"Soft Girl Era" Didn't Heal Me, It Broke Me | with host Emily Duncan

EMBody Radio

Emily Duncan

Embodyradio, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Nutrition, Health, Bikinicompetitions, Education, Wonderwomanmentality, Npcbikini, Fitness

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, I’m getting really real about my experience navigating the “soft girl era” and the ways it almost made me lose herself entirely.

From moving across the country and completing my Pilates certification to untangling the spiritual programming that labeled my ambition as “too masculine,” I’m sharing a raw unfiltered account of reclaiming my voice, my vision, and the part of me that’s always been driven to go, do, and become.

Whether you’ve dabbled in the neo-spiritual space, been told to “be more in your feminine,” or just feel like you’re drifting away from your fire, this episode is a must-listen.

In today’s episode, I cover:

Why I moved away from the neo-spiritual space

The dangers of romanticizing passivity in the name of femininity
How the “soft girl era” disconnected me from her goals, health, and sense of self
The difference between balance and harmony, and why high performers need the latter
Why abandoning structure isn’t healing (and what real integration looks like)

I’m NOT anti-softness. I AM very pro reclamation of the ambitious woman’s right to FUCKING GO FOR IT without shame.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The more I tried to do the quote unquote soft girl thing, the more depressed I got, the more apathetic I got, the more listless I got, the more weight I gained, the more I felt out of touch with myself, the more disconnected I felt from myself and my vision and my passion, the less money I made.
0:17.9	Welcome to Embody Radio, the premiere podcast for ambitious women ready to elevate
0:21.7	their body, mind, and life to the next level. On this show, we've used high performance,
0:26.5	wellness and aesthetics, and self-mastery into a real-world blueprint for personal excellence. Each
0:31.6	week, you'll get real, grounded strategies and unfiltered conversations with high performers who
0:36.1	walk the talk, no fluff and no fake hype. Because excellence isn't an accident. It's embodiment. And this is Embody Radio. Girl, what's up? Welcome back to Embody Radio, the premier podcast for high performing humans looking to truly embody their happiest, healthiest, highest selves. I'm your host, Emily Duncan. Welcome back to the show.
0:55.3	Get ready. We're strap in. We're yapping. We're having a yappy episode today. I've had two
1:03.1	back-to-back interviews the last couple of weeks. Kind of my goal cadence is interview solo,
1:07.3	interview solo, but like the way things shook out with travel and everything, we did two
1:11.5	back-to-back interviews. Nobody complained, but I'm just filling you in. But what I am here to say is
1:16.6	we are overdue for a yap. So like I said, strap in re-yapping. I have a mild case of like if we could combine whiplash and amnesia, I think that's kind of where
1:32.6	we would be personally. So for all good reasons, right? But we moved to Texas. We drove from
1:41.2	Denver to Texas to Austin on July 1st, got here super late. I think I pulled up at like 10 p.m.
1:48.4	And then a week later, I left for Miami for 11 days from my Pilates teacher training. And I just got back.
1:55.4	So you girl, first and foremost, is officially a certified Matt Pilates instructor, which we love.
1:59.8	I'm very excited about that.
2:01.8	If you want me to talk more about that in future episodes or content, I definitely can.
2:06.8	Anywho, I have no idea where I am, what day it is, what time it is, what dimension it is.
2:12.8	Like, what's up, what's down? I have no idea. Because it was funny, even when, like, when I was at the airport
2:18.3	coming home, there was an announcement for a flight that was like, if you're on Southwest,
2:21.6	flight, blah, blah, blah, blah to Denver. I was like, oh, that's me. And then I was like, never mind. That's not. We don't live there anymore. It's not where we are. It's not where we're doing, we're going to Austin. And so because, like, for one, I was here for a very short time
2:18.5	before I left. And two, because, like, we had our friend Domentown helping us with the move,
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