Penn Badgley & Dr. Nura, Are We Confusing 'YOU' With Real Love? Healthy Connections vs. TV Fantasies

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Actor Penn Badgley (YOU, Gossip Girl) and therapist Dr. Nura Mowzoon join Rainn Wilson to explore how media and modern television distorts our understanding of love, relationships, and passion. Together, they dive into why people mistake conflict for passion, how media reinforces unhealthy romantic ideals, and the deeper psychological impacts of romantic media on young people. Penn also opens up about the unintended consequences of portraying toxic love on-screen and the complexities of attachment and commitment in real life. This conversation challenges popular narratives of love, highlighting the dangers of media-fueled misconceptions. Penn Badgley is an actor known for his roles in Gossip Girl and You, where he portrays characters that grapple with complex and often unhealthy romantic dynamics. Off-screen, he explores the intersection of spirituality, relationships, and media influence. Penn and Nura are touring colleges and universities to provide their Can We Talk? series of discussions with students. To have them come lead a discussion at your school, reach out below! Thank you to our sponsors! LMNT: http://drinklmnt.com/SoulBoom Waking Up app (1st month FREE!): https://wakingup.com/soulboom Fetzer Institute: https://fetzer.org/ MERCH OUT NOW! https://soulboomstore.myshopify.com/ Sign up for our newsletter! https://soulboom.substack.com SUBSCRIBE to Soul Boom!! https://bit.ly/Subscribe2SoulBoom Watch our Clips: https://bit.ly/SoulBoomCLIPS Watch WISDOM DUMP: https://bit.ly/WISDOMDUMP Follow us! Instagram: http://instagram.com/soulboom TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@soulboom Sponsor Soul Boom: [email protected] Work with Soul Boom: [email protected] Send Fan Creations, Questions, Comments: [email protected] Produced by: Kartik Chainani Executive Produced by: Ford Bowers, Samah Tokmachi Companion Arts Production Supervisor: Mike O'Brien Voicing Change Media Theme Music by: Marcos Moscat

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0:00.0	Hey, Soul Boom Generation, I've got a really exciting announcement for you.
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0:30.3	You're listening to Sobu. What I found myself bumping up against, which is what prompted
0:37.4	me to reach out to Penn, was what students thought love should look like, what they thought a healthy relationship should look like, mistaking high conflict for passion, peace for boredom.
0:47.7	They had such distorted understandings of what a healthy relationship should look like, and so much of it was fueled by the media.
0:56.0	You know, at the same time, his show was getting more and more popular, and I was noticing
1:00.2	how often people would joke about like, oh, put me in your cage, Joe.
1:04.4	And I was just like, it was...
1:06.9	Let me talk to the man who built that page.
1:08.6	Let me talk to him right now.
1:13.2	Hey there, it's me, Rain Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.
1:17.7	I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.
1:21.1	Let's get deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers about life, meaning, and idiocy.
1:30.0	Welcome to the Soul Boom podcast.
1:41.7	Hey folks, I'm so excited to be here with Penn Badgley, of course, who you know, who has brought a friend, Dr. Nura Maozoon.
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