Hey Reader,

Ever been devastated about, say, the end of democracy (just as a random example), and someone tells you you’re overreacting?

Same.

Something hard happens—like election night 2024—and you’re in your feelings. Maybe sobbing under a blanket. Maybe rage-texting your group chat. Maybe weeping through the supermarket.

And then someone—bless their useless little heart—suggests you might be a little too sensitive.

It’s not just me, right? I mean, I know some of you personally.

And I’ll tell you something: at some point, almost every woman I know and many of those I don’t have been handed those labels. Not because she did something wrong. But because she felt things. Hard.

I remember hearing it a year after my own political campaign, when I was still helping other candidates. The results rolled in on election night. Some lost. I felt it. And a woman—whose husband would later switch parties just to get elected—turned to me and said:

“I think you might be too sensitive for politics.”

Actually, I might’ve been too sensitive for their politics.

Some people treat politics like a game.

I got into it—and stayed into it—because I believed in something.

And if that made me too much, or sensitive to the fact that I believed things could be better, and frustrated when they weren’t, well, so be it. At least I’m not alone.

Which brings me to this week’s episode of Roar.

I’m talking with Jenny Lynn Walding, founder of milkmade, who had one of those “is it just me?” moments in the trenches of new motherhood. She was in pain, exhausted, trying everything to feed her baby—and the advice she kept getting?

Just keep trying. Just hang in there. You’re fine. It’s fine.

Spoiler: It was not fine.

Jenny could’ve blamed herself. Given up. Shrunk.

Instead, she got curious. She trusted her frustration. She treated her pain like data—and then she built something better.

Jenny didn’t have a PhD or unlimited time or money. She’s not a scientist. She had marketing experience, a new baby, and a gut feeling that things could be less awful. She turned that into a femtech company that helps new parents measure milk intake with actual tech—not tears and vibes.

This episode isn’t just about breastfeeding. It’s about what happens when women stop dismissing their own experiences—even when everyone else does.

It’s about refusing to be shamed for noticing that something’s broken.

It’s about letting “too sensitive” be your starting point, not your disqualifier.

You don’t have to cry in a blanket to relate.
​You just have to care deeply—and be tired of being told that’s a problem.

🟣 [Listen to the episode here.]

XO,
Danielle

P.S. If this one hit a nerve (hi, me too), check out my episode with author Kirsten Miller. We talk rage, reinvention, and why women doing what they want is apparently the scariest thing of all. [Listen here.]

P.P.S. If you've ever thought, “Danielle deserves a freaking coffee for this,” you’re not wrong. You can [buy me one here]—and no pressure, but I do get 27% wittier per cup. That’s science.*

*probably

P.P.P.S.To all the “too much” women out there—keep going. Feeling deeply isn’t a liability—it’s a compass.

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