Welcome to Really Human

In this short trailer episode, Lindsay Roselle introduces Really Human, a podcast about what it means to live with depth, honesty, and heart in an increasingly filtered, fast-paced, AI-driven world.

She shares the personal journey that inspired the show, from launching her first podcast MotherLoad to her time as COO at BossBabe, and how a life-changing moment - her partner’s massive stroke - shifted everything.

You’ll hear:

• The themes and questions Really Human will explore. The quiet truths. The big questions. The stories we don’t usually share.
• What kind of episodes to expect (solo reflections + unfiltered conversations)
• Why this show is a call back to presence, connection, and discernment in the digital age
• What makes storytelling sacred - and very human
  
  
  

If you’re craving something honest, a little unpolished, and deeply real (that you’ll also learn and grow from every week), you’ll feel at home here. 

New episodes drop twice a week. Subscribe to be part of the conversation.

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Connect with Lindsay:

Instagram: @lindsayroselle

Podcast IG: @wearereallyhuman

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Welcome to Really Human, a podcast that explores what it means to be human in today's increasingly optimized and AI-generated world. I'm your host, Lindsay Roselle, entrepreneur, mother, and someone endlessly curious about what makes our lives meaningful. Here we talk about the full spectrum of being human, including all the parts that most people edit out, because it's often these nuances that I think teach us the most. I believe that in a world full of polished filters, strategic half-truths, and AI-generated everything, learning to feel what's real might just be the most important skill we humans can have. Each week on the pod, you'll hear conversations and perspectives that stretch your thinking, deepen your self-trust, and offer approachable tools you'll actually use. Because that's why we're here. Not to be relentlessly optimized, but to be really human. Hello, friends. I am so excited to be back at the mic, and I'm very grateful that you're here. This is Lindsay, and this is Really Human, my new podcast. And this little short episode is meant to help you get a little glimpse into the genesis of Really Human and my goals with this podcast, what I hope that it brings to you, the listener, and then also what you can expect. So that if you are downloading this every week and you're listening to it, you've got an idea of what's coming. So if you've been here since the Motherlode days, Motherlode was my original podcast back in 2022. I launched that in August of 2022. Motherlode was all about ambitious women and trying to harmonize our ambition to succeed and our devotion to motherhood. And it was really kind of this self-reflective project as I came out of my cocoon in 2022 after the destruction of 2020 in my life. And you can go back and listen to the Motherlode archives if you want to know. And Mother Load was really the purpose of that podcast for me was about having conversations that I didn't hear anybody else having, like the things that we whisper or we talk about in private, or we share in our circles of trusted friends, but nobody was talking about really honestly publicly. That's what my goal was with Motherlode was to bring those conversations into the light and help more people normalize what that feeling felt like for mothers who were experiencing this juxtaposition of ambition to succeed and devotion to motherhood. And very gratefully and luckily, Motherlode was very successful very quickly and led to me then getting to collaborate with Natalie Ellis, the founder of Boss Babe, on CEO mama, which then led to me stepping into Boss Babe to be COO, which I was from 2023 through this last April of 2025 when I left Boss Babe. And I'll I'll talk more in future episodes about why I left. But part of why I left was because I was really feeling called back into work that's more authentic to who I am and what my passions are. And that really for me is the human experience and the human condition and inner mastery and leadership and self-awareness and all of that kind of stuff. I've been a self-help personal development geek since I was a kid. I love reading that kind of stuff. I love learning about the self. I love learning about emotional intelligence and relating to other humans and the human experience itself. I'm fascinated by it. And I brought a lot of that into my entrepreneurial journey and it's definitely helped me there too. But I think at this point in where our culture is and where I'm at in my life, I'm just so drawn to having this bigger conversation about what it means to be human right now. And so coming out of Boss Babe, I knew I wanted to have another podcast. And I originally announced a podcast called Work Within, which Work Within is a brand I've been building behind the scenes for years. And it's, it's, I guess I would call it like my body of work. It's all of my frameworks and practices and all this knowledge I've accumulated and integrated over years and decades of self-study courses, degrees, retreats, mentors, books I've read, and personal experience, of course. I've taught yoga for 15 years. You know, I've done thousands and thousands of hours of training. I just have so much interest and knowledge in around nervous system regulation and inner work and knowing yourself and being able to come home to yourself. And that's what work within is about. It's about being able to do the work within. And originally I was really interested in doing a podcast around that topic. But then on June 30th, RT, my husband, had a stroke, a very massive stroke, and almost died and totally shifted everything for me because in that moment I encountered a new level of interaction with humanity that I'd never been exposed to, including medical advocacy in a system where it seems like the human isn't really the priority. And I'll talk more about that. The insurance system, where again, it seems like the human's well-being isn't really the priority. And of course, my own personal journey through all this with my partner incapacitated, my kids and their dad, you know, it's their dad and all of what they've experienced and how I've managed that. And then his business and me stepping in to run his business and what that means and what I've experienced and been going through and the conversations I've been having and things that it's been stirring up in me to kind of step into someone else's business. And God, there's so many layers to that. And I can't wait to talk about that. So as that all unfolded over the summer, I looked at what I wanted this podcast to be. And I really thought