F*ck The Rules

Apr 22 2024
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"F*ck The Rules" podcast is about folx who set out to achieve something in their lives by ditching the archaic rules and expectations that were getting in their way. 

Please join your host The Sweary Therapist, Susan Roggendorf, LMHC LCPC NCC, as she chats up these folx to find out why and how they did it, and how you fucking can, too. 

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