180. Philosophy = Self Help + Why It Matters
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel shame scanning the self-help aisle of the bookstore? Do you roll your eyes when you see life coaches offering self-help courses on your IG/FB feed? It may surprise you, but the embarrassment or shame you feel toward self help is 100% internalized patriarchy. In today’s episode, you will learn why self help has more in common with ancient philosophical traditions than with self-indulgent spa trips, and why your own self-help practice is so important.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello my chickens, how are you? I miss you all. I have been really loving |
| 0:37.4 | revisiting all of the re-released content with you, the updated episodes, and interviewing my fellow coaches, but I also love just |
| 0:47.7 | coming here to chat with you and tell you about what I'm thinking. So that's what I have been up to. I have been really buckled down working on so many amazing things that we are planning for this year. |
| 0:58.0 | We have already launched our sponsorship for four black indigenous or people of color coaches who are |
| 1:07.0 | getting certified at the Life Coach School. |
| 1:10.3 | So we are sponsoring half of the tuition for four amazing coaches who are going to bring their life experiences and perspectives to this work and up-level the coaching industry. |
| 1:21.6 | And I'm just so excited about being able to make |
| 1:24.4 | access to certification more accessible and we also are launching our first ever round of scholarships to the clutch, which is also amazing. |
| 1:38.0 | So if you missed out on those, we've just wrapped that up. |
| 1:41.2 | We're going to do them again, don't worry. Just make sure that you keep up with |
| 1:45.0 | the podcast you know when they're announced. Or you can get on my email list. You can go to |
| 1:49.6 | UnFuck your brain.com forward slash podcast and when you go to that page there's a pop up that |
| 1:54.5 | comes up that gives you the option to sign up for a free podcast guide which is |
| 1:59.1 | actually amazing and will help you take what you learn in the podcast and apply it more deeply to your own |
| 2:05.6 | self-work. |
| 2:06.6 | So really you should go sign up for this anyway at unfuckyourbrain.com 4- |
| 2:10.3 | podcast. Just give it a few seconds that pop- pop up will come up but also you'll then |
| 2:14.6 | be on my email list so you will have first notice of everything that we do in the future |
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