{"podcast":{"title":"The Ex-Good Girl Podcast","slug":"the-ex-good-girl-podcast-6037423","podcast_index_feed_id":6037423,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-ex-good-girl-podcast/","website_url":"https://www.sarafisk.coach/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/673f6d3e-dacd-455a-87e0-4e826e719884/50e75e53-731f-486a-8d06-7fac81a48c27.jpg","author":"Sara Bybee Fisk","episode_count":181,"summary":"Welcome to the Ex Good Girl Podcast! I’m Sara Bybee Fisk, the Stop People Pleasing Coach. If you feel exhausted from constant people pleasing and perfectionism, and you are ready to stop but you don’t know how, this podcast is for YOU! I will help you learn to stop making other people comfortable at your own expense. I can show you a roadmap you can use to train yourself to stop abandoning your own desires and let go of the fear of what others will think. If you are ready to stop pretending everything is fine, get out of the cycle of doubt, guilt, and resentment AND step into a life of power and freedom, I can help!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T00:17:11.170347+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ex-good-girl-podcast-6037423"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 162 - The Patriarchal Double-Bind of Motherhood","slug":"episode-162-the-patriarchal-double-bind-of-motherhood","published_at":"2026-05-13T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ex-good-girl-podcast-6037423/episode-162-the-patriarchal-double-bind-of-motherhood","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ex-good-girl-podcast-6037423","url":"https://www.sarafisk.coach/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6d060742-fbee-42a7-b753-ca6064b5b2db.mp3","summary":"Patriarchy asks mothers to hold themselves to impossible standards and then blames them when they struggle. In this episode, I’m revisiting the patriarchal double-bind through the lens of motherhood and unpacking the expectations women are expected to follow all at once. We’ve become accustomed to policing others and ourselves based on the rules we’ve been taught a “good mother” should follow, while the realities of exhaustion, isolation, grief, resentment, and needing help are treated as personal failures. But motherhood is beautiful and hard, and acknowledging that both things can exist simultaneously is what begins to set women free. Here’s what I cover: Why motherhood is such a clear example of the patriarchal double-bind How social media often pressures women to hide the difficult parts of motherhood Why women are taught that needing help means failure and how that isolates mothers The realities of parental leave and childcare that reveal how unsupported mothers actually are How fear keeps women silent about motherhood and why telling the truth feels so risky Find Sara here: sarafisk.coach pages.sarafisk.coach/difficultconversations instagram.com/sarafiskcoach facebook.com/SaraFiskCoaching tiktok.com/@sarafiskcoach youtube.com/@sarafiskcoaching1333","meta_description":"Patriarchy asks mothers to hold themselves to impossible standards and then blames them when they struggle. In this episode, I’m revisiting the patriarcha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2042,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ex-good-girl-podcast-6037423/episodes/episode-162-the-patriarchal-double-bind-of-motherhood/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ex-good-girl-podcast-6037423/episode-162-the-patriarchal-double-bind-of-motherhood.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}