Bad On Paper &#8211; Becca Freeman &amp; Olivia Muenter

Violeta by Isabel Allende

Dress Code by Veronique Hyland

Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead (out Aug 16!)

Taste by Stanley Tucci

Becca:

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand

March Book Club Pick: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

April Book Club Pick: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Get to Know Our Incoming Co-Host Olivia Muenter! Mar 16, 2022

This week, we’re getting to know Becca’s new cohost (starting April 6) Olivia Muenter!

We talk to Olivia about her background, her initial thoughts when Becca approached her to be a co-host, what she’s most excited and nervous about joining the podcast, and topics she wants to discuss on the pod.

We also discuss more book-ish things like Olivia’s novel-writing process, her reading tastes, her dream reading setup, and what books she can read over and over again.

Listen to our previous episode with Olivia here!

Olivia’s favorite thrillers

In my Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

I’ll Be You by Janelle Brown

Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

People Like Her Ellery Lloyd

The Club by Ellery Lloyd

Obsessions

Grace: Billy Wilder Movies

Olivia: These Amazon Heels

What we read this week!

Grace:

Violeta by Isabel Allende

Liking Myself Back: An Influencer's Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Acceptance by Jacey Duprie

Olga Dies Dreaming Xochitl Gonzalez

Becca:

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

The Club by Ellery Lloyd

Olivia:

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

One Night On The Island by Josie Silver

March Book Club Pick: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

April Book Club Pick: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Answering Your Questions! Mar 09, 2022

This week, we’re doing a Q&A! We answer your questions about our favorite (and least favorite) Book Club Picks, future projects we’re excited about, getting motivated, how to get through a bad mood, what we’re watching right now, and more!

Our favorite podcasts hosted by two best friends

A Thing or Two

Happier in Hollywood

Girls Gotta Eat

What we’re watching right now

The Dropout

Oscar Best Picture Nominees

Bridgerton Season 2 (out March 25)

Julia (out March 31)

Marry Me

Our favorite book club picks

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Open Book by Jessica Simpson

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

What we read this week

Grace:

A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp

Violeta by Isabel Allende

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Becca:

The Christie Affair by Nina De Gramont

March Book Club Pick: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Obsessions

Grace: WHO WE ARE: A Chronicle of Racism in America with Jeffery Robinson

Becca: Victoria Beckham Satin Kajal Liner in Bronze

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Writing Advice and Self-Care Picks with Forever35’s Kate Spencer Mar 02, 2022

This week, we got the chance to chat with Kate Spencer, co-host of Forever35 and author of the memoir The Dead Moms Club. We talk about her first novel In a New York Minute (which is a Grace approved romance BTW!) discuss her writing process, and she shares her advice for aspiring writers.

We discuss how she got to where she is today, her desert island beauty picks, the books she’s loving right now, and of course, Wordle.

You can find Kate at @katespencer on Instagram, @katespencerwrites on Tik Tok, and @forever35podcast and preorder In a New York Minute! Listen to Forever35 podcast

Kate’s Favorite Reads

RAFE: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron

Ice Planet Barbarians Series by Ruby Dixon

The Pisces: A Novel by Melissa Broder

As well as the authors Christina Lauren, Jasmine Guillory, Talia Hibbert, and Julie Anne Long!

Kate’s desert island products

Klur Gentle Matter Cleanser

Jan Marini Bioclear Face Lotion

Tatcha The Silk Peony Melting Eye Cream

Jane Iredale Dream Tint Tinted Moisturizer SPF 15

Stila Stay All Day Dual-Ended Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner

Nars Lipstick in Heat Wave

Kate’s Obsessions

Her Air Fryer

Jenny Kayne Montecito Candle ( which is sold out, but Grace thinks Anecdote’s Self Care Candle would be a similar vibe)

Kate’s Favorite Forever 35 Episodes

Thriving, Surviving, and Nail Biting with Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh

Current Product Obsessions with Samantha Irby

The InstaPot of Skincare with Kulap Vilaysack and SuChin Pak

Our Obsessions

Grace: Rose Inc. Skin Enhance Luminous Skin Tint (shade 5)

Becca: R+Co Dallas Thickening Spray

What we read this week!

Grace:

Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

She Regrets Nothing by Andrea Dunlop

Listening - The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Becca:

The Christie Affair by Nina De Gramont

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

This Month’s Book Club Pick: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

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Greenwich Park Book Club Feb 23, 2022

This week, it’s finally time to talk about Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner! Grace loved this book, but Becca was… just meh! We discuss our differing opinions on the book, our mid-book theories, what we thought about the ending, and what kinds of thrillers we reach for.

We also talk about Bone, Marry, Bury finally being out, Grace’s upcoming trips, and more!

Obsessions:

Grace: Tory Burch Resort + Swimsuits

Becca: Inventing Anna

What we read this week:

Becca:

The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith (Out March 1!)

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Grace:

Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

This Month’s Book Club Pick:

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

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Our Amazon Favorites! Feb 16, 2022

We can’t believe we haven’t done this episode before, but today we’re sharing our favorite Amazon finds! To get a full list of our favorites, check out the show notes below or click this link!

We also talk about our IRL reunion in NYC, Becca’s bad mail day, and Grace breaking her Wordle streak.

Our home finds

Becca: Lazy susans (for spices, for fridge), Metal reusable straws, Chateau Spill wine spray

Grace: Onion Chopper, Marble Ice Cream Bowls, Cabana Stripe Beach Towels

Clothing/Beauty finds

Grace: Murder Robe, Long Fleece Tunic, Moroccanoil Body Spray, Ice Roller, Face Roller

Becca: Mighty patch pimple patches, Commando faux leather leggings

Kids Finds

Becca: Bear zip-up fleece, Wood truck set

Grace: Unicorn Ponycycle, Loose Stickers, Colors of the world skin tones crayon set

Food Finds

Grace: Red Clay Everything Salts, Ken’s Salad Dressing, Olive Brine Mix for dirty martinis

Becca: Luxardo gourmet cherries, The Pepper Plant hot sauce, Torres truffle potato chips, Tutto Calabria hot pepper spread

Misc Finds

Becca: Zeyar highlighters, Shower steam spray - eucalyptus, Ring light

Grace: Foot Massager, Beeswax Wraps, Callous Grater

Obsessions

Grace: We Dream in Colour Earrings

Becca: Dyson Airwrap

Instagram Obsessions

Becca: @unwiltedflowers

Grace: @thegreenvase

What we read this week!

Becca: Just Haven't Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens

Grace: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson, Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson, The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (In audiobook form narrated by Tom Hanks!)

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February’s Book Club Pick:

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

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An Announcement! Feb 09, 2022

So today we have some bittersweet news. In this episode, we talk about this big news, the future of the podcast, and our podcast highs from the last 4 years.

‘Just Us’ Episodes we loved

Always Ask For More Money – Negotiating Your Salary, Getting A Promotion, and Setting Freelance Rates

How We Read So Much + Hidden Gem Books (With Listener Recs!)

FMK: Quarantine Edition

Favorite Snacks, Chores That Give Us A Rush, and The Brighter Side of Quarantine.

Listener Q&A: Big Life Decisions, Career Moves, Daily Routines, + More!

Favorite Guest Episodes

Bad on Politics #6: Stacey Abrams on Voting Rights

An Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert

Investing 101: Sallie Krawcheck on the gender wealth gap

Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo on work wifing, closing their business, and the decision whether to have kid

Cindy Crawford shares her supermodel secrets + takes us inside the modeling biz!

Ep. 53: Ashley & Rayna from Girls Gotta Eat Talk Dating, Finding Friends on Instagram, & Creating a Life You Love.

Ep 38: Jared Freid on Dating, "Everyone is someone's foot"

Ep 34: the Amazing Katie Sturino + a Talk on Body Positivity.

Ep. 47: Alyssa Mastromonaco - the Obamas, the Importance of Lists, and Staying Calm Under Pressure.

Obsessions

Becca’s 2022 Playlist

The Marie Cardigan from Shopslivia.com

What we read this week!

Becca: Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

Grace: Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier, Castles In Their Bones by Laura Sebastian

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February’s Book Club Pick: Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

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Candles and Beauty faves with Hotel Lobby Candle Founder, Lindsay Silberman Feb 02, 2022

It’s time for our first guest of 2022! This week we’re speaking with Lindsay Silberman, blogger, and founder of Hotel Lobby Candle.

We talk about her career path, when she got into blogging, how she started Hotel Lobby Candle, what it takes to even create a scent, her favorite travel destinations, and more!

We also talk about reading nonfiction in the morning and dealing with injuries.

You can find Lindsay at @lindsaysilb on Instagram, lindsaysilberman.com, and check out Hotel Lobby Candles at hotellobbycandle.com

Lindsay’s Desert Island Beauty Picks

Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser’s Invisible Oil Heat & UV Protective Primer

Batiste Dry Shampoo

Elemis Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Alpha Beta Extra Strength Daily Peel Pads

Gucci Poudre De Beauté Éclat Soleil Bronzing Powder

What is on Lindsay’s Nightstand

Hotel Lobby Paris Nuit Candle

TriPollar STOP Vx

Obsessions

Becca - Olive and June Super Glossy Top Coat

Grace - American Crime Story - Impeachment

Instagram Obsessions

Becca - @getyourbookoninsta

What we read this week!

Grace:

The Maid by Nita Prose

Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier

Becca:

On A Night Like This by Lindsey Kelk

Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Susman (out 4/12)

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg

February Book Club Pick: Greenwich Park by Katharine Faulkner

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Wish You Were Here Book Club Jan 26, 2022

This week our Book Club is BACK and we’re discussing Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult. This book deals with Covid-19, which you may or may not have the emotional capacity to read about right now. We totally understand if you could not join us for this book club.

Wish You Were Here follows Diana, a type-a art specialist who has her entire life planned out. She has been planning her dream trip to the Galapagos with her surgeon boyfriend. In March 2020, on the eve of their trip, New York City is bracing for the arrival of coronavirus. Her boyfriend can’t take off work but encourages Diana to go alone. Except, when she gets there, she finds out that the island is closing for a 2-week quarantine. Diana makes an impulsive decision to stay, and her time on the island has her reevaluating her whole life back in New York.

Also discussed:

Jodi Picoult on First Draft With Sarah Enni

Obsessions

Grace: The Nori Press

Becca: Zeyar Pastel Highlighters

Instagram Obsessions

Grace: @cyrus.library

What we read this week!

Grace:

The Christie Affair by Nina De Gramont (Out February 1st!)

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

The Maid by Nita Prose

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

Outline by Rachel Cusk

Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin

Becca:

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

February Book Club Pick

Sponsors:

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2022 Goals Extravaganza Jan 19, 2022

Now that we’ve caught up from our winter break, it’s time to think about one of our favorite topics: goals! We reflect on how we did with our 2021 goals, talk about how we feel going into 2022, and break down the professional and personal goals we want to achieve this year.

We also talk about Becca’s homemade buffalo chicken wrap, Grace’s outdoorsy weekend in L.A., and more!

What we read/listen to when thinking of our goals!

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Happier in Hollywood

Obsessions

Grace:

Black American Portraits at LACMA

88 acres seed butter

Becca:

A Discovery of Witches, Euphoria, Bel Air, Wordle

Instagram Obsessions

@dailyrothko

What we read this week!

Becca:

Crave by Tracy Wolff

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (again!)

