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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone breaks down the centuries of sexist socialization that causes us to struggle with self-doubt, burnout, and anxiety. Hosted by Master Feminist Coach Kara Loewentheil, J.D., founder of The School of New Feminist Thought and author of Take Back Your Brain (Penguin 2024), each episode teaches you how to turn down the noise of societal expectations, turn up the volume on what YOU really want in life, and change your thinking to make sure you go get…
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- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
325. Willpower Doesn't Exist - Why We Fall Off the Wagon
In part one of this three-part series about falling off the wagon with our goals, I discuss why we fall off the wagon, how your current reaction to falling off…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
324. DRUMROLL: A New School, New Name, and New Look!
I am so excited to share this news with you. My work and my business are evolving and it’s time to make some changes. Tune in to learn about the evolution of…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
323. Unpacking Socialization and Myths about Dating: A Discussion with Damona Hoffman
I’m joined by Damona Hoffman, certified dating coach and author of F the Fairy Tale as we discuss unpacking the myths and socialization we’ve internalized…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
322. The Must-Do Secret to Planning Resolutions
Many of us really enjoy the planning stage of New Year’s resolutions — the stage where you’re buying new gym outfits or color-coordinating all of the time…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
UFYB Bonus: A Feminist Take On Personal Finance: A Discussion with Vivian Tu
In this bonus episode, I’m joined by Vivian Tu, former Wall Street trader and author of Rich AF. We discuss the financial socialization and stigma women are…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
321. Choosing A New Year's Resolution Based On Your Values
Now that you know the importance of resolutions, you may be wondering how you should actually go about choosing one. In this episode, I’ll teach you how to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
320. Why New Year's Resolutions Matter & Why You Should Make One
Resolutions have started to get a bad rap. And it is reasonable to be skeptical about resolutions — they can be self-critical, perfectionist fantasies of…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
319. The Price Women Pay to Be Good: A Conversation with Elise Loehnen
Most of us have heard of the seven deadly sins, but don’t really know what they are, where they come from, or how they play into how women are expected to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Free Training: Solving Socially-Programmed Anxiety!
Let’s talk about anxiety. Specifically, socially-programmed anxiety. This is a type of anxiety that women, and people socialized as women, feel that comes from…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
318. Greatest Hits: Perfectionism & Achieving Impossible Goals
We’re getting to that time of year where we start slowing down to reflect on the previous year and start looking forward to the next one. And this is one of…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
317. Parenthood, Regrets, and Authenticity: A Conversation with Emmalee Bierly and Jennifer Chaiken of ShrinkChicks
“When are you going to have kids?” is a question that many women are asked in their lives, sometimes by complete strangers. It’s just assumed that all women…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
316. The Danger of a Dramatic Brain
To be able to create the outcomes that we want in our lives, sometimes we have to tone down the drama in our brains. But we often don’t have much perspective…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Bonus: De-Centering Romantic Relationships from Your Life: A Conversation with The Girls Gotta Eat Podcast
Join me this week for a special bonus episode with hosts of the Girls Gotta Eat podcast, Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine! Tune in as we discuss the…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
315. Gender Exploration for Everyone: A Conversation with Rae McDaniel Author of Gender Magic
Rae McDaniel, gender and sex therapist and author of Gender Magic, joins me on the podcast this week to talk about the role of gender in a world where we all…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
314. Greatest Hits: Clean v. Dirty Pain
Thought work is not frivolous. It’s absolutely necessary, powerful work. The deepest power of thought work is helping us stay centered and grounded when…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
313. It's Ok to Work Hard: A Conversation with Oat Haus Founder Ali Bonar (UPDATED)
Working hard has gotten a bad rep lately. When you’re creating something you’re passionate about, it’s unrealistic to think that it won’t be hard work. But…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
312. Scientific Proof This Coaching Works Published in JAMA: A Conversation with Dr. Tyra Fainstad and Dr. Adrienne Mann
Dr. Adrienne Mann and Dr. Tyra Fainstad conducted a study of over 1,000 women resident and fellow physicians, enrolling about half of them in a group coaching…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Socially-Programmed Anxiety - Brand New Free Training
Let’s talk about anxiety. Specifically, socially-programmed anxiety. This is a type of anxiety that women, and people socialized as women, feel that comes from…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
