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 goals and resolutions in anticipation of the New Year. They discuss setting goals and creating systems that help support those goals, their relationships with discipline and organization, ambition and creativity,...

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, consider the topic of gratitude this week. They discuss when they first became aware of gratitude as a concept and when it became a regular practice in their lives. They cover whether or not gratitude was modeled for them in...

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 regret in their latest episode. They talk about the idea of living a life with no regrets, the role regret plays in society, the 4 different types of regret, and which emotions regret is linked most closely to for the...

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 being late bloomers. They talk about giving up on themselves, failing young, and how living in such a youthful culture can make it feel like you missed the boat if you haven’t gotten your career together 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, explain the 12 steps in their latest conversation. They cover what they are, the process of “working the steps,” which ones they love, and which were the most challenging for them. They also discuss the myriad of different w...

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, continue their discussion of addiction and sobriety for sober October. This week they cover 12 step programs - specifically Alcoholics Anonymous - their first exposure to the program, what worked for them, what drove them cr...

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 addiction and recovery with their personal stories of drug abuse and their paths to sobriety. This week it’s Bridget’s turn to share. She talks about her first addiction - sugar, the first time she ever drank, why ma...

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 addiction and recovery with their personal stories of drug abuse and their paths to sobriety. This week Jeren shares how doing meth made him feel like exactly the person he thought he should be - smarter, funnier, ch...

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 the joys and fears of new parenthood. They discuss being in the newborn bubble and deciding to take time and space just for their new family unit, Jeren's fears about who he was going to be after the baby...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.phetasy.com This week Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss parenting. They talk about how they were raised and what they learned from their parents, which parent they take after, and how they never really expected to become parents themselves. They also cover their...

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, an associate marriage & family therapist and recovery coach, sit down to discuss where the idea for a podcast about “factory settings” came from. It began when Bridget entered the culture wars and started noticing all the things that she took for granted, and beliefs that she'd never really evaluated. Their conversation covers what factory...

Episode One drops August 16th! Factory Settings are the default positions. They're less about conscious choices and more about the operating system that was installed when you were a child. Think of your body as the hardware in a computer and your factory settings as the initial operating system. It's all the things that are absorbed throughout your formative years and into adolescence. These sett...