How to Advocate for Yourself When Nobody's Listening with Lindsay Scola

Unbehaved · Jun 3, 2026 · 39m

Have you ever known something was wrong — in your body, your gut, your bones — and had someone else tell you that it's just fine?

Lindsay Scola was 16 when the exhaustion started. She told her doctor she was tired. Her doctor told her busy people are tired — and that felt, somehow, like an initiation into adulthood rather than a dismissal. So she carried it. Through a career as a political staffer, through building 75,000-person rallies for the Obama campaign while sneaking naps in bathrooms because she thought that's just what exhaustion was. Through doctor after doctor handing her the same…