Grace:

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

Outline by Rachel Cusk

Our January Bookclub pick

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

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Catching Up On Our Winter Break Jan 12, 2022

After a restorative break, we’re back and ready to fill you in on what we were up to over the holidays! We talk about our high highs (Becca finishing the first draft of her book! Grace’s Chappy Wrap collab dropping TODAY!) and low lows (Omicron anxiety). We also break down everything we read and watched during our time off!

What Grace read over the break

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron *Grace’s Top Recommendation!

Too Late by Colleen Hoover

In A New York Minute by Kate Spencer (out March 15!)

The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak

What Becca read for over the break

Book Lovers by Emily Henry (out May 3!)

Playing with Matches by Hannah Orenstein

The Happily Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Wish You Were Here by Jodie Picoult

Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand

What Becca watched over the break

What Grace watched over the break (and check out 2022 Oscars Best Picture Predictions!)

Mass (content warning: school shootings)

What we both watched

Instagram Obsessions

Grace: @socialclubofficiel

Becca: @carolinagelen

Obsessions

Grace: Ella Ora Skin Therapy Clinic, Smythson Soho Cosmic Travel Diary

Becca: Shop.app, J. Crew oversized cashmere wrap, Sim City BuildIt

What We’re Currently Reading

Grace: Atomic Habits by James Clear, Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart

Becca: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (again!), Crave by Tracy Wolff

Our January Bookclub Pick

Wish You Were Here by Jodie Picoult

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The Great 2021 Holiday Episode! Dec 08, 2021

This week is our last episode of 2021 and we’re covering holidays past and present! We talk about our favorite holiday memories, recipes, movies, books, gifting advice, what’s on our wish list and more!

We also talk about our thanksgivings, Grace’s recovery from the cold from hell, and Becca finally being able to talk about her secret project!

Our Holiday Gifting Recommendations

Grace’s Ornaments Rec

Becca’s Candle Rec

Becca’s Socks Rec

Our Go-To Holiday Recipes

Grace’s Egg Nog Recipe

Becca’s Favorite Stuffing Recipe

Becca’s Favorite Anginetti Cookie Recipe

Becca’s Christmas List

Ugg Ultra Minis

Leatherology Laptop Bags

Becca’s Christmas Books

One Day In December by Josie Silver

Christmas at the Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan

This Time Next Year Sophie Cousens

So, This is Christmas by Tracy Andreen

The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey

The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox

Obsessions

Grace - Jill Stuart Beauty Jelly Eye Color

Becca - eucalyptus shower spray

What we read this week!

If You Tell by Greg Olsen

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

Business Minded by Carly Riordan (Out December 28!)

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner (Out January 25!)

In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer (Out March 15!)

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Becca Interviews Grace Dec 01, 2021

We’re finishing our end-of-year tradition of interviewing each other, and this time Grace is in the hot seat!

Becca asks Grace your questions about the ins and outs of her job, if blogging has ever impacted her self-image, if she’d ever write a book, her favorite Charleston spots, long-distance relationship advice, if she got her driver’s license yet, and so much more!

Obsessions

Grace - Beautypie’s Gingerbread, Almond & Orange Blossom Candle

Becca - Friday Night Lights, Pinhook Bourbon

What we read this week!

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

If You Tell by Greg Olsen

Fake by Erica Katz (out Feb 22!)

In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer (Out March 15!)

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Ghosts Book Club Nov 24, 2021

This week we finally get to discuss our November Book Club pick, Ghosts by Dolly Alderton. This book captured modern dating in a way we haven’t seen before, and honestly, we can’t agree on if the ending was satisfying or not. Ghosts follows Nina Dean, a London woman in her early thirties with a successful career as a food writer and loving friends and family. When she downloads a dating app, she meets a great guy on her first date. When Max tells Nina he's going to marry her on date one, it feels like all is going to plan. But when Max ghosts her, Nina is forced to deal with everything she's been trying so hard to ignore.

Obsessions

ChappyWrap Blankets

Crate and Barrel Sofa

Instagram Obsessions

@marthastewart48

What we read this week

Fake by Erica Katz (out Feb 22)

So, This is Christmas by Tracy Andreen

State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

Sponsors

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Grace Interviews Becca Nov 17, 2021

We’re so excited to continue our yearly tradition of interviewing each other, starting off with Grace interviewing Becca! (Grace will have her turn in the hot seat in a few weeks!)

Grace asks Becca your questions about bookish things, her new creative projects, career reflections, dating & friendship advice, what she’s learned about herself in the past year, and So! Much! More!

Becca’s Misc. Mentions:

For Getting Started at Book Writing - Save the Cat writes a Novel

Her GoodReads Account - Follow her here!

Her Splurge Item - Sarah Flint Perfect Zip Bootie in Brown

Her Favorite Sheets - Amazon Mellani Sheets

Becca’s Favorite Dinner Party Recipes

Grossy’s Vodka Sawce

Garlic Braised Short Ribs

Coq au Vin

Obsessions

Grace - Midnight Mass

Becca - The Chunky Chef Zuppa Toscana

What we read this week!

Books To Preorder

If This Gets Out by Cale Dietrich and Sophie Gonzales

Smile and Look Pretty by Amanda Pellegrino

Books You Can Read Now!

Palm Beach by Mary Adkins

We're Speaking by Hitha Palepu

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus

November Book Club Pick:

Sponsors:

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

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The Best Books of 2021! Nov 10, 2021

It’s been a big year of reading, and today we’re talking about our favorite books from 2021! We each picked a top 5 and also had our listeners weigh in on the best books—from thrillers to romance to non-fiction to backlist—they read this year. If you’re in search of book recs, look no further, we have the best of the best for you!

Grace’s Favorites

- The Push by Ashley Audrain (Mystery/Thriller)

- Good Night Beautiful by Aimee Mollloy (Mystery/Thriller)

-Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Fiction)

-Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Fiction)

-Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Non-Fiction)

-Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee (Non-Fiction)

-The Third Door by Alex Banayan (Non-Fiction)

-Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Non-Fiction)

-The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Backlist)

Becca’s Favorites

-The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Mystery/Thriller)

-People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Romance)

-Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly (Romance)

-Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (Romance)

-The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (Fiction)

-The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand (Backlist)

Listener Reccomendations!

-The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz (Mystery/Thriller)

-Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger (Mystery/Thriller)

-The Wife and The Widow by Christian White (Mystery/Thriller)

-Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann (Fiction)

-Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Fiction)

-Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans (Fiction)

-Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters (Fiction)

-We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride (Fiction)

-Expecting Better by Emily Oster (Non-Fiction)

-Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Non-Fiction)

-Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Non-Fiction)

-Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell (Non-Fiction)

-The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson (Non-Fiction)

-Indistractable by Nir Eyal (Non-Fiction)

-A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper (Non-Fiction)

-A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Backlist)

-Summer of 69 by Elin Hilderbrand (Backlist)

Obsessions

The Morning Show

A Discovery of Witches

What we Read this week!

Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

Always, in December by Emily Stone

If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich

November Book Club Pick:

Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50

Sponsors:

Better Help - Go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month

Everlywell - Go to everlywell.com/bop for 20% off your at-home lab test

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Grace Bonney on her New Book, Design Sponge, and Career Changes! Nov 03, 2021

This week we interviewed Grace Bonney, founder of Design Sponge to talk about her new book, Collective Wisdom! We learn how she got to where she is today, what inspired her to write a book about women over 50, how she found the women featured in her book, and the interviews that had the greatest impact on her.

We also talk about Design Sponge, how it felt to close it down on her terms, and her thoughts on going back to school as an adult!

Follow Grace Bonney

Instagram - @grace__bonney & @designsponge

Instagram Obsessions

Grace - @designsponge

Becca - @nanowrimo

Obsessions

Grace - Nest Pumpkin Chai Candle

Becca - Aerie The Sweat Waffle Crew Neck Sweatshirt

What we’ve read this week

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Always, in December by Emily Stone

November Book Club Pick:

Pick up A Special Place for Women Here

Sponsors:

Night - Use the code NIGHTBOP for 20% off sitewide at discovernight.com

Prose - Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your first order

ZocDoc - Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

A Special Place for Women Book Club Oct 27, 2021

It’s book club week and this month we’re talking about A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin. Capturing start-up culture can be a hit or miss, and we really think Laura Hankin got it right in this book. A Special Place for Women follows a daring reporter who infiltrates an exclusive female-run members club, whose members are far more powerful than she imagined.

We also talk about not knowing what’s next, Becca’s Sweater status, and Grace’s accidental trespassing adventure.

Startup Books we Like:

The Herd by Andrea Bartz

Startup by Doree Shafrir

One by One by Ruth Ware

Ripped from the headlines book

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Admission by Julie Buxbaum

Our favorite witch books

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Practical Magic Series by Alice Hoffman

Obsessions

Grace - Stoney Clover Ln X American Girl, You Season 3, Succession

Becca - Succession, The Big Leap

What we’ve read this week

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

We’re Speaking by Hitha Palepu

November Book:

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena

Sponsors:

Care Of - Go to takecareof.com and enter code BOP50 for 50% off your first order

Better Help - Go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

All About Birthdays! Oct 20, 2021

Since we both celebrated our birthdays recently, we thought it would be fun to spend today’s episode reminiscing and looking forward.

We reminisce on our most memorable birthdays as kids, have a very in-depth conversation about ice cream cake, and talk about how 40th birthday parties are the year to go ALL OUT. We also talk about aging and if/how milestone birthdays spark anxiety about getting older.

Also, Grace recaps her Vienna trip, Becca talks about her trip upstate, and we mourn the loss of a champagne-soaked memory card.

Instagram Obsessions

@rianne.meijer

@p_o_p_k_n_i_t

@theknitedit

Obsessions

Becca - Ayr The Pop Jeans

Grace - July Checked Trunk Suitcase

What we’ve read

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Wild at Heart by K.A. Tucker

October Book:

Inconceivable on October 26 at 7 pm at the Triad Theater

Sponsors:

Night - use code NIGHTBOP for 20% off everything at discovernight.com

Hello Fresh - go to hellofresh.com/bop14 and use code BOP14 for up to 14 free meals including free shipping!

Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Casey Balsham on Infertility, Zoom Comedy, and her First Standup Set! Oct 13, 2021

This week, we’re chatting with our friend and standup comedian, Casey Basham! We talk about how we met, how she got into standup comedy, and how she adjusted to doing comedy in the pandemic! We also dive into her comedy about fertility, how people have received it, how it has become a cathartic outlet for her, and her special INCONCEIVABLE filming on October 26!

We also talk about Grace’s Vienna trip, Becca’s sweater-knitting project, and everything we’ve been reading the past week!

Follow Casey

@casefaceb on Instagram

The Shady Shit Podcast

Obsessions

Becca - Knitting her Sweater!

Grace - Yacht Rock Revue

What we’ve read

Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

The Perfect Find by Tia Williams

Wild at Heart by K.A. Tucker

October Book:

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

Sponsors:

Better Help - Go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month

Olive & June - Go to oliveandjune.com/bop and use code BOP for 20% off your first manicure system

Everlywell - Go to everlywell.com/bop for 20% off your at-home lab test

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Some More Personal Thoughts On Burnout Oct 06, 2021

After our episode with Anne Helen Petersen about burnout, we realized that we also have a lot to say on the subject and wanted to do a follow-up episode about our own experiences with burnout.

