Almost Grown Up

Almost Grown Up

Almost Grown Up Podcast

English Comedy Explicit
Episodes 38
Avg. Duration 38m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 5.0 (2)
Since Jan 2025
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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About This Podcast

You ever look around and think, “Shouldn’t I have this figured out by now?” Almost Grown Up is a podcast for the late bloomers, belief shifters, and fake adults of the world. You know, the ones still Googling how taxes work, still healing from church hurt, still wondering if everyone else got some manual they didn’t. Hosted by Nic McElveen—a former pastor turned creative weirdo—this show is your permission slip to be in process. Expect raw conversations, weird stories, and the kind of humor you need to survive modern adulthood. Because maybe adulthood isn't something you arrive at.

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S2E10 Guess It’s Me: The Quiet Work of Resilience (Part 2)

Dec 15, 2025 37m

The votes were counted. The signs came down. And Lexi Melton — a mom of two and nuclear medicine tech — was left sitting in the silence that comes after you give something everything you have.In Part…

S2E9 Guess It’s Me: Saying Yes Before You’re Ready (Part 1)

Dec 08, 2025 38m

Nobody plans to run for office. Especially not while working in nuclear medicine and trying to keep two kids alive and semi-fed. But one local issue shoved Lexi Melton out of the stands and onto the…

S2E8 The Good Life is Messy - and that's ok. (Gwendolyn Dolske)

Dec 01, 2025 33m

If the first half was about the stories we were handed, this half is about what we do with them now in the middle of real, messy life.In part two with Dr. Gwendolyn Dolske, we get practical…

S2E7 What The Hell Is The Good Life? (Gwendolyn Dolske)

Nov 24, 2025 42m

We’ve all been told what a “good life” is supposed to look like: work hard, stay on the path, check the boxes. But what happens when you do all that and still feel like something’s missing?In this…

S2E6 Slowing Down and Showing Up with Sean Critchfield (Part 2)

Nov 17, 2025 38m

The second half of my conversation with Sean Critchfield is just as real, but with a whole different kind of energy.We get into his experience on Queer Eye Season 9 - what it was like to let the…

S2 How to Navigate Family Tension During the Holidays

Nov 14, 2025 8m Bonus

Holiday season is here, and for a lot of people, that means family gatherings filled with mixed emotions. Some moments feel warm and familiar. Others feel uncomfortable, tense, or draining. And if…

S2E5 You Don’t Owe Anyone the Old You: Sean Critchfield on Growth (Part 1)

Nov 10, 2025 36m

Sean Critchfield spent 20+ years performing in Las Vegas until an injury ended that career overnight. You might know him from Queer Eye Season 9 or from his 30-second encouragements on TikTok, but…

S2E4 The Myth of the Good Christian Parent (Part 2): Reparenting, Raising Kids Differently, and Finding Grace

Nov 03, 2025 29m

In part two of my conversation with Marissa Franks Burt, we shift from the past to the present and the future. We talk about what it means to reparent ourselves, raise kids without repeating the same…

S2E3 The Myth of the Good Christian Parent (Part 1): Growing Up Under the Weight

Oct 27, 2025 34m

If you grew up in church culture, you probably know the pressure to pray right, act right, be “good,” and somehow make your family look like a picture of holiness. In this first part of my…

S2E2 The Memory We Carry (with Julian Vaca): Heritage, Identity, and Storytelling

Oct 20, 2025 54m

This week on Almost Grown Up, I catch up with my friend and former coworker Julian Vaca. Julian is an Emmy-winning writer and the author of two YA novels, The Memory Index and The Recall Paradox.…

S2E1 We Took a Break...We Still Need a Break

Oct 20, 2025 50m

We took a break.And somehow ended up more tired than before.Season 2 kicks off with Nic and Janna catching up on what was supposed to be “time off” — which turned into car wrecks, kid chaos, and the…

S1E26 More 90's Myths We Believed

Jul 21, 2025 1h 7m

They lied to us again. And by they, I mean our parents, teachers, church leaders, and literally every adult we trusted in the 90s.This week, Janna joins me for part two of our ongoing breakdown of…

S1E25 Did I Peak In 2010?

Jul 14, 2025 20m

In this episode of Almost Grown Up, I’m asking the question I think a lot of us secretly wrestle with:Did I already live the best version of my life—and what the hell do I do if I did?Back in 2009, I…

S1E24 Lies We Believed As 90's Kids (And Somehow Survived)

Jul 07, 2025 19m

Remember when swallowing gum meant a 7-year digestive sentence? Or how Pop Rocks + soda would literally blow your insides up? Yeah… turns out, most of what we were told growing up in the ‘80s and…

S1E23 Toxic Masculinity Is Screwing Up Your Mind (and Relationships)

Jun 30, 2025 27m

Let’s just say it up top:If your version of masculinity requires silence, dominance, emotional shutdowns, and your wife walking on eggshells around your moods… you’re not strong.You’re just…

S1E22 Somehow We're Still Friends

Jun 23, 2025 36m

Part 2 picks up right where we left off: two old friends, mid-story, trying to remember how we got here.This half goes a little deeper though. Some of the messier stuff from our time in Huntsville,…

S1E21 It All Started In Huntsville

Jun 16, 2025 31m

This is the story of how an unexpected friendship turned into a decade long bond full of chaos, kids, bad haircuts, late night hotel stories, and one questionable church season in Huntsville,…

S1E20 How to Rebuild When You Don’t Know Who You Are Yet w/ Leslie Nease

Jun 09, 2025 35m

What comes after the unraveling?In Part 2 of my conversation with life and faith transitions coach Leslie Nease, we move past the internal shifts and start talking about what happens when your…

S1E19 When Success Doesn’t Solve the Rest of You w/ Leslie Nease

Jun 02, 2025 44m

We’ve all told ourselves the lie: Once I get the job. Once I make the money. Once I leave that system… I’ll finally feel at peace.But what happens when you actually hit the milestone and it still…

S1E18 I Hate Playing With My Kids

May 26, 2025 21m

What kind of parent hates playing with their kids?Apparently… me.In this episode, I’m saying the quiet part out loud: I don’t like pretend play. I love my kids deeply, but crawling on the floor doing…

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