Mean Girls Suck: Recent Episodes
Mean Girls Suck
Mean Girls Suck is an independent podcast about personal growth, mental health, and our experiences as women diagnosed with ADHD in our twenties. We are two former mean girls documenting our healing journeys and our enemies to besties' friendship. In our episodes, we break down social relationships and try to find to root cause of conflicts in our personal lives, as well as strangers from the internet and occasionally from our friends. Tune in if you’d like to learn about communication, boundaries, and dropping your mean-girl persona.
Hosted by Rickie McCanna and Laykin Brentlinger
Trigger Warning - Addiction, Self Harm, Suicide
In part 2 of our season finale, Laykin dives into Rickie’s past with addiction and interviews her on her history with substance abuse for the first time. We go over the downfalls of active addiction, as well as the growth and change in sobriety.
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Trigger Warning - Eating Disorders, Body Dysmorphia and Fitness
In this first part of our season finale, Laykin opens up for the first time about her relationship with fitness. She clears up nearly a decade of misunderstandings from her family and friends.
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This week we sat down with good friends of the podcast, Korey and Jake from Lost Past Everest. We talk their new album “Coping Mechanisms” out September 15th as well as the history of the band.
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This week we sat down with a good friend of the podcast, Morgan Dyer. We discuss her former mean girl persona in high school, her mental health journey, and her facing outside perspective as an influencer. We also talk about her unique story of relearning her personality after a traumatic brain injury and how it pushed her to change her entire lifestyle.
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This week we have a light-hearted episode that’s a little goofy, we take on trivia hosted by our good friend Karalee! We tell stories along the way and have a special bonus round at the end.
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In this episode, we sit down with our good friend, Beth Melnik. We give our takes on Jonah Hill and ask Beth about her Journey with ADHD. We also go over cosplaying, body image, and the community behind anime conventions.
In this episode, we sit down with a recent high school graduate to compare Gen Z to us, Millennials. We talk about Ashton’s experience with the covid lockdown, creative ventures and his clothing brand going back to middle school. We talk about his goals, aspirations, entering early adulthood, and compare our high school experiences from ten years ago to now.
In this episode, we dive into some AITA posts about romantic relationships. We cover when your boyfriend has a pick-me boyfriend, being accepted physically by your partner, and even a story about a mattress spring.
In this episode, we catch up on our weeks and finally tell the story of when Rickie got punched in middle school. We go over our new and recent hobbies including Colleen Hoover's books and Youtuber apologies.
Hey friends! We are back for the first episode of our second season! In this episode, we talk updates on what we've been up to, discuss personal insecurities around social media, and also forget how to even talk into a microphone. This one's pretty light for what we have planned this season we thank you all for welcoming us back, and we can't wait to show you what we have planned.
In this episode we talk about Kid Rock’s response to the Bud Light pride campaign, the discourse online, and body shaming. We go through and read comments from the opposite side of the internet and our zero tolerance for transphobia in our lives. We break down the Anheuser-Busch boycott and the “woke leftist cult” impact on brand representation. It’s also our season finale, we’ll be back with Season 2 this summer! Thank you for an incredible first season and all the amazing support in this journey.
In this episode Rickie and Laykin take a dopamine detox, mostly relating to media. We cut out behaviors and content that generates quick dopamine fixes such as TikTok, mobile games, and social media. We go over our experiences and results from taking a step back from a list of behaviors for a week. We also discuss season one of The Amazing Race, the harmful side of TikTok, and a new national holiday idea.
In this episode, we sit down with our long-time friend and number one Rush Fan, Jesse Hunt. We take a dive into personal accountability with your mental health and the responsibility of managing it. We also talk about transitioning into your 30s, empathy with parenthood, and how Jesse's ego has impacted his relationships.
In this episode, we're breaking down a few AITA posts dealing with family boundaries. We take a look at relationships with step-parents and how far you should go for your step-siblings and their responsibilities. In another, we discuss working for your family for free but with a dash of manipulation. We also talk about Rickie's experience with going to the rodeo and animal exploitation for entertainment.
In our sixth episode, we tell the stories of the shows that put both of us into mosh retirement, discuss the Ohio hardcore scene, and talk about great Knocked Loose is, for a little too long. After a long career of going to concerts for both fun and professionally we can hang, but choose not to. Find out why in this latest episode.
In this episode, we take a look at our favorite AITA threads from Reddit, catch up on our weeks, and have a laugh after a few heavy episodes. We discuss a story about obligations for your partner, expectations for settling into an age-gap relationship, and how important it actually is to attend weddings.
Hosted by Rickie McCanna and Laykin Brentlinger
In this Episode, we talk to our friend Skye about her journey through being a single parent while balancing her mental health. Also, a trigger warning, we discuss domestic violence and physical abuse in this Episode. Skye takes us down a long hard road over racing four children over the past 13 years. She is now a 30 year old single mother of four telling her story to us for the first time on our podcast.
In this episode, we finally open up about the falling outs that led us together as friends. We’ve been looking forward to recording this podcast since the beginning. We dive into our past mutual friends, high school breakups, and even the drama behind a concert ticket. All of this leads to New Year's Day 2022 when we finally broke down to each other about our struggles with addiction, emotional instability, and more. Ever since then we’ve been building our relationship and now somehow have a podcast together. Tune in for all the details in Episode 3 of Mean Girls Suck.
In this episode we sit down with our friend and first guest, Karalee Miller. Karalee has a different perspective on ADHD after getting diagnosed in her youth. We ask her about her struggle with medication and being accepted with neurodivergence in her youth. We finally get a different perspective on ADHD diagnosis and the hurdles of mental health treatment in the early 2000s.
Mean Girls Suck is an independent podcast about personal growth, mental health, and our experiences as women diagnosed with ADHD in our twenties. We are two former mean girls documenting our healing journeys and our enemies to besties' friendship. In our episodes, we break down social relationships and try to find to root cause of conflicts in our personal lives, as well as strangers from the internet and occasionally from our friends. Tune in if you’d like to learn about communication, boundaries, and dropping your mean-girl persona.
Hosted by Rickie McCanna and Laykin Brentlinger
In this episode, we talk about Rickie's broken fridge and my favorite video game series, and then we dive into the fangirl gatekeeping mentality of the music scene and what roles we played in it. We go over the impact of early alternative can bases and how we are seeing that behavior repeated today.
Mean Girls Suck is an independent podcast about personal growth, mental health, and our experiences as women diagnosed with ADHD in our twenties. We are two former mean girls documenting our healing journeys and our enemies to besties' friendship. In our episodes, we break down social relationships and try to find to root cause of conflicts in our personal lives, as well as strangers from the internet and occasionally from our friends. Tune in if you’d like to learn about communication, boundaries, and dropping your mean-girl persona.
Hosted by Rickie McCanna and Laykin Brentlinger
Welcome to the Mean Girls Suck Podcast! This is our pilot episode, where we introduce ourselves and talk a bit about how we got here. In this episode, you'll learn about our goals for the podcast, a bit about us, and how the podcast came to be. We clarify our intentions and goals for this podcast as well as a quick overview of our mental health journeys. While this one has no specific topic other than well, us, it gives you a chance to learn about the podcast. If you want to take a look into our mean girl past, this is the episode for you. Hosted by Rickie McCanna and Laykin Brentlinger