My Friday Favs
Each week, I share some of my favorite things of the week—podcasts, books, shows, documentaries, products, communities, or people I love.
Below is the full list of my favorite things sorted by category at the top, and by date at the bottom.
I love a good rec., don’t you?!
BY CATEGORY:
Podcast:
Armchair Expert Podcast with Alison Wood Brooks 🎙️
Okay Sis & Synced Podcasts (don't be mad at me) 🎙️
Movies & Docs:
The First Monday in May 👗 (I have a new appreciation for the Met Gala)
Sustainable Fashion Documentaries 🎥 (it was too hard to pick one)
TV:
Little Big Boy Stand Up Special w/ Nick Kroll 🎙️
Hacks 📺 (Season 4 has arrived!)
Younger 👯
Dollface 😻 (I may need to re-watch)
Insecure ☀️ (a love letter to LA)
With Love, Meghan 🌸 (don't come at me)
Sex and the City 📺 (worth the rewatch!)
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever 📺
Nobody Wants This—your next Netflix binge 🤩
Small Business / Nonprofit:
Landfall Floral Co 💐 (treat yourself)
Loved Before 🧸 (this is seriously the cutest)
Girls Inc. ❤️
The Pledgettes 💸 (supporting your healthy, wealthy life)
Tarra 📍(coworking + community)
The Women's Foundation of Colorado 💗
Powerhouse Women 👯♀️ (a space to dream and connect)
Empowering Women in Business, University of Colorado, Denver 🎓
CO Women's Chamber Black-Owned Businesses List
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation 🎈(celebrate with them next week!)
Thalken 🖤 (support your local artisans!)
PawsCo (I want to adopt them all!!) 🐾
What She Said (a badass referral platform dedicated to women) 👯♀️
Books:
The Art of Gathering, by Priya Parker 📕
The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins 📕(give yourself a high five!)
We Should All Be Millionaires, by Rachel Rogers (#2025goals) 💸
All Things Brianna Wiest (the perfect book for Jan 1, 2025) 📚
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, by Seth Godin 📘
Falling Up ⬆️ (or really anything by Shel Silverstein!)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 🐭🍪
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse 🦊 (a beautiful story for any age)
The Berenstain Bears 🐻 (did you know this is part of a Mandela Effect?)
Restaurants:
Gateaux Bakery 🍰 (try the shortbread tea cookies!)
Suzette Bakery, Denver (I almost didn't want to share this one) 🥐
Breckenridge Distillery, Breckenridge, CO 🍸
Travel:
Out of Office App ☀️ (for your summer travel planning)
A Frame Club 🌲 (in case you need a getaway)
@camberapp ☀️ (sending love to my LA peeps)
Surf Hotel - Buena Vista, CO 🌊
Strawberry Park Hot Springs, Steamboat, CO 🍓 (Strawberries not included)
Breckenridge Distillery, Breckenridge, CO 🍸
Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO 🐟
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Colorado Springs, CO 🦒
Food & Beverage:
HOP WTR 💧
Colorado Gin (cheers!)🍸
Unwell Hydration 💦 (because I really needed another expensive beverage to love)
Sustainability:
Blueland💧(for your plastic-free laundry experience)
Reel Toilet Paper & Paper Towels 🧻 (they're actually soft)
Sustainable Fashion Documentaries 🎥 (it was too hard to pick one)
Business & Productivity:
Dry Erase Wall Calendar 🗓️ (I look at mine every single day)
Breaking the ice - 25 unique questions for your next gathering 🧊
How to Plan Your Week in 30 minutes 🕚 (it doesn't have to take hours)
Laurel Denise Planner 📆 (for those who still love a paper planner)
iPhone Features I Should Have Known About Sooner 📱
1️⃣ Focus/Sleep Mode: Settings → Focus
Set time for focus or sleep and select who, if anyone, can interrupt with a call or text.
2️⃣ White Noise: Settings → Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Background Sounds
Turn on White Noise, Rain, Ocean, Stream, etc. wherever you have your iPhone. Background noise is a MUST for me to sleep.
3️⃣ Schedule Your Text to Send: Start a text. Hit the “+” sign. Select “Send Later” Voila. No more sending late night texts to your friend who you know goes to bed at 8 pm. (Which is me. I am that friend.)
Beauty & Skincare:
Lip Kit by Kylie 💋 (I finally gave in)
Il Makiage Skin Power Polish 🌸
Lumineux Non-toxic Whitening Strips 😃 (say cheese!)
Eminence Organics (natural skin care) 🌿
Gua Sha Stone (treat yourself) 🧖🏽♀️
Cooking:
Home & Organization:
Acrylic Shelf Divider (spring cleaning, here I come) 🧹
H&M Glass Candle Lantern 🕯️ (for tall or tea candles!)
Food Warming Mat 🥘 (worked better than I imagine!d)
A Good New Year's Clean Out (move over Spring Cleaning) 🧹
Hatch Restore (it turns out, sound machines aren’t just for babies!) 🌅
Growth and a little bit of ‘woo’:
myHumanDesign.com (embrace the woo!) 💫
Laurel Denise Planner 📆 (for those who still love a paper planner)
Other:
Back to the Future: The Musical 🕰️ (did you see this one coming?)
