It’s almost Christmas, which is the perfect excuse to drop some very obvious hints about what podcast-related swag YOU might want, or to casually ask your podcast-obsessed loved ones which shows they like so you can pick out a shirt with an inside joke you don’t understand (but that they will love, I promise!!!). Why... Continue Reading →
The Dear Sugars podcast has only been on since 2014, but their advice feels like it’s been a constant for me much longer. When it debuted, I was a brand new mom to an infant, living two thousand miles away from my family, and looking for wisdom and assurance about surviving life’s most seismic... Continue Reading →
With the tragic loss of public figures Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain comes a collective heavy heart and a reckoning with how their work and lives intersected with our own. Bourdain’s TV shows were so full of moments of real human connection and understanding across cultures. I read Kitchen Confidential immediately after I had... Continue Reading →
From history to tech to murder, these eleven women-hosted podcasts are taking podcasting to another level and are in my heavy rotation every day: By The Book: Each week, hosts Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer read a self help book and live by it to the letter. It’s irreverent, addicting, and honest, and the... Continue Reading →
Another week, another news alert about some Voldemort jerkoff turdface dude in politics, comedy, or Hollywood who's made women’s lives miserable. I submit, as one possible avenue of dealing with this now-routine terribleness, making sure your podcast playlist is as full as possible of interviews with tough, cool, talented women like these. Lisa Ling... Continue Reading →
What is the 36 Questions: The Musical podcast? It’s a three-part musical about a couple trying to bring their marriage back from the brink of divorce using the 36 Questions, a set of questions designed for strangers to use to fall in love, or at least skip straight to understanding important things about how the... Continue Reading →
I know it’s been six and half years since her last show, but every so often, around four in the afternoon, there’s a hole in my soul that only that soft-focus, neutral-tone set and the uplifting, best-life-encouraging things that happened on it until 2009 could possibly fill. The times in my life I was home... Continue Reading →
When I was a kid, I would whine and complain if my mother put on talk radio in the car. The jingle that signaled traffic and weather together on News Radio 88 made me nauseated. I wanted to listen to the local pop station, but she was having none of it. "Just wait," she said.... Continue Reading →
When you think about past versions of yourself, it’s tricky, right? Once you start down that road, it’s hard to separate the real from the imagined, a true nemesis from someone who just had her own shit going on and maybe deserves a break, your unforgivable screw-ups that really hurt someone else from the inevitable... Continue Reading →
Can you go on year-long vacations to India, Bali, and Rome to find transcendence, love, and pasta like Elizabeth Gilbert did in Eat, Pray, Love? No. But you can make space and time in your life for creativity and recognize it as necessary, valuable, and fun. You can refuse to shove a project you’re excited... Continue Reading →
