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The High Functioning Hot Mess is where high-achieving women come to drop the perfection act and get real about stress, health, and healing. Hosted by functional dietitian Elizabeth Bronk McLaughlin, this podcast explores the beautiful chaos of doing it all—while learning to soften, slow down, and actually feel good again.
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every 10 days
Average audio length:
34 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
United States
36 episodes
since Nov. 26, 2025
episodic
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You’re getting things done, showing up for everyone, and keeping another cup of coffee within reach. But when you finally have a moment to yourself, you can’t remember what you actually enjoy doing.
Sound familiar?
In this episode of The High Functioning Hot Mess, I’m joined by occupational therapi…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
You can check every box, get a whole lot done, and still feel disconnected from yourself. So what does it look like to stop living from the neck up—and actually feel present in your life?
In this episode of The High Functioning Hot Mess, I’m joined by Jamie Dorn, an embodiment and somatic coach, br…
Season 2 is here! After a summer of rest and play, a few business plot twists, and a whole lot of guest interviews recorded for the fall, it felt like time for a new chapter.
In this solo episode, I’m catching you up on what’s changed: working entirely for myself, starting the Chippewa Valley chapt…
What if the goal of taking care of yourself… wasn’t actually to get better at taking care of yourself?
In the final episode of the Create Capacity for Fall mini series, we’re bringing everything together and talking about the real reason we create rhythms, nourish our bodies, support ourselves, and…
What if the answer isn't figuring out how to do more... but creating a life that requires less force from you?
In this episode of The High Functioning Hot Mess, we're continuing the mini-series with a conversation about capacity—and how the things we sometimes convince ourselves we "don't have time…
What does it really mean to be nourished?
Last week, we asked: Where in my life am I trying to force what actually needs support?
This week, we're taking that conversation one step further with another question:
What truly nourishes me?
After seven years as a dietitian, one thing has become increas…
What if you don’t need more discipline - you need more support?
Back-to-school season brings a return to routines, structure, and often a renewed desire to “get healthy again.” But when life is already full, adding more wellness goals to the list can quickly become another source of pressure.
In th…
In the final episode of the Little House Summer series, I'm reflecting on everything this journey with Laura Ingalls Wilder has taught me — about slowing down, stepping back from social media, building rhythms that ground us, and prioritizing family above all else.
I share my thoughts on the new Ne…
What happens when the home you grew up in no longer exists? In this episode, I get vulnerable about losing my childhood home and my grandmother within the same year — and what that's taught me about home being something we have to actively create, not just something we're given.
Drawing inspiration…
This week on The High Functioning Hot Mess, we're continuing our Little House Summer Series with a conversation about something many of us are craving more than ever: community.
Using Little House on the Prairie as a backdrop, I reflect on my own experience moving to Wisconsin during the pandemic, …
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