A few weeks ago, something happened in the world that I genuinely could not stop thinking about. Couldn't sleep. Sending voice memos to friends at weird hours. And even though the news cycle has absolutely moved on, I sure haven't, and I don't think you will either.

Four humans flew to the moon and came back completely undone by how much they love Earth. That's it. That's the whole thing. And I want to bring you into every beautiful, tear-inducing, quietly extraordinary part of it, including the part where the toilet broke, the part where Earth disappeared behind the moon, and the part that I genuinely think will stop you in your tracks.

Topics Covered:

• The crew of Artemis II and the historic firsts they each carried.
• What Commander Reid Wiseman said when he watched Earth disappear behind the moon.
• The 40 minutes of total silence on the far side of the moon, and what the crew witnessed there that no human eyes had ever seen.
• The Earthset photograph and where to find it.
• What Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman said when they came home.
• The story of Carol, and the moment at 252,000 miles from Earth that Reid called the pinnacle of the mission.
• StoryCorps and their Mother's Day collection.

Do you have a topic for a future What I’m Loving episode?! Email us at frenchkissinglifepodcast@gmail.com

Link: Earthset photo (NASA)
Link: Carroll Crater naming moment (NASA livestream clip)
Link: Crew homecoming speeches
Link: Good Good Good quote carousel
Link: StoryCorps Mother's Day collection

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Until next time, muah!

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Starting a business gets this very shiny reputation: freedom, flexibility, being your own boss. And then there's the version nobody talks about as loudly, the one where you're thinking about your business at 2 am because the to-do list is never actually done.

My former professor, Tom Swartwood, has spent decades working with entrepreneurs across industries, countries, and stages of business. He developed the entrepreneurship curriculum at Drake University, founded one of the first startup bootcamps for women in the United States, and is the kind of person who will tell you the truth about business ownership whether you asked for it or not. What you'll hear in this conversation is not a checklist or a roadmap. It's a perspective shift on what starting a business actually means, what separates the people who go for it from those who don't, and why the goal was never really about freedom in the first place.

Topics Covered:

• Why "freedom and flexibility" is a misread of what entrepreneurship actually delivers.
• The three questions every aspiring founder needs to answer before anything else.
• What Tom calls the most dangerous advice founders listen to.
• Why starting a business is less about you and more about everyone else.
• The Craig Newmark story and what it means to decide what "enough" looks like for you.
• What actually separates people who go for it from those who stay on the sidelines.
• Why entrepreneurs aren't big risk-takers, they're just comfortable with ambiguity.

Connect with Tom!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomswartwood/

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Contact French Kissing Life Podcast

• DM us at @shawnnarstiver on Instagram or Facebook
• Connect with Shawnna Stiver on LinkedIn
• Email us at frenchkissinglifepodcast@gmail.com

Until next time, muah!

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French Kissing Life is sponsored by Ampersand Copy and Content. Ready to convert browsers into buyers? If you want to master your messaging, stand out in a saturated market and become a crushed-on, go-to brand, contact us today!

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Email: shawnna@ampersandcopyandcontent.com

Plants have names for a reason. And once you start learning what those names actually mean, you can't walk past a dandelion or a hawthorn tree the same way again.

In this episode, I'm joined again by Kim Gros, a New York City-based clinical herbalist, educator, and founder of an organic herbal product line. Kim leads plant walks in Central Park and has a gift for making the natural world feel alive through storytelling. We get into what plant names reveal across different languages and cultures, how ancient superstitions often turn out to have a scientific explanation, and how so much of our everyday language traces back to plants in ways most of us have never considered.

Topics Covered:

• Why stories help us remember plants better than properties do.
• What plant names in different languages actually reveal.
• Botanical sexism and how it connects to your spring allergies.
• Why dandelions have a very literal (and unexpected) name in French.
• The pagan roots behind bringing holly and pine inside for the holidays.
• How superstitions about hawthorn flowers turned out to be scientifically accurate.
• Where "caught red-handed" actually comes from.

Connect with Kim!
Website: https://moonstoneandmulberry.com/
Shop herbal remedies: https://herbalremedies.moonstoneandmulberry.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moonstoneandmulberry
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoonstoneandMulberry/

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Contact French Kissing Life Podcast

• DM us at @shawnnarstiver on Instagram or Facebook
• Connect with Shawnna Stiver on LinkedIn
• Email us at frenchkissinglifepodcast@gmail.com

Until next time, muah!

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French Kissing Life is sponsored by Ampersand Copy and Content. Ready to convert browsers into buyers? If you want to master your messaging, stand out in a saturated market and become a crushed-on, go-to brand, contact us today!

Website: https://ampersandcopyandcontent.com/
Email: shawnna@ampersandcopyandcontent.com