January 2025 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Skincare, Beauty, Society & Culture, Comedy, Advice, Books, Arts, Careers

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a while since our last Three Things episode! We can’t wait to discuss what’s been on our minds lately, from pop culture to books to productivity.

Olivia’s Things

Best of 2024

Fave TV Shows - The Diplomat, Nobody Wants This

Best Song - The Bolter by Taylor Swift, Right Back to It by Waxahatchee

Best Trip - Maine, Portland and Chicago

Best Days - Maine and SABI release day

Best Purchase - OnCloud Sneakers, Beaded Necklaces, Kindle, and Cozy Earth Bath Towels.

Jenna Bush Hager’s new imprint

Microhabits

Becca’s Things

2025 Pop Culture Predictions

Reading tracker in notion (get it here)

The ‘Let Them’ Theory

Obsessions

Becca - Day of the Jackal on Peacock

What we read this week

Olivia - The Most by Jessica Anthony, Godshot by Chelsea Bieker, Sea Wife by Amity Gaige, City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim, Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash, Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Becca - Early Thirties by Josh Duboff, Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino

January’s Book Club Pick - Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to Bout on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor.
0:21.7	And I'm Becca Freeman. And today, we have a Three Things episode. We haven't done one of these in a little bit. So I'm looking forward to it.
0:29.7	Have your Three Things muscles atrophied? Are you overflowing with things? No, I had a really difficult time thinking of things.
0:37.4	Like, I think I came up with a good
0:39.7	mix, but isn't my finest work, I don't know. But I'm excited to hear yours. I can't wait.
0:45.6	Well, let's do some highs and lows and then get into the things. What's your high?
0:51.1	My high is just that I'm having a really gentle start to the year in the best
0:56.0	possible way. I came into Monday the first full week of the year and I just, I didn't feel refreshed
1:02.6	despite having taken almost two full weeks off. The only thing I did in there was I recorded a podcast.
1:08.9	So I really took time off and I felt like I had a good mix of
1:13.0	just relaxing and social things. And I didn't come into the year refreshed. And so I'm still waiting
1:19.6	on feedback on my book. And so I'd planned to start working on this other kind of side project I have
1:25.7	going that I think might be my book three. And on Monday,
1:30.6	I was kind of like, this is made up busy work. Nobody is waiting for this. Nobody has asked you for
1:37.3	this. Like if you don't feel refreshed, just don't do it this week. Because I think there's also some
1:43.1	aspect of like performing work that I don't want anyone to think I don't do it this week. Because I think there's also some aspect of like performing work that I
1:46.8	don't want anyone to think I don't work hard enough and that I need to be at my desk and I need to
1:51.9	be working because that's what it would be if I had a nine to five job and I'm so lucky that I
1:56.3	work for myself that I need to, I don't know, perform work. So anyway, I just was like, what gymnastics
2:02.4	am I doing my head? I was like, just don't do it. And so I took like a half week. I did newsletter
2:06.2	stuff. I did a bunch of admin stuff. Took down my Christmas tree. I cleaned the house. I like,
2:11.6	I did stuff, but I didn't write. And I do feel like it's worked. I do feel better. It's Friday now. I do feel
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