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The Pressures of Privilege
by Diana Oehrli
The Pressures of Privilege explores pressure, class, achievement, family legacy, and the responsibilities that come with advantage, through conversations with inheritors, founders, advisors, doctors, artists, writers, and people who have chosen a different path.Hosted by Swiss-American journalist and producer Diana Oehrli, the show asks how we can use what we have well: to live more fully, connect more deeply, and become better stewards of our communities.
Episodes
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Ep56 Dr. Jud Brewer—How to Stop Anxiety From Running Your Life Even When Control Has Stopped Working
In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Dr. Jud Brewer, a psychiatrist and brain scientist who runs research at the Mindfulness Center at Brown University and wrote the New York Times bestseller Unwinding Anxiety, for a conversation about why money and...
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Ep55 Mark Drax—How to Stop Believing You Are a Monster When an Abusive Childhood Taught You to Hate Yourself
In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Mark Drax, an ICF-certified addiction recovery coach and a disciple of Dr. Gabor Maté, for a conversation about what happens when a boy from a secure home, with private schools and every advantage on paper, grows into…
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Ep54 Tammy Buss—How to Hand Down a Family Business When Everyone Is Quietly Assuming a Different Plan
In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Tammy Buss, founder of BlueRoots and a family enterprise advisor, for a conversation about what happens to a family when a business gets handed down and the hard conversations never get had. Tammy spent more than 30...
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The Consumer and the Steward
In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, the third in her stewardship series, host Diana Oehrli returns to a February night in 2012 in the Swiss Alps, when snow kept piling up outside her chalet in Gstaad, her phone stayed silent, and an iced-over windshield made the two-hour drive to...
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Ep53 Dr. Lindsay Emmerson—How to Stop Chasing Perfect Parenting
In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Dr. Lindsay Emmerson, a psychologist and mother of four who has spent her career turning decades of parenting research into tools that hold up in the middle of a real meltdown, not just on a whiteboard. Lindsay's research...
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Ep52 Sara Vetter—How to Heal Your Relationship With Money When Having Plenty Still Feels Like Not Enough
In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Sara Vetter, CEO of the Soul of Money Institute and a longtime work partner of Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money, for a conversation about what it takes to feel at home with yourself when a full bank account has...
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Ep51 Dr. Louise Stanger—Keep Falling Up: Addiction, the Myth of Rock Bottom, and How to Help Someone You Love Before It's Too Late
What actually happens inside a family when someone is drowning in addiction... and everyone around them is quietly drowning too? In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Dr. Louise Stanger, who is a nationally recognized interventionist, licensed clinical social...
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Why Work If You Don't Need The Money?
What if "why work?" is the wrong question? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli takes on a question she's heard more than once, from a relative who asked why she'd work when she didn't need the money and from an ex who said he'd take her back if she got a job. She...
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Ep50 Howard Kaplan—The Wealth Manager Who Quit Believing in Retirement
In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Howard Kaplan, CEO and founder of Personal Strategic Design, who spent 30 years as a Harvard MBA, CPA, and wealth manager telling accomplished people how to retire, before his own life forced him to admit that doing...
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Ep49 Matt Grace—How to Set a Boundary With Someone You Love When You're Terrified It Will Hurt Them
In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Matt Grace, founder of the family recovery practice, Saving Grace, who has spent more than twenty years sober and over ten thousand hours walking wealthy families through a child's, a spouse's, or a sibling's…
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Ep48 Anna Holtzman—How to Stop Earning Your Right to Belong When You Were Born Into Privilege
In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Anna Holtzman, a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City who spent 15 years in publishing and television, including years as a reality TV editor at MTV, before debilitating migraines pushed her toward…
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Ep47 Jolanthe de Koning—How to Let Go of Perfect When Achievement Is Your Whole Identity
In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Jolanthe de Koning, PhD researcher, yoga teacher, and founder of Amid the Mess, for a conversation that cuts well beneath the surface of wellness culture and gets honest about what it actually takes to feel well when real...
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Ep46 Todd Sarner—How to Raise Resilient Kids When You're Already Doing Everything Right
Why do children who have every advantage in the world still struggle to handle a simple no? In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Todd Sarner, a licensed therapist who trained under attachment expert Dr. Gordon Newfeld and has spent 22 years working with more...
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Ep45 Jeanne Omlor—How to Find What You Truly Want When Money and Power Still Feel Like Isolation
What happens when everything you've worked to acquire starts working you instead? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Jeanne Omlor, a business coach who has been an actress, a fashion designer, and a Wall Street recruiter before building a coaching...
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Ep44 Graham Hawley—How to Take Your Health Back When the System Profits From You Staying Sick
What if the exhaustion, the cravings, and the diagnoses you've been told are just "getting older" are actually working exactly as designed? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Graham Hawley, a certified health and wellness coach and founder of Simply...
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Ep43 Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst—How to Raise a Son Who Can Actually Feel When Boyhood Teaches Him Not To
What if the wider emotional range boys are born with is trained out of them before they can talk? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst, a psychologist who has spent over 30 years working with kids, parents, and couples and is...
