Show Notes
Meghan McTavish joins Dr Lara Goode and opens up about "cool girl" conditioning, divorce, solo travel and why having it all was never the win we were told it was. Meghan McTavish spent years being whoever the person in front of her needed her to be. The cool girl who drank on a weekday. The Zen yogi. The woman on the dating app with a bikini photo and no opinions. In the first episode of Light It Up, Dr Lara Goode sits down with Meghan, the writer, creator of the Plotline journal and self des...
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