Florence Given

We love introducing our bubbles to your bubbles because somewhere out there, someone you've never met is asking the same questions, fighting the same fight, and sharing the same dreams.

But you'd never know because the algorithm never introduced you.

So we decided, let's break the algorithm.

So how's your life?

You know, I have been, I'm in the midst of trying to declutter my closet and I'm using that thing that, what's her name? Kondo talked about.

Well, that's how it's designed, so we all can do that.

Right.

But something has happened in the algorithm with me.

These people that try and make you feel guilty and selfish for wanting more, they're just really insecure because you've triggered their inferiority that they don't think it's possible for them.

Let people want less, okay? This whole space, The Florence Given Show, is a massive permission slip for you to want every single fucking thing you want in life and feel unapologetic about wanting it.

Stop squashing your desire.

Stop pretending you don't want everything, okay? Stop pretending you don't want everything and everyone or whatever the fuck it is that you want.

You're allowed it.

You're allowed to be fucking greedy, okay? All right, I love you.

Thank you so much for listening to another episode of The Florence Given Show.

I will see you next week for another episode.

I never plan these episodes, by the way.

I have never planned an episode of The Florence Given Show.

The most I will do is have some loose notes.

And that's maybe happened like three times.

Like, our bodies are meant to move and feel good.

And I put on a podcast, um, Florence Given is one of my favorite new, like, things to listen to.

She's, she's a really fun, um, artist out in LA.

Um, but she talks about women.

Good fucking morning.

Welcome to the Florence Given Show.

If this room doesn't look familiar to you, that's because it isn't, and I have checked into a hotel just to record this episode because my apartment doesn't have air conditioning.

And yesterday, I was trying to record this episode, which by the way, is all about being disgusting.

Ooh.

Okay, I love you so much.

Thank you for listening to The Florence Given Show.

I've loved recording in this chair so much, just spinning around and fidgeting with my microphone.

There are a couple of people I love to follow.

Florence Given is one of them.

Chelsea Diane is another.

There are these women who just say what's true for them.

[upbeat music] Good fucking morning.

Welcome to the Florence Given Show.

I am recording this episode today from a hotel room.

Very cinematic, very beautiful.

What are people gonna say? Will women misunderstand it? Will, will people think that I'm trashing women? How do we talk about this with compassion, instead of just sounding like women are so bitchy or whatever, right? I didn't have those answers yet, and I was still so afraid.

I was afraid.

And one morning, one magical morning, I was going for a walk in one of my favorite parks in London, and I sit down on a bench with my coffee, doing my morning journaling, and this woman in her 40s, I think, walks over and sits down next to me and says, "Excuse me, are you Florence Given?" And I like to be in my little bubble in my mornings.

I don't want to be interrupted.