THE SHAME FILES: Why the things you never talk about are keeping you stuck
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox open up the “shame files” and share the moments they’ve buried for years: the gambling, the stealing, the lying, the drinking, the secrets, the things they hoped no one would ever find out.
Together, they unpack how shame shapes our identities, how we carry guilt that was never ours to begin with, and how hiding the truth keeps us sick, small, and disconnected. From addiction and childhood trauma to money meltdowns and compulsive people-pleasing, this is a raw and honest look at what happens when we finally say it out loud.
If you’ve ever thought, “If they knew the real me, they’d leave,” — this episode is your proof that healing starts with honesty.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are opening the shame files, the things we never talk about and why they keep us stuck. |
| 0:05.1 | Oh dear, sounds like a scary one. We are going to talk to you about what shame actually feels like. |
| 0:11.5 | Share with you a couple of areas of life where me and Rich have both been incredibly ashamed. |
| 0:17.2 | Talk about the cost of hiding shame and then get on to a bit of the good stuff how to actually |
| 0:23.8 | help move through it. Welcome to late blooms where we are getting our lives together. |
| 0:29.5 | Eventually and I have to just say for anybody watching on YouTube or Spotify where we're on video |
| 0:36.8 | you'll notice that we haven't got our normal |
| 0:39.2 | late bloomer's cards. That's because I forgot to order them and we ran out. But I've saved the |
| 0:47.5 | day because the thank you cards I bought and forgot to send to everyone that helped me create my album restoration have now stepped in |
| 0:57.5 | as a replacement. So two wrongs made a right. I would like to say though, I love you and you're |
| 1:03.1 | very creative, but you could have cut them with scissors rather than I've got a really jagged |
| 1:07.7 | top of my card. Sorry. I don't feel shameful about it though. |
| 1:12.5 | No. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm not a bad person, but I did a silly thing. |
| 1:16.4 | Exactly. |
| 1:17.1 | So let's talk about very briefly what shame is. |
| 1:20.6 | So what we're not talking about is when you do something wrong, which everybody in existence does, that can cause feelings of guilt. But where a shame, |
| 1:32.2 | you fundamentally believe that you are a bad person rather than done a bad thing. I think that's |
| 1:37.6 | quite important. Yeah, I think it's very human. Let's say you have a flirt up with your best mate's partner. |
| 1:47.7 | Have a flirt up. |
| 1:49.1 | I've made myself sound so old. |
| 1:51.8 | That's a really old millennial way. |
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