Delay the Binge™ Podcast - The Moment Before the Reaction
Delay the Binge™ Podcast explores the moment before the reaction.
Season 2 marks the evolution of the show from The Plus One Theory™ Podcast into deeper conversations about habits, burnout, behavioral patterns, and the hidden exhaustion behind them — what we call Quiet Depletion™.
This podcast is not about willpower or shame.
It’s about understanding the pause between urge and action.
Because the binge is rarely just about food.
It can look like:
• Overworking
• Overspending
• Emotional reacting
• People-pleasing
• Numbing behaviors
• Burnout cycles
These conversations resonate especially with women who appear to be holding it all together, yet feel quietly depleted underneath.
Through conversations with leading experts in neuroscience, psychology, resilience, and human behavior, we explore why patterns drive behavior, and how small shifts restore choice.
🎥 Full video episodes available on YouTube
👉 Pam Dwyer | Speaker
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Episodes
67 episodes
Why You Spend When You’re Stressed (And How to Stop) | David Dowd
If you’ve ever spent money just to feel better in the moment… this episode is for you.There’s a moment… right before you spend. Not because you need something, but because you need relief.And if you’ve ever added...
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Season 2
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Episode 66
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59:50
The Moment You’re About to React… Do This Instead | Lissy Alden (MYNDY)
There’s a moment… right before you react. Right before you snap, shut down, or reach for something you didn’t plan to.Most people miss it. But that moment? That’s where your power is.In this episode, I sit down...
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Season 2
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Episode 65
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47:26
What Teens Say They Need To Calm Anxiety And Quit Numbing | Dr. Suzanne Simpson
If you’ve ever looked at a teenager and wondered…Why are they so withdrawn?Why won’t they talk to me?Why does everything feel like a battle?This conversation may completely change how you interpret what you’re seeing.
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Season 2
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Episode 64
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53:59
From Confusion To Connection: Human-Centered Branding That Works | Anne Gillaspie
We explore human-centered branding with Anne Gillespie, digging into why clarity comes before campaigns. We share tools to pause, delegate, and lead with courage so teams align and customers finally get what you do.• brand therapy as th...
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Season 2
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Episode 63
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48:38
You Look Fine… But You’re Running on Empty (What to Do Next) | Michelle E. Dickinson (Part 2)
We move from theory to application with Michelle E. Dickinson to expose the early signals of burnout, why high performers miss them, and how micro shifts restore energy and agency. We trade grind myths for practical recovery, the purposeful pau...
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Season 2
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Episode 62
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32:36
Resilience You Can Actually Live | Michelle E. Dickinson Part 1
Resilience isn’t something you scramble for when life falls apart. It’s something you build daily.In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Michelle E. Dickinson joins Pam Dwyer to explore resilience as a lifestyle, not a last-minute surv...
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Season 2
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Episode 61
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36:36
Stop Chasing Tools | Between the Pause with Pam Dwyer
We explore why tools like diets, planners, and systems often fail to create lasting change and how awareness of patterns leads to sustainable shifts. We show how a pause brings the thinking brain back online and turns “failure” into useful data...
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6:41
Building Peace After Chaos: Recovery, Relationships, And Telling The Truth | Jo Weatherford
We explore addiction to substances and people, how trauma bonds masquerade as love, and why joyful sobriety demands daily integration. Joe Weatherford shares practical tools like one more second, journaling, and compassionate curiosity to pause...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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51:11
How Pausing, Mindfulness, And Movement Make Better Leaders | Sarah Draper
We reframe leadership as sustainable performance grounded in well-being, presence, and the courage to pause. Sarah Draper shares how resilience, mindfulness, and her future walk practice help leaders reduce drift, regain focus, and lead from th...
