DEEP DIVE: Mara Glatzel on Being "Needy"

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

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🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This Deep Dive series revisits some of our past episodes on discerning what we need as moms, and then asking for it confidently. If someone asked you "What do you need right now?" would you even be able to articulate it? In her new book ⁠NEEDY: How To Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty⁠, intuitive coach ⁠Mara Glatzel⁠ lays out a roadmap for how to ascertain our needs as human beings, how to ask for it, and how to be comfortable with receiving it. Mara's work helps humans stop abandoning themselves and start reclaiming their humanity through embracing their needs and honoring their natural energy rhythms. In this episode, Mara and Amy discuss: The societal pressure to be perfect and need-free as mothers The difference between a "want" and a "need" and how they intersect Why it's uncomfortable both to ask for what we need and to finally receive it Mara argues that the more in tune we are with our own needs, the more we are able to peacefully coexist with others and form authentic relationships. Here's where you can find Mara: ⁠https://www.maraglatzel.com/⁠ on her own podcast, ⁠"Needy."⁠ ⁠Here is the link⁠ to Mara's free quiz to help you identify what you need and receive all of her best resources and supportive micro-practices. Buy Mara's book: ⁠https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9781683649847⁠ @maraglatzel on IG We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.2	Hey everybody. Welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell, Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. This is Amy. Today I'm talking to Mara Glotzel. She's an author, intuitive coach, and host of the podcast, Needy. Mara helps humans stop abandoning themselves and start reclaiming their humanity through embracing their needs and honoring their natural energy rhythms. Her superpower is saying what you need to hear
0:55.2	when you need to hear it. And she is here to help us believe in ourselves as much as she believes in us.
1:01.4	Her new book is Needy, How to Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty. Welcome, Mara.
1:06.9	Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to be here. I am so excited to have you. I was just telling Mara before it started that my progress through this book was somewhat slowed that I was stopping to circle, underline, transcribe. Seriously, like this book is what I need right now. You say this book is for those of us who have needs, especially those of us who pretend we don't.
1:28.7	I identify as a member of that group of people, as probably does everybody listening.
1:32.6	Why is that?
1:33.2	Why do we do this to ourselves?
1:34.7	Yeah.
1:34.9	What has been so funny about this book is that I didn't intend it this way, but just the title has become this litmus test for whether or not the book is for you. Because people
1:45.2	have feelings about the word needy. And either because we feel like we're way too much or because
1:52.5	we have, you know, needs, I don't know them. Like push them far away somewhere to the back of my life.
1:59.3	And this happens for so many reasons, but ultimately,
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