375. How to Improve Instead of Give Up (+ Expiring Offer Jan 3!)
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The two biggest obstacles to creating lasting change? Getting started and not quitting when things go off the rails. We all know we should just try again if we fail, but let’s be honest—that’s a lot easier said than done when you don’t understand what’s really going on in your brain.
Tune in this week to learn what happens in your brain when you fail and why failure is a non-negotiable part of the growth process. I’ll show you how to take the sting out of shame, guilt, and anxiety so you can use every misstep as a stepping stone to the results you want.
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| 0:00.0 | There are two big challenges when it comes to habit change, goal setting, or making and keeping resolutions, |
| 0:05.7 | really anything where you want to change your actions to get a new outcome. |
| 0:09.7 | The first is starting. |
| 0:11.5 | We've talked a lot about that recently on the podcast, how to frame and set a resolution |
| 0:15.4 | correctly, and connect to what's important to you. |
| 0:18.6 | The second is not stopping when things go wrong. That's where many people |
| 0:23.3 | lose momentum and fall off. We all understand in theory that we should just try again if we fail, |
| 0:29.3 | but most of us are totally unable to do that without understanding why. It has nothing to do with |
| 0:35.8 | your character or personality traits or the resolution you picked or your life circumstances. It has nothing to do with your character or personality traits or the resolution you picked |
| 0:39.3 | or your life circumstances. It has to do with your brain, which is good news because it means |
| 0:44.1 | I can teach you how to change it. So let's get into that today. Welcome to unfuck your brain. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm your host Kara Lowentile, master certified coach, and founder of the School of |
| 0:55.7 | New Feminist Thub. I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, |
| 1:01.6 | and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 1:10.0 | All right, my friends. |
| 1:11.4 | So we've all done that thing where we set a New Year's resolution or we set a big goal and we |
| 1:16.3 | create this lovely, perfect plan. |
| 1:18.5 | It's all color-coded. |
| 1:19.8 | You've ordered the running supplies. |
| 1:21.5 | You're sure that starting January 1st, you're going to be a novelist or someone who |
| 1:25.3 | lives by a beautifully illustrated daily planner or someone |
| 1:28.6 | who eats 35 grams of fiber in a day, whatever your goal is. And then life intervenes. Maybe dramatically, |
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