Amanda Hanson: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Beauty Trap (How To Escape)

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

How many of the beliefs shaping your identity as a woman are truly yours, and how many were planted by a culture that profits from your self-doubt?

Josh Trent welcomes Dr. Amanda Hanson, Psychologist, Author, and Transformative Speaker, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 786, to explore why so many women feel broken inside a culture designed to keep them small, how beliefs from our lineage shape identity, how aging awakens feminine truth, and what it means to become a woman who leads from grounded power instead of inherited pain.

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No woman is broken. Most are just unmothered. And sometimes, even the women who seem to have it all: success, intelligence, ambition... find themselves face to face with an invisible wall.

They've read the books, gone to therapy, attended the retreats... But something is still missing. What's missing is YOU. Not the woman who is holding it all together because no one else will. Not the woman who's high-achieving, high-functioning, but is profoundly neglected. Not the woman who holds space for everyone else but feels unseen.

The real you. The one who knew how to rest without guilt, laugh without filtering, and cry without apologizing. The one who was radiant without trying, before she believed she had to earn love by shrinking. The one who knows her worth.

It's time to bring her back.

In This Episode, Dr. Amanda Hanson Uncovers:

[01:10] Toxic Beauty Culture

How toxic beauty culture makes women feel less beautiful to take their money.
Why most women spend their resources chasing beauty standards.
How there are no body and beauty trends for men.

Resources:

Dr. Amanda Hanson

[04:00] Aging Is a Spiritual Experience

The power of honoring the process of aging.
Why Amanda goes against the patriarchy.
How aging can be an act of love.

[06:20] How to Become a Queen

Why women are conditioned to believe their worth is tied to men's attention.
How a real man wants a queen, not a princess.
Why women are the emotional leaders of their families.

[11:35] The Female Maturation

How menopause decreases the nurturing instinct in women.
What allowed Amanda to achieve a grounded power.
How she's become an open channel to serve women.
Why she struggled with anger because of her father wound.
How her father chose to abandon her and her brother.

Resources:

756 Alison Armstrong | Top Secrets Women Have Never Known About Men (Until Now)

[17:40] Femininity Has Nothing to Do with The Body

How not feeling feminine enough made Amanda get plastic surgery.
What convinced her to remove breast implants.
How she grieved the version of herself that needed to feel feminine.
Why having implants felt misaligned with her work.

[22:20] No Woman Is Broken

How mothers pass down what was given to them by their parents.
Why many women have never been nurtured and mothered.
How mother's love gives us the capacity to hold and comfort ourselves.
Why some mothers compete with their daughters.
How women crave the presence of other women.

[28:20] Why Self-Love Is Hard for Women

Why we need to stand for what we believe in instead of fighting what we don't agree with.
How it's not our responsibility to save the world.
Why women struggle to love themselves.
How most women spend their entire lives trying to feel enough.
Why love doesn't come outside of ourselves.

[33:00] How to Save a Marriage Crisis

Why Amanda filed for a divorce 15 years ago, thinking she was with the wrong person.
How her husband would never leave her, no matter what happens.
Why Amanda's husband's upbringing made him the person he is now.

[36:10] Mother Wound

What made Amanda's business start growing worldwide.
How her mother judged the content she was putting out.
Why her mother saw what she does through a completely different lens.
What led Amanda's mother to finally open up to her work.

[42:00] Healing The Lineage

How Amanda's healing her lineage through her work.
What she wishes their children receive from their dark night of the soul.
How adopted children ache for their birth mother and spend their lives searching for wholeness.
Why Amanda's adoptive children taught her how to love unconditionally.

[46:30] Reconnecting with Absent Father

How Josh dealt with the absence of his father.
Why Amanda's husband reached out to her father to reconnect them.
How she forgave her father the moment she saw him.
Why her father didn't understand why she treated him with kindness.

[55:45] Intellectualized Healing Doesn't Heal You

Why we can't start building new foundations if we don't understand what we grew in.
How 99% of beliefs may not actually be our beliefs.
Why Amanda helps women decipher which beliefs are their own and which are absorbed from a toxic culture.
How women start to feel amazing as they get older.

[01:01:55] Emotional Hygiene

How emotional hygiene starts with awareness.
Why triggers activate something in us.
What legacy Amanda wants to leave behind.
Why she doesn't expect the women she works with to change what they believe in.

Resources:

"What toxic beauty culture does is it creates things that women should be afraid of. Because as soon as they get a woman afraid, she'll buy something and that's a multi-trillion dollar system. Skinny trend, big butts trend, boobs trend, thick eyebrows trend... So our bodies are a trend? That's why you feel like no matter how much you do, you are literally never pretty enough or skinny enough. It is overwhelming and it is the life of an average woman." — Dr. Amanda Hanson

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About Dr. Amanda Hanson

Amanda Hanson: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Beauty Trap (How To Escape) Dr. Amanda Hanson, known as The Midlife Muse, is a doctor of psychology, speaker, and author renowned for her transformative work in redefining womanhood. Her teachings have reached millions of women across the world and have sparked a global movement of women living truer, more beautiful lives.

Throughout her twenty-five-year career as a psychologist, Dr. Amanda's work has exposed the patriarchal structures that keep women small, quiet, and at war with their bodies. Her approach combines clinical psychology with proven ancient holistic methods and sees the female body and mind as harmonious systems. Both must be in balance for wellness.

Alongside her work, Dr. Amanda is a mother of four, a wife, and an activist who strongly stands for inclusion, diversity, and equality. She chose the natural aging journey because she believes that aging is a
spiritual experience when approached with a profound sense of self-worth.

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0:00.0	The maker of Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie and Fitch said that the ultimate of beauty is a 15-year-old white woman with blonde hair.
0:09.0	What toxic beauty culture does is let's create things that women should be afraid of.
0:12.9	As soon as we get a woman afraid, she'll buy something.
0:15.5	And that's a multi-trillion dollar system.
0:18.4	Skinny trends, big butts trend, boobs trend, thick eyebrows trend, are bodies, trend. You
0:24.9	feel like no matter how much you do, you are literally never pretty enough, skinny enough,
0:29.8	not thick enough, eyebrows. It is overwhelming and it is the life of an average woman. We have 40, 50,
0:36.6	60 year old, done beyond, running around and grown women bodies, but still
0:41.0	operating from a princess narrative.
0:43.6	We as women are raised on this idea of being a princess.
0:47.5	I don't believe that deep down a man really wants to be paired with a princess.
0:52.6	I don't think it's very attractive in the long run.
0:54.7	I have men come up to me every time I get off of a stage saying to me, what you are teaching
0:59.0	and talking about is what we are craving as men. Can you go into the pain of this statement
1:04.1	that no woman is broken? Most are just unmothered. What is the real concept of beauty when it comes to women that society has taught us?
1:19.0	And essentially, what is the most beautiful thing about women that society has tried to take away?
1:23.8	I think that culture, society, and especially we have to talk about toxic beauty culture, because we have to understand that's a multi-trillion dollar system. And what toxic beauty culture does is let's create things that women should be afraid of. As soon as we get a woman afraid, she'll buy something. So there are things that I didn't even know I was supposed to be worried about as a woman.
1:44.7	And it started when I was very, very young.
1:46.6	The first signs are messaging that something on my body or with my appearance was somehow not palatable, not as beautiful as it could be.
1:54.5	But here's a solution.
1:55.9	Just buy this three-step thing and you will forever feel beautiful.
1:59.9	And then a couple of weeks later,
	...

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