You Seem Fine Podcast

Season Finale! Hot Take: Emotional ownership isn’t just awareness — it requires skill-building, accountability, and ESPECIALLY therapy. We talk a lot about being emotionally aware. Naming feelings. Knowing our triggers. Asking for space. But awareness alone isn’t emotional ownership — and this season finale asks the harder question: what do we do with our emotions once we notice them? In this epis...

Hot Take: Is Work to Live or Live to Work better? Neither mindset is inherently better — sustainable work–life balance matters more than choosing a side. Is it healthier to work so you can live, or live so you can work? In this episode, Roland and Hannah dig into one of the most debated questions in modern culture and unpack why the answer isn’t as simple as picking a philosophy. They explore how...

Hot Take: Professions that routinely absorb secondary or vicarious trauma should require ongoing therapy or structured mental-health evaluations. In this episode, Roland and Hannah are joined by attorney Chip Clapp to unpack a provocative but necessary conversation about care, responsibility, and sustainability in trauma-exposed professions. From healthcare and law to therapy and emergency respons...

Spotlight Episode: Understanding overwhelm as a nervous system response, not a personal failure. What happens when being “high-functioning” doesn’t actually feel functional? In this spotlight episode, Hannah takes listeners inside The Overwhelmed Achiever — a framework for understanding people who appear capable, driven, and successful, yet feel chronically stressed, exhausted, or never quite enou...

Hot Take: Many people who meet criteria for a mental health diagnosis aren’t “pathologically ill” — their bodies are responding appropriately to mis-attuned, oppressive, and unsafe systems. In this episode, Roland and Hannah are joined by Dr. Monica Band for a deeply nuanced conversation about mental health, diagnosis, and what we often miss when we pathologize human responses to cultural harm. To...

00:00- Opening 00:12- Legal Disclosure 00:42- Personal Intro (Hannah) 00:53- Personal Intro (Roland) 01:08- I Don't Need Therapy, I have Taylor Swift 01:19- Hannah's Swiftie Song 02:20- Hannah's Explanation 04:09- Roland's Swiftie Song 05:01- Roland's Explanation 08:04- Hot Take Intro 08:20- Spotlight! Playlist Protocol 08:41- Playlist Protocol background 09:18- What is it? 10:03- Nostalgia is key...

Hot Take: Do better & get involved — advocacy is more accessible than you think when you know your values, strengths, and what you can offer. This week, Roland and Hannah sit down with lawyer and activist Emma Shahabi for a powerhouse conversation about what it really means to get involved in activism. Spoiler: it’s not about being perfect, politically fluent, or chronically online — it’s abou...

Hot Take: You have to love yourself before you can love someone else. It’s a phrase we’ve all heard — maybe even said — but what does it really mean to “love yourself first”? In this episode, Roland and Hannah break down the complexities behind one of self-help culture’s most repeated mantras. They explore the pressure this saying can create, especially when love isn’t linear, self-esteem fluctuat...

Hot Take: Self-disclosure is necessary and therapeutically beneficial in the therapy room. This week, Roland and Hannah are joined by psychologist Dr. Chloe Goldbach for a candid conversation on one of the most debated topics in the therapy world: therapist self-disclosure. Should clinicians be a “blank slate”? Or does sharing parts of ourselves actually make the therapeutic relationship stronger?...

Hot Take: Friendships in your 30s should be quality over quantity. As we move through our 30s, friendships start to look different. The spontaneous hangouts get fewer, the group chats get quieter, and suddenly “catching up soon” turns into “maybe next month.” In this episode, Roland and Hannah unpack what it really means to have quality friendships in adulthood — and why that phrase might be more...

The Season Finale is here! This episode we explore perfectionism and the sneaky ways it shows up in our lives. Perfectionism is a personality trait characterized by a relentless pursuit of flawlessness and high standards. It can manifest as self-motivation and drive to achieve success, but often leads to anxiety & low self-worth when standards aren't met. Time to get to the bottom of the "good...

This Episode is certainly the fairest of them all! Hannah and Roland sit down to discuss Narcissism. Narcissism is commonly referred to as a personality trait characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance, a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy for others. And, surprise! Hannah and Roland have the same Hot Take! Whether it's identifying the gaslighting, demystifying the buzz...

