Over This Should
Welcome to Over This Should, the podcast where we ditch societal expectations, challenge the "shoulds" holding women back, and embrace life on your own terms. Hosted by Pamela Meadows, this empowering series features inspiring conversations, expert insights, and practical strategies to help you set boundaries, boost confidence, and live authentically.
Designed for women ready to step into their power, Over This Should covers topics like self-love, emotional intelligence, navigating relationships, and achieving personal and professional growth. Whether you’re redefining success, balancing life’s demands, or seeking inspiration, this podcast provides the tools and support you need to create a fulfilling, unapologetic life.
Join us every week for uplifting stories, actionable advice, and thought-provoking interviews that empower you to live boldly and authentically. Let’s redefine what it means to thrive—together!
Episodes
62 episodes
Stop Procrastinating By Feeling Safe with Guest Heather Lillico
You can be smart, capable, and deeply committed to your goals and still find yourself avoiding the exact actions that would move your life forward. When that happens, we tend to call it laziness, inconsistency, or self-sabotage. We go somewhere...
How To Delegate Without Hovering Or Taking It Back
You finally delegate dinner and then catch yourself checking the fridge, watching the clock, and thawing the chicken anyway. That awkward moment is the real story, not the handoff itself. When we let go of a responsibility we’ve carried for a l...
The Glass Audit: How to Stop Carrying the Mental Load in Your Head
Ever find yourself brushing your teeth thinking, “Don’t forget that email,” sitting in a meeting mentally rehearsing tomorrow’s conversation, or trying to fall asleep when your brain suddenly screams, “DOG FOOD”?Welcome to the mental loa...
The Default Manager: Why You're Exhausted by a Day You Can't Remember
You get to the end of the day completely wiped out. Somebody asks what you did, and you genuinely cannot answer.You noticed the milk was gone. You moved the three o'clock because it was going to run into the three fifteen. You caught the...
Confidence Comes After You Do The Thing
Entrepreneurship gets sold as a highlight reel, but the real work happens in the messy middle: the quiet nights, the spirals of doubt, the launches that don’t land, and the constant decision-making no one sees. We’re naming that part out loud a...
The Identity Shift No One Talks About (Motherhood, Meaning, and Being Needed)
You’re told “it’s not that deep.”But what if it is?In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela Meadows explores what happens when someone dismisses your experience—and why that voice often sounds familiar. After a stranger critiques ...
Business Besties, Reinvention and Starting Before You’re Ready (with Christina Kimbrough and Brandi Zenzel)
What happens when two women get tired of shallow networking, waiting to feel ready, and pretending business can be separated from real life?Christina Kimbrough and Brandi Zenzel are the founders of Women in Business HR, a Hampton Roads c...
Human Design, Burnout, and the Blueprint You Were Never Meant to Follow
What if you’re not bad at boundaries, business, rest, or decision-making?What if you’ve just spent years trying to succeed inside systems that were never built for your actual energy?In this episode of Over This Should, P...
Your Mid-Year Reset Is Not a Performance Review
Halfway through the year can feel like an uninvited performance review.Suddenly, there is pressure to account for every goal, habit, dollar, decision, and unfinished to-do list. And for high-performing women who already carry a lot, a “m...
Why Ambitious Women Still Hide: Visibility & Self-Trust with Caroline Brown
Why is it so hard to say what you mean, hit publish, set a boundary, or take up space in the room, even when you are deeply capable?In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela Meadows talks with visibility and leadership expansi...
The Launch Failed. I Didn't.
What happens when you pour your time, money, and heart into something, and nobody says yes?In this deeply personal episode, Pamela shares what happened when her RESET program launched to beautiful feedback but zero enrollments, all durin...
Who Am I When I’m Not Being Useful?
What if the reason you can’t rest has nothing to do with your to-do list?In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela Meadows takes on the question that hits like a stomach punch and a heart check:Who am I when I’m not ...
Girlboss vs. Tradwife: The Rigged Game You Were Never Meant to Win
In April, a poll claiming 47% of young women would rather be a "tradwife" than a "girlboss" got held up on national TV as proof the career woman is over. The internet promptly turned women into opposing teams. Almost nobody stopped to ask the o...
The Identity Crisis Nobody Warned You About: When the Title Stops Fitting
That moment when you pull into the driveway, turn the car off, and just sit there?You’re not crying. You’re not falling apart. You’re not even sure what you’re feeling.You just know something about the life you’ve built doesn’t fe...
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The Reliable One Is Tired
The reliable one is tired.She remembers the appointments, tracks the deadlines, manages the emotional temperature of the room, and somehow knows when the upstairs bathroom needs more toilet paper. She is capable, trusted, praised, and qu...
The Tampon, the Boardroom & the Practice That Changed My Career
There are moments in life where your brain becomes fully convinced your career is over.Not because you failed.Not because you weren’t prepared.But because you had one deeply human moment in front of other people.In this ep...
The Runaway Yes: Why Women Say Yes When We Want to Say No
How many times have you said “yes” before you even checked your calendar… your energy… or your actual desire to do the thing?In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela dives into the hidden conditioning behind people-pleasing, overcommi...
I Should Feel Confident By Now: The Real Root of Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever looked around a room and thought:“Everyone here knows what they’re doing… except me.”Even though you’re qualified. Even though you’ve earned your seat. Even though people trust your leaders...
The Invisible Moment You Started Abandoning Yourself
There is a moment most high-achieving women can’t name.It doesn’t look dramatic. It doesn’t look reckless. It looks responsible.In this episode, Pamela explores the subtle, invisible pattern that quietly erodes c...
Breaking the Silence: This Survivor's Journey
In this episode, Pamela Meadows discusses her personal experiences with sexual assault, the impact of societal narratives on victims, and the importance of empowering survivors. She addresses current media coverage, systemic issues in the justi...
When Speaking Up Feels Like a Risk: Feminism, DEI, and Still Finding My Voice in 2025
In today's episode, I'm getting real about something I've been wrestling with: how do you raise your voice for what’s right without alienating the people you want to reach?This episode is not a perfectly polished TED Talk. It's ...
Invisible No More: Women Need to Be in All the Rooms
In today’s powerful solo episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on the invisible forces shaping our world—and not in a good way. Inspired by the bestselling book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (plus a whole lot of mind-blowi...
Tall Poppy Syndrome: Why Women Get Cut Down for Standing Tall
Have you ever felt the sting of being called “too much,” “too confident,” or “too ambitious”? Sis, you’re not imagining it—that’s Tall Poppy Syndrome at work, and this episode is here to slice it at the root.In this episode of <...
Unlocking Your Inner Wisdom: A Conversation with Meghan Gifford
What happens when a high-achieving corporate executive trades spreadsheets and deadlines for breathwork and deep healing? In this transformative episode, Meghan Gifford opens up about her bold pivot from corporate success to becoming a b...
Confidence—How to Show Up Like a Leader (Even When You Don’t Feel Like One)
Confidence isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you build. In this powerful episode of Over This Should, Pamela Meadows dives deep into what it really means to show up like a leader, even on the days you feel anythi...