Surrender to the Season

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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How are you weathering the season you’re in? In this episode of Bewildered, we talk about what it really means to surrender to the season, whether it’s an upstate New York winter, perimenopause, a busy parenting era, or the “my foot hurts and I think my gums are receding” phase of life. We talk about how culture tries to flatten all seasons into one endless, brightly lit, 69-degrees-and-productive-all-the-time moment, and why our bodies, souls, and sanity refuse to go along with that plan. Join us!

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0:00.0	So Marty, this episode of Bewilded is called Surrender to the Season.
0:06.4	Indeed it is.
0:08.4	There are seasons that we experience.
0:11.8	Yes.
0:12.6	In the outside weather?
0:14.3	Weather seasons?
0:15.6	In our own lifetimes.
0:17.7	Lifetime weather season.
0:21.5	In the work that we do?
0:25.1	Yes.
0:25.7	In the people that surround us.
0:28.5	In each and everything we make.
0:30.4	There you are.
0:31.1	There are different seasons.
0:32.6	And the thing about it is, oh, surrender.
0:35.9	Just give up.
0:36.9	That's what I say. Yeah, but that is not what the culture says. The culture says don't. But we say, we say celebrate it. Surrender to the season and even celebrate the season. It's a way to be happy. That's how we're talking today. Hope you'll enjoy it. Hi, I'm Martha Beck. And I'm Rowan Mangon, and this is another episode of Bewilded. It's the podcast for people trying to figure it out, isn't it? It is. We're trying to figure it out. And week by week, we keep trying. Do we figure it out? Hell no. Not really. No, not ever. No. What are you trying to figure out these days? I'm trying to figure
1:12.0	you out. Good luck, lassie. I mean, you are complex and yet so simple. Like, you are such a sweet,
1:20.6	simple little creature. Like, for instance, just before we came over here to our studio, you were wandering
1:25.9	through our co-working space and you did spy
1:28.6	some photographs on a wall and I watched your little face going, oh.
1:34.1	And he just stood there, completely on self-conscious going, whoa.
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