to myself, you know what? I think I want to have a bigger conversation. I want to have a conversation about being really human because there is so much happening in all of our lives right now. And AI is a part of that, and social media is a part of that, and this like digital onslaught that we're always exposed to is a part of that. But I also think most of us, I think a lot of us feel this pull back to human connection. And maybe we don't know what to do about it, or we don't know how to manage that feeling. We don't know how to build it into our routines or how to make space for it in our busy lives or whatever. And we're going to talk about all of that. But because of all of this unfolding, I was like, I've got to, I've got to share this. I've got to have these kinds of conversations. And so the podcast is really going to feature a few themes. And as I said in my intro, you know, I want to tell stories and I want to have conversations with guests about the stuff that we don't always share, right? Like if when we think about how humans have learned forever, it's been in around the fire. It's been sitting there doing something while someone older or wiser than us talked about how to do it. And I think we need more of that in our current life. We need to hear from people that are further along or in different life journeys than us and hear what they've done when they've encountered opportunities or obstacles and see ourselves in their story and be able to integrate the lessons. And I've encountered in my own journey over the last several months and in my my work with people through Boss Babe and everything else over the last several years, a few themes that I think will be kind of core tenets of really human. One is this kind of energy that I feel out there that a lot of us feel where we kind of want to opt out. Like we don't want to be so available. We don't want to share so much. We don't want to feel this pressure to produce and perform and sell and all this stuff all the time. It doesn't mean we don't want to work. It doesn't mean we want to like be a trad wife and have a homestead, although I did just buy a bunch of chickens and I'll be talking about that. But I do feel there's this undercurrent in a lot of us right now where we're like, I just'm overwhelmed and I'm burned out on sharing. I'm burned out on seeing so much of everybody else's stuff. I just kind of want to opt out. And that's really interesting to me and really human. And so we're going to talk about that. Another thing that I hear from a lot of people and I see in myself, and I kind of see out there in the cultural zeitgeist is this feeling of like, okay, well, what now? And there's so many of us who are entering our our 40s. We're, you know, we're millennials, we've we're farther along in our careers now. We've had our families if we're going to have them. And we're starting to be like, okay, well, what now? Like I've checked all the boxes. What do I do now when I've reached this part of life or this season of life where there's not as much to strive for, and there's not like the next big thing to accomplish. And I think it really gets into this question around meaning and purpose. And I think I loved that conversation as part of Motherload. I loved that conversation as part of Boss Babe around entrepreneurs and our businesses often being an expression of like the meaning and purpose that we feel in the world. And I want to have that conversation here in really human that when we encounter this question internally of like, well, what now? I've done all the things, or like, I don't really want to do this thing anymore. What now? I think we're asking a bigger question around seeking meaning. And so I really want to have that conversation too. And then, as I mentioned, the third theme that I think will always be a big, big theme of this podcast is around digital overload and just exposure to non-human or humanly filtered information and opinions and projections and options, where we have to get really good at not only being really discerning, which is part of that feeling of like opting out. Like I just want to be more discerning and make better decisions that are true for me. And that ties in also to this digital overload and learning to be more discerning around what we don't pay attention to. But also I think digital overload really puts humanity in jeopardy. And I'm, I, you know, I'm not an expert on stuff and I don't want to be a doomsdayer, but I do feel like we have we are at a tipping point with things like AI and social media, where we are at risk of becoming transhuman to an extent because we are so conditioned and so addicted to a version of relationship with other humans that is communicated without the energetic and emotional signature that we would normally have if we were in person. And there's all kinds of statistics, and we'll talk more about this on episodes. But if you think back a few generations, our ancestors, our grandmothers, our great-grandmothers, they didn't know more than like a couple hundred people. And those people they knew because they met them in person, you know, like there was no digital communication where you could hear someone's opinion on your outfit or your choices who live somewhere else, right? Like that's just, it just didn't happen. And so if you were relating with someone, if you were relating with another human, their relationship with you, their energetic exchange with you was really important for some reason, you know, whether it was good or bad, but you were in person with them. You there was a lot of data, a lot of information there. And I think it regulated our nervous systems more easily. We were more in tune with what was true for us and what wasn't, because we could always feel in the body and feel in the energetic field if the information and the conversation was true or not. And now I worry that with AI and with social media and all these things, we see a version of someone that they put through digitally. And we have to question if that's truly what that person is like if we were sitting with them in person. And I can tell you from experience, there are many, many people out there for whom the version of themselves that they communicate digitally through social media or whatever, uh, is not congruent with who they are in person. And, you know, that's fine. I'm not judging, but I am concerned that that's the trajectory that we're on as humans. And that puts humanity and like the beautiful things about being human in jeopardy because we start to attune to perfection. We start to attune to this AI version of someone where every word is perfectly chosen and the sentences are structured perfectly and the story is edited perfectly to land in a certain way with a hook and a