Ashleigh Chevalier dives into a trio of seemingly unrelated but very real topics: the frustration of parking tickets, the allure of the upcoming blood moon, and the potential dangers lurking in your lipstick. Ashleigh shares personal anecdotes, historical facts, and practical advice, encouraging listeners to think critically about everyday choices and find joy in the world around them .... From parking woes to cosmic wonders to clean beauty, this episode is a reminder to embrace authentic connection and find the extraordinary in the ordinary ....

Parking Tickets: Parking Tickets suck. Share your craziest parking ticket stories - drop them in the comments.

The Moon:

Mark your calendars: Blood moon in full lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025 (visible in the Northern Hemisphere, weather permitting)3 .

◦Check out starwalk.space for updates on moons and planets
Reference: https://starwalk.space/en/news/night-sky-tonight-march#planets-visible-in-the-northern-hemisphere--march-2025

Lipstick:

▪Red lip coloring dates back to 3500 BC4 .

▪Ancient Greece: Red lips = s*& workers

▪ Roman Empire: Vibrant lip colors = high status.

▪Suffragist Movement: Red lipstick symbolized the fight for women's rights

▪World War II: Red lipstick symbolized patriotic femininity
Reference: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/history-of-red-lipstick

◦Toxic Ingredients to Avoid: Formaldehyde, lead, and mercury

▪Read the Environmental Working Group's paper on toxic ingredients in lipstick
Reference: https://www.ewg.org/the-toxic-twelve-chemicals-and-contaminants-in-cosmetics

◦Non-Toxic Lipstick Options:

@OrganicBeautyLover's recommendations

Reference: https://organicbeautylover.com/makeup/best-non-toxic-lipstick/

Music Updates:

•Ashleigh has a full-length album getting mixed down with 18 tracks from over a decade.

•She is also recording an acoustic album that takes tracks from her first, second, and third album and includes new songs

•Jason Isbell released his album "Foxes in the Snow" on March 7 (and it is awesome)

Psalm 82:3 (NIV)
"Defend the weak and the fatherless;

uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed."

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Episode released: March 12, 2025

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