The Girlboss Trap: Why Ambition Became Burnout
About this episode
Dr. Caroline Leaf and her daughter Dominique discuss the negative impacts of girlboss culture and how to cultivate healthy ambition.
Girlbossing is making us mean, exhausted, and unhappy. A neuroscientist and her daughter on what hustle-culture ambition did to us, and what healthy ambition looks like.Dr. Caroline Leaf and her daughter Dominique take apart the girlboss era: how ambition turned into a glorified way of running from ourselves, why the self-care backlash is just as performative as the hustle, and how the companies built on "boss babe" branding collapsed. Then they get practical, walking the Neurocycle through identity and self-worth so ambition comes from self-trust instead of fear. What you'll learn:• Why chasing ambition can quietly become burnout and resentment• How the girlboss era sold individual grind as the fix for a system problem• Why "self-care" often just performs wellness instead of doing it• The identity work underneath ambition, and why copying others backfires• How to tell healthy ambition from fear-driven ambition• What it looks like to build a life you don't need to escape from Support the sponsors: Quince: free shipping and 365-day returns at quince.com/leaf Ritual: 25% off your first month at ritual.com/leaf Shopify: free trial…
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