Too Awkward for a Twosome

Johnna and Clint

Too Awkward for a Twosome is Johnna and Clint: a couple who packed up, moved to Kauai, and started over. Now we talk honestly about whatever life puts in front of us. Some episodes are about fitness and nutrition. Some are about our relationship, island life, or owning the choices that got us here. Some are about whatever's on our minds that week. Johnna lost 100 lbs. Clint rebuilt his life from the ground up. We've both learned that real change starts the day you decide it's on you. Expect real stories, a lot of laughing, a little edge, and the occasional moment that gets a bit too honest. That's kind of the point. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    Our First Halloween on Kauai Had Polite Kids and Good Neighbors

    Johnna and Clint on our first Halloween on Kauai, a rainy night with hundreds of trick-or-treaters and the neighbors who made it one to remember. We had been told for weeks that Halloween is a big deal on our road, and we expected three to five thousand people. What we found was polite kids, beautiful costumes, a night that was not chaotic at all, and a local family who brought over food they had made. Then the updates: REBUILT was featured in a Peekwire article, and Johnna answered three interview questions that took four hours. Why the kids' manners felt like a time machine What we braced for after years of Halloween stories, and what we got Running out of candy before the trick-or-treaters did The hot dog house and an invitation from new neighbors A neighbor across the road who brought over homemade food REBUILT in a Peekwire article on women's strength programs, and Johnna's interview Why the new name felt right the moment we saw it in print The time change, Johnna's first in-person client and the Year of the Fire Horse Peekwire article featuring REBUILT: https://peekwire.com/article/5-womens-strength-programs-worth-knowing-in-the-us Johnna's interview, "Strength Training After Years Away: A Trainer's Case for Starting Where You Are": https://peekwire.com/article/strength-training-after-years-away-a-trainers-case-for-starting-where-you-are Chapters: 0:00 Polite Kids, Beautiful Costumes 0:25 Intro 0:50 Staying Out Late 1:16 Finally Celebrating Halloween in the Neighborhood 2:12 Not Like Lahaina in the Nineties 3:07 Pouring Rain on Halloween 3:36 The Gap Next Door and the No Parking Sign 3:57 Three to Five Thousand People? 4:25 One Street and a Few Spur Roads 4:54 Running Out of Candy 5:39 Several Hundred Trick-or-Treaters 6:02 How Polite the Kids Were 7:14 Teenagers and Santa Claus 8:29 Like It Was When We Were Kids 8:58 Well Done, Kauai 9:54 What We Were Bracing For 10:53 Halloween and Social Decorum 11:39 Nobody Parked in the Open Area 12:25 Nothing Nefarious, Just Neighbors 12:44 Such a Gift 13:05 A Word From REBUILT 13:56 A Block Party After the Rain 14:51 The Hot Dog House 15:21 Invited In With New Neighbors 16:59 Meeting the Neighbor Across the Road 17:37 A Local Family's Gift of Food 19:05 That Was Our Halloween 19:55 REBUILT Featured by Peekwire 21:06 Three Questions, Four Hours 22:23 Helpful for Women and Men 22:49 Seeing Too Awkward for a Twosome in Print 24:27 It Doesn't Need to Be So Serious 25:13 Back in the Water Tomorrow 25:34 The Time Change 27:01 Our Chill Era 27:36 Johnna's First In-Person Client 28:05 Feeling a New Phase 28:26 Five Planets in Retrograde 30:13 The Year of the Fire Horse 31:31 Happy Halloween and Wrap-Up Heading into the holidays is when it gets hardest to stay on track. REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life, with lifting you can do at home. REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-women REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-men More conversations like this, twice a week: 2awkward.com/#newsletter

