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 →
