Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Coping
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| Coping With Quitting | 05 Oct 2026 | 00:36:54 | |
Harry Styles is rumoured to be retiring. Amelia Dimoldenberg is bringing the Chicken Shop Date era to a close. We all remember Simone Biles stepping away from the gymnastics mat. More and more, we're watching people opt out of goals they've built their identity around and spent years publicly pursuing. Quitting seems more socially acceptable than ever, so why does walking away still feel like failure? This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore our relationship with quitting (it's complicated). In a conversation about identity, drive and sunk costs, they unpack where the "never give up" mindset actually came from, why perseverance is treated as a virtue while quitting is seen as a flaw, and whether knowing when to stop might be just as important as knowing when to keep going. Harry Styles Is Still Getting Used to Being Harry Styles by Julio Torres, W Magazine Is Harry Styles Retiring? by Sam Prance, Capital UK Harry Styles’ Speech On Together, Together Tour Simone Biles Says She Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo Olympics by Katie Kindelan, ABC News Hyrox Athlete Apologies and Withdraws After Viral Defecation Incident by Alexandra Koster, SBS Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism by E.P. Thompson The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit Of Capitalism by Max Weber Self-Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles Did ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Need an Encore? And Where Is Taylor Swift Going Next? By Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone Amelia Dimoldenberg to close doors of Chicken Shop Date by Naomi de Souza, BBC The Sunk Cost Trap: Why We Throw Good Money After Bad by Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Psychology Today Errors in Aviation Decision Making: Bad Decisions or Bad Luck? by Judith Orasanu, Lynne Martin and Jeannie Davison, NASA Ames Research Center Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience by Steven F. Maier and Martin E.P. Seligman, Psychological Review Watch: Jerry Maguire 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 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. | |||
| Coping With Feeling Behind | 28 Sep 2026 | 00:30:58 | |
It seems everyone around us is moving through life at exactly the “right” pace: getting engaged, having babies, buying houses, building careers, finding purpose. Meanwhile, we’re left wondering, are we running late to our own lives? This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson muse on ‘feeling behind’ after rediscovering an article Alice wrote at 25 about comparison culture and the anxiety around reaching success by a certain age, revisiting the question through older (hopefully slightly wiser) eyes. In a conversation about ambition, timelines, and growing up, they explore the social clock and the psychology of comparison, the arbitrary milestones and social expectations we measure ourselves by, and the people who found their way on their own terms. ☆ Want to stop guessing what your chart is trying to tell you? Get a personalised reading from real astrologers on CHANI – the #1 app for manifestation, meaning, and self‑discovery. ☆ The 27 Club: A Brief History, Rolling Stone Social Clock: Age Norms, Age Constraints, and Adult Socialization by Bernice Neugarten, Joan Moore, John Lowe in University of Chicago Press Australia's Fertility Taboo, TasIVF Report A Theory Of Social Comparison Processes by Leon Festinger Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative? When Every Day Is A High School Reunion: Social Media Comparisons and Self Esteem's by Claire Midgley, Sabrina Thai, Penelope Lockwood, Chloe Kovacheff, Elizabeth Page-Gould Dealing With Post-Trail Depression by Annie Mueller, Psychology Today The Hedonic Treadmill by Dan Pilat and Dr. Sekoul Krastev, Decision Lab 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 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. | |||
| Coping With The AI Takeover | 21 Sep 2026 | 00:36:55 | |
AI experts, executives, and inventors themselves are sounding the alarm – warning us that an AI takeover could threaten all of humanity within just the next ten years. In other words, the call is coming from INSIDE the house. