Welcome to the Listen Bitch Podcast where we burn down the bullshit and resurrect your God-given power. I’m Branden LaNette, truth-teller, visionary, and author of Once Upon a Time, Bitches. This show isn’t for the weak willed...it’s for the woman who knows she was made for more and is done apologizing for it. If that’s you, hit subscribe. If not? Keep scrolling, sweetheart.
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October 21, 2026Episode 63013 min
S10 Ep630: You Are In Prison, Bitch.
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** There are no guards and the door is not locked. You built this one yourself, calibrated it precisely to the threshold of acceptable, and have been renewing the sentence annually without ever holding a hearing. This episode names the cell and opens the gate. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** How a life gets calibrated to the exact threshold where nothing hurts enough to force action and nothing satisfies enough to mean anything, why comfort is a slope rather than a plateau and how your tolerance for discomfort contracts every year you stay, the neuroscience of prediction and energy conservation, loss aversion, and habituation and why the alarm you felt at year one became background noise by year five, the zoo animal that will not leave through an open gate, and the generation that stood between slavery and a promise and chose to talk about the pots of meat.
October 20, 2026Episode 62923 min
S10 Ep629: Nobody owes you shit. Go earn it
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** You have been keeping a quiet ledger of everyone who did not share, did not comment, did not show up, and that ledger is a comfort document protecting you from a harder explanation. This episode burns it and hands you the only variable you actually control. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** The ledger of people who did not support you and why it functions as an explanation that has nothing to do with the work, why being loved and being an audience are completely unrelated variables, the fact that every audience in history was earned slowly and boringly in unfavorable conditions, the neuroscience of variable reward schedules and reward prediction error and why ten views registers as rejection instead of ten human beings, attribution bias and why failure gets blamed externally while success gets claimed internally, the empty restaurant and the owner who blames the neighborhood, and the sower whose seed failed three times out of four and who kept scattering anyway.
October 19, 2026Episode 62815 min
S10 Ep628: Stop Hiding Behind Your Trauma. It Was Not Your Fault And It Is Still Your Responsibility
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** What happened to you was real. What you have been doing with it is a separate question, and you have welded them together so nobody can touch the second without looking like they are attacking the first. This episode separates them and hands the second one back to you. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** Why not your fault and still your responsibility are both permanently true and why treating them as mutually exclusive keeps people parked for decades, the difference between healing which has direction and evidence versus camping which has vocabulary and no movement, the neuroscience of plasticity and why avoidance maintains fear responses while gradual exposure updates them, why your nervous system runs on evidence rather than understanding, the broken leg from someone else's accident and the physical therapy you still have to do, and Joseph holding both you meant it for evil and God meant it for good without collapsing either one.
October 16, 2026Episode 62714 min
S10 Ep627: Everyone Can Tell You Are Playing Small
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** You think you are hiding it. People noticed years ago and decided saying it would be cruel. This episode gives you the honest read nobody in your life is willing to offer, the specific tells everyone can already see, and why the feedback you need most is the feedback you are structurally least likely to get. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** The four visible tells of playing small that everyone around you already recognizes, why nobody will ever tell you since honest feedback is socially expensive with no reward for the person giving it, the science of unreliable self assessment and motivated reasoning and why politeness breaks the feedback loop that would normally correct your self estimate, the spinach in the teeth analogy and why the cruelty is in the two hours rather than the spinach, and Nathan telling David you are the man after David confidently condemned his own behavior in someone else.
October 15, 2026Episode 62611 min
S10 Ep626: You Are Not Tired, You Are Bored
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** Your energy shows up instantly for things that interest you and disappears for everything else, which means this was never fatigue. This episode takes away the most socially protected excuse there is and explains why boredom feels identical to exhaustion in your body. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** The self test that proves your energy is selective rather than depleted, why tired is the preferred diagnosis because it requires nothing of you while bored implicates you completely, the neuroscience of dopamine driven effort related motivational dysfunction and why low motivational signaling is subjectively indistinguishable from fatigue, cognitive underload and why forcing attention onto something unstimulating is genuinely depleting, the dog destroying the couch as a design problem rather than a behavior problem, and Moses after forty years of sheep concluding he was not capable when the capacity came back online the moment something real was asked of it.
October 14, 2026Episode 62524 min
S10 Ep625: You Would Rather Be Liked Than Free. And Everybody Can Tell
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** You have been trading your freedom for approval one small edit at a time, for years, and you never said the trade out loud because saying it out loud makes it embarrassing. This episode names it, shows you exactly whose approval you have been buying, and explains why disapproval feels like physical danger. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** How the trade happens through thousands of small reasonable edits until checking the room becomes indistinguishable from thinking, the exercise of naming the specific people whose approval is editing you and asking whether you would trade lives with them, the neuroscience of social rejection activating pain adjacent circuitry and why the honest version of you has not been reinforced in years, the person who never leaves their hometown because the approval is already established there, and the leaders in John's gospel who believed and stayed silent because they loved human praise more than praise from God.
