Trash Talk: Where Bad Advice + Cliches Get Taken Out
What if the so-called “truths” about growth and success are actually keeping you playing small?
On Trash Talk, hosts Erica Breuer and Erin Thomas unpack empty platitudes and tired cliches that dominate the business and personal development world. These ideas might be popular, but that doesn’t mean they’re useful.
Who listens to Trash Talk?
- Skeptics and Questioners of hollow advice
- Those asking why self-help advice fails
- People done with toxic self-help culture
- Anyone who wants a place to finally talk openly about all the advice that makes you roll your eyes
Podcasting since 2025 • 38 episodes
Trash Talk: Where Bad Advice + Cliches Get Taken Out
Latest Episodes
“Choose curiosity over fear.” | Elizabeth Gilbert
Curiosity killed the cat? Maybe. But the real question is: who decided curiosity needed a morality clause in the first place? In this episode of Trash Talk, Erica Breuer and Erin Thomas take the mantra “Choose curiosity ove...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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33:14
“The Divine Feminine” / Deepak Chopra
The Divine Feminine: nurturing, abundant, inspiring… and apparently complicated IF your guru is Deepak Chopra. Erica Breuer and Erin Thomas dig into why “activating your feminine energy” suddenly feels way less mystical when the messenger...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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42:11
"Stop Apologizing" with Kelly Elaine Garthwaite
They say you should stop apologizing. But is that always true?We sat down with Kelly Elaine Garthwaite who shares how the phrase “stop apologizing” reshaped her life, and how she (and we) still question the situations where it truly appl...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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40:48
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“Vulnerability is Courage” / Brené Brown
Yup: We’re talking about Brené Brown, AGAIN.Why are we so quick to outsource our authority to her? And what does “vulnerability is courage” actually mean? We talk credentials, timing, and the uncanny way this guru blends warmth, data, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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29:57
