Wellness + Wisdom Podcast Amanda Hanson: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Beauty Trap (How To Escape)
How many of the beliefs shaping your identity as a woman are truly yours, and how many were planted by a culture that profits from your self-doubt?
Josh Trent welcomes Dr. Amanda Hanson, Psychologist, Author, and Transformative Speaker, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 786, to explore why so many women feel broken inside a culture designed to keep them small, how beliefs from our lineage shape identity, how aging awakens feminine truth, and what it means to become a woman who leads from grounded power instead of inherited pain.
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They've read the books, gone to therapy, attended the retreats... But something is still missing. What's missing is YOU. Not the woman who is holding it all together because no one else will. Not the woman who's high-achieving, high-functioning, but is profoundly neglected. Not the woman who holds space for everyone else but feels unseen.
The real you. The one who knew how to rest without guilt, laugh without filtering, and cry without apologizing. The one who was radiant without trying, before she believed she had to earn love by shrinking. The one who knows her worth.
It's time to bring her back.
In This Episode, Dr. Amanda Hanson Uncovers: [01:10] Toxic Beauty Culture- How toxic beauty culture makes women feel less beautiful to take their money.
- Why most women spend their resources chasing beauty standards.
- How there are no body and beauty trends for men.
Resources:
[04:00] Aging Is a Spiritual Experience- The power of honoring the process of aging.
- Why Amanda goes against the patriarchy.
- How aging can be an act of love.
- Why women are conditioned to believe their worth is tied to men's attention.
- How a real man wants a queen, not a princess.
- Why women are the emotional leaders of their families.
- How menopause decreases the nurturing instinct in women.
- What allowed Amanda to achieve a grounded power.
- How she's become an open channel to serve women.
- Why she struggled with anger because of her father wound.
- How her father chose to abandon her and her brother.
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[17:40] Femininity Has Nothing to Do with The Body- How not feeling feminine enough made Amanda get plastic surgery.
- What convinced her to remove breast implants.
- How she grieved the version of herself that needed to feel feminine.
- Why having implants felt misaligned with her work.
- How mothers pass down what was given to them by their parents.
- Why many women have never been nurtured and mothered.
- How mother's love gives us the capacity to hold and comfort ourselves.
- Why some mothers compete with their daughters.
- How women crave the presence of other women.
- Why we need to stand for what we believe in instead of fighting what we don't agree with.
- How it's not our responsibility to save the world.
- Why women struggle to love themselves.
- How most women spend their entire lives trying to feel enough.
- Why love doesn't come outside of ourselves.
- Why Amanda filed for a divorce 15 years ago, thinking she was with the wrong person.
- How her husband would never leave her, no matter what happens.
- Why Amanda's husband's upbringing made him the person he is now.
- What made Amanda's business start growing worldwide.
- How her mother judged the content she was putting out.
- Why her mother saw what she does through a completely different lens.
- What led Amanda's mother to finally open up to her work.
- How Amanda's healing her lineage through her work.
- What she wishes their children receive from their dark night of the soul.
- How adopted children ache for their birth mother and spend their lives searching for wholeness.
- Why Amanda's adoptive children taught her how to love unconditionally.
- How Josh dealt with the absence of his father.
- Why Amanda's husband reached out to her father to reconnect them.
- How she forgave her father the moment she saw him.
- Why her father didn't understand why she treated him with kindness.
- Why we can't start building new foundations if we don't understand what we grew in.
- How 99% of beliefs may not actually be our beliefs.
- Why Amanda helps women decipher which beliefs are their own and which are absorbed from a toxic culture.
- How women start to feel amazing as they get older.
- How emotional hygiene starts with awareness.
- Why triggers activate something in us.
- What legacy Amanda wants to leave behind.
- Why she doesn't expect the women she works with to change what they believe in.
Resources:
- 758 Dr. Jud Brewer | Why You Fail Quitting Bad Habits (and How to Finally Break Free)
- Emotional Hygiene
- 634 Dr. John Demartini | Human Potential: Your Practical + Spiritual Guide To Getting The Life You Desire
"What toxic beauty culture does is it creates things that women should be afraid of. Because as soon as they get a woman afraid, she'll buy something and that's a multi-trillion dollar system. Skinny trend, big butts trend, boobs trend, thick eyebrows trend... So our bodies are a trend? That's why you feel like no matter how much you do, you are literally never pretty enough or skinny enough. It is overwhelming and it is the life of an average woman." — Dr. Amanda Hanson
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Dr. Amanda Hanson, known as The Midlife Muse, is a doctor of psychology, speaker, and author renowned for her transformative work in redefining womanhood. Her teachings have reached millions of women across the world and have sparked a global movement of women living truer, more beautiful lives.
Throughout her twenty-five-year career as a psychologist, Dr. Amanda's work has exposed the patriarchal structures that keep women small, quiet, and at war with their bodies. Her approach combines clinical psychology with proven ancient holistic methods and sees the female body and mind as harmonious systems. Both must be in balance for wellness.
Alongside her work, Dr. Amanda is a mother of four, a wife, and an activist who strongly stands for inclusion, diversity, and equality. She chose the natural aging journey because she believes that aging is a spiritual experience when approached with a profound sense of self-worth.