In this episode, sue talks about her understanding of the psychology behind #sexism and #Maleenergy and black and white thinking. How the balance of power is perverted and that's why the abuse occurs.  Sue poses a few questions -1. Why is the 1% winning there are 99% of us. 2. Will people be honest and pay what they can for the podcast? Or do people only respect something that you make them pay for? 

In this episode Sue lays out how she slowly rose from her own oppression by confronting the lies that she has told herself and the displaced shame that comes along with abuse of power. She talks about how to grow through the thin veil of fear and show up with dignity. And how if you can sit still and face your own demons,  you can protect yourself from other people's demons.

In this episode, Sue explains what #IamSueCostello is really all about: It's not black and white, there is a huge middle in between.  Tell the truth, hash it out, fight to get closer, not apart. Go towards the solution. Find the middle.  Change your condition. Consider others. Don't react, don't cave but choose how to act. Find the love.  It is through that lense that Sue addresses the revelations of Louis CK’s sexual misconduct. She talks about how responding to trauma with trauma compounds the problem, the very reason she did not take down an angry heckler when she had the ability, the opportunity, the heightened emotional state and the mic to do it. It's a choice, especially when when you have the power. The one with the power is responsible. 

In this first episode of #IamSueCostello, Sue talks about how her sitcom getting canceled triggered a loss of innocence and subsequent awakening of conscious that has informed her life’s work ever since. She describes what it was like being a young woman on the cusp of fame and self-destruction simultaneously, and she begins relaying her original and surprising philosophy on how to heal the abuse of power occurring in Hollywood and at large. It’s some deep, existential shit and it’s just the beginning.