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 Lohan-Thyle.

Hello my chickens. So if I sound a little weird, it's because I got a coughing fit of some kind,

right after I did it as if I was allergic to something, and I've been coughing for like an hour.

But I'm telling you this is number one because if I sound weird, that's why. Number two,

because I'm scheduled to record the podcast now. And I'm doing it. Even though I've been coughing

for an hour, and it's late at night, and I would like to be done with my day, because that's what

constraint and commitment means. It's not about sort of pushing yourself to work all night and

feeling miserable and burnt out. If I were seriously ill, I of course would not do this right now.

But a cough is not a reason to not show up and do my job and not do the things that I've committed to.

So that's what it means to respect your calendar and respect that commitment and constraint that

you've created for yourself. So that's the first thing. The other thing I want to do is I want to ask

you guys for a favor. So here's the thing. Most of you probably found the podcast by searching for it.

Right, some of you a friend might have given it to you, but a lot of you searched something,

possibly in iTunes or Spotify or wherever else, like you searched in security or anxiety,

or CBT or feminist or confidence or whatever you might have searched. And it used to be that you could

put keywords in your iTunes descriptions and they would be searchable. So people could search

and find podcasts that were related to their interest. So for whatever reasons in their infinite

wisdom, iTunes has changed this. And so now you can have just the title of your podcast

and just your name. Those are the only searchable fields. So that means that unless someone's

searching on fuck your brain, which why would anyone search that if they didn't know the name of the

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