The Self Led Woman Podcast: emotional eating and nervous system healing for self-leadership
Jul 26, 2026 · 14 min · 8 segments
This episode is for every woman who has been trying harder than anyone around her knows — and still can't make it stick. Who has reset more times than she can count, spent years on the merry-go-round…
Megan DarnellHost
This episode is an open letter to every woman who is tired of fighting herself.

Whoever you are and whatever, whoever you are and wherever you are listening from, because I have a feeling if you're here, you already know somewhere deep down that what I'm about to say is true.

And you've been waiting maybe for a very long time for someone to just say it out loud you do not have a willpower problem you do not have a discipline problem you are not lazy or greedy or broken or beyond help you are not someone who just needs to try harder or find the right plan or get serious or to want it badly enough you have probably been trying harder than anyone around you even knows quietly and persistently with a level of determination that most people never have had to apply to anything in their lives and it has not worked and the reason it has not worked is not because there is anything wrong with you it is because you've been trying to solve the wrong problem and i know this because i was you For 30 years, I was you.

This episode is an open letter to every woman who is tired of fighting herself.

Whoever you are and whatever, whoever you are and wherever you are listening from, because I have a feeling if you're here, you already know somewhere deep down that what I'm about to say is true.

And you've been waiting maybe for a very long time for someone to just say it out loud you do not have a willpower problem you do not have a discipline problem you are not lazy or greedy or broken or beyond help you are not someone who just needs to try harder or find the right plan or get serious or to want it badly enough you have probably been trying harder than anyone around you even knows quietly and persistently with a level of determination that most people never have had to apply to anything in their lives and it has not worked and the reason it has not worked is not because there is anything wrong with you it is because you've been trying to solve the wrong problem and i know this because i was you For 30 years, I was you.
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