The Funk Stops Here: DBAD Style
Don't Be A Dick with Gretchen Clark
Gretchen Clark
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Gretchen kicks things off with a very real life update, a gloomy Atlanta day, an emotional funk, and a lot going on behind the scenes, including a scary health situation with Moose. Then she gets into the actual point of the episode, how to feel your feelings without letting them run your life.
Gretchen breaks down the difference between being emotional and being reactive, and why “your feelings are not facts” is the mindset shift that changes everything. She shares how she’s learned to get out of funks faster by facing them head on, taking action anyway, and focusing on the controllables, even when she’s having a full blown pity party.
She also gives practical reset tools that actually work, movement, sunshine, doing one small task you can finish, getting ready for the day, and getting into service by solving someone else’s problem. If you’ve been feeling off, overwhelmed, or like your emotions are driving the bus, this is the blunt pep talk you needed.
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| 0:00.0 | While I'm crying, we're going to talk about emotions. |
| 0:03.0 | I used to push everything under the rug and I would be like, oh, whatever, fuck it. |
| 0:07.4 | I don't want you to live like that. |
| 0:08.8 | You deserve a better life than that, okay? |
| 0:10.4 | You can be affected by things, but do not let it infect you. |
| 0:15.6 | And she was like, you are so effortlessly beautiful. |
| 0:17.9 | And I was like, I love you so much, but this took so much effort. |
| 0:24.8 | D-bad, baby. That stands for don't be a dick if you're new here. And we're not sugar-coating |
| 0:29.0 | shit. So let's get into it, shall we? |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, guys. How are we doing? It is such a gloomy day here in Atlanta. And I'm not going to lie, said this on my Instagram stories. I'm in a little bit of a funk, but we are going to talk about that because we are getting out of it. We are level-headed. We are emotional, but we do not let our emotions run our life, which is a skill that I believe everyone, especially women, |
| 0:56.0 | need to master. It's something that I actually mastered, I'll say, or I guess started mastering |
| 1:00.9 | at a very young age. Like I just had to. I was put into survival mode and I had to learn how to be |
| 1:07.0 | level-headed, how to not let my emotions ruin my life. But before we get into that, |
| 1:11.7 | I actually got some comments. I got some DMs. I think there was a YouTube comment about it, but saying, hey, we would love to get like a little bit of a life update before you get into the episodes. I had someone say, it was so funny, but they were like, if your episode is shorter than 30 minutes, I'm going to be so fucking pissed. And I was like, I'm so sorry. I'm always trying to make |
| 1:29.4 | sure I'm like catering to fucking pissed. And I was like, I'm so sorry. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm always trying to make sure I'm like catering to everyone. But I took a poll on my Instagram and it was like, do you want episodes that are 15 minutes? Do you want 30 minutes? Do you want 60 minutes? Some people were like, if it's over 30 minutes, I will not listen. Some people were like, I needed to be an hour. I need to be this long. |
| 1:42.6 | I need you to talk for as long as humanly possible. |
| 1:44.6 | And I was like, okay. |
| 1:45.5 | But I did get a couple people say, |
| 1:47.0 | I wish that be an hour. I needed to be this long. I need you to talk for as long as humanly possible. And I was like, okay. But I did get a couple people say, I wish that we got more of like a life update from you before you got into the topics. Okay. So if you would like it, here it is. Life update. I got my period yesterday and I literally thought that I was pregnant. Love that for me. So it's probably a big reason why I am in a funk |
| 2:03.7 | having a mis- okay. So when I had my first miscarriage, it was like boom-bang done. Like it was done. |
| 2:08.8 | I had one period and then I got pregnant with Lenin. Like it was as easy, we'll call it as could be. |
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