Team Confidence, with Leslie R.
Where confidence actually goes when you're carrying everyone else's calendar in your head — and the unglamorous, entirely doable work of getting it back.
No BS With Es — real conversations, higher perspective
No BS With Es is the conversation you'd have with your best friend — if either of you could ever find the time.
The premise
Nobody's fine. Everybody's managing.
Every guest here gets it: the executive function, the rejection sensitivity, the twelve open tabs that never close. These are real interviews about motherhood, marriage, and the mental load nobody else sees.
The ADHD diagnosis that finally explained everything at 22. Hormones that hijacked your personality. The confidence that went missing somewhere along the way. The version of yourself you're quietly trying to get back to.
No scripts.
Nothing is pre-approved. The good part is usually the part that wasn't planned.
No highlight reel.
Nobody comes on here to tell you their morning routine is working.
No pretending it's all fine.
Saying the thing everyone else in the room is already thinking.
Executive function, live
The twelve tabs that never close.
12 open
school pickup — is it early dismissal?
that email from March
why am I like this
cart (37 items, 0 purchased)
call your mother
reschedule the dentist. again.
perimenopause symptom list
adhd in women — 4 hrs of reading
the thing I was doing before this
renew the passports
am I angry or am I hungry
self — v.2016
Go ahead. Try to close one.
What we actually talk about
The stuff you only say out loud after the third text.
- Motherhood, and the parts nobody photographs.
- Marriage — the negotiation, the resentment, the repair.
- The mental load nobody else sees.Not the chores. The remembering.
- The ADHD diagnosis at 22 that finally explained everything.
- Hormones that hijacked your personality.
- Rejection sensitivity, and why one text ruined your whole week.
- Executive function, and the days it just doesn't show up.
- The confidence that went missing somewhere along the way.
- The version of yourself you're quietly trying to get back to.
Latest episode
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Your host
I started this show because I got tired of the version of the conversation where everyone says they're fine.
I'm Erica. I ask the questions people usually save for the group chat at 11pm, and I ask them on the record. Not to be provocative — because it's a relief. There is an enormous amount of relief available in hearing someone say the thing you thought was only happening to you.
So we talk about the diagnosis that reframed a whole decade. The hormones nobody warned you about. The marriage you're actively working on rather than performing. The load you carry that doesn't show up on anyone's list.
No scripts. No highlight reel. No pretending it's all fine. Just saying what everyone else is thinking.
Come sit down
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