la. And I'm I'm like, you know what? What our brains crave, what the primal brain really wants, is the messy, unfiltered, raw version that has a million little side tangents and takes two hours to tell, and is something that you would sit around a fire in here or sit at a coffee shop in here, and you would feel the heart of that person. You would feel the soul and the energy of that person. And I know I'm sitting here saying that we need we need more of the like raw in-person thing that I'm saying. I'm gonna put this through on a digital of a podcast, but I'm gonna do my best to capture that feeling because what I have felt over the last couple of years is how much AI and social media have turned real humans into filtered, edited, perfect versions. And to me, that's kind of boring. It's kind of same, like it creates the sameness energy across lots of different mediums. And I worry that it pulls us away from our true selves so that it makes it harder for us to know what we really think and feel and want when we are, when life hits us with something. And I can speak from experience that this summer when RT had his stroke, and I was kind of in this void after leaving Boss Babe, deciding what I'm doing next, having the resilience and having the tools that I've leveraged over so many years and being able to discern in that moment what's true for me right now, and you know, getting a lot of input and seeking external input and and but also knowing how to come back to myself. And so ultimately that's the undercurrent of this podcast is no matter which of those themes resonates with you, the desire to kind of opt out of so much information, the the like what now question around meaning and what matters to you after you've achieved everything, or this kind of like digital overload. I don't know what's real anymore. I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to tell if someone really wrote this and this is actually their brain and their soul and their heart, or if this is their AI train to talk like this. So if any of that resonates with you, those are the undercurrents of the podcast. I will have solo episodes every week that are shorter and are exploring one of these themes or a story of mine or something to teach you guys with some practices and some lessons that you can choose to apply or, you know, discern what is true for you or not. I will also have longer conversations with a guest. And I don't want to call these interviews because I don't intend to like have preset questions. I just want them to unfold naturally. And I have asked all my guests, and I will continue to, you know, hold my guests accountable to candor and to honesty and to tell aspects of the stories that maybe they've never told before or the lessons that they would tell a younger version of themselves, the things that make them really human. And I'm very excited for those because I I, you know, I have this immense network of incredible people, plus I have a long list of people that I've never met in person or, you know, I've never talked to, but I'm dying to interview. And I hope that this podcast is a place you can come to hear stories that feel relatable, that make you feel less alone, that make you feel like you have some commonality with people that have a totally different life experience than you, but uh you can find the threads to pull that are meaningful to you and make you think differently or help you grow. So that's the goal of the podcast. That's the genesis of the podcast. Episodes will come out twice a week. And uh the first few episodes will be kind of a deeper dive into my backstory for those of you that aren't as acquainted with me and kind of the story of the last few years since the motherlode era into Boss Babe, all of that. Then I will have a really cool first conversation with a mentor, with my mentor. And she's been instrumental in helping me get here. And that's a really deep and important conversation with her. She's incredible and can't wait for you guys to hear that one. And then the third episode is a really deep dive into RT stroke and the full story, kind of blow by blow, and all the nuances of things that I have felt or experienced along the way. And I shared a lot of it on Instagram as I went along, but I also kept a lot of notes that were just little moments, like kind of if you know, you know, really human moments through being in the ICU with him. He had his stroke in Detroit, Michigan. So he was away from home. I had to fly there. We were there for 10 days. So I was like living in a hospital. And God, just the the really, really human moments of living in a hospital for 10 days. Like that's a that's a season of a podcast in itself. And everything that's unfolded since then. So that's a long episode that I really wanted to do justice because so many people have just the outpouring of support for us has been insane and is itself a really human thing to just feel incredibly supported and to ask for help and actually get it. And part of me is still kind of stunned by all of that. So I talk a lot about that too. But those are the first few episodes. And then we'll go weekly after that, two episodes a week. Please subscribe or follow whatever platform you're on so that you are getting notices when new episodes come out. And as always, I welcome feedback. I love conversation with you. Please DM me your thoughts on episodes, what it stirs up in you, what you want to hear more of. I am at Lindsay Roselle on Instagram, or you can DM me at WeAreHuman. I'm in both inboxes. It's all me that you're talking to. I don't have anybody that runs those for me. And, you know, to end it here, just massive gratitude and appreciation for your attention and your time because I know there's so many options and there's so many creators. And I really, you know, I feel like an OG in this space. I've been around a long time and I know a lot of people. I've been through a ton of different types of learning across all of these modalities and in yoga, in entrepreneurship, in nervous system healing, and just in being human. And I really feel compelled and excited to share and to be the steward of bringing these stories forth and hopefully of them feeling impactful and meaningful to you. So thank you again for being here, and I will see you on a future episode. Thank you so much for listening. If you love this episode and know someone else that would benefit from today's conversation, it would mean so much to me. If you share this episode with them or even share it to your social media and tag me so I can personally thank you. As always, I am so grateful you are on this journey with me. And until next time, remember that it's okay to be messy, honest, and in progress. Because that's the heart of being really human.