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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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Growth Self-Improvement Mental Health Education Inspiration Motivation Self Help Health & Fitness
Update frequency
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Average duration
7 minutes
Episodes
1575
Years Active
2021 - 2025
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1536 || finding support in difficult times

1536 || finding support in difficult times

Research from the HeartMath Institute has shown that our bodies pick up on the electromagnetic field of information that radiates from another’s heart. READ THE ARTICLE: https://greatergood.berkeley.…

00:07:51  |   Tue 12 Aug 2025
1535 || how to actually respond (the conclusion)

1535 || how to actually respond (the conclusion)

Today is the final day of the how to deal with "bad faith actors" series. I share an article from "Honor the Earth" about how to respond to fascism in real life.


https://www.honorearth.org/news/what-…

00:06:22  |   Mon 11 Aug 2025
1534 || antagonists gonna antagonize

1534 || antagonists gonna antagonize

Bad Faith Actors (or BFA's) don't give a fuck about the argument itself, they're playing a very different game altogether, and they're very skilled at baiting people into engaging with them in bad fa…

00:08:49  |   Sun 10 Aug 2025
1533 || how to create an open + tolerant society

1533 || how to create an open + tolerant society

OKAY WE SHOULDN’T ARGUE WITH BFAS, WHAT SHOULD WE DO? We should not bury our head in the sand about these beliefs, but amplifying problematic, anti-social ideas is does not help. We can’t win in deba…

00:09:57  |   Sat 09 Aug 2025
1532 || why you can't argue with a BFA

1532 || why you can't argue with a BFA

Bad Faith Actors (or BFA's) don't give a fuck about the argument itself, they're playing a very different game altogether.


PROBLEM #1: The point is: You cannot win because the game is rigged and the p…

00:09:32  |   Thu 07 Aug 2025
1531 || discipline vs. devotion || a special patreon preview

1531 || discipline vs. devotion || a special patreon preview

Tune into the full episode on Patreon: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcast


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66


SUPPORT Julie (…

00:09:32  |   Wed 06 Aug 2025
1530 || brandolini's law

1530 || brandolini's law

fascists don't give a shit about facts, logic, or reality. They only care about framing their narrative as legitimate, and as soon as you engage with them, you lose.


"A lie can travel half way around…

00:08:31  |   Tue 05 Aug 2025
1529 || the how + why of bad faith actors

1529 || the how + why of bad faith actors

BFA's are hell bent on preserving their identity, and they'd rather avoid reality completely than address the contradictions in theirs. Trolls don't care about reality at all, as long as they can eng…

00:08:15  |   Mon 04 Aug 2025
1528 || Defining

1528 || Defining "bad faith actors"

Bad Faith Actors - meaning going into interactions with either 1. the intention to deceive or 2. A belief and conviction and faith so profound that they become unable to confront facts or logic or re…

00:10:00  |   Sun 03 Aug 2025
1527 || my fight with a bigot (a true story)

1527 || my fight with a bigot (a true story)

"He had sown chaos between me and my friend and he truly didn’t give a fuck. In fact, he looked like he was enjoying it. He was manipulating me and I was watching it happen but unaware of how to make…

00:10:28  |   Sat 02 Aug 2025
1526 || the problem with tragic optimism

1526 || the problem with tragic optimism

According to Meg-John Barker at rewriting the rules, "My own way of dealing with meaninglessness in life, has also been to embrace it as an inevitable part of life which will happen with some regula…

00:08:19  |   Fri 01 Aug 2025
1525 || the case for tragic optimism

1525 || the case for tragic optimism

Because humanity has been here a while, and books exist where people write down what they do to deal with hard shit, there are plenty of first hand accounts of people not just surviving but thriving …

00:09:39  |   Thu 31 Jul 2025
1524 || filling the

1524 || filling the "hole"

Maybe you don't need more things, you just need a thing.


What happens when the shit that surrounds us starts to feel like it’s weighing us down rather than free us? When it feels like more shit to de…

00:09:19  |   Wed 30 Jul 2025
1523 || becoming optimistic using the ABCDE method

1523 || becoming optimistic using the ABCDE method


The ABCDE coaching model has five stages: Activating event or situation, Beliefs, Consequences, Disputation of the beliefs and Effective new approach to dealing with the problem. It's a coaching mode…

00:08:30  |   Tue 29 Jul 2025
1522 || learned optimism

1522 || learned optimism


Some of us are predisposed to less optimistic than others. Fortunately, there are ways we can LEARN to be more optimistic with time and practice.


The source: https://positivepsychology.com/learned-opt…

00:08:40  |   Mon 28 Jul 2025
1521 || why don't I remember my childhood?

1521 || why don't I remember my childhood?

You weren't absent, you were on high alert. Survival mode means. you can't make memories. Let's talk about ways to get out of survival mode, and why it's so important to do so with intention, regular…

00:07:46  |   Sun 27 Jul 2025
1520 || shame, cringe, + the fear of being perceived.

1520 || shame, cringe, + the fear of being perceived.

Cringe is the ultimate vibe killer. Plus, when I fear being judged that's me writing your story for you, and that's not fair for either of you. Today we talk about the fear of being perceived and how…

00:10:17  |   Sat 26 Jul 2025
1519 || the

1519 || the "value" of nature part 2

Why have some gifts of nature remained free? By: Alyssa Battistoni


THE RESOURCE:

The Value of Nature: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-value-of-nature/


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https:…

00:10:07  |   Fri 25 Jul 2025
1518 || the

1518 || the "value" of nature

Why have some gifts of nature remained free? By: Alyssa Battistoni


THE RESOURCE:

The Value of Nature: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-value-of-nature/


Resources for Resisting a Coup: https:…

00:08:49  |   Thu 24 Jul 2025
1517 || escaping the

1517 || escaping the "skinner box"

NOTE: This is an old episode that never got published!!!! I decided to release it today before we move on to new topics.


Science confirms that facebook is a skinner box and we are just rats but we ca…

00:05:53  |   Wed 23 Jul 2025
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