311. Shedding Expectations, Shame, and Clutter: A Conversation with Shira Gill
We assume that clutter is inherently bad or a problem. And for many, lack of organization and clutter leads to anxiety, overwhelm, and stress. On top of that…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
310. Six Reasons Your Self-Coaching Isn’t Sticking - And How to Solve Them
No matter how long you’ve been coaching yourself, it’s normal to have blocks and challenges come up. If you’ve been self-coaching and just not seeing the…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
309. Coaching and Therapy Through a Feminist Lens: A Conversation with ACFC Alumni Jen Fadden, Osaru Anyumba, Nicolassa Galvez, and Rachelle Siebke
Discover the power of coaching and therapy through a feminist lens on this week's podcast episode. Tune in as we explore how understanding the impact of…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
308. When to Listen to Your Financial Fears: An Interview with Farnoosh Torabi
We all feel fear in our lives for all sorts of different reasons. Some fear can be useful and some fear can be unproductive. Regardless of whether your fear is…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
307. Feminist Marriage Brain Part 2 — Marriage Ambivalence
As a historically patriarchal institution, marriages of the past benefited the man far more than the woman. A man and woman became one legal entity, but the…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
BRAND NEW PODCAST for Coaches and Cognitive-Based Therapists - Subscribe to Access!
Most coaching certification and therapy programs don’t teach how to look at socialization and the way it impacts women’s brains and the way they think about…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
306. Feminist Marriage Brain Part 1 — Engagement Expectations
We're socialized to believe that the way other people act is about us. Women are socialized to want big romantic gestures from men, which they then equate to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
305. Negotiation & Collaboration for Professional Women of Color (and Everyone Else): A Conversation with Executive Coach Jamie Lee
This week I’m joined by Executive Coach and Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching grad Jamie Lee as we discuss how to ask for and advocate for what you…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
304. Your Life GPS — What Is Your Setting?
The things you do and the choices you make —the direction in which your “life GPS” is set — determine the outcomes in your life. So if there’s an area in your…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
303. Conscious Uncoupling: A Conversation with Ali Ryan
Nearly all of us will experience a breakup at some point in our lives (if we haven’t already). No matter how or why the relationship ends, it’s what we choose…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
302. How to Enjoy Your Vacation No Matter What
Vacations. Most of us can’t wait to get away and just chill out. You might imagine yourself in a gorgeous location, eating delicious food, seeing beautiful…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
301. UnF*ck Your Time: A Conversation with Vikki Louise
Every one of us has received social messages not only about how we should spend our time, but also what kind of morality is attached to how we spend it. Women…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
300.5. Behind the Curtain of the Clutch: Part Two
There’s too much goodness inside the Clutch to contain it to just one episode, so here comes Part Two! Here’s your chance to get a look inside my feminist…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
300. Behind the Curtain of the Clutch: Part One
Whether you’re a new listener and unsure what the Clutch even is or you’re a long-time listener who’s always been curious about the Clutch, here’s your chance…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
299. Black Girls, Religion, Soft Life & Romance Novels: A Conversation with EbonyJanice
This week I’m joined by EbonyJanice, author of All the Black Girls are Activists. Tune in as we discuss how to reclaim authority over your own life, how doing…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
298. Your Emotional Compass, Guilt & Shame
As women and people socialized as women, we’re often making decisions from an emotional place, deciding what to do based on whether doing it or not is going to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
297. What Matters More Than Thoughts
Oftentimes the thoughts we think aren’t what’s most important; it’s our reaction to them that really matters. This week I’ll discuss why the way you react to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
296. Navigating Psychological Avoidance: A Conversation With Dr. Luana Marques
Many of us feel stuck when we experience the discomfort of anxiety. But ironically, it’s not the anxiety itself that keeps us stuck, it’s what we do when we’re…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
295. The Parent Blame Boomerang
The way you think about how you were raised, especially if there were certain things you didn’t like about your caregivers’ behavior, can have a big impact on…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
294. Smart Sex: A Conversation with Dr. Emily Morse
Things are going to get a little hot and steamy this week as I talk sex with Dr. Emily Morse, host of the Sex with Emily podcast. We discuss why many women are…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
293. Boundaries, Breakups, and Relationships: A Q+A Episode
Tune in to this episode as I answer some questions about boundaries, breakups, and relationships. You’ll find out how you might be thinking about boundaries…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
