Bewildered

By: Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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  • What if we stopped listening to the controlling voice of the culture around us, and instead learned to reconnect with our own true nature?

    Sometimes we aren’t even sure why we feel so bewildered… and discontented… and even downright miserable. Often it’s because we have let the forces of society replace our own instinctive knowledge of what is right for us.

    Now, it’s time for us to find that voice again—before it’s too late.

    For Martha and Rowan, Job One is to live according to our deepest truths, making the commitment to feeling good even when it means looking weird. We believe that this is how we will reinvent our world—from the inside out— to create a society that’s kinder, more equitable, and more ecologically sustainable than the one we see around us right now.

    This is the vision that we laugh and stumble and chat and feel our way towards here on this podcast. Did we mention LAUGH? We want no part of personal and global transformation if it isn’t fun!

    So if you struggle to find a place where people who are as idealistic and brokenhearted, as silly and deeply sincere, as bewildered as you are—you might have just arrived.

    Welcome!
    2025 Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
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Episodes
  • How to Train Your Human

    How to Train Your Human
    Apr 16 2025

    At the beginning of this game called life, we each get a human—a body that we get to steer through the world.

    In this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about the idea of “training your human”—because you are not your body, mind, or personality, but rather a consciousness that inhabits your human form.

    If you can gently guide your human instead of forcing it to conform to culture, then your human can thrive while still being able to function in the world.

    Want to learn how? Tune in and find out!

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    53 mins
  • War of the Worldviews

    War of the Worldviews
    Apr 2 2025

    Have you ever been drawn into conspiratorial thinking?

    In this Episode 99 of Bewildered, we’re talking about how easy it is to get pulled into conspiracy theories because of a phenomenon called apophenia. It's the tendency to perceive connections or meaningful patterns between unrelated or random things—and it happens to feel delightful.

    Want to learn more about apophenia, conspiracy theories, fractured worldviews, and how we can all come to our senses? Join us for this episode of the Bewildered podcast!

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Your Money or Your Life

    Your Money or Your Life
    Mar 19 2025

    “Your money, or your life.” Those two things are very, very different, but in our culture, they tend to get blended together. That’s what we’re talking about on this episode of Bewildered.

    We explore how our culture is so focused on money it’s practically a religion. And how for many of us, this obsession with money can become an addiction because “you can never get enough of something that almost works.”

    Want to try shifting your central focus away from money and work? Join us for the full episode!

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    • Follow Martha on Instagram
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    46 mins

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Loving it :-)

Absolutely love and find solace in the genuine intelligent chats, banter and story content! Need this so much right now while healing. Thank you so much X

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