Ever wondered why some trends are just suddenly everywhere?

Newsflash, nothing gets popular by accident.

I'm Brittany Luce, and on the It's Been a Minute podcast, I take the things you and I are both obsessing over

and show you the invisible forces behind the scenes that make us love it or hate it.

Be smarter about what you're consuming. Listen to the

It's Been a Minute podcast today. You're listening to PRAXIE, a show about about investigating niche emotional conundrums through

conversations with strangers who have shared experience. I'm Yo-A. Shaw. This is part three of my

quest to figure out what the hell is up with proxy conversations. Have I made a huge mistake

sinking my savings into a podcast I can't explain?

Now, you might ask, why am I subjecting you to four episodes of me digging at the same question while sweating in a tiny recording booth?

Surely I have more important things to cover.

Surely I've made my case for why you should go to patreon.com slash proxy podcast to become a Patreon member at $5 a month before August 22nd so we can unlock funding to make season one. And if I haven't, surely you'd like me to

stop talking about this Patreon campaign. Me too. But here's the thing. I am learning things.

And I hope you are too. In some ways, this extremely niche silly quest is about something we all struggle with.

How to feel better when we're feeling stuck.

So I didn't grow up with therapy.

I can't remember the T word ever coming out of my Taiwanese immigrant parents' mouths,

but by my mid-20s, I knew I was supposed to be in therapy.

It was just something you do as a well-adjusted adult, if you can afford it.

And so over the next 10 years, I went through six different therapists.

They were all fine, and never had an aha moment, but I'm sure

it helped. Or did it? I don't know. What I do know is that even though I shelled out thousands

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