Make Your Damn Bed
@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.
Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it!
Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 1580
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
1327 || true friendship is inconvenient
"That's why it's hard to make friends when you're older," she said. "Friendship is rude."
Her friend's eyes widened. "What?"
"Think about it! When we're kids we decide who we like and stick by them n…
1326 || tyranny of the ideal woman (part two)
Jia Tolentino said "We have not “optimized” our wages, our childcare system, our political representation; we still hardly even think of parity as realistic in those arenas, let alone anything approa…
1325 || the tyranny of the ideal woman
Jia Tolentino said "Figuring out how to “get better” at being a woman is a ridiculous and often amoral project – a subset of the larger, equally ridiculous, equally amoral project of learning to get …
1324 || slow living as a resolution
"Slow living is a conversation inherently steeped in privilege. “So many systems are stacked against members of our society who are, in theory, desperate to slow down, but the structure of capitalism…
1323 || the best advice of 2024 (part 3)
It’s their first time being a person too. Grief distorts reality. Joy is not passive. Done > perfect. The obstacles in your path are your path. Be a good parent to you. Instead of figuring it all out…
1322 || the best advice of 2024 (part 2)
17. People show love in many different ways. At some point, we have to understand that just because someone isn’t capable of communicating love in a healthy way doesn’t mean they don’t love you. But …
1321 || the best advice of 2024
1. You get one body. Be kind to it. Whatever sucks about it (more than likely) doesn’t compare to what doesn’t suck about it. Learn to appreciate the badass vessel that it is + honor your commitment …
1320 || advice article from 2024
Here's the 2024 compilation of articles from Vox, Atlantic, Medium, Linked in, and NYT, offering their advice from 2024. Stay tuned for mine!
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1319 || Best advice from the last year (2023) || patreon
I'm still a little under the weather but tomorrow I'm sharing advice from 2024 in preparation for 2025 so today, I thought I'd do a little recap of last year's episode featuring advice from 2023.
The…
1318 || use your fancy equipment (and take care of it)
Gratitude is a practice that gains momentum as we do it. Slowing down takes brain power, which forces us to remember that this is worth the extra effort. Conscious awareness can transform routine int…
1317 || brain plasticity (re-release)
Another re-release for the holiday. Hope you enjoy!
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1316 || favors for future me (re-release)
Another re-release for the holiday. Hope you enjoy!
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1315 || conflict resolution highlights
1. Let go of winning.
2. Share your story and invite others to do the same.
3. Ask questions to understand.
4. Acknowledge the role of emotions.
5. When possible, seek common ground.
BY: https://grea…
1314 || inner voice check (re-release)
(this is a re-release) If your inner voice manifested into a human form today, would you be friends with it? I think a lot of us would have to teach our new friend some manners before going into the …
1313 || perfectionism is the enemy
"Perfectionism is just control dressed up in a different costume." - Seth Hughes
"Perfection is just another attempt to tidy up a scruffy universe. You see what this world needs is humanity. Being rou…
1312 || so many possibilities so little time
You can pivot whenever you need to. Maybe you’ve been on a path that felt right for a while, but now it doesn’t. That’s okay. We outgrow shit. Goals that used to fire us up can start to feel like obl…
1311 || digging holes (a re-release)
This is a re-release.
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1310 || food is my passion (so why do I struggle with it?)
The real thing I enjoy about cooking and working out - is when the effort is the least interesting part about it. I hate treadmills, but give me a cocktail and a disney pass, I’m walking MILES withou…
1309 || always go to the funeral
"In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing." - Dierdre Sullivan
"It's so rare. It's so rare t…
1308 || to quit or not to quit
One way to know if it's time to quit is to ask: "If I weren’t already invested in this, would I choose it today?"
The key to quitting "well" is:
- Honesty —with yourself and others. Own your decision.
- H…