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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

UFYB 332: Why Sometimes Success Doesn’t Feel Good: A Conversation with Laura Gassner Otting

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when the success you've worked so hard for finally arrives... but doesn’t feel the way you thought it would? To help us dive into the mental drama around how we believe success SHOULD make us feel (but usually doesn't), I’m joined by marketing genius, Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting. Her newest book, Wonderhell, explores why we chase achievement and success in the first place, and where to go from here. She’s on the pod today to share her insights on getting comfortable with discomfort, and the process she went through to redefine what success means to her.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://schoolofnewfeministthought.com/332

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0:00.0

Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain, feminist self-help for everyone. Brought to you by the school of new feminist thought.

0:14.7

I'm your host Kara Loyuthile, Harvard lawyer turned life coach extraordinary, and I'm here

0:20.3

to help you get society's sexist messages out of your brain so you can be

0:24.7

confident, feel powerful, and live a life you won't regret when you die. If you want to

0:30.8

jumpstart that process you need to grab my totally free guide to feeling less anxious and more empowered by rewiring your brain.

0:39.0

Just text your email to Plus 1, 34747, 9,97, 1784 and use code word brain or go to UnFuck Your

0:49.2

Brain.

0:52.2

Now let's get to today's

0:55.0

get to today's episode.

1:07.1

Hello my chickens, so in a weird turn of events recently, well maybe not weird or a turn of events, here's a thing I realized recently. I realize that, you know, so many people who come and join the feminist self-help society, or even

1:16.8

find and listen to the podcast, are doing it because they feel anxious, right?

1:22.0

Anxiety is one of the highest kind of keyword

1:25.6

searches that leads people to us. So I think anxiety is like a big motivator of

1:30.4

why we go look for help with our minds.

1:34.0

So completely natural, it makes sense.

1:35.6

And obviously I talked quite a lot about anxiety

1:38.1

and like a lot of different ways in bits and pieces here and there.

1:42.2

But I realize I had not in a long time

1:45.0

if ever really put together all of my work on anxiety

1:50.4

and taught it in a way that everyone can start to use really actionably right away to

1:57.0

understand what is going on in their brain when they feel anxiety, why it can be just so distressing and overwhelming, and how we can use

2:06.5

feminist coaching tools to really help us reduce or eliminate our anxiety.

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