crazy LA stories

[video available on spotify] i was on youtube a couple weeks ago looking up modern dating advice, and a buzzword that kept coming up was detachment. at first i kind of ignored it because i was like, that's obviously toxic, just based on my vague knowledge of what it means to be d ...  Show more

[video available on spotify] you always hear people say "don't quit! persevere! the only way you fail is if you quit!" and you never hear people say "it's okay to quit. sometimes quitting is a necessary step on the path to accomplishing your ultimate goals." so in today's episode ...  Show more

(Video podcast available on Spotify & YouTube) In this episode of Pretty Lonesome, Madeline shares their experience in LA and their anxiety-inducing encounter with an energy drink. She discusses the potential side effects of the drink and humorously speculates about the consequen ...  Show more

This week, Madeline has had a change of heart about moving to LA and wonders if a caravan would be a more peaceful way to spend her youth.She discusses her struggle with self respect and toxic cycles, and questions why she feels obligated to be on a journey of constant self impro ...  Show more

"Find something you're obsessed with" Mercury in retrograde has been f***ing everything up! We get into some of the crazy things that have been happening over the past month, and why sometimes you just can't worry about factors that are out of your control changing your life. Plu ...  Show more

For more than a decade now, NYM Editor-at-Large Stella Bugbee has lived with her parents, and raised a family in the home she grew up in. But for a long time, she kept that a secret, perhaps because it's so stigmatized in American culture. But the percentage of people living mult ...  Show more