This week, we’re taking a short break from our regular episode schedule.

We’ll be back next week with a special guest, Lee Densmer, joining us for a conversation around the theme “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger.”

Thanks for your patience and support while we reset and get ready for the next episode.

New episode drops next week.

This week, we take a closer look at one of hustle culture’s most beloved cliches—through the lens of Tyra Banks and the high-gloss, high-pressure world of America's Next Top Model.

What’s the phrase “Work it!” really selling? On the surface, it’s about effort, “fierce” photoshoots, ambition, and showing up. But underneath, it’s as though there is an entire tough-love industrial complex to navigate.

p.s. Production note:

If the tougher, more sensitive details from the ‘Inside America’s Next Top Model’ documentary aren’t for you, you won’t find them in this episode. We stand with the victims. Their stories are theirs to tell.

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To keep things fresh (and avoid going stale or dull), we turn to Erin’s 14-year-old daughter for the real scoop on the cliches today’s teens actually face, and that we’ve all faced at some point too. And maybe even a few on our plates today.

Neve Thomas is here to weigh in on: aesthetics, glowups, matching energy, boys, the pressure to define yourself, and more.

The Trash Talk Hotline

Got a story about a cliche or bad advice you’ve survived?

Leave a message on the Trash Talk hotline at (719) 819-2175—your voice could end up in a future episode.

And while you’re at it, do us a solid: subscribe, drop a review, and share this episode with your fellow Trashies.

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Use code TRASHTALK

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Follow Erica Breuer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericabreuer/

Follow Erin Thomas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamerinthomas/

Visit Trash Talk Website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2451264