350: Brianna Madia

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

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3.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Sarah talks to author and social media influencer Brianna Madia, whose new book, nowhere for very long, is a New York Times bestseller. It's about her life as a nomad and explorer, her childhood in Connecticut, how her parents' divorce and her father's absence affected her views on life and place, her time living on a boat, the decision to buy a giant beat-up bright orange van and move out west to live in the canyons of Utah with her husband, their dogs, their adventures, their struggles and the one dramatic, tragic moment that changed everything and ultimately led to the collapse of her picture perfect life of escape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.4	Welcome to That's What She Said with Sarah Spain, a podcast about,
0:28.0	well, whatever the hell I want, actors and musicians, athletes, comedians, neuroscientists,
0:33.9	wine experts. If I find somebody interesting, I'm bringing them to you. We'll talk about how they
0:39.0	became who they are, how they found success, battled failures, and how they ended up here,
0:44.4	talking to me. My name is Brianna Media, and my current dilemma is, I feel the need to be very
0:52.1	involved in social media, but my mental health is screaming at me to take a break. Don't I know it.
1:00.6	I recently actually took a few days off right after the Roe v. Wade announcement, and it was well
1:05.2	timed in that I was spending a few days with friends at the lake, so it was natural to just put
1:09.2	down the phone, ignore the news, ignore social media while I raged and processed, raged and processed
1:15.2	repeat. And when I got back online after four days, there were the obvious annoyances,
1:20.2	you know, things that I hadn't forgotten in such a short time. People are cruel and ignorant,
1:24.1	and combative and angry and selfish and all those things, but more so I remembered how quickly
1:28.7	I can be set off by people who, who argue straw men in place of what you've actually written,
1:35.7	people who comment on things about which they've done zero research and know nothing,
1:39.8	people who seem to lose entirely their humanity and their empathy when they move into online spaces.
1:45.7	It's not that I'd forgotten that. It's just I forgot how that made me feel and literally change
1:50.0	my mental space, my physical feeling. So those breaks are super necessary for me to keep calibrating
1:56.6	what really matters to keep perspective on the value that I place on Twitter and Instagram social
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