Factory Settings Podcast

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about impostor syndrome this week. They explore the definition, when they first understood what it was, and discuss where and when they’ve felt it in their lives. Bridget pinpoints that there’s a relationship between the effort she puts into something …

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about America and what it means to them for the 4th of July. They cover how they were raised and the ideas about the country and patriotism that their families held, how they feel about the 4th of July, the Olympics, the ideals the country was founded …

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, wax nostalgic about summer this week. They share their vastly different experiences of summer, what it means to them, sense-memories that come to mind at the word, the feelings it evokes, and what they would like to give to their daughter for the summers of…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss procrastination this week. They explore whether or not there’s a difference between procrastination and laziness, how Bridget has always struggled with procrastination vs. Jeren’s ability to knock things off his list immediately. They cover what fee…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, discuss their introverted and extroverted tendencies this week. They cover the definitions of introversion & extroversion, what it means to them in their lives, what they were like in their childhoods vs. what they’re like as adults, how their introverted a…

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, cover hypochondria and health anxiety this week. Bridget shares her past experience with debilitating hypochondria, where it came from, how it manifested, and the treatment and habits she created to break the mental loops she was stuck in and help her beat …

Bridget Phetasy and her co-host/husband Jeren Montgomery, a licensed marriage & family therapist, talk about marijuana addiction. They recall their first experiences with weed, their various levels of addiction to it - Bridget being a full-time stoner and Jeren who could take it or leave it - having stoner pride, yet marijuana addiction was laughed at i…

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 topic and have very different ideas, …

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 part of the human condition, wha…

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 lot of behavior that’s somewhat …