Girlboss Is Back And This Time She's Selling You AI
There Are No Girls on the Internet
iHeartPodcasts
4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The girlboss era promised that if women just worked hard enough, leaned in hard enough, optimized hard enough, equality was within reach. It wasn't. And now, a decade later, the same voices are back with the same urgency and the same "you'll be left behind" framing. The product this time? AI.
Bridget sits down with Samantha and Anney from Stuff Mom Never Told You to talk about why Sheryl Sandberg, Reese Witherspoon, Mel Robbins, and the original girlboss herself Sophia Amoruso are all suddenly very invested in getting women onto AI platforms and why the women who aren't rushing to adopt it might actually be the ones paying closest attention.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:21.5 | So I am a little bit of a recovering Girl Boss. |
| 0:25.1 | I know it's pretty embarrassing to admit, but the whole Girl Boss thing just hit me at the exact right moment in my life. |
| 0:33.4 | The Girl Boss era told women that if we just worked hard enough, optimized enough, leaned in enough, the system would open up for us. |
| 0:41.5 | And it didn't. |
| 0:42.9 | And now, a decade later, some of those exact same voices are back with a new product but the same old pitch. |
| 0:50.1 | This time, it's AI. |
| 0:52.3 | I sat down with my friends Samantha and, over at the podcast Stuff Mom Ever Told |
| 0:56.7 | You, to talk about what's really being sold, why women are actually skeptical of AI, |
| 1:01.6 | and why that skepticism might just be the smartest thing in the room. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 1:13.1 | Anne Samantha. |
| 1:15.6 | And welcome to Stuff and Never Told You, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:26.9 | Today, we are once again so happy to be joined by the brilliant, the bold. |
| 1:28.7 | Bridget Todd. Welcome, Bridget. |
| 1:36.1 | I like the B alliteration, always common with the alliterative superlatives. Love to hear it. |
| 1:43.5 | It's one of my skills, one of my many pretty useless skills, but thank you. Well, Bridget, |
| 1:46.9 | how have you been since the last time we spoke? |
| 1:55.6 | Things are okay. I am trying to stay positive. You know, it's, I really, really enjoyed when we hung out and watched and talked about the social network. That was definitely the high point of |
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