I'm Not Crazy, Right?

This week, Hillary sits down with Vallean J. — journalist, author (including her latest novel Her Worst Enemy), and founder of the Young Readers Literacy Experience and the Dear Me Experience — to talk about the reflex so many women share: saying "sorry" for things that need zero apology. Enjoy!

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If you've ever been told "that's not a real thing" by a doctor... this one's for you.

Hillary sits down with her work-wife-turned-real-life-bestie Addy for a vulnerable story that she's never shared publicly: her years-long fight to get diagnosed with endometriosis.

From being put on the pill as a teenager to "fix" mystery pain, to collapsing and ending up in the ER, to a doctor finally saying six words that changed everything &mdas...

We grew up on Cinderella and boombox-outside-the-window rom-coms — love as a rescue mission, not a partnership. Then reality hit, and we were told to just lower our standards.

But what if the standard was never the problem?

This week Hillary breaks down why male characters written by women (hi, Garrett Graham 👀) aren't setting an unrealistic bar — they're proof the bar was reachable all along. We're talking book boyfrien...

Have you ever been totally confident in a decision… until everyone around you started weighing in? Suddenly you're second-guessing yourself, outsourcing your choices to anyone who'll give an opinion, and wondering how you got here.

This week, I'm joined by Fiona Simpson — corporate baddie by day, mindset coach and founder of Reflect Path by night — to talk about one of the most relatable struggles women face at wo...

If you grew up as a millennial woman, you probably remember the era of low-rise jeans, bodycon dresses, and crash diets that promised to help you lose 30 lbs in 30 days. But what happened if you weren't quite "plus size" — and weren't quite "straight size" either? You fell through the cracks. Literally.

In this episode, Hillary gets personal about growing up mid-sized — always feeling like the biggest girl in the room, e...

Have you ever had a four hour phone call that started as a quick check-in and ended with you Googling the same random celebrity at the same time as your best friend — without either of you saying a word about it first? If you have a long distance bestie, you know exactly what that's like. And if you don't, you're about to wish you did.

In this episode of I'm Not Crazy, Right?, host Hillary Bautch sits down with her long-distan...

Have you ever nodded along in a conversation about investing, budgeting, or retirement accounts — and then gone home and googled every single word? You're not alone. And you're definitely not crazy.

In this episode of I'm Not Crazy, Right?, host Hillary Bautch is tackling one of the most universally felt but least talked about questions women have: why does managing money feel so overwhelming, even for smart, capable, accompli...

Remember when we were told that if we just hustled hard enough, wanted it badly enough, and leaned in far enough — we could have it all? And remember how that felt less like empowerment and more like exhaustion you weren't allowed to admit to? Yeah. We're talking about it.

In this episode of I'm Not Crazy, Right?, host Hillary Bautch is making the case that girlboss culture didn't just burn women out — it convinced us th...

Have you ever said yes to something you desperately wanted to say no to — not because you wanted to go, but because the guilt of not going felt worse than the inconvenience of showing up? You're not alone. And you're definitely not crazy.

In the very first episode of I'm Not Crazy, Right?, host Hillary Bautch is asking the question every woman has felt but rarely says out loud: why is it so hard to choose yourself? From cancel...