ep 15: To Hell with Conformity & Hell Yes to Fanny Packs
Hilarious Humanitarians Podcast
Deanna Silverman, LCSW & Erin Prewitt
4.8 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hi Everyone! Welcome back! In Episode 15 Deanna & Frances discuss conforming and also the times we say, "To hell with conforming!" We discuss our personal experiences about when we decided not to conform and what happened as a result. The topics range from pretty serious stuff like marriage/weddings to the time when Frances conformed, joined the family business and as a result got fired by her Dad. Lighter topics of nonconformity were also discussed like Deanna's intense love of fanny packs.
As always, at the end of the episode we share some of our favorite good news stories of the week for the segment "Good News Feed" and we also share a piece of fan mail we received.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. It's episode number 15. 15, Deanna, hilarious Humanitarians podcast. Hello. Hello. |
| 0:16.0 | Frances Etjavaria here, licensed marriage and family therapist. Deanna Silverman, licensed clinical social worker. |
| 0:22.2 | And we're jumping in today to talk about the pressures of conforming. |
| 0:29.1 | We've all been there. |
| 0:30.1 | We've all been in that spot. |
| 0:31.2 | We're like, this is what I'm supposed to do. |
| 0:32.6 | This is what everybody says I should do. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the smart move. |
| 0:35.9 | Am I doing this? |
| 0:37.2 | Are we doing this right now? Yeah. |
| 0:39.3 | This doesn't feel right, but I'm doing it. Right. Now I'm fully committed, so I better make it |
| 0:46.8 | happen. So we wanted to talk about this today because I think especially, I mean, as we're |
| 0:51.1 | you and I in our early 30s, I think we start to feel the pressure. |
| 0:55.6 | But I think with the advent of so many people sharing so many milestones and life choices |
| 1:01.0 | on the good old inner webs, the pressure is really on for what we should be doing. |
| 1:07.9 | So we wanted to talk about those times where we just said, screw it, that's not happening here. Right. I love, I like, I like this topic. I'm ready. |
| 1:17.3 | So what did you want to jump right in with? Because when we were, you know, |
| 1:21.0 | show prepping, as they call it, you had a great example right off the bat to jump into the |
| 1:26.7 | pressures of conforming. |
| 1:28.5 | So I wanted to talk about when I got married. |
| 1:32.8 | I feel like in our society and our culture, there's, I mean, it could be pressure to have like this big wedding with a big bridal party and, you know, the stuff we see like in |
| 1:46.4 | the movies. It could be pressure from our family. It could be pressure from just pressure that we |
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