Messy Situations

Messy Situation’s very own producer, Mesh Lakhani, steps up to the mic from behind the scenes to confess the stomach-seizing moments he’s experienced launching his podcast company Lola Media. With complete transparency, Mesh discusses the unexpected pain points of going it alone, while Messy Situations co-host and serial entrepreneur, Kane, jumps in to validate the universal fears all entrepreneurs face. Rahaf Harfoush, a strategist, digital anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author, joins as the Clean-up Crew, dismantling the self-defeating thoughts we’re all programmed to have — and that threaten to stand in the way of success. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entrepreneur and activist Reshma Saujani has spent her career unearthing injustices and the latest really hit close to home: As a busy working mother of two, Reshma saw firsthand how the pandemic disproportionately impacted working moms, driving them out of the workforce and causing them to take on a third shift of duties (aka Zoom school). Acting as both guest and Clean-Up Crew, Reshma, the author of Pay Up, lays out the surprising reasons women get blamed and burden with all things kid-related, why even childless people should GAF, and how we can all be part of the solution she has imagined through her Marshall Plan for Moms. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During the height of the pandemic, entrepreneur and author Tina Wells followed her heart to Brazil to be with her boyfriend-turned fiancé, a pro soccer player. After many months in South America, Tina realized that a life there wasn’t viable for her personal and career happiness, so she made the difficult decision to break off the engagement and move home… but not before her ex got a giant tattoo of her face on his upper thigh, along with the words Always Together, which he still has to this day. Can you say awkward?

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Lorraine decided to go into business with one of her closest friends, she never imagined it would impact her personal and professional life so profoundly. But after months of strange and suspicious behavior that had Lorraine thinking she might be “crazy,” she busted her best friend/business partner in an affair with her husband. Then the worst happened. Tune in to hear the way Lorraine caught her former friend and husband and how she and her business have emerged from this unimaginable ordeal. This week’s Clean-up Crew expert is Terri Cole, psychotherapist and author of Boundary Boss. 

RESOURCES:

Terri Cole

Boundary Boss

FOLLOW: 

@michprom  

@imkane

@messysitch

@terricole

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When women think of menopause, they often picture suffering through some annoying hot flashes and night sweats before it all blows over. But as today’s guest reveals, the hormonal shifts that accompany the end of the menstruating years can wreak havoc on a woman’s mental health. Beth, a confident, successful, happily married 50-year-old, bravely shares how menopause upended her life in a terrifying sneak attack that drastically altered her personality and caused her to experience mood swings that vascilated from rage to depression. Clean-up Crew expert Jordan Crofton, FNP, Director of Patient Care at THE WELL, steps in to dispel some long-held myths about hormone replacement therapy and offer whole-body advice for how to navigate this transition as smoothly as possible. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As cliché as it sounds, from the moment Michael and Nate locked eyes there was an irrepressible attraction. The problem: Nate was Michael’s married boss. Their work relationship required them to spend a lot of time together, including on overnight business trips — a danger zone that pushed the two to the edge. Then, their intimate text exchanges were discovered by Nate’s husband and things got really messy. Clean-up Crew experts Manjit Devgun, a mind coach and palm reader, and Valerie Oula, Director of Vibrational Energy Healing for THE WELL, join the episode to talk about the lessons embedded in love and career crises, and how to move forward with grace. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josie had been a social drinker since high school, but over the years — and especially over COVID — that drinking became a daily habit, sometimes resulting in her consuming an entire bottle of wine by herself after work. Highly functional, by day Josie has held down an executive-level job for decades— what wasn’t going well was the ways in which her drinking was impacting her relationship with her non-drinking, high-school-aged daughter. Josie candidly shares how things devolved and why she chose to go sober. This episode includes advice from Ruby Warrington, author of Sober Curious and the self-study program, The Sober Curious Reset, on how to re-evaluate your relationship with alcohol, curb consumption or quit.

RESOURCES:

Ruby Warrington

Sober Curious 

The Sober Curious Reset

The Reframe App

FOLLOW: 

@michprom  

@imkane

@rubywarrington

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many relationships begin with a fiery physical connection, but few maintain that sexual chemistry when absolutely everything else has soured. In this episode, Kane and Michele welcome Alex on to share how a typical dating situation devolved into an extremely unhealthy cycle of behavior with his ex relentlessly pursuing him with calls, texts, threats, X-rated videos and more, until he gives in to “the best sex ever.” Clean-up Crew expert Shadeen Francis, a licensed therapist who specializes in sex therapy and emotional intelligence, weighs in to help Alex take accountability for his role in this messy situation and to empower him to change course.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but nobody has their shit together 100 percent of the time — nobody. You can be excelling in one part of your life while another area is imploding. Those two states of being co-exist all the time, for everyone. Life is messy like that. And it's okay. What's not okay? Acting like you have it under control when you're spiraling. We want to help. Messy Situations empowers people to release feelings of shame by bravely revealing the unfiltered parts of their lives. Each week we'll discuss Messy Situations —big and small— submitted anonymously and shared by in-person guests, and then call in our Clean-Up Crew of wellness experts, mental-health pros, spiritual guides, energy healers, messy-life survivors and more to start mopping things up. We encourage anyone who is willing to confess their own mess — even science says it’s good for the soul.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices