Your New Life Blend

Has there ever been a better time to decide what our lives should look like? We are emerging from a once-in-a-century cataclysm where our lives were upended, our communities remade and our priorities readjusted. Now as the call to return to “normal” grows more insistent, we get to ask the question: what does “normal” look like? Did the old normal serve me? What do I want my new normal to be? And what will that mean for my career, my community, and my family? These are the fundamental questions to building our lives – and now, rebuilding them. As a therapist and coach, Shoshanna Hecht has been wrestling with these very questions in her practice – and now, on this podcast. With guests from all walks of life including media, culture, politics, tech, business & activism, Shoshanna examines the overlap of our goals, relationships, boundaries and priorities, and how we can navigate them all with self-awareness and intention. What do we want our lives to look like? Welcome to Your New Life Blend.

Jessica Bennett, New York Times Journalist & Author

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Jessica Bennett has spent a prolific, award-winning career writing and reporting about gender, sexuality, politics, and culture, including as the first-ever Gender Editor for The New York Times, and now as a contributing writer & editor. She has profiled – and shaped our collective understanding of – numerous public figures including Jennifer Aniston, Pamela Anderson, Monica Lewinsky, E. Jean Carroll, Governor Kathy Hochul and Anita Hill. Jessica’s book, “Feminist Fight Club,” offered solutions for fighting workplace inequality and gender bias, and her current podcast, “In Retrospect,” with co-host Susie Banikarim, looks back on cultural moments from the past few decades and rethinks our collective – and often extremely dated – response. It’s all giving her a lot to think about right now as she ponders what’s next in a decimated media environment as it seems like, yet again, everything is changing.

In this episode of “Your New Life Blend,” host Shoshanna Hecht sits down with Jessica to discuss our shifting attitudes as a society (and as an ambitious, high- achieving women), how to carve out your own job description, and above all, how to roll with an ever-changing world when sometimes what you really want is a nap.

Website:
https://www.jessicabennett.com/

Books:
https://www.jessicabennett.com/books

New York Times column: https://www.nytimes.com/by/jessica-bennett
Podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-in-retrospect-with-susie-122206786/

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