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WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast

Welcome to the WANTcast: The Women Against Talk Podcast — lessons in moving forward fearlessly and spreading the (good) word. In each episode, writer, speaker, coach and WANT founder Katie Horwitch unpacks tips, tools, motivation and inspiration to help you shift your self-talk: the internal narrative you have on loop 24/7 that tells you who you are and who you should be. Dive into topics such as confidence, fear, trust, body image, self-doubt, self-worth, relationships, career, friendships, social issues, and more - and walk away from each episode with actionable steps to shift your narrative from reactive to proactive (as well as inspiration to keep going when the going gets tough). You can't change the world until you change YOUR world, first - and shifting your self-talk is where it all begins. The goal isn't to change who you are - it's to BECOME who you know you're meant to be. New episodes every other Tuesday. Get the show notes + more at womenagainstnegativetalk.com
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Dec 20, 2022

The negative self-talk struggle around the holidays and New Year is definitely A THING. You're not alone, and we're unpacking a lot in this episode. Including:

  • Why the negative self-talk around THIS time of year is especially potent and important to be aware of
  • Why the data around New Years Resolutions (80% of people let them go by February) is about waaaaaaay more than goal-setting strategies and might be a sign of something deeper going on way before New Years Day even hits
  • Why the ends of years can be really hard for some people (including Katie!)
  • Four ways Katie personally navigates her self-talk during this time of year, and what she's seen help others as well
  • ...and more!

 

SHOW NOTES:

SUBSCRIBE to The Good Word, WANT's monthly emails from Katie, on Substack!

Love the WANTcast? Share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts telling people why you love it.

Find us at womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Follow Katie on Instagram at @katiehorwitch, or visit katiehorwitch.com

Dec 6, 2022

Well this is the boundary podcast episode you might not have heard before...

You know how important it is to set boundaries with others (family, friends, coworkers, strangers on the internet). But what about setting boundaries with your SELF?

  • Why it's so important to set boundaries with ourselves, and what happens when we don't
  • FOUR areas to look at when you're setting boundaries with yourself
  • The big myth about "balance" and how to think of it instead
  • How self-directed boundaries can help us set and maintain boundaries with others, especially during tense or stressful times

and more!

 

SHOW NOTES:

Prentis Hemphill on boundaries

Cheryl Strayed on boundaries

READ: Setting Mindful Boundaries with Family on WANT

LISTEN: On Listening As Service with Benjamin Mathes on the WANTcast

Love the WANTcast? Share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts telling people why you love it.

Find us at womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Follow Katie on Instagram at @katiehorwitch, or visit katiehorwitch.com

Nov 24, 2022

No matter what, whether you celebrate or you don't celebrate, you're probably getting a lot of messages around thankfulness and gratitude right now. In today's special Thursday episode, we're talking how to frame this day and this time of year as something a little bit different than in the past:

  • Why you might feel a sense of burnout, anxiety, or longing the day of an emotion/expression-focused holiday like Thanksgiving or Valentine's Day
  • How to cultivate a gratitude practice in as little as 1-2 minutes without going overboard or being unrealistic
  • Katie's theory on bringing more of a New Year's Eve vibe to the day we're supposed to focus on "giving thanks"
  • ...and more!

SHOW NOTES:

Listen: WANTcast 117: 4 Steps To A 5-Minute Gratitude Practice

Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas

The Rising Sign on Good Risings with Colin Bedell

Love the WANTcast? Share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts telling people why you love it.

Find us at womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Follow Katie on Instagram at @katiehorwitch, or visit katiehorwitch.com

 

Nov 1, 2022

America is more obsessed with fitness than we've ever been...but somehow the unhealthiest we've ever been. How is this so, and how we can break the barriers that Fitness + Wellness Culture tells us we must subscribe to?

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, the author of FIT NATION, is here to answer these questions and more. For her, fitness is, as her new book describes, "a social justice issue. She argues that the fight for a more equitable exercise culture will be won only by revolutionizing fitness culture at its core, making it truly inclusive for all bodies in a way it has never been."

 

SHOW NOTES:

Buy Fit Nation here

Natalia's website

Instagram

Facebook 

Twitter

Natalia on Episode 043 of The WANTcast

Past Present podcast

Welcome To Your Fantasy podcast

Love the WANTcast? Share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts telling people why you love it.

