Bewildered

By: Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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  • What if we stopped listening to the controlling voice of the culture around us, and instead learned to reconnect with our own true nature?

    Sometimes we aren’t even sure why we feel so bewildered… and discontented… and even downright miserable. Often it’s because we have let the forces of society replace our own instinctive knowledge of what is right for us.

    Now, it’s time for us to find that voice again—before it’s too late.

    For Martha and Rowan, Job One is to live according to our deepest truths, making the commitment to feeling good even when it means looking weird. We believe that this is how we will reinvent our world—from the inside out— to create a society that’s kinder, more equitable, and more ecologically sustainable than the one we see around us right now.

    This is the vision that we laugh and stumble and chat and feel our way towards here on this podcast. Did we mention LAUGH? We want no part of personal and global transformation if it isn’t fun!

    So if you struggle to find a place where people who are as idealistic and brokenhearted, as silly and deeply sincere, as bewildered as you are—you might have just arrived.

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    2025 Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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  • Stand By for Further Instructions

    Stand By for Further Instructions
    Feb 19 2025

    This is a spicy time in history, and in between bouts of fear, we’ve been thinking about how to navigate through potentially dark and dangerous times.

    Want to know our go-to strategy? Trusting our intuition!

    In this episode of Bewildered, we talk about how intuition is heightened during uncertain and chaotic times, and how to recognize the messages your intuition is trying to send you. (Hint: It involves curiosity, synchronicities, and inexplicable joy.)

    Tune in for the full episode to find out more!

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    39 mins
  • You Have One Missed Call From Destiny

    You Have One Missed Call From Destiny
    Feb 5 2025

    Intuition is like a call from destiny that we often miss because we're always "on the other line" with culture.

    In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro explore the concept of intuition and how to connect with it amidst all the noise of our cultural conditioning.

    They talk about how to tell the difference between intuition and anxiety, the reasons we tend to ignore intuition, and how to hang up with culture so you can listen to the messages your intuition is trying to tell you. Don't miss it!

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • How Not Anxious?

    How Not Anxious?
    Jan 22 2025

    Martha and Ro are back with another episode of Bewildered, and it's a follow-up to their "Why So Anxious?" episode. This time they're talking about how not to be anxious, and why moving beyond anxiety is linked to creativity, your life’s purpose, and building a better society.

    You'll learn ways to retrain your brain to have a completely different experience of being human in community—and how lowering anxiety can help us all create a more beautiful, more just world together.

    Give it a listen!

    CONNECT WITH US

    • Follow Martha on Instagram
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    53 mins

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Topics always pertain to something I’m struggling with

I would give this podcast a 10 if I could! I found this podcast after reading 4 of Martha’s books and they found me in the lowest period of my life and gave me the courage to get up and try again.I’d recommend this podcast to any adult trying to figure themselves and society out and all of the different aspects that goes on between them both.There is also so much love between these two woman it makes their show such an easy listen with a truly heartfelt message.They honestly give a shit about the world and what’s going on in and around it!

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Wish I could hear it

I love Martha Beck, been reading her articles in O magazine for years. However, the sound is terrible. The ads and her introduction are perfect, but the actual recorded conversation with Ro is too soft, Even with the volume all way up, I cannot hear this podcast unless I am right next to my tablet. Unfortunately, I give up trying to hear what they are saying and am moving on.

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