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EPISODE · Oct 3, 2025 · 58 MIN

Staying Small Is a Choice: Good Girl Conditioning, Anger & Why Society Keeps Women Apart with Michelle Minnikin

from B. with Anna Brand · host Anna Brand

Michelle Minnikin is a work psychologist, author, ADHD brain, and self-described menace on the internet. She wrote her first book in 2 years, put on 5 stone doing it, and isn't sorry about any of it.In this episode:•       Good girl conditioning — where it starts, how it works, and why it's keeping you small•       Why staying small is a choice — even if it doesn't feel like one•       The psychology police on LinkedIn and what happened when she slid into his DMs•       Why society deliberately keeps women separate from older women — and why that's not an accident•       Post-menopausal women are at the height of their power — and the world is scared of that•       The one thing she'd tell any woman who knows she's got something to say but is terrified to say itStill playing by rules that were never written for you?

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