Isabel Brown

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Modern Wisdom · Something Strange Is Happening To Gen Z - Isabel Brown - #1106 · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

And instead, we're just encouraged to operate in this concept of what I often call malignant narcissism, like the most extreme radical selfishness you ever could possibly embrace because that's considered empowered or feminist somehow.

Oh, I love the premise of that question.

The human nature default, I think, is to avoid the difficult and to avoid the challenging.

And it always has been.

That's why the greatest epics and the greatest stories have always been about overcoming something extraordinary, whether that was stories from ancient Greece or throughout the Roman Empire to, you know, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, all the way through our favorite movies that we love to watch today.

Everything is about overcoming your personal limitations to do something for the greater good or to do something that serves other people.

And if I've learned anything in this first two years of marriage and now first year of raising my beautiful daughter, who just turned one, I have found the greatest moments of my life have always been when I have laid my life down for my husband or for my daughter.

And of course, that doesn't mean literally dying for them, although it might in some circumstances.

But in getting out of bed at three in the morning after I haven't slept for nine months straight and can't possibly make it another sleepless night to make sure that my daughter's comforted and she knows that I'm there or whatever.

sacrificing one of my personal obligations of going to hang out with my friends to instead prioritize time with my spouse.

I feel a greater sense of purpose and fulfillment and meaning in my life than I ever felt when I was just doing the easy thing, kicking my feet up and binge watching Netflix on a Friday night instead.

I'm working on my third currently.

No, I don't think they think I'm lying.

I think that's often the narrative that I see on social media, which obviously cannot be further from the truth.

I have worked my butt off throughout the last decade or so since leaving high school to build the career that I have, which is so different than anything I ever dreamed that I would do.

I wanted to be a physician.

Actually, that was my end all be all goal in life.

I wanted to be a surgeon and got my first two degrees in sciences because of that.

But God obviously pulled my life in a very different direction, and I'm glad that I listened.

I think the problem that most young women have with seeing this as an end result on the roadmap or even the journey that they want to go on on the roadmap is that they have been systematically told by every single pillar of American cultural institutions, the education system, Hollywood, the mainstream media, politics, even the church in many ways.

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