Girl, Choose Yourself!

Over 70% of women in the UK report experiencing sexual harassment in public spaces. Globally, it's higher than that. And yet the message to women remains the same — be careful, stay safe, it's your responsibility.
Today's guest is done with that narrative.
Amy Watson is the founder of Hassl, a social impact organisation launched just over a year ago that is tackling harassment at its root. It's shifting the focus away from what women should do to stay safe, and onto the culture and systems that make them unsafe in the first place.
This is a conversation about the invisible mental, emotional, and financial load women carry just to move through the world. About what it takes to bring men meaningfully into the conversation without pushing them away. About bystander culture, the manosphere, tech-enabled harassment, and why progress over perfection might be the most radical thing we can choose right now.
Amy is doing something rare — building a movement that is angry enough to matter and strategic enough to actually work.
In this episode:
→The mental load women carry every day that most men don't even know exists 
→Why Hassl is focused on prevention rather than aftermath, and why that distinction matters 
→How Amy is bringing men into the conversation without shaming them out of it →The drink driving analogy that perfectly captures the culture shift we need  
→What bystander intervention actually looks like, and why showing up at all is enough 
→The contradiction campaign that went viral, and why it resonated so deeply 
 →Progress over perfection as a philosophy for change
Connect with Amy and Join the Movement!
Website: https://hassl.uk/
Buy Hassl Merch! https://hassl.uk/collections/shop-all
Follow Hassl on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hasslofficial/
Discover Workplace Training Programs: https://hassl.uk/products/remote-hassl-training-available-globally

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If someone asked you right now what you want — truly want, for yourself, not for anyone else — could you answer? For so many women in midlife, that question lands like a small panic. Not because life is bad. But because somewhere in the years of partnering, mothering, working, and showing up for everyone else, the thread back to yourself got very thin.
This episode is about finding it again.
There is a belief at the heart of this conversation — that we arrive in this life already knowing something. That our desires, the ones that persist even when we try to silence them, are not random or selfish or self-indulgent. They are the soul's way of remembering. Whispering — look over here. This belongs to you.
This is an episode about desire as something sacred. About the difference between what numbs us and what calls us forward. About the muscle that atrophies when we spend too long leaving ourselves out — and what it takes to bring it back.
You didn't lose yourself. You just got very practiced at ignoring yourself.
That is something you can unlearn.
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What does it look like to walk away from a nearly decade-long career — no backup plan, no degree, just a gut feeling that something had to change? For Sarah Magnoni, it looked like burnout, a text sent on a Saturday morning, six months of napping, and eventually... a sold-out trip to France in 18 hours.
Sarah is the founder of Cobblestones and Castles, which runs small-group trips to Europe for women — curated around historical feminism, literary icons, and the kind of immersive travel that changes how you see yourself. In this conversation, we talk about the long, slow drain of doing everything right on the outside while running on empty inside, and what it actually took to choose differently.
In this episode:
Why burnout can look like "having it all" — and what finally made Sarah act
The golden handcuff feeling, and how she moved through it
How a healing journey into intuition and self-love became the foundation for a business
What makes women-only group travel so different — and why it matters
The trips she has scheduled in 2026 (there are still spots!)
Her answer to what "choosing yourself" really means
About Sarah: Sarah Magnoni is a travel advisor and writer who creates small-group women's trips across Europe. Her immersive journeys blend historical feminism, literature, and culture. After a career in leadership development, she began coaching women — and it was that career change that led to hosting retreats and ultimately founding Cobblestones and Castles. Sarah is a pilot wife, mom to 4 amazing adults and 2 furbabies, and Mimi to 3.
Connect with Sarah:
https://www.cobblestonesandcastles.com/
Facebook Community: The Cobblestone Collective
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cobblestonesandcastles/
Resources mentioned:
Mary Magdalene Revealed by Megan Watterson
How to Kill a Witch by Claire Mitchell, Zoë Venditozzi (featured on the Scotland trip)
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Are you the one who volunteers first? Who over-delivers without being asked? Who smooths the awkward silences, anticipates what everyone needs, and makes herself indispensable — in friendships, at work, in her family?
Most of us were never taught that being easy to be around is a pattern worth examining. It looks like warmth. It looks like generosity. But underneath it, for a lot of women, is something much older — a quiet fear that if we stop performing, we might not be chosen.
In this episode, I get honest about where this pattern comes from, what it's really costing us, and how to start telling the difference between giving from genuine abundance and giving from fear.
We explore:
Why the "easy to be around" pattern often starts in childhood
What it's quietly costing you beneath the surface
The difference between generosity and self-protection
One small experiment to try this week
"You never find out if people would show up for you — because you never give them the chance."
If this resonated, The Elegant No was made for you — a short audio course with practical scripts for showing up differently. → https://stan.store/eimearzone/p/the-elegant-no-set-boundaries-without-guilt
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What happens when we finally name the system?
In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by award-winning journalist, activist, and author Soraya Chemaly, whose latest book All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy, is one of the most important books on gender and power published in recent years.
Soraya has spent decades researching and writing about gender, culture, and power — and in this conversation, we explore the structural forces shaping women’s lives, from the subtle ways society centers men to the political backlash against women’s independence happening right now.
We talk about why the language of “gender equality” often fails to capture the reality of the system we live in — and why naming male supremacy matters.
This episode is a deep dive into the cultural, political, and psychological forces shaping women’s lives today — and what it means to step outside those systems and choose ourselves.
In This Episode We Discuss
Why Soraya chose to name the system male supremacy
What it means to decenter men
Why women are socialized to prioritize pleasing over knowing
The hidden ways institutions are structured around men
Why the backlash against women’s freedom is happening now
The cultural forces shaping women’s confidence and ambition
Why male flight from “feminized spaces” is reshaping politics
The myth of meritocracy in elite education
Why progress has happened — and why backlash follows it
How everyday choices contribute to cultural change
Why Gen Z women give Soraya hope for the future
A Powerful Moment
One of the most striking ideas Soraya shares is that feminism is fundamentally about decentering men — not out of hatred, but to enable women to live lives rooted in dignity, agency, and autonomy.
As Soraya explains:
“Simply women seeking to be independent is perceived as hating men… which illustrates the degree to which we’re expected to be extensions of men.” 

About Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning journalist, activist, and author whose work focuses on gender, politics, and power.
She is the author of All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy and Rage Becomes Her, and writes widely about the cultural forces shaping women’s lives.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Time, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, and she writes the Substack newsletter Unmanned, exploring gender, power, and resistance in everyday life.
Buy All We Want Is Everything and discover more from Soraya: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Soraya-Chemaly/100698080
Connect With Soraya
Substack: Unmanned: https://substack.com/@sorayachemaly
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sorayachemaly/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ragebecomesher/
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