Life Coaches Talk Movies
As life coaches, Jessica Heimsoth and Gabi Gilliland love figuring out what makes people tick. It's no wonder that, as friends, Jessica and Gabi often find themselves nerding out about movies, and how certain films have inspired and motivated them throughout their lives. Movies are the stories we tell about our existence and purpose, and everyone's life is explained by story.
Life Coaches Talk Movies isn't a movie review podcast (although we might do a bit of that here and there). In each episode, one movie will serve as a springboard for a conversation about what the story, characters, or even our experience with the movie itself bring up for us.
Life Coaches Talk Movies
Episode 23 | Barbie (2023)
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We're excited to bring you the second half of our Barbenheimer series! In this episode, we're tackling another movie that took the world by storm last summer: 'Barbie' (2023). Director Greta Gerwig helms this funny and surprisingly introspective film about the doll that was a hot pink sensation during Jessica and Gabi's childhoods. With Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in the roles of Stereotypical Barbie and Beach Ken, the audience takes a nostalgic ride through Barbieland, where everything is perfect. Or is it?
We'd probably need several episodes to get through all of the themes that this movie brought up for us, but we do manage to dig into some big ones. We talk about balance as something we constantly pursue, rather than as a destination where we land. We explore the idea of tension between the world that is and what it "should" be. We examine power in its different forms, and what it means to really effect change. We also go into what we think this movie got wrong, where it went too far, and where it didn't go far enough.
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