Find us at womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Follow Katie on Instagram and Twitter @katiehorwitch, or visit katiehorwitch.com

Oct 12, 2022

Today's guest is Kara Cutruzzula: a writer and editor, a playwright, a musical theater lyricist, and the author of both DO IT FOR YOURSELF and DO IT TODAY: An Encouragement Journal. Her long-running must-read newsletter Brass Ring Daily, about work and creativity, has been featured in Lifehacker, Inc., TIME, and Vanity Fair — which called it "a life coach in your inbox".

Today we talk about:

  1. Kara's specific advice for actually "enjoying the process" and "trusting the journey" in your work and life

  2. How/why we diminish our own excitement about projects and milestones, and how to keep some of that joy for yourself

  3. Why Katie sometimes feels like she experiences an existential crisis when she hits her goals, and Kara's way of countering that feeling

  4. Finding your collaborators and champions, how to reach out to people whose work you admire when it feels scary to — plus Kara's exact "in" line — and where the heck to actually find them

  5. Kara's unique take on why hearing NO is sometimes the best thing you can hear

  6. The reason Kara doesn't actually write with a reader in mind, and how it's helped the longevity of Brass Ring Daily

and more!



SHOW NOTES:

Kara's website

Instagram

Brass Ring Daily

Do It Today podcast

BUY Do It Today: An Encouragement Journal

BUY Do It For Yourself

Love the WANTcast? Share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts telling people why you love it.

Find us at womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Follow Katie on Instagram and Twitter @katiehorwitch, or visit katiehorwitch.com

Sep 27, 2022

"Doing your own thing" or "being yourself"...a lot of people will talk about it like it's this gold at the end of the rainbow, and it will feel so great when you get there. In this episode, we talk about...

  1. The reality of being yourself and "doing your own thing," and why so many of us are left thinking we're doing it wrong

  2. The email Katie received about yoga pants that gave her an unexpected blast from the past

  3. Trends, trendsetting, and how to mindfully navigate the ups and downs of what's in vs. out

  4. Why you might want to hold the idea of "being yourself" a little more loosely than you are right now...

    and more!

Love the WANTcast? Share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts telling people why you love it.

Find us at womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Follow Katie on Instagram and Twitter @katiehorwitch, or visit katiehorwitch.com

Sep 13, 2022

Season 8 of the WANTcast is here!

1. What we really mean when we're saying we need to "get back into the swing of things"

2. Four practices and ideas to help you move forward — without letting the negative self-talk spiral of "I should do this" or "I used to do this, so why can't I now" get in your way.

3. Why Katie is extremely allergic to hopping on bandwagons, why this maybe isn't the best thing, and how to think of it instead.

and more!

 

Love the WANTcast? Share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts telling people why you love it.

Find us at womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Follow Katie on Instagram and Twitter @katiehorwitch, or visit katiehorwitch.com

Jun 1, 2022

This time of year can bring up a lot of negative cultural messaging — and therefore negative self-talk — around bodies and working out, and while things are changing for (hopefully) the better, we’ve GOT to know where we’ve come from and how we got here so that we can get to where we truly want to be. 

Danielle Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author of the critically acclaimed cultural history of women's fitness Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World. 

From the revolutionary and sometimes radical beginnings to the intermingling of diet culture and fitness, to fitness’s place in the feminist movement, to the history of fitness shaping our self-perception — hopefully, this episode can help you get curious about movement’s place in your own life, what’s informed that, and where you’re going from here.

 

(This is also the season finale — we're taking a short summer vacay. See you in a couple months!)

 

SHOW NOTES:

Danielle's website

Buy Let's Get Physical

Danielle on IG

The Cut: The Secret Sexual History of the Barre Workout

Follow Katie on Instagram

Leave a review on iTunes (and subscribe to the WANTcast if you haven't already!)

Subscribe to The (Good) Wordour monthly email digest filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk

Join The WANT Community, our private membership club

Visit womenagainstnegativetalk.com

May 10, 2022

When life gets stressful, do you go MIA? Why a text from a friend inspired the podcast’s return, a conversation about why we shut down, and how to give yourself what you need without compromising everything else in the meantime. Also, how to support your loved ones who do this (without ignoring what you need, too).

 

SHOW NOTES:

We Can Do Hard Things on BURNOUT 

Follow Katie on Instagram

Leave a review on iTunes (and subscribe to the WANTcast if you haven't already!)

Subscribe to The (Good) Wordour monthly email digest filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk

Join The WANT Community, our private membership club

Visit womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Mar 11, 2022
When you feel like nothing is in your control, how do you gain control? What do you do if your attempt to gain control backfires?

