Pretty Little Problem — with Hayley Steele
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A podcast about being completely misjudged

PRETTY little PROBLEM

Everyone has an opinion about her. Almost all of them are wrong. Host Hayley Steele unpacks the labels, the lore, and the lipstick — one gorgeously unfiltered conversation at a time.

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Episode 01 · The Pilot

"Pick Something & Stick With It"

In the very first episode, Hayley tells the whole story: early acceptance to a top university (and why she left the tiny closets behind), the golden era of LA, songs on The Hills, the tough-love kitchen intervention that launched East Kennedy, and why purpose — not the paycheck, not the approval — is the engine behind everything she builds. Plus: running out of gas, a four-month-old panther chameleon, and chicken nuggets at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 2 A.M.

76 min · with producer Taylor Decker
season one

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01 Now Playing

Pick Something & Stick With It

The origin story. Purpose over paychecks, thirteen years of East Kennedy, and the tough-love talk that changed everything.

76 MIN
02 Coming Soon

Tired-Ass Moms Club

Motherhood, unfiltered — raising confident girls, banning body talk at home, and why "food is food" is the whole parenting philosophy.

WITH A SPECIAL GUEST
03 Coming Soon

Daddy's Money (Allegedly)

The privilege episode. What people assume about growing up comfortable — and the shame, drive, and loans-before-phone-calls they never see.

THE MISJUDGED FILES
04 Coming Soon

Build Her Up

Inside the movement: dressing rooms as therapy, validating women for a living, and why there's more than enough to go around.

THE MOVEMENT
05 Coming Soon

The Golden Era of LA

Songs on The Hills, the Girls Next Door years, and a college experience that never needed a campus. The stories are better than yours. Sorry.

STORYTIME
06 Coming Soon

Ladies Don't Start Fights

Female rejection, stealth competitors, and choosing partnership over the ring — from a girl whose core wound has a name.

THE DEEP ONE
the whole point

You've already decided who she is.
You're wrong.

Pretty Little Problem is built on one idea: the women you judge the fastest are the ones with the best stories. Every episode takes a label — spoiled, intimidating, too much, lucky, dramatic — and pulls the thread until the real person falls out. It's glossy on the outside and disarmingly honest underneath, because that's exactly how Hayley likes it.

💋 Misjudged 👑 Privilege & Proving It 🍼 Motherhood 💪 Build Her 🎭 Reinvention 💔 Core Wounds ✨ Purpose
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Stay hot or die.
— Hayley Steele
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The Woman Behind the Problem

Hayley Steele, host of Pretty Little Problem
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Hayley Steele

Founder of East Kennedy. Stylist, interior designer, recovering workaholic, tired-ass mom in the summertime, and a Jill of all trades with more certifications than your favorite influencer has ring lights. She's been misjudged her entire life — too privileged, too much, too pretty to be taken seriously — and she's done letting other people write the caption. She lives purposefully, builds women up because everyone else is busy breaking them down, and will absolutely finish a fight she didn't start.

✦ East Kennedy ✦ Build Her ✦ Extroverted Introvert ✦ Forever 28

Produced with love by Taylor Decker · best friends since The Music Man