Let’s unpack the quarter-life crisis (yay….). From existential dread to redefining purpose, we at least know one thing: life isn’t a stage, it’s a soup!

In this episode of The Unwritten Aesthetic, Reese Brown and Lauren Bush celebrate the space between their birthdays and dive deep into what it means to reach quarter-life. From the awkwardness of birthday songs to existential philosophy, they explore how we define meaning, purpose, and identity in our mid-twenties.

Lauren shares a powerful mindset shift: moving from life as a performance to life as a soup — embracing flow, connection, and self-compassion. Together, they unpack Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and the anxiety of existing in a hyper-productive late-capitalist world.

Whether you’re facing your own quarter-life crisis or just rethinking what purpose really means, this conversation invites you to stop performing your life and start living it from a place of owning your worth.

Welcome to The Unwritten Aesthetic, where the intellectual rigor of philosophy meets the creative pursuit of an artful life. A place for two friends to be passionate about philosophy as an artistic pursuit, ask life’s most important questions, create something we believe in, and to be two silly gooses.

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With artful Coherence,

Reese and Lauren