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**Make Your Damn Bed**

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum – better your life.

Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed – so you can start making it!

Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an “as-is” basis.

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Latest Episodes:

1659 || personal panopticon Jan 04, 2026

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I have tried to be conscious of any of the personally imposed surveillance that I take part in.

It’s futile, I’m sure, but:

I opt out of everything I can possibly opt out of online.
I talk shit to and about every Ring doorbell to anyone who will listen.
I opt out of the biometric data collection at the TSA, despite some of the officers reminding me they have my data already.

The point is, I like exercising my rights where the options still exist. Even if it is futile.

And even if it is inconvenient for me, I’m not taking your online cookies.

It deeply infuriates me that I’m not “allowed” to opt out of more.

I can’t use my phone, camera, printer, or any other piece of tech without signing the terms and conditions that hold your item (and your family) hostage unless you give up the rights to your entire personhood in a written contract.

But you spend three paychecks on these items and it feels like a simple click will get you there, so you sign away without reading a damned thing.

Everything I buy feels like just another way for a company to get more access to more of my personal data. The merchandise or service they provide is so obviously an inconvenience to them, at this point.

Data is king. And for many companies, your attention has become far more valuable than cash.

The dollar may crash but the need for your unpaid labor and energy will never end!!!

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1658 || personal system assessment Jan 03, 2026

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I realized trying to balance things by pushing back and forcing a reset, rather than allowing the swing of humanity, with the full spectrum of human emotions, and restore my faith that just existing is enough.

I know that when I am my most inspired I can get inspired by a moth flying at a light, a mom smiling at her baby, and I am known to get emotional when an older person buys themselves ice cream. There is something beautiful and inspiring about the simple act of existence, in it’s purest form.

Let yourself be perceived just existing, and have faith that it’s enough, and you’ll automatically reset your systems so you can automatically begin building systems that push you towards the more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced world you’re so desperate for.

But it starts with your own.

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1657 || the year you give yourself a chance Jan 02, 2026

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If the “experience” is the goal, failure ceases to exist.

“you will figure it out.” You should trust that. If you don’t believe it, maybe its time to give yourself a chance to prove yourself wrong.

In what ways have you been your own biggest bully? In what ways have you become your own opps?

Some of you* have been playing really small and trying to fit in boxes that were never built for you and you’re wondering why you’re uncomfortable? Meanwhile, you’re contorting to fit into a box when there’s sprawling land right underneath it, if you’d just stick a limb out and touch it.

*me

Until you find the right fit, but don’t blame yourself for cultural problems. Just recognize them so you can create better cultures and rituals around things, when and where you can.

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1656 || controlled demolition Jan 01, 2026

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Sometimes, when the facades are crumbling, you may start to recognize the need for a controlled demolition. Not to destroy anything of value, but to strategically dismantle some of the more daunting aspects of your current human experience. Any routines, beliefs, relationships, that are no longer helpful, we must be willing to strip back to the foundation, so we can actually assess the underlying damage, reset, and rebuild.

The thought experiment of a controlled demolition is very helpful, not because it’s important to think of collapse, but because it can be empowering to remember your ability to rebuild better.

When you take place in a controlled demolition, you are attempting to address what is worth saving, what is worth improving, and what needs to be completely gutted and reimagined from the ground up.

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1655 || no shame new years Dec 31, 2025

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We write narratives about ourselves that we show up and reflect back. Address the narrative, and recognize you can show up around your "shame" and it doesn't have to be something you identify with.

You can allow shame to point, not guide. It's a tool, not a boss.

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1654 || science news around a meaningful life Dec 30, 2025

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2025 brought in some studies that left me with some hope about the future, and I wanted to share that with you.

You can read the ones I missed here at Berkeley's Greater Good Magazine Website.

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1653 || it's not a debate Dec 29, 2025

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Today is the finale of our series on street epistemology, and we're digging into what NOT to do.

Wonder: The big question.
Hypothesis: The interlocutor's proposed answer to the question.
Elenchus: Question and answer to discover what other reasonable propositions are likely to be true that refute the hypothesis. Proceed by mutual agreement at every step - elenchus is not a debate.
Accept or Revise: Refine or revise the hypothesis - either without vulnerability to that elenchus, with reduced confidence, or even rejecting it. On the other hand, if the hypothesis survives repeated attempts at elenchus, provisionally accept it.
Act accordingly: Reduce confidence in and reliance on the hypothesis that is refuted by elenchus.

Read about the brain in a vat argument.

Read about The Teapot Analogy.

Read: On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

Read Perth Skeptics collection of street epistemology resources.

Read Berkeley's "Bridging Differences Playbook"

Visit the Street Epistemology Website.

Read the Wikipedia on Street Epistemology.

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1652 || when faith is more valuable than reason Dec 28, 2025

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Some people think their faith is "enough". Today I share ways to get them to reflect on the flaws in that thinking, and how to deal with people who refuse to budge.

Wonder: The big question.
Hypothesis: The interlocutor's proposed answer to the question.
Elenchus: Question and answer to discover what other reasonable propositions are likely to be true that refute the hypothesis. Proceed by mutual agreement at every step - elenchus is not a debate.
Accept or Revise: Refine or revise the hypothesis - either without vulnerability to that elenchus, with reduced confidence, or even rejecting it. On the other hand, if the hypothesis survives repeated attempts at elenchus, provisionally accept it.
Act accordingly: Reduce confidence in and reliance on the hypothesis that is refuted by elenchus.

Read: On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

Read Perth Skeptics collection of street epistemology resources.

Read Berkeley's "Bridging Differences Playbook"

Visit the Street Epistemology Website.

Read the Wikipedia on Street Epistemology.

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1651 || elenchus Dec 27, 2025

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Wonder: The big question.
Hypothesis: The interlocutor's proposed answer to the question.
Elenchus: Question and answer to discover what other reasonable propositions are likely to be true that refute the hypothesis. Proceed by mutual agreement at every step - elenchus is not a debate.
Accept or Revise: Refine or revise the hypothesis - either without vulnerability to that elenchus, with reduced confidence, or even rejecting it. On the other hand, if the hypothesis survives repeated attempts at elenchus, provisionally accept it.
Act accordingly: Reduce confidence in and reliance on the hypothesis that is refuted by elenchus.

Read: On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

Read Perth Skeptics collection of street epistemology resources.

Read Berkeley's "Bridging Differences Playbook"

Visit the Street Epistemology Website.

Read the Wikipedia on Street Epistemology.

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1650 || neutralizing language helps Dec 26, 2025

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You can't change minds when people are defensive. Practice using neutral language and reframing techniques to minimize defensiveness. These are difficult conversations, but they shouldn't feel like confrontations. Today we talk about some ways to do that.

Read Perth Skeptics collection of street epistemology resources.

Read Berkeley's "Bridging Differences Playbook"

Visit the Street Epistemology Website.

Read the Wikipedia on Street Epistemology.

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The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. IWe are fallible. We can't "know that we know" everything. Street epistemology is based on reliabilism. It's not dogmatic, but it does help us recognize fallacies when people are claiming extraordinary events are true.

Read Perth Skeptics collection of street epistemology resources.

Read Berkeley's "Bridging Differences Playbook"

Visit the Street Epistemology Website.

Read the Wikipedia on Street Epistemology.

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