Last week we asked when everything got so complicated.

This week… we’re still talking. 😂

Welcome to Part 2 of our 2016 vs. 2026 spiral.

We’re looking at what has actually changed over the last decade — from small businesses, craft markets and originality online to cancel culture, AI, dating apps, social interactions, self-diagnosis and the strange feeling that everyone now has to defend every opinion they have.

Because yes, there are things about 2016 we miss.

But 2026 isn't all bad.

The internet has made it easier to find communities of people who understand what you're going through. It's given smaller creators, musicians and businesses opportunities they might never have had before. We're talking more openly about grief, mental health and experiences that people used to navigate alone.

So maybe we don't actually want to go backwards.

Maybe we just want the best parts of then AND now.

Would you go back to 2016? Stay in 2026? Or skip ahead another ten years?

🎙️ S4 EP. 29 — 2016 vs. 2026: Can We Have the Best of Both? | Part 2

Remember 2016?

Instagram feeds had one aggressively committed filter. Pinterest was still where you went to figure out how to do basically anything. We were playing Rock Band and Just Dance, watching YouTube without feeling like every second of our lives needed to become content, and apparently calling things from the early 2000s “vintage” wasn't yet an attack on our emotional wellbeing.

Ten years later… things feel a little different.

This week, Sara and Eve are looking back at who they were in 2016 versus who they are in 2026 — and somehow a nostalgic trip down memory lane turns into a much bigger conversation about how much life, social media and our expectations of ourselves have changed.

But somewhere between 2016 and 2026, the internet changed too.

Curated Instagram feeds became influencer culture. Sharing your life became monetizing your life. So… was 2016 actually simpler? Or are we just nostalgic for a version of ourselves that had no idea what the next ten years were going to bring?

We had WAY too much to say about this one and recorded nearly two and a half hours, so consider this Part 1.

Grab a coffee, put on your imaginary 2016 Instagram filter and come spiral down memory lane with us.

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Summer's finally over and honestly? We've never been happier. This week Eve & Sara talk about why summer burns them out completely — the heat, the smoke, the "summer of doing everything" pressure — and why fall is when they actually come alive. We're getting into seasonal productivity dips (is it S.A.D.D. or just exhaustion?), the online obsession with "hot girl summer" content, back-to-school chaos, hockey romance novel binges, and why the second it rains we're dancing in the yard in a cardigan.

Plus this week's Survive & Thrive: a living room dance party, wildfire smoke wrecking a lunar eclipse viewing, and Alex Warren's Wild Child album on repeat.

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