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Season 2
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Episode 59
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47:46
From Crisis To Strategy: Building A Relationship You Can Maintain | Dr. Robin Buckley PhD
We explore how to design relationships with the same intention we bring to work, replacing guesswork with clear structure, shared goals, and compassionate language. Dr Robin Buckley shares practical ways to calm reactivity, build connection, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 58
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36:18
From Fear To Flow: Building Creative Confidence With AI | Leslie Grandy
We explore how creativity works as a skill, not a trait, and how to use flow, inversion thinking, and AI to navigate uncertainty with more confidence. The talk blends personal stories, practical tools, and simple habits that help turn fear into...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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56:28
I Missed A Flight Because My Brain Went On Lunch Break | Pam Dwyer
We break the myth of the clean slate and show how quiet depletion drains motivation, clarity, and joy. Through a real-life travel fiasco, we teach soft restarts, minimum baselines, and the next-right-choice script to replace shame-driven resets...
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Season 2
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Episode 56
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14:46
Meet Wanda And Grace, The Frenemies In Your Head
In this episode of Delay the Binge™, Pam Dwyer sits down with Michele Phillips, President of Key Performance, bestselling author of Happiness Is a Habit, and author of the new book Energize Your Happiness, for a powerful, practical, and heart-f...
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Season 2
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Episode 55
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41:11
Structure That Holds Your Season Of Growth
We share a simple way to navigate seasons of change with clarity: pair quarterly goals with a living calendar that reveals your true priorities. Through a personal story, we show how structure can hold new opportunities without burnout or chaos...
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Season 2
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Episode 54
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11:31
What Is a Launch Anyway? Learning to Pause in a Fast World
The loudest voices say move faster, buy sooner, decide now. We chose a different path. This launch explores how a quiet pause can protect your time, money, and energy, and why sustainable change starts with one small, honest step you can actual...
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Season 2
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Episode 53
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11:49
From Plus One To Purposeful Pause: Why Delaying The Binge Works
We unveil Delay the Binge, a rebrand rooted in listening to our stories and yours. We explain how a purposeful pause between urge and action helps us move beyond willpower and shame across food, work, and people-pleasing.• the shift fro...
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4:41
What Is It Costing You Not To Listen | Christine Miles
We explore why listening is the missing human skill, how to organize stories as the listener, and how simple tools can ease quiet depletion and conflict. Christine Miles shares The Listening Path and shows how “tell me more” turns noise into me...
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Season 2
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Episode 52
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42:09
Your Lower Brain Yelled “Eat It Now” So We Gave It A Timeout
We name the moment before a binge as quiet depletion and show how to interrupt it with three practical pauses that bring the frontal cortex back online. We share a gentle path forward, plus details on the Delay the Binge Collective and how to j...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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9:50
Quiet Depletion, Real Recovery
What if the reason you’re snapping, shutting down, or reaching for quick fixes isn’t lack of willpower but quiet depletion—the slow fade that turns joy into numbness? We shine a light on the exhaustion beneath the exhaustion and share how a thr...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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14:22
Maintenance Begins Before The Tool
We share a health scare that reframes maintenance through kindness and nervous system safety, then walk through ten lessons that make change last. Tools matter, but emotional regulation and the purposeful pause do the heavy lifting.• pl...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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15:13
When The Shelter Catches Fire
We break down a simple framework for hard seasons: the storm outside, the shelter we run to, and the fire that starts inside when pressure builds. We share five clear steps to rise above both reactions, find fresh air, and rebuild with boundari...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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11:49
The Ones Who Turned Away And What We Learn From Their Silence
We open our hearts to the quiet kind of rejection—when people turn away without words—and trace how it shapes belonging, faith, and self-worth. We offer a plus one step forward: send love, set boundaries, and find closure within, guided by a lo...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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8:46
Episode 45 | Pause To Protect The Dream
We share why pausing a dream is not failure but a strategy to protect it, and how to step back without starting over. With personal stories, a clear framework, and real talk on money, trust, and timing, we map a path to recover, regroup, and re...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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9:10
Episode 44 | From Fitting In to Feeling Seen: How Small, Brave Steps Build Real Belonging
We explore why fitting in leaves you hollow and how belonging fills you with breath, courage, and connection. A poem reframes success, practical tools build pause power, and a mustard-smooth act of kindness shows how small moments can change a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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12:07
Episode 43: Teenagers, Mud Huts, and the Power of a Purposeful Pause
What if the most powerful change in your life starts with a breath-long pause and a single, small step? We take you from a chaotic church gym to a gritty training village where teenagers haul water, cook over smoky fires, and learn why a clay s...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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