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135: I’ve lost my confidence! How can I make friends and keep them?
135: I’ve lost my confidence! How can I make friends and keep them?
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Ash Sarkar and Moya Lothian-McLean sort the personal from the political, tackle listener dilemmas and air their opinions on the frustrations of modern life.
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- 135: I’ve lost my confidence! How can I make friends and keep them? · 1 h 4 minMoya has been feeling anxious about her social life and wonders if there’s a better way to make friends – and keep them. Plus: advice for an international special one who feels…
- 134: Try, fail and fail again? How embarrassing! · 59 minAsh has a big theory about our growing fear of cringe. How does the internalisation of secondhand embarrassment change our behaviour? Is it possible that to be cringe is to be…
- 133: What if we explained ourselves a little less? · 47 minA weird interaction on the dancefloor gets Ash thinking about ambiguity. How do we balance the need for clear consent with the perks of mystery and uncertainty? Has growing up…
- 132: Is there such a thing as healthy competition? · 1 h 0 minAfter quitting Instagram, Moya wonders if the concept of ‘healthy competition’ is a myth, and Ash explains how to hate with artistry. Plus: Taylor Swift chat (for the first 8…
- 131: Is there an upside to AI-generated porn? · 1 h 14 minAsh and Moya talk about porn, sex work, desire, ‘duty sex’ and more in a conversation sparked by a mystery question. Is AI-generated porn driving viewers to more extreme content?…
- 130: The inconvenient truth about convenience culture · 59 minMoya and Ash get their nerd on with a conversation about the rise of convenience and the loss of enchantment. How can we access feelings of wonder in a world of quick fixes? Is…
- 129: How did the pandemic change you? · 1 h 1 minWhat if we still haven’t processed what the pandemic did to us? Was Covid a permanent turning point for our social lives and mental health? Ash and Moya identify an ongoing…
- 128: Does a widening income gap spell trouble between friends? · 1 h 0 minMoya and Ash think about how money changes our priorities. Should rich friends should pay for their poor friends? And how do income gaps affect our romantic relationships? Plus…
- 127: Help! I think my friend is in love with me?! · 1 h 4 minMoya is worried about status – and so are increasing numbers of men in therapy, according to a recent report. So what does status look like in this economy? How are men adapting…
- 126: What if you don’t have to feel anxious 24/7? · 52 minAsh has had life-changing experience for only £38. Has she found the key to escaping her fight-or-flight response? And what’s the best way to process anxiety? Plus: how to…
- 125: Is the era of conspicuous consumption nearly over? · 1 h 1 minHave we finally had enough of hyper-consumerism? Moya and Ash confront the political crises that are changing our attitudes to spending, and what that’s got to do with the World…
- 124: Are you afraid of being ordinary? · 60 minTrapped in the attention economy, Moya wonders if our reading habits are affecting our sense of self, and Ash offers a feminist analysis of ‘main character’ versus ‘NPC’. Plus…
- 123: How can I get better at dealing with rejection? · 1 h 6 minAsh dreams up a whole new category – Disasterclass – in order to talk about inevitable pain of rejection. Whether it’s jobs, romance, friends or success, how much damage can…
- 122: Can you change who you’re attracted to? w/ Annie Lord · 1 h 7 minFormer Vogue agony aunt Annie Lord joins Ash and Moya to talk about what happens if you let go of your ‘type’ and allow your romantic ideals to change. Her debut novel, The…
- 121: Is it time to stop height-shaming men? · 1 h 2 minAsh and Moya answer a not-so-mystery question about male self-image and whether short kings really do lose out in the dating market. How does modern masculinity look and dress?…
- 120: Help! I’m dreading moving to the suburbs with my partner · 57 minAsh and Moya get stuck into your dilemmas. Featuring: a POC friend whose new boyfriend votes Reform, a male coworker who’s gone from supportive to creepy, a woman who’s…
- 119: I know I should forgive my enemies… but what if I don’t want to? · 1 h 4 min* Last call for our show at Crossed Wires in Sheffield this Saturday, 4th July! Final tickets: https://crossedwires.live * A brush with an old enemy brings up big questions…
- 118: Can a hen party ever be chic? · 56 min* We’ll be at Crossed Wires festival in Sheffield on 4th July! Final tickets: https://crossedwires.live * ‘Tis the season! Moya and Ash explore the etiquette of the modern…
- 117: Is screen addiction ruining our connection to art? · 1 h 3 min* We’ll be at Crossed Wires festival in Sheffield on 4th July! Final tickets: https://crossedwires.live * Moya has a big theory about why wealthy elites seem to have stopped…
- 116: I can’t stop worrying about money. Is there a way out? · 1 h 8 min* Come to see us at Crossed Wires in Sheffield on 4th July! https://crossedwires.live * Moya tunes into the background hum of money worries. Does our upbringing predict our…
