Welcome back to The Smart Girl Newspaper: your curated, weekly, newspaper for the curious and intelligent parts of you: an antidote to the doom scroll and complacency. This week, we take a look into 2026 dating trends, the stock market, sitting within discomfort and a lack of clarity, building better habits, and

Listen: Best Ways to Build Better Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear on Spotify or Apple.

James Clear is the author of the popular book, Atomic Habits. I’m excited to listen to this episode to kickstart consistency with my own 2026 goals!

Whether or not you’re in the dating stage or not, I thought this was such a fun look at where dating might be going in 2026!

Read: The Biggest Travel Trends of 2026 by Condé Nast.

Sexy seaweed? Human Intelligence > Artificial Intelligence? Luxury Train Hopping? All are on this year’s list for 2026 travel trends!

“Because we are conditioned to believe that clarity comes from resolving issues, we learn to interpret discomfort as a sign of failure instead of a signal of complexity.”

I love listening to Sunny chat about the stock market. She makes it feel approachable and fun for someone like me. I also love her broad market takes like this analysis! Hot tip for newbies: copy this article and paste it into your favorite AI, then ask it to explain it to you in simpler terms. So helpful!

Listen: 88:: Your zodiac-aligned health & wellness blueprint for 2026!! on Spotify and Apple.

A fun-filled first episode to the new year! We chat through science-backed female physiology and relate it back to different zodiac signs! This is def an episode to “take what resonates and leave the rest”, even if it doesn’t align with your zodiac sign!

I hope you guys enjoyed vol. 010 of The Smart Girl Newspaper! Stay tuned for next week!

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