9: Self-Care Spending Trap Part 2: When Doctors Become Influencers

This week we get into AI avatars, fake doctors, and why we're all grieving the internet we used to have.In conversation, we tackle:The New York Times expose on AI "doctors" with fake diplomas on the w...

11 Aug 51min

Therapy speak is taking over everything including dating. This week therapist Todd Baratz joins us to talk about how anxiety got rebranded as discernment — and why knowing every term hasn't made a sin...

4 Aug 47min

What if everything you're doing to fix your pain is making it worse? In part two of Amanda's chronic pain story, she gets into the years of massages, dry needling, and stretching that were actively br...

28 Jul 38min

"Your body's just preparing for labor." That's what doctors told Amanda while she was in liver failure. In this episode, Amanda finally shares part one of her chronic pain story — and it starts with a...

21 Jul 52min

Is the world rigged for burnout or are we just not trying hard enough?In this episode, we unpack why we're collectively exhausted and how our connected world has created the perfect conditions for bur...

14 Jul 1h 18min

This started as a Lena Dunham episode but then devolved to many different things as our episodes do. The memoir is the doorway. In conversation, we discuss: What Girls actually asked audiences to look...

7 Jul 45min

This week, therapist and Attuned & Attached author Yolanda Renteria joins Amanda to unpack what attachment theory actually says—and why healing has a lot less to do with finding your label than social...

30 Jun 48min

This week we're getting into Karamo's Queer Eye exit: the vague bullying allegations dropped live on air, and Queer Eye and reality TV.In conversation, we discuss - The bullying allegation Gail King r...

23 Jun 55min