You’ve heard of the “ManFlu” — that mysterious illness that somehow hits men way harder than any woman could ever fathom. Well, we’re not handing out tissues. We’re here to talk about the real stuff underneath it: the disconnection, the imbalance, and how we can start to change it.
The ManFlu is a metaphor we use to dig into something deeper: the cultural scripts, gender roles, and unspoken rules that keep men sidelined and leave women carrying more than their share of the mental and emotional load.
Host Lucy McAfee has spent years studying how gender dynamics play out at home. As a wife and boy mom, she’s still working them out in her own family. Each week, The ManFlu brings together researchers, thinkers, and families themselves to explore emotional labor, modern partnerships, and how we raise more connected boys. Together, we examine why these patterns persist, how they affect families, and the practical shifts that build stronger partnerships today and help break old patterns for the next generation. You’ll leave each episode not just nodding along, but equipped with one small shift you can try at home.
Join us to lighten the load and build a future where women and men can both show up as their whole selves. New episodes drop every Wednesday, follow the show so you don’t miss one. And share it with your friends, because no one should have to face the ManFlu epidemic alone.
Follow Lucy on Instagram @lucypmcafee for more on gender dynamics, mental and emotional load, and raising boys who care.
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Beloved hostess Ina Garten welcomes listeners into her New York City apartment for Happy Hour with Ina Garten. Every Wednesday, she sits down with people she’d like to meet from the worlds of culture, food, art, sports, and entertainment for the kinds of conversations you would love to overhear at a great dinner party. Warm, funny, personal, and often unexpected, Happy Hour mixes in-depth conversation with stories, recipes, and, of course, cocktails. Pull up a chair, pour yourself a drink, and join the conversation. New episodes drop Wednesdays starting September 16th. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Welcome to “Similarly Different,” the podcast where host Yanina Oyarzo takes you on a journey of self-discovery, resilience, and growth. In this introspective and candid series, Yanina shares her personal experiences and invites guests from diverse backgrounds to explore how we are all – similarly different.
Joy is essential.
And it’s also elusive. You can’t order it, borrow it, or simply hope it into life.
But now, there’s a new and exciting way to start your journey toward a more joyful existence: The Joy 101 Podcast with Hoda!
Best known for her Emmy-winning work and co-anchoring Today, Hoda Kotb infuses her authenticity, curiosity, and warmth into conversations with the world’s most fascinating people. Entertainment legends, sport icons, wellness experts, and everyday folks will share how they find, allow, and experience joy. Hoda will offer her own tips and takes on seeking a more balanced, harmonious life.
If you’re craving inspiration, support, and useful tools to maximize your joy, tune in to these candid, uplifting, and moving on-air chats.
Joy after a breakup, joy as an empty-nester, joy after loss, joy as a caretaker — Hoda’s new podcast will speak to you.
Joy 101 with Hoda Kotb, an iHeartPodcast.
Notes From the Edge is where polished stories end and the truth begins. Hosted by writer, trauma educator, executive advisor, and author Lisa Lacy, this globally ranked podcast explores survival, identity, trauma, addiction, recovery, leadership, relationships, and reinvention through raw, deeply human conversations. No scripts. No small talk. Just the stories we were taught to hide, the roles we performed to survive, and the truths that set us free. What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the edge. www.lisalacy.com
Investigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. That evidence can be on paper — or on thumb drives, in secret recordings, from conversations with whistleblowers. Each episode, you’ll ride along as we talk to reporters and their sources, uncover hidden facts and show you the receipts. When we publish what we find, things can change. Laws are passed, corrupt leaders fall, innocent people walk out of prison and sometimes a life is even saved. Investigative reporter Jessica Lussenhop is your guide.
Support our journalism by donating at propublica.org/donate.
What I Survived is a true survival podcast featuring extraordinary first-hand stories from people who survived kidnapping, hostage situations, disasters, accidents and other extreme life-or-death ordeals.
Each story takes you back to who these people were before everything changed, then inside the moment their lives were pushed to the edge — shipwrecked at sea for weeks, held captive by terrorists, falling 15,000 feet from a plane after a parachute failure, and other extraordinary fights for survival.
Through intimate first-hand accounts, we follow the ordeal as it happened, the decisions made under unimaginable pressure, and the resilience and will it took to survive.
Then we explore what came after — the physical and psychological recovery, the impact of trauma, and the process of rebuilding a life forever altered.
What I Survived is hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence, creator of the award-winning podcasts One Minute Remaining, Wanted and more.
Follow What I Survived for remarkable true stories of survival, resilience and the human instinct to stay alive.
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Who saw something in you before anyone else did?
On “The Person Who Believed In Me” podcast, host David Begnaud asks artists, athletes, founders, and advocates this one powerful question. Their answers reveal the untold story behind success — the teacher, parent, or coach who changed everything for them.
Often called “America’s Storyteller,” David is an award-winning journalist known for compassionate, human-first reporting. He shines a light on everyday people and quiet acts of kindness.
Do Good Crew is the community behind the show — podcasts, live events, and weekly uplifting stories. New video episodes every Monday.
Subscribe, and send an episode to the person who believed in you.
You know Roald Dahl as the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy? “The Secret World of Roald Dahl” is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. How did this secret agent and struggling screenwriter wind up as the most successful children’s author ever? And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids? A dark, twisty, fascinating true story from creator and host Aaron Tracy.
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