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the full context behind the looming AI threat and its potential ten‑year countdown (and why the narrative is, unsurprisingly, more complicated than the spooky, scary headlines). They contemplate the echo chamber inside Silicon Valley, the psychology that makes our worst‑case scenarios feel super inevitable, and the machine‑god anxieties that have shaped culture for centuries. In a conversation about AI fears, futurism, and the ethics of progress, they mull over our obsession with acceleration – whether it’s sustainable, whether it’s necessary, and whether our future actually involves living among the stars (or just coping with what we’ve already built). ☆ Want to stop guessing what your chart is trying to tell you? Get a personalised reading from real astrologers on CHANI – the #1 app for manifestation, meaning, and self‑discovery. ☆ 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 and Pinterest. Find out more about what we're up to (and how you can get involved) at copinginc.com. Could AI Really Wipe Out Humanity and Hijack the Internet? by Robert Booth, Dan Milmo and Aisha Down, The Guardian AI Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That? By William J. Broad and Cade Metz, New York Times One of AI’s Fiercest Critics’ Says All The Doom Talk ‘is Meant to Distract Us’ by Lauren Goode, WIRED The AI Researcher Who’s Investment Is Changing Everything on The Daily, New York Times The AI Tipping Point by Billy Perrigo, Harry Booth and Naomi Nix, TIME This Is Really Bad by Stephen Witt, New York Times The AI Con by Emily M Bender The AI Doomsday Skeptics by Katrin Bennhold, New York Times Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker Wants Us Worried - and Not for the Reasons You'd Think, by Mikey O’Connell, The Hollywood Reporter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Coping With Labels | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:35:52 | |
Are you Type A or Type B? (Justice for Type C !) Maybe the label you’ve given yourself feels grounding (and that’s okay!). Maybe it’s limiting – something you’ve been trying to shake off..? Or maybe you’ve turned a label into a sort of playbook, a personality shorthand we were never really meant to rely on. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into self‑imposed labels – dissecting the logic of Myers-Briggs and comparing their own Enneagram results as they unpack the universal urge to categorise ourselves. And can you ever truly shake off a label once it’s been culturally assigned… sometimes en masse? (Raygun made peace with hers two years post-Olympics – and you probably would too with Sammy Sex in your corner). TikTok’s Obsessed With “Type A” and “Type B” Personality Types - Here’s Why by Keyaira Boone, Cosmopolitan The Carl Jung Quote You’ll Love Based on Your Myers-Briggs Personality by Susan Storm, Psychology Junkee Why Myers-Briggs Is Totally Useless - But Wildly Popular by Anna North, New York Times To Promote Inclusivity, Stay Away From Personality Assessments by Quinisha Jackson-Wright, New York Times Mindfulness by Dr Ellen Langer Thank You For Smoking: How Big Tobacco Created the ‘Type A’ Personality Myth Uncertainty-identity theory Hogg, M.A, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 39 Schema Theory in Psychology by Charlotte Nickerson, Simply Personality Isn’t Permanent by Benjamin Hardy All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot by Lucinda Froomes Price The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly, Netflix 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. | |||
| Coping With Surveillance | 07 Sep 2026 | 00:39:41 | |
We’re being watched: by surveillance cameras, safety tools, strangers in public, our own devices, and now by wearable tech that turns every interaction into potential content. Observation has become the ambient condition – part convenience, part paranoia. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the psychology of being observed in how it shapes the calculated self, mull over the ethical questions raised by the latest wave of wearable tech like Meta Glasses, and confess the accidental data breaches from their own lives. It seems that the next era of surveillance culture might reshape our inner lives long before legislation ever catches up. Modernising Australia’s Privacy Laws for the Digital Age, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland’s press release I Feel So Sorry For My AI Sunglasses by Sam Anderson, New York Times Meta’s Smart Ray-Ban Glasses Let Me Live in the Moment. But the AI is Useless by Caira Blackwell, Wirecutter What If It All Came Out? by Bridget Read, New York Magazine The Audience Effect: Why We Change When Other People Are Watching by Anne Laure Le Cunff, Ness Labs 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. | |||
| Coping With Revenge | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:34:16 | |
We root for revenge plots in our tv shows (beware: House of the Dragon spoilers ahead!), appeal to a sense of karmic justice, hunt for it in celebrity narratives, and even fantasise about getting our own one day. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the psychology of vengeance, why it feels so titillating, and whether the payoff is ever what we had hoped. Plus, why do we cheer louder when women and marginalised characters finally get their moment? A reminder that revenge stories often tell us more about our cultural hunger for balancing the scales than the act itself ever could. ☆ Are you a creative looking for support? Visit the or call the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline on 1800 959 500 for a free and confidential chat (and remember, you don't have to be in crisis to call). Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who actually gets it and can hear you out. ☆ House Of The Dragon, HBO The Complicated Psychology of Revenge by Eric Jaffe, Association For Psychological Science The Bittersweet Taste of Revenge: On the Negative and Positive Consequences of Retaliation by Fade R. Eadeh, Stephanie A. Peak, Alan J. Lambert Victim Blaming and Belief in Karma by Cindel J. M. White, Aiyana K. Willard Margaret Qualley Just Walked the Red Carpet in Chanel’s Viral Naked Sandals by Rosa Sanchez, Harper’s Bazaar reputation, Taylor Swift 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. | |||
