Adulting Decrypted

Roscoe, Ashton, Gene, and Gideon

We prepare young adults to be independent powerhouses for life.--Who We Are: The Adulting Decrypted team is composed of a Dad and his three sons: Roscoe(Dad - age redacted), Ashton(22), Gene(18), and Gideon(14). How We Started: As a family we have always tried to have at least one meal together daily. The meal that typically ends up being is dinner. One night in particular near the beginning of the COVID pandemic, our conversation started with Roscoe mentioning that he had recently read a news article stating that an Ivy League college was offering “Adulting,” classes. These classes were being offered in the hopes that they might be able to educate students who were struggling with common “Adult” tasks. It didn't make sense to us that someone would have to enroll in an Ivy League school to learn things that nearly every person has to deal with daily. To us it seemed that things like shopping, laundry, mental health, communication, taxes, loans, and so much more should be basic knowledge before taking on the substantial challenges of modern life. Eventually the idea was floated that there should be a podcast that can be accessed for free that would help people gain insight into these things that we thought we knew fairly well. Since COVID-19 had caused unemployment and school schedule changes for all of us we thought that there could be no better thing than for us to take on this challenge. Less than a month later, after several planning meetings and countless hours of research, we had recorded and uploaded our first episode.

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Not Romantically, Relationships and Communication To hike or not to hike S-6 E-14
Sep 6 2023
Not Romantically, Relationships and Communication To hike or not to hike S-6 E-14
A few things to keep in mind as you are developing relationship and what matters.  We discuss Gideon going on a Hike with his buddy, we discuss transactional relationships and maybe don't call just for help. And actually I think you started off by saying, well, there's all different types of relationships. There's a very transactional relationship. There's a deeper bonded relationship. There's family relationships, there's friendships. I would, I would challenge you and the listener to think about these relationships and how important they are and be able to classify them accordingly, because I think the last parting thought on it is make sure that you celebrate these big milestones with people.And that looks different for everybody. It might be birthdays, might be anniversaries. It might be them graduating from college, them getting married, you know, whatever. Spend the time to, to celebrate their milestones and celebrate with them so that you have a stronger relationship. Any other thoughts on relationships?I think something important to remember is also to not just forgive, but when you're the one to mess up, to say sorry, because I like that. I'm currently going through a course, it's digital marketing and analytics. So we talk a lot about. Keeping relationships with companies and one of the biggest things to grow like trust with company, which is huge in the marketing industry is when you have a problem to solve it quickly and efficiently and make the other party happier.And from that, it there builds a stronger relationship than was there before. And I think that works with friendships or any other type of relationship too, is to say sorry when you're wrong and figure out the way, the right way to fix it, as powerful thanks Gideon, that was very powerful.I think something that tags along on, well, wow, excuse me, something that tags along really well with that. It's something we used to say in a group I was a part of where one of our most important traits that we needed to have in order to be a valuable member of the group is vulnerability. So you need to allow yourself to be vulnerable so that we can all learn and grow at the same pace.And so, like for me, like with relationships, it takes a certain level of vulnerability to take someone who is something you know, to someone you're in a relationship with, whether that be a, a friend, you know, colleague, you take some level of vulnerability to meet someone. So I think, I think vulnerability is important.I like that. And as we've done, or doing more studies, Brene Brown is on vulnerability and, and that I think as a society we're understanding the, how critical that is and how important being vulnerable in that situation and allowing that to open up. To develop into a bigger relationship because if you're not vulnerable what happens you end up with a lot of transactional relationships Versus saying, Oh yeah, Hey, I really need your help.And that's okay. Great. Thanks. Thanks. Great points, gentlemen. So listen, or go out there, celebrate the differences, be vulnerable. As for forgiveness, make it right. When you do something wrong, set your boundaries. And celebrate the victims and yep, and showing some support every once in a while. Go for that hike. Just so you guys know he's crying right now. So just we need to give  Support the show