Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile.

Hello my darlings. I'm calling you guys my darlings. It's a little intimate, but I really

feel like today's topic is intimate. I'm going to share about my own story and I just

like to think that we are all getting coffee or a cocktail and dish. So I've been doing

this podcast for six months now and I've learned a lot about so many of you, but you don't

know that much about me most of you. So today I want to share a little bit of my story

because I think a lot of you will really identify with my journey and you'll find it

helpful to hear but how I used coaching to change my own life. And I also want to tell

you about changes that are coming to this podcast and my offerings and they all start with

my own story. So I've been a feminist since I can remember. In fact, I think I like to

think that my views have evolved and gotten more complex, but I recently was reading

and editorial I wrote in my high school newspaper and I was pretty much like, oh yeah, I would

have written that today. Okay. I guess my politics have been pretty similar. I mean, I think

they have evolved as I've learned more, particularly, you know, I've learned more about intersectionality

and become a more well rounded feminist, but the seeds were apparently really always

there. And I've worked on these issues in a lot of different ways. In high school, I wrote

a lot of feminist editorial. I was one of the newspaper editors in college. I was the coordinator

of the Yale Women's Center and I worked at a domestic violence court during the summer.

And then after college, I worked for Planned Parenthood's National Media Office and I was an

emergency room sexual assault crisis advocate. So like we would go to the emergency room when

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