Coping
The podcast about why life feels like this. Spend time with Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson as they cope with a new era of 'living well'. Each week, they rethink the stories we've been sold and the ones we tell ourselves with the context that makes everything finally click.
Episodes
Coping With Con Artists
You've been seeing Elizabeth Holmes everywhere, right? Between the new Nathan Fielder documentary, your favourite podcasts revisiting the Theranos' story and the endless internet discourse, it feels like we simply can't stop ourselves from returning to the world's most famous fraudsters. But why are we so fascinated by con artists in the first place, and how come they continue to c
Coping With Ghosts
’Tis the season for a spooky, scary Halloween episode ! We’re diving into one of the longest-standing stories we’ve told ourselves across cultures and literal centuries: life doesn't end with death, and some part of us will always linger in the form of an otherworldly being…This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are swapping ghost stories and paranormal “experiences” while weighing up th
Coping With Taste
We suddenly seem to care a lot about what the person next to us is reading. Between celebrity book clubs, literary moments on the runway, and the rise of the professional tastemaker, taste itself has never been so public. You may even have started wondering whether the book tucked under your arm on your morning commute is something you love, or something you’d like to be seen loving.This week, Ali
BONUS: Martina Calvi Is Coping
This week, we're coping a little differently ! Following our AI takeover spiral a few weeks ago, we thought it only fair to balance things out with a timely celebration of what it really means to be human.In this special bonus episode of Coping, we're sharing highlights from our live conversation with crafty queen, artist and author Martina Calvi. We sat down with Martina a few weeks ago t
Coping With Quitting
Harry Styles is rumoured to be retiring. Amelia Dimoldenberg is bringing the Chicken Shop Date era to a close. We all remember Simone Biles stepping away from the gymnastics mat. More and more, we're watching people opt out of goals they've built their identity around and spent years publicly pursuing. Quitting seems more socially acceptable than ever, so why does walking away still feel l
Coping With Feeling Behind
It seems everyone around us is moving through life at exactly the “right” pace: getting engaged, having babies, buying houses, building careers, finding purpose. Meanwhile, we’re left wondering, are we running late to our own lives?This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson muse on ‘feeling behind’ after rediscovering an article Alice wrote at 25 about comparison culture and the anxiety around r
Coping With The AI Takeover
AI experts, executives, and inventors themselves are sounding the alarm – warning us that an AI takeover could threaten all of humanity within just the next ten years. In other words, the call is coming from INSIDE the house.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the full context behind the looming AI threat and its potential ten‑year countdown (and why the narrative is, unsurprisingl
Coping With Labels
Are you Type A or Type B? (Justice for Type C !)Maybe the label you’ve given yourself feels grounding (and that’s okay!). Maybe it’s limiting – something you’ve been trying to shake off..? Or maybe you’ve turned a label into a sort of playbook, a personality shorthand we were never really meant to rely on.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into self‑imposed labels – dissecting the l
Coping With Surveillance
We’re being watched: by surveillance cameras, safety tools, strangers in public, our own devices, and now by wearable tech that turns every interaction into potential content. Observation has become the ambient condition – part convenience, part paranoia.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the psychology of being observed in how it shapes the calculated self, mull over the ethical
Coping With Revenge
We root for revenge plots in our tv shows (beware: House of the Dragon spoilers ahead!), appeal to a sense of karmic justice, hunt for it in celebrity narratives, and even fantasise about getting our own one day.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack the psychology of vengeance, why it feels so titillating, and whether the payoff is ever what we had hoped. Plus, why do we cheer louder
Coping With Memory
We’d like to think our memories are fixed but most of us are running on vibes, fragments, and deeply emotional edits n reedits. Our brains so easily forget the “important” stuff, cling to the weirdest details, and seemingly rewrite entire chapters without permission. And the things we actually do remember often says more about who we are now than whatever happened way back when. This week, Alice G
Coping With Boredom
Boredom has gone from something we avoid to something we curate – a new metric in the self‑care economy to measure ourselves by. From 'rawdogging boredom' challenges to the obsession with performing “slow creativity,” we’re told stillness is a portal to a better, more imaginative self. But the research is messy, and our lived experiences even more so. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah An
Coping With Doomsday
Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. What was once a fringe fixation tucked away on conspiracy forums has morphed into a booming industry, with everyday people stockpiling, strategising, and spending (a lot) in the name of “being prepared.”This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson sit with the existential threats uniquely shaping our generation, the preppers taking that fear to its furthest e
Coping With Closure
We’re taught to crave closure – the tidy explanation, the perfectly heartfelt apology, the moment where we SEE Idris Elba push the button (or not… idk go watch ‘A House of Dynamite’ and tell us your take).This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore our obsession with resolution: where it comes from, whether it’s even possible, and why some of us need a definitive finish while others move
Coping With Crashing Out
After decades of being sold the idea, especially as women, that the regulated self is the healthy self, we’re collectively hitting breaking point. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are onboard to analyse the shift – all stations to crash out central. We cover the big‑feelings energy of Gracie Abrams’ new Look At My Life music vid, the unsettled debate between catharsis and suppression,
Coping With Sleep
