UFYB 152: Hope & Commitment
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Are you feeling hopeless, afraid, despondent, or angry at the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg? In today’s podcast, I will teach you how to take hopeful action even when you aren’t FEELING hopeful, by using the coaching model to generate feelings of commitment. Hope feels good when it happens to arrive, but commitment will create a revolution.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism |
| 0:13.8 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Tara, Lowenthal. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:32.7 | All right, this has been a very intense week for many of us. |
| 0:38.2 | It's not often that on the podcast I talk about, kind of current events, although obviously |
| 0:44.1 | I did quite a bit for the pandemic and the sort of movement around racial justice in this |
| 0:48.7 | country earlier this summer. |
| 0:49.9 | So maybe that's not true anymore. |
| 0:51.5 | In 2020, I do talk about current events. |
| 0:55.1 | So last Friday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice passed away. |
| 1:00.1 | And I think a lot of women have truly no idea how much they owe to her, regardless of |
| 1:05.4 | their politics. |
| 1:07.5 | So don't worry, this episode is not going to be all about RBG, and I do not think that |
| 1:13.4 | RBG is a feminist saint, right? |
| 1:17.2 | There are certainly things to critique in her jurisprudence, especially around police |
| 1:21.5 | accountability. |
| 1:23.5 | And she did not seem to understand the significance of some of the work on racial justice that's |
| 1:28.8 | been happening socially and politically the last few years, like Colin Kaepernick's |
| 1:32.4 | protest. |
| 1:33.4 | So this is not about reifying her as the perfect feminist by any means. |
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