Over This Should
by Pamela Meadows
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Gold Star Girl The Shower That Changed Everything
Gold Star Girl The Shower That Changed Everything
About this podcast
Welcome to Over This Should, the podcast where we ditch societal expectations, challenge the "shoulds" holding women back, and embrace life on your own terms. Hosted by Pamela Meadows, this empowering series features inspiring conversations, expert insights, and practical strategies to help you set boundaries, boost confidence, and live authentically.
Designed for women ready to step into their power, Over This Should covers topics like self-love, emotional intelligence, navigating relationships, and achieving personal and professional growth. Whether you’re redefining success, balancing life’s demands, or seeking inspiration, this podcast provides the tools and support you need to create a fulfilling, unapologetic life.
Join us every week for uplifting stories, actionable advice, and thought-provoking interviews that empower you to live boldly and authentically. Let’s redefine what it means to thrive—together!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 64 episodes
- Gold Star Girl The Shower That Changed Everything · 21 minThat moment when you say “Of course, count me in” and your stomach drops later isn’t a personality quirk. It’s a pattern and it can burn you out so slowly you stop noticing the…
- Direct, Not Difficult: How to Say What You Mean Without Shrinking · 12 minYou know that email. “Hey, just checking in!” followed by three paragraphs of cushioning around the thing you actually mean: “This was due Tuesday.” Ma’am. That’s a hostage…
- Stop Procrastinating By Feeling Safe with Guest Heather Lillico · 56 minYou can be smart, capable, and deeply committed to your goals and still find yourself avoiding the exact actions that would move your life forward. When that happens, we tend to…
- How To Delegate Without Hovering Or Taking It Back · 12 minYou finally delegate dinner and then catch yourself checking the fridge, watching the clock, and thawing the chicken anyway. That awkward moment is the real story, not the…
- The Glass Audit: How to Stop Carrying the Mental Load in Your Head · 11 minEver find yourself brushing your teeth thinking, “Don’t forget that email,” sitting in a meeting mentally rehearsing tomorrow’s conversation, or trying to fall asleep when your…
- The Default Manager: Why You're Exhausted by a Day You Can't Remember · 13 minYou get to the end of the day completely wiped out. Somebody asks what you did, and you genuinely cannot answer. You noticed the milk was gone. You moved the three o'clock…
- Confidence Comes After You Do The Thing · 49 minEntrepreneurship gets sold as a highlight reel, but the real work happens in the messy middle: the quiet nights, the spirals of doubt, the launches that don’t land, and the…
- The Identity Shift No One Talks About (Motherhood, Meaning, and Being Needed) · 15 min · Episode 61You’re told “it’s not that deep.” But what if it is? In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela Meadows explores what happens when someone dismisses your experience—and why that…
- Business Besties, Reinvention and Starting Before You’re Ready (with Christina Kimbrough and Brandi Zenzel) · 45 min · Episode 60What happens when two women get tired of shallow networking, waiting to feel ready, and pretending business can be separated from real life? Christina Kimbrough and Brandi Zenzel…
- Human Design, Burnout, and the Blueprint You Were Never Meant to Follow · 43 minWhat if you’re not bad at boundaries, business, rest, or decision-making? What if you’ve just spent years trying to succeed inside systems that were never built for your actual…
- Your Mid-Year Reset Is Not a Performance Review · 10 minHalfway through the year can feel like an uninvited performance review. Suddenly, there is pressure to account for every goal, habit, dollar, decision, and unfinished to-do list…
- Why Ambitious Women Still Hide: Visibility & Self-Trust with Caroline Brown · 45 minWhy is it so hard to say what you mean, hit publish, set a boundary, or take up space in the room, even when you are deeply capable? In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela…
- The Launch Failed. I Didn't. · 12 minWhat happens when you pour your time, money, and heart into something, and nobody says yes? In this deeply personal episode, Pamela shares what happened when her RESET program…
- Who Am I When I’m Not Being Useful? · 30 min · Episode 51What if the reason you can’t rest has nothing to do with your to-do list? In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela Meadows takes on the question that hits like a stomach punch…
- Girlboss vs. Tradwife: The Rigged Game You Were Never Meant to Win · 28 min · Episode 48In April, a poll claiming 47% of young women would rather be a "tradwife" than a "girlboss" got held up on national TV as proof the career woman is over. The internet promptly…
- The Identity Crisis Nobody Warned You About: When the Title Stops Fitting · 18 min · Episode 47That moment when you pull into the driveway, turn the car off, and just sit there? You’re not crying. You’re not falling apart. You’re not even sure what you’re feeling. You just…
- The Reliable One Is Tired · 22 min · Episode 46The reliable one is tired. She remembers the appointments, tracks the deadlines, manages the emotional temperature of the room, and somehow knows when the upstairs bathroom needs…
- The Tampon, the Boardroom & the Practice That Changed My Career · 12 min · Episode 46There are moments in life where your brain becomes fully convinced your career is over. Not because you failed. Not because you weren’t prepared. But because you had one deeply…
- The Runaway Yes: Why Women Say Yes When We Want to Say No · 12 min · Episode 45How many times have you said “yes” before you even checked your calendar… your energy… or your actual desire to do the thing? In this episode of Over This Should, Pamela dives…
- I Should Feel Confident By Now: The Real Root of Imposter Syndrome · 10 min · Episode 44Have you ever looked around a room and thought: “Everyone here knows what they’re doing… except me.” Even though you’re qualified. Even though you’ve earned your seat. Even…
