Parenting, Work, and the Fight Not to Disappear

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Does your life ever feel like a game of Tetris, where you get totally overwhelmed by all the pieces coming at you? In this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about how to get through the chaos that is modern life: from role fragmentation, to relationship and caregiving pressures, to work responsibilities, to sleep deprivation. Join us for some world-class life coaching (and plenty of metaphors) as we explore how to find a way through the morass of obligations, get some sanity, and rediscover joy.

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0:00.0	Sometimes in this crazy thing we call life, crazy old life, when you've had not enough sleep.
0:08.0	Not enough. And you have a kid who's having her literal first day of school ever, ever.
0:18.9	Something in life prevails upon you and says, should really be recording a podcast
0:26.1	today.
0:27.3	Don't you find?
0:28.6	Isn't it always the way?
0:30.3	It's like, yeah, I've got 4,000 things to do.
0:34.1	Yeah.
0:34.5	And my child's fate rests in the balance.
0:37.4	I'm going to go off and make a podcast. I'm going to make a podcast. Yeah. And my child's fate rests in the balance.
0:39.2	I'm going to go off and make a podcast.
0:40.3	I'm going to make a podcast.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:46.2	And if you're me in this situation, and I don't see why you wouldn't be,
1:01.0	you use the podcast as an opportunity to receive world-class life coaching on just how hard it is, to care for people, do a job,
1:08.9	do a life, be a human. It's rough. So you're going to hear on this podcast, this is as real as it gets, you're going to hear me flat out live coaching about role fragmentation and exhaustion
1:16.6	and the pressures on you as a human and caring for other people and your career and
1:21.5	everything and how you can find your way through this morass of obligations and maybe get a little sanity.
1:30.0	There will be complaining.
1:32.3	There will be mixed metaphors.
1:34.7	There will be extensive excerpts from my PhD dissertation.
1:40.1	Wow!
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