| Coping With Memory | 24 Aug 2026 | 00:39:37 | |
We’d like to think our memories are fixed but most of us are running on vibes, fragments, and deeply emotional edits n reedits. Our brains so easily forget the “important” stuff, cling to the weirdest details, and seemingly rewrite entire chapters without permission. And the things we actually do remember often says more about who we are now than whatever happened way back when. This week, Alice Griffin (resident unreliable narrator) and Jannah Anderson (she’s got receipts) dive into the mechanics of how memory actually works, the psychology behind recall, the fear of forgetting, and the stories we build from our own mental archives. And how much are we already outsourcing to Big Tech from a scale of 1-that Black Mirror episode?? ☆ Are you a creative looking for support? Visit the or call the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline on 1800 959 500 for a free and confidential chat (and remember, you don't have to be in crisis to call). Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who actually gets it and can hear you out. ☆ Creating False Memories, by Elizabeth L Loftus, in Scientific American How The Truth Gets Twisted by By Ann Marsh and Greta Lorge in Stanford Magazine False Memories Under Fire, Scitech Daily Memory and Learning: How the Brain Stores, Retrieves, and Forgets Information, by Renz Solimen, The Science Times The Woman Who Can’t Forget by Jill Price Living On Record: My First Ten Days, Eka Ventures Newsletter on Substack The Entire History Of You, Black Mirror on Netflix 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. | |||
| Coping With Boredom | 17 Aug 2026 | 00:34:34 | |
Boredom has gone from something we avoid to something we curate – a new metric in the self‑care economy to measure ourselves by. From 'rawdogging boredom' challenges to the obsession with performing “slow creativity,” we’re told stillness is a portal to a better, more imaginative self. But the research is messy, and our lived experiences even more so. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dig into the neuroscience of boredom, the rise of the serial hobbyist, the existential itches that keep us chasing novelty, and the cultural urge to make boredom meaningful – even when the moments in between fail to deliver us anything profound. ☆ Are you a creative looking for support? Visit the Support Act Creative Industries Hub or call the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline on 1800 959 500 for a free and confidential chat (and remember, you don't have to be in crisis to call). Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who actually gets it and can hear you out. ☆ 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. They Want To Influence You To Do… Nothing by Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times Boredom, Sustained Attention and The Default Mode Network by James Danckert and Colleen Merrifield You Need To Be Bored, Here’s Why by Arthur Brooks, Harvard Business Review The Association Between Boredom And Creativity In Educational Contexts’ by Anke Zeißig, Julia Kansok-Dusche, Saskia M. Fischer, Julia Moeller, Ludwig Bilz Boredom, A Lively History by Peter Toohey Just Think: The Challenges Of The Disengaged Mind by Timothy D. Wilson, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Daniel T. Gilbert, Nicole Ellerbeck, Cheryl Hahn, Casey L. Brown, and Adi Shaked in Science What Does Boredom Do To Us And For Us? by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker Quit Romanticising Boredom by Anna North, The Cut Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Coping With Doomsday | 10 Aug 2026 | 00:34:25 | |
Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. What was once a fringe fixation tucked away on conspiracy forums has morphed into a booming industry, with everyday people stockpiling, strategising, and spending (a lot) in the name of “being prepared.” This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson sit with the existential threats uniquely shaping our generation, the preppers taking that fear to its furthest extreme, the brands that saw an opportunity to sell safety, and ultimately ask whether a state of hypervigilance actually soothes our anxiety or just feeds it. After all, what’s worse: the apocalypse (and the world’s least satisfying “I told you so”), or realising you spent your life waiting for it? Prepper Used To Be A Dirty Word. But These 'Ordinary' People Think It's Just Sensible Now by Alexandra Koster, SBS Australia What Doomsday Preppers And Survivalists Can Teach The Rest Of Us, by Anna Levy and Rebecca Cushway, ABC The ‘Panic Industry’ Boom by Coralie Kraft, The New York Times The cognitive avoidance theory of worry, Sibrava, N. and Borkovec, T in APA PsycInfo Pandemic Practice: Horror Fans And Morbidly Curious Individuals Are More Psychologically Resilient During The COVID-19 Pandemic, by Scrivner, Johnson, Kjeldgaard-Christiansen and Clasen, ScienceDaily ‘All Of His Guns Will Do Nothing For Him’: Lefty Preppers Are Taking A Different Approach To Doomsday by Aaron Gell, The Guardian ☆ Are you a creative looking for support? Visit the Support Act Creative Industries Hub or call the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline on 1800 959 500 for a free and confidential chat (and remember, you don't have to be in crisis to call). Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who actually gets it and can hear you out. ☆ 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. | |||
| Coping With Closure | 03 Aug 2026 | 00:33:43 | |
We’re taught to crave closure – the tidy explanation, the perfectly heartfelt apology, the moment where we SEE Idris Elba push the button (or not… idk go watch ‘A House of Dynamite’ and tell us your take). This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore our obsession with resolution: where it comes from, whether it’s even possible, and why some of us need a definitive finish while others move through life more content with the grey. And how are we supposed to cope if closure never shows up?? ☆ Are you a creative looking for support? Visit the Support Act Creative Industries Hub or call the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline on 1800 959 500 for a free and confidential chat (and remember, you don't have to be in crisis to call). Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who actually gets it and can hear you out. ☆ A House Of Dynamite, Netflix The Writer Of Netflix’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ Explains Its Ambiguous Ending by Noah Oppenheim, LA Times Do You Really Need Closure? by Christina Caron, The New York Times How To Know If You Really Need Closure Or If It’s Just An Excuse To Talk To Them, by Jolie Price, Fashion Journal Individual Differences In Need For Cognitive Closure, by Donna Webster & Arie Kruglanski, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology There’s Not Always ‘Closure’ In The Never-ending Story Of Grief, by Michael Bull, The Conversation Beyond Dogmatism: The Need For Closure As Related To Religion, by Vassilis Saroglou Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us, by Nancy Berns Does Time Really Heal All Wounds? by Leah Royden, Psychology Today This Too Shall Pass: Temporal Distance and the Regulation of Emotional Distress, by Emma Bruehlman-Senecal and Ozlem Ayduk, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology The Widow’s Guide To Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite Requiem For A Nun by William Faulkner 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. | |||
| Coping With Crashing Out | 27 Jul 2026 | 00:31:25 | |
After decades of being sold the idea, especially as women, that the regulated self is the healthy self, we’re collectively hitting breaking point. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are onboard to analyse the shift – all stations to crash out central. We cover the big‑feelings energy of Gracie Abrams’ new Look At My Life music vid, the unsettled debate between catharsis and suppression, the reality tv blow-ups that raised us, and the 72‑part internet dramas that are maybe a little too much (even for us). ☆ Flavour up your Dry July with Angostura Bitters. We’ll see you at the bar this month with a lemon lime n Angostura bitters in hand, our go-to non-alc choice (it’s a literal Aussie icon). ☆ Look At My Life music video by Gracie Abrams Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn What Does 'Crashing Out' Mean? By Becca Wood, TODAY Gen Z is ‘Crashing Out’ – but experts warn it’s an unhealthy way to regulate emotions, by Fabiana Buontempo, New York Post Crashing Out: The Psychology Behind Gen Z’s Term For Losing It, Simply Psychology Stop Venting! It Doesn’t Work by Vail Cornwall and Juli Fraga, Slate Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does by Russell McLendon, Science Alert Whatever Happened to Primal Therapy? by Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine Gemma Collins crashing out On Celebrity Big Brother Real Housewives of Beverley Hills Amsterdam dinner scene What Happened In The 'Cozy Grocery NYC Roommate Drama'? The Viral TikTok Story And Controversy Explained, K.J. Genualdo, Yahoo Entertainment The Woman In Me, Britney Spears 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. | |||
| Coping With Sleep | 20 Jul 2026 | 00:30:52 | |