If you haven’t listened to our episode with Anne Helen Petersen, you can listen here.

We talk about our experiences with burnout both professionally and personally, burnout guilt,and some recent realizations about “having it all”. We also talk about our personal tips to improve burnout, what we do to check in with ourselves, and how we set boundaries to prevent even more burnout!

Grace also shares details from her 40th birthday bash, Becca talks about getting back into routines, and more!

Our Burnout Resources

Practical Frameworks for Beating Burnout

Obsessions

The Americans

Dolce Vita Paily Heels

Only Murders in the Building

Clickbait

What we’ve read

Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

The Perfect Find by Tia Williams

October Book:

The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand

Sponsors:

Night - Use the code NIGHTBOP for 20% off sitewide at discovernight.com

Prose - Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your first order

ZocDoc - Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Magic of Found Objects Book Club Sep 29, 2021

It’s finally time for The Magic of Found Objects Book Club! This Book felt totally different than others we’ve read recently and we’re so excited to talk about it!

The story follows Phronsie, who was conceived at Woodstock by a free-spirited hippie mother and a practical farmer father. All her life she’s been torn between the two. After trying her hand at the NYC dating scene, her childhood best friend proposes that they give up on romance and marry each other. After Phronsie agrees, she meets someone who makes a case for revisiting romance. While her stepmother argues for the safety of the engagement, her birth mother relays messages from the universe to hold out for true love, and Phronsie must look to her own heart to find the answers.

In addition to talking all about the book, we also talk about Becca’s trip to Palm Beach, Grace’s birthday party prep, and the struggle of being a beginner again at something you used to be great at.

Instagram Obsessions

@margaret.wright

@ashnb1

Obsessions

AFI’s 100 List

What we’ve read

The Perfect Find by Tia Williams

White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarity

Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

October Book:

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/

Sponsors:

Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% your first month!

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Anne Helen Petersen on the Ins and Outs of Burnout Sep 22, 2021

This week, we got the chance to talk with Anne Helen Petersen, writer of the newsletter Culture Study, and author of Can’t Even: How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation.

We talk about how she got to where she is today, her personal definition of burnout, why millennials are more afflicted with burnout than other generations, how the pandemic sparked a new form of burnout, how social media impacts burnout, and so much more! She also shares her advice on how to tell if you’re burning out and how to avoid falling into it!

In addition, Grace and Becca talk about Grace’s epic food weekend, Becca’s upcoming trip to Palm Beach, and our computer problems!

Find Anne Helen Petersen

Instagram: @annehelenpetersen
Twitter: @annehelen
Subscribe to her newsletter Culture Study
Articles she recommends: Is everything an MLM, "In reality TV defined by renovation, the self becomes settled.”
Her favorite fiction of the year: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
Her favorite nonfiction of the year: The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson

Instagram Obsession

@british_fluffs

Obsessions

Grace: LuLaRich
Becca: Challenges.app

What we’ve read

September Book:

The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson

Sponsors:

Night - use code NIGHTBOP for 20% off everything at discovernight.com
Harper Wilde - Get 20% off at harperwilde.com/BOP

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Quarterly Q&A! Sep 15, 2021

This week we’re answering all your questions! We cover some quick things like apartment decor wins (and regrets), what to ask for when you get a facial, dream vacation destinations, and new book releases we’re excited about… and also discuss tackle more serious stuff like how we stay sane and happy when times are hard, how to leave a job you hate, financial security, staying organized, our favorite newsletters and more!

We also dive into meatier questions like how to get over imposter syndrome at work, how to turn your side hustle to your main hustle, and how to advocate for yourself and say ‘no’ at work!

We also talk about our vacation for Becca’s birthday and how we are getting back into the swing of things post-trip.

Obsessions

Becca - Hotel Lobby Miami Candle
Grace - Only Murders in the Building

What We Read on Vacation

Grace

Becca

September Book:

The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson

Sponsors:

Prose - go to prose.com/BOP for 15% off your first order
Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper and use the code for 10% off your first month

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Brightland Founder, Aishwarya Iyer, on Olive Oil and Imposter Syndrome Sep 08, 2021

This week, we chat with Aishwarya Iyer, founder of Brightland. We talk about what motivated her to start an olive oil company, her tips for finding high-quality cooking oils, and a new Brightland launch coming this fall! She also shares her advice for those starting their own brand and her tips on how to overcome imposter syndrome.

We also talk about Becca’s need for a beach day, Grace’s salad with potatoes, and RomComPods making it to the Sunday Arts section of the New York Times!

Follow Aishwarya

Aishwarya’s fave food startups

What she’s reading

And use the discount code BADONPAPER0921 for a discount on your order until 9/30/2021!

Instagram Obsessions

@blondebrokeandboughie

Obsessions

The Other Two
La Gritona Tequila

What We’re Reading:

September Book:

The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson

Sponsor:

Night - Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOPNIGHT at checkout.
Uncommon Goods - go to uncommmongoods.com/BOP for 15% off your next gift
Olive and June - go to oliveandjune.com/BOP and use the code BOP for 20% off your first Manicure system

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

A Check-In on Our 2021 Goals! Sep 01, 2021

This week, we looked back on our 2021 Resolutions Episode to check in about how the goals we’ve achieved, and what goals we’ve decided to save for later!

Grace talks about how she’s taking the time to dive into her personal interests and investing in lasting partnerships at work, while Becca shares her RomComPods wins and how she’s keeping up with her skincare routine. We also talk about future goals we’re hoping to manifest!

We also talk about our highs and lows, Grace’s documentary binge over the weekend, Becca’s upcoming vacation, weather, and wonky sleep schedules.

Grace’s Documentary Watches

What We’re Reading:

Obsessions

September Book:

The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson

Sponsor:

Rent the Runway - go to renttherunway.com and use the code BOP to take 40% 2 months of an 8 item plan.
Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper and use the code for 10% off your first month
Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Ace of Spades Book Club Aug 25, 2021

This week, we finally get to talk about our August Book Club Pick, Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé! This psychological thriller is the best YA book we’ve read this year and will definitely keep you guessing (and reading!). Ace of Spades follows two senior students at an elite prep school, Devon and Chiamaka, who are getting targeted as the subject of anonymous text blasts to the whole school revealing their dark secrets.

If you have not read this book yet, we highly recommend you read it before you listen to this episode to avoid spoilers!

Teen Prep School Dramas we love

What We’re Reading:

The View Was Exhausting by Onjuli Datta and Mikaella Clements

Grace’s Obsessions:

Target’s Dress assortment (will link Grace’s blog post when it’s up!)
The Prince on HBO Max
CODA on Apple TV+

Becca’s Obsessions:

J. Crew Swimsuit
Apple Watch Challenges

September Book:

The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson

Sponsor:

Prose - go to prose.com/BOP for 15% off your first order.
Night - go to discovernight.com and use the code NIGHTBOP for 20% off your purchase.
Harper Wilde - go to harperwilde.com/BOP for 20% off your first purchase.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Back To School With BOP: How We Strive To Be Lifelong Learners Aug 18, 2021

This week’s episode is all about lifelong learning! While we’re not going back to school ourselves, we talk about how we try to incorporate learning into our lives through the excitement of a new hobby, online classes, and non-fiction reading and listening. We also chat about our alternate life college majors, all of Becca’s hobby love affairs, and Grace’s tendency to fall down an information rabbit hole.

We also hear from YOU about what you do to be lifelong learners! We hear from listeners blogging about women in history, becoming certified yoga teachers, finding out they have a passion for science, and more!

We also catch up on what we did when Grace was in NYC and how our social batteries are LOW.

Becca

Grace

Some Masterclasses we love

Kelly Wearstler, Robin Roberts, Bobbi Brown, Anna Wintour, Issa Rae, Shonda Rhimes, Aaron Sorkin, Judd Apatow.

AFI 100 List

What We’re Reading:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Instagram:

@kleekai_luna

@Madewithlovebytomdaley

Obsessions:

Whole Foods Mineral Waters
Habit -- Daily Tracker

August Book:

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sponsor:

Rent The Runway - take 40% off 2-months of an 8-item plan with code BOP at renttherunway.com
Olive & June - go to oliveandjune.com/BOP and use the code BOP for 20% off your first Manicure system
Better Help - go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper and use the code for 10% off your first month

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Nell Diamond Chats Nap Dress Mania, Hill House Home, and More! Aug 11, 2021

This week we’re speaking with Nell Diamond, Founder & CEO of Hill House Home, and the brain behind the much-beloved Nap Dress! We talk about her life before founding Hill House, why she thinks the Nap Dress has such a huge fandom, and some exciting Nap Dress developments on the horizon!

We also talk about our highs and lows of the week, Grace’s trip to NYC, and Becca’s questionable candy habits.

What We’re Reading:

Instagram:

Obsessions:

August Book:

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sponsor:

Hellofresh - go to hellofresh.com/BOP12 and use the code BOP12 for 12 free meals including free shipping
Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOPNIGHT at checkout.
Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We’re Back! A giant catch up episode. Aug 04, 2021

We’re baaaack! This week we’re catching up on what we’ve been up to during our summer hiatus! We also break down everything we’ve been reading and watching, our Instagram faves, our new obsessions, and more! P.S. would you read Becca’s magical startup celebrity love story novel featuring magical unsupervised teens? Let us know!

What We’re Reading:

What We’re Watching

Instagram:

Obsessions:

August Book:

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sponsor:

BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.
Uncommon Goods: To get 15% off your next gift uncommongoods.com/bop
Harper Wilde - Go to harperwilde.com/BOP to get 20% off your first purchase.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

People We Meet on Vacation Book Club, with Emily Henry! Jun 30, 2021

This week on the podcast we’re talking all things People We Meet on Vacation with the author, Emily Henry! For such a light, fun read the conversation gets quite serious. We talk about that feeling of discontent some thirty-somethings experience when they achieve their goals, her writing process, how real-life vacations inspired scenes in the book, and her favorite (and least favorite) romance tropes. We also talk about Amazon Prime Day Finds! Don’t forget: We are taking the month of July off but we’ll be back on August 4th!

Follow Emily Henry at @emilyhenrywrites and buy People We Meet on Vacation here.

Obsessions:

Pebble Ice Maker

Instagram:

@amysmilovic

What We’re Reading:

August Book:

Will be announced SOON!

Sponsor:

To get 15% off your next order, go to uncommongoods.com/BOP

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Elin Hilderbrand Chats Beach Reads, Nantucket Eats, and More Jun 23, 2021

This week on the podcast we’re chatting with one of our favorite authors, Elin Hilderbrand! We talk about the origin story of her first book, how she found her way to Nantucket, what book was the hardest to write, and how she feels about being called the “queen of beach reads.” We also talk about our really great weeks, Becca’s pilot scriptwriting process, and our excitement for the Summer 2021 TV Lineup!

Find Elin Hilderbrand on Instagram at @elinhilderbrand

Obsessions:

Instagram:

What We’re Reading:

Elin’s Top 3 Elin Hilderbrand Books

Elin’s Top 3 Beach Reads

Elin’s Restaurant Recommendations

June Book:

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Sponsor:

Night - 20% off discovernight.com with the code BOPNIGHT
Betterhelp - Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Summer Shopping Favorites! Jun 16, 2021

It’s been a minute since we’ve done a shopping episode so today we wanted to give you a big shopping update. This week’s episode is all about the clothes, skincare, beauty products (and more!) we’ve been buying lately. We also catch up on life, reading, and a recent TV fave.

