505. Coaching Hotline: What Humility Actually Means & Why You Wear Makeup (and Whether It Matters)
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Why do we wear makeup, and does it even matter? In this Coaching Hotline episode, I answer a listener question about makeup and body image. I explain why wearing makeup is a personal choice and often a form of self-expression, not a reflection of whether you have done the inner work to love your body.
I also tackle a question about humility and how it can be useful in managing your mind. This episode shows how examining the thoughts behind your choices, about humility, appearance, and social expectations can shift your perspective and reduce unnecessary self-judgment.
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Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://schoolofnewfeministthought.com/505
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Un-Fuck Your Brain. I'm your host, Kara Lowenthal, master-certified coach, and founder of the School of New Feminist Thought. I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to this week's coaching hotline episode where I answer real questions from real |
| 0:30.4 | listeners and coach you from afar. If you want to submit your question for consideration, |
| 0:35.1 | go to unfuckyourbrain.com forward slash coaching hotline, |
| 0:40.1 | all one word, or text your email to plus one 347-997-1784. And when you get prompted for the |
| 0:48.8 | code word, it's coaching hotline, all one word. Let's get into this week's questions. Two interesting questions |
| 0:56.1 | today. First one. Hey, Kara, you talk a lot about confidence, of course, which is what brought me |
| 1:01.0 | to your work, but I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about humility. What do you think |
| 1:05.4 | humility looks like? What role do you think it can play in managing your mind? Do you find it to be |
| 1:10.6 | a useful concept at all? |
| 1:12.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:13.4 | That's a great question. |
| 1:14.8 | So, yes, I do think that humility is a useful concept when it's used correctly and appropriately, |
| 1:20.5 | which I don't think that's how most women use it. |
| 1:22.8 | So I think most women use humility as a cover for insecurity. |
| 1:27.1 | So rather than tell the truth, which is that |
| 1:29.1 | they don't believe they deserve to have the life they want, they don't believe that they are good |
| 1:33.0 | enough to get the life they want, they don't believe that they have enough value, they call that |
| 1:38.9 | being humble. But I don't think that's what humility is. I think humility is the opposite of hierarchy. |
| 1:46.7 | So I think humility is about understanding that as a human to human to human to human, we are all |
| 1:53.2 | equal. I am not more worthy than any other human alive. I do not have more intrinsic value or |
| 1:59.9 | intrinsic worth than any human alive. I do not have more intrinsic value or intrinsic worth than any human |
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