This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Dr Pepper®. The opinions and text are all mine. Summertime and the living’s easy… It’s officially summer and I love the feeling of nostalgia with the warm weather and friendly get-togethers. As you already know, I love hosting people! Coming up with fun themes […]

Dating in the 21st century has officially moved to digital. Yup, just like TV! Times are changing, and so are we! On this week’s episode of The Participation Trophy, my guest co-hosts, Scottie & Haley, help me break down the world of digital dating. How do you slide in the DMs? Have you ever been […]

I love using Wednesdays as a way to highlight awesome women for #WomenCrushWednesday and today I get to do that with Bruna Nessif, the founder of one of my favorite blogs, The Problem With Dating. I first started reading Bruna’s stuff thanks to an article she wrote appearing on Cosmopolitan Magazine’s SnapChat channel. This girl […]

The topic of getting and receiving reassurance/affirmation has been at the forefront of my conversations lately. Generation Baby Boomers and Gen X just love to get at millennials for their need to be coddled and reassured, but what is the real issue here? Why has it become a “thing” that our generation of 20-somethings are […]

Millennials. We are the first generation to have gotten a trophy simply for participating.  Oh you didn’t win your basketball game? Here’s a trophy anyway! It’s kind of fucked up if you think about it: telling us we are all winners in a world that can easily spit us out without so much as a […]

Millennial is a hot button word right now, but I’m going to go ahead and say it anyway: I love being a millennial. The older generation might think we are entitled (and maybe to a certain extent, that is true), but for the most part, this is a generation that wants to be fulfilled in […]

I love being a millennial. I love the fact that people from my generation are innovative, hard working, and are so passionate about finding what makes them happy instead of staying in a job they absolutely hate. BUT, I do have to say something here – or many things – about the culture we have […]