  2. 5d ago

    Men's Health Reached Out: Signs We're on the Right Track

    Johnna and Clint with an update on a week of good news: an editor from Men's Health reached out to Clint, Johnna had her first in-home training consultation on the island, and a few signs showed up that we're on the right track. Before that, our neighbor told us Halloween is a big deal on our road in Kauai, and Johnna is getting ready for a very social night out of her comfort zone. What our neighbor told us about Halloween on our road Johnna's first in-home training consultation on the island How an editor from Men's Health found the podcast and what the 30 minute call was like Why slow, steady steps toward your calling add up A call with the owner of a peptide company, and Johnna's clear boundaries on promoting other people's products Why there are ads on the podcast now, and how we handled where they go Hawaiian garden spiders, and Johnna's conversation with one We'd like to hear what you think of the new ads, and whether you talk to trees, spiders or anything else. Reach out and tell us. Chapters: 0:00 Hook: Are We on the Right Track? 0:27 Intro 0:49 Getting Ready for a Podcast 2:34 Recording at Night, No Roosters 3:22 A New Neighbor and Halloween 4:42 Costume Ideas and Candy 5:23 The Neighborhood Group Text 6:43 Halloween on Our Road 8:05 A Word From REBUILT 8:51 Ten Costco Bags of Candy 9:17 Halloween in Lahaina in the Nineties 10:30 A Social Step Out of Our Comfort Zone 11:05 Costume Plans 11:47 Ads on the Podcast 14:41 Johnna's First In-Home Training Consultation 15:21 Men's Health Reached Out to Clint 16:36 The Emails We Get About Guests 18:18 The Call With the Men's Health Editor 20:36 Slow, Steady Steps Toward Your Calling 22:21 A Peptide Company Reaches Out 24:00 Clear Boundaries on Promoting Other People's Products 25:59 Two Reach-Outs in One Day 27:13 Gratitude and Signs We're on the Right Track 29:06 Hawaiian Garden Spiders 31:28 Talking to a Spider 33:15 The Spider Moves 35:00 We Can All Converse With Creation 35:52 Wrap-Up: Thank You Slow, steady steps toward a goal add up. REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life, with lifting you can do at home. REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-men REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-women More conversations like this, twice a week: 2awkward.com/#newsletter

  3. Oct 26

    Learning to Surf in Our 40s: Starting Something New

    Learning to surf in our 40s: Johnna and Clint on the first weeks of surfing almost every day on Kauai, the soreness, the fear and the ego, and what starting something new teaches you about everything else. Johnna surfed on Maui 25 years ago. Clint had never surfed. We bought boards, drove five minutes to a learners' spot, and decided there were no more excuses. The new muscles surfing found, and why recovery came before lifting Starting something new in front of other people Fear dressed up as excuses, and the Costco foam board that ended them Why getting from zero to one changes everything Consistency, impatience and trusting the process Making room for other people in the water Clint going from a fear of water to surfing Why a coach saves you trial and error, in the water and in lifting Starting is the cost of entry. Feeling like you suck is part of the price, and confidence is on the other side. Chapters: 0:00 Hook: Confidence on the Other Side 0:39 Intro 1:01 Mic Check and an Elephant Fun Fact 2:16 Surfing Every Single Day 2:53 New Muscles From Surfing 4:31 Why Variety of Movement Matters 5:25 Too Sore to Lift Our Arms 7:22 A Word From REBUILT 8:08 Not Lifting While We Surf 9:18 Starting Something New in Front of People 11:20 Nobody Has Told Us We Suck 12:18 Not Wanting to Get in Other People's Way 14:13 From Zero to One 14:43 Fear Dressed Up as Excuses 15:38 Smashing the Ego and Buying a Board 16:15 Our Goals for the First Sessions 17:24 Learners' Waves and Glassy Water 18:25 No More Excuses 19:19 Consistency and Impatience 21:36 Applying It Beyond Surfing 22:45 How Do You Feel When You're Done 24:22 Making Room for Learners 27:33 Where to Find REBUILT 28:37 Practicing in the Living Room 29:42 Starting Something New in Our 40s 31:10 Why We Love Surfing 32:16 A Double Rainbow 33:16 Clint's Fear of Water 35:13 Graduating From White Water 36:07 Surfing's Version of RDLs and Deadlifts 38:13 Why a Coach Helps 41:10 Our Obsession 42:25 Apply It to Your Life 43:19 Wrap-Up: Do the Thing Starting something new and sticking with it is the point. REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life, with lifting you can do at home. REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-men REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-women More conversations like this, twice a week: 2awkward.com/#newsletter

