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Hosted by Betsy Reed · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 144 episodes
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The Discomfort Practice explores the value of discomfort in shaping who we are, how we are in the world and how discomfort can be a catalyst for positive social evolution. Betsy speaks to leaders, activists, athletes, creatives and others about comfort zones, having a conscious 'discomfort practice,' and the superpowers that lie on the other side of discomfort. Come get uncomfortable with Betsy... You can follow Betsy on:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thebetsyreed/ Substack https://www.substack.com/thebetsyreedLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebetsyreed/Please note: I don't accept unsolicited guest pitches. I DO accept selective sponsorship enquiries: I partner with a small number of aligned brands and experiences.The Discomfort Practice is a curated platform and I partner with brands who align with my values and the themes discussed here.
Betsy Reed hosts The Discomfort Practice, a society show with 144 episodes published.
This is an unusual episode of The Discomfort Practice. For six years, Betsy has only recorded solos when she's felt in creative flow, with thoughts already framed. This one is different. She's a week late posting, and in
In this episode of The Discomfort Practice , Betsy is joined by Claire Carpenter - coach, social innovator, entrepreneur, and founder of Scotland's Centre for Social Innovation, The Melting Pot - for a conversation about
What happens after the brave thing? Not six months later. Not when the results are in. Immediately after. In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice , Betsy reflects on what happened in the hours after launching the
In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy answers a comment a friend once made — "You never talk about having hobbies" — by unpacking why that's true, and what it reveals about how she actually relates to he
In this episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy is joined by Katherine Wela Bogen - scholar, activist, storyteller, and self-described "joyful little freak" - for a conversation that refuses to stay in its lane (in the
In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy reflects on the deeply inconvenient timing of becoming wildly, viscerally alive in the middle of grappling with mortality. A few months after a cancer diagnosis and
In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy reflects on what happens when life blows apart the illusion of linearity, and why that rupture may be the beginning of something far more honest. A few weeks after u
In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy shares the origin story of Embodied Leadership Lab, why the launch didn't go to plan and what it is. It was supposed to happen on April 7th. Instead, Betsy was in su
In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy explores a slightly amusing and powerful idea: What if blasphemy is exactly what we need right now? Drawing from the line "Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy
In this solo episode, Betsy explores a provocative idea for strange times: Joy might be a form of anarchy. We are living in an era saturated with catastrophe, outrage cycles, environmental grief, economic anxiety, and a
What do you do when the people you most need to work with are the ones you most fundamentally disagree with? In this episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy sits down with renowned facilitator and systems thinker Adam
"The world doesn't need us to be perfect; it just needs us to be present." Betsy has been a meditation teacher for 10 years, and in that time, her own practice has changed. Before leading a 'Senses Meditation,' she swear
What happens when you revisit something you once said with conviction… and realise you'd express it differently today? In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy reflects on the strange experience of discover
What if indifference isn't always apathy, but is sometimes rooted in discernment? In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy explores intentional indifference as a mature, regulated response to a world that c
In this solo episode of The Discomfort Practice, Betsy speaks directly into the current moment: politically, socially and somatically. Recorded in February 2026, amid rising authoritarianism, surveillance and collective
In this expansive and clear-eyed conversation, host Betsy Reed is joined by journalist and leading sustainability commentator James Murray, founding Editor-in-Chief of BusinessGreen. Together, they explore what it means
In this intimate solo episode, Betsy records from the threshold: posting unscripted, later than planned and exactly when it needed to be shared. Recorded in January 2026, after what she calls the personal "meat-grinder"
In this powerful solo episode, Betsy explores what it means to live, lead, and stay human in what philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously called "the time of monsters" - the in-between space where the old world is dying and
This is a good one from the archives - back in January 2023, when memories of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the trauma) was still fresh. Betsy interviewed Pilar Garrido, who was Minister for Economic Development in Costa Ri
In this very personal 20-minute solo, Betsy steps into the uncomfortable, liberating terrain of boundaries as a pleasure practice - a theme that emerged from her 2025 words of the year: alignment and precision. This epis
Adam Kahane
renowned facilitator, author, and expert in scenario planning and system transformation
1 appearance on this show
Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese monk · Plum Village
1 appearance on this show
James Murray
founding Editor-in-Chief · James Murray Finance
1 appearance on this show
Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
professor of business psychology at UCL and Columbia, chief innovation officer of ManpowerGroup, and author of books including ‘The Talent Delusion’ and ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Be...’ · Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab
1 appearance on this show
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
professor of business psychology at UCL and Columbia, chief innovation officer of ManpowerGroup, and author of books including ‘The Talent Delusion’ and ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Be...’ · myTrudy
1 appearance on this show
Pilar Garrido
Costa Rica
1 appearance on this show
Isa Noyola
Transgender Law Center
1 appearance on this show
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