We now know soooo much about sleep – how much we should be getting, how much we actually aren’t, the “multivolume fright compendium” of risks attached to not enough sleep, and the booming optimisation industry promising to fix it all. And yet the more we chase the perfect eight hours with all the right tools, the further away it seems to drift. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson pull apart our collective obsession with “fixing” sleep. We get into the viral TikTok bedtime routines engineered for peak rest, sleep as the latest optimisation frontier for the hustlers among us, and the people who simply can’t sleep – from chronic insomnia to the genetics of true short sleepers. If you don’t hear from us next week? Idk we’re probably sleeping. ☆ Flavour up your Dry July with Angostura Bitters. We’ll see you at the bar this month with a lemon lime n Angostura bitters in hand, our go-to non-alc choice (it’s a literal Aussie icon). ☆ Emily’s (@gildedwhim) viral wind-down routine on TikTok Your Quest For Perfect Sleep Is Keeping You Awake by Stacey Colino, Time Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours Of Sleep by Shayla Love, The New Yorker Why Can’t Americans Sleep? by Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic Franz Kafka's Insomnia Haunted Him, But It Also Fueled His Creativity, Antonia Perciaccante interview, Huffpost 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. | |||
| Coping With Risk | 13 Jul 2026 | 00:35:19 | |
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, of Skywalkers Netflix documentary fame, climbed the Empire State Building without ropes, got engaged at the summit as the world watched on, and claimed it was all in service of a message about peace and love. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack why we’re so drawn to the daredevils among us (the biology, the psychology, the myth-making) and how our relationship with risk continues to evolve – shaped by context, age, and even the generation we grew up in. ☆ Flavour up your Dry July with Angostura Bitters. We’ll see you at the bar this month with a lemon lime n Angostura bitters in hand, our go-to non-alc choice (it’s a literal Aussie icon). ☆ Climbers Get Engaged Atop Empire State Building. Then They Get Arrested. By Andy Newman, Maia Coleman and Chelsia Rose Marcius, The New York Times Skywalkers: A Love Story documentary, Netflix Free Solo documentary, Disney+ The Strange Brain of the World's Greatest Solo Climber by J.B. MacKinnon, Nautilus The Morbid Curiosity of Watching a Daredevil Risk His Life by R. Douglas Fields, Psychology Today An integrative framework for mapping the psychological landscape of risk perception by Sarah C. Jenkins, Robert F. Lachlan and Magda Osman, Scientific Reports Coast Guard says Titan submersible deaths were preventable and faults company's CEO, by Victoria Hansen, NPR Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster documentary, Netflix Gen Z’s Great Retreat from Risk by Arthur Brooks, The Free Press Finding Nemo (yes, really), Disney+ 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. | |||
| Coping With Decision Fatigue | 06 Jul 2026 | 00:41:32 | |
From the daily choices that drain us (what to eat, what to wear, which tab to close), to the big existential questions we procrastinate on out of sheer overwhelm (Alice Griffin: “who am I”, etc.) we’ve never been more exhausted by our own decision‑making. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson pull apart the paradox of choice in the age of infinite options: Elyse Myers’ viral video resurfacing as decision fatigue in action, maximisers vs satisficers (tag yourself), and what actually happens when we try to remove every friction from our lives. So which choices genuinely deserve our energy and where can we opt out? ☆ Flavour up your Dry July with Angostura Bitters. We’ll see you at the bar this month with a lemon lime n Angostura bitters in hand, our go-to non-alc choice (it’s a literal Aussie icon). ☆ Elyse Myer’s video on outsmarting decision fatigue How High Performers Overcome Decision Fatigue by Marlynn Wei, Psychology Today Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? by John Tierney, New York Times The Paradox Of Choice by Barry Schwartz When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing? by Sheena S. Iyengar and Mark R. Lepper, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology The Mom Who Runs A Household With AI Agents by Lane Brown, The Cut 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. | |||
| Coping With Failure | 29 Jun 2026 | 00:30:54 | |
