Wait… Is This Guilt or Just Conditioning? (The Edge)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After Kelly’s conversation with psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Reid about guilt and unreasonable expectations, Kelly and Chip sit down to unpack what actually stuck with them personally. What started as a conversation centered around women’s guilt quickly turned into a bigger discussion about the ways both men and women are conditioned to feel responsible for everyone, everything, and constantly doing more.
Chip shares how these pressures show up from the male perspective, while Kelly reflects on the patterns she recognized in herself after the conversation. They also talk about the small ways they’re already trying to apply what they learned to their own lives — from noticing automatic guilt responses to questioning where certain expectations even came from in the first place.
A lighter, honest conversation about the pressure so many of us carry without even realizing it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.5 | I have to be honest, I told you before the podcast that my Zoom was being weird. |
| 0:20.4 | It's just that they've restructured and I'm so brain dead because I've been so busy that I'm like, wait, like the change of restructuring where the record button is has thrown me for a fucking loop. |
| 0:32.5 | Why do people have to fix shit that's not broken? |
| 0:35.2 | That's what I'm saying. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm like, I knew the program the program zoom what are you doing here |
| 0:39.1 | what do you do this to me yeah oh my god i look so tired i haven't showered so or had my coffee today |
| 0:49.7 | you haven't had coffee yet no i've just kind of been lazy today. |
| 0:54.6 | I just don't understand. |
| 0:56.0 | The coffee thing is the first thing I do in the morning. |
| 0:58.6 | And maybe that means I'm some sort of addict or something. |
| 1:00.8 | But it's like, but it's very like ritualistic for me. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.5 | It's good to have like. |
| 1:06.4 | And it's good like when I'm, when I'm like sticking to like a structured sort of morning where I like know the order of things. My days are generally better. But full disclosure, we're recording on a Saturday. I got up this morning. I've been like for me to say I'm having a lazy day. I don't want people to think it's a work day. I'm just rolling. |
| 1:28.2 | Yes, yes, yes. But I did, |
| 1:28.8 | I went for a longer walk with the dogs. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah, |
| 1:31.2 | a little bit. |
| 1:31.6 | I did go for a long walk with the dogs this morning. |
| 1:36.5 | So a little longer than a normal, |
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