You Can't Avoid the Mess

You Can't Avoid the Mess

By Olivia Gomez & Camila Arri-NudoSociety & CulturePersonal Journals
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You Can't Avoid the Mess episodes

  • Body-ody-ody

    This week, we're getting knee-deep (ba-dum ching) into our thoughts on body politics! Join your fellow petite, broad-shouldered women as we discuss body neutrality, dieting, shaving our heads, and more. Everyone's body is different and we all have a story; welcome to ours.

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    54 min
  • Getting Back on the Hobby Horse

    What even counts as a hobby anymore? Can you call it a hobby if you don't do it every day? In this episode, we talk about what we do in our free time when there is constant pressure to excel at everything, never give up an activity, and look just cool enough doing it. Let's bring back genuine enthusiasm!

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    47 min
  • To Mom or Not to Mom

    Camila is a mother. Olivia is not. Their current experiences are very different, but their opinions on motherhood and the forms it can take are surprisingly similar. Join your famously messy hosts in an ongoing conversation about what it means to be a mother, how the women in our lives shape our beliefs, and building a family in whatever way feels right for you and your partner. 

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    1 hr 6 min
  • Hot Take: Gym Culture

    Welcome back! This bite-sized episode, we're sharing our hot takes on gym culture. Camila shares her sound bath hack, Olivia rebels against the term "working out," and we agree everybody should move how they please. Leave us a review and let us know what you think of shorter (for us) episodes!

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    20 min
  • The Hidden Mess: Friendship

    This week, we're getting deep into the mess that is friendship, from childhood to adulthood! We're talking about values, types of friendships everybody needs, and navigating conflict when we don't feel prepared. Come for the hot takes, stay for some secondhand therapy.

    53 min
  • Digging Ourselves Out of the "Straight As to Burnout" Hole

    In this episode, we talk about a lot: from our childhoods, academics, what we valued intrinsically and were rewarded for, how the patterns & beliefs we learned when we were younger affect us today, to what we’re doing now to combat harmful beliefs and be more self-compassionate.

    TLDR: what happens when high-achieving girls become women?

    53 min
  • Mr. Frisky Slay

    Come for Olivia's questionable love life decisions, stay for a catch up on everything we've been up to since we broke up as besties > coming out! loss! jobs!

    58 min
  • Welcome to the Mess!!

    Olivia's back after 7 looooong years in which Camila wondered wtf did I do?? But actually, join us for a conversation about trust, friendship, reunion, and forgiveness.

    46 min

About You Can't Avoid the Mess

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Like your favorite treat after a shitty day baked with hard truths from your bff. In other words, every part of life is messy. We're here to talk about it and hopefully learn something along the…