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Boundaries blur between personal growth and societal anxieties in this raw exploration of transformation. Your Auntie Robin pulls back the curtain on her journey through therapy, marriage dissolution, and family reconciliation while drawing surprising parallels to our cultural moment.

The realization hits hard - this podcast has been documenting a profound personal evolution. Robin shares her practice of reparenting her inner child when facing fears and how she's come to accept that her elderly parents will never provide the emotional nurturing she needed. This revelation offers a powerful framework for listeners navigating their own family complexities: acceptance without requiring forgiveness.

The conversation takes an unexpected turn as Robin addresses young men directly with a heartfelt apology from older generations. While girls have been empowered since the 1990s, boys were unintentionally left behind, creating confusion about modern masculinity. This generational oversight doesn't mean female empowerment was wrong - rather that everyone deserves liberation from restrictive gender roles. Robin makes a compelling case that emotional suppression manifests physically as disease, affecting people across gender lines and providing biological evidence for abandoning outdated norms.

As Robin navigates selling her house, securing an apartment, and finalizing her divorce, she models authentic vulnerability by acknowledging her own shortcomings. "We can only do the best we can in that moment," she reminds us, while demonstrating how to grow through imperfection. Join this journey of becoming - becoming more authentic, more aligned with personal values, and more intentional about building genuine community. Keep it real, keep it punk, and discover how embracing your true self naturally attracts the connections you're meant to have.

KEEP IT PUNK, My Younglings!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, my younglings, my little punks.
It is I, your Auntie Robin,coming to you from the awkward
lessons from my life, so welcome.
Once I released the lastepisode, season two, episode
three, I had an odd realization,one besides being relieved that

(00:23):
I made it through that episode,because for some odd reason it
was a minefield I did not wantto go through.
Yay, self-doubt and impostersyndrome.
It's times like these.
I wonder if my brain has thebandwidth for the shit that is
life and what it is throwing atus right now, and I'm sure that

(00:45):
you can relate to that.
The other realization that Ihad is holy shit, I started
doing this podcast September of2024.
This was a few months aftertalking to my soon-be ex about
stepping up his therapy, becauseI felt like there was a
distance growing between usbecause of my therapy.

(01:06):
And once I got the courage tofinally talk to him about it, he
blew up at me.
Then, in October, I tried toget him involved in the podcast,
thinking, oh, this is somethingwe can do together and maybe
it'll bring us closer.
After that episode, I realizedI don't know if I can make this

(01:26):
work.
Then the election happened, hadan awkward, intense Christmas
with family because I had to gocontact with my family for a bit
, for like a year, and I had totry and heal all the crap
inflicted from them.
But then I had an epiphanyduring this time period that my
parents are not capable, at 80something years old, to give me

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the love and the respect that Ineed, and they're never going to
be able to.
And that's what it is.
But there's also like a tickingclock of like how much time I
get to spend with them.
So I need to come to peace withour past and realize they did
the best that they could withthe knowledge that they had at

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the time.
But I don't necessarily have toforgive them for their hurts
and transgressions that they did, but accept the fact that they
will never be able to give mewhat I need.
In the past or even now, I hadto learn how to reparent myself
by talking to my inner childwhen I got scared and having to

(02:34):
tackle something that I'm notsure exactly what I'm doing,
which is a lot.
Recently I recorded this wholefucking process and I didn't
even realize until April'sepisode dropped.
I just started doing last weeksome cringy ass videos.
I'm trying to get used to bebeing seen again.

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It's a fucking hot minute sincethat has happened, and I'm
being encouraged by my ancestorsand my spirit guides to do that
, even though it scares the everloving shit out of me, because
I'm sure this is going to be ashocking detail to you.
But I have been bullied myentire fucking life, and not

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just from others.
My worst bully was actuallymyself.
Trust me, you can say anythingmore horrible than what I have
said to myself back then.
I can't even entertain thatthought of berating myself
anymore, for why do I want tomake myself feel like shit?

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That is not the point in life.
It is to have experiences andto evolve and expand.
But here I am facing mydelightful little and not so
little fears that I can't diefrom.
Some days you just gotta grow avagina woman up, and I'm about

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to show you how badass Gen Xwomen really are.
Goddammit.
I know it doesn't make muchsense to focus on ourselves and
not the world right now.
Trust me, the political BS willstill be there when it's all
said and done when it's all saidand done.

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But if you want to know why,you just need to look at JD
Vance and our current politicalsituationship.
How can he go from hating Trump, saying that he's America's
Hitler and that, as a Christian,everybody is watching us when
we apologize for that man?
One if you consider yourself aChristian, you should have

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standards, morals and boundariesthat reflect your Christian
faith.
At least, that is what the goodbook says to do.
Live as a beacon of your faith.
Two Trump has not changed.
Jd all of a sudden is Trump'sboy.
I know and understand thatpeople can change their minds,

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but Trump has not changed.
So why does JD Vance change hismind then, especially if he's
calling himself a man ofChristian faith?
The only thing I can come upwith is that he thinks that he's
doing this for careeradvancement.
And if you can be that easilyswayed from your religious faith

