Confidently Insecure

Confidantes - you already know and love her from all her queer and nostalgic youtube videos that go viral every upload...but did you know ELLE MILLS MADE A MOVIE?! Thats right! Elle ventured outside of her comfort zone and made a coming of age short film called REPLY thats available now to watch on Creator+. Kelsey & Elle talk cinema, Timothy Chalamet, and being overall badass director babes....

AH, tis the season...FOR A HOSTFUL EPISODE!!! Kelsey just has a quick update to tell you the biggest news of her entire career...NBD...SHES DIRECTING THE DOCUMENTARY MOVIE ABOUT BUZZFEED!! YES!! THAT BUZZFEED! She walks us through the process of pitching, selling, and now MAKING a real ass documentary movie. She's excited and wants to know what you guys are looking forward to seeing in the fil...

DEATH. LOSS. GRIEF. Do these words scare you? YOU'RE NOT ALONE! What if this episode was going to make those undeniable chapters of life...seem...a little more....friendly??? to talk about? At 40 years old, Krista's life was immeasurably changed when her husband was killed by a drunk driver. While moving with her own grief, she learned that her life's purpose was to turn this pain into...

SO MANY QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED IN THIS WEEK's EPISODE!!! WHO IS THIS NEW DUDE? HOW DID WE GET HERE ALREADY? WHO STILL HAS PHONE SEGGZ? Kelsey and "Sir" dive into the conversation of what it's like to be dating again in your 30's. FOLLOW SIR: Just kidding, guys. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Now that Kelsey is a BONE-A-FIED dog mom, she realized that she only wants the best for her doggo, Hippo. We bet you've never heard of the HISTORY of dog food - have ya?! What about WHY we started feeding dogs in canned food? WHAT DOES YOUR DOG EAT NOW?! COULD HE BE ADDICTED TO SUGAR?! Luckily, Heather and Natalie from Just Food For Dogs & The Adoption Project are here to teach us all a le...

Meet Kelsey's new BFF...therapy!! Dr. Jamie Arnoff from BFF Therapy is here to talk about the newest treatment for chronic pain....and it requires no doctors appointments...no surgeries...and no medications. Take it from Dr. Jamie and Kelsey - THEY'VE BOTH BEEN DOING IT FOR THEIR CHRONIC PAINS! So tell us, would you try PRT for your chronic pain? Follow DR. JAMIE: https://linktr.ee/BFFTher...

SO. Miles has been busy lately - ya know, not just dealing with the ....THING thats been happening over at the try guys....but also launching his own podcast PERFECT PERSON, producing the hit podcasts at Try Guys studios (GUILTY PLEASURES INCLUDED), and finding a way to direct/be creative/PROCESS GRIEF?! This pod really gets to know who MILES is beyond what you see on screen! AND THERES LAUGHS TOO...

Kelsey recorded this episode DAYS BEFORE HER BREAKUP so you will hear it in the way she speaks and talks about her relationship that she was READY but AFRAID of change! HELLO BRAIN?! R U THERE?! WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF CHANGE??? Thank GAWD we have Harvard JD + Yale BA + Master Feminist Coach, KARA LOWENTHEIL (host of UnF*ck Your Brain Podcast) to coach us (kelsey) through (her breakup). FOLLOW KA...

AND YET WE SAY AGAIN - WE DON'T NEED NO MAN! KNOCKING MYSELF UP  chronicles Michelle’s choice to get pregnant and have children as a queer, uninsured, single, 40-year-old woman. Along the way, she falls in love with a wholesome genderqueer a decade her junior, attempts to biohack herself a baby with black market fertility meds and witch-enchanted honey, learns her eggs are busted, and enters t...

Dodging capitalism around self-care is already hard enough...but even tougher when you're in a vulnerable state like GOING THROUGH A BREAKUP (it's almost like our host Kelsey isn't over her breakup...) BUT luckily we have Angela Jai Kim, founder of Savor Beauty and spas and author of Radical Radiance: 12 weeks of Self-Love Rituals to Manifest Abundance, Beauty, and Joy to teach us not...

SOUND THE FRIENDSHIP ALARMS!!! ALLISON RASKIN (best selling author, podcaster, and fellow former buzzfeed co-worker) IS HERE TO PARTY ON OVERTHINKING BREAKUPS!! WHY DO WE OBSESS? WHY DO WE INSTA STALK?! wHYYYyYYyyYYy ARE OUR BRAINS THIS WAY?! EVEN IF WE'RE THE ONES WHO ENDED IT?! How can we learn from 2 women who have self admitted to overthinking their love relationships? Tune in to find out!...

NDE, NRE, and ZNT!!! Zach Noe Towers is here to listen to Kelsey spill all her new tea about NEW D*CK ENERGY (the energy that comes with sleeping new people after your breakup), and NEW RELATIONSHIP ENERGY aka NRE and what is IS and IS NOT (it's not love bombing!!). You get to hear all the juicy details of adult summer camp and why Kelsey recommends it for EVERY ONE going through a life change...

ooooo always an awkward convo - money - isn't it? Well how could we make it more awkward??? LETS ADD A BIG OLE EMOTIONAL BREAKUP ENVIRONMENT TO THE CONVO SHALL WE!? Kelsey chats with pal of the pod and friend IRL, Tori Dunlap (@herfirst100k) about her real financial uncoupling with her ex boyfriend. From moving out of the house, to shared items, even their car - its about to get EXPENSIVE UP I...

THE FIRST DAY after a break up typically looks like a lot of ice cream or strippers depending on which side of the breakup you were on! Kelsey walks us through her first week as a single woman in over 5 years! How shes doing...how shes doing it...and what she's learning along the way. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This ones a little different confidantes....thank you for being there for us for the last 5 years. It's been a crazy journey and I hope this episode shines a little light on what's been going on...how I'm moving on...and how I've been okay with not being okay. I love you guys so much. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/priva...

Are you tired of "being straight"? Do you FEEL THE GAYNESS IN UR BONES?? DO YOU FEEL LIKE SOCIETY HAS MADE YOU ADOPT COMPULSORY HETERONORMATIVITY (...and what is that giant word anyway?) ?! Then we've got the pod episode for you! Marlee Liss (sensuality and somatic coach, friend of the pod) and Eva Bloom (Queer-Inclusive Sex-Ed coach) are 2 besties and fellow queers who both came out a...

Whitney Eckis (host of Under The Influence podcast) has built a career in marketing for some of the biggest brands on EARTH! But what about YOURSELF?! How do you go from being a global social media queen for the coorporate life into starting your own business and following? Whitney's here to break it all down as we learn the power of community! FOLLOW WHITNEY: https://msha.ke/whitneyeckis/ htt...

Her new show is as intimate as the episode title its self! Jacq "the stripper" Frances talks us through her life as a famous stripper (who came out as queer during her career) who fell in love...and out....and ultimately made a show out of it! From Dancing to Divorced, Jacq is a wild ride! FOLLOW JACQ: http://www.jacqthestripper.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jacqthestripper/ SEE JACQ'...

HELLO DO YOU LIKE TO SELF-SABOTAGE JUST LIKE YOUR DEAR OLD HOST, KELSEY DARRAGH?! (bonus points tell me how many years you've been listening by knowing that I always call my inner voice the C-word!) What does self-sabotaging look like? Why do we do it?? AND MOST IMPORTANT HOW THE HELL DO WE STOP?! FRET NOT! We have expert, podcast host, Certified Trauma Support Specialist, Holistic Life Coach...

CALLING ALL WORKING MOMS AND MULTI-TASKER SUPER PEOPLE!!!! Parent or not, we all know the scene that this society paints onto women & caretakers - YOU CAN’T WORK AND RAISE HUMAN LIFE AT THE SAME TIME! While obviously we all know thats BS, we can’t help but sometimes feel guilty or ashamed for finding the balance of being a working parent, caretaker and busy mom (dog moms count here too!) THANK...

well confidantes...we recorded this episode a few weeks back and as if it were some ass-backwards manifestation...here we are this week with a historical move from our SC, overturning Roe! And we have 2 licensed therapists and best friends, PLEASURE COLLECTIVE (Anja & Hannah) here to talk us through it and hold to hold space for ourselves and others, FOLLOW THE PLEASURE COLLECTIVE: https://www...

GOOD FRIEND OF THE TRY GUY WORLD and naturally crossed over into new friendship with Kelsey, Andrew Gurza, host of disability after dark podcast and award winning Disability Awareness Consultant and the Chief Disability Officer and Co-founder of Bump’n, a sex toy company for and by disabled people, CUMS on the pod (hehe no pun intended) to chat disability awareness and what it's like to CONSTA...

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!! Polyamory and Relationship Agreements Outside of the Mononorm!!!! Jenna wrote in to the ConPod to talk about POLYAMORY and Kelsey absolutely wanted to hear more! Jenna (no socials) is an advocate for non monogamy and is polyamorous by orientation. SO HOW DO THEY DO IT?! WHAT ARE THE “RULES”? HOW CAN YOU BE POLY IF YOUR CURIOUS?! All of these questions answers and more!!!  BUY...

You know when you have to unlearn fat phobia and challenge your own beliefs on the healthcare system and fight all the trolls in the comments section??? WELL HANNAH FULENDORF HAS! AND TEACHES US ALL HOW TO in this weeks episode!!!! Hannah talks about her experience in the healthcare system and what lead her to being the badass activist and therapist that she is! FOLLOW HANNAH: linktr.ee/HannahTalk...

WOHoooHHHOOAHHHH!!! We've all known one....those people you have come across in your life that are one of the following: a narcissist, an addict, or a love addict! WHAT ABOUT ALL 3!!! WHAT IF YOU HAVE A MANIPULATIVE PERSON IN YOUR LIFE OR UPBRINGING?! How does that effect us NOW?! Fear not confidantes, we have a SPECIALIST this week - BRYNN CICIPPIO who is here to teach us everything we need t...