Join Hannah and Roland—along with special guest Megan Anderson—as they explore the world and uncover the mental health benefits of travel. From reigniting creativity to finding your environmental reset, discover how immersion sparks personal growth. This journey is packed with insights. Buckle up—new horizons await, and you won’t want to miss it. 00:00- Opening 00:14- Legal Disclosure 00:43- I Don...

I swear he's all panic, and definitely no disco. Get your straighteners, cheap CVS black hair dye, and be ready for Warped Tour. Roland Scheppske is bringing the heat this week on You Seem Fine Podcast with his turn in the hot seat. You may need to flip your bangs some or let out a scream while Roland talks about grief in day-to-day life, or the idea of a more holistic approach to mental health th...

Imposter Syndrome? You mean that thing that everyone experiences where we think we're not good enough? Where we think we aren't doing the things we're supposed to be doing despite evidence to the contrary? You mean a Millennials biggest enemy? Yes, that Imposter Syndrome. Or, in other words, the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a r...

Carmen Sandiego, who? She's got nothing on Hannah Shahabi and all the stamps in her passport! The podcast turns up the heat and has our resident messy millennial in the hot seat not only to get some further insight in who she is and how she got here, but also some deeper and more personal hot takes that aren't part of our regularly scheduled program. Whether it's Hannah's niche love of working wit...

In the immortal, yet possibly problematic, words of Kate Moss, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". Diet culture, what healthy means, and the perception & need to be skinny by any means necessary has been a trope and trend for decades. This week, Hannah and Roland discuss the mental health around diet culture alongside Metabolic Health & Fitness Coach Taylor Trost ( @fitnfoodwithtaylo...

Hey baby, what's your sign? Hannah and Roland look to the stars this week in order to discuss just how deeply a horoscope can mean not only to them, but to anyone interested as well. Horoscopes have been around for a millennia, first appearing in the Mediterranean region sometime around the late 2nd or 1st century BCE. The word "horoscope" comes from the Greek words "horos", meaning "hour", and "s...

This week, Hannah and Roland have their first guest on the podcast! Lily Shahabi, a consultant based in Boston, and Hannah's sister! Lily has struggled with this week's subject, joins to uniquely discuss how she handles life with High Functioning Anxiety. High-functioning anxiety refers to individuals who experience anxiety symptoms while maintaining a high level of functionality in various aspect...

Season 2?! Already? Join Hannah and Roland as they kick off the start of season two as they revisit the podcasts namesake--Fine. Discussing the origins of the word Fine as well as how the meaning of the word has changed and been reinvented over time, Hannah and Roland discuss how they each use the word themselves and how they see others, particularly their clients, fall into the trap and mundane u...

Hannah Shahabi, LPC and Roland Scheppske, LPC are two millennial therapists living in the DMV area. Hannah and Roland have often found themselves having lengthy conversations with one another and developing hot takes about different therapy topics. It was in these discussions that the two of them realized a lot of ways that they mentally envisioned these aspects, were through the specific lens of...

Hannah Shahabi, LPC and Roland Scheppske, LPC are two millennial therapists living in the DMV area. Hannah and Roland have often found themselves having lengthy conversations with one another and developing hot takes about different therapy topics. It was in these discussions that the two of them realized a lot of ways that they mentally envisioned these aspects, were through the specific lens of...

Hannah Shahabi, LPC and Roland Scheppske, LPC are two millennial therapists living in the DMV area. Hannah and Roland have often found themselves having lengthy conversations with one another and developing hot takes about different therapy topics. It was in these discussions that the two of them realized a lot of ways that they mentally envisioned these aspects, were through the specific lens of...

Hannah Shahabi, LPC and Roland Scheppske, LPC are two millennial therapists living in the DMV area. Hannah and Roland have often found themselves having lengthy conversations with one another and developing hot takes about different therapy topics. It was in these discussions that the two of them realized a lot of ways that they mentally envisioned these aspects, were through the specific lens of...

Hannah Shahabi, LPC and Roland Scheppske, LPC are two millennial therapists living in the DMV area. Hannah and Roland have often found themselves having lengthy conversations with one another and developing hot takes about different therapy topics. It was in these discussions that the two of them realized a lot of ways that they mentally envisioned these aspects, were through the specific lens of...