September 17, 2026Episode 62415 min
S10 Ep624: Your Dream Is Embarrassing At This Point. Build It Or Shut Up About It
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** You have been talking about the same dream for years and everyone around you has quietly stopped believing you. This is the episode your best friend is too polite to give you, naming the gap between how much you talk about it and how little you have done, and exactly what it is costing you. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** Why people stopped asking about your dream and what your repeated announcements have trained everyone around you to believe, why describing a thing and making a thing are unrelated activities that feel identical from the inside, the research showing that publicly announcing goals can reduce follow through by producing a premature sense of identity that partially satisfies the need the achievement was supposed to fill, the eleven year engagement analogy, and the tower parable where Jesus names public ridicule for the person who began to build and was not able to finish.
September 15, 2026Episode 62314 min
S10 Ep623: Nobody Is Coming To Save You. And Honestly, Nobody Should Have To
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** You have a rescue fantasy you would never call that, and it is the last excuse standing between you and your life. This episode takes it away, explains the psychology of why you stopped trying, and gives you the only thing that actually rewrites it. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** How the rescue fantasy disguises itself as someday planning and as justified resentment, why even a real rescue would cost you more than it gives since every rescue comes with dependency attached, the psychology of learned helplessness and why the giving up persists long after the conditions change, why only small completed causal actions rewrite the rule and why waiting produces zero data, the person sitting in a running car waiting on a tow truck, and the man at Bethesda who answered do you want to get well with a perfectly reasonable explanation instead of a yes.
September 14, 2026Episode 62215 min
S10 Ep622: You Are One Thought Away From Feeling Better. What You Are Not Changing, You Are Choosing
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** You think you complain because you feel bad. You feel bad because you complain. This episode names the habit that is producing your emotional state, explains the neuroscience of why it compounds over years, and gives you the two honest options that both end with you free. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** Why everything you complain about repeatedly and do not change is an active choice rather than a circumstance, why the complaining is the engine of your emotional state rather than a symptom of it, the neuroscience of how repeated complaint strengthens problem finding pathways and calibrates your attention filter to surface more of what is wrong, the check engine light analogy and the two respectable options, and the generation that walked through a parted sea and still decided slavery looked better than freedom.
September 3, 2026Episode 62118 min
S10 Ep621: God Is Waiting For You To Go First. The Hint Has Been In Your Free Time This Whole Time
**WHY YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS:** You have been waiting on God while he has been waiting on you. This episode flips the order back, shows you exactly how to identify your calling using a hint that has been sitting in plain sight your whole life, and breaks down why provision consistently meets obedience rather than preceding it. **WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:** Why the pattern in scripture is always obedience first and provision second, how your free time reveals the calling you have been dismissing for being too enjoyable to count, the specific test of what serves people that you would be excited to wake up for, the practical morning structure of filling your cup and grounding before you create, the neuroscience of why unreinforced behavior extinguishes and why intrinsic motivation survives the season before results arrive, the farmer standing in an unplanted field waiting for a harvest, and the priests at the flooded Jordan whose feet had to touch the water before it ever stopped flowing. Welcome to the Listen Bitch podcast. Your go to destination for unlocking your full potential and embracing the extraordinary possibilities within you. This is a journey of self discovery and empowerment as you explore the transformative power of stepping into greatness. Come into alignment with your God given power and gifts. Unleash your soul and learn to co-create a life you love. As you become The writer of your own destiny, here you'll find that inspiration, practical tips, and sometimes abrasive nudge to take the leap of faith towards your dreams. You're in the right place. Buckle up so we can unleash your inner badass. Want to change your life? Scroll the show notes and pick your path—coaching, books, or biohacks. Don’t wait. Move Podcast support group if you have one or know you need to have one https://www.facebook.com/share/g/18ZHhj998E/?mibextid=wwXIfr Vibrotactile Patches, zero ingredients RIGHT HERE! Pain Patches, Oh, it’s wild! Those little grooves in the patch? They send electric whispers straight through your skin to your brain, like Braille... but for your whole body. It's like a secret love affair between your skin and your mind—crazy, right? Freedom and Liberty to be pain free! Peace and Zen for my secret weapon http://brandenlanette.superpatch.com Brandenlanette.com/quiz Brandenlanette.com buy my books, sign up for my love letters
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