Take Back Your Brain - with author Kara Loewentheil
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Amy is joined by author Kara Loewentheil to discuss her book, Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head—and How to Get It Out, plus strategies to change our thought patterns, break out of sexist social conditioning, and live our values from the inside out.
After graduating Harvard Law School, litigating reproductive rights, and running a think tank at Columbia University, Kara Loewentheil did what every Ivy League feminist lawyer should do: quit a prestigious academic career to become a life coach! Less than a decade after leaving the law, Kara has taught hundreds of thousands of women how to close the “Brain Gap” that keeps them feeling anxious and dis-empowered. Her work enables women to identify the ways that sexist social messages impact their brains and how to rewire their thought patterns to create true, authentic confidence from within. Her internationally top-ranked podcast, UnF*ck Your Brain, has been recommended by sources from The New York Times to the We Can Do Hard Things Podcast with Glennon Doyle.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee Allabest. |
| 0:04.1 | Recently, I was giving a big talk at a conference. I am totally comfortable with public speaking. |
| 0:09.3 | In fact, it's one of my strengths, and I had done the research, and I knew the content that I was presenting was incredibly valuable. |
| 0:15.6 | And yet, in the hours before the presentation, I was consumed with self-doubt. |
| 0:22.9 | My body was flooded with anxiety. |
| 0:28.4 | I swore I would never accept a speaking engagement again. And one thought I had was, |
| 0:33.5 | I wonder if I feel this way because of the way I was raised. I bet if I had gone to an Ivy League school when I was 18, if I had been raised to believe that it was okay for women to work outside |
| 0:38.5 | the home, if I had seen women leaders, if I had pictured myself as anything other than a wisoned |
| 0:43.2 | mother, then I wouldn't be feeling so insecure. And maybe part of that is true. But when I started |
| 0:49.9 | reading Carra Lohenthal's book, Take Back Your Brain, How a Sexist Society Gets in Your |
| 0:55.1 | Head and How to Get It Out, I was shocked to read that this woman, this author, who literally |
| 1:01.6 | attended Yale and Harvard as a young adult and has had high-powered jobs and leadership positions |
| 1:07.3 | all through her adult life, sometimes struggled with the same kind of self-doubt that I did. |
| 1:13.9 | So her book is an instruction manual on how to rewire that programming. |
| 1:19.6 | And I am thrilled to welcome author Carla Lowent Thiel to talk about this book today. |
| 1:24.1 | Welcome, Kara. |
| 1:25.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:26.1 | I mean, just the title of this podcast, as soon as we |
| 1:28.8 | saw it, I was like, well, that's my natural home. Awesome. Well, likewise, when I saw the title of your book, |
| 1:34.0 | I was like, must order, must read that now. And honestly, I will say to listeners, I get this |
| 1:39.4 | question and comment a lot from listeners and viewers on the YouTube channel to like doing the work of breaking |
| 1:45.6 | down patriarchy and understanding the history and how we got here is super important but the |
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