Make Your Damn Bed

By Julie Merica

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.

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May 10, 20261764 || matriarchy isn't reverse patriarchy
The extent of a society’s development is most clearly reflected in the freedom women enjoy, and in the extent to which they are able to express their creativity. - heide goettner-abendroth

THE SOURCES AND INSPIRATION:
The Main Article: Gift Economy
https://pediaa.com/what-is-the-difference-between-matrilineal-and-matriarchal/
https://www.projectmatrilineal.org/resources
https://nativeamericantribes.info/what-is-native-american-matriarchy/

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
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Info on War Tax Resistance.
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May 09, 2026 1763 || the politics of utopia
In the late 60's a bunch of hippie communes popped up across the US, and the ideals were beautiful... but sadly shortlived and often filled with conflict because they focused on escapism instead of true collaboration.

If we avoid politics as a way to resist tyranny, we may end up fostering a different form of tyranny.
Similarly to the tolerance paradox: Governance can by tyrannical but so can non-governance.

THE SOURCES AND INSPIRATION:
Get Jenny Odell's Books Here.
Buy Jenny Odell's book here.

Info on Walden Two by B.F. Skinner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Two
Some extra information on the 60's commune movement: https://bohotude.com/hippie-communes-of-the-1960s-their-origins-legacy-and-what-we-can-learn-today/

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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12min
May 08, 20261762 || we are nature + that can save us || imagine a better system
“Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.”“Each such cycle is a unique event; diet, choice, selection, season, weather, digestion, decomposition and regeneration differ each time it happens. Thus, it is the number of such cycles, great and small, that decide the potential for diversity. We should feel ourselves privileged to be part of such eternal renewal. Just by living we have achieved immortality — as grass, grasshoppers, gulls, geese and other people. We are of the diversity we experience in every real sense.
“If, as physical scientists assure us, we all contain a few molecules of Einstein, and if the atomic particles of our physical body reach to the outermost bounds of the universe, then we are all de facto components of all things. There is nowhere left for us to go if we are already everywhere, and this is, in truth, all we will ever have or need. If we love ourselves at all, we should respect all things equally, and not claim any superiority over what are, in effect, our other parts. Is the hand superior to the eye? The bishop to the goose? The son to the mother?... - BILL MOLLISON

THE SOURCES AND INSPIRATION:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/tending-nature/the-indigenous-science-of-permaculture
https://www.permaculture.org.uk/articles/whitewashed-hope
https://queenoftheforest.org/forever-the-forest/permaculture-in-the-forest-indigenous-models-of-sustainable-agriculture/

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
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11min
May 07, 20261761 || time banks + mutual exchange || imagine a better system
My friends and I don't "keep score". We help each other when and where we can because we can. This is community. This is the village. We have to decenter "money" exchange where possible, so we can prioritize real care.

"Capitalism's incentives are fundamentally backwards. Under this system, you make money by keeping people sick (pharmaceutical companies), by keeping people in debt (financial institutions), by destroying the environment (fossil fuel companies), and by keeping people desperate enough to accept poverty wages (pretty much every major corporation).
Real incentives for human flourishing would reward teachers, caregivers, firefighters, and farmers—the people who actually keep society running—not financial speculators who contribute nothing but extract wealth from everyone else's work" - https://newsletters.noticenews.com/p/a-glimpse-into-the-future

THE INSPIRATION:
https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/replacing-capitalism-the-why-what-how-and-who-of-growing-the-commons-economy/
http://localharvest.org/
https://newsletters.noticenews.com/p/a-glimpse-into-the-future
https://commonslibrary.org/
https://www.nal.usda.gov/farms-and-agricultural-production-systems/community-supported-agriculture
https://www.depressionscrip.com
https://www.mutualcredit.services/

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
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12min
May 06, 20261760 || community supported agriculture
Today we're talking Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) boxes.

Depending on your area, it may be a great way to get fresh food more locally and sustainably, while investing back into your community access points.

THE INSPIRATION:
https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/replacing-capitalism-the-why-what-how-and-who-of-growing-the-commons-economy/
http://localharvest.org/
https://newsletters.noticenews.com/p/a-glimpse-into-the-future
https://commonslibrary.org/
https://www.nal.usda.gov/farms-and-agricultural-production-systems/community-supported-agriculture

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
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9min
May 04, 2026 1759 || productivity as maintenance + sustainability
The focus is on repair. There is a necessity of missing out that allows us
The focus is on self care. Self preservation.
It's also a way to improve and deepen listening.

Productivity isn't just producing something new. It's maintenance + sustenance work. It's care work with no "tangible" numbers to track or changes to measure.

Get Jenny Odell's Books Here.
Buy Jenny Odell's book here.
Listen to a different podcast episode about Jenny Odell's book.

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
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10min
May 03, 2026 1758 || time for what we will
The labor movement fought and died for our right to time off to just exist. To do what we will. The gig economy is taking that back with the illusion of "freedom" and I have fallen for it.

Get Jenny Odell's Books Here.
Buy Jenny Odell's book here.
Listen to a different podcast episode about Jenny Odell's book.

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
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11min
May 02, 2026 1757 || deep listening for attunement
Build an attention holding architecture: where it's safe to simply exist. where you can learn to attune to what matters.

Get Jenny Odell's Books Here.
Buy Jenny Odell's book here.
Listen to a different podcast episode about Jenny Odell's book.

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
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10min
May 01, 2026 1756 || the usefulness of uselessness
We've been taught to view "productivity" and "worth" and "value" through a capitalistic lens. What if we change our interpretations of these things? What if we start to include "presence" and "experience" as worthwhile ways to be productive and add value to our lives?

Get Jenny Odell's Books Here.
Buy Jenny Odell's book here.
Listen to a different podcast episode about Jenny Odell's book.

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
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April 30, 2026 1755 || the goal is extraction
The world is so make it about interaction, instead.

The attention economy has spent billions making their product irresistible while convincing us it's our idea to be there.

Resist your fear of being perceived.

Jump timelines and do something different.

Get Jenny Odell's Books Here.
Buy Jenny Odell's book here.
Listen to a different podcast episode about Jenny Odell's book.

Read Julie's Medium Blog.
Support JULIE (and the show!)
Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON.

Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com
Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK.

Info on War Tax Resistance.
Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund

The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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FAQs about Make Your Damn Bed:

How many episodes does Make Your Damn Bed have?

The podcast currently has 1,788 episodes available.