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Ep42 Todd Ormiston—How to Raise Resilient Kids When the World Keeps Selling Them Outcomes Over Character
What if the biggest gift you could give your child is the chance to fail safely, in public, and get back up? In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Todd Ormiston, executive director of North Country School and Camp Tree Tops in Lake Placid, New York, a place...
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Ep41 Lynne Harlow—The Art of Taking Away: Discovering How Giving More Means Doing Less
What if taking something away could be the most generous thing you do? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Lynne Harlow, a reductive artist with work in the Met, MoMA, and the RISD Museum, who has also spent twenty-six years inside the philanthropy…
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The Art of Showing Up Every Day
What if hitting the target was never the point? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli revisits a discipline she has kept since childhood: an art practiced every single day, the way her sensei once told her to brush her teeth. Drawing on Eugen Herrigel's 1948…
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Ep40 Eames Yates—How to Find Peace When Every Achievement Still Feels Like a Fraud
What happens when the chase that built your entire career stops making sense? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Eames Yates, the journalist who landed interviews most reporters only dream of: CIA directors, Navy SEAL commanders, Alec Baldwin, and,...
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Switzerland Is Counting The Wrong Foreigners
What happens when an entire country is certain something is disappearing but is wrong about who took it? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli returns to Gstaad, the Swiss village where her grandparents lived and where she watched the butcher shop, the bakery, and...
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Ep39 Deborah Delaney—How to Answer "Is This It?" When You Already Have Everything You Were Supposed to Want
What do you do with the rest of your life once you already have everything you were taught to want? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Deborah Delaney, a woman who spent 16 years as a London broker before she woke up one morning, looked out at the...
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”You're American”
Where do you belong when every answer feels only partly true? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli explores the world of adult third culture kids, or ATCKs: people who grew up between their parents' culture and the culture of the country where they lived and…
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Ep38 Araminta Jonsson—How to Stay Faithful to Your Mission When Growth Asks You to Forget Why You Started
What happens when the most important healing knowledge in the world stays locked in the rooms of the people who already know it? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Araminta Jonsson, CEO of Mint Partnership, Executive Director of the Trauma Research...
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We count the cookware, not the cooking
What if the work that holds your family together has been deliberately erased from the official record? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli follows a thread from Forbes cast iron sales data to a conversation with her 80-year-old friend Henry in his garden, where...
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Ep37 Tyler Osborne—How to Build a Legacy That Lasts When Money Came Without a Roadmap
What happens when wealth passes from one generation to the next, but the wisdom doesn't come with it? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Tyler Osborne, financial educator, podcast host of Money Master, and self-described hope dealer who grew up…
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Jeff Bezos is right about the bottom half. But what about the top?
When someone says "tax the rich," do they mean you? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, Diana Oehrli starts with Jeff Bezos and his proposal to exempt the bottom half of American earners from federal income tax and uses it to trace something far more uncomfortable. The federal...
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Ep36 Yanti Amos—How to Lead with Relational Wisdom When Technical Mastery Gets You Only So Far
What happens when you carry something forward that came through years of relationship and transmission rather than anything you earned alone? And what does it really mean to steward that? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Yanti Amos (former...
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Empathy Isn't Killing Us. Enabling Is.
What does it feel like when genuine kindness tips into rescue? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, Diana Oehrli draws on Dr. Jud Brewer's habit-loop research and 20 years watching people she loves get rescued until there was nothing left to rescue. She traces the enabling crisis…
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Ep35 Ashley D. Varnado—How to Break the Proving Cycle When Achievement Has Become Your Trap
What do you do with a legacy you didn't build in a family that expects you to carry it? In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Ashley D. Varnado, former managing director at Bank of America's private bank, where she oversaw $25 billion in assets across 18...
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Cannabis Doesn’t Cure Loneliness—It Exploits It
In May 2026, the largest review of medicinal cannabis ever conducted concluded that the drug is ineffective for treating anxiety, depression, or PTSD. Millions of people are using it for exactly those reasons. In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, Diana Oehrli traces the real…
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Is Home Worth 15%?
The proposed New York pied-à-terre tax on luxury secondary properties has rattled a certain class of people, and the conversation has already moved in its usual circles: Monaco, Palm Beach, and the calculus of 183 days south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In this solo episode, Diana Oehrli asks the...
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The Health-Wealth Divide: Part 6 of 6—Avoidance of Toxic Substances and Behaviors
What happens when the same resources that promise to protect you are quietly making your most dangerous habits easier to sustain? In the sixth and final essay of her Health-Wealth Divide series, host Diana Oehrli examines the pillar that lifestyle medicine calls "avoidance of toxic substances and...
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Ep34 Sean Dugan—How to Find Peace When Fear Has Been Running Your Life
What happens when you do everything right, the meetings, the steps, and the service, and still get close to losing it all? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Sean Dugan, a sober companion with 35 years of sobriety, nearly 20 years of professional...
