Episode 10: Creating Traditions, Seasonal Stillness, and Consuming Christmas
Release Date: 12/19/2025
Episode 13: Navigating Shadow, Sensitivity, and Collective Strength
Down the Rabbit Hole
In this episode, Sam and Bri unpack the collective grief and rage many women are carrying, using Renee Good’s killing to name the quiet power dynamics women navigate every day. They dive into feminism, masculinity, and their privilege as white women, while also reminding listeners to look for the collective good still alive in the world. From there, heading directly into self work, emotional capacity, attachment styles, and the necessity of learning to receive. Sam reflects on a retreat that taught her to make fewer decisions and soften into receptivity. They dive into shadow work as women,...
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Episode 12: Rejecting Collective Apathy, Considering Rage
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The rabbit hole this week explores the outrage gap we feel between men and women, the power in shifting the gaze inward, the nuance of learned helplessness, and the seductive nature of political apathy. 00:00 Welcome Back and New Beginnings 04:04 Sponsorship Woes and Podcasting Realities 10:28 Collective Gaslighting: Women's Experiences 16:15 The Outrage Gap: Men and Women's Issues 23:13 Learned Helplessness and Political Apathy 29:45 Reclaiming Agency and Community
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Episode 11: What We've Learned This Year
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In this light-hearted episode, Bri and Sam discuss their issue with the New Year being too pressurized, fun memories and traditions of the New Year, and how the choose to set goals. They each give each other insight to the lessons they’ve learned: from breaking toxic relationship patterns to leaning in to self trust as a single woman. This episode focus on taking moments of gratitude and reflection for all that’s happened this year.
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Episode 10: Creating Traditions, Seasonal Stillness, and Consuming Christmas
Down the Rabbit Hole
We dive into the emotional weight of nostalgia, the beginnings of holiday consumerism, and the importance of creating our own traditions as an act of self love. We share some of the grief and healing that can come with stillness and seasonal cycles, and we also attempt to give some of our Christmas traditions the credit where they’re due.
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Episode 9: Health Advocacy and The Pelvic Floor Part II
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In this episode, Sam and Bri continue exploring a conversation with friend and Pelvic Floor Therapist Dr. Kayleigh. They talk about health class and the shame it implements at a young age, how the world discounts intuitive bodily sensation, and the power of diaphragmatic breathing for strength, healing and resilience. The conversation works around chronic illness and pain as they talk about their own personal experiences while weaving in Dr.Kayleigh's widsom. They discuss the power of meditation for chronic pain, alongside the different areas of the brain that signal pain— how cash-based...
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Reclaiming Your Body: Chronic Illness, Pelvic Floor Healing, and Radical Self-Advocacy
Down the Rabbit Hole
In this episode, we’re joined by our friend and pelvic floor physical therapist, Dr. Kayleigh, and we go way down the rabbit hole on chronic conditions, the body keeping the score, and what it can look like to learn how to heal your own body from the inside out. We get radically honest about our personal medical stories: endometriosis, appendicitis, chronic constipation, and even peeing ourselves while running—and how each experience has shaped our relationship to our bodies. Dr. Kayleigh offers invaluable insight from the provider perspective, reminding us what’s possible when you have...
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Episode 7: What the Body is Worth
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This week, after a brief detour into the Hamilton obsession, Bri takes us back to her former life in the New York modeling world - and the unique relationship she developed with her body along the way. Sam shares her own experience with bodily perfection and the pressure as a dancer. They unpack body image, identity, and the ways society shapes what we think we want.
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Episode 6: Navigating the Gray Areas: Male-Female Friendships, Power, and Safety
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Can men and women really just be friends? In this conversation, Bri and Sam unpack the intricate dynamics of platonic relationships across gender lines. They explore the nuance of power imbalances between men and women, sharing personal experiences of feeling unsafe and the ways these dynamics shape our interactions… even in friendships. From the tension between genuine connection and underlying sexual chemistry to the question of whether true platonic friendship can exist when power differentials are at play… Bri and Sam get vulnerable about the moments they’ve felt their boundaries...
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Episode 5: Recovering ‘Cool Girls’ and Female Competition
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In this episode we’re diving into competition as women, life as recovering ‘cool girls’, toxic views of femininity that take a lot of dismantling. We also share our personal icks, the creepy masks of our childhood, and we’d love to ‘make men gather for wholesome reasons again’.
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Episode 4: Life Transitions, and the Inconvenience of Friendship
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Sam and Bri talk about the messiness of transition, living between homes and lives, and leaning on the help you didn’t have to ask for.
info_outlineWe dive into the emotional weight of nostalgia, the beginnings of holiday consumerism, and the importance of creating our own traditions as an act of self love. We share some of the grief and healing that can come with stillness and seasonal cycles, and we also attempt to give some of our Christmas traditions the credit where they’re due.