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Hosts Kelly & Erin are friends from childhood, reconnected over their love for deep conversation and life. They'll cover topics like adult friendship, self-improvement, and raising kids.
Hello, friends. I'm Erin.
Kelly:I'm Kelly.
Erin:And this is The Till. Hey, everyone. Erin here. I'm here with Kelly.
Kelly:Hey.
Erin:And although this is the first time that you're hearing our voices, we've already recorded 6 episodes, so we're kind of going back in time. And we, wanted to basically just give you a quick overview of who we are, why you should care about us, and why we're launching this podcast. And, hopefully, it'll be super convincing, and then you'll listen to every episode that we ever put out forever and ever. So Amen. Kelly, why don't you intro yourself first?
Erin:I know we were gonna do it the other way, but I feel like you should talk. Sure.
Kelly:Alright. I am Kelly, and I am a writer and contemplative poet. I've stayed at home with my 3 kids for the last 12 years and, married to my husband of 14 years. We've moved around the country quite a bit. Probably moved every 2 to 3 years, our first 10 years married, and have now landed in Michigan right outside of Detroit, in hopes of bringing some stability to our children's lives.
Kelly:So, yeah, I I'm a creative. I really value putting out content where I consume it. So I've, dabbled in a lot of things, and this podcast is is one of those creative outlets that I'm now pursuing and and am very excited about. So that's that's a little bit about me. Erin, how about you?
Erin:Well, it's a little bit hard to follow that because, Kelly's sounds a lot more wrapped up in a pretty box, but, that is mostly due to the fact that I have spent the last, 7, 8 years of my life building a, company with my husband. And, you know, the I I built it and wanted to stay with it forever, but our family needs have changed a bit. I have 3 little girls, and it really just made more sense for me to be home with them for a while. And so at Christmas time, I stepped away from the company, and now I'm home with my kids and still getting used to it. Even a few months in here, still trying to figure things out.
Erin:So that's all I will say about that for now. In terms of how, the podcast fits into my life, I am also a creative person. I really enjoy puzzle solving. I enjoy, tackling the minutia of things, and I especially really enjoy working with technology and editing and stuff is totally my jam. So, this is super fun for me from both, like, an audio perspective, just trying to figure out all that stuff, but also just, you know, having these great conversations.
Erin:I'm a an overanalyzer of everything in life. And so, you know, as we'll get into in a second, talking about the stuff that we're covering on the till really just makes sense. So you may be wondering how the heck we know each other because that didn't really clarify anything. Oh, I live in Indiana. I didn't I didn't mention that, but I live in Indiana.
Erin:So we're not that far from each other, but we don't see each other unless we make a point to. So, we are, well, we were roommates in boarding school, so that was when we were teenagers. But, Kelly, we wanna tell more of that story.
Kelly:Yeah. We, I think I think I was your roommate when I was 13, maybe. We grew up in Mexico as daughters of career missionaries, and our our ties are a little bit more unique in that our parents knew each other. Some of our family, at least, is both from Michigan, so we've known each other since we were toddlers, but ended up as roommates in boarding school, and developed a really deep friendship there. Left we stayed in touch in college.
Kelly:I remember visiting you. We went to each other's weddings, you know, stayed in touch for a while, and then just, you know, life happened. We got married, moved away, and lost touch a little bit until about a year ago where we reconnected mainly due to the miracle of social media.
Erin:Why don't you share
Kelly:a little bit about that?
Erin:Yeah. That is that is very true. So, for some reason, I Kelly, you know, I am, like, almost stalker level with social media sometimes. And so, you know, I probably still was following Kelly pretty closely and sort of knew what she was up to, but she's a little bit cryptic, so I don't always know things. And so she was working on this project, and I knew that she was working on a book, but I wanted to understand better what she was doing.
Erin:And so I decided to Marco Polo her, which if you don't if you're not familiar with Marco Polo, it's just like a you send your friend a video, and then they can send a video back. I don't really know how to describe it better than that, but you can figure it out. It's like FaceTime, but asynchronously. Okay. So I sent her a message and just asked, like, you know, what she was working on.
Erin:I just told her that I was excited about it and also that I didn't remember her being a creative person, so I was excited to hear a little bit more about that. And it was, like, pretty quickly, I feel like we kinda just started great conversations. And Mhmm. I I don't think I've mentioned this before, but this was after, you know, a pretty long time of me being fairly hesitant about reengaging with in conversations with people I had known from childhood. And, I mean, even, like, people that are in my, you know, circles in the community that I live in, I just have struggled a little bit as I've come into being a working mom for so long.
Erin:Just really struggle to, like, connect with people. And so I think, you know, I was really going out on a branch to to reach out, but Kelly was so warm and welcoming. Of course of course that she would be, but, you know, there's just there is still just, like, that weird, nagging fear, I guess, in any case. So, yeah, that's kinda where we started conversations. We pretty quickly started talking about the artist's way, which we'll talk about in some, upcoming episodes just about living a creative life.
