What happens when you revisit something you once said with conviction… and realise you'd express it differently today?

In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy reflects on the strange experience of discovering that one of her older episodes, The World Is Evolving. Are You?, has quietly become the most downloaded episode in the 5 years this podcast has been produced.

So she went back and listened. And cringed.

This episode is about the discomfort of encountering your past thinking in public, and the quiet, ongoing work of evolving how we speak about the world and our place in it.

In this episode, Betsy explores:

• Revisiting past ideas and noticing what has changed
• The gap between what we believe and how we express it
• How privilege can show up subtly in tone and framing
• The tension between personal agency narratives and structural realities
• What it means to evolve in public rather than in private
• This is an episode for anyone who has ever revisited their own work and realised they might say things differently today.

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