The Gentle Badass

What did it cost you to be the good one? Being the child who didn't cause problems, who kept the peace, who made it easy for everyone else, wasn't free. There was a price. And most of us have been paying it ever since without ever seeing the receipt. In this episode, we talk about the hidden cost of people-pleasing: why you learned to shrink, what you gave up to be agreeable, and what it would act...

"I'm fine." Two words we say before we've even checked. In this episode, we look at the kind of "fine" that isn't an answer -it's a coping strategy. The "fine" that means: I'm holding so much that if I open the door even an inch, everything will come out. We talk about what it actually means when fine stops being true, how to tell the difference, and what to do with the door you've been holding sh...

You've been doing everything right. Ticking the boxes, saying the right things, being who everyone needs you to be. And still — something feels off. The Gentle Badass is a podcast for people who know something needs to change — they're just not sure how to do it without losing everyone they love in the process. Honest, real conversations about the beliefs you inherited, the voices in your...

You look fine. Maybe even enviable from the outside. You've built a life that ticks a lot of boxes. And privately? Privately you've been wondering when it's going to start feeling the way you thought it would. This is the episode where we name that feeling. In this first episode of The Gentle Badass, Myrsini opens the conversation with the question most people are too afraid to ask out loud: what...