99. Ladies, Live an Examined Life and Listen to Your Gut

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

At the end of the day, people live one of two lives: an examined life or an unexamined life.

An unexamined life is when you move through the years mindlessly, not really thinking about what you’re doing or why you’re doing it, or even if you like doing it. You’re just doing it, whatever “it” is, because that’s what other people are doing—because that’s what you think you’re supposed to do. Or because, quite frankly, it’s easier. Living an unexamined life means living a life someone else designed for you.

The examined life is different. The examined life is when you tune out the voices, sounds, and visuals in your midst and make important decisions based on what you want and on what you believe is right. More than anything, it means dismissing cultural trends that conflict with your core beliefs.

IN THIS EPISODE:

2:40 Living an unexamined life means living a life someone else designed FOR you

3:30 Most of the noise today comes in the form of the media

4:10 If your goal is to get married and stay married, you have to avoid the media

4:20 Spend time with like-minded people

8:15 Women are making very real decisions about their very real lives based on something they absorb as real but isn’t

10:40 If you regularly absorb pop culture, you are absorbing the wrong ideas about men and marriage

11:50 “Spin sisters” are a group of media elite who influence the ways every day women think

13:50 Stop caring about what other people think and do

14:35 Women have been taught to value money and prestige over love and family

15:05 Don’t let the opinions of others drown out your inner voice

Transcript

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0:00.0	This will surprise no one who listens to this show, but America is single.
0:06.3	It's divorced, undercommitted, and hopelessly out of touch with how to build a relationship that lasts.
0:12.5	Women in particular are groomed for a life centered on career and on being fiercely independent,
0:18.0	as though marriage and family were a nice idea or a possible accompaniment to an
0:22.4	otherwise satisfying life. But if Flying Solo is so great, why are online dating sites a billion-dollar
0:30.8	industry, replete with clients looking to get hitched? In my new book, How to Get Hitched and Stay Hitched, which is available now for pre-order,
0:41.3	women get a much-needed detox from the cultural narratives they've absorbed about men, sex, love, marriage,
0:47.7	work, and family.
0:50.2	Modern women don't need any more help in the professional sphere.
0:53.6	They have that in spades.
0:55.8	What they don't have is guidance in love and life.
1:00.3	How to get hitched is not about finding a husband per se, but about how to map out a life that
1:04.8	works in every sphere, including marriage and children.
1:08.5	It offers women a new roadmap with specific countercultural
1:12.3	guidelines that will help them be successful in this domain. How to get hitched is the antidote women
1:17.7	need to reject the lies they've been fed by our culture. It's about what you really want
1:22.1	versus what you've been told you should want and about what is true of men in marriage versus
1:26.2	what you've been told is true.
1:33.8	Get ready. This book will rock your world. Just go to how to get hitched.net and you'll find all the information you need there. Again, that's how to get hitched.net. And now on with the show.
1:55.7	Music on with the show. From the magnificent Midwest, it's the Suzanne Venker Show, where men and women are equal
1:59.6	in value, but wildly different by nature. Join us here every week when we challenge the culture's hugely flawed
2:04.7	narratives about men, women, sex, and love. From coast to coast and from around the world,
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