The End of the Hustle

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What if you’re not burned out…you just don’t want to hustle anymore? In this episode of Bewildered, we talk about how hustle culture strives to make our lives sterile and abstract: from fluorescent lighting and spreadsheets to profit-and-loss statements and KPIs. We explore what gets lost in that way of life and how to reclaim our wild human power from a world that keeps turning us into pixels. If you're curious what life could look like beyond the endless grind, this episode is for you. Join us!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Martha Beck.
0:01.0	And I'm Rowan Mangan, and this is another episode of Bewilded, the podcast for people trying to figure it out.
0:07.1	I relate.
0:07.9	Yeah.
0:08.4	Do you relate?
0:08.9	Me too, yeah.
0:09.8	And this episode is about things I really relate to, like dirt.
0:14.5	Yeah, I'm dirty.
0:16.9	I'm dirty.
0:17.9	It's a dirty, dirty episode, people.
0:19.8	Oh, my gosh.
0:20.9	The way that we live so often is quite sterile, abstract.
0:29.6	There's a certain fluorescent lights, spreadsheets, columns, profit and loss KPIs.
0:38.5	I don't know there are things.
0:40.6	And we feel like that there's something is lost in that way of life.
0:47.6	What would you say about that moment?
0:48.7	Yeah, and the reason we know is we hate it.
0:52.0	I didn't want to.
0:53.7	Didn't want to. Didn't want to. That's what I found.
0:55.0	Didn't want to.
0:55.9	I went to, like, you know how you have to dig deep?
0:58.7	Yeah.
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