{"podcast":{"title":"Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud","slug":"fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467","podcast_index_feed_id":7020467,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/fashionneurosis","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cfaba0aa-6f79-11ef-b002-1fdd7f77e814/image/e51bba1e0496e7dd9b0750e74143e146.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Bella Freud","episode_count":86,"summary":"Each week join the renowned fashion designer Bella Freud as she invites a special guest to lie on the couch and explore the connection between fashion and identity. Bella’s conversations begin with questions about style: what we reveal and hide through the clothes we wear. Bella also shares her own anecdotes and the conversations expand into deeper discussions on life’s universal themes - love, identity, culture, anxiousness, and even politics. Through a series of tailored questions, Bella creates a relaxed, intimate atmosphere where her guests - ranging from fashion icons to cultural figures in sport, art, music, film, and literature - reveal more about themselves than they might expect. Fashion is often dismissed as surface, but in this podcast it becomes the lens through which we examine our inner lives, relationships, and society. Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud offers a unique, thoughtful, and engaging conversation that goes far beyond what we wear, diving into the unspoken language of clothing and the ways in which we use style to navigate and communicate in the world. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. www.fashionneurosis.com www.fashionneurosis.substack.com @fashione…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:17:08.035057+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467"},"episode":{"title":"Esther Perel","slug":"esther-perel","published_at":"2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467/esther-perel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP6254762390.mp3?updated=1770714727","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP6254762390.mp3?updated=1770714727","summary":"Esther Perel is a psychotherapist and author, recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City, serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and is an advisor to both Hinge and Culture Amp on the intricacies of human connection. Esther was born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, the daughter of two Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors who owned a clothing shop. She gained a Masters degree from Lesley University in Expressive Art Therapy in the 1980s, and has lived in the United States with her partner, Jack Saul, for more than 40 years. Her celebrated TED Talks have garnered millions of views, and her bestselling books, Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs, are global phenomena which have been translated into more than 30 languages. Perel is also the host of the hit podcast Where Should We Begin?, which has captivated millions of listeners around the world for nearly a decade. In this episode of Fashion Neurosis, Bella Freud and Esther Perel discuss Perel’s childhood in her parents’ clothing shop, the rules of dressing as a therapist, and fragile masculinity. Esther Perel’s podcast Where Should We Begin? can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and her Substack is Entre Nous, estherperel.substack.com This is the last of our Fashion Neurosis in New York series - see you next time. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"Esther Perel is a psychotherapist and author, recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine lan…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4272,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467/episodes/esther-perel/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fashion-neurosis-with-bella-freud-7020467/esther-perel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}