Cheers to the new podcast! Cheers to Growth!

Listen to ep. 1 now 🎧

Author

Jaclyn Kirby
February 13, 2025

What is one thing you love so much about your life that you wish you could gift to everyone in the world?

For me it’s the meaningful conversations that I find my husband and I deep in on a random Tuesday over a gorgeous homemade meal. 

🎧 And that’s exactly why we’re here sharing the Cheers to Growth Podcast with you!

In our first episode, we invite you in by sharing a bit about where we’re at and the journey we intend to take you on as future episodes unfold. 

Here’s the gist:

We just got married! And wow, I wish I could gift the ~feeling~ I felt on my entire wedding weekend… And every day spent with my husband TBH. 

We were on the road to a traditional American wedding when I had a vision of my dream wedding day while on a long drive (there’s no better daydreaming time than in the car by yourself, right?!)

It was one of those downloads from my intuition that I am SO grateful I chose to listen to. 

I saw a private wedding with just my husband and I. No family, no friends, no old pastor man telling my husband to kiss his bride… Just us. So that’s what we did and it was absolutely blissful.

Now as a happily married couple, we humbly revisit our past and give you the rundown on how we went from insanely unhappy, unhealthy, and honestly reckless individuals ➡ ️ to just 3 years later, living as thriving humans both individually and together.

It all started on the day I accepted my dream job. I went out to my college bar to celebrate, as I habitually did at least 4 nights a week. About an hour before the bar closed, I ran into Levi who was only in town for work.

Our personalities clicked like fireworks and our heavy drinking habits made us a bit of a dynamic duo — although not a duo that would have been able to sustain a healthy relationship... Somehow gradually, over time, we changed.

Instead of enabling each other's destructive behavior patterns, we began taking steps for the better.

As I worked on myself, I naturally pulled away from the unhealthy situations I was so used to. Without ever asking or pushing my changes onto him, he saw how much better I was doing and began working on himself.

We found that through honest conversations and unconditional compassion, we can fast-track our growth and live our dream life, together.

In the episode we get into:

  • How financial success does not change the way you feel about yourself. 

  • How reconnecting with nature impacts your well-being.

  • How we’ve learned to care for ourselves well, then grow together.

  • How we got hooked on personal development without ever making ultimatums.

With this podcast, we invite you for dinner & a chat. 

All our recipes are focused on real food from nature. Make all the recipes your own, based on what your body thrives on. And remember well-sourced ingredients are key!

Enjoy the conversation and cheers! 🥂

The wine we drank in this episode: 2021 Cotes de Tablas from Tablas Creek, our favorite regenerative vineyard in Paso Robles!

Pre-recording dinner recipe: Heart-Nourishing Immunity Soup 🧅🧄🫚🥕🍚

Ingredients:

- 2 large carrots, or 4 medium-sized, peeled and sliced

- 1 onion

- 5 garlic cloves

- 1 tbsp grated ginger

- 1 lb grass-fed ground beef

- 1 cup organic jasmine rice

- 4 cups beef bone broth

- 1 tbsp butter

- 1 tbsp ghee

- Paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, ginger powder, S + P

- Toppings: Grated parmesan & parsley

Use Thrive Market for rice, ghee, and all pantry items from high-quality brands <3

Directions:

1. Chop onion and carrots.

2. Grate ginger and garlic.

3. Melt ghee in a large pot. Then add ground beef.

4. Add all seasonings and cook the meat entirely.

5. Once cooked, remove meat from the pot and set aside in a separate bowl.

6. Melt butter in the pot then add in veggies. Stir every couple of minutes while cooking on medium until veggies have softened.

7. Add beef broth and simmer.

8. Wash rice and add to the pot. Cook on medium-low with the lid on until rice is fully cooked.

9. Remove about 1 cup of veggies, rice, and broth from the pot and blend to add a creamy texture to the soup. Pour blended mixture back in along with the cooked ground beef.

10. Serve in a bowl, topped with grated parmesan and a sprinkle of parsley.

Optional: Serve with toasted homemade sourdough, butter, parm, and flakey sea salt!

Enjoy this warming, healing meal remedy!

🤍🤍 Jaclyn