Ep 196: Symposium: Britney Spears's New Memoir

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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A few times a year, I like to let you listen in on the conversations we're having in the Secret Stuff patreon community. Each month we meet twice over zoom to talk about something culturally relevant (we call this Symposium) or to talk about books (a pretty traditional Book Club). This Secret Stuff meeting was a bit of a mashup of the two. When it was announced that icon and legend Britney Spears was releasing a memoir this fall, I knew it would make a splash in the publishing industry and in the celebrity world. And it did. The Woman In Me sold over a million copies in it's first week of release and there were a few bombshell's from the singer's life, most notably about her relationship with Justin Timberlake. But what is just as fascinating about the content of the book is the way she chose to tell it, and that she was able to tell it at all. After 13 years in a conservatorship held by father, where everything she did was tracked and controlled, Britney is finally free to share her side of the story. As usual, the Secret Stuff community had smart, thoughtful, and compassionate takes on the memoir itself and on Britney's place in music history and our pop culture lexicon. To join in on our next Symposium meeting, JOIN SECRET STUFF NOW You can always check out a FREE TRIAL OF SECRET STUFF to see if it's for you. FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE MENTIONED in this episode: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey Takeaways from Britney Spears's memoir (NYT) SPONSORS: Betterhelp // Go to BetterHelp.com/YOU for 10% off your first month Uncommon Goods // Go to UncommonGoods.com/YOU for 15% off your order SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff Patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you.
0:08.6	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell.
0:15.0	This show is about connection,
0:18.0	with each other and with ourselves.
0:20.0	And the hope is that the things we talk about here
0:22.0	will be fuel for better conversations and a personal awareness.
0:26.4	Each episode has a prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,
0:32.0	or share on social media using the hashtag 10
0:34.9	Things to Tell You. This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our
0:39.4	stuff. I'll go first. I know y'all hear me rave periodically about the incredible secret stuff
0:48.4	membership community and this week I wanted to give you a little taste of what our twice monthly Zoom meetings are really like.
0:56.0	That's right, when you're a part of secret stuff, you get two Zoom meetings a month with me,
1:02.0	where we either have a book club type of conversation or we have
1:05.8	what we call symposium which is a group conversation about something culturally relevant.
1:11.3	This month's symposium meeting was about the icon and legend
1:15.6	Brittany Spears in light of her memoir that came out this fall and also just as a
1:19.9	broader topic of celebrity and public scrutiny and all of those things that naturally come up when you're
1:27.8	talking about Brittany Spears and how her life and story has become part of our cultural lexicon. This episode is an edited version of this secret
1:38.0	stuffs symposium meeting. All secret stuffers get the audio replay of the meeting if they can't make it live they can always listen back to it like a podcast and I wanted to show you 10 things to tell you listeners what these meetings feel like, especially the smart, thoughtful takes from the incredible
1:55.9	secret staff community. If you want to get in on these meetings, I would love for you to join
2:00.9	secret staff. You can try it out for free for seven days to hear more of the
2:05.1	content that is shared there. Besides the Zoom meetings, I also share personal episodes
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