Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism,

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile.

Hello, my chickens. How are you? It has been raining in New York for, I don't know,

it feels like seven weeks straight. That's probably not right, but I'm a little bit like waiting

for the arc to float by. I don't feel like I've seen the sun in several days. So I have

some thoughts and feelings about that, but you know what? That's okay. I'm managing my mind.

I am getting over being sick, and that always makes me feel super appreciative of even my

baseline of health, which is, you know, solid. And just that kind of feeling that life energy

return is such a kind of beautiful experience, really, is that 50-50. So I even think

you might have this podcast episode for a while, but it took some thinking to just kind

of settle on how I wanted to approach it. And to be honest, that's because the idea for

it came from me feeling a little annoyed. So like the spark of the idea, the germ of the

idea was actually a little bit from an unmanaged mind, but I proceeded to manage my mind about

it, and I decided that there was something useful in here. So I'm going to tell you why,

and I'm actually going to, as like both while I'm talking about the substance of the episode,

I'm also going to like walk you through my process because this is actually just a great

example of doing that work, right? So here's where this started. My social media network is

made up of a lot of coaches for obvious reasons. You know, this is my professional colleagues.

I still also have my former life people from my social media. So I just kind of actually

love that because I have my social media is just like so diverse in terms of like people's

backgrounds and politics and belief systems and priorities. It's just like everything

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