We now know soooo much about sleep – how much we should be getting, how much we actually aren’t, the “multivolume fright compendium” of risks attached to not enough sleep, and the booming optimisation industry promising to fix it all. And yet the more we chase the perfect eight hours with all the right tools, the further away it seems to drift.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson pull apar
Coping With Risk
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, of Skywalkers Netflix documentary fame, climbed the Empire State Building without ropes, got engaged at the summit as the world watched on, and claimed it was all in service of a message about peace and love. This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson unpack why we’re so drawn to the daredevils among us (the biology, the psychology, the myth-making) and how our r
Coping With Decision Fatigue
From the daily choices that drain us (what to eat, what to wear, which tab to close), to the big existential questions we procrastinate on out of sheer overwhelm (Alice Griffin: “who am I”, etc.) we’ve never been more exhausted by our own decision‑making.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson pull apart the paradox of choice in the age of infinite options: Elyse Myers’ viral video resurfacin
Coping With Failure
In a culture obsessed with comeback arcs and self‑improvement, we’ve turned failure into something it was never meant to be: productive, meaningful, and always redeemable. But real life is messier. Some flops teach us, some flops just hurt, and some flops become lore… (if you were in the audience at Bongo’s Bingo, pls come forward).This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dissect ‘the flop’ in
Coping With Intuition
In her new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, Olivia Rodrigo sings, “It’s feminine intuition, ’cause I always had a vision of us standing like this”, and Jannah couldn’t agree more. (Alice has notes). We live in the most information‑heavy moment in human history, yet we’ve never felt less certain. So this week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson turn inward to examine intuition itself
Coping With Our Phones
We all know the endless research on the negative effects of our phones. And yet, we keep picking them up.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dig into the so-called solutions – dumb phones, no‑phone policies, two‑device lifestyles – and ask whether any of them are actually helping us break compulsive habits, or just giving us new ways to aestheticise restraint.Plus, because the wellness ze
Coping With Frugality
We’re in a cost‑of‑living crisis (but you knew that already). While being frugal isn’t a choice for most of us, it’s seen influencers take a hard pivot to de-influencing, underconsumption core, frugal chic, and month-long spending freezes. Somehow not buying things has become a trend of its own and, inevitably, an industry.This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson share their favourite case stu
Coping With Pleasure
Xochitl González might just smoke again. Writing in The Cut, Xochitl captures the absurdity of organising our lives around a “future self” who, these days, may never materialise. How naïve of us.Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson follow that nihilistic thread into the architecture of pleasure: when joy must be mindful, intentional, functional, and net‑positive to qualify, what exactly qualifies. Ma
Coping With Friendship Anxiety
We’ve never analysed our friendships more – doorbell friends, friendship audits, rankings, and the architecture of “meaningful connections”. But in a world defined by overwork, isolation, algorithms, and convenience culture, is all this discourse actually bringing us closer… or just giving us new ways to spiral?This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson are unpacking the rise of friendship anxie
Coping With Longevity
What does it actually mean to “live longer” in a culture that can’t tolerate aging?This week, Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson dive into the strange n seductive world of longevity culture, breaking down how a once‑niche scientific field has transformed into a billion‑dollar industry. We’re chatting about it all, from pilgrimages to Blue Zones, biological age testing, and cryonic chambers, and th
Coping With Ambition
Ambition used to mean climbing that corporate ladder. Then it meant girlbossing. Then it meant quitting your job to find yourself. Now? It’s… complicated.This week, we’re tracing the messy, contradictory legacy of female ambition. And with ambition discourse everywhere – Emma Grede interviews, Diary of a CEO soundbites, Vogue rebrands – we’re asking what "success" looks like if you’re no
Coping With Looking "Natural"
What does it mean to cope with a beauty standard that pretends not to be a beauty standard at all?This week, we’re talking about looking “natural” – which, in 2026 means botox in your 20s and three‑hour self-care routines.Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson explore how “aesthetic inflation”, a concept first articulated by writer Jessica DeFino, has shifted the baseline so dramatically that simply ex
Coping With Vulnerability Hangovers
Have you ever hit post and instantly fantasised about faking your own death and starting a new life on a remote island with no wifi? No, bc same.This week, we’re diving into vulnerability hangovers – why we’re all out here narrating our inner worlds to the internet, and what Future Us (20 years older, hopefully wiser) will think of the digital breadcrumbs we’ve left behind.Join Alice Griffin and J
Coping With Becoming Someone New
Have you ever wondered who you’d be in an alternate universe – the version of you who took the other job, stayed in that city, didn’t cut bangs, or actually followed through with your new year goals? This week, we’re talking about the fantasy of becoming a “new you”, and how the 00s makeover montage promised a level of transformation that real life (and the wellness industry) absolutely cannot del
Coping With "Living Well"
Introducing: the podcast about why life feels like this.Think of this very first episode as our pre‑show warm‑up – your chance to meet us, hear the self‑care obsessions currently taking up wayyy too much of our brain space, and get a feel for the kinds of conversations we’ll be having together. We’re talking habit‑stacking, biohacking, sleep‑maxxing, the big existential spirals (what is the meanin
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The podcast about why life feels like this. Spend time with Alice Griffin and Jannah Anderson as we cope with a new era of ‘living well’. Each week, we rethink the stories we've been sold and the ones we tell ourselves with the context that makes everything finally click. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
