Capítulo 245: The Cost of Reinvention: How Capitalism is Selling You A "Better" You
Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]
My Cultura, iHeartPodcasts and Locatora Studios
4.8 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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This week on Locatora Radio, Diosa and Mala discuss how the wellness industrial complex, self-help genres, and capitalism package and sell us a "better" version of ourselves. Women face the pressure to always be optimizing: time, money, and even hobbies! In this episode, Diosa and Mala discuss how easy it is to slip into over consuming as a means to find community, identity and belonging. The duo also review their personal reinventions and how they try to keep it sustainable!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | Creativity is personal. |
| 0:06.2 | Your tools should be too. |
| 0:07.7 | Lenovo offers a wide range of devices to match your creative workflow with powerful GPUs, |
| 0:13.0 | color accurate displays and AI tools that help spark, shape and share your vision. |
| 0:17.6 | From morning hustle to midnight render, Lenovo delivers power that never sleeps because neither do you. One device, all your vision. From morning hustle to midnight render, Lenovo delivers power that never sleeps, because neither do you. |
| 0:23.7 | One device, all your worlds. |
| 0:25.9 | Shop now at Lenovo.com slash back to school. |
| 0:31.2 | Bold ideas brought to life wherever inspiration strikes. |
| 0:34.7 | So, Diosa, I'm thinking of reinventing my entire style, my entire life, my entire vibe. |
| 0:41.9 | So are you going to do a ton of shopping now? |
| 0:44.6 | Is that what that means? |
| 0:46.1 | I mean, basically, yeah, that's what that means. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm reinventing myself, so that means I'm buying stuff. |
| 0:50.8 | Of course, obviously. |
| 0:54.8 | Oh, la Loka Lola Loka Moraato radio. Ola, la loca mores. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Diosa. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm Mala. |
| 0:58.6 | Today, we're talking about reinvention and what that means for us as individuals and as people |
| 1:05.8 | seeking community. |
| 1:07.3 | I think reinvention has a lot of different connotations, different applications. |
| 1:12.2 | I think it appears in a lot of different modalities in our lives. |
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