Mildly Thriving
Not crushing it? Neither are we. Mildly Thriving is our laid-back corner of the internet where two millennial women (hi, that’s us) try our best and mostly make fun of ourselves along the way. From daily wins and WTF moments to the weird and wonderful realities of adulthood, we’re sharing honest conversations about what it really means to be mildly thriving. Because honestly? Mildly thriving is thriving enough.
Mildly Thriving is produced by Mildly Thriving, LLC.
Episodes
41 episodes
Why You Should Bring Back the Sleepover This Summer
This week on Mildly Thriving, Kimberly presents Meredith with some extremely compelling reasons why Summer 2026 needs to become the Summer of the Sleepover. After attending a sleepover the weekend before, the ladies realized something imp...
Fear...For Fun?
Fear: keeping humans alive for thousands of years… and also somehow turning into entertainment. In this week’s episode of Mildly Thriving, Meredith and Kimberly talk scary movies, adrenaline, irrational fears, and why our brains apparently thin...
We’re Not Drinking as Much… but Still Almost Shtting Ourselves
This week, Kimberly hits Meredith with a realization: drinking just… isn’t the main character anymore. Somewhere in the last few years, cocktails stopped being mandatory, and more and more of their friends are either cutting back or calling it ...
Solo Dates and Social Anxiety
On this episode of Mildly Thriving, Meredith puts herself to the test with a solo date in Seattle…and let’s just say it’s a journey. From nervously riding scooters through downtown like she’s in a coming-of-age film (but more awkward), to fully...
Remember Those New Year's Resolutions? It's Time for a Check In.
In this episode, Kimberly takes Meredith on a trip down memory lane... or more specifically to the New Year's resolutions they made waaaaaaaaaay back at the end of December. In effort to hold them accountable, Kimberly realizes she completely f...
Wait… You DON’T See That In Your Head?!
Have you ever stopped to wonder what’s actually going on inside your brain… or worse, someone else’s? In this episode of Mildly Thriving, Meredith rocks Kimberly’s world by revealing that not everyone thinks, visualizes, or processes informatio...
The Emotional Roller Coaster That is Tipping
In this week’s episode, Kimberly hits Meredith with the question we’re all thinking: why are we still tipping in 2026? As a mildly thriving history nerd, Kimberly comes prepared with a breakdown of where tipping actually came fro...
A Musical Walk Down Memory Lane
Most of us unknowingly carry the soundtrack of our childhood. From car rides to high school heartbreak anthems, the music we grew up with sticks with us in ways we don’t even realize. In this episode, Meredith and Kimberly dive into how songs s...
How to Get Out of a Funk
When life kicks you in the d*ck, sometimes you end up in a funk. It's funking hard to pull yourself out of a funk. In this episode, Kimberly shares all the things she's trying to recover from the emotional toll her back injury has taken o...
BMI is a Lie. Or is it...?
Have you ever stepped on your bathroom scale and panicked at what it told you? Same, girl. Same.Meredith set out to prove that BMI is a bullshit number that should be completely disregarded. After wrapping up her research, she grabbed th...
Should We Refer Guys to Our Friends?
In this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly arrives with a bold question: Why aren’t we referring perfectly decent men we dated but didn’t marry to our friends? Like a romantic hand-off. A relationship referral program, if you will.But...
Meredith Doesn't Like TV
Everyone is obsessed with the same five shows and somehow… Meredith cannot press play. Why is that?This week we’re talking about the oddly emotional experience of starting new TV shows, quitting halfway through, and feeling left out when...
One of Us Is Thriving. The Other Has Good Lighting.
In this week’s episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly pulls a full Meredith and shows up with ✨no outline✨ just a raw and unfiltered chat about life updates. What follows? A catch-up session where the girls compare life updates and quick...
Is Making Mildly-Good-Enough Decisions the Secret to Sanity?
Ever spend 45 minutes choosing a Netflix show and then just… go to bed? When an article about making “good-enough” decisions landed in Kimberly’s inbox, she felt seen. Understood. Mildly attacked. Naturally, she had to tell Meredith about it… w...
WTF Is Death Cleaning?
In this episode, Meredith and Kimberly tackle the surprisingly morbid (yet oddly satisfying) concept of “death cleaning,” a Swedish tradition that’s basically decluttering… but with consequences. They unpack why inherited stuff is so emotionall...
Is Platonic Marriage the Best Idea Ever?
In this week’s episode, Kimberly absolutely rocks Meredith’s worldview by proposing a truly radical concept: platonic marriage. That’s right… two besties, legally married, doing life together… minus the romance. Watch Mere...
What Actually Makes a Girl's Trip Good?
On this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith tackle the most important question of our time: what actually makes a girls’ trip iconic… and not an emotional nightmare? Fresh off Kimberly’s recent cruise with three friends, the...
Let's Get Bored
In this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith brave the horror of boredom, aka being alone with your thoughts for more than 10 seconds and having to poop without watching Reels. They reminisce about feral, screen-free childhoods, di...
What Your Aura Says About You...Maybe
In this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith reunite after the holidays to catch up, overshare, and unpack a truly important event: Meredith and her friends getting their auras read by a very drunk stranger during a night ...
How Expectations Quietly Ruin Your Life
In this episode, Kimberly and Meredith unpack everyone’s favorite invisible life-ruiner: expectations. The ones society dumps on us, the ones we quietly dump on other people, and the ones we dump on ourselves that keep us awake at night. ...
Why Do We Even Do New Year's Resolutions?
Meredith and Kimberly share exciting end of the year updates about their biggest achievements... one of them might involve not shitting one's pants. On the cusp of a new year, the girls wanted to dive into why we even do this whole New Ye...
It's Okay to be Childfree & Average
On this episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly gets real with Meredith about the slow, slightly uncomfortable, very honest process of coming to terms with being childfree and… average. (Or, as we prefer to call it: mildly thriving.) The two...
Why Choosing Good Friends Matters (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this friendship deep dive, Meredith and Kimberly take the “you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” theory and absolutely overthink it (for your benefit). The girls break down the traits that...
Why Choosing Good Friends Matters (Part 1)
In this episode, Meredith and Kimberly get real about how the people you hang with can make you thrive… or slowly drain your will to live. With personal stories, questionable decisions, and a few friendship red flags waved proudly ...
Why Isn't Joy Our Biggest KPI in Life?
In this week’s episode of Mildly Thriving, Kimberly and Meredith tackle the hard-hitting topic of joy. Yes, JOY, the KPI (key performance indicator) of life that somehow keeps getting overshadowed by money, “success,” and other things tha...