Growth talk with friendship-level honesty.
Almost 30 is a warm, fast-moving personal growth show built around Krista Williams and Lindsay Simsek’s friendship. Episodes mix vulnerable solo reflections, advice segments, and interviews on relationships, wellness, spirituality, body awareness, fertility, and life transitions.
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Almost 30 is a long-running personal growth show shaped by the friendship between Krista Williams and Lindsay Simsek. It is warm, quick, and emotionally direct. The conversations often begin casually, with a dress, a turtleneck, a social media scroll, or a joke about pregnancy clothes, then gradually open into something more revealing. That looseness is part of the point. The show treats identity shifts, breakups, family patterns, body changes, and partnership questions as lived experiences rather than tidy lessons. It has a strong women’s empowerment lane, but its center is broader than slogans about becoming. Krista and Lindsay use their own lives as raw material, especially around aging, therapy, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood, dating, resentment, and change. They are willing to sound unresolved. That makes the advice feel less like instruction and more like a conversation still in motion. Solo episodes can be reflective and specific, especially when Krista talks about social media as shadow work or Lindsay talks through fertility, timing, and the choice to have children later. Duo episodes lean on chemistry. The two can move from gossip to vulnerability in a few turns, which gives the show its particular sense of closeness. Interview episodes widen the frame with guests such as Dr. Laura Berman on intimacy and Jessie Inchauspé on pregnancy nutrition. The wellness material includes spirituality, supplements, energetic language, trauma healing, arousal, glucose, and body awareness. The relationship material can be blunt, especially around sex, attachment, boundaries, family resentment, and choosing better partners. Almost 30 is best for listeners who like their self-development personal, relational, and openly imperfect. It does not sound like a lecture. It sounds like two friends trying to keep evolving in public, with enough humor to keep the heavier parts breathable.
Made for: For listeners drawn to candid conversations about relationships, wellness, spirituality, pregnancy, identity shifts, and emotional growth. It especially suits people who want self-development to feel personal, funny, and relational rather than clinical.
What sets it apart: Almost 30 stands out because the friendship is not decoration; it is the engine of the show. The duo fold personal stories, solo processing, advice, and guest interviews into one intimate rhythm.
Welcome to Almost 30—a supportive space to fuel your conscious evolution. Join us, best friends Krista Williams + Lindsey Simcik, for heart-centered, hilarious conversations and raw, impactful interviews with brilliant guests. We dive deep into everything from modern spirituality and health + wellness to self-development, dating, and relationships. With every episode, our mission is to empower you, expand what you think is possible, and make you laugh—a lot. We’re honest, open, and above all, human, learning right alongside you. With millions of listeners around the world, Almost 30 has grown into a highly engaged global community. Now, we are also the authors of Almost 30: A Definitive Guid…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A grounded look at resentment, reparenting, and seeing parents through a more adult lens.
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Almost 30 pairs a chatty pace with Jessie Inchauspie and a pregnancy-diet focus.
Almost 30 keeps things loose and chatty around Jessie Inchauspie, with the early stretch leaning into sponsor reads and catch-up before the discussion settles into the main topic.
A personal look at the uneasy space between feeling ready for parenthood and facing fertility's uncertainty.
Lindsay Simsek frames marriage and motherhood as choices that arrived in a carefully considered order: married at 35, a first baby at 36, and hoping for more children at 38.
Healing becomes social when the right decision still leaves an old identity to release.
This episode sits with the aftermath of a relationship choice that can be correct and still leave grief, habit, and identity to sort through. Elizabeth frames that process through friendship: letting people come close again, receiving care after a period of pulling back, and…
A candid, memory-led conversation about losing a familiar sense of self in an isolating new environment.
Identity can slip out of focus long before anyone knows how to name the loss. Lindsay and Krista trace that feeling through the move into a school that seemed foreign, lifeless, and almost prison-like, then through the sharper hurt of bullying by a girl who had once been a best…
Elizabeth Day asks well-known guests to name three failures and what they taught them.
Forgiveness practice, one sentence at a time.
Hosts Krista Williams and Lindsey Simcik welcome Elizabeth Endres, host of The Wellness Process podcast.
Hosts Krista Williams and Lindsey Simcik explore personal identity shifts, breakups, and starting over.
Almost 30 hosts Krista Williams and Lindsay Simsek interview Lindsay Swartz of Powerhouse Women about betrayal trauma, post-divorce dating, sexuality, and rebuilding identity.
Lindsay Simsick of Almost 30 revisits a clip recorded before Mav's birth and compares her expectations of motherhood with her experience more than two years later.
This episode of the Almost 30 podcast explores identity shifts, breakups, and personal transformation through casual conversation between hosts Lindsay and Krista.
The hosts discuss feeling stuck in love despite personal work, touching on emotional triggers and intimacy issues like choking kinks.
This solo episode explores how social media can serve as a tool for shadow work, using AI-generated influencers on Instagram as a case study to examine personal triggers and opportunities for self-reflection.
The hosts interview Dr.
The hosts introduce their podcast as a space for conversations about personal growth, health, wellness, spirituality, and relationships, sharing their own vulnerable stories over the past decade.
Lindsay and Krista start out playful.
Almost 30 opens with the hosts greeting listeners, easing through sponsor reads, and settling into a relaxed conversation with Jessie Inchauspé.
Lindsay Simsek talks openly about marrying at 35, having her first baby at 36, and wanting more children.
Krista and Lindsay discuss overcoming self-imposed limits on wealth and possibilities, using examples like buying property in Europe or Ibiza.
This bonus episode of Almost 30 Podcast features a rerun conversation with Radhi Devlukia-Shetty discussing how she applies Ayurvedic principles to relationships, particularly focusing on the challenges and nuances of maintaining female friendships.
This episode of Almost 30 Podcast features Elizabeth Endres discussing the fastest ways to heal, reclaim confidence, and transform relationships.
The hosts introduce an Almost 30 guest, reflecting on personal growth and self-awareness during life transitions, contrasting their past experiences with the guest's maturity.
This rerun episode features an intimate 2020 interview with Glennon Doyle, where the hosts ask hard-hitting questions about why women fear their own power, offering profound insights and timeless wisdom.