The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
01:04:33 · Scott Galloway, Anna Lembke
[01:04:33] S2: Doctor, you have two boys? [01:04:35] S3: I have four children, two boys and two girls. [01:04:38] S2: Two boys and two girls. I think people probably listening... Who've listened to you on this podcast thought, oh my gosh. Wouldn't it have been great to have Anna as a mom? [01:04:47] S3: Oh my... No. No. Well, [01:04:49] S2: that's my question. [01:04:50] S3: Plenty of mistakes. Yeah. [01:04:51] S2: What did you get wrong? [01:04:54] S3: A lot of codependency traits. So I grew up in a house with an alcoholic parent, a lot of codependency patterns. So my biggest... Also, as I talk about in the book, our first child died of leukemia. And so my trigger is always the health of my kids that they have some physical problem, phys... Or disease or something. And then a kind of intrusive wanting to manage their experience and tying my relief from anxiety to them saying, my life is great, mom. So again, this is a kind of a narcissistic investment in my children that I've worked very hard on, but I still really struggle with. Like, I need them to be always okay for me to be okay. And we talk about it openly, and they give me lots of feedback and pushback when I'm doing that. And so I think overall, like, it's worked out. My... I'm really close to my kids, and they are doing well in the deep ways that I care about, you know, being good citizens. But it's an ongoing struggle.
01:06:01 · Scott Galloway, Anna Lembke, Scott Galloway
[01:06:01] S2: In addition to being a mom, doctor Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and author of the bestselling book Dopamine Nation, Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. Her latest book is Letting Go in a World Addicted to Control. Doctor. Lembke, I think that historians and psychiatrists were gonna look back on this age and think they were important, but we should have listened to them more. I can't tell you how much I enjoy these conversations. I don't think, as I said, we're not in an attention economy, we're in an addiction economy. And I think it's so important that people such as yourself with the credentials and and the demeanor you present, I think your voice has never been needed more on a lot of levels and very much appreciate your time and your good work. [01:06:51] S3: Oh, well, thank you. That inspires me to keep going. [01:06:55] S2: There you go. Thanks, doctor. [01:06:58] S0: This episode was produced by Jennifer Sanchez, Laura Genear, and Asher Schwartz. Our video editor is Bianca Rosario Ramirez. Cami Reek is our social producer. Drew Burrows is our technical director and Catherine Dillon is our executive producer. Thanks for listening to the Prof G Pod from Prof G Media.