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The Discomfort Practice explores the value of discomfort in shaping who we are, how we are in the world and how discomfort can be a catalyst for positive social evolution.
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Episode #140: Wrapping Up Season 5 (opens the original)
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In this solo episode, the final one of Season 5, Betsy doesn't try to tidy six years of the show into something resolved. Every neat version she drafted felt like a lie, so this is the untidy one, left hanging on purpose. The real throughline of the season wasn't the guest list, it was becoming visible, whether the episode was about that directly or not. She started Season 5, then paused it for nearly a year. She came back to it with a completely different life underneath her. She didn't resolve
Episode #139: Betsy By Herself on Life As a Feast (opens the original)
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In this solo episode, Betsy comes back to a line she's been circling for months - since being diagnosed with cancer. She records this episode on the other side of a summer of chemotherapy, which she didn't know was coming when she first jotted down notes for this episode. She bites into Anthony de Mello's line "life is a feast but most people are starving to death." This isn't a recovery story. It's not "here's what cancer taught me," tied off with a bow. It's Betsy asking the same question mid-
Episode #138: Betsy By Herself, Podcasting in Active Discomfort & Not Knowing When It Ends (opens the original)
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This is an unusual episode of The Discomfort Practice. For six years, Betsy has only recorded solos when she's felt in creative flow, with thoughts already framed. This one is different. She's a week late posting, and instead of waiting for the mood to arrive, she's recording from inside it: chemo has gotten hard, a client canceled projects and wiped out her planned summer income and another piece of work fell through yesterday; she's newly and suddenly in menopause - with a nervous system that
Episode #138: Claire Carpenter on Leadership at the Edges: The Price of Being a Pioneer (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Discomfort Practice , Betsy is joined by Claire Carpenter - coach, social innovator, entrepreneur, and founder of Scotland's Centre for Social Innovation, The Melting Pot - for a conversation about what it really costs to build something before the world even has language for it. Claire founded The Melting Pot nearly twenty years ago, long before coworking became mainstream and before "social innovation" became a buzzword. Together, Betsy and Claire explore the loneliness,
Episode #137: Betsy By Herself On Being the Homework (opens the original)
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What happens after the brave thing? Not six months later. Not when the results are in. Immediately after. In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice , Betsy reflects on what happened in the hours after launching the very first Embodied Leadership monthly Members' Lab in July 2026. The session itself was deeply moving, but not long after the room closed and her nervous system finally let go of months of holding, an old pattern came rushing in: the urge to burn it all down, disappear, and hid
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