Bewildered
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!
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Living Without a Script (Special episode!)
Martha and Ro are doing something completely different for this episode of Bewildered, teaming up with their friends Eric Zimmer and Ginny Gay from The One You Feed podcast.
Tune in as they talk abo…
Nice Work If You Can Get It
When it comes to the topic of jobs, the culture has a lot to say—and all of it is scary. There's a strict path we're expected to follow, which we've been led to believe is the only logical way.
In th…
How to Get Started
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro answer a question from listener Josephine, who's trying to understand and overcome her resistance to doing things that are good for her.
The culture tells…
Drift Patterns
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro talk about drift patterns, the cultural currents we can get stuck in that could be carrying us far away from our true nature.
One function of cultural pat…
The Upside of Necessary Evils
It’s another BeWild Files episode of Bewildered, and Martha and Ro are answering a question from listener Gazit, who's trying to co-parent with a difficult ex, and the experience does not feel joyful…
Getting Through the Tough Stuff
There will always be hard things we have to do in life. That's just a given. So how do we go about doing them without suffering?
Martha and Rowan say the key is freedom, and in this episode of Bewil…
Wild Energy
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Rowan are talking all about emotional energy—the moods, feelings, or intentions that come across without any words or physical action.
This kind of energy ca…
Vulnerability Hangovers
Have you ever bravely shared your authentic self, only to agonize over it later thinking you shared too much?
We've all been there. It's what Brené Brown calls a ‘vulnerability hangover,” and Martha …
The Problem With Productivity
Our culture teaches us that we should jam as many things as possible into our days, and many of us learn to equate success with how many things we've checked off our to-do lists or how much stuff we'…
The Secret to Perseverance
Do you enjoy setting goals but have a harder time reaching them?
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro talk about how to travel from where we are in life to where we want to be—and how our cul…
The Procrastination Episode
Procrastination. We’ve all been there.
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro explore why we procrastinate (hint: cultural conditioning strikes again) and how we can find our way out of it by …
Always Growing Up
Many of us buy into the cultural idea that there is only one way to parent, and if we do it correctly, things will turn out okay, and everyone will approve of us. But when grown children leave home, …
Smashing Language
Can we be free from the culture if we still use language? That’s the question Martha and Ro discuss in this episode of Bewildered. While we are all encased in the language we learned as children, whe…
Blowing Up Your Life
Blowing up your life—why such violent imagery?
Martha and Rowan say it’s because the culture is so powerful you need an explosion to break out of it!
On this BeWild Files episode of Bewildered, they…
Making the Right Choice
The culture believes there’s always a single right choice, and if you don’t make that right choice, you could end up wasting your whole life. So is it any wonder a lot of us freeze in panic when face…
Helping Too Hard
Martha and Ro are back with another BeWild Files episode of Bewildered to discuss things that YOU, their listeners, are trying to figure out.
This episode is all about codependency—sacrificing your o…
Cave Early
Our culture stresses that we should never, ever give up on anything, no matter what the cost to our happiness or health. Yet our bodies have a way of telling us when something isn’t right—first in a …
Elizabeth Gilbert gets Bewildered!
Martha and Rowan have a very special guest on this episode of Bewildered—the incredible Elizabeth Gilbert!
The bestselling author of EAT PRAY LOVE joins Martha and Ro to discuss the question: Why is…
Longing and Belonging
It’s that time again on Bewildered…Martha and Ro are bringing you another installment of The BeWild Files, where they talk about things that YOU, their listeners, are trying to figure out.
In this ep…
A Space for Dreaming
Culture teaches us to strive for stability—and that once we have it, we’re never meant to change. But in nature, everything is always changing, including us.
In this episode of Bewildered, Martha and…