314. People Pleasing is Costing You More Than You Think

The Kathie Owen Perspective Podcast · Aug 24, 2026 · 17m · transcript

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Why You Feel Responsible for Everyone

🤡 What if people-pleasing isn’t really about being nice?

What if it’s about feeling responsible for everyone else’s emotions?

You notice someone is disappointed, so you try to fix it.

Someone misunderstands you, so you explain yourself again and again.

Someone gets uncomfortable, so you change your behavior.

Someone asks for something, and you say yes before you’ve even asked yourself what you want.

It can look like kindness.

It can look like generosity.

It can even look like responsibility.

But sometimes, responsibility quietly becomes…