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EPISODE · May 4, 2026 · 39 MIN

Navigating Discomfort: From Cult Survivor to Business Owner with Alesia Galati

from Feminist Founders: Building Profitable People-First Businesses · host Becky Mollenkamp

Get "Liberate Your Business" by Becky Mollenkamp at https://liberateyourbusiness.com/In this powerful conversation, Faith Clarke sits down with Alesia Galati—podcast host, business owner, wife, and mother—to explore how discomfort shows up in our bodies and impacts how we navigate relationships and power dynamics. Alesia shares her journey from growing up in a single-parent home affected by addiction, through 10 years in a cult disguised as a women's program, to building multiple successful podcasts and a full-service podcast management agency.What We Discussed:How women's bodies teach distress tolerance through periods and other physical experiencesThe complicated relationship with "push through" messaging after cult traumaMoving from knee-jerk reactions to slowing down in moments of discomfortHow childhood experiences shape our automatic responses to conflictThe importance of mitigation versus avoidance strategiesParenting in the age of AI and teaching kids to sit with questionsBook recommendations for understanding different perspectives on discomfortThe power of sitting with someone through their coping mechanismsFeatured book: They Wouldn't Dare by Deanna Gray: https://amzn.to/4tdVVJcReady to connect with other feminist founders navigating these conversations? Join us in the Feminist Podcasters Collective at feministpodcasterscollective.com

Get "Liberate Your Business" by Becky Mollenkamp at https://liberateyourbusiness.com/In this powerful conversation, Faith Clarke sits down with Alesia Galati—podcast host, business owner, wife, and mother—to explore how discomfort shows up in our bodies and impacts how we navigate relationships and power dynamics. Alesia shares her journey from growing up in a single-parent home affected by addiction, through 10 years in a cult disguised as a women's program, to building multiple successful podcasts and a full-service podcast management agency.What We Discussed:How women's bodies teach distress tolerance through periods and other physical experiencesThe complicated relationship with "push through" messaging after cult traumaMoving from knee-jerk reactions to slowing down in moments of discomfortHow childhood experiences shape our automatic responses to conflictThe importance of mitigation versus avoidance strategiesParenting in the age of AI and teaching kids to sit with questionsBook recommendations for understanding different perspectives on discomfortThe power of sitting with someone through their coping mechanismsFeatured book: They Wouldn't Dare by Deanna Gray: https://amzn.to/4tdVVJcReady to connect with other feminist founders navigating these conversations? Join us in the Feminist Podcasters Collective at feministpodcasterscollective.com

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