In a culture obsessed with comeback arcs and self‑improvement, we’ve turned failure into something it was never meant to be: productive, meaningful, and always redeemable. But real life is messier. Some flops teach us, some flops just hurt, and some flops become lore… (if you were in the audience at Bongo’s Bingo, pls come forward). This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dissect ‘the flop’ in the age of AI, hyper‑curation, and personal branding – from Lizzo and her new album BITCH all the way to Grand Designs (trust us), we explore why some people choose to reclaim their failures and others own them as lessons. ☆ Are you a creative looking for support? Visit the Support Act Creative Industries Hub or call the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline on 1800 959 500 for a free and confidential chat (and remember, you don't have to be in crisis to call). Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who actually gets it and can hear you out. ☆ Lizzo’s New Album Didn’t Even Chart. What Happened? by Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone Lizzo In The Age Of Backlash, by Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker When Rebecca Was 13 She Was Mocked Over Her Viral Video. Now The Joke’s On The Haters, by John Bailey, The Age Hilary Duff Does Viral ‘With Love’ Dance at First Concert in 10 Years, Entertainment Tonight Not Learning From Failure – The Biggest Failure Of All study by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach, Psychological Science How To Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast Grand Designs’ Most Infamous Lighthouse Disaster, Channel 4 How Olivia Rodrigo’s Love Songs Became a Breakup Album, Popcast from The New York Times 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. | |||
| Coping With Intuition | 22 Jun 2026 | 00:39:23 | |
In her new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, Olivia Rodrigo sings, “It’s feminine intuition, ’cause I always had a vision of us standing like this”, and Jannah couldn’t agree more. (Alice has notes). We live in the most information‑heavy moment in human history, yet we’ve never felt less certain. So this week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson turn inward to examine intuition itself: Olivia Rodrigo’s album and the wave of intuition content it’s spawned, the gut feelings that felt like more than coincidence, and the booming psychic‑industrial complex attempting to sell our “inner knowing” back to us at scale. The irony being that the more we try to outsource intuition, the less we’re able to trust our own. And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: your clothes are trying to kill you (they’re not), and the skincare being marketed to three-year-olds. ☆ Fancy doing more IRL? Butter's for you. Find, join or start plans with people who love the same things as you (without the awkwardness!) Download Butter (search “Butter” on the App Store and Google Play) and give them a follow on IG @joinbutter and TikTok @join.butter ☆ Cosmeticorexia: How Girls Are Falling Down A Skincare Rabbit Hole by Ruth Clegg, BBC drop dead by Olivia Rodrigo ‘It’s Feminine Intuition’: Predictions For OR3, Ell Heeps, Varsity My Secret Addiction by Julie Gordon, Maclean's Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Power of Intuition by Gary A. Klein Recognition Memory, Familiarity, and Déjà vu Experiences by Anne M. Cleary Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Is 2026 the year of the witch? by Madeleine Woon The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown 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. | |||
| Coping With Our Phones | 15 Jun 2026 | 00:41:36 | |
We all know the endless research on the negative effects of our phones. And yet, we keep picking them up. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dig into the so-called solutions – dumb phones, no‑phone policies, two‑device lifestyles – and ask whether any of them are actually helping us break compulsive habits, or just giving us new ways to aestheticise restraint. Plus, because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: we’re calling for justice for beta blockers on the set of the Summer House Reunion, and yes, witchcraft is in (more on that soon). ☆ Save the date: the Glitter Gel Pen Book Club will be joining us at the Coping Studio on 25 June for the launch of our Silent Reading Sessions (and coming back monthly!). ☆ Watch: Summer House Reunion Part 3 (essential viewing!!) Is 2026 the Year of the Witch? By Madeleine Woon, Russh My Most Capable Clients Are Becoming Prisoners Of Their Smartphones, But There Is A Way Out by Carly Dober, The Guardian What I Saw At The Phoebe Bridges No-Phones MSG Show (To The Best Of My Recollection) by Erin Somers, GQ Fujifilm Forecast Trends Report 2026 The Flip Phone Cleanse by Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic Do I Look Ridiculous Carrying Two Phones? by Gabriella Gershenson, New York Times 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. | |||
| Coping With Frugality | 08 Jun 2026 | 00:41:21 | |
