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Coping Inc.

The podcast about why life feels like this. Each week, we rethink the stories we've been sold and the ones we tell ourselves with the context that makes everything finally click.

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  • Avg 35 min
  • English

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  • #4
    May 4 · 45 min

    Coping With Looking "Natural"

    What does it mean to cope with a beauty standard that pretends not to be a beauty standard at all? This week, we’re talking about looking “natural” – which, in 2026 means botox in your 20s and three‑hour self-care routines. Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore how “aesthetic inflation”, a concept first articulated by writer Jessica DeFino, has shifted the baseline so dramatically that simply existing feels like falling behind. We unpack the psychological toll of chasing an ever-changing beauty ideal marketed as effortless, and ask whether celeb transparency around cosmetic work is actually all that liberating… And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps we’re also talking: oral dissolvable strip supplements (a no from us) and the new Korean lash lift that is (frankly) blindingly good. "Appearance Inflation: 3 Beauty Writers Sum Up 2025", CNN “Wait, Why Do I Want A Facelift?'" by Jessica DeFino The Year All My Friends Got Botox by Emmeline Clein, The Cut Listen: Botox, Fillers and Aesthetic Inflation, NPR It's Been a Minute podcast The New Plastic Surgery Playbook by Rheana Murray, The Atlantic The Forever-35 Face by Bridget Read, The Cut Beauty Standards Make Me Ashamed Of My Features, And AI Makes It Worse by Humeara Mohamed, Refinery29 Nothing Looks Beautiful Anymore - And We Did This to Ourselves by Melissa Fleur Afshar, Newsweek Listen: The Butt Blush Boom, Mess World podcast Would You Use Cadaver Fat Injections? by Jessica DeFino, The Guardian "Will Being 'Ugly' Be Aspirational One Day?" by Kish Lal, Dazed Watch: How Much Are Australians Spending on Cosmetic Procedures?, SBS Insight Want to support our show? We'd be so grateful if you hit 'follow' or left us a 5-star review so we can bring you more Coping content. Plus, you can follow along with us on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠⁠. Find out more about what we're up to (and how you can get involved) at ⁠⁠⁠copinginc.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • #3
    April 27 · 32 min

    Coping With Vulnerability Hangovers

    Have you ever hit post and instantly fantasised about faking your own death and starting a new life on a remote island with no wifi? No, bc same. This week, we’re diving into vulnerability hangovers – why we’re all out here narrating our inner worlds to the internet, and what Future Us (20 years older, hopefully wiser) will think of the digital breadcrumbs we’ve left behind. Join Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson as we track our culture of self-disclosure from the personal‑essay boom, Substack confessionals, TikTok trauma‑dumping, all the way to Lena Dunham’s Famesick – the decade‑long case study in what happens when radical transparency becomes your brand. Because if confession has become a commodity, is there a secret we won’t eventually turn into content? And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: the fever dream that is run club at Coachella and the Notion templates rabbithole where good intentions go to die. Read: Daring Greatly for Brene Brown’s definition of vulnerability hangovers Alice’s (vulnerable!) interview on Little Things podcast Disclosing information on the self is intrinsically rewarding by Diana Tamir and Jason Mitchell On Falling In and Out of Love with My Dad by Natasha Rose Chenier, Jezebel My Gynecologist Found a Ball of Cat Hair in My Vagina by Michelle Barrow, XOJane The First Person Industrial Complex by Laura Bennett, Slate The Personal Essay Boom Is Over by Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker I Am Not Your Therapist by Sophie DiBenedetto, De Paulia Watch: TikTok storytime example Watch: TikTok trauma candy salad example Read: Famesick by Lena Dunham Lena Dunham Returns To The Confessional by Scaachi Koul, Slate Why Did Bad Things Happen to Lena Dunham? She's Still Trying To Figure It Out, New York Times Can AI Bring the Dead Back to Life? (2024) by Areesha Lodhi, Al Jazeera How Social Media Data Are Being Used to Research Mourning by Julia Muller Spiti, Ellen Davies, Paul McLiesh, and Janet Kelly Want to support our show? We'd be so grateful if you hit 'follow' or left us a 5-star review so we can bring you more Coping content. Plus, you can follow along with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Pinterest⁠⁠. Find out more about what we're up to (and how you can get involved) at ⁠⁠copinginc.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • #2
    April 20 · 31 min

    Coping With Becoming Someone New

    Have you ever wondered who you’d be in an alternate universe – the version of you who took the other job, stayed in that city, didn’t cut bangs, or actually followed through with your new year goals? This week, we’re talking about the fantasy of becoming a “new you”, and how the 00s makeover montage promised a level of transformation that real life (and the wellness industry) absolutely cannot deliver on. Because somewhere between the slow-motion hair flip and the big no-glasses-reveal, we were sold the idea that upgrading the self is not only possible, but required. Join Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson as we unpack the pressure to evolve publicly, the discomfort of outgrowing old versions of ourselves, and the hope that comes with imagining who we might still become. Watch: The Plastic Detox What if you could do it all over? by Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker Why we’re drawn to “fresh starts” by Megan A. Neff Psychology Today Psychology Today: Definition of neuroplasticity Buddhanet: definition of Anatta Modernity and self-identity by Anthony Giddens The orphic origins of belief in reincarnation in ancient Greek philosophy by Hasskei Mohammed Majeed Britannica: Myths of rebirth and renewal Scribalo: The myth of the Pheonix Get noticed to get ahead: the impact of personal branding on career success, by Sergey Gorbatov, Svetlana N Khapova, Evgenia I Lysova Want to support our show? We'd be so grateful if you hit 'follow' or left us a 5-star review so we can bring you more Coping content. Plus, you can follow along with us on Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest. Find out more about what we're up to (and how you can get involved) at copinginc.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • #1
    April 13 · 17 min

    Coping With "Living Well"

    Introducing: the podcast about why life feels like this. Think of this very first episode as our pre‑show warm‑up – your chance to meet us, hear the self‑care obsessions currently taking up wayyy too much of our brain space, and get a feel for the kinds of conversations we’ll be having together. We’re talking habit‑stacking, biohacking, sleep‑maxxing, the big existential spirals (what is the meaning of life?), the wellness‑culture plot twists keeping us up at night, and everything in between – all filtered through two people trying to make sense of it right alongside you. From here, spend time with your hosts, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson, every Tuesday as we cope with a new era of “living well”. Shout out to ⁠Mugu⁠ for levelling up our podcast set at the new Coping Studio in Surry Hills, Sydney ! ⁠We're sedating women with self-care⁠ by Katherine Rowland, The Guardian ⁠Cultural perspectives and their influence on self-care⁠ by Shelly T ⁠Is all of this self-monitoring making us paranoid⁠ by Madison Malone Kircher, The New York Times Lifeline: ⁠definition of self-care⁠ Watch: ⁠don't die⁠ Want to support our show? We'd be so grateful if you hit 'follow' or left us a 5-star review so we can bring you more Coping content. Plus, you can follow along with us on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠, and ⁠Pinterest⁠. Find out more about what we're up to (and how you can get involved) at ⁠copinginc.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • March 20 · 36 sec

    Coming soon

    The podcast about why life feels like this. Spend time with Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson as we cope with a new era of ‘living well’. Each week, we rethink the stories we've been sold and the ones we tell ourselves with the context that makes everything finally click. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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