Women especially waste so much time and energy being obsessed with imagining what other people are thinking, trying to change what they’re thinking, feeling, or doing, and adapting our behaviors based on what we think is going on for them. As usual, there’s nothing wrong with you if you notice this happening in your life, but it’s a losing game that we can learn to turn around.
I’m having a conversation with two ACFC graduates who identify as more politically and religiously conservative. Judith Gaton and Simone Seol are two returning podcast favorites, and they’re here to share the evolution of their beliefs about feminism, and their experience of thinking beyond the political progressive-conservative binary in our advanced feminist work.
This conversation is in no way a condemnation of a single religion, but an exploration of how being raised in a patriarchal religion, which so many people are, impacts the way we think about and see the world. Whether you’ve experienced a faith crisis yourself or not, I think you’ll leave with a new perspective on the impact of the patriarchy on religion.
Chernique, Natasha, and Keli outline how they see money mindset issues coming up in their businesses, and the money thought work they’ve had to do on themselves. We’re exploring the myriad of reasons women find it so controversial to want money, and the differences in socialization between men and women around what it means to have and want money.
If there is one topic that I’m sure we can never discuss enough, it’s people pleasing. It repeatedly comes up in all areas of our lives, especially for those of us socialized as women, so this week, I’ve got three coaches who have graduated from my Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching who see people pleasing all the time in their work.
With any kind of social justice movement, there’s a big difference in how people identify with it as part of their worldview. So whether you strongly identify as a feminist, or you’re unsure about whether you want to be one and what that even means, this episode is going to be helpful in showing you your blindspots about why other people might not relate to this movement the way you do.