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, then what do you stand for, jd?
As the old saying goes, if youdon't know what you stand for,
you will fall for anything,especially if it gives you
status, money or power and power.
And that, jd, is what isleading you.
But we have power in each of usand we need to find that power

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in ourselves and cultivate thatso we can follow what we, the
people, not what others want usto believe.
Me, as well as other youngergenerations want social justice,
equality, health care for all,affordable housing and a better

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work-life balance balance.
As this is a little side notehere to my young men who fully
support Trump and the white wingbranch of the Republican Party
you deserve an apology from theolder generations.
Since the 1990s, girls finallygot elevated and encouraged to

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find girl power, if you will.
Girls finally got elevated andencouraged to find girl power,
if you will.
And we, unfortunately andunknowingly the world kind of
left you behind.
This was not an intentionalslight, my dudes.
This is not premeditated tohurt or stifle you.
But here we are.
You are now hurt and feelingconfused about what your role is

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in the world, guys, and thatgenerally has taken a few
decades to realize.
We fucked up on that.
I need you to understand this.
We did not fuck up on the factthat girls needed to be taught
about their power.
I need to emphasize that.
But the fact that we left youbehind is what the previous
generations need to apologizefor.

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So here it is from an oldmotherfucker my boys, my
younglings, my millennials, myGen Z, my Gen Alpha men, z by
Gen Alpha Men, I and thegenerations before me deeply

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apologize for leaving you behindand left you floundering in
your own darkness just lookingfor any kind of attention.
Whether it's good or bad, thatwas not what should have
happened, but shoulda, coulda,woulda is not going to fix this
shit.
Now we fucked up and we havefound ourselves hating anyone

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who is different than you, sadly.
So I'm asking you what is itthat you truly believe?
Do you really hate someonebecause of the color of their
skin?
And if so, how can you hatesomething that they cannot
physically change aboutthemselves?
That is not a choice a persongets to make, the same way with

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women, so why hate on someonefor that?
Do you hate anyone who isdifferent, smarter, better
looking than you?
Well then, maybe look atyourself and see how you can
better improve yourself and stepup.
Dudes, which means it'ssomething that you can also

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unlearn, because my dudes,masculinity and the male role in
the world has been so ingrainedinto your programming.
Men must be the breadwinners,provide for the family to be
leaders, to be in charge, toshow strength and dominance and
suppress their emotions.
But over the last several years, we've come to the realization
that suppressing one's emotionsisn't exactly good for anyone

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and often is the cause ofdis-ease in your body.
Women show disease thatsuppresses our immune system,
which protects our health system, which protects our health, but
when you're not feelingprotected in your life, this
shows up as lupus and otherimmune-compromising diseases.

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Repressed emotions also tax ournervous systems, with anxiety,
depression, leading to moreserious disorders like MS,
parkinson's, epilepsy.
So I think we can all agreethat suppressing one's emotions
is a bullshit belief, for we arehere to face our emotions and
clear them out occasionally.

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So welcome to the party men.
Women have been clearing outcultural bullshit for what seems
like a millennia.
I know that that's anexaggeration, but goddamn, it
just never ends with thebullshit that is and this is the
problem we need to find asolution to.

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We are working on outdatednorms from eons ago.
They don't work anymore.
The majority of us do not havea staff of people working for us
to make our lives easier.
We are all put into genderroles that we didn't define and,
to be honest with you, why doesit even need to be defined?

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Why do we have to defineeverything?
And if so, why is life notreflecting that?
That's a question I wouldreally love answered.
And if the real goal in life isto have life experiences, then
why is it not reflected in themodern mirror?

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Just because it has been donethis way forever doesn't mean it
has to continue.
We can be the change we want tobe.
It is time the world reflectsour vision, not others from the
past.
That, quite frankly, doesn'twork anymore.

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So, my punks, what are we goingto do about this?
By figuring out ourselves andour beliefs, we can finally
become one with ourselves, andonce we are one with ourselves,
we can build our communities,because we are truly
authentically being us us.

(12:00):
Well, they can leave, and theones that are meant for us will
be with us, which is the wholefucking point.
I'm going to leave you on thatnote because I'm still knee deep
in bullshit and this mama hasgot to get this house packed.
But at least things are movingforward.
I've got an apartment lined up,the house is sold, we have a
closing date and a date fordivorce court, so full steam

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ahead.
My younglings, sorry again forthis flaky ass bullshit that I
have to put you through.
Please be aware how much I hatedoing crap like this, but we
all have to admit sometimes wecan't physically do everything
all at once.
We can only do the best that wecan in that moment.

(12:44):
But this will be something Iwill be working on in myself,
because I hate it when people dothis kind of bullshit to me.
So why the fuck am I doing itto you?
Is what I will be working onduring this next month.
So we'll see how this improves.

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See, this is how we improve.
This is how we try to be betterthan the day before, and it's
okay to say I have fucked up.
We all have, and I'm sure we'llall do it again.
You just got to dust yourselfoff and get back and try again.
So I hope you'll join me againnext month as I am becoming

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something Not exactly sure whatI'm becoming, but we're becoming
.
So follow me to see how thejourney goes, and if you want to
start your own journey, let'sdo it my little punks, but
remember, keep it real, keep itpunk, and I'll see you next
month.