Where we’ve been shopping

Fashion

Farm Rio

Skincare

Beauty Pie (Uber Youth Complexion Ampoules, Genius Lift Elixer)
All things Supergoop!
Biossance (Rose Oil, Body Cream, Night Serum)
Sobel Skin Bio Hyaluronic Cream
Weleda body butter

Makeup

Misc

See all Grace’s Apartment Buys in her ‘CHS Rental’ Highlights!
Jonathan Adler Beach Towels

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

June Book:

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Sponsor:

Rent the Runway - get 40% off 2 months of an 8 or 16 item plan with code BOP at renttherunway.com.
Hellofresh - go to hellofresh.com/BOP12 and use the code BOP12 for 12 free meals including free shipping.
Harper Wilde - Go to harperwilde.com/BOP to get 20% off your first purchase.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

(Career) Change Is In The Air! Jun 09, 2021

This week is all about career changes! We talk about our career paths and answer your questions including: How do you know it’s time to change careers? How do you adjust to working from home? How can I make the shift from one industry to another? We also cover our impromptu Charleston reunion and how we’re pushing through the urge to doze off as our calendars fill up!

Career Aptitude Tests + Resources

Instagram

@skylersamuels

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

June Book:

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOPNIGHT at checkout.
CareOf: Go to takecareof.com for 50% off your first order with code BOP50
BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Katie Sturino On Her New Book "Body Talk" Jun 02, 2021

Today we are joined by our dear friend Katie Sturino, body acceptance advocate and founder of Megababe Beauty. This episode is basically a three-way phone conversation among friends but the big thing is that we talk about her amazing new book, Body Talk, and her journey towards body acceptance. We also use this time to catch up with Katie, covering her summer travel plans, new Megababe launches, what brands we want to see extend their size range, and the surprising struggle of creating Instagram content!

Join us in the Facebook group to tell us what you thought!

More Katie

Instagram:

@laurabenanti

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

The Most Beautiful girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
The Hunting Wives by Mary Cobb

June Book:

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Sponsor:

Prose: go to prose.com/bop for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your first order
Betterhelp: go to betterhelp.com/badonpaper for 10% off your first month
Zocdoc: go to zocdoc.com/bop to sign up for free and find a top-rated doctor

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Last Thing He Told Me Book Club May 26, 2021

This month we read The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave, one of both of our favorite authors. We were already HUGE Laura Dave fans (she’s also the author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello Sunshine), and we were so excited to see her branch into totally new territory with a thriller! In the book, Hannah Hall’s husband, Owen, disappears after only one year of marriage, leaving behind a note that reads: “Protect Her.” Her is Owen’s teen daughter Bailey. Hannah and Bailey work together to unravel the mystery of Owen’s true identity and why he disappeared.

Join us in the Facebook group to tell us what you thought!

Instagram:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Anna K Away by Jenny Lee
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

June Book:

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Sponsor:

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Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Our Interior Designers, Erin Gates & Emma Beryl, Chat All Things Home Decor. May 19, 2021

Whenever either one of us do a Q&A we get asked about working with an interior designer, so today we wanted to invite our friends (and interior designers!) Erin Gates & Emma Beryl to chat. Emma and Erin demystify the entire process of working with a designer (yes, even pricing!). They also share their experiences working with us, their favorite places to find great deals on decor items, and their thoughts on where to splurge and where to save. We also talk about ways to decorate a rental without breaking your budget. Best of all, they share their personal pet peeves when it comes to decorating.

More Emma + Erin:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Anna K Away by Jenny Lee
The Guncle by Steven Rowley

May Book:

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Sponsor:

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Post Vax Life: What We’re Wearing & Where We’re Going May 12, 2021

Last week we reflected back on quarantine and the positive things that came from it. Now that we are both fully vaccinated we thought it would be fun to look forward. This week, we are looking toward the future and thinking about life post-pandemic. We (unsurprisingly) are excited about travel and actually getting dressed again. Although we have very different ideas of what getting dressed looks like these days, we are still both excited to refresh our wardrobes and share our favorite purchases so far. We are also itching for some vacations, beaches, and most of all - getting Becca to Charleston to see Grace!

Join us in the Facebook group to let us know how you find hotel deals!

Link to Boutique hotels

Instagram:

@hayderz

Obsessions:

Boomerang plug-in for email
Amazon shoe risers

What We’re Reading:

Most Likely by Sarah Watson
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand

May Book:

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Sponsor:

Harper Wilde: Go to harperwilde.com/BOP to get 20% off your first order.
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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Favorite Snacks, Chores That Give Us A Rush, and The Brighter Side of Quarantine. May 05, 2021

Today’s episode is a real grab bag! We start out with a topic close to Grace’s heart: snacks. We compare our snacking habits, our favorite snacks, and more. We also touch on our favorite chores (and our least favorites too!). You have probably never met two people who feel so strongly about doing laundry. And as we get closer to the end of quarantine and life going back to (almost?) normal, we also reflect on some bright sides of quarantine and what we are looking forward to now that we’ll both be fully vaccinated.

Join us in the Facebook group to chat about all things snacks and more!

Instagram:

@cuatro_cuatros

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (out 5/25)
Most Likely by Sarah Watson
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

May Book (comes out May 4th):

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOPNIGHT at checkout.
Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Delicious! By Ruth Reichl Book Club Apr 28, 2021

Today is Book Club, and this month we read Delicious! By Ruth Reichl. The book tells the story of Billie Breslin, who learns at a young age she has an impeccable palate. Years later she drops out of college and moves from California to NYC to work for Delicious!, the country’s most prominent food magazine. Her life changes drastically as she forms new relationships with colleagues at the magazine, chefs, and shop owners. When Delicious! is unexpectedly shut down, Billie is kept on board to honor the Delicious! Guarantee, which is how she discovers a cache of letters from 12-year-old Lulu Swan to the famous chef James Beard from WWII. From there, Billie embarks on a culinary scavenger hunt through the library and ultimately to Akron, OH to find the adult Lulu Swan. We really enjoyed this book and we hope you did too! Join us in the Facebook group to discuss!

Products Mentioned:

Hill House Home Nap Dress

Instagram:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Ann of Manhattan by Brina Starler
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (out end of may)
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

May Book (comes out May 4th):

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Sponsor:

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Clark’s Botanicals Founder, Francesco Clark, on How Vanity Saved His Life Apr 21, 2021

In today’s episode we are joined by Francesco Clark, the founder of the clean beauty brand Clark’s Botanicals. Francesco shares the origin story of Clark’s Botanicals: When he suffered a devastating spinal cord injury, he found himself paralyzed. One unexpected side effect of his paralysis was that his body could no longer sweat… and as a result, his skin changed dramatically. Together with his father (a doctor trained in homeopathy), they created Clark’s Botanicals. Francesco explains the chemistry behind their active ingredient the Jasmine Catalyst Complex and chats about favorite products. He also also shares how he started the company, sold it, and bought it back. Francesco and his brand are pretty much the definition of resilience in our eyes, we hope you enjoy hearing from him as much as we did!

More Francesco Clark:

Clarksbotanicals.com (use code BOP20 at checkout for 20% off)
@mrfrancescoclark
Christopher Reeve Foundation

Products Mentioned:

Instagram:

@lcs_studio

Obsessions:

Mini Peppermint Patties
Girls Gotta Eat - Asa Akira Episode
Asked by Ayana Podcast

What We’re Reading:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
Eliza Starts a Rumor by Jane L. Rosen

April Book:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

Sponsor:

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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Listener Q&A: Big Life Decisions, Career Moves, Daily Routines, + More! Apr 14, 2021

Grace has made it safe and sound to Charleston and we were due for catch up! We put a call out in the Facebook group for questions, and we tackle them all in today’s episode. We share our favorite book podcasts, how we choose what to read next, how we manage our day, and give advice to a listener on a big life decision. We also answer questions about if job hunting is all who you know, how to make friends in a pandemic (or in a new city), managing zoom fatigue, and the age-old question: is NYC worth the money?

We had so much fun answering your questions! Let us know if you would like to hear more Q&A episodes in the Facebook group!

Book Podcast Recs:

The Stacks
Sarah’s Bookshelves
First Draft with Sarah Enni (Track Changes Series)

Product Mentioned:

The Etsy Calendar

Obsessions:

Ginny & Georgia on Netflix

What We’re Reading:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
Anna K Away by Jenny Lee (out 4/27)

April Book:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

Sponsor:

Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50 at checkout.
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Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Childhood Nostalgia: Pogs, Beanie Babies, Starter Jackets, and Mall Culture Apr 07, 2021

Today’s episode was the last one we recorded together while Grace was living in Brooklyn! As we embark on a new (remote) era of the podcast we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane and talk about all of our childhood favorite things. As two weird kids (and now, weird adults), there were a lot of fun and silly memories to share. We share the things that we collected, the foods we coveted (and our strange bagged lunches), our love for the mall and our favorite childhood books. Be sure to join us in the Facebook group to share your favorite gems from the past!

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Pomodoro Technique

What We’re Reading:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
Breathless by Jennifer Niven

April Book:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOPNIGHT at checkout.
Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Midnight Library Book Club Mar 31, 2021

TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255

Our March Book Club pick is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. The book follows 35-year-old Nora Seed, who is full of regrets over how she lived her life. In between life and death she is given the chance to explore how alternate lives would have played out had she made different choices thanks to the magic of The Midnight Library. We also share our own regrets and wrong turns that ultimately led us to where we are today. We absolutely loved this book and hope you did too! Join us in the Facebook group to discuss!

Instagram:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Somewhere Only we Know by Maurene Goo

March Book

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Unpopular opinions: controversial things we love + hate Mar 24, 2021

Between Grace’s upcoming move to Charleston and Becca’s immersion in RomComPods Season 3 production, we realized we haven’t had much time to catch up! So this week is a little off the rails grab-bag episode where we embrace all of our most unpopular opinions on popular things, and the other way around. It’s always fun to unearth more things that we don’t know about each other. This includes but is definitely not limited to our trash people tendencies, lowbrow loves, overrated beauty products... and to be honest - a lot of thoughts on cheese.

Instagram:

@thecatchmeifyoucan

Produces Discussed:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Delicious! by Ruth Reichel
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

March Book

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOPNIGHT at checkout.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Julia Turshen on Home Cooking, Body Image, and the word “Healthy” Mar 17, 2021

Home chef and New York Times bestselling author Julia Turshen joins us to talk about her journey to writing cookbooks, her relationship with her body, and her personal, new cookbook Simply Julia. We also hear the adorable story of how she met her wife, Grace (a true Internet meet-cute!) and discuss her inclusive food database, Equity at the Table.

More Julia:

Julia Rec:

Maintenance Phase Podcast

Instagram:

@opalvadhan on instagram

Obsessions:

Abby Alley

What We’re Reading:

A Special Place for Women by Laura Hankin
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

March Book

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Spring 2021 Edition: Everything we are watching and listening to right now! Mar 10, 2021

It has been a year in pandemic purgatory and if you are like us (which we assume you are, because you’re here!) then you might be running out of ways to entertain yourself at home. We have both been recently watching and listening to a lot of great content and thought we would share a roundup of our favorite movies, tv shows, podcasts and more. Consider this your to-watch list!

Join us in the Facebook group and give us your recs!

