Smart Girl Summer Toolkit
Soul Gum
by Victoria Hutchins
4.9 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Thought daughters, this one’s for you. This episode is your guide to keeping your mind fed all summer long. In it, I share the note-taking system that’s changing my life, a 10 minute morning routine that primes your brain for creative work, recs for intellectually stimulating podcasts, books, and newsletters, and more.
EPISODE OUTLINE
00:00 Intro
02:14 1. Take notes
06:57 2. Write by hand
08:42 3. Get out of your echo chamber
11:01 4. Remember the Zeigarnik effect
14:54 5. Change your conversation norms
18:08 6. Practice hard attention
21:11 7. 10 minute morning rule
22:33 8. Chew your brain food
23:54 9. Show what you don’t know
26:20 Newsletter recs
27:41 Philosophy podcast recs
28:08 Poetry recs
29:40 Lightning round recap
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're hot, but you're not just hot. Thought daughters, this one's for you. Smart Girl Summer. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome back to Soulgum, the self-development podcast with philosophical, psychological, and spiritual flair. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm your host, Victoria Hutchins. My goal is to give |
| 0:23.2 | your soul something to chew on. And today, I'm going to aim to give your mind something to chew |
| 0:29.6 | on too, because today I am taking you through my smart girl summer checklist. Listen, no one's |
| 0:37.0 | trying to come for your hot girl summer. Have your |
| 0:39.2 | hot girl summer. Maybe you're trying to feel your best physically. Maybe you're trying to work your |
| 0:43.1 | look this summer. Maybe you're trying to grow a butt. Girl, me too. However, summer is the time of |
| 0:48.9 | year when we are our most vulnerable to being consumed by body image and the beauty standard. |
| 0:55.5 | So today I thought we could push back on that a little bit by being all about the mind. |
| 1:01.1 | I am going to take you through nine tips to help you have an intellectually stimulating summer. |
| 1:07.5 | And then we're going to get really specific. |
| 1:13.0 | And I am going to give you some newsletter, podcast, and book recommendations. Before we get into all of that little life update, |
| 1:20.2 | so I'm speaking to you from Wednesday and I just found out, I think yesterday, that tomorrow I am going to Puerto Rico with |
| 1:32.7 | calm. Huh? What? So that's exciting. I'm also a little frantic, though. I'm not sure if you can tell |
| 1:39.5 | from my energy, but I wasn't going to not call y'all. I think of this podcast just me calling you. So if I'm a little |
| 1:46.9 | frantic today, yeah. That being said, let's get right into it. If you enjoy this episode as you're |
| 1:53.5 | listening, consider sharing it. Share it with a friend who you want to have a smart girl summer with |
| 1:57.5 | or pop it on your Instagram story. Put it in a little carousel, drop it in a dump. |
| 2:02.4 | And if you do tag me, I am at The Daily Victorian on TikTok and Instagram, and I love to try to |
| 2:07.3 | thank you if you share about SoulGum because it means the world to me. Okay, y'all, nine tips to help you |
| 2:12.6 | have a smart girl summer. Number one, rediscover the art of note taking. Many of us think of note taking as something |
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