Ends with Z
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Ends with Z
Hi, we are Juan Fernandez and Cecile Munoz. We are fascinated by the intersection of business and relationships and how to thrive in your life. In this podcast, we explore issues affecting the workplace and how it impacts culture, interpersonal relationships, and how to grow as a human being. What m...
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Worth the Lipstick?
Regardless of your sexual orientation, age group, or where you live, dating in 2025 is more of a don’t than a do. We are swiping left, swiping less,...
Five Years of Flow: Our Ends With Z Journey
Created from conversations among friends during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are proud to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of our Ends...
You Got This!
We had to keep this conversation going and go deeper, because your response was so overwhelming! Cecile, Juan, and Shawn continue the discussion on t...
Is My Positivity Toxic?
Nobody wants to be, or be around, a “Negative Nancy” or “Davy Downer.” The benefits of having an optimistic outlook improve our overall well-being as...
Spring Awakening
If you feel like you have been holding and hiding out just to get through the long winter days, it’s time to get up, get out, and start to let go. Sp...
Finding Your Calm in the Chaos of Change
Why does this Fall feel harder for so many of us? We know the end of the year is always challenging with the upcoming holidays and family obligations...
Find Your Ikigai! Here's Why
Social connection is a basic human need that is essential to our overall health and wellbeing. But as the world evolves from technological advances a...
Less Me Time + More Togetherness = A Healthier You
We all need healthy alone time or “me” time for self-care and quiet, down time. It’s a good thing, right? The fact is that too much time alone can l...
Trump, Kamala, and Your Pursuit of Happiness
With less than 95 days until the election and all that has happened recently, the race for the presidency has shifted into high gear, already full of...
The Holidays May Be Over . . .
For many of us, the holidays are all about spending time with family. Whether merry, or just plain scary, the emotions and feelings we experience duri...
Just What The Chatbot Ordered
The doctor is in! But what if the doctor isn't human? Our favorite psychotherapist, John Tsilimparis, joins the podcast as we discuss the growing im...
Breaking Down Barbie
With a worldwide box office of $1B, there is no denying the massive appeal and success of Barbie, the movie that has become a movement. In this episo...
Young At Heart Or An Old Soul? It's All Subjective.
You are as old as you think you are. Studies have shown that we typically perceive ourselves to be from 7 years to 20% younger than our actual chronol...
Manifesting Your Destiny
You can’t have the life you want if you don’t know what you want from life. As children, we dream of the lives that we want, imagining our grown-up s...
Ride Life's Waves Like The Ocean
You’re not imagining it. Stress is making us anxious and it is effecting our thoughts, feelings, and physical bodies. Psychotherapist, John Tsilimpa...
The Breakdown: How Stress Is Breaking Down Our Hair
Stress affects us in different ways. For some, everyday stress makes it hard to sleep keeping us awake at night. It makes others eat too much or not...
Stressed Out! Stressed Out!
To be human means you will experience stress at points in your life throughout the course of your life. It is part of the human condition that, if le...
Celebrating Valentine's Day on Your Terms
This week we have the one and only John Tsilimparis, relationship therapist, in the house to sound off on our last 2 dating episodes with Indie and Ja...
What Is Your Dating Pizza? Part 2
The conversation continues with our 2 guests, Independence "Indie" Hall and Jai Pellerin, as we discuss how other generations are seeing dating, singl...
What Is Your Dating Pizza? Part 1
What do catfishers and your mom have in common? They’re both probably on dating apps. This week, we have 2 guests, Independence "Indie" Hall and Jai P...
Attractitude: Attitudes On Attraction & Dating In Today’s World
This week, Juan and Cecile sit down for a “friend chat” to discuss their “attractitude,” aka their attitudes and philosophies on attraction, dating, a...
The Luckiest Girl in the World
Whether we were ready or not, we’re in 2023! Our kickoff episode to the year surrounds setting goals and intentions, being mindful of our thought proc...
Let's Celebrate!
This week is a BIG one for Ends with Z as we celebrate our 50th episode! Cecile, Juan, and Shawn reminisce on the beginnings of the podcast and recal...
Survival of the Friendliest
We all love more of a good thing but are too many friends bad for you? Our favorite psychotherapist, John Tsilimparis, is back to wrap up our friendsh...
Friend or Frenemy?
What kind of friend are you anyway? Do you have close friends at work or just work acquaintances? Have you ever met a person who tried a little too...
Friends & Colin Farrell . . . Such Is Life
We continue our friendship series and dive deeper into making friends, keeping friends, and breaking up with friends. We talk about platonic love (or...
“Tell Me Who Your Friends Are And I’ll Tell You Who You Are.”
This week we dive into an underrated topic: the evolution of friendships. We get personal as we discuss the correlation between how we evolve as peo...
Fan Focus: "I Quit! And I Couldn't Be Happier!"
This week’s episode, we have a fan of the show with us, Carlos, a hard-working, financial services professional who recently left his job, having been...
Hole-Hearted & Hopeful
Are you an advocate…for yourself? These days, we’re all about supporting each other, but sometimes we forget to be there for ourselves. Join us this w...
Secret Sauce, Hold the Cheese
Do you have a secret sauce to life and are you willing to share it? This episode we talk about Juan's recent trip to Vegas for one of the nation’s bi...
Don't Grind, Unwind.
This week’s episode, we discuss why “the grind” is overrated, how channel surfing can be good for your mental health, and what being a man, woman, and...
Is Grind Culture Grinding Us Down?
The answer may depend on which generation you ask. With older ones having internalized it and younger ones glorifying it, grind or hustle culture has...
Lean Into Life
Go with the flow, be like water, embrace change. They all mean the same thing: maintaining flexibility and leaning into change. We’re back this week t...
Rest, Relaxation, and Relationship Time . . . The New 3 R's
Summer is here and that means vacay, baby! Yes, we’ve all had the wind knocked out of us lately with ever-increasing prices, especially when we fill...
All Work And No Play Means Time For A Vacay
Taking time off shouldn’t be stressful, but it is for many, so much so that millions of vacation days go unused each year. Where is the line between...
Metaverse or Metaconfused?
While many of us are still trying to figure out what cryptocurrency is, the Metaverse has arrived. What is it exactly? Is it the Sims on steroids? I...
Digital Detox
What we consume is our world. And in California, we love our detoxes to keep our world healthy--juice cleanses, Keto, intermittent fasting, sweat cha...
Digital Disruption
Is your phone keeping you from reaching your goals? Iphones, Androids, Tablets and Watches. They’re all so “smart.” You need to keep track of your rec...
The Cost To Be The Boss
COVID-19 has rapidly accelerated many things in our society. Americans started new small businesses in record numbers during the pandemic, many fuele...
Hardwired To Thrive
With everything we have experienced over the past 2 years, It seems we are all trying find more capacity to handle what keeps coming at us. How do we...