Podcast Episodes

UFYB 319: The Price Women Pay to Be Good: A Conversation with Elise Loehnen

To turn the cultural ideas about the psychology of women on its head, I’m here this week with Elise Loehnen. Elise is the New York Times best-selling author of On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good and host of the Pulling the Thread podcast. She has been studying the dominance of our culture and how we can interrupt our programming to ultimately find balance and equity, and she’s here to share her insights with us.

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UFYB 318: Greatest Hits: Perfectionism & Achieving Impossible Goals

Women especially drastically underestimate what we’re capable of achieving, having absorbed messages about knowing our own limitations, not wanting too much, or thinking too highly of ourselves. As a result, some of you don’t ever think about the future or have big dreams, while the rest of you identify as perfectionists who live in the future all the time. Either way, the concept of impossible goals can be incredibly powerful if applied correctly.

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UFYB 317: Parenthood, Regrets, and Authenticity: A Conversation with Emmalee Bierly and Jennifer Chaiken of ShrinkChicks

To talk all things having children, choosing to be child-free, and everything in between, I’m speaking to the hosts of the ShrinkChicks Podcast, Jennifer Chaiken and Emmalee Bierly. They’re both licensed marriage and family therapists who are dedicated to creating a unique therapeutic environment even skeptics would open up to, and they’re here to dive into the anxiety that can often come up around the choice of having or not having children.

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