Florence Given

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8,560 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Sep

Florence Given’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.

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The Florence Given Show · you need to be more of a bitch. · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Like like almost like her existence is an apology, just like moving out of the way on the pavement before anyone else could even get to her apologizing when people bump into her watching your sister or your friends or the girls at school not raise their hand in class because it draws attention to them. podcast-host

I read a statistic that girls put that raise their hands less in class because they don't want to draw attention to their appearance. podcast-host

Girls become very self-conscious in school. podcast-host

Like there are all of these ways that we make ourselves smaller, okay? podcast-host

And so in order to disappoint people in your life and actually create a life that is architected from your desires, you will have to become a bad girl. podcast-host

You will have to become a very bad girl. podcast-host

You will have to disappoint and become disobedient to your training. podcast-host

And it's going to feel almost like a dog that has been taught this trick over and over and over and over again. podcast-host

Imagine like a dog that's been trained so well, suddenly disobeying its owner. podcast-host

That's how it feels. podcast-host

It feels wrong to women to disappoint other people because we have been taught to be nice, to be caregiving. podcast-host

It's almost this like motherly thing that we train in women. podcast-host

We train this coddling and this caretaking and this rescuing of other people's discomfort. podcast-host

We rescue people constantly. podcast-host

I sort of lived my whole life up until like, I know I'd say my early twenties, like a sponge for other people's discomfort. podcast-host

I'll speak about some of my experiences. podcast-host

I mentioned earlier that I dropped out of university. podcast-host

So when I was 19 years old, I dropped out of university to pursue art and social media and writing. podcast-host

So social media has always just been like my platform to broadcast my art and my writing. podcast-host

And I podcast-host

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