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.

    Welcome!
    2025 Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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  • Your Money or Your Life

    Your Money or Your Life
    Mar 19 2025

    “Your money, or your life.” Those two things are very, very different, but in our culture, they tend to get blended together. That’s what we’re talking about on this episode of Bewildered.

    We explore how our culture is so focused on money it’s practically a religion. And how for many of us, this obsession with money can become an addiction because “you can never get enough of something that almost works.”

    Want to try shifting your central focus away from money and work? Join us for the full episode!

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    46 mins
  • Clamor and Birdsong

    Clamor and Birdsong
    Mar 5 2025

    Noise. It’s ever-present in our culture, and often it affects us in ways we don’t even realize.

    In this episode of Bewildered, we explore how different sounds impact the nervous system—from disrupting sleep to interfering with brain waves to triggering fear in the amygdala—and what we can do to heal. (Hint: Birdsong is a powerful antidote!)

    Tune in for the full conversation to learn about the physiological and emotional effects of noise and how to regain your equilibrium in an increasingly noisy world.

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    58 mins
  • 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!

    CONNECT WITH US

    • Follow Martha on Instagram
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    39 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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