Unconscious

A. Caryn Mefford + Morgan E. Sutton
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Most of us are reacting before we're even aware of how we're showing up, and how we're treating ourselves & each other. Each week, Caryn and Morgan get curious about the unconscious patterns & snap judgments shaping how we move through the world. Whether it's headlines or stories from their own lives, the conversation always gets into the messy bits — and why everything feels so emotionally loaded. Think of it like an unfiltered voice memo from a friend who is done performing, done people-pleasing, and not willing to lose their joy to the noise. Just two friends trying to human better.

  1. 5d ago

    AI, Gen Z & Why Curiosity Matters

    If you've ever managed someone half your age, or been the youngest person in the room, you've felt the gap in how each generation learned to work. Millennial Morgan and Gen Xer Caryn dig into where that gap comes from, and what happens to it when AI starts doing the thinking. Here's what you'll hear: - The top 3 values Gen Z ranks above everything else, and the one that explains the iced coffee outrage - Why so many Gen Xers see self-care as something you earn, and what millennials did with that - The one skill Hilton's head of HR says will matter most as AI reshapes work - What three open Claude chats at once are doing to Morgan's attention span - Why Caryn finally deleted her late dad's AOL account, and the question it left her with

  2. Oct 2

    Iced Coffee, Giggly Squad & What Counts as Professional

    A recruiter said iced coffee in a job interview looks unserious, and TikTok took it personally. Morgan and Caryn get into why, plus everything else that's been on their minds this week:- Caryn's friend runs into a robot posing for photos on a Brooklyn street, complete with its own security guard, and Caryn wants to know why new tech always shows up looking playful- Why AI founders keep publicly asking to be regulated, and what stops them from doing it themselves- Morgan brings a win for the girls: Giggly Squad's deal with SiriusXM, and what it says about what audiences want more of right now- Caryn's sister getting sent home from Procter & Gamble in the late '80s for wearing a red dress, and Morgan's closet of suits that never come out- The game, Appropriate for the Office?, covers a context-free "can we talk?" on Slack, using AI to write feedback for your team, a 4:45 Friday calendar invite, and taking a Zoom call from your carPlus, Caryn opens the episode gushing over Paralympian Ezra Frech on Dancing with the Stars.

  3. Sep 21

    Do Women Actually Support Women? Sydney Sweeney, HYROX & Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle

    Morgan and Caryn break down the Sydney Sweeney sports betting ads, the viral HYROX race moment, and the Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle feud, plus a SoulCycle story about discomfort and keeping commitments. Along the way: whether race officials should have pulled the HYROX athlete, why Morgan went straight to the trolley problem, what makes a working environment safe, and why it's news at all that two women didn't get along. You'll get a question that shows what's driving a snap opinion on a woman in the news, so you can save your energy for the fights that matter to you.

  4. Aug 20

    The Odyssey, Good Grief, and People Who Don't Like You

    Morgan and Caryn are back from summer break! In this episode: Morgan signs up for a viral challenge built to teach creators how to talk on camera, and has an ah-ha moment she didn't expect Caryn digs up a decades-old ad from her family's storage unit that makes a strange case for a very modern problemA new album from Sara Barielles about losing a best friend has both of them going quiet for a secondCaryn thoughts on the internet going wild about a casting decision in a massive new movie, and her theory about whyAnd Morgan finally says out loud a discomfort she's never brought to the mic before Time to get conscious!

  5. Jul 1

    Lewis Hamilton, Amanda's Non-Apology, and a United Airlines Call

    This week Morgan and Caryn kept landing on the same pattern from every direction: the assumptions we know what someone is from a single moment, and curiosity about our genuinely surprised when they don't fit in the box we've created. Can we hold people loosely enough to be wrong about them? And can we extend that same uncertainty to ourselves? In this episode: Lewis Hamilton winning his 106th F1 race after two years of not winning one, and why Morgan was in tears watching itAmanda from Summer House saying "I don't know yet" and whether that might actually be the most honest moment of the entire reunionCaryn's husband Greg on the phone with United Airlines when a customer service rep and all the layers of assumption stacked inside a brief awkward pauseEuropeans at the World Cup treating Taco Bell and Waffle House like culinary destinationsMorgan's podcast confession and the pattern in herself she'd never quite put into words before

  6. Jun 22

    Stop Assuming and Lean Into Agreements

    This week Morgan and Caryn kept coming back to the same question: how many of the agreements running your daily life did you actually choose? What gets possible when you finally say the thing out loud, and what does it cost us to keep running on the ones nobody ever made explicit? In this episode: checking in before answering "how are you" and why something that sounds that simple feels so disorienting when you've spent years saying "fine" on autopilotCharles Leclerc crashing out at his Monaco home race and what Caryn reads in itThe three things Caryn's ten-year-old daughter said after a soccer loss that stopped everyone cold5Why "no is not bad, no is just honest," and how co-creating an agreement instead of handing one down changes thingsAnd they play a rapid fire game called Reasonable Agreement or Bold Ask

  7. Jun 11

    Can We Let People Change?

    This week Morgan and Caryn kept running into the same tension everywhere they looked: we say we believe people can grow, but do we actually make room for it when it's happening right in front of us? And can we extend that same grace to ourselves? In this episode: The man who completely changed his political position once someone stopped attacking him and actually let him speakWhy "I take accountability" without remorse is just noise, and what Amanda from Summer House got so wrong at the reunionWhat the naked nails pile-on reveals about how quickly we project meaning onto other people's choicesA million-dollar creator launch, a "she stole my idea" claim, and why crediting your inspiration costs you nothingAnd they play a rapid fire game debating some new "rules of humanity" like if you've been to therapy, nobody gets to use stories from more than five years ago against you. (Case closed.)

  8. May 22

    Breaking Up With Old "Scripts"

    A billionaire CEO calls herself a “three-hour max mom” and the internet spirals. Morgan and Caryn use the conversation to explore the old scripts people inherit around family, ambition, rest, productivity, marriage, and identity and why so many of us feel trapped performing lives we didn’t consciously choose. What starts as a conversation about parenting quickly becomes something bigger: the pressure to optimize ourselves, the fear of “doing life wrong,” and how hard it can be to separate what we actually want from what we’ve been taught we should want. Along the way, they get into trad wives, avocado toast propaganda, emotional capacity, group chat icks, and the ongoing process of learning how to build a life that feels true instead of just socially approved.

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Most of us are reacting before we're even aware of how we're showing up, and how we're treating ourselves & each other. Each week, Caryn and Morgan get curious about the unconscious patterns & snap judgments shaping how we move through the world. Whether it's headlines or stories from their own lives, the conversation always gets into the messy bits — and why everything feels so emotionally loaded. Think of it like an unfiltered voice memo from a friend who is done performing, done people-pleasing, and not willing to lose their joy to the noise. Just two friends trying to human better.

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  • Creator
    A. Caryn Mefford + Morgan E. Sutton
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © A. Caryn Mefford + Morgan E. Sutton
  • Show Website
    Unconscious