Florence Given
speaker
9,492 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Florence Given’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 21 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.
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You're not bolstering their happiness.
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You are actually quite patronizingly creating this fiction of a reality in which they think that you're fine, you're happy, and you're not.
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And so you're almost coddling them with this big lie because you don't think they can handle their own fucking feelings.
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It's really patronizing.
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These are adult people in your life that deserve to experience disappointment and survive it.
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When you base your life and you make these little choices...
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all big choices, right?
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Staying in a degree that you hate, staying in a job that you hate, staying in a city that you hate, even just like the way that you live your life, right?
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Doing things constantly on a micro level to not disappoint other people.
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Even if you're like afraid of disappointing the waiter by not moving your table because it's too hot in the sun and you're sat there and you've got beads of sweat going down your fucking back, but you don't want to be difficult and so you don't ask to be moved.
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You are always optimizing for other people's discomfort and sidelining your own.
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Those small moments, they don't feel like something big in the moment, but what they add up to is an entire fucking life that has never once been architected from your desires.
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They add up to an entire life that has never once been architected by your desires.
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Can you even imagine how beautiful your life would be if you architected it from your desires?
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If you architected your life from pleasure instead of worrying about who your life choices might piss off, about whose insecurities you might be triggering.
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And by the way, most of the fucking time, people are okay with it.
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And even if they aren't, trust that the people in your life can survive feeling the emotion of disappointment.
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And if they can't, that's on them.
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You have to let people experience their emotional reactions.
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They're adults and so are you.
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