292. How to Stop Criticizing Everything and Everyone Part 2
Now that we know how and why we criticize others (and ourselves), what can we do to stop being so critical (if we decide we want to)? In this podcast episode…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
291. How to Stop Criticizing Everything and Everyone Part I
Being critical of other people is something that many of us do so often that we may not even realize we’re doing it. And not only do we criticize others, we…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
290. Thought Work & ADHD: A Conversation with Kristen Carder
Adults are being diagnosed with ADHD more and more these days. And receiving the diagnosis alone is helping many folks make sense of certain behaviors they…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
289. Loving v. Being Loved and Which Feels Better
There is a difference in how I feel about loving my partner and how he feels about loving me. And recently, while trying to work on creating more feelings of…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
288. Grief, Patriarchy, & Post-Traumatic Growth: An Interview with Krista St-Germain
We’ve all experienced loss and grief at some point in our lives. And while we may hear that there’s a set number of steps to go through or a timeline to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
287. Change Requires a Leap of Faith
As humans, logic and reason reassure us that something could or could not work — they help us make sense of what we perceive as possible. But logic and reason…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Bonus: Taking Stock of Our Worth + Birthday Reflections
Today is my birthday! It’s a day I love for all the obvious reasons, but it’s also a time when I love to reflect and take stock of my life and how it’s changed…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
286. Grief At Lives Not Lived
Is there an alternate version of your life that you fantasized about having, that you didn’t get to experience? When we don’t let ourselves grieve or…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
285. True Self-Care: A Conversation with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin
We might call massages, face masks, and shopping sprees self-care, but often they’re really just illusions of self-care. It looks like we’re doing these things…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
284. Stop Second-Guessing Yourself
Some of us are second-guessing ourselves all the time and don’t even realize it — especially women, because we’re actually taught to think this way. We’re…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
283. Wellness Perfectionism
Perfectionism is everywhere, it’s sneaky. And this week I want to talk about a little thing I like to call wellness perfectionism. No matter what tips, tools…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
282. Finances & Feminism: A Conversation with Tori Dunlap
Money can bring up a lot of tricky feelings - especially for women. But no matter where you are in your money story, here’s the good news: you can rewrite it…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
281. Is It All My Fault? & Other Questions
This week I tackle listener questions including whether or not everything that happens to you is your fault because of your thoughts, how to coach yourself…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
280. Mentorship & Hierarchy in Coaching: A Conversation with Judith Gaton
When you have goals and aspirations it’s normal to look for someone that can help you reach them. Having a mentor to help guide you can be a great thing. But…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
279. Greatest Hits - The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself About Your Life
What if there were one question you could ask yourself that immediately put you in touch with your highest priorities, your deepest values, and how you want to…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
278. Cultivating a CEO Mindset and Debunking Entrepreneurship Myths: A Conversation with Amy Porterfield
Whether we’re at the top of a corporation, running our own business, or working as an employee, we’ll often find a million different ways to outsource our…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
277. Three Ways Judaism Has Shaped My Work in the World
I am Jewish, but I don’t consider myself to be particularly religious or spiritual. I know that may seem strange or like there’s a disconnect there, but…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
276. Greatest Hits Vol. 14 How to Know When Emotional Difficulty Is Worth It
Emotional growth doesn’t always feel great. But it doesn’t have to feel terrible, either. You get to choose whether or not you put the time and energy into…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
275. Three Myths About Self-Love
I truly believe self-love is the antidote to a lot of our self-created mental and emotional suffering — life sucks when you’re going through it hating yourself…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
274. Three Myths About Love
No matter how much love you do or do not feel on February 14, Valentine’s Day is just a made up ‘holiday.’ Yet we’ve been socialized to believe that a woman’s…
- UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
273. Transitioning to Leadership + Navigating Office Politics: A Conversation with Jenn Deal, Annie Framand, and Jamie Lee
The workplace can be challenging for a lot of people, but women and those socialized as women face a further set of challenges. This week on the podcast I’m…