My dear friend, you may or may not know this about Jeff and me, but we actually have a LOT more going on here in San Diego than just The Youngrens, our two scooters, and our crazy cat Gracie. Back in 2012, Jeff and I launched a separate wedding photography studio...
I woke up one morning a few years ago feeling really guilty. I groggily moved through my morning routine feeling awful about throwing a childish tantrum the night before about how I couldn’t keep the house clean. It had been a LONG couple of months - Jeff had been...
In the fourth grade, my teacher asked my best friend in front of the class what her favorite kind of pizza is. Without hesitation, she proudly replied, “Airport pizza.” The room laughed and the teacher smiled. My teacher - as well as most of the kids in the class -...
...when you’re doing laundry and you find a bouncy ball in the pocket of your husband’s shorts. When I asked Jeff about the bouncy ball, he said that the other day he saw it flying across the store at Target, so he ran after it. BUT another boy ran after it, too,...
Last week, Jeff and I trekked across the Atlanta airport from our departing gate at A11 all the way to Terminal F - the international terminal - just to have a beer on the Sky Deck. Life on the road is definitely not as glamorous as it sounds, but there are a few...
Jeff and I sincerely hope that you're having a joyful and peaceful day with your families, whatever Christmas Day looks like for you! Jeff and I sent out our Christmas cards to friends and family this past week, and we always include an old-fashioned Youngren...
I turned 30-years-old last December, and the soul-shift was so near instant, that I had to stop and check myself. What exactly happened on December 14, 2014? I was sitting on the couch when my alarm went off at 12:05am on December 14th (this is the actual time that...
Jeff and I just returned from a six week marathon of traveling to Chicago, Massachusetts, New York, Atlanta, Italy, and Bolivia. (Did you follow our epic trip on #theyoungrenstravels?) The crazy thing is that it's the not the first time we've done this. In fact,...
So many things that you wouldn't think would be possible have become possible in New York. Looking out over the city is like peering down into a jungle of ideas - some becoming real while most of them never becoming anything more than a breath. And when all of it...
It's a thing we do... When we arrive in a new city, Jeff and I look at each other and say, 'Do you want to walk to the such and such?' The 'such and such' is usually a pat of town or a must-see attraction that happens to be a long walk away, but we don't really...
Hi. Our names are Jeff and Erin Youngren, and we're certified podcast-junkies. Our love affair with audio storytelling began when a little purple podcast app showed up on my iPhone, and I downloaded my first episode of This American Life in 2008. Then came...
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." -T....
