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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Expectations on Women with Elise Loehnen

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Author and podcaster Elise Loehnen joins Jameela this week to discuss her new book - On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good. Together they cover the history of the seven deadly sins and their patriarchal origins, the importance and beauty of healthy relationships between men and women, why women are set up to tear women down, the dangers of wellness culture, and more. Check out Elise Loehnen's book - On Our Best Behavior - wherever books are sold. Follow Elise on Instagram @eliseloehnen & Twitter @eloehnen You can find transcripts for this episode on the Earwolf website. I Weigh has amazing merch - check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and Twitter @Jameelajamil And make sure to check out I Weigh's Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jimmy Ligemail, a podcast against shame.

0:04.4

I hope you're well and I thank you for all of your lovely messages. Your thousands of messages

0:09.8

so far about my episode with Greta Turnberg last week. I can't believe I had her on the podcast.

0:15.5

It's so exciting. I'm still pinching myself, but it was just such a phenomenal chat. Like I love

0:22.1

her so much. She's so smart and funny and warm and inspiring and adorable and yet intimidatingly

0:27.6

brilliant. She just holds all of the multitudes. She's the definition of that and I, if I thought

0:34.6

I loved her before, now I'm fully obsessed. I'm the leader of her fan club, I think. And it seems

0:41.3

like lots of you are joining me. So thanks for listening and recommending it to other people. And

0:45.3

if you haven't yet had a chance to listen, I highly recommend it because it's an incredible insight.

0:51.2

This week is another phenomenal chat because my guest is just, I'm so lucky with the guests I get to

0:56.8

have. They teach me so much. I have the excellent Elise Lone and on who's New York Times renowned

1:03.2

bestselling author. She's also worked very high up at Goop in the past and has some interesting

1:10.6

insights from her time, you know, working within wellness culture that I think were very important

1:15.2

to hear about. But basically in this episode, we are talking about her new book, The Seven Deadly Sins

1:21.1

and the Price Women Pay to Be Good. That's the title of the book. And it's a fascinating read that

1:27.2

can sicely breaks down the exact system of the ways in which we hold women to impossible standards.

1:33.1

And even though we might think, yeah, we kind of already know what those are. It's kind of stating

1:36.5

the obvious. The way she breaks it down, the specificity and the history that she brings into it

1:41.6

blows your fucking mind. And then once you've seen it, you cannot unsee it. I highly recommend

1:47.2

this book. I highly recommend following this woman. She's so smart. It's so well written.

1:51.8

And also a lot of what she says comes from her own personal experience. She's been through

1:55.4

these journeys. She's a bit like me and that she's been through massive U-turns, like work

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