Even Here, Even Now: A Needy Podcast with Mara Glatzel

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Have you ever stayed up late for just one more Netflix episode, knowing it’s robbing you of the rest you need? Or abandoned your much-needed afternoon walk when a partner or colleague asked why you hadn’t taken it yet? In today’s episode, I welcome back Rosie Molinary for a heartfelt and deeply honest conversation about the ways we’ve sabotaged our chances of...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do you show up in times of contraction? Do you question why you’re tired or not feeling something? Do you try to force yourself to work the same ways you do in times of expansion? In this solo episode, I share how I’m feeling after three expansive years of writing, editing, promoting, and launching my book. And I reflect on how I’m learning to manage the...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! If you’re struggling to connect with your authentic self and prioritize what you need most, this is an episode you won’t want to miss. Today, I’m talking with Vasavi Kumar. Vasavi is a therapist, podcast host, and author of the book Say It Out Loud . As a first generation Indian immigrant raised in Long Island, New York, she has relentlessly searched to find...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do we engage with our feelings without being overwhelmed by the multitude of our emotions? In this episode, I’m joined by Devon Loftus, an author and writer who finds inspiration in the human experience. She believes that emotions are important messengers, a universal language of humanity that connects us to ourselves and others. Together, we have a heart...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Taking time away, especially time away abroad, can feel impossible when we consider our busy, demanding lives. But if all we are is busy and in-demand, are we really experiencing life? Today, I’m joined by Jane Reeves, and we discuss the importance of taking time away to have real, uninhibited, guiltless fun in a place where you can step away from the stresso...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! So much responsibility is placed on caregivers, including the heaviness of carrying the mental load. But you don’t have to be resigned to the overwhelm of domestic labor, and your family can be full of equitable relationships. Today, I’m joined by Laura Danger for a long overdue conversation about the burden of being the default parent, the challenge of meeti...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! It can be tempting to lean solely on ourselves when we’re struggling and to hide what we’re going through from the world. But what if that’s the opposite of what we need? And connection is the medicine necessary for healing? Today, I’m joined by best-selling author Laura McKowen. Together we discuss how being honest about her needs helped her embrace sobriety...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Today’s episode is a little different than usual… To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs & Claim Your Sovereignty , I’m stepping into the interviewee seat! And my friend Jennie Alexis joins us as interviewer to ask me questions about needs and wants, writing my book, parenting, and more.  Jennie Alexis is a mar...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Understanding our needs, especially the need for safety, can be challenging. So in today’s episode, I am talking with Jake Ernst about the personal and social experiences of our needs, safety, and more. Jake is a therapist, writer, educator, and content creator. He's the Clinical Director of Straight Up Health, a mental health clinic for young people and...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! What are the things we do to feel safe that ultimately don’t serve our true selves? Today, I'm sharing my 2023 intention: It is safe to be who & how I am. And I’m reflecting on how often I’ve weaponized my competence to make myself indispensable to others. As well as how doing that disavows my own worth and reinforces the idea that I can make myself...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Living in step with what our bodies are trying to tell us can be a difficult thing to learn. How do we trust the feelings in our body? And how can we practice tracking those sensations and be present with the language our body is speaking? Today, I’m joined by writer and Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Molly Caro May. Together, we discuss how to tune in to...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! What does it look like to live collaboratively with the world around us? And how do we get in touch with our inner magic? Today, I’m joined by Mimi Young for our final guest episode of 2022. Mimi is an Animist Spirit Medium and owner of Ceremonie, a brand focused on intuition and spirit connection, reawakening us to embodied living with the visible and invisi...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do we stay connected to what we want to create and what we need to take care of? Today, I'm continuing to pull back the curtain on how we hold dreams, make decisions, and move forward with a nod - always - to our own capacity. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned about maintaining a sustainable life, and giving myself what I need in order to fulfil...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Some days it feels like we’ve been collectively burnt out since 2020. So how do we find our way back to ourselves after more than two years of distraction and dissociation? And how do we create under these conditions? Asha Frost is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) Medicine Woman, and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is the bestselling author of You...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! We live in a world that doesn’t respect cyclical energy rhythms. And that makes it so hard to sit with the natural contractions that come after periods of expansion. In today’s episode, I talk about how I’m slowing down to process my current contraction & what happens when we try to override these cycles in our lives. Tune in to hear me explore… Macro &am...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do you feel about setting boundaries? Are you worried it may alienate you from friends, family, or loved ones? In today’s episode, Melissa Urban joins me to discuss her journey with boundaries, from learning what they really are to setting them with her close connections. Together, we also unpack how boundaries are kind (not selfish) and make us more (not...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do you feel about “quiet quitting”? I love it. And I’ve been encouraging people to quietly quit for years, so I’m happy to see this work make it to the mainstream. In today’s episode, I unpack how to quietly quit your work, your relationships, and your constant attempts at self-improvement. Tune in to hear more about… Why we should rebrand “quiet quitting...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Why do we deny ourselves the grace we offer others? What makes us so “special” that we don’t deserve it, too? In today’s episode, I open up about the depths of my struggle with perfectionism. And I share how I’ve unpacked my ideas of “good work” and “success” to keep doing my work, even when its not perfect. Tune in to hear more about… The idea of “terminal s...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do we balance hope and despair, expansion and collapse, survival and rest? In today’s episode, Carmen Spagnola joins me to discuss how she cultivates a small and delicious life in the face of collapse. Together we explore the realities of not being able to meet all our needs, what happens when we’re under-resourced (and what happens when we’re ecologicall...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! I recently received an email from a Needy listener who wrote, “We’re taught that being mean to ourselves will make it better. But it hasn’t worked. One day we’ll unlearn it…maybe.” So in today’s episode, I’m talking about our combative relationships with ourselves, and how we can unlearn being mean to ourselves by practicing self-trust. Tune in to hear more a...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How do we find our way forward when we don’t have role models or road maps? In today’s episode, Nicole Antoinette joins me to discuss how she cultivates a perpetual conversation with herself. Together we explore the pressure to conform our creativity & our careers to societal expectations, the guilt that arises around meeting our needs, and the release of...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! How can we have energy for the things we want to prioritize without burning out because we’ve prioritized too many things? In today’s episode, I talk about making sustainable commitments and how to decide what to devote your precious resources to. This is an invitation to say no more often, and a lesson in how to identify your priorities so saying yes feels b...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Where are you in the journey from maiden to mother to mature feminine? How do you know where you are or want to be? In today’s episode, Sarah Durham Wilson joins me to unpack her evolution from maiden to mother and share how she tends to her needs as she creates rites of passage for women all over the world. Sarah Durham Wilson is a women’s Rites of Passage L...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! The Needy podcast is back! A year since our last episode! HI!! Do you ever find yourself thinking “I’ll do that that thing I want when the world gets back to normal…” Or “I’ll finally create my book/podcast/business when my life isn’t so messy…” Or even “I’ll spend time with my spouse once our kids are out of the house…”? In today’s episode, I talk about how...

Send Mara a quick text love note here! Making decisions that are right and true for ourselves can feel like a sticky, uncomfortable process. What does it actually look like to go through the emotional ups and downs of deciding to live life differently than anyone you know? Today’s guest, Cait Flanders, is here to share her experience. She is normalizing what it looks like to opt-out of traditional...