Today on the WANTcast, we're talking uncertainty and control...plus, a life update!

SHOW NOTES:

Follow Katie on Instagram

Leave a review on iTunes (and subscribe to the WANTcast if you haven't already!)

Subscribe to The (Good) Wordour monthly email digest filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk

Join The WANT Community, our private membership club

Visit womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Feb 16, 2022

If you’ve always associated attorneys with words like “shark,” “intense,” and “cutthroat,” you’re in for a down-to-earth breath of legal fresh air from Sam. Sam Vander Wielen is an attorney-turned-entrepreneur and legal educator who helps coaches & service-providers legally protect and grow their online brands through her legal templates and signature program, the Ultimate Bundle™️. In this episode we talk about how to build a business that checks off all the right legal boxes, how to figure out what's most important when you're on a budget, and how to get others to take you seriously no matter WHAT you do.

 

Sam is the host of the On Your Terms podcast, available wherever you subscribe to your pods!

 

SHOW NOTES:

On Your Terms Podcast

Work with Sam

Sam on IG

Follow Katie on Instagram

Leave a review on iTunes (and subscribe to the WANTcast if you haven't already!)

Subscribe to The (Good) Wordour monthly email digest filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk

Join The WANT Community, our private membership club

Visit womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Feb 1, 2022

If you've ever been told you "do too many things," been asked what you "REALLY" do, or that you need to focus on ONE thing, this episode is for you. Whether your career (and life!) take you in many directions or you're just looking to get clarity on what it is you're after, this solo episode can help you find your lane.

 

SHOW NOTES:

Follow Katie on Instagram

Leave a review on iTunes (and subscribe to the WANTcast if you haven't already!)

Subscribe to The (Good) Wordour monthly email digest filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk

Join The WANT Community, our private membership club

Visit womenagainstnegativetalk.com

Jan 20, 2022

True love, real love, "the one"... the way people describe love is pretty and aspirational, but ultimately super vague. What does love actually feel like? How do you know it's love and not just old habits or displaced desires? Is love even a noun at all, or is it an action?

And HOW THE HECK do you separate your own self-love from the love you experience from someone else — especially if that person fills many roles in your life?

In this episode, I talk to partners in life, love, and business, Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison and Holley Kholi-Murchison (also two of my favorite humans on the planet). These two are each true forces of natures as individuals — so when their powers combine, they're unstoppable: from their work together as co-founders of HOLI. Brands to their upcoming four-week immersive Skillshare course, Build the Next Chapter of Your Career, to the way they champion each other professionally AND personally, they're such strong models of how to truly be in relationship and partnership with someone else....and as you'll hear in this episode, also honor yourself and your own desires.

If you're been re-evaluating and reflecting about the way you relate to love lately, this episode is for you. It's filled with deep truths, big laughs, and — yes, LOTS of love. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

~

ABOUT HOLLEY

Holley M. Kholi-Murchison is an artist and cultural geographer began her career more than 15 years ago. She is not just a writer, a strategy consultant, an entrepreneur, a speaker—she is an explorer and a trailblazer, forging her own path and teaching others to do the same.

ABOUT KHOLI

Dr. Carrie Kholi-Murchison, also known as Kholi, is a writer, editor, critical thinker, entrepreneur, and growth strategist. She’s been helping individuals and organizations realize their visions for more than a decade.

Jan 11, 2022

Whether it's NEW YEAR NEW YOU season or not, setting goals and benchmarks when you're already feeling burnt out feels unrealistic at best, cruel at worst.

If you're anything like me, you're starting the year feeling more than "meh." You might WANT to set plans into motion, but also might be feeling too defeated to even start.

I'm with you. As someone who actually DOES want to look forward with excitement and possibility (and yes, maybe some goals too), I've begun to ask myself: How the heck do you start setting goals when you feel like you've got so much recent "proof" that reaching your goals isn't really up to you in the first place?


SHOW NOTES:

Episode 90: Letting Go + Past Self Pen Pals

Episode 61: Reflections + Projections

Oprah interview from 1986

Follow Katie on Instagram

Leave a review on iTunes (and subscribe to the WANTcast if you haven't already!)

Subscribe to The (Good) Wordour monthly email digest filled with tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to shift your self-talk

Join The WANT Community, our private membership club

Visit womenagainstnegativetalk.com

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