Movie Recs:

Minari
Promising Young Woman
Nomadland
Fake Famous
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Always and Forever Laura Jean
Moxie

Rabbit Holes:

Framing Britney Spears Documentary
Britney’s Gram podcast
Eat Pray Britney Podcast
Anna Delvey
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams

TV Recs:

Firefly Lane
Bling Empire
Flack
Mr Mayor
Bonding
Superstore
Lady in the Dale
Behind Her Eyes
Tell Me Your Secrets
Lupin

Podcasts:

Newsletters:

Instagram:

@nelldiamond

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Her Three Lives by Cate Holahan (April release)
The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Love Scenes by Bridget Morrissey (June 22 release)

March Book

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Sponsor:

Night: Buy one of the Dual Sided Skincare Pillow cases and get one free with code BOP at discovernight.com.
Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

An Interview with Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Feb 25, 2021

Today we spoke with Frances Cha, the author of our February book club pick - If I Had Your Face. Frances is a NYC-based author who splits her time between the US and Seoul. She shares her experiences researching plastic surgery, room salons, and mental health for the book. We discuss the way she developed her characters to each embody a different theme of Korean culture, the journey to finally releasing the book during the pandemic, and what she’s working on now!

More Frances Cha:

@franceschawrites on instagram

Frances’s Asian Author Book Recs:

David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College by Ed Lin
The Magical Language of Others by E.J Koh

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

If I Had Your Face Book Club Feb 24, 2021

For this month’s book club we read If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha. Just 30 pages into this book, we both knew it had to be our book club pick. Neither of us haven read anything like it before and there is so much to talk about. The story revolves around 4 women who all live in the same apartment building in contemporary Seoul, South Korea. The book explores impossible beauty standards and strict social hierarchies, fangirling over K-POP bands, jealousy, relationships, sex work and room salons. We discuss plastic surgery, the fast-paced Korean Beauty market, the feelings around family and marriage in Korea, and more.

Join us in the Facebook group and let us know your thoughts on this month’s pick!

Instagram:

@theannadelvey

Contemporary books about life in other countries:

Yolk by Mary H K Choi
Anna K by Jenny Lee
White Ivy by Susie Yang

What We’re Reading:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Too Good to be True by Carola Lovering
Transcendent Kingdom Yah Gyasi
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

February Book

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Sponsor:

Night: Buy one of the Dual Sided Skincare Pillow cases and get one free with code BOP at discovernight.com.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

How We Read So Much + Hidden Gem Books (With Listener Recs!) Feb 17, 2021

One of the things we get asked about most is how to read more. So we tackle that during the first fifteen minutes of this episode. (Spoiler alert: being single and childfree during a pandemic helps!) When we read, the advantages of audiobooks, and how to find books you truly love reading, and more! For the rest of the episode, we dive into our favorite hidden gem books. We each brought our five favorite hidden gem books to the table, peppering them in with recommendations from YOU! So this episode is packed with hidden gems to read. 10 from us, 14 from you… get ready for some amazing recommendations!

Join in the FB group to add your favorites to the conversation!

Becca and Grace’s Recs:

The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
Peach Tree Bluff Series Kristy Woodson Harvey
Kitchens of The Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
Who’s That Girl & You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane
American Predator by Maureen Callahan
Musical Chairs by Amy Poepell
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The Conspiracy of Us Trilogy by Maggie Hall

Reader Recs:

The Dream Daughter  by Diane Chamberlain
The Tea Rose Series  by Jennifer Donnelly
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by  Robin Sloan
The Indifferent Stars Above by  Daniel James Brown
The League of Extraordinary Women (Series)
Love Walked In  by Maris Los Santos
The Pull of The Stars  by Emma Donoghue
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA   by Amaryllis Fox
Delicious by Ruth Reichel 
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The City Baker’s Guide To Country Living  by Louise Miller
We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
A Heart In A Body In The World  by Deb Caletti
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

Instagram:

@oldgap_

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Yolk by Mary H K Choi
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The Underground Railroad by Colston Whitehead

February Book

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.
Prose: Get 15% off your first order at prose.com/bop

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Small Business School with Luv Scrub Founder, Caroline Owusu-Ansah Feb 10, 2021

Today we are joined by Caroline Owusu-Ansah, the founder of Luv Scrub! If you have been listening for a while you know that Grace is obsessed with her Luv Scrub—and rightfully so. This exfoliating cloth was awarded Allure’s Best of Beauty Award, leaves your skin baby soft, and replaces your old loofah or pouf - for good! Caroline shares the journey to build her business and her lessons learned, from ways to avoid burnout to finding a mentor to taking care of your mental health.

More Caroline:

Instagram:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Lynching by Laurence Leamur
Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
All Girls by Emily Layden
The Therapist by B.A. Paris (out in July)
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

February Book

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Quarantine Winter: Updates From 11 Months Indoors Feb 03, 2021

With almost a full year of quarantine life under our belts, we’re checking in with each other on how we’re feeling, what’s giving us hope, and how we are staying motivated to do anything more than watching Netflix. Grace shares more about her season of self-improvement and Becca talks about how big projects are giving her quarantine a sense of purpose. We’re also talking about the activities that are keeping us busy (puzzles!) and what we’ve been watching during our nights in.

We want to hear about your quarantine feels (and distractions) in the Facebook group!

TV and Movie Recs:

Bridgerton
The Bold Type
The Flight Attendant
Ted lasso
Schitt’s Creek
Saved By the Bell reboot
Pretend It’s A City (Fran Leibowitz docuseries)
The Undoing
Lupin
Money Heist
Ready Player One
Crazy Rich Asians

Read in a Day Book recs:

Thrillers: Anything by Megan Miranda, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, or Liv Constantine
28 Summers and The Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand
The Mall by Megan McCafferty
Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

Instagram:

@vp
@flotus

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
The Lynching by Laurence Leamur
Infinite Country by Patricia Engal (our March 2)
The Mothers by Britt Bennett
The Beach Club by Ellin Hildebrand
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (our May 11)
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

February Book

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

An Interview with Elizabeth Gilbert Jan 28, 2021

Today we are joined by Elizabeth Gilbert the New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, City of Girls, and (of course!) our January Book Club pick Big Magic. We talk about her decision to write Big Magic and the writing process behind it. She shares her unique perspectives on creativity and how every person can find and grow in that space. She talks about staying actively (and not-so actively) creative during the pandemic, ditching social media for the greater good, and learning how to be kind to yourself. If you have been needing some motivation this is the 2021 pep talk you have been waiting for!

More Elizabeth Gilbert:

February Book

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Sponsor:

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Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Big Magic Book Club Jan 27, 2021

We found it fitting that Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert was our first book club of 2021. Becca reads this book every January to jumpstart her year, and we wanted to include you on her tradition. Reading this book is the creativity pep talk we all need so badly right now. Elizabeth approaches creativity with lightness and joy. Even if you don’t consider yourself a creative person, you will take so much away from this book. We touch on each chapter and our biggest takeaways and share our own journeys with creativity. We love this book (can you tell?) and we hope you did too! Tell us your thoughts in the FB group and join us tomorrow for a bonus episode with the author!

If you liked Big Magic:

Daring Greatly by Brenè Brown
Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit by Steven Pressfeld
Like Brothers by Mark and Jay Duplass
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Thirteen Lune

What We’re Reading:

Heavy by Kiese Laymon
On Writing by Stephen King
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

February Book

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.
Misen: Go to misen.com/bop for 20% off your first order.
HelloFresh: Go to hellofresh.com/10BOP and use code 10BOP to get 10 free meals and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Azora Zoe Paknad, founder of Goldune, talks Sustainability Jan 21, 2021

In today’s episode we are joined by Azora Zoe Paknad, the founder of Goldune. Before starting Goldune in the middle of the pandemic (in the short span of 5 months!), Azora Zoe worked for Food52 and before that, she was Grace’s social media intern at BaubleBar! She has worked in the ecommerce and content space for years and when quarantine started she got to work and started her own e-commerce site, selling the best sustainable homewares. Azora Zoe shares the intense process of building a company and her personal journey to this point. We talk about reusable straws, food storage tips, product swaps and shocking recycling facts. Do you know what a soapberry is? Neither did we! We got a crash course in sustainability and we hope this helps you find little ways you can make changes in your everyday life that will work towards a healthier planet.

More Zoe:

@goldune.co instagram
Goldune.com Use code BOP for $10 off your first order

Zoe’s Recs:

Kosas Big Clean Mascara
Nature First Laundry Pods
@pattygonia
@intersectionalenvironmentalist
@katieboue
Noap - Plastic Free Shampoo and Conditioner
Hand blown glass straws
Biodegradable Sponge, Scrub + Brush Set
Earth911.org

Instagram:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

Heavy by Kiese Laymon
The End of Her by Shari Lapena
Layla by Colleen Hoover
The Blue Bistro by Elin Hildebrand
Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams

January Book

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.
Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

2021 Resolutions Jan 13, 2021

It’s the time of year where we reflect on past resolutions and create new ones for the new year ahead. As we look back on the insanity of 2020 and the way that it affected our goals and ability to achieve them, we found some silver linings! Although we are definitely cautious as we set our 2021 goals, we’re also optimistic. We talk about our personal, business, and mental and physical health resolutions and the steps we are taking to get there. Whether you like to make resolutions or you just like to wing it, we support it! If we learned anything in 2020, it’s that this year needs to be about being good to yourself.

11 Goal Setting Apps - help keep you on track!

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Ouidad Leave-in Conditioner
Bimble - CBD Seltzer code GRACE for 20% off

What We’re Reading:

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (out in April)
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren (out in May)
Musical Chairs by Amy Poepple

Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee

Make Up Break Up by Lily Menon

January Book

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Sponsor:

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Misen: Go to misen.com/bop for 20% off your first order.
Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Your 2021 Tarotscope with Kelley Knight Jan 06, 2021

We’re back with our first episode of a brand new year! To kick off 2021 we are joined by Kelley Knight, author of Spells for the Modern Mystic Ritual Guidebook and Spellcasting Kit. Kelley is bringing mysticism into the mainstream, and we are here for it! We chat about her own psychic awakening, building her business, and her freakiest predictions. She does a mini tarot reading for each horoscope sign to see what lies in the year ahead. We also have a bonus January reading for those Virgos and Libras like us! We even learn a quick cleansing spell to clear out the bad the vibes that 2020 left behind.

Don’t know your sun sign or your rising/ascending sign? Visit Astro.com and all you need is birth location, date, and time.

More Kelley Knight:

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Death to 2020 on Netflix
Plant Juice Oils - Doze off
Sex and the City
Worthy Threads Tie Dye Sweat Suit
Electric & Rose Work out Sets
Ted Lasso

What We’re Reading:

A Promised Land by Barack Obama
White Ivy by Susie Yang
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
Admission by Julie Buxbaum
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
People Like Her by Ellery Loyd
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
What would Frida Do? by Arianna davis
Winter Street by Elin Hildebrand 
28 Summers by Elin Hildebrand 
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood 
Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano 
The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali

January Book

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.
Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/10BOP and use code 10BOP to get 10 free meals and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Cousins Book Club Dec 16, 2020

For the last book club of 2020, we chose The Cousins by Karen McManus. This is a twisty YA thriller, sans murder - making it kind of the perfect book for both of us! This is the tale of Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story: three cousins who barely know each other but are invited to work at their estranged grandmother’s resort. All of their parents have been disinherited and the cousins learn more and more about the dark secrets of their family’s past. We chat about which cousins we relate to most, our theories about the ending, and our interest in the psyche of the adult characters. We both really enjoyed this book and we hope you did too!

