How Dolly Parton Made People Feel Bigger, Not Smaller

In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes · Sep 7, 2026 · 12m

You know the people who walk into a room and everyone in it sits up a little straighter, and somewhere along the way you decided you're just not one of them. This episode takes that decision apart. Dolly Parton spent sixty years making people feel bigger rather than smaller, and when you look closely at how she actually did it, it isn't a personality at all. It's a handful of small refusals, and every one of them is available to you on an ordinary Tuesday.

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