We’re in a cost‑of‑living crisis (but you knew that already). While being frugal isn’t a choice for most of us, it’s seen influencers take a hard pivot to de-influencing, underconsumption core, frugal chic, and month-long spending freezes. Somehow not buying things has become a trend of its own and, inevitably, an industry. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson share their favourite case studies of frugality – from Bradley on a Budget to Hollywood’s infamous poverty cosplays to the influencers thrifting their way through fashion week voxpops. And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: we’ve got a man on the inside of an IRL wellness challenge, plus the rise of parasite cleanses (DON’T try at home). Shout out to Laher for supporting this episode of Coping ! Book your consultation at Laher.co, or explore the bespoke engagement ring collection online. Influencers Push Parasite Cleanses, But Doctors Say To Steer Clear by Sarah Boden, NPR Bradley On A Budget Interview by Jessica Coacci, Fortune Homeless by Dior by Bridget Foley, WWD Watch: Tyra Banks goes ‘homeless’ for a day Watch: 1000 People See For The First Time, MrBeast Read: Maid and Class by Stephanie Land Watch: Maid on Netflix How To Be ‘Frugally Chic’ by Mia McGrath on Substack Watch: Daily Telegraph interviews Australian Fashion Week influencers Jaclyn Hill Was Losing Views, But Maybe It’s Overconsumption That’s Finally Out Of Style by Rebecca Cohen, NBC News The Cost-of-living Crisis In Australia, Salvation Army Read: Karl Marx and the Marxist School 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. | |||
| Coping With Pleasure | 01 Jun 2026 | 00:41:14 | |
Xochitl González might just smoke again. Writing in The Cut, Xochitl captures the absurdity of organising our lives around a “future self” who, these days, may never materialise. How naïve of us. Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson follow that nihilistic thread into the architecture of pleasure: when joy must be mindful, intentional, functional, and net‑positive to qualify, what exactly qualifies. Maybe the thing worth interrogating isn’t nicotine or sugar or screen time, but the way pleasure itself has been moralised into something that requires a defence. And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps: we’re deeping the Enhanced Games (international conspiracy?), and embracing the sticker star charts of your cosy productivity dreams. Episode image: Getty (sourced via The Cut)
The Enhanced Games Is Here. But Forget The ‘Sport’ – It Has Something It Wants To Sell You by Matt Slater, New York Times I Mean, Why Shouldn’t We All Start Smoking Cigarettes Again? by Xochitl González, The Cut Why We Should All Embrace Nihilism by Gemma Parker, The Guardian Miley Cyrus’s Latest Beauty Muse? Glastonbury-Era Kate Moss by Ranyechi Udwmezue, British Vogue Watch: Fran Lebowitz in Pretend It’s A City, Netflix Read: Pleasure Activism by Adrian Maree Brown The Narcotic Pleasures of Cleantok by Jessica Grose, New York Times Epicurus, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 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. | |||
| Coping With Friendship Anxiety | 25 May 2026 | 00:43:13 | |
We’ve never analysed our friendships more – doorbell friends, friendship audits, rankings, and the architecture of “meaningful connections”. But in a world defined by overwork, isolation, algorithms, and convenience culture, is all this discourse actually bringing us closer… or just giving us new ways to spiral? This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are unpacking the rise of friendship anxiety and the limits of the tools meant to soothe it, ultimately discovering that the real issue is structural: a world that engineered community out, then sold it back to us as a subscription. And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: the DIY labs closing the loop on longevity testing, and Kylie Jenner’s new hydration drink that makes you “glow from within” (sigh). Shout out to Laher for supporting this episode of Coping ! Book your consultation at Laher.co, or explore the bespoke engagement ring collection online. Women Are Lonelier Than Ever. It’s Putting Their Health At Risk by Kellie Scott, ABC News The Friendship Audit: How I Evaluated My Relationships – and Rebuilt My Inner Circle by Isabelle Eyman, Camille Styles Watch: Hannah Ferguson on Inherited Podcast Loneliness – It’s Not Only You, Conversations Podcast, ABC Watch: Lana on TikTok How People Think About Being Alone Shapes Their Experience of Loneliness by Micaela Rodriguez, Kathryn E. Schertz and Ethan Kross Loneliness Is A Problem A.I Won’t Solve by Jessica Grose, New York Times Is Friendship Therapy the Next Big Thing in Mental Health? by Jamie Ducharme, TIME 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. | |||
| Coping With Longevity | 18 May 2026 | 00:36:04 | |
What does it actually mean to “live longer” in a culture that can’t tolerate aging? This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into the strange n seductive world of longevity culture, breaking down how a once‑niche scientific field has transformed into a billion‑dollar industry. We’re chatting about it all, from pilgrimages to Blue Zones, biological age testing, and cryonic chambers, and the $65 USD olive oils promising to rewind the effects of aging at a cellular level. The industry promises more years, but often at the cost of the humanity it claims to preserve. And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: pimple patches (where have they been all my life etc.) and wearable tracking devices (stay tuned for a future debate on this).
