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Podcast: The Money with Katie Show
Episode: Self-Care Culture is Making Us Broke, with Chelsea Fagan
Description: It was only a matter of time before The Money with Katie Show tackled the Goopification of wellness (even “wellness” seems like a term that’s been co-opted in the last decade). In the US, this industry is worth $212 billion—and growing 11% annually. People be spendin’ some money.What if commercialized self-care is really just a millennial pink Band-aid for the problems endemic to our hyperspeed lives? Are we trapped in a cycle of deadlines and bath bombs and existential dread? (Just me?)This week’s episode explores the commodified self-care industrial complex and how it’s awfully...