Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
Oct 21, 2026 · 52 min · 23 segments
Before her memoir hits shelves, Sophia Bush gets personal with one of her closest friends, Elizabeth Kott, about chosen family, the “Year of Yes,” and the realities of growing up in the public eye…
Sophia BushHostElizabeth KottGuestIs there a mantra or sort of like a type of like thought process that you are approaching things now?
But I think what I have finally learned is to separate societal or external expectation from my own joy.
You know, there's such a culture of raising women to be good, but good for who? To be a good girl, but in what way? Does goodness mean serving bad systems or patriarchy or just a lack of agency even sometimes for ourselves? And I think for me, the place that I'm in is...
I absolutely sob when I get harassed on the internet and I, you know, I feel nervous.
And of course I want people to know me for who I really am and like me and like my work.
There's a self here that I need to pay attention to in a way that I don't think I...
that? I try to make sure I'm checking in because what I've learned is that something in my body or something in my mind over and over again through my life had been trying to communicate with me and I just wasn't listening.
And I think, you know, really to horseshoe it to the beginning of the conversation, To write a book to sort of go through that mental exercise and then the breakdowns that like come along with it, it's a really isolating experience and it required me to kind of hibernate more than I like to.
And I also had to trust that like my friends are waiting on the other side, excited that I'm coming out, you know? Yeah.
Is there a mantra or sort of like a type of like thought process that you are approaching things now?
But I think what I have finally learned is to separate societal or external expectation from my own joy.
You know, there's such a culture of raising women to be good, but good for who? To be a good girl, but in what way? Does goodness mean serving bad systems or patriarchy or just a lack of agency even sometimes for ourselves? And I think for me, the place that I'm in is...
I absolutely sob when I get harassed on the internet and I, you know, I feel nervous.
And of course I want people to know me for who I really am and like me and like my work.
There's a self here that I need to pay attention to in a way that I don't think I...
that? I try to make sure I'm checking in because what I've learned is that something in my body or something in my mind over and over again through my life had been trying to communicate with me and I just wasn't listening.
And I think, you know, really to horseshoe it to the beginning of the conversation, To write a book to sort of go through that mental exercise and then the breakdowns that like come along with it, it's a really isolating experience and it required me to kind of hibernate more than I like to.
And I also had to trust that like my friends are waiting on the other side, excited that I'm coming out, you know? Yeah.
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