Join us in the Facebook group and let us know what you thought!

More Non-Scary YA Thrillers:

One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
One of Us is Next by Karen McManus
Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman
All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth

Obsessions:

Other Products Mentioned:

Blundstone Boots

What We’re Reading:

Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
White Ivy by Susie Yang
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
Swear on this Life by Renee Carlino
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

January Book Club:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.
Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/80BOP and use code 80BOP to get $80 off your first box and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Best of 2020 Dec 09, 2020

2020 is coming to a close and we are not going to let this year end on a negative note. There were really some great things about this year (politics and pandemics aside, of course). In this episode we talk about our biggest professional and personal accomplishments this year and all of our favorite purchases. We reminisce about our favorite episodes of the pod this year, our favorite books, clothing and beauty purchases and all of our favorite ways that we self-cared our way through 2020.

Grace’s Post: I don’t want kids … and that’s okay!

Best Overall Purchase of 2020:

Grace’s Dining Chairs - Vintage Marcel Breuer Cesca Chairs via 1st Dibs
Brightland Olive Oil
Fridge Lazy Susan
The SoulCycle Bike

Favorite Clothing Purchases of 2020:

Pandemic Pants from Old Navy
Aerie corded oversized sweatshirt (Quarter zip version; original is sold out)
Eileen Fisher Tunic Sweaters
Ralph Lauren Blazer
Vuori Joggers
Amazon Fleece

Favorite Beauty Purchases of 2020:

Favorite Home Goods of 2020:

The air-fryer

Favorite Books of 2020:

Grace:

One to Watch by Kate Stayman - London
The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Becca:

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
One to Watch by Kate Stayman - London
The Boys’ Club by Erica Katz
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Open Book by Jessica Simpson (audiobook)

Favorite TV Shows of 2020:

The Undoing
The Queen’s Gambit
The Politician Season 2
Hollywood
Never Have I Ever
Dash and Lily

Favorite Movies of 2020:

The High Note
1917
Nancy Meyers Movies

Favorite Recipes of 2020:

Instagram:

@the.sattva.life

Obsessions:

Robinhood Investment App
Virgin River

What We’re Reading:

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
The Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
Christmas At the Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood

December Book Club: (Episode out Dec 16th!)

The Cousins by Karen McManus

Sponsor:

Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Holiday Episode Dec 02, 2020

How is it possible we’ve never done a holiday episode?! Let’s fix that starting… now! In this episode we talk about our favorite holiday traditions, how we decorate, our fave holiday foods, and, of course, the best movies and books to get you into the holiday spirit. We also share our favorite small businesses that you should know about for gift shopping this holiday season!

Join us in the FB group and tell us your favorite small businesses!

Holiday Movies:

Elf
The Christmas Contract
A Christmas Inheritance
A Christmas Prince
Love Actually
The Holiday
The Holidate
The Princess Switch 2
Christmas with a Prince

Holiday Books:

One Day in December by Josie Silver
We Met in December by Rosie Curtis
The 12 Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
Christmas at the Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan

Small Business Recs:

Grace:

Beauty: Indie Lee, Follain, Klur, Luv Scrub, Woo Me Beauty 
Food: Trufflin Hot Sauce, Red Clay Hot Sauce
Jewelry: Nicola Bathie, Holst + Lee, Candyshop Vintage
Clothing: Nightire, Worthy Threads 
Lifestyle: Dusen Dusen fashion towels, Chappywrap Blanket 
Etsy: Luma and Co 
Candles: Sensual Candle Co 
Home: Rebecca Atwood

Becca:

Brooklyn Candle Studio 
Food: Serving New York Book, Flatiron Pepper Company 
Clothes/lounge: Printfresh Robes, Recliner Pajamas, Phenomenal 
Etsy:  Fat Pom Poms , Delancey Collective , Doebello, Jill Makes
Gift Idea: Ideal Bookshelf  
Gift Cards: Local restaurants, bookstores

Instagram:

Obsessions:

What We’re Reading:

The Cousins by Karen McManus
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
The 12 Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
The Talented Miss Farewell by Emily Gray Tedrowe
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens

December Book Club: (Episode out Dec 16th!)

The Cousins by Karen McManus

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bonus Episode with Diksha Basu Nov 27, 2020

Today we are joined by Diksha Basu, the author of our November Book Club pick, Destination Wedding. We are so excited to get the inside scoop on this book! Diksha is an author, former actress, and academic from New Delhi, India, and she now divides her time between New York City and Bombay.

We explore what ‘home’ means to her, and how that influenced this book. She shares her unique writing process, starting with character development before plot. We also talk about our favorite character (Tina, who we want to be our BFF) and our least favorite (Marianne) and the inspiration behind them.

More Diksha:

@dikshabasu on twitter
@Diksha_basu on insta
Bookshop.org to buy her books
Please send her a message if you liked the book!

Favorite Indian Authors:

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi

Favorite Pakistani Authors:

Moth Smoke by Moshin Hamid
Moni Mohsin
Rohinton Mistry
Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Destination Wedding Book Club Nov 25, 2020

For our November Book Club we read Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu. This book is exactly what we needed as we are both missing travel, meeting new people, and big events like weddings! The story follows Tina Das, a Brooklynite who is traveling to India with her divorced parents and her best friend to attend a cousin’s lavish wedding. Both Tina and her father are looking for love while on their trip, with some pretty mixed results. This book was such a fun read that will have you laughing, and, if you’re like us, wanting to be best friends with the main character.

Also tune in Friday for a bonus episode with the author! Join us in the FB group and let us know what you think of the book, and let’s talk about other book characters you’d want to be best friends with!

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Malin + Goetz Cannabis Candle
Aerie Loungewear

What We’re Reading:

The Cousins by Karen McManus (out Dec 1)
Simmer Down by Sarah Smith
Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The 12 Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss

Sponsor:

Night: Shop the Black Friday Sale early go to discovernight.com and get 30% off with code BOP30 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Holiday Gifting with Caroline Moss Nov 18, 2020

Welcome to our holiday gift guide episode with Caroline Moss. Caroline is the host of “Gee Thanks, Just Bought it,” a podcast about all things shopping. Her podcast explores the fun things she and her guests have found on the internet, bought, and loved. We are big fans and think you’ll like it too! We talk about what we’re eyeing on Black Friday, plus gift ideas for moms, best friends, kids, and the office secret santa. We hope this episode gives you some great gift ideas (we certainly checked a few people off our list while recording!).

Mom or Mother in-law Gift Recs:

The Revlon One Step Volumizer
Barefoot Dreams Cardigan
CBD Bath Soaks from Equilibria or Lord Jones
Four Seasons Hotel Robe
Dr. Bader Face Cream
Night Pillow (use code BOP30 for 30% off in November)
10 Foot Phone Charger
Mophie Battery

Sister or Best Friend Recs:

Olive & June manicure and pedicure full sets
Natori Shangri La Robe and Print Fresh Robes
Byredo Tree house Candle
Le Labo Santal 26 Candle
Brooklyn Candle Company
Maison Louis Marie no. 4 Candle
Diptique Baies Candle
Thymes Candle Fraiser fir
Headspace Meditation Gift Card
Dusen Dusen Towels
Klur Body Oil
Embroidered pillow from Jonathan Adler or Furbish

For someone else’s child Gift Recs:

Under $20 secret Santa Gift Recs:

The Lexon Mino
The Luv Scrub
Necessaire eucalyptus body wash
Big Macs and Burgundy Book
The Hyper Chiller
The Delancey Collective Resin coasters and Barrettes (code: GEETHANKS will get you 20% off)

More Caroline:

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Dash & Lilly on Netflix
The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix
Cuup Bras
Southern Charm Season 7

What We’re Reading:

Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
The Cousins by Karen McManus (out Dec 1)
Ralph Lauren Coffee Table Book
Headliners by Lucy Parker
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

November Book Club:

Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu

Sponsor:

Kassatex: Go to kassatex.com and take 20% off sitewide with code BOP20.
HelloFresh: Go to hellofresh.com/BOP90 and use code BOP90 to get $90 off your first box and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Royal Fashion with Elizabeth Holmes Nov 11, 2020

Elizabeth Holmes, the author of HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style joins us to talk about royal fashion moments and her new book. Elizabeth shares the analytical lens she uses to observe and report on royal style, thinking about the message behind the clothes just as much as their glamour. We dig into the writing process, photo selection, and her favorite royal outfits (and missteps!). She also shares how recent conversations around race and racism have impacted how she covers Meghan and royal style overall.

More Elizabeth:

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Alice Chicolini
The Undoing on HBO
Ilia Mascara

What We’re Reading:

Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
Take a Hint, Dani Brown byTalia Hibbert
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

November Book Club:

Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu

Sponsor:

Night: Grab the Black Friday Sale early go to discovernight.com and get 30% off with code BOP30 at checkout.
Bombas: So give a pair of socks when you buy a pair and get 20% off your first purchase bombas.com/BOP

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Just Us: Our favorite movies + TV shows. Nov 04, 2020

For today’s episode, in honor of the cooler temps coming our way, we are sharing our favorite TV shows and movies. Hopefully this list will make your winter quarantine a little more entertaining! We have both found that being inside more has led us both to watching a lot more TV than movies. We still stick to our fav genres- Becca almost exclusively watches Rom Coms, and Grace likes anything with secret agents or lawyers, and of course documentaries! Differences aside, we can both agree that we really do love an old person romance… especially when Nancy Meyers is behind it. We have found a lot of joy in watching our favorite shows from childhood, college, and now to help beat the blues of being stuck inside.

Favorite Childhood Shows:

Anne of Green Gables

Avonlea

Saved by the Bell

Gilmore Girls

Dawson’s Creek

90210

What we are watching in quarantine:

The Politician

Love Life

Dr. Foster

The Morning Show

White Collar

New Girl

Episodes

Dead to Me

Scandal

Never Have I Ever 

Grace’s All Time Favorites:

Gilmore Girls

Sex in the City

Game of Thrones

West Wing

Suits

White Collar

You

Becca’s All Time Favorites:

30 Rock

The Good Place

Parks and Recreation

Gossip Girl

Current TV Shows to check out:

Younger

The Bold Type

Emily in Paris

Other TV Shows Mentioned:

Covert Affairs

Jack Ryan

Movies Series to pass the time:

The Oceans movies

Back To the Future Trilogy

Harry Potter

Becca’s go-to Rom Coms:

Morning Glory

About Time

Set it Up

Always be my Maybe

No Strings Attached

The Wedding Year

Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist

Grace’s go-to Movies:

She’s Out of Control

Can’t Buy Me Love

Working Girl

The Intern

Something’s Gotta Give

It’s Complicated

Home Again

The Holiday

Becca’s Favorite Childhood Movies:

Mermaids

The Air Up There

Romeo & Juliet

That Thing You Do

Grace’s Favorite Childhood Movies:

The Neverending Story

Princess Bride

BIG

Sleepless in Seattle

Aladdin

The Mighty Ducks

Documentaries:

One of Us

Cuban Food Stories

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Favorite Recent Films

1917

The High Note

Potential New Favorite Rom Com (will report back!)

