Director and writer Ann Marie Allison turned the most painful, confusing relationship of her life into a film- You're Dating a Narcissist , and a companion book bringing the protagonist Dr. Judy Kaplan to life.

This isn't loosely inspired by her experience. It's fictionalized, yes, but it's hers. Every messy, disorienting, "wait was that actually abuse?" piece of it.

We talk about what it took to will something like that into existence while also reliving the very thing that almost broke her.

I came in to interview her about her work and left feeling like I'd been in a therapy session about my own past relationship. We talk about the slow drip of narcissistic abuse, how you don't see the cage until you're already in it, and she actually gave me real insight into my own experiences.

This episode is going to feel like it was made for you. Because in a way, it was.

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So your friend is dating a loser... now what? You already thought of someone the second you read that. So let's talk about it.

In this episode, we're getting into one of the most uncomfortable dynamics in female friendship: watching someone you love choose a man who isn't choosing her back.

There's a whole spectrum here: from the harmless guy who never grew up, all the way to the man who's never laid a hand on her but has completely dismantled who she is. Knowing the difference matters, and so does how you show up for her.

We're also going somewhere a little more uncomfortable: what happens when your friend isn't the victim in her relationship story? What happens when she's the loser? (Yes, we're going there).

If you've ever lost a friend to a man, been that friend, or just need someone to tell you the truth about modern love, this one's for you.

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This week, we're talking about why we stay at the restaurant.

From the ghosts of situationships past to the very public unraveling happening on Summer House, this episode gets into the real reason we can't let certain people go... and spoiler alert!- it has nothing to do with how special they are. 

We break down why moving on is quieter than you think, why time alone doesn't heal anything, and what it actually looks like to finally leave. Plus, a letter-writing exercise that might be the closure you've been waiting for, because the check already came... you just haven't picked it up yet.

We're also getting into lessons I've learned after six years of being single and what it's actually taught me about connection, community, and finally stopping the waiting room mentality.

This one is for anyone who's still checking the menu of someone who's already changed.

You were taught that being good would keep you safe — that if you were kind enough, agreeable enough, and easy enough to love, nothing bad would come your way. But what if that belief is exactly what's been holding you back?

In this episode, we're unpacking the Good Girl Wound: the exhausting cycle of over-giving, people-pleasing, and abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable.

We get into empathy burnout, fawning, why setting boundaries for the first time makes you feel like the villain, and the difference between healing and hardening.

If you've ever poured so much into others that you forgot to save anything for yourself, hit the play button.

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This week we're getting into the Peter Pan Economy: what it actually means to come of age in a generation that can't afford to grow up, and why that's both a wound and a strange kind of gift.

We were promised that adulthood would and should look a certain way: house, kids, stability. Instead, we got girl dinner, situationships, and a deep sense that none of this feels real. 

The same generation that can't afford a house is also the one reclaiming their childhoods, leaning into whimsy, and asking "how can I have fun?" as a life philosophy.

The goal isn't to stay in Neverland forever... but to take a piece of it with us wherever we go.

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Two years freelancing, ten years of becoming, one very overdue conversation with herself.

In this double NYC episode, Meg reflects on the versions of herself she's shed, the ones she's still figuring out, and the ones she had to grieve before she could move forward.

There is a quiet disorientation of realizing you're finally the only barometer of your own success... because opting out of the 9-5 doesn't mean opting out of ambition. And not having a five year plan doesn't mean you're lost. Sometimes saying "I don't know" is the most honest, most powerful place you can be, even when it doesn't feel like it.

Questions were asked. Some were answered. Some are still unfolding. But one thing is clear: she's finally slowing down long enough to listen.

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Can you de-center men and still want love? That's the question... and honestly, it's the reason this podcast exists.

In this episode, we're getting into what de-centering men actually means (hint: it has nothing to do with being bitter, giving up on love, or actually hating men), why so many of us have been quietly organizing our lives around men who don't even know we exist, and how the rise of conservative Gen Z men fits into all of this.

I'm sharing the story of my first real heartbreak at 20, what Mr. New Years taught me about men who want a partner but not the partnership, and the mindset shift that changed everything.

If you're a lover girl who's also exhausted by the idea of shrinking yourself for someone who hasn't even shown up yet, this one's for you.

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You know that scene in every show where the girl is absolutely glowing and her friend looks at her and goes "you had sex, didn't you?" That's the energy we're chasing. Not from sex...from life.

This week we're exploring what it means to truly flirt with your life, with yourself, with other people, with your career, with strangers on the street.

This one is equal parts philosophy, personal confession, and a love letter to the art of showing up fully alive.

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In case you haven't heard... carl's a mess! This week we're unpacking the Amanda and West situation- why it was never a surprise, what it says about identity (or the lack of it), and why being hot and progressive doesn't make a man any less of a problem.

Host Meg Reynolds then ties this back to her own experiences with men: why they come back, what they're actually after when they do, and why the open-book test of how women want to be loved keeps getting failed.

Let this episode be your reminder, you don't need A man, you need YOUR man. The work is figuring out the difference.

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In case no one ever told you this, strength isn't the unbothered act, it isn't the constant grind... and it is definitely not your friend who has never had a hard day in her life yet somehow still gives advice.

This episode is about what strength actually is and spoiler: your brain rewires itself through hardship, not in spite of it- that's neuroplasticity. Which means every hard season you've survived wasn't just painful, it was doing something.

We get into why the self-improvement obsession is often just avoidance in activewear, what the research on experiential avoidance actually says, and why the cool girl always loses.

Sometimes strength looks like putting your big girl pants on and doing the hard thing, sometimes it looks like eating that pint of Ben & Jerry's on your couch and letting yourself feel the pain.