Take Back Your Power with Kara Loewentheil - Terri Cole

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Published 2024-05-16
My amazing guest this week is Kara Loewentheil, a feminist lawyer-turned-life coach who is here to tell us how a sexist society gets in our heads and how to get it out with her new book, Take Back Your Brain.

We talk about everything from the messages we absorb from society at a young age and how it shapes our thoughts to how we can slowly change those thoughts to something slightly less crappy.

If you're a high-achieving woman who feels like you need to do it all and be everything to everyone, this episode is for you, because as Kara says, you can't hate yourself into liking yourself!

Time Stamps
0:00 - Quote from Kara
0:23 - Introduction from Terri
3:16 - Why Kara wrote Take Back Your Brain
5:55 - Accomplishments don't create confidence
8:30 - Insecurities as women
11:40 - Aging and societal pressures
14:55 - Are we screwed either way?
16:17 - The brain gap (feeling & thinking)
19:06 - Choosing the less sh*tty thought
23:57 - Self-abandonment
25:08 - "Productivity" and capitalism
28:38 - Kara's biggest boundary struggle

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About Kara Loewentheil
Kara Loewentheil, J.D., Master Certified Life Coach, is the Founder of The School of New Feminist Thought and creator of The Feminist Self Help Society, host of the internationally top-ranked podcast UnF*ck Your Brain, and author of Take Back Your Brain, forthcoming from Penguin Life May 2024.

A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, she did what every Ivy League feminist lawyer should do: Quit a prestigious academic career to become a life coach! (Her Jewish parents have almost recovered.) But the risk paid off. Her podcast, UnF*ck Your Brain, which combines evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and feminist theory in concrete and practical teachings and tools, has more than 40 million downloads and has been featured in publications like the New York Times, Elle UK, Refinery 29, and Glamour.

Kara specializes in teaching a step-by-step system that identifies and removes internalized oppression and creates new and unshakeable self-
confidence.

Website/book: takebackyourbrainbook.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/karaloewentheil/

About Terri Cole
Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist, global relationship and empowerment expert, and the author of Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen and (Finally) Live Free.

For over two decades, Terri has worked with a diverse group of clients that includes everyone from stay-at-home moms to celebrities and Fortune 500 CEOs.

She has a gift for making complex psychological concepts accessible and actionable so that clients and students achieve sustainable change. She inspires over 450,000 people weekly through her blog, social media platform, signature courses, and her popular podcast, The Terri Cole Show. For more, see www.terricole.com/

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All Comments (10)
  • @terri_cole
    Tell me below: what were your takeaways from Kara? How do you think your thoughts have been shaped by society? How can you think a slightly less crappier thought than what you're currently thinking? ❤
  • @myhottea
    Epic conversation! So inspiring! Thank you Terri and Kara!
  • @itsmeaimster6698
    Ohhhh I loooove Kara! I’ve attended a few of her online talks before! So happy to see two of my favorite people talking together! ❤
  • @dkblue9331
    What a gorgeous, intelligent guest! Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this and will be purchasing a copy of both of your books. Thanks so much to you both and have a lovely weekend all ☺️🌈
  • Hi Terry. My name is Linda I'm from Ireland. I just subscribed to your channel a few days ago. I'm so glad that I did. I just love your videos. You are an amazing lady. Thank you ❤
  • @moen4645
    Thank you for an interesting conversation! Your book sounds amazing Kara Loewentheil. 💝 It serves as an important tool to help women who know that this conversation is happening but are somehow.. used to perceiving this as the usual of society and normal. ~ Is never too late for creating a better mindset~ 🤗 I would love to read it, thank you both! 🌸
  • @KA-ux9qb
    Thank you for giving tactical methods to change my self talk. Today's boys aren't given a secure message either. In school, my young son is being told he is bad for being a boy. All people need to know they matter.
  • @Candlelight777
    I here what she saying about religious talk and it used to keep people in a box shamefully for working and giving themselves the life they do deserve. I have a toxic group I want nothing to do with always meddling talking about Im focusing to much on the things I plan to buy which is blessing myself with my own income and Im homeless right now. Crazy as it is your never asking on desiring to much neither expecting to much when you know your going to be the onlg one who blesses you with the things you neex in life adding things into your home, saving for vacations and ect. Toxic people want you to settle for less than what you deserve. To never bless yourselves. Being around these type of people life will past you by and you die and you have nothing to show and have gone nowhere bc people who dont even pay your bills get comfortable with wanting you at a loss, and having nothing for yourself. To tell the true live under a poor coat and will all your hard cash to them that is the best thing you can do for toxic people. Or stay in one place anx allow them to schedule tasks for your daily life as if your a child who's private goals in life is now a privilege if they call the shots. But go nowhere and be happy leave yourselves behind.
  • @Cinnamon349
    I was drinking you were drinking we was all drinking kids were drinking. I want to drink now should we all drink later ?lol😂