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The Health-Wealth Divide: Part 5 of 6 Connect
She had 400 people at her birthday party. Flew them in. Put them up. Open bar, live music, a toast that made the room cry. Three days later, she called Diana and said she felt completely alone. In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, Diana Oehrli continues The Health-Wealth Divide series...
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Ep33 Lindsey Frances—How to Know You Have Enough When Having Enough Was Never the Goal
What do you do when the finish line is long past, and the feeling of enough still hasn't arrived? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Lindsey Frances, a legacy and wealth psychologist based between London and Switzerland who works with some of the…
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The Health-Wealth Divide: Part 4 of 6 Stress Management
What if every stress solution money can buy is actually making things worse? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, Diana Oehrli unpacks what she calls the stress paradox—the counterintuitive truth that wealth, despite giving access to the world's best therapists, elite retreats,...
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Ep32 Chris Blachut—How to Discover What You're Actually Built For When Every Advantage Pointed You in the Wrong Direction
What happens when you're given every advantage—the education, the connections, the career, the passport—and still end up at 27 with a one-way ticket and no idea what you're actually for? In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Chris Blachut, creator of…
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The Health-Wealth Divide: Part 3 of 6—Sleep
In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli confronts one of the most overlooked health crises facing high-net-worth individuals: the slow, invisible erosion of sleep. Despite having every conceivable advantage — custom mattresses, blackout curtains, wearable trackers, and…
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The Health-Wealth Divide: Part 2 of 6—Physical Activity
In the second installment of her six-part Health-Wealth Divide series on The Pressures of Privilege, executive coach Diana Oehrli tackles the pillar of physical activity — and the deeply counterintuitive ways that wealth erodes it. On paper, ultra high net worth individuals have every advantage....
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The Health-Wealth Divide: Part 1 of 6—Nutrition
In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, executive coach Diana Oehrli opens a conversation that almost never happens in high-net-worth circles — the one about food. Not processed junk or tight budgets. The harder conversation: what happens when you have access to every nutritional resource...
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Ep31 Peter Lazar—When Wealth Becomes the Hiding Place: How High-Functioning People Actually Heal
In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Peter Lazar — therapist, consultant, and consulting clinical director of Adventure Recovery — for one of the more honest conversations you'll find in this space. Peter has spent 30 years in the trenches of addiction and...
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What Happens When The Party Ends
In this solo episode, Diana Oehrli draws a fascinating contrast between two ways of looking at the same world. Her cousin Daisy Prince, founder of The Digital Party, documents how affluent communities build connection, culture, and community in the new 20s. Diana documents what that world costs…
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Ep30 Roman-Marcus Rittweger—Stay Steady, Don't Flinch: How a Serial Founder Found Purpose, Stillness, and the One Thing Success Can't Buy
In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli reconnects with a longtime friend whose life story reads like three careers collapsed into one remarkable person. Roman-Marcus Rittweger holds both a medical degree and an MBA from INSEAD. He built Germany's first digital health…
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I Keep Climbing Mountains (And Missing The Point)
In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli does something most high achievers never do. She stops. She looks back. And she tells the truth about what was really driving her. Diana Oehrli has lived an objectively extraordinary life. Piano since age five. Seven years in...
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Ep29 Daniel Kertész—Death, Divorce, and the Conversations Wealthy Families Refuse to Have
In this episode of , host Diana Oehrli sits down with é — Swiss entrepreneur, family advisor, mediator, and author of Family Mind: Overcoming the Myth of the Shirt Sleeves Curse — for a conversation that goes far deeper than succession planning. Daniel spent nearly his parents built from nothing...
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The Problem With Idealizing The Poor
In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli opens with a memory that stopped her cold — standing in the terraced gardens of Villa San Michele on the island of Capri, watching her children disappear through a colonnade of ancient stone, feeling the pull of a life she…
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Ep28 Bill Burnett—How to Design a Life That Feels Like Yours When Success Is No Longer Enough
What happens when you spend decades winning at a game you never actually agreed to play? In this episode of Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli sits down with Bill Burnett — Executive Director of Stanford's Life Design Lab and co-author of the New York Times number one bestseller Designing...
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When The Mountains Teach
In this episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli takes listeners into the Swiss Alps — and into one of the most counterintuitive lessons that high achievers rarely learn before it costs them something they can't get back. Drawing from her years as a single mother in a remote…
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What the Rockefellers Knew About Raising Strong Kids
Diana Oehrli takes listeners inside a transformative week at North Country School in the Adirondacks, where she discovered what America's founding families understood about privilege that today's wealthy parents have forgotten. Through intimate stories of fourth graders mucking stalls before...
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The Pressures of Privilege explores pressure, class, achievement, family legacy, and the responsibilities that come with advantage, through conversations with inheritors, founders, advisors, doctors, artists, writers, and people who have chosen a different path.Hosted by Swiss-American journalist and producer Diana Oehrli, the show asks how we can use what we have well: to live more fully, connect more deeply, and become better stewards of our communities.
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