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Bewildered

Bewildered

By: Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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What if we stopped listening to the controlling voice of the culture around us, and instead learned to reconnect with our own true nature?

Sometimes we aren’t even sure why we feel so bewildered… and discontented… and even downright miserable. Often it’s because we have let the forces of society replace our own instinctive knowledge of what is right for us.

Now, it’s time for us to find that voice again—before it’s too late.

For Martha and Rowan, Job One is to live according to our deepest truths, making the commitment to feeling good even when it means looking weird. We believe that this is how we will reinvent our world—from the inside out— to create a society that’s kinder, more equitable, and more ecologically sustainable than the one we see around us right now.

This is the vision that we laugh and stumble and chat and feel our way towards here on this podcast. Did we mention LAUGH? We want no part of personal and global transformation if it isn’t fun!

So if you struggle to find a place where people who are as idealistic and brokenhearted, as silly and deeply sincere, as bewildered as you are—you might have just arrived.

Welcome!

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Episodes
  • Best of Bewildered: Shining Your Light and Charging What Your Worth

    Best of Bewildered: Shining Your Light and Charging What Your Worth
    Aug 6 2025

    Do you find it difficult to share your unique offerings with the world? How about charging money for your work?

    In this “Best of” episode of Bewildered, we dive into a question from listener Rebecca who’s trying to find the courage to shine her light in the world—and get paid well for it.

    We share some of our own experiences with this issue too, and offer three magical little words that can banish shame and set you free to shine your light and charge what you’re worth. Join us!

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    52 mins
  • Best of Bewildered: Beware Fake Urgency

    Best of Bewildered: Beware Fake Urgency
    Jul 23 2025

    “QUICK! DO THIS NOW! IT’S URGENT!”

    Do those words spike your pulse? We're constantly pressured to do things that serve the system, and we’re trained to think of these things as urgent. But are they?

    In this “Best of” episode of Bewildered, we dive into the topic of urgency: How there’s a type that will crush your soul and a type that will grow it—and how you can tell the difference.

    If you often find yourself responding frantically to problems which may or may not be urgent, this episode is for you!

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    • Follow Martha on Instagram
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    41 mins
  • Best of Bewildered: All the Way to Heaven is Heaven

    Best of Bewildered: All the Way to Heaven is Heaven
    Jul 9 2025

    In our culture we’re socialized to believe that if we suffer enough, we’ll be rewarded later—and our reward will be happiness. In other words, happiness is something we have to earn through suffering.

    On this “Best of” episode of Bewildered, we challenge this cultural belief, inspired by the words of 14th century mystic St. Catherine of Siena who said, “All the way to heaven is heaven.”

    To hear more about this idea—and how you can experience happiness right now—join us for one of our favorite episodes!

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    • Follow Martha on Instagram
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    43 mins
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