102: The Female Ambition Penalty with Stefanie O'Connell
For years, women have been told that success comes down to confidence: negotiate your salary, advocate for yourself, and lean in. But what happens when women follow that advice—and still face backlash...
10 Mar 1h 4min
101: Q+A: Echo Chambers, Critical Thinking & Friendship
We're doing something different this week: we went through our giant list of listener questions and topic suggestions and gave our top-of-the-dome thoughts on a bunch of them. - Are headphones making ...
3 Mar 41min
100: America's Next Top Model & Its Cultural Impact
Did America’s Next Top Model actually empower women or did it just package trauma, body shame, and misogyny as inspiration?In conversation, we tackle: Why America’s Next Top Model was the perfect stor...
24 Feb 53min
99: How to Have Healthy Relationships with Nedra Tawwab
In this episode of Nuance Needed, host Amanda White is joined by therapist and bestselling author Nedra Tawwab. In conversation they discuss: The gray areas of relationships — where boundaries, connec...
17 Feb 43min
98: We're Labeling the Wrong Things
In this episode, we're unpacking why everything from nail polish to dating behavior now needs its own branded term and how that's making us more paranoid and less equipped to handle real life. This ep...
10 Feb 49min
97: Are We Over-Therapized?
It seems like everyone on the internet is obsessed with the idea that we are over-therapized! We decided to dig in on this topic while also exploring the difference between intellectualizing, ruminati...
3 Feb 58min
96: Excellence isn't a Dirty Word with Brad Stulberg
Is “excellence” just another word for hustle culture nonsense now?In this episode, Amanda sits down with Brad Stulberg to reclaim effort, care, and ambition from the internet grifters who ruined them....
29 Jan 45min
95: Creating Routines in Times of Crisis
When the political landscape feels chaotic, exhausting, and impossible to control, staying grounded is very important. This episode is a real-time case for why routines, not reinvention, are what actu...
27 Jan 44min
