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Call Her Daddy

The Wellness Industry Is a Scam

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4166.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alex breaks down how our obsession with perfection can actually turn into a form of self-punishment. She unpacks why constantly trying to improve yourself might be making you feel worse, and explains that not every flaw actually needs to be fixed. She also shares the benefits of dating when you’re still a little unhealed, and why you don’t always have to show up as your best self in relationships. Finally, Alex discusses how to navigate wage gaps with a romantic partner, and what to do when your parents project their own insecurities onto you. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, Daddy Gang. Welcome back to another Sunday session. I wanted to first to start this by like checking in

0:08.9

with everyone. How are the girls feeling? How are we all doing? I feel like something about January has

0:16.3

felt a little more stressful than usual, or at least maybe it's me. Like, I don't know, work has been so

0:21.1

insane. I feel like my schedule has been insane. And I really told myself this year that I was

0:26.3

going to hit the ground running. And I started off the year feeling so motivated. I was so excited

0:31.8

about the projects that I wanted to accomplish, all the like self-help that I was going to be doing.

0:36.7

I ordered a goddamn journal in December. I was like,

0:39.8

come Jan 1. I'm going to be a journaling girl. And then all of a sudden, life just immediately

0:45.5

started to get in the way. And if I'm being honest, part of me has been kind of just, I don't know,

0:52.7

I've been like beating myself up about it because I feel like there's

0:56.7

so much pressure in the new year to grind and to do a big life overhaul and be in this

1:02.5

new year, new me mindset, as if suddenly there are like now more hours in the day now just

1:08.6

because it's 2026. And I get it it is a new

1:13.3

year and we have new goals and we want to build new habits but it feels like I don't know it just

1:20.0

feels like you put yourself in this position where like it's time to reset your life this time of

1:23.3

year but I also think this intense focus on becoming your best self just because it's a different

1:28.9

number on the calendar, it can it can leave a lot of us feeling like we aren't good enough as we are.

1:37.8

And when I get too focused on optimization and hitting next steps and, you know, living for the future version of

1:46.3

myself. I noticed that I completely begin to lose sight of all the things that are currently going

1:51.3

well in my life, right? I think it's easy for all of us to get trapped in this mindset of

1:59.0

once this certain thing happens, then life is going

2:03.0

to fall into place and everything is going to feel great. Once we get a new job or, you know,

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