UFYB 287: Change Requires a Leap of Faith
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As humans, logic and reason reassure us that something could or could not work — they help us make sense of what we perceive as possible. But logic and reason can only take us so far. They alone will never be able to convince us to do something we’ve never done before. Where logic and reason run out, that’s the point where we have to decide to take a leap of faith (or not).
Tune in to this week’s episode to find out why a leap of faith may be the missing piece for you to create meaningful change in your life, the role tolerating risk plays in making changes, and why feeling anxious about making a change doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad idea.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/287
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, |
| 0:14.0 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:28.3 | So my chickens, how are we? I am feeling tired but amazing. I wrapped up teaching the |
| 0:38.1 | stop, second guessing yourself challenge last week, and then at a big weekend we were doing |
| 0:43.8 | some filming for a film project we're working on, and we had a joint birthday party for |
| 0:50.8 | me and kind of a commemoration of my maternal grandmother's birthday. She's dead, which was |
| 0:56.8 | confusing to some of the attendees who were like, weren't didn't know that. She died over a |
| 1:03.0 | decade ago, but it was her kind of the hundredth anniversary of her birth. I don't know if you |
| 1:07.0 | call someone's birthday once they passed away. And our birthdays were two days apart. And so we had |
| 1:11.9 | a joint birthday party slash commemoration party right across the street from where she was born |
| 1:16.6 | on the lower east side, where I also lived for a long time. So that was super fun. My childhood |
| 1:23.1 | best friend, Meg came up from Maryland and we had family. We had my some of my grandmother's |
| 1:29.2 | friends who were still around. My mother's friends, my friends, it's just a really lovely time. |
| 1:34.8 | That's a lot for a week for me. So I am looking forward to about to convocation for three or four |
| 1:42.4 | days in New Orleans, celebrate my birthday, and I plan to just read a novel and sit by the pool. |
| 1:48.1 | And like send the gentleman concert out to go talk to strangers. But I am always so glad when I |
| 1:53.1 | do these challenges, the stop second, guessing yourself challenge was incredible. We had thousands |
| 1:57.8 | of women participated from all over the world. And even in just a week, like the change that people |
| 2:03.3 | experienced, we had people, someone who stood up for themselves to get money back from their financial |
| 2:07.8 | advisor, who was like trying to not give it to them. Someone finally telling their partner how |
| 2:13.6 | they wanted to parent and what their true thoughts and feelings were about how their partner was |
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