Watch: Blue Zones documentary, Netflix ‘Aging Is A Disease’: Inside The Drive To Postpone Death Indefinitely by Karen Heller, Washington Post Why Everyone Is Talking About Biological, Not Chronological, Age by Shivaune Field, Forbes Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal Links Aging With Gravity by Tisha Elizabeth Jacob, The Week 200 Frozen Heads And Bodies Await Revival At This Arizona Cryonics Facility by Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Watch: Don’t Die, Netflix Bryan Johnson Has Spent Millions Trying Not to Die. His Best Longevity Tip Is Free by Dominique Mosbergen, TIME Bryan Johnson Must Die by Alexander Biener, Kainos Read: Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan The Anti-Aging Gold Rush Should Focus On Quality Of Life, Not Just Quantity by Michael Gurven, Stat News Why I Hope to Die At 75 by Ezekiel Emanuel, The Atlantic 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. | |||
| Coping With Ambition | 11 May 2026 | 00:48:35 | |
Ambition used to mean climbing that corporate ladder. Then it meant girlbossing. Then it meant quitting your job to find yourself. Now? It’s… complicated. This week, we’re tracing the messy, contradictory legacy of female ambition. And with ambition discourse everywhere – Emma Grede interviews, Diary of a CEO soundbites, Vogue rebrands – we’re asking what "success" looks like if you’re no longer willing to sacrifice your entire life for it. Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson share their own shifting ambitions within this context: the craving for purpose, the fear of being consumed by work, and the cultural noise that tells us to both lean in and log off forever. And because the wellness zeitgeist never sleeps, we’re also talking: the Japanese headspa experience that (unfortunately) will change your life, and the journal worth flying to Paris for (disclaimer: cost of flights not included in purchase). I'm Rooting for Female Founders' Comebacks - And The End of Branding Women, by Leslie Feinzaig, Fortune My Job Was My Life. Then I Got Fired by Samhita Mukhopadhyay, The Cut What Comes After Ambition? by Ann Friedman, Elle Watch: Girlboss, Netflix Who Is The Girlboss Now? by Michelle Santiago Cortés, The Cut The Big, Controversial Business of The Wing, Explained, by Anna North and Chavie Lieber, Vox The Girlboss Didn't Die...She Can't Afford To by Charlotte Mair, The Digress Listen: Emma Grede on Style-ish podcast Hailey Bieber Is Writing Her Own Story With Rhode by Lucy Feldman, TIME The Foremost Expert on Happiness Thinks Ambition Is Making You Miserable by Shalene Gupta, Fast Company 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. | |||
| Coping With Looking "Natural" | 04 May 2026 | 00:45:10 | |
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. | |||
| Coping With Vulnerability Hangovers | 27 Apr 2026 | 00:32:56 | |
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. | |||
| Coping With Becoming Someone New | 20 Apr 2026 | 00:31:22 | |
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 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.
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| Coping With "Living Well" | 13 Apr 2026 | 00:17:21 | |
Introducing: the podcast about why life feels like this.
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| Coming soon | 20 Mar 2026 | 00:00:36 | |
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. | |||