Ask the Women

Ask the Women

July 13, 2026 · 9 min · Season 5 · Episode 19

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Leah Pitzenberger discusses the tendency to say 'I don’t know' when one is actually sure and explores the reasons behind this behavior.

Send us Fan Mail “I don’t know” is, more often than not, a complete lie. A kind one. A polite one. But a lie. In this episode, Leah Pitzenberger owns up to a habit she suspects you share — reaching for “I’m not sure” when she is, in fact, completely sure — and why we do it: because certainty is a position, and a position can be wrong out loud. Then she shares the thing she heard about how the military, in actual war zones, learned to find out what was really going on: they stopped asking the ...

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