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An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth

An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth

Everyone wants to live a fulfilled life with less stress and more laughter. Join Kelly Arrendell and Sydney West as they explore the wonder, humor, challenges, and sometimes self-inflicted wounds on the journey of personal growth. Our weekly podcast conversations provide tools you can incorporate into your own path of growth. The journey to becoming more fully yourself is lifelong but is something you can start now, wherever you are. Kelly is our resident expert on self-growth and shares her own mistakes and resources, with Sydney asking questions relevant to millennials and Gen-Zers. Take a breath, and take a listen.

Recent Episodes

April 22, 2025

Episode 65- Opera Experience

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss their experience of attending the opera Madam Butterfly. A little history of Opera Modern Opera What to expect Helpfulness of reading notes ...
April 15, 2025

Episode 64- What Is Taxing?

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly play with the theme of tax season and have a conversation around things that can be taxing, things that are emotionally/physically/mentally stressfu...
April 8, 2025

Episode 63- April Showers Bring May Flowers

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly explore our own take on the old adage "April Showers Bring May Flowers." Listen for the cat at the 14 minute mark! Origin of the adage What are our ...
April 1, 2025

Episode 62- April Fool's, Quit Fooling Yourself!

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly have a bit of fun with April Fool's before diving into our more serious topic of how we fool ourselves. Signs of self-deception Cycle of fooling our...
March 25, 2025

Episode 61- Interview with Adam Dorsay, author of "Super-Psyched"

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly interview Adam Dorsay, the author of "Super Psyched: Unleash the Power of the 4 Types of Connection." Psyched...doesn't mean happy all the time, it ...
March 18, 2025

Episode 60- Don't Miss the Boat!

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly play with the phrase don't miss the boat . What happens when you think you have your ducks in a row? They scatter Just do one thing...once Its not a...

Recent Blog Posts

April 9, 2024

Laughter Is A Great Medicine

Laughter, genuine laughter! Uncontainable, joyous! Pure and unrestrained. A true gift given. My daughters and I were flying a kite on a wonderful, breezy afternoon.  The youngest was holding the spool of string, the rest of us had our necks cra…

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Feb. 6, 2024

Hope for Growth

I often struggle with limits...well, some limits. Take speed limits, because of them I've had the opportunity to meet a variety of officers, sit through several defensive driving classes, both in-person and online, as well as watch my bank account d…

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About the Hosts

Kelly Arrendell

Podcast Host

Sydney West

Podcast Host