The Holidate

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Icy Hot Patches
Printfresh Robe
Goldune

What We’re Reading:

Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Unravelling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

November Book Club:

Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu

Sponsor:

Uncommon Goods: To get 15% off your first gift go to uncommongoods.com/bop
Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bonus: Alexis Daria on writing complicated LatinX families and the evolving romance genre Oct 29, 2020

Alexis Daria is a native New Yorker, award winning author, celeb sighting specialist, who wrote our October Book Club pick, You Had Me at Hola. We get the inside scoop on her choice to write about the world of telenovelas and the ways that her own family mirrors the characters in the story. We learn more about the changes happening in the Romance genre from both the publishing and the consumer side. We get a peek into her writing process and how she writes such steamy sex scenes! We also get her favorite open door sex scene book recs, LatinX romance recs, and more.

More Alexis:

@alexisdaria on twitter
@alexisdaria on Instagram
alexisdaria.com
newsletter sign up on her website
The Dance Off Series by Alexis Daria

Favorite Open Door Sex Scene Book Recs:

The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
Uptown Girl Series by Joanna Shupe
Girl Meets Duke Series by Tessa Dare
Toxic Desire by Robin Lovett

LatinX Romance Writer Recs:

Sponsor:

Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/80BOP and use code 80BOP to get $80 off your first box and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

You Had Me at Hola Book Club Oct 28, 2020

For this month’s book club, we read You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria. This is the story of Jasmine Lin Rodriguez, the lead actress of the telenovela “Carmen in Charge.” She plans to swear off men and follow her Leading Lady Plan, but her plan is compromised when she falls for her co-star, Ashton Suarez. They want to keep things private, but the paparazzi makes this impossible, causing a lot of strain on their budding relationship. This was essentially a RomCom about a RomCom (peak Becca genre), and we had a lot to talk about! This book is steamy in all the right places, while still tackling some more serious issues (LatinX underrepresentation in the film/TV world, consent). Though both characters make some arguably bad decisions, and kept some big secrets, we stood by them til the end and really enjoyed this book.

We loved this book, and hope you did too, let’s talk more in the FB group! And come back tomorrow for a special bonus episode with the author.

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@hicailtinreilly

We’re Reading:

Love and Other Contagious Diseases (Name was changed to The White Coat Diaries for publication) by Maddi Singha
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Becca Interviews Grace. Oct 21, 2020

This week it’s Grace’s turn in the hot seat. Becca is getting the answers to all of your most burning questions: will she get another cat? What are her trash person tendencies? How does she find new artists? What was working with Amazon the Drop like? We also learn more about her life as the oldest of three sisters, dealing with being laid off, saving habits, her fall skincare routine, and more.

Grace’s Fall Skincare Routine:

Grace’s Favorite Artists:

Obsessions:

Love Life on HBO Max
Whiled puzzles

Instagram:

@loveclothblog

We’re Reading:

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
Cobble Hill by Cecily von Ziegesar
Now That I Found You by Kristina Forest
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Tretheway
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

October Book Club:

You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.
Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/80BOP and use code 80BOP to get $80 off your first box and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

All Things Fall, with Olivia Muenter! Oct 14, 2020

Disclosure: This episode is NOT sponsored by Bath & Body Works. We wish it was, but sadly that is not the case. This week, we are joined by our “fall correspondent,” Olivia Muenter. A Fall themed episode was highly requested, and we knew Olivia would be the perfect person to join us! Olivia is a writer, editor, and digital content creator. She’s also a massive B&BW candle aficionado. We talk fall recipes, getaways, decor, movies, books and of course.. CANDLES. If you are wondering what all of Olivia’s favorite fall candle scents are, you are in the right place. We have been influenced and ordered Leaves and Flannel while recording the episode. Guess we will see if they live up to the hype!

More Olivia:

Bath & Body Works Candle Recs:

Leaves
Flannel
Caramel Pumpkin Swirl
Apple Picking
Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin
Balsam
Fraser Fir
Fresh Linen
Vanilla Bean

Olivia’s Fall Book Recs:

City of the Lost by Kelly Armstrong
Verity by Colleen Hoover

Olivia’s Fall Movie Recs:

NXIVM Doc - The Vow on HBO
You’ve Got Mail
Harvest Love
Love, Fall and Order
Virgin River

More Fall Recs:

All for Fall & Halloween FB Group
LL Bean Slipper Boots

Obsessions:

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

Save the Cat Strikes Back by Blake Snyder
Screenplay by Syd Field
Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
The Girl with The Louding Voice by Abi Duray
Cobble Hill by Cecily von Ziegesar
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Boudain

October Book Club:

You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #8: Yvanna Cancela Oct 09, 2020

Yvanna Cancela represents Nevada’s 10th district in the State Senate, and is the first latina to ever serve in the chamber. Today she joins us to share all the ways you can *still* get involved and make a difference this election. With the election coming SO SOON it’s important to get clarity on the process and the ways that you can donate your time (or money) to help the causes you care about.

As the first ever latina to serve in the State Senate, Yvanna is wildly aware of the gender and racial representation problems our country faces and strives to elevate diverse voices in politics, because that truly is the only way the country will progress toward equality. We discuss how to get involved in battleground states, voting strategies, researching candidates, which races she is watching closely, and why she backs Joe Biden for President.

About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

For more info:

To learn more about getting involved in Nevada: NVdems.com/events

To learn more about each state’s phone/text bank initiatives: joebiden.com

Please Vote!: iwillvote.com

Yvanna on Twitter: @yvannacancela

Grace interviews Becca! Oct 07, 2020

Today’s guest was a huge get for the podcast… JK, it’s Becca! Last December, we took turns interviewing each other and had such a great time doing it that we decided to do it again. So today, Becca is in the hot seat; answering all of your questions about life, career, family, friendships, and quarantine. We also get the RomComPods origin story. Other burning questions: will she ever get a dog? Would she write an Idea of You FanFic? A book about organization? Could she see herself as a full time Rom Com writer? And of course, she lists her favorite books of 2020, favorite podcasts, favorite British chick lit books, Brooklyn restaurants, and more.

Becca’s Top 5 favorite Books of 2020:

Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi
One to Watch By Kate Stayman-London
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
Open Book by Jessica Simpson (Audiobook)
A Court of Thorns and Roses Series by Sarah J Maas

Becca’s Top 3 British Chick Lit:

Who’s that Girl By Mhairi McFarlane
Would like to Meet by Rachel Winters
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me By Sarra Manning
More recs in Becca’s Amazon Shop

Becca’s Podcast Recs:

Becca’s Favorite Restaurants in Brooklyn:

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@adrienmillerart
@emmaberyl (Becca’s decorator)

We’re Reading:

Empire High Untouchables by Ivy Smoak
They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Boudain

October Book Club:

You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

Sponsor:

Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com/bop50 with offer code BOP50 at checkout..

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Majesty (American Royals #2) Book Club w/ Guest: Katharine McGee Sep 30, 2020

Today we’re discussing our September book club pick: Majesty (American Royals book #2) by Katharine McGee. We’re also joined by the author herself to get a behind the scenes peek at the writing process, the real-life royal inspiration moments, and gossip on what’s next for this series. We loved this book and can’t wait to talk about it with you. Join in the discussion on the Facebook Group.

More Katharine McGee:

Katharine McGee Book Recs:

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown

Obsessions:

Beyond Yoga Bike Shorts
Facebook Group SoulCycle at Home
John Mulaney Kid Gorgeous
Harry Potter Virtual Box Set
The Home Edit TV Show

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Boudain
The Roommate by Rosie Danan

October Book Club:

You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Career Q&A Part 2 [Corrected] Sep 23, 2020

We are back to answer more of your career questions! In this episode we dig a little deeper into some of your more specific situations and hear from a listener looking to transition from the dental field into marketing, someone who’s boss refuses to give them feedback, and someone debating what to do about their maternity leave. We also tackle some questions on work and Covid — from motivation to desk decor.

“Finding a new career” book recs:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Career Code by Hillary Kerr
The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker

Obsessions:

Naadam’s fall cashmere
SoulCycle at-home Bike

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
Destination Wedding by Dicta Bosu
In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk
Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo
Before She Was Helen by Caroline Cooney
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
The Roommate by Rosie Danan

September Book Club:

Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee

Sponsor:

Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Gross on Paper is here! Sep 16, 2020

It’s finally here - the Grossy Pelosi / Bad on Paper crossover episode (AKA Gross on Paper). Dan Pelosi is the creator behind the Instagram account @grossypelosi and website, danpelosi.com. Today, he joins us to talk all things food! Dan shares his cooking origin story: from a childhood spent in his grandparents kitchen to having his own platform. He runs down a list of meals for when you are trying to impress or just decompress, gives grocery shopping tips, and chats ways to repurpose leftovers. And — of course — a few Bimpy stories along the way!

More Dan:

Cookbooks:

Where Cooking Begins by Carla Lalli
Barefoot Contessa Cookbooks
River Cafe Cookbook - 30th Anniversary Edition

Obsessions:

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
The Mall by Megan McCafferty
Destination Wedding by Dicta Bosu
Kings County by David Goodwillie

September Book Club:

Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee

Sponsor:

Bombas: So give a pair of socks when you buy a pair and get 20% off your first purchase bombas.com/BOP
Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Career Q&A Part 1! Sep 09, 2020

It’s been a while since we have talked about our jobs and answered your career questions so today… we’re doing it! We got so many questions that we split ‘em up into two episodes, so stay tuned for part 2!

Today we have a mix of personal questions about our careers and some of your more meaty, specific scenarios. We dig into the different ways we have built up our audience and client base, vetting clients and determining your worth. We talk about our 5-10 year plan (more like, lack thereof!), grad school, imposter syndrome, how to effectively network and how our political beliefs have affected the podcast and our jobs. We really loved all of your specific work questions, and we give advice to folks who have been encountering challenges with job titles, managing people, asking for more money (what is your spaghetti number?), and being pigeonholed into a role you dislike. Please send us more of these questions, we love them!

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@stay_snatched
@saralyon9 and @sovehome

We’re Reading:

Follow Me by Cathleen Barber
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
Kings County by David Goodwillie

September Book Club:

Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee

Sponsor:

Bon Viv: Try them and take a photo of your favorite flavor and tag us on instagram!
Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Venita Aspen on her new podcast, cooking, and Charleston living. Sep 02, 2020

In this episode we are joined by Venita Aspen, an influencer, model, creative, and co-host of the newly launched podcast, Group Chat Realness. Venita tells us about everything from working fashion week to culinary school and her journey to the career she has today — owning her own creative agency, The Aspen Agency. We dive into what keeps her creative and inspired, and how she takes care of herself (mentally, physically, brows & skincare). We learn more about the Aspen Agency, her life as an influencer in the wake of BLM and the changes she has seen since the movement began, and of course… the birth of her podcast! Then, we (of course!) dive into ALL of her favorite Charleston Recs!

Black creators + brands:

Venita’s Skincare Routine:

Venita’s Brow Routine:

Charleston Reccs:

More Venita:

Obsessions:

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
More than Maybe by Erin Hahn
Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu

September Book Club:

Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee

Sponsor:

Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/80BOP and use code 80BOP to get $80 off your first box and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #7: Stef Feldman, Biden Harris 2020 National Policy Director, on Joe Biden’s Policies Aug 28, 2020

Joining us today is Stef Feldman, the National Policy Director for Vice President Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign. Stef walks us through her career path from local government in Atlanta to the White House, shedding light on how important it is to work with a political candidate that inspires you and how Joe Biden has inspired and empowered her. She shares her experience working on the campaign, the day-to-day of her job, and then we dive into Biden’s policies and perspectives.

