Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton

Veronica Roth got to watch the idea she wrote in college get built in her own city - gravel poured over the streets, the Ferris wheel painted to look worn, and an entire El car built from scratch by the crew.

She's taking us behind the scenes of Divergent, including the one set that made her cry the first time she saw it.

xoxo,
Olivia

Timestamps
00:00-00:06 Can we talk about the movie?
00:07-00:26 On the set in Chicago
00:27-00:44 Turning Chicago into a dystopia
00:45-01:08 The Ferris wheel & Shailene Woodley
01:09-02:11 Watching the cast and crew work
02:12-02:38 Building the pit
02:39-03:04 Rebuilding an El car
03:05-03:40 Her favorite scene: the choosing ceremony

Hi angels!

Today I'm sitting down with the woman who built the world that raised me - Veronica Roth!! She wrote Divergent over winter break of her senior year of college, and I have been waiting YEARS to ask her my Tris and Four questions.

Her new book The Sixth Faction comes out October 6th, and it takes Tris back to the choosing ceremony and sends her somewhere else entirely.

We hold a choosing ceremony for our beverages (we agreed on nothing), she tells me why she went back to this world after all these years, and then I make her sort Xaden, Hermione and Katniss into factions.

You DO NOT want to miss this one!

xoxo,
Olivia

SURPRISE, ANGELS!!! This is an exclusive sit-down Booked, Blonde & Busy conversation with the incredible cast of Verity. I had the honor of sitting with Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson & Josh Hartnett to talk about the headboard bites, their favorite scenes they filmed, and the way they got into the twisted world of Verity. 

xoxo 
Olivia 🎀

I've been cheated on in nearly every relationship I've ever had...so I asked a licensed therapist the question I can't stop thinking about: why do people do it?

Kier Gaines breaks down what's really going on in a cheater's brain (spaghetti and a dirty chicken wing are involved), then we get into over-functioning and why so many of us work ourselves into the ground. 

xoxo,
Olivia 

Timestamps
00:04-02:25 Olivia's cheating hot take
02:26-04:10 Why do people cheat?
04:11-05:33 What's going on in a cheater's brain?
05:34-06:44 Would you stay?
06:45-07:42 A reason, not an excuse
07:43-08:49 Trust & miscommunication
08:50-10:19 What is overfunctioning?
10:20-12:18 When work bleeds into everything
12:19-14:52 Finding the root of overfunctioning

Hey Angels!

Today I'm sitting down with a licensed therapist who has DEFINITELY been on your For You page - the one and only Kier Gaines!

His new book It All Starts When You Do: How to Do the Real Work of Self-Healing just came out, and it had me rethinking my own life choices (in the best way)...

We get into claiming your baggage, why "have healed" hits different than "healed," and I get real about a friendship breakup I still can't shake. Then I put Xaden, Maven and Johnny on the therapy couch, and Kier does NOT go easy on our book boyfriends.

You DO NOT want to miss this one!

xoxo,
Olivia 

Timestamps
Intro/Bev of the Day
00:29-01:39 Sour Apple Is Bad ?
01:40-02:42 Who is Kier Gaines?
02:43-03:33 The biggest misconception about Kier
03:37-06:41 60-second pitch of It All Starts When You Do
06:42-09:34 What's your pebble?
09:35-11:04 How do you slow down in NYC?
11:05-12:42 Getting asked for a pic mid-fight
12:43-14:17 How to tell a fan "not right now"
14:18-15:03 Practice saying no
15:04-18:05 How social media targets men vs women
18:06-20:23 Men with feminine energy
20:24-21:16 Most of Kier's clients are women?!
21:17-23:07 Why men talk shoulder to shoulder
23:08-24:17 What do men vs women talk about in therapy?
24:18-26:50 "Healed" vs "have healed"
26:51-27:53 Living with depression
27:57-30:30 Olivia's friendship breakup
30:31-33:22 Kier's follow-up questions
33:23-34:01 Drinking friends vs sober friends
34:02-36:09 Should Olivia reach back out?
36:13-37:10 What is a book boyfriend?
37:11-39:37 Book boyfriend 1: Xaden (Fourth Wing)
39:38-41:01 Book boyfriend 2: Maven (Red Queen)
41:02-43:25 Book boyfriend 3: Johnny (Binding 13)
43:26-44:28 The best-friend-of-the-month friend