
This week we’re talking about something most women have experienced… but almost no one says out loud: when real life starts to look like the movie Mean Girls. Because it’s actually pretty easy for women to show up for...


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Hosted by Shannon McClintock and Jane Box · education · EN
Welcome to Permission to Be — the podcast where the messy middle finally gets a microphone. If you’re a woman who loves your life but feels overwhelmed by it, if motherhood changed you in ways no one warned you about, or if you’re tired, hormonal, overstimulated, and trying to find yourself again… you’re home.We talk identity loss, motherhood, boundaries, relationships, perimenopause, nervous system overwhelm, and the absurdity of everyday life — with honesty, science, and the humor you need to survive it all.No perfection. No judgment. Just real conversations that make you feel seen.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Permission to Be, the podcast where the messy middle finally gets a microphone. If you’re a woman who loves your life but feels overwhelmed by it, if motherhood changed you in ways no one warned you about, or if you’re tired, hormonal, overstimulated, and trying to find yourself again… you’re home.
Permission To Be is hosted by Shannon McClintock and Jane Box. The show has published 12 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Complicated Truth of Women Supporting Women" (17 March 2026, 48 minutes), "The Complicated Truth of Women Supporting Women" (17 March 2026, 48 minutes), and "The Truth About Perimenopause No One Prepared Us For" (10 March 2026, 26 minutes).
Permission To Be publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 12 episodes.
Booking probability for Permission To Be is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Permission To Be requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Permission To Be's contact route on record: public web form.
Shannon McClintock and Jane Box hosts Permission To Be, an education podcast with 12 episodes published.
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This week we’re talking about something most women have experienced… but almost no one says out loud: when real life starts to look like the movie Mean Girls. Because it’s actually pretty easy for women to show up for...

This week we’re talking about something most women have experienced… but almost no one says out loud: when real life starts to look like the movie Mean Girls. Because it’s actually pretty easy for women to show up for...

In this episode, we’re just being honest about the absolute chaos that can be perimenopause. From brain fog to random ovulation pain in places you didn’t know could hurt, to the very glamorous reality of pelvic floors...

In this episode, we’re talking about what it looks like when you’re in a really hard season of life… and you don’t get to pause everything else while you move through it. The grief. The overwhelm. The chaos. The very...

In this episode, we’re talking about something that started as a fun escape… and ended up having a much bigger impact than either of us expected. We dive into how getting into romance audiobooks has shifted the way we...

Consider this week’s podcast the group chat you’ve been longing to be part of. The one where nothing is too polished, no one is pretending to have it all figured out, and the conversation goes exactly where it needs to...

Making friends as an adult shouldn’t feel this complicated… and yet it does. In this episode, we’re talking honestly about adult friendships — why they feel harder, more emotional, and more fragile than we ever...

Your Triggers Are Your Teachers Most of us think getting triggered means we’re failing at healing… or maturity… or emotional regulation. In this episode, we talk about why that’s not true at all. We explore the idea...

Somewhere along the way, a lot of moms were taught that being a “good mother” means disappearing. That exhaustion is noble. That rest has to be earned. That wanting more makes you selfish. In this episode, we talk about...

At some point in almost every long-term relationship, something quietly shifts. You’re still a team. You’re still functional. You still love them… But suddenly your spouse feels more like a roommate than a lover... and...

As we close out 2025, we’re reflecting on a year that stretched us, cracked us open, and changed us in ways we didn’t see coming. In this episode, we talk honestly about what it looks like to move out of victim...

In this episode, we’re taking “we listen, we don’t judge” into the most beautiful, chaotic season of all — the holidays. Because motherhood in December is a paradox: it’s magical and it’s maddening. It’s heart-melting...

It’s our very first episode of Permission to Be , and we’re diving straight into the chaos — motherhood, identity loss, hormones, overstimulation, and all the things no one puts in the brochure. We talk about why so...
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