Over This “Should”

About Over This “Should”

Welcome to Over This Should, the podcast where we ditch societal expectations, challenge the "shoulds" holding women back, and embrace life on your own terms. Hosted by Pamela Meadows, this empowering series features inspiring conversations, expert insights, and practical strategies to help you set boundaries, boost confidence, and live authentically. Designed for women ready to step into their power, Over This Should covers topics like self-love, emotional intelligence, navigating relationships, and achieving personal and professional growth. Whether you’re redefining success, balancing life’s demands, or seeking inspiration, this podcast provides the tools and support you need to create a fulfilling, unapologetic life. Join us every week for uplifting stories, actionable advice, and thought-provoking interviews that empower you to live boldly and authentically. Let’s redefine what it means to thrive—together!

Publisher

Pamela Meadows

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jun 2024

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 64 episodes have a transcript.

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   16 Oct 2026

   Gold Star Girl The Shower That Changed Everything

   That moment when you say “Of course, count me in” and your stomach drops later isn’t a personality quirk. It’s a pattern and it can burn you out so slowly you stop noticing the heat. We start with a raw story from Pamela Meadows: standing in a shower with the water turned all the way up, unable to feel that it’s scalding her skin. It becomes a clear metaphor for what happens when you live on approval, reliability, and the next checked box. We pull apart the invisible “good girl” handbo...

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   7 Oct 2026

   Direct, Not Difficult: How to Say What You Mean Without Shrinking

   You know that email. “Hey, just checking in!” followed by three paragraphs of cushioning around the thing you actually mean: “This was due Tuesday.” Ma’am. That’s a hostage negotiation. In this episode of Over This Should, we’re talking about why capable women soften their expectations, apologize for reasonable requests, and quietly take work back rather than risk being labeled “difficult.” We unpack the double bind women face in leadership and why being warm, fair, and direct can still feel ...

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   10 Sept 2026

   Stop Procrastinating By Feeling Safe with Guest Heather Lillico

   You can be smart, capable, and deeply committed to your goals and still find yourself avoiding the exact actions that would move your life forward. When that happens, we tend to call it laziness, inconsistency, or self-sabotage. We go somewhere different. With nervous system coach Heather Lillico, we dig into why procrastination, perfectionism, people pleasing, and overworking can be protective strategies your body learned to keep you safe. Heather shares her path from nutrition to ner...

Inside a recent episode

Uncovering Limitless Possibilities with Erica Rooney

Published 8 Nov 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I remember I shifted my way of approaching email from, you know, checking my email to doing my email, right? Because it's so, I mean, how often do we check email? 80,000 times a day. Anytime you get one minute, you're in an email. Anytime you're in a meeting that's on Zoom, you're multitasking and you're in an email. I changed my way and I only went into my email inbox three times a day. Morning, one hour at lunch, and then an hour at the end of the day to clean things up. And there's a whole system that I have for that. But it provided so many benefits, such as more focused time, more intentional time in meetings. […]

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100

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

Quality

61

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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