Kelsey and Dalen discuss choosing to celebrate the highs of a hard 2025 and look ahead to hopes for 2026.  Plus New Year’s resolutions and New Year’s Eve stories and perspective as your life stage changes. Happy 2026!  Thanks for listening and hopefully sharing your TFEs with those close to you.  

Dalen and Kelsey take a deep dive on the holidays. Their discussion of family traditions and the Magic of Christmas evolves into an emotional conversation of how holidays can be a milestone and reminder of things lost and gained, plans that worked out and dreams that haven’t been realized. Plus Dalen’s favorite Christmas Eve mass story is one you’ve got to hear, and why decorating a Christmas tree has so much more meaning when you do it with people you love. 

Kelsey and Dalen try to answer the age old question: why are men so bad at being sick? That somehow evolves into a discussion about Notre Dame being left out the College Football Playoff (if you don’t know, don’t worry- you will). The focus of the big conversation though is what happens when you find yourself in the middle of somewhere you didn’t ask for or didn’t plan to be? How can you handle it when your plans don’t work out? The couple talks through what it means to believe God is making space for something better and the challenges for believers and nonbelievers, how to be self motivated and gain perspective through the hard. Also, a real conversation about the letdowns after pregnancy loss.

Kelsey and Dalen discuss their family trip to Atlanta over Thanksgiving and some lessons learned. Most importantly, how to prioritize each other as we move into the most hectic but wonderful time of the year. Also, what do you do when your daughter thinks she's created a great name for her Elf on the Shelf but it's actually a body part? 

Kelsey and Dalen discuss their birthday week, perspective on aging, how their birthday desires have evolved and why chaos isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Plus, is imposing on your friend’s family Thanksgiving just too much?

On this episode of TFEs, Dalen and Kelsey dive into the mental shift of you HAVE to, versus you GET to. The couple also opens a letter they wrote themselves three months ago on a retreat and dives into the TFEs of looking back and comparing to the present. Plus, itchy sweaters, snow, holiday explorations, and should being considered a below average singer be a reason to start a fight.

After sickness, Halloween, and a grandparents visit, Dalen & Kelsey are back with goals set for the future and a hope of honing in on how to make them attainable. They discuss the letdown of feeling like a homework assignment was incomplete, and the hope that goal setting will have on the whole family. But is there a danger in being TOO goal oriented? Plus- it’s date night! 

Kelsey and Dalen discuss the importance of setting and writing down their goals.  Ironically, they do this while consistently getting sidetracked with random stories, life anecdotes and why Back To The Future is a philosophical work of art.

Dalen and Kelsey dive into a complex emotion that took center stage during a children’s movie: anxiety. How do you navigate the anxieties of adulthood, learn from past traumas and explain the complexities to your kids?  Plus- what do a thong and a bush have in common? Hold on, it’s a wild ride.

Another week, another episode of Kelsey dragging Dalen into some Taylor Swift dialogue- but this one is a little different. Exit signs and kaleidoscopes lead the way, while the couple looks back on a crazy work week that brought one thing into focus thanks to a college basketball player: the importance of being present 

Dalen and Kelsey talk about something Dalen is doing and just assumed Kelsey had done in the past…therapy. The couple gives their TFEs on therapy, stigma, the impact, the need and desires that fuel finding a therapist. Also, what happens when you finally reach out to a therapist, and you get ghosted. Plus, Taylor Swift’s new album comes out Friday and one of them cares.

Kelsey and Dalen and dive headfirst into fear. From irrational fears (Kelsey is spiraling after a weekend car trip gone wrong) to fears that are inevitable realities. Dalen shares his thoughts on life after you lose a loved one and the ways his dad still shows up.  The most recent example left him fumbling for words in front of Spike Lee. Plus, do parents REALLY have a favorite child? 

Kelsey and Dalen recap a 6AM flight with a wannabe standup comedian for a flight attendant, talk TFEs on this season of parenting, and dive into one of the micro-moments that can make or break a relationship: being a couple who goes to bed together.

In episode four, Dalen’s TFEs off the top take them through a vulnerable conversation about job changes, self worth, and navigating times when you aren’t in control. Kelsey & Dalen discuss why being busy and booked is great, but it isn’t always a blessing. The couple relive a fancy date night that ended poorly, and a casual impromptu date night that was perfect. And what happens when you meet one of your heroes? Ask Kelsey- she just tried to keep it together while interviewing one of her GOATs.

Kelsey & Dalen reflect on the support & impact of sharing personal grief & challenges with an online community, as well as the realities of walking into a room knowing everyone knows the hard you’re handling. They dive into college football fandom, the Bill Belichick experience, & why Kelsey may be one of the only people unbothered by his girlfriend. Plus… why you should want a red wagon kind of life.

Kelsey and Dalen discuss a getaway to a Wellness Retreat that was purposely scheduled around August 23, a date when they were due to have their second child together. The couple candidly shares their pain and feelings after suffering a miscarriage, the stigmatization of this conversation, the realities of no one else seeing the pain, and the power and healing in saying it out loud.

In the debut episode, Dalen and Kelsey explain: what are TFEs. The couple describes the origin story of this concept, the role TFEs now play in their every day lives, and the power (and challenges) of allowing yourself to stop and explore each one.   

TFEs is a podcast hosted by a married couple Kelsey and Dalen Cuff — both former college athletes and now on-air sports personalities — who dive into life’s rawest moments with humor, heart, and honesty. TFEs stands for Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions, an abbreviation that became the foundational phrase their relationship was built on.This isn’t just a podcast about relationships or sports. It’s about real life. From parenting and marriage, to mental health, personal growth, and sports moments that resonate — TFEs is where therapy meets real life and love.