SOCIAL MEDIA IS FAKE

This episode is inspired by the viral Vogue article "Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?" Because I kind of agree, not because love is embarrassing, but because, like the article says, making your boyfriend the center of your life is not healthy. We’re getting honest about id ...  Show more

We spend so much energy making excuses for people that we stop listening to what our gut is actually telling us. It’s not about being quick to judge or cutting people off at the first sign of friction; it’s about learning to distinguish between a bad day and a pattern of behavior ...  Show more

The internet never felt exactly safe, but it did used to feel like freedom. A wild, unstructured frontier. A portal you stepped through to escape family, teachers, and society, diving headfirst into a chaotic unknown. This was before Silicon Valley h ...

This is not a “social media is bad” episode. 

That conversation has been talked to death. The truth is, very few things are inherently good or bad—it’s all in how you use them. But today’s episode is about how they use you. If “they” were writing this, they’d correct me ...

You log onto Instagram and within five seconds of scrolling, your algorithm has your self-esteem in a death grip. It serves you: 1) an old classmate's engagement announcement, 2) another carousel of glamorous vacation pics, 3) a random influencer looking flawless on a rooftop... ...  Show more

It feels like you’re living under surveillance. Every post. Every text. Every word. Measured, reviewed, obsessively rechecked. You shrink yourself to fit inside other people’s comfort zones. You twist your truth until it’s palatable. You call it strategy, humility, self-awaren ...