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This week, JB Smoove and Miles challenge you to embrace life’s contradictions. Plus JB gives a listener advice about working from home.This Week’s Quote:“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.” - Ram Dass (A Year Of Gratitude Calendar, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles remind you that optimism is a super power. Plus JB gives a listener some in-law advice.   This Week’s Quote: “Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.” - Henri Frederic Amiel (Keep Calm and Carry On, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles explain why you should stop stressing about your flaws and start doubling down on your assets. Plus JB speaks with our friend (and May I Elaborate’s #1 fan) David Morgan (@davidleemorgan on Twitter).  This Week’s Quote: “With patience and saliva the ant swallows the elephant.” - Columbian Proverb, Keep Calm And Carry On.   Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the great Lil Rel Howery (Get Out, Free Guy)! Together, they explain why you need to start looking at the negative from a new perspective. Plus JB helps out a listener who broke their knee in thirteen places. This Week’s Quote:“Humor is all about gaining perspective. Humor returns our gladness. And with gladness comes generosity. Humor returns us to the light and makes us light.” – Giannina Braschi (Keep Calm and Carry On Calendar, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter.Follow Miles on Twitter.Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles explain why you should be grateful for your humanity. Plus JB attempts to help out a listener stuck in the “Friend of the Friend” zone. This Week's Quote: “Having been born human beings, we must not waste this opportunity.” - Sri Anandamati Ma (Keep Calm and Carry On Calendar, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the one and only Tiffany Haddish! Together, they explain how you can find the perfect balance of skepticism and idealism.  Plus JB gives a listener some much-needed canine hygiene advice.   This Week’s Quote: “You see, you are an optimist and live on hope.  I am a pessimist and live on experience.” – Malcolm Bradbury, Keep Calm and Carry On Calendar.   Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles remind you that every day is a fresh start. Plus JB offers advice to a listener struggling with their confidence! This Week's Quote: "Once every day the Earth would spin completely around and the same stars would rise again in the same place.” - Carl Sagan (A Year of Gratitude, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles are joined by the hilarious Kevin Nealon! Together, they explain how you can cultivate and nurture the garden of your life. Plus JB gives a listener advice on dealing with a toxic workplace. This Week's Quote: “My experience has shown me the wisdom of remaining open to the possibility of growth in any and all circumstances, without ever knowing what shape that growth may take.”  - Rachel Naomi Remen (A Year of Gratitude, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

This week, JB Smoove and Miles remind you that your life is a spaceship fueled by hope. Plus JB offers advice to a listener who is sick of seeing her ex-husband around town. Today's Quote: “Miracles begin with you. You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible” (A Year of Gratitude Page-A-Day Calendar, A Network for Grateful Living).   Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

JB Smoove and Miles are back, and they’re now packing even more wisdom into each episode! Every Monday, JB and Miles will be offering their classic elaborations, as well as answering questions from listeners like yourself. This week, the great Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat, WandaVision) joins JB and Miles to explain how YOU can embrace your multitudes. Plus JB gives a listener advice on living life to the fullest. This Week's Quote: "None of us is just one thing.  Life is a process of learning to recognize many faces.” – Sayantani DasGupta (A Year of Gratitude Calendar, A Network For Grateful Living, Workman Publishing). Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

JB and Miles want to hear about your problems! Send in your dilemma for your chance to get free life advice from JB when May I Elaborate returns. Either leave it in a review on Apple Podcasts or email them at mayielaborate@gmail.com. 

It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations! Today they’re revisiting one of their favorite movie-themed episodes about how adversity can unlock greatness. Be sure to to stay subscribed to this feed during JB and Miles's vacation from daily episodes—new content will be coming your way! See you soon, and Happy New Year! Today’s Quote:"My life is my practice." - Ram Dass (from the Zen Page-A-Day Calendar, Workman Publishing) Follow JB on Twitter.Follow Miles on Twitter.Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations! Today they’re looking at how making a big impact often starts with a tiny ripple. Today’s Quote:“Enlightenment for the wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.” - Thich Nhat Hanh (Zen Page-a-Day Calendar, Workman Publishing) Follow JB on Twitter.Follow Miles on Twitter.Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations! Today they’re revisiting their first guest episode with Kenan Thompson. Today’s Quote:“You wonder what's inside. You wonder if you can trust it.” - Kobo Abe (Keep Calm and Carry On Calendar) Follow JB on Twitter.Follow Miles on Twitter.Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

It’s the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on some of 2021’s best Elaborations all week long! Today they’re revisiting one that’s about accepting life’s imperfections. Today’s Quote:“One of my favorite ways to nurture myself is to cozy up my surroundings.” - Tanya Carroll Richardson (A Year of Self Love, Workman Publishing) Follow JB on Twitter.Follow Miles on Twitter.Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

It's the end of the year, so JB and Miles are looking back on 2021’s best Elaborations all week long! Today they're revisiting one that’s all about paying attention to the situations that you’re in. "I sometimes wear a lot of hats during the day, so I build in healthy transition time between events and roles." - Tanya Carroll Richardson (A Year of Self-Love, Workman Publishing) Follow JB on Twitter.Follow Miles on Twitter.Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram. 

JB Smoove and Miles are dedicating today’s episode to all of you in Elaboration Nation, as May I Elaborate begins a break from daily episodes. Tune in later this month for a look back at some of our favorite elaborations of the year — and don’t forget that JB and Miles will return for more elaborations in April!    Today’s Quote:“I’m not perfect about it, but I try to keep my kindness filter on. I don’t always know when someone I’m interacting with desperately needs my kindness and mercy.” – Tanya Carroll Richardson (A Year of Self Love, Workman Publishing).   Follow JB on Twitter.Follow Miles on Twitter.Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

Today JB Smoove and Miles ask you to get down on one knee and make a commitment to loving yourself.  Today’s Quote: “Self love is promising to love honor and cherish myself.  It’s the most important vow I can ever make.” – Tanya Carroll Richardson (A Year of Self Love, Workman Publishing).  Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

Today JB Smoove and Miles want you to make a lasting impression, like the aftertaste of a delicious meal.   Today’s Quote: “It’s fun to have mentors – people who do similar work to mine in the world.  Whether I know these mentors personally or just follow them on social media, it’s inspiring to have someone to model myself after while still remaining uniquely fabulous.” – Tanya Carroll Richardson (A Year of Self Love, Workman Publishing).  Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.

Today JB Smoove and Miles remind you to use your environment to your advantage, wherever you may be.   Today’s Quote: “Sometimes I have mixed emotions about where I land in life but I try to find ways to embrace my surroundings.” – Tanya Carroll Richardson (A Year of Self Love, Workman Publishing).  Follow JB on Twitter. Follow Miles on Twitter. Keep up with Team Coco Podcasts on Instagram.