Needy

About Needy

Even Here, Even Now is a podcast is for humans with needs - particularly those who like to pretend that they don’t. The truth is that every human being has needs. Your needs are a fact and not a flaw. YOU have needs, your needs matter, and meeting them is your responsibility. Yet… you’ve likely been taught that pushing your needs to the back burner is the only way to get things done. Even Here, Even Now is devoted to sharing frank conversations and true stories about how real humans meet their needs consistently, messily, and sustainably... during this complicated of polycrisis and rise of facism. Host Mara Glatzel is an author and coach ready to support you in cultivating radiant self-trust by honoring and advocating for your needs. Get more: maraglatzel.com

Publisher

Mara Glatzel

Category

education · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

8 May 2018

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 of 164 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How I Do It All (Spoiler: I Don't): Sustainable Ambition + Knowing Your Wheelhouse

   Mara Glatzel shares her strategies for sustainable ambition, revealing how she manages a demanding life without burnout.

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Tend Alumni Story: What Actually Happens in 12 Weeks with Beth Cook

   Host Mara Glatzel interviews Tend Alum Beth Cook about her transformative 12-week journey deepening her relationship with her needs.

3. 

   27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   51% Is Enough: How to Stop Waiting for the Perfect Time to Take Care of Yourself

   Host Mara Glatzel explores how to prioritize self-care when feeling overwhelmed, even when perfection feels unattainable.

Inside a recent episode

How I Do It All (Spoiler: I Don't): Sustainable Ambition + Knowing Your Wheelhouse

Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You will move through seasons of exhaustion. You will move through seasons of grief. And so it is all the more important that we have this working understanding so that we know there's nothing wrong with us. It is quite literally, if we look outside to the growing cycle of the seasons, depending on where you live, I guess I live in a seasonal place. The why I love to work cyclically so much, why I love to work with the moon so much is because it teaches us that fallow times are decomposition the times where things are you know decomposing back to create more fertile soil for the next growth cycle are not just like a nice to have but quite literally baked into the cycle in the natural world so why then do we expect ourselves to perform and be shiny and be able to do it all and do it the same way at the same velocity 24 7 and if there we're not able to do that There's something wrong with us. […]

Who has been a guest on Needy

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Beth Cook
• Sammie Fleming
• Carmen Spagnola
• [Guest Name Credential]
• Kate Henry PhD

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

130 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

72

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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Books guests

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