UFYB 172: Productivity, Self-Worth, and the Industrial Revolution: A Conversation with Simone Seol
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Do you tie your self-worth to how productive you are? You know the signs: Never feeling like you’re doing enough, criticizing yourself for being “lazy” or “unmotivated.” If you feel stuck in a cycle of burnout and self-criticism, this episode’s for you. On today’s podcast, I join business coach Simone Seol to explore cultural beliefs about productivity - and how shifting your own beliefs about productivity can help you compound your results.
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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. Hello, my friends. I have quite a treat for you today. Today we are going |
| 0:36.8 | to be talking to Simone Sol, who is a life coach, who teaches other coaches how to basically |
| 0:44.8 | be their weird ass amazing selves in their marketing and in how they talk to their clients. |
| 0:50.7 | We're not really talking about marketing because there's not a marketing podcast. But Simone |
| 0:55.2 | and I are both very intellectual in ways in our approach to coaching. She's also more |
| 1:02.0 | woo in some ways than I am. But I think we share a really kind of unique blend of, can you |
| 1:09.6 | say you share something unique? Let's go with it. We share similar and unusual blends, |
| 1:14.9 | I think of kind of hard-end mind in our coaching and in our approaches to lies. And so we |
| 1:20.4 | have been talking a lot recently about the value of rest and why women have so much trouble |
| 1:26.6 | resting and the sort of cult of hustle mentality and the cult of productivity. And Simone is |
| 1:34.4 | also a like nerd like me. So on this episode, we kind of dive into our thinking about the way |
| 1:42.5 | women are socialized to think about work and rest, the impact of the industrial revolution. |
| 1:47.3 | And we talk about kind of the intellectual and social history of rest and we talk about the ways |
| 1:53.8 | in which there are feminist reasons to be reclaiming rest and to be divorcing our self-worth from |
| 2:01.4 | that productivity hustle that is so deeply ingrained. So it was an amazing conversation. I loved it so |
| 2:07.8 | much and I cannot wait for you guys to hear it. I know you are going to get so many mind-blowing |
| 2:13.9 | gems from this talk. Well, actually, depending on where you're listening from, this is either |
| 2:19.4 | the Joyful Marketing Podcast with Simone Soho or it's unfuck your brain with Carlo and I. So |
| 2:25.4 | either way, welcome or both. You should listen to this twice because it's going to be that good. |
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