We talk about how COVID has impacted the campaign, Biden’s policies to contain and recover from the virus and his plans to scale up testing. We talk about healthcare, women’s reproductive health, and what is happening with the Affordable Care Act. We also talk about racial inequality in America and what Biden plans to do about it. Lastly, Stef give us tips on how to vote and how to get involved. We all need to make sure we have a voting plan in place!

About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

For more info:

Joebiden.com

Text WOMEN to 30330 to find out how you can get involved

Text VOTE to 30330 for voting information

The Comeback Book Club Aug 26, 2020

For our August Book Club we read The Comeback by Ella Berman. The book follows Grace Turner, a young actress who disappeared from Hollywood at the height of her career. During her rise to fame as a teenager, she was sexually and emotionally abused by Abel Yorke, the director who made her famous. After she’s invited to present him with a lifetime achievement award she begins to plot her revenge. Even though Grace is a pretty unlikeable character we still loved her story and root for her revenge. This book isn’t in either of our normal wheel houses, but we loved the story and hope you loved it too! Let’s discuss in the FB group!

Obsessions:

Shaker and Spoon
H&M dresses

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria

September Book Club:

Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Bon Viv Spiked Seltzer : Try one and take a photo of your favorite flavor and tag us on instagram!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

A game of ‘Would You Rather’ Aug 19, 2020

We decided to do a lighter episode this week. On instagram we asked you to propose some fun ‘would you rather’ scenarios and boy, did you deliver! Some are crazy (but for better or worse we still made our choice!), some are silly, and we definitely didn’t agree on everything. Which one of us would give up booze? Which one would give up travel? Who would rather have a lobster claw for an arm than a floor length white beard? What could make us give up books? What about quarantining forever? You can learn a lot about a person in a good game of WYR. We hope this episode makes you laugh!

Obsessions:

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

American Royals 2: Majesty by Katharine McGee
How to be an Anti Racist (Audiobook) Ibram X. Kendi
Rodham: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
The Changeling by Victor LaValle

August Book Club:

The Comeback by Ella Berman

Sponsor:

Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Carly Heitlinger talks Pandemics, Proposals, and Politics. Aug 12, 2020

She’s baaaack! Our most popular guest Carly Heitlinger (of the lifestyle blog Carly the Prepster!) joins us this week to catch up on how she is feeling at this point in the pandemic and what she has been doing to cope with anxiety and inability to really plan anything. Anything… but her upcoming wedding, that is! She gives us the scoop on her super-surprise proposal and tells us more about her fiance Mike (and his family). We also talk a little bit about politics and Carly’s decision to endorse Joe Biden. Lastly, we chat about blogging during a pandemic - it’s definitely been interesting? We wind down the episode talking about favorite snacks (hard agree on one choice, hard disagree on another) and how she manages to only follow 50 people on Instagram!

More Carly:

carlytheprepster.com
@carly on instagram
@carlysbookclub on instagram
@carlysstitchclub on instagram

Obsessions:

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson

August Book Club:

The Comeback by Ella Berman

Sponsor:

Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Traci from The Stacks joins us for a great conversation about books, podcasting, and more! Aug 05, 2020

This week we are joined by Traci Thomas! Traci is the host of The Stacks Podcast, a mom to twin girls, and an avid non-fiction reader. We get a behind the scenes look at how she chooses books for the pod, her favorite books of 2020 (and all time), and talk about the book she wishes would be written. We loved getting her perspective as she’s such a big non-fiction reader and both filled up our Bookshop.org carts with her recs while recording this episode. We talk about BLM, Black authors, and how to really do anti-racism work. We also chat about what happened with Book of the Month and how she is feeling about that.

More Traci:

Book Subscriptions:

Check out Traci's Post

Episodes to listen to in the Stacks:

Top 3 books 2020:

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Sula by Toni Morrison
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry

Top 3 books Ever:

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and Garth Williams
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson

Memoirs:

The Other Side by Lacy M Johnson
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Men we Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Jesus Land by Julia Sheeres

Audiobooks:

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Inside Out by Demi Moore
Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Other books mentioned:

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcom X by Les Payne
The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J Moore
Columbine by Dave Cullen
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown by Julia Sheeres

Obsessions:

Group Chat Realness Podcast
Taylor Swift’s New Album: Folklore

Instagram:

We’re Reading:

The Wife Stalker by Liv Constantine
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

August Book Club:

The Comeback by Ella Berman

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Vanishing Half Book Club Jul 29, 2020

This month, we read The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. This the story of identical twin sisters (and their daughters) spanning the fifties through the nineties. Desiree and Stella are inseparable growing up in the fictional light-skinned Black town of Mallard, Louisiana during the fifties in the Jim Crow-era south. When they are 16, they run away together to New Orleans. From there, their lives take completely different turns. Desiree marries a dark-skinned man and returns home to raise her daughter in Mallard, while Stella goes on to pass for white - hiding her identity and past from her new family. The book follows the girls’ stories and their daughters, who eventually end up meeting via a chance encounter. We discuss colorism, the theme of running away throughout the book, our interpretations of the title, and our mixed reviews on the ending. Although this book has been in the works for 4 years, its release couldn’t be more timely, as the story has such pointed views about race and privilege. We can’t wait to hear what you think of the book! Join in the discussion on the Facebook Group.

Interviews with Brit Bennett:

Obsessions:

Instagram:

Books:

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Boys’ Club by Erica Katz (out Aug 4)
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrice Cullors
The Wife Stalker by Liv Constantine
Self Care by Leigh Stein

August Book Club:

The Comeback by Ella Berman

Podcast:

Everything is Fine: a podcast for women about life over 40. Hosted by former Lucky magazine founding editor Kim France and documentary filmmaker Tally Abecassis.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Aminatou Sow + Ann Friedman on their book Big Friendship Jul 22, 2020

In this week’s episode, we chat with Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, the co-hosts of Call Your Girlfriend, about their new book, Big Friendship. The book provides an intimate peek inside their own decade-long friendship and also contains conversations with experts on the topic of friendship and it’s importance to our lives. We discussed their writing process, their thoughts on blending work and friendship, and their evolving thoughts on interracial friendships. We also dive into one of our most requested advice topics: how to make new friends as an adult (it’s so hard!).

More Aminatou + Ann:

bigfriendship.com
callyourgirlfriend.com
annfriedman.com sign up for her newsletter!
Support independent bookstores and the library in your area

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@kararbrown
@thetinytassel

Books:

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Older by Pamela Redmond (out in sept)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
The Boys’ Club by Erica Katz (out Aug 4)
The Comeback by Ella Berman (out Aug 4)
Like Brothers by Mark and Jay Duplass

July Book Club:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Care/of: Get 50% your first order at takecareof.com/bop50 with offer code BOP50 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

How We’re Surviving “Quarantine Summer”! Jul 15, 2020

It’s been a little while since we have talked about quarantine life, so we thought it was time to circle back and share what we have been doing to stay safe, sane, and entertained this summer. We share what our experience in NYC has been like - our expectations of quarantine and the reality. We also talk about the hobbies we have picked up, the activities we have fallen in love with, the books to read and what to watch.

Join us in the facebook group and let us know what you are doing in quarantine to stay busy this summer!

Activities:

Knitting: We Are Knitters kits
Gardening
New York Times Crossword
Puzzles
Purging and organizing
Try Needlepoint
Learn about Orange wine
Learn Something New with Materclass or an online course
Learn a Language with Duolingo
Project Cooking

Book Series Recs:

Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses; Throne of Glass)
The Selection
The Royal We and The Heir Affair
The Thousandth Floor series
Jasmine Guillory’s books, 5 of them

TV Recs:

The West Wing
Homeland
Scandal
Schitts Creek
White Collar
Younger
Gossip Girl
The Politician
Hollywood
Never have I ever

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@tanika_nyclifestlye
@chadtucket
@kinggutterbaby

Books:

Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Older by Pamela Redmond (out in sept)
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

July Book Club:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Sponsor:

Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/80BOP and use code 80BOP to get $80 off your first box and free shipping!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Nicolette Mason on Activism, Anti-Racism, and Using Your Social Platform to Support Your Values Jul 08, 2020

In this episode, our long-time friend Nicolette Mason joins us! Nicolette is a fellow blogger who is also a writer, strategist, body positivity content creator, and co-founder of Premme (RIP!), which was a plus size fashion brand. She shares her firsthand experiences protesting to support #BlackLivesMatter and Black trans lives and gives tips to first-time protestors. She also has recommendations for educating yourself and how to diversify the content you ingest on a daily basis. She also shares her career path, the inside scoop on her fashion line, and her favorite beauty products!

More Nicolette:

@nicolettemason on Instagram
@nicolettemason on Twitter

Nicolette’s Recs:

Instagram:

@ihartericka
@blairimani
@danielleprescod
@chrissyford
@nikkiogun
@iamjarijones
@janetmock

Authors and Figures to Research:

Audre Lorde
James Baldwin
Angela Davis
Ava DuVernay 13th Documentary (Netflix)
Laverne Cox’s Documentary Disclosure (Netflix)
Malcolm X
Eldrige Cleaver

Skin + Beauty:

Hair:

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@celiabdesigner

Books:

Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
One to Watch by Kate Stayman London
Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Wow No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Older by Pamela Redmond (out in sept)

July Book Club:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Sponsor:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Our Favorite Quarantine Purchases (With Special Guest: YOU!) Jul 01, 2020

In today’s episode we share all of our favorite quarantine purchases, and we also hear from you! Now that we have been in quarantine for months, and shifted seasons, we have lots of new products that we are obsessed with (and some that have stood the test of time - what is time?) We explore a variety of categories from home, food, kitchen, tech, beauty, clothing, and much more. We are so excited to share your recs and try them out for ourselves.

Food/Kitchen/Home:

Clothing:

Old Navy Pandemic Pants 
Aerie oversized tshirts 
True & Co True Lift Bra 
Vuori Joggers + shorts 
Tracksmith Shorts 
Summersalt PJs 
Custom tie dye sweatshirt 
Social Threads Sweat Suit  (actual sweatsuit is out of stock)
UGG Pandemic Shoes

Beauty:

Tech:

Misc:

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@ziwe
@verapappisove

Books:

Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson
One to Watch by Kate Stayman London
Home Before Dark by Riley Sagar
Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dicky

July Book Club:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bonus Episode with Elizabeth Acevedo Jun 25, 2020

Today, we have the pleasure of speaking with Elizabeth Acevedo, the author of our June book club pick, Clap When You Land. Elizabeth is a NYT best-selling author and we couldn’t be more excited to talk to her about the book. We learn of her early start in writing as a rapper and poet, her first job as a middle school teacher, and the road to her first publishing deal. We explore the birth of Clap When You Land, the meaning behind the title, the unique way she developed the characters distinct voices, and the differences between writing in prose and verse. We touch on the #publishingpayme movement and the importance of building a strong online community to keep you motivated and excited about your work. Elizabeth also gives us her favorite YA recs, childhood favs, and gives a taste of what she is working on next!

More Elizabeth Acevedo:

Elizabeth Acevedo’s Books:

Book Recs:

