Factory Settings Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about the role God has played in their lives in the past and what they believe now. From Bridget’s Catholic upbringing to Jeren’s childhood with no religion of any kind, they come from very different places on this topi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss negative self-talk and the inner critic this week. They attempt to untangle their experiences with substance abuse, parental divorces, their own natures, and when that snowballed into negative self-talk, whether it’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss depression this week. They talk about their own personal experiences with it, their first exposure to the concept of “depression”, how much therapeutic language has crept into everything, whether we’ve pathologized a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss leaving Los Angeles as they prepare to move to Texas. They share how many times they’ve moved in their lives and their different expectations and experiences; Jeren having lived in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years, an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, contemplate meaning this week. They discuss when they first started thinking about meaning, the search for it, when your life can be defined by a lack of meaning, how they’ve found it in their lives, and true meaning vs. fal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about STUFF this episode. How much stuff most people have, particularly in America, what their relationship to stuff is, who likes to shop and who hates it, their mutual love of purging, keeping things you think you mig...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Due to popular demand, Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss AA slogans this week. They share the ones they love, the ones they hate, the ones they used to roll their eyes at but have come to embrace, and the ones they use every day. They break down the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com We Answer A Question Asked By A Supporter Question: Since listening to this podcast, it seems that you and Jeren really use your recovery as something that you two can relate to each other and bonds you. My question is, how does someone like me who doesn't have a substance addiction and honestly doesn't quite understand...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss body image in their latest episode. They cover the clinical definition of body dysmorphia, when they’ve felt their best and worst physically in their lives, fat shaming, the damage we can cause to others, Bridget’s s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, share their personal primary education stories from K through 12th grade. They each talk about how many times they moved and/or switched schools and the effect it had on them, share their public vs. private school experience...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, an associate marriage & family therapist, debate whether trust in media is dead and whether anything could revive it. They discuss where they got their news growing up, why media corporations and channels have to define themselves as THE TRUTH and make you believe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com We Answer A Question Asked By A Phetasy Supporter 3 Part Question: * Which factory setting has been the most difficult to overcome? * Are there any that now that you are each around your midpoint of life and know yourselves as well as you do think aren't really solvable and just are and always will be? * Since the term F...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss the hardships of making friends as an adult. They talk about making friends as kids vs. making them as adults, the friendships they made as children that they’ve managed to maintain their entire lives, how moving eve...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss self-censorship this week. They talk about what it means in today’s society and how the higher your social status the more fearful and self-censoring you become. They share instances where they’ve found themselves se...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com We Answer A Question Asked By A Substack Supporter Question: I'm curious about your parenting expectations. I'm sure you want your daughter to avoid the issues you both faced. But does that mean limiting her freedom to explore and take risks? Are you hoping for a traditional path college, business school, running a hedge...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, explore the topic of creativity. They discuss what the word means to them, the preconceptions they have about being creative, what it means to go into a creative field professionally, and why creativity can be found in virtu...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, tackle the topic of porn this week. They discuss their first exposure to it as kids, how much access to it has changed since then, the pornification of everything, Bridget’s short-term addiction to it, and whether or not it’...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about love and relationships for Valentine’s Day. They share their first “spark” moment, and how their first date had them literally walking down an aisle together, their past relationships, previous marriages, confusin...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Join us for our first ever Factory Settings Q&A! Question: What was the most difficult situation that either of you had to deal with after getting sober, and how did you deal with it? Bed bugs, broken hearts and our beloved dog, Hope—the struggle is real. Factory Settings is a podcast exploring politics, culture, relatio...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss money and financial anxiety this week. The talk about their first awareness of money, the roles their parents’ divorces played in financial stress, the dichotomy of being stressed about money and also being aware of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about therapy this week. They share their own experiences with therapy and how effective it’s been for them, what made Jeren want to become a therapist, the difference between understanding something, being self-aware,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, dissect self-disclosure in both private and public spaces in this week’s episode. They cover self-disclosure in our culture, the rise of therapy, how if you self-disclose publicly you’re opening yourself up to other people’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss social media this week. They both share their first interactions on social media, when they started to be immersed in the online world, Buddyhead, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit & Instagram. Bridget talks about t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, sit down to discuss commitment this week. They talk about what comes to mind when they hear the word commitment, how Bridget ran from it for years, and how their parents’ marriages, divorces, and their mothers in particular...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about willingness this week, both as a concept and in practice. Bridget acknowledges a tiny window of willingness that came at the right moment that led to her getting sober, and they discuss what that meant for her lif...