NY Times Connections 🧩 (can't stop, won't stop)
The Owala Free Sip Water Bottle 💦
Wuaman Socks 🧦
BY DATE:
2025
June 20
Surf Hotel - Buena Vista, CO 🌊
Strawberry Park Hot Springs, Steamboat, CO 🍓 (Strawberries not included)
Breckenridge Distillery, Breckenridge, CO 🍸
Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO 🐟
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Colorado Springs, CO 🦒
June 13
Lip Kit by Kylie 💋 (I finally gave in)
Hacks 📺 (Season 4 has arrived!)
Out of Office App ☀️ (for your summer travel planning)
Little Big Boy Stand Up Special w/ Nick Kroll 🎙️
June 6
May 23
Landfall Floral Co 💐 (treat yourself)
A Frame Club 🌲 (in case you need a getaway)
Dry Erase Wall Calendar 🗓️ (I look at mine every single day)
May 16
Loved Before 🧸 (this is seriously the cutest)
Girls Inc. ❤️
Blueland💧(for your plastic-free laundry experience)
May 9
iPhone Features I Should Have Known About Sooner 📱
1️⃣ Focus/Sleep Mode: Settings → Focus
Set time for focus or sleep and select who, if anyone, can interrupt with a call or text.
2️⃣ White Noise: Settings → Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Background Sounds
Turn on White Noise, Rain, Ocean, Stream, etc. wherever you have your iPhone. Background noise is a MUST for me to sleep.
3️⃣ Schedule Your Text to Send: Start a text. Hit the “+” sign. Select “Send Later” Voila. No more sending late night texts to your friend who you know goes to bed at 8 pm. (Which is me. I am that friend.)
The First Monday in May 👗 (I have a new appreciation for the Met Gala)
Unwell Hydration 💦 (because I really needed another expensive beverage to love)
May 2
Falling Up ⬆️ (or really anything by Shel Silverstein!)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 🐭🍪
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse 🦊 (a beautiful story for any age)
The Berenstain Bears 🐻 (did you know this is part of a Mandela Effect?)
April 25
Breaking the ice - 25 unique questions for your next gathering 🧊
What happens when you're not at work? 🪞
The problem isn't that you lack willpower 💪🏻
How to break free from the Loneliness Loop 🌨️
April 18
Il Makiage Skin Power Polish 🌸
Lumineux Non-toxic Whitening Strips 😃 (say cheese!)
How to Plan Your Week in 30 minutes 🕚 (it doesn't have to take hours)
April 11
Reel Toilet Paper & Paper Towels 🧻 (they're actually soft)
Sustainable Fashion Documentaries 🎥 (it was too hard to pick one)
March 28
Eminence Organics (natural skin care) 🌿
Acrylic Shelf Divider (spring cleaning, here I come) 🧹
March 14
Younger 👯
Dollface 😻 (I may need to re-watch)
Insecure ☀️ (a love letter to LA)
With Love, Meghan 🌸 (don't come at me)
March 7
The Pledgettes 💸 (supporting your healthy, wealthy life)
Tarra 📍(coworking + community)
The Women's Foundation of Colorado 💗
Powerhouse Women 👯♀️ (a space to dream and connect)
Empowering Women in Business, University of Colorado, Denver 🎓
February 28
Armchair Expert Podcast with Alison Wood Brooks 🎙️
Daylight Savings ☀️
February 21
The Art of Gathering, by Priya Parker 📕
H&M Glass Candle Lantern 🕯️ (for tall or tea candles!)
Food Warming Mat 🥘 (worked better than I imagine!d)
Gateaux Bakery 🍰 (try the shortbread tea cookies!)
February 14
CO Women's Chamber Black-Owned Businesses List 📍(love this every day but especially in honor of Black History Month)
The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins 📕(give yourself a high five!)
Back to the Future: The Musical 🕰️ (did you see this one coming?)
February 7
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation 🎈(celebrate with them next week!)
Sex and the City 📺 (worth the rewatch!)
Volunteering 🫶🏻
January 31
NY Times Connections 🧩 (can't stop, won't stop)
Thalken 🖤 (support your local artisans!)
@camberapp ☀️ (sending love to my LA peeps)
January 24
A Good New Year's Clean Out (move over Spring Cleaning) 🧹
PawsCo (I want to adopt them all!!) 🐾
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever 📺
January 10
HOP WTR 💧
January 3, 2025
What She Said (a badass referral platform dedicated to women) 👯♀️
Laurel Denise Planner 📆 (for those who still love a paper planner)
We Should All Be Millionaires, by Rachel Rogers (#2025goals) 💸
2024
December 27, 2024
Suzette Bakery, Denver (I almost didn't want to share this one) 🥐
All Things Brianna Wiest (the perfect book for Jan 1, 2025) 📚
December 20, 2024
myHumanDesign.com (embrace the woo!) 💫
Gua Sha Stone (treat yourself) 🧖🏽♀️
Hatch Restore (it turns out, sound machines aren’t just for babies!) 🌅
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, by Seth Godin 📘
December 13, 2024
The Owala Free Sip Water Bottle 💦
Colorado Gin (cheers!)🍸
Wuaman Socks 🧦
Okay Sis & Synced Podcasts (don't be mad at me) 🎙️
Nobody Wants This—your next Netflix binge 🤩