  4. Oct 22 ·  Video

    Clint's Relationship With Alcohol: Fighting the Voice, Not the Booze

    How Clint changed his relationship with alcohol on July 4, 2023, and why he says the fight was never with the booze. It was with the voice. Clint did not have a rock bottom moment. He decided he was done fighting, kept a fully stocked bar in view on his counter, and spent his nights proving to himself that he had control. Johnna asks the questions we think you would ask. This is Clint's experience. He says it would not necessarily work for everyone and he is not advocating it. It is not medical advice, and Johnna points out that detoxing from alcohol can be dangerous, so talk to a doctor before you change how you drink. The decision on July 4, 2023, and why there was no single bottom Why he kept the bar stocked and in view Talking back to the voice instead of silencing it Golf with his drinking buddies, no drink in hand "One is too many and one more is never enough" Johnna on food, discipline and control (chips and cookies) Why he wishes he had written down how he actually felt Chapters: 0:00 Hook: Fighting the Voice, Not the Addiction 0:33 Intro 0:56 Getting the Goof Out First 4:47 Today: How Clint Changed His Relationship With Alcohol 5:10 Why Addiction Quiets the Voice 6:50 Starting With the End: Fighting the Voice 8:33 No Rock Bottom Moment 9:03 Alcohol as a Socially Acceptable Mask 10:01 July 4, 2023: The Decision 12:47 Dealing With It Instead of Holding It at Bay 14:15 Keeping the Bar Stocked 15:47 Johnna on Food, Discipline and Control 16:56 A Word From REBUILT 17:48 Evenings Alone in the Farmhouse 19:53 Talking Back to the Voice 22:19 Journaling and Living in Victimhood 24:24 Healing Is Not a Straight Line 25:23 Golf Without a Drink 29:36 The First Drink After 30:13 One Is Too Many, One More Is Never Enough 31:30 A Word From REBUILT 32:07 Tools When the Urge Hits 35:34 What Detox Looked Like 41:25 It Took Courage 43:12 You Already Did the Hardest Thing 45:37 Regret and Gratitude for Writing It Down 46:20 The Journal Inside REBUILT 49:34 Wrap-Up Johnna on the journal that comes with REBUILT, and why being specific about how you feel matters. REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life. REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-men REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. 2awkward.com/rebuilt-women More conversations like this, twice a week: 2awkward.com/#newsletter

  5. Oct 19

    Social Media vs. Real Life: What's Right in Front of You

    Social media vs. real life: Johnna and Clint on the comments that followed Clint's video from Kauai, and why the real world is the people in front of you. Online, a pile of comments. In person, since we moved here, every interaction has been great to amazing. This episode is about knowing which one is real and not letting the internet run your day. Social media comments vs. face-to-face life on Kauai Clint on embodying what he reads in Meditations Why people stop learning in public Why we stay online and how we protect our peace Sunday brunch, tipping and the luxury of being served Chapters: 0:00 Hook: Embodying What You Read 0:20 Intro 0:43 Sunday Brunch on the South Shore 3:08 Why Tipping Matters 4:46 Live Music With Brunch 7:54 The Hesitation of Pronouncing Things Wrong 10:13 A Word From REBUILT 11:08 Clint's Video and the Comments 14:47 Friendly Corrections and Phonetic Help 16:07 A Different Language, a Strange Land 17:34 Learning From the Locals 22:38 Why People Stop Learning in Public 24:00 Clint on Words Rooted in Land 25:18 How the Locals Taught Us 26:47 Clint Chooses His Teachers 27:21 A Word From REBUILT 27:58 Embodying What You Read 29:45 Social Media Is Not for the Weak 30:11 The Land Welcomed Us 31:35 The Internet vs. Real Life 32:01 Why We Stay Online 33:44 Incremental Steps 35:50 Real Life Is Happening in Front of You 37:45 Wrap-Up: Speaking With Heart Build habits you keep. REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life. REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-men REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-women More conversations like this, twice a week: cjelevatedlife.com/#newsletter

  6. Oct 15

    Is Personal Training Worth $100 an Hour? Johnna Answers

    Someone commented on Johnna's training post asking about the cost. She answered, and this episode breaks down that answer: what you pay for when you hire a trainer, why free workouts are everywhere, and why most people will spend on instant gratification before they invest in lasting value. This is our lived experience, not medical advice. Why Johnna responds to mean comments now, and the bot theory The $100 an hour comment and her reply What you get for the price: guidance, nutrition, mindset and habits you keep Slippers, burgers and green juice: what we pay for without a second thought Why trainers, accountants and investment advisors earn what they charge Standing up for yourself without attacking the other person Chapters: 0:00 Hook: Skin in the Game 0:19 Intro 0:45 Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road 2:35 Why Johnna Responds to Mean Comments 4:14 Real People or Bots 5:24 Why Johnna Is Saying Bitches Again 6:48 Middle Age and Being Yourself 8:56 Training Again and a Branding Update 10:12 A Word From REBUILT 11:03 The $100 an Hour Comment 13:02 Johnna Reads Her Reply 15:13 An Investment, Not an Expense 16:26 Putting a Cap on Our Value 17:25 Slippers, Burgers and Green Juice 19:30 Instant Gratification vs. Lasting Value 19:56 A Word From REBUILT 20:43 Why Johnna Charges for Training 24:01 Accountants, Investing and Paying for Synthesis 26:51 Why She Responded 27:58 Skin in the Game 28:48 Responding From Self-Value 30:13 Take the Trash Out Tuesday 31:33 Wrap-Up: Value the Craft Build habits you keep. REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life. REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-men REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-women More conversations like this, twice a week: cjelevatedlife.com/#newsletter

  7. Oct 12

    Shit's Changing

    Shit's changing: Johnna and Clint on outgrowing who we were and sharing what our real lives look like. We aren't the same people we were when we started, and we're done pretending we are. There's a funny story behind it, and it starts last week. Whether we've outgrown what we've been doing A funny story from last week How the podcast started, and Johnna's iPad in the closet Why we want to share what our elevated life actually looks like, not only the tools A week of hitting bottom and pushing back up Menopause, boundaries and getting more unfiltered Why podcasting is hard and cringy Chapters: 0:00 Hook: Shit's Changing 0:14 Intro 0:36 What Johnna Has Outgrown 2:47 Are We Still Talking About Things From Two Years Ago? 3:42 A Funny Story From Last Week 7:06 A Word From REBUILT 7:57 How Awkward We Really Are 11:23 Clint's Role in the Podcast 13:31 Johnna in New Social Situations 15:07 What's Changing 16:01 Behind the Scenes: Recording This Podcast Three Times 16:29 How the Podcast Started: Johnna and the iPad in the Closet 18:05 A Detour to the Hanapepe Art Walk 18:51 A Word From REBUILT 19:28 Why We Don't Share Our Real Lives Enough 20:15 A Word Johnna Can't Stand 21:21 The Funk Week: Hitting Bottom and Pushing Back Up 22:09 You Change and That's Okay 23:05 Menopause, Boundaries and Getting Fiery 23:49 Do You Crack Yourself Up? 24:37 A Weight Has Been Lifted 25:44 Real Things That Worked for Us 26:05 Podcasting Is Hard and Cringy 27:29 Wrap-Up and What's Next If you're ready for a starting point that fits your real life, REBUILT guides you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life. REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-men REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-women More conversations like this, twice a week: cjelevatedlife.com/#newsletter

  8. Oct 8

    Why Don't You Value Yourself? Clint on Self Worth

    How to value yourself: Clint on self worth and what drinking was really covering for. Four years ago Clint was stuck in what he calls a comfortable hell. This week he said out loud that the alcohol was never the problem. It was his way of coping with something deeper, and he only fully realized it two days before we recorded. Where not valuing yourself starts: his brothers, Thanksgiving and Pictionary night Subconscious programming from ages 0 to 7 Johnna on the Hawaiian healing practices she's using to rewrite it How one meal he cooked for himself became the start of training Why valuing yourself changes how the people around you value you Why you don't have to break down to break through Chapters: 0:00 Hook: The Alcohol Was Never the Problem 0:36 Intro 0:59 A Season of Growth and Change 3:45 Where Clint's Mind Was Four Years Ago 5:09 Feeling Trapped 7:08 Trapped in a Comfortable Hell 10:56 How Alcohol Came Into the Picture 14:14 Alcohol Was the Remedy, Not the Problem 17:09 What Was the Remedy Masking? 20:27 Growing Up in His Brothers' Shadow 22:48 Thanksgiving Dinner and Not Being an Equal 24:46 The Pictionary Night Story 27:43 Subconscious Programming From Ages 0 to 7 29:11 Why You Don't Value Yourself: The Root 31:35 Hawaiian Healing Practices and Rewriting the Code 33:02 The Moment Clint Decided to Change 35:23 Investing in Yourself: Nutrition and the First Meal 41:07 Fitness: The Gateway Drug to Excellence 43:57 REBUILT Is an Identity Rebuild Disguised as a Fitness Program 44:56 Not Valuing Yourself Resurfaced This Week 46:23 Interviewing Himself to Rewrite REBUILT for Men 49:21 How to Value Yourself: Why It Changes How Others Value You 52:09 The Newsletter and "Does Anyone Care What I Have to Say?" 56:29 REBUILT for Men: More Than an Exercise Program 57:53 You Don't Have to Break Down to Break Through 59:16 Rate the Podcast REBUILT for Men is a complete identity rebuild disguised as a fitness program. We guide you through the first 12 weeks of a habit you keep for life. REBUILT for Men: Build Muscle. Own Your Strength. Rediscover Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-men REBUILT for Women: Build Strength. Trust Your Body. Reclaim Your Power. cjelevatedlife.com/rebuilt-women

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Too Awkward for a Twosome is Johnna and Clint: a couple who packed up, moved to Kauai, and started over. Now we talk honestly about whatever life puts in front of us. Some episodes are about fitness and nutrition. Some are about our relationship, island life, or owning the choices that got us here. Some are about whatever's on our minds that week. Johnna lost 100 lbs. Clint rebuilt his life from the ground up. We've both learned that real change starts the day you decide it's on you. Expect real stories, a lot of laughing, a little edge, and the occasional moment that gets a bit too honest. That's kind of the point. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

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  • Creator
    Johnna and Clint
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    161
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2025 Too Awkward
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