Erin:And we were reminded too just that we had, like, you know, a lot of similar ways of communicating and maybe, like, similar, similar passions or similar, I don't know, similar values maybe, just like things that we, prioritize. And, yeah, so we were talking to Marco Polo, and then,
Kelly:Yeah. In one video last summer, 2023, Erin said she just needed to get away and was gonna go camping. And kind of like her impulse impulsivity in reaching out, I just said, hey. What if I joined you? We hadn't seen each other in years,
Erin:but
Kelly:I just said, what what if we went camping together and just met up in person? And she said yes. So, at the end of last summer, we met up for a camping trip, tent camping. I think tornadoes had just blown through the area, so there's no, like, electricity or running water. But it was on that camping trip we kinda just, you know, picked up where we had left off 15 years ago or so Mhmm.
Kelly:And had had some really meaningful conversations that don't typically happen. You know, we we talked a lot about, like, what it means to just be human and to figure that out as an adult, as you're raising kids, as you're married to your partner. And and we walked away from the weekend realizing, like, how special it was and and just the safety of of our friendship, because of the history we have with each other. And so we kind of didn't wanna leave it there, and the idea the idea of a podcast was born. We wanted to create a space to have conversations, but welcome other people into them.
Erin:Yeah. That's a really good way to say it. We are now in our mid to late thirties, and I feel like, you know, going through a little bit of a shift. Kelly mentioned, you know, her kids are all school age now, and so she's kind of trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life. What I always say, like, what I want to do when I grow up.
Erin:Yep. And, you know, I when we planned to do this podcast, I didn't know I would be going through this life transition, so, it's kind of like added a fun little twist to it. But in any case, I think that, you know, this age, we've we're through the honeymoon period of getting married and all the beauty that comes with that and then having little tiny kids that are also super cute. And as things age, like, yes, they get more beautiful in many ways, but, you know, I think that it allows us space and maybe, like, mental, yeah, mental space to be able to pursue other things and, you know, just explore new avenues of ourselves kind of. So, yeah, like Kelly mentioned, we we just decided, like, you know, let's start this podcast and kind of allow other people to, hear what we're thinking about and hear what we are talking about and not only so that you can understand how someone else may process something.
Erin:Sometimes that gives me confidence when I hear other people process things that I'm also processing, but also so that you can hopefully take this into your own life and, you know, perhaps feel a little bit more safe to start these types of conversations with friends that you have or your spouse or, you know, family members, anyone that you're close to. And, you know, we really are, I would say, very mission driven people. We're very we care a lot about not just leaving the world like it is, and we're always trying to find ways to make a difference in our own in our own, I guess, circles, in our own lives. So this is kind of a a fun new way to do that. And Kelly came up with the name of the podcast, I would say.
Erin:I I mean, I did approve it. I would say, like, I I'm on board with the name, but, it was her idea. And so, and she got it from this super cool book.
Kelly:Yeah. It comes from this book called the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which is a dictionary of made up words for feelings we all feel and and wish we had a word for. And The Till is one of them. And it felt like it fit our podcast so well because, as Erin was saying, we're we're at this point where we've gotten through the hectic, crazy, beautiful beginnings of adulthood, and we're facing the second half of our lives. And we're facing them with intention and wanting to pursue wholeness in an intentional way.
Kelly:Like, we wanna pursue wholeness in every aspect of our lives. And so the till really, really described that well for us, and the till comes from a shopkeeper's register filled with unspent change plus the word until. And I'll I'll just read the definition for you. The till. The reservoir of all possible opportunities still available to you at this point in your life.
Kelly:All the countries you still have the energy to explore, the careers you still have the courage to pursue, the skills you still have time to develop, and the relationships you still have the heart to make.
Erin:That really sums it up. So we're gonna cover all kinds of different topics, but, we know that our angle is unique because of our connection to each other and also because of our unique, upbringing, I guess, if you wanna call it unique. I mean, I just don't know if unique is the best word, but
Kelly:I grew up with, running water or electricity, so there's there's that.
Erin:Definitely definitely unique. I wasn't sure if I should call it unique or weird or rustic or I don't know. We'll
Kelly:go with rustic,
Erin:but, yes, we grew up we had a very rustic upbringing. You know, all the tropes about nineties kids, Some of them may be true for us, but a lot of them is like, no. It it's it was more like little house on the prairie. So in any case, you'll hear much more about that in, episodes coming up. Thank you so much for being here to listen.
Erin:I think there are, you know, a decent number of people already who are following our podcast on social media. We've Kelly mostly has been, hyping it up a little bit over there. And, so I hope that you will enjoy the conversations that we have. And, truly, truly, we cannot wait to engage with people. You know, we've been talking to each other for the last several months putting this together, and, it's been fun, but, like, now we need to talk with other people too.
Erin:You know, we we wanna get your feedback, and so please provide that to us.
Kelly:Yeah. Join the conversation.
Erin:Anything we talked about today will be linked in the show notes, so check that out for further information on our resources for today's episode. Please subscribe to the podcast wherever you're listening and follow us on Instagram at the till podcast. Message us on Instagram or email us at podcast the till at gmaildot com, all one word. We're eager to hear from our listeners to help shape the future of what the Till is to become. The Till needs you, yes, you, to take part in the community we're creating.
Erin:Rate the podcast and the app you're using to listen, and share it with your friends on social media. That'll bring others like you our way, which would be so helpful to us. See you next week.