff we'll have ready for you. The goal is to do an episode in the summer. We were talking about monthly, but we're not putting any pressure on it. And also- if it happens, yay. If not, then we'll just start the year or the school year with episode two. Yep. Yeah. Season two. Yep. Absolutely. So, well, that was, that was good. It was a quick, good recap. Um, anything else you want to add to our listeners before we wrap up and take a couple months off? Ooh, well, my probably biggest lesson to everyone who's tuned in is like, you know, shit happens, life sucks, getting dumped, or having any sort of relationship problem sucks. But just listen to your intuition and know that everything will work out for the better, whether it's you bettering yourself, you bettering relationships with others, or you learning how to love someone better. Because I feel like every relationship gives you a lesson. So just know that while you might be in the thick of it, there is sunshine at the end of the rainbow. Or no, I was trying to put like a really good- There's sun after the storms. I was trying to do a really good metaphor. Yeah. There's sunshine after the rain. Yeah, there you go. Speaking of rain, so much rain. Yeah, because we've had so much freaking rain in Georgia. It's been like a week of rain. I'm over it. I think more than a week, honestly. It's been so on and off. It's been horrible. I wondered if we moved to Seattle. There was a lot of rain. At work, I was like, did we move to Seattle? And we just didn't know about it. Anyways. Anything you want to finish off the podcast with, sis? To tell our listeners? Yeah. Give yourself grace. Do what you need to do to survive and get through the day. And then when you get triggered, just remember you aren't alone and it will pass. And just to take deep breaths and remember all the work that you've put in over the period that you've been working on and you are enough. And you are worthy of future love and future relationships and that your past doesn't define you. That was good. That was some good nuggets that you dropped there, sis. Older sister. Always. Older sistering. Older sister momming, mothering. It was funny. I was, and I'm going to wrap this up, but I was with some girlfriends the other day and was telling them about some of this stuff. Like you tell me as an older sister, and they're like, tell Natalie to stop being your mom. And I was like, I mean, I tell her that all the time. What do I say to you that's like momming? Well, it's just like, you know, some of the stuff I've been doing You know, some of my rendezvous. But it's because I don't tell mom about said rendezvous. So then I have you giving me your opinion. I'm just not even... I'm not even going to insert comment because I... That goes back to never, never going back on your gut intuition. And now I had a gut intuition about something and I went against it because I wanted to do something. I was so pissed at you. You were, you were livid. When you told me what you were doing, I didn't talk to you for like a couple of days or maybe I did. And it was very like, Hey, what's up? It was so short. You were like, I'm so disappointed. I was disappointed in you. I was. And you know, I mean, you came back with your tail between your legs and you were like, Why is it such an accurate description though? Like I did it because I wanted to. And you know, those who know, know there's an explicit version of this, but only certain people know the explicit version because we're trying to keep this classy. But yeah, you were, I felt like a mother situation in that, in that time. In that case. Yeah. Because you were fucking dumb as hell and yeah. I don't even want to think about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I mean, and you probably don't want to continue thinking about it because of how frustrated you are. So it's like me telling that story to my friends, and then they're like, tell Natalie to pump the brakes. Was Natalie wrong? But Natalie was not wrong. Was Natalie wrong? No, but I'm also not wrong on some things. There was something that you did where you were like, that was triggering. I was emotional, and I was like, exactly. Point blank why I didn't go. Oh, I got it. So there's just some times where you have a gut feeling and you're like, don't go away from it. Whether it's in day-to-day relationships or in relationships with guys or if you're like starting to- Just like life. Yeah, just life. Never go, like never stray from your gut intuition. Yeah, follow that intuition. Well, yeah, I mean, I don't, it's just the mom gene is strong. It's funny because I read a meme recently or like an Instagram story. And it was like, be kind to single moms because they're having to like flip between their feminine energy and their masculine energy. Like being nurturing when a kid falls, but at the same time having to discipline them for not listening. So I've related to that so much. Wow. I mean, truthfully, I mean, you're like a mom. I think of that Reba song, a single mom who works two jobs, loves her kids and never stops. Yeah. Well, I'm constantly switching in between the masculine and the feminine. So with you, I'm not like the masculine energy just kind of comes out. Yeah. Which I just need like a major alpha so that I could just... We're searching for an alpha for Natalie. Live in my feminine energy era because... If there's any alphas out there, holler at your girl. Oh my God. Because she needs her a man. She needs her a man. I'm still... Me and Sav are still trying to fulfill our challenge for you.

UNKNOWN: 32:01

Yeah, well...

SPEAKER_00: 32:04

more to come. I am very content in being in, in where I am right now. Yeah, that's fine. And that's where you and I are different, but it's cause we just have different lifestyles. You have like no masculine energy. You live in feminine energy and that must be nice, but I've kind of, Oh, it must be nice. And you have me who's like lives in the masculine energy for you sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very true. Very true. But okay, guys. Well, we are going to wrap this up. Again, thank you so much for sticking with us on this adventure. I'm not going to say journey. No, okay, sis. We got you. Adventure. And we will come back with season two with some more life lessons, relationship advice, even though we're not... therapists, but we love to give our feedback and it brings us joy and you know, we're just here for you and those who are going through it. So we will wrap this up. You're looking at me like, okay, Natalie, insert, insert commentary now. Um, yeah. Thank you again for everything. And that's it. That's all I got to say. Um, we appreciate you. Um, Mic drop. Mic drop. Natalie, out. Dumped and divorced, out. Season one, out. Peace out. Okay. Well, I'm going to end it with my signature goodbye, farewell, which is toodles. Bye, everyone. Have a happy summer and we'll see you in a couple of months. Ooh, I like that. Have a happy summer. Hags, have a great summer. Do you remember when we would sign that up? Oh my God, yearbooks, hags. Oh my gosh. Okay, toodles. Bye.