Unleashed with Leah Pitzenberger

The Woman You Were Before You Got Good

Leah Season 5 Episode 16

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There is a version of you, somewhere a long time ago, who was somehow more her than the version you walk around as today. Who said what she thought, wanted what she wanted, took up the space she needed, and didn't apologize for any of it.

In this episode, Leah Pitzenberger talks about what happens when women "get good" — when, over a thousand small adjustments that all felt rational in the moment, we sand down our edges, manage our tone, soften our honesty, and learn to be palatable. The woman before all of that is not gone. She has been buried under twenty years of strategic adjustment. And she has been patient.

This one is about remembering her. Not to become her again — but to bring her with you, so the woman you have worked so hard to become finally has her original self underneath the polish.

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