New Episode of PeppTalk Podcast Available Now

Listen to a new episode of PeppTalk—Pepperdine's podcast dedicated to sparking conversations of personal and global significance, featuring world-renowned professors, faculty, and students from across the University.

In partnership with Pepperdine's Boone Center for the Family and hosted by Alexa Borstad and Coby Dolloff, the series tackles relationships. Whether single or married, a parent or a grandparent, a senior professional or just starting out in the workplace, relationships play a significant role in our daily lives. And we all experience the stress that they can produce—the misunderstandings, the confusion, the hope for a different interaction. If healthy relationships are at the center of a flourishing, successful life, why don’t we have an easier time navigating them?

PeppTalk dives deep into these very questions, offering insights and guidance. This week, the show explores our most important relationship of all: the one we have with ourselves.

Episode 8: "How to Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Yourself" - Hosts Borstad and Dolloff sit down with Kelly Haer, executive director of the Boone Center for the Family, to unpack what it truly means to build and sustain a healthy relationship with oneself. In this episode, listeners will go far beyond self-care to explore how their thoughts, emotions, and beliefs shape every connection they have. Discover why knowing oneself—an undertaking supported by Augustine—is essential, and how differentiation—staying rooted in Christ while remaining connected to others—can lead to genuine freedom and wholeness.