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Welcome to Licensed to Overthink: Anxiety and Other Hobbies—the podcast for people whose brains are always just a little too committed to the assignment.If you've ever replayed a conversation, overanalyzed a text message, worried about something that hasn't happened yet, or wondered whether everyone else has life figured out, you're our people.Join us each week as we explore anxiety, mental health, relationships, resilience, and the wonderfully weird ways our minds work. With a blend of professional insight, personal experience, and plenty of humor, we're here to remind you that you're not the only one overthinking it.And no, that thing you said five years ago probably wasn't weird.
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Booking probability
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Licensed to Overthink: Anxiety and Other Hobbies, the podcast for people whose brains are always just a little too committed to the assignment. If you've ever replayed a conversation, overanalyzed a text message, worried about something that hasn't happened yet, or wondered whether everyone else has life figured out, you're our people.
Licensed to Overthink is hosted by Brittany Sperry and Becca Smith. The show has published 16 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Failing Forward" (28 October 2026, 35 minutes), "She's Not Wrong, Though" (21 October 2026, 30 minutes), and "Resting Is Suspicious: The Art of Turning a Day Off Into an Olympic Event." (14 October 2026, 23 minutes).
Licensed to Overthink publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 16 episodes.
Booking probability for Licensed to Overthink is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Licensed to Overthink requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Licensed to Overthink's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Licensed to Overthink are Therapists & Other Health Practitioners. Licensed to Overthink has a health audience.
Brittany Sperry and Becca Smith hosts Licensed to Overthink, a health podcast with 16 episodes published.
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Episode #17
Brittany and Becca put their fear of failure on trial, cross-examine every "I totally blew it" they've ever had, and discover the anxious little voice in their heads has secretly been rooting for them the whole time...
Episode #16
her question in the checkout line was mortifying, loud, and completely correct, and that's exactly the problem. Brittany, Becca, and Ashley dig into why kids get blamed for bluntness when adults are the ones panicking...
We came to relax. We left with 14,000 steps, a clean inbox, and no idea what rest actually feels like. What starts as a peaceful day dedicated to rest somehow spirals into a jam-packed itinerary of adventures, errands...
Episode #14
We'll explore how our anxious brains can sometimes help us shine, why roller coasters might teach us a thing or two about reslilience, and how our hobbies can turn fear into fun. Life is a roller coaster. Apparently, so...
Episode #13
We spend half an hour confidently taking apart conspiracy theories, then run the exact same format on the myths people believe about anxiety — and discover we'll debunk anything except the thing we've already decided...
This week Brittany and Becca get into the distance between wanting to be somewhere and actually getting there, and why the person who walks in forty minutes late just did the hardest thing in the room.
Episode #11
Everything you say to help a spiraling friend is making it worse. Brittany and Becca rank the damage, plead guilty, and get to what your friend actually needs instead.
Two therapists hold court on everything a person can, should, or shouldn't be afraid of, including a detailed and extremely confident plan for the zombie apocalypse.
Episode #9
Your body only sends one signal, and you're the one who has to decide what it means. This week Brittany and Becca get into why anger is almost always the second emotion, and why good news shows up with the same symptoms...
Episode #8
Honesty makes somebody uncomfortable for about ninety seconds; the polite version costs you a little every day for years. This week Brittany and Becca get into why "fine" is autocomplete for the whole personality, and...
Becca (Type A) and Brittany (Type B) spend an hour litigating ten years of grievances — the five-mile radius, the car left running for three hours — before arriving at the thesis that Type C, the organized-but-fun...
Episode #6
One Plate, Two Responses, Zero Danger. Two therapists chase one perfect candied bacon across a whole metroplex, accidentally order pork belly, and then apologize to the waitress for not liking it. It's never really...
You're a functioning adult until you walk into your childhood home, and four minutes later you're fourteen and asking permission to eat a granola bar. This week Brittany and Becca get into why families turn us back into...
This week, the hosts investigate why our brains are terrible at naming feelings, why true crime can somehow be relaxing, and why being exhausted is sometimes the only thing that finally tells anxiety to clock out. It's...
Episode #3
One person walks in stressed, and now the whole room is stressed and nobody remembers why. That's the episode. Brittany and Becca get into emotional contagion — how panic spreads like a yawn you didn't agree to —...
Episode #2
Welcome to the 3 a.m. Olympics — where your brain, undefeated, medals nightly in events like Re-Litigating a Conversation From 2019 and Diagnosing Yourself With Everything. This week Brittany and Becca get into why the...
Episode #1
Two therapists who are, professionally speaking, just as anxious as everyone else. Part comedy, part therapy-you-didn't-schedule, every episode picks apart the wonderfully weird experience of being human and reminds you...
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