Time to Take Back Your Brain with Kara Loewentheil

The Mental Offload Podcast

Picture this: a woman with multiple Ivy degrees, running a reproductive rights think tank in NYC, crushing it on paper... yet finding herself curled up under her desk, feeling like a failure.

This was Kara Loewentheil before she discovered the truth about why so many brilliant women feel like they're never quite "enough."

In this week's must-listen episode, I sit down with Kara Loewntheil, host of the wildly popular "Unfuck Your Brain" podcast (and one of my mentors) to dive into her NYT bestseller, "Take Back Your Brain."

Whether you're questioning your worth at work, feeling the weight of being excellent in all domains, or simply tired of your inner critic running the show, this episode offers practical tools for developing true confidence.

No “fake it til you make it” needed.

What You'll Learn:

• What’s really behind the desire for external validation

• The trap of "conditional self-esteem" that keeps high-achieving women stuck in cycles of self-doubt

• How “over-responsibility” can keep women doing more than their fair share - at work and at home

We don’t shy away from the tough topics, like how do we balance working on ourselves while acknowledging very real structural barriers?

Ready to transform how you think about your own brain? Listen to the full episode here.

Featured in This Episode:

Kara Loewentheil is the founder of The School of New Feminist Thought, the host of the internationally top-ranked podcast UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone (50 million downloads and counting), and the creator of the Feminist Self-Help Society, a feminist mindset coaching community.

Her first book, the instant national bestseller Take Back Your Brain: How A Sexist Society Gets in Your Head – and How to Get It Out, was released in May 2024 and immediately landed on the New York Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, C-Suite, Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller charts.

A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, Kara did what every Ivy League lawyer should do: Quit a prestigious academic career to become a life coach! Eight years after she stepped down as director of a think tank at Columbia Law School, she has created a multiple-seven-figure business, taught millions of women how to identify the ways that sexist socialization impacts their brains, and helps women all over the world rewire their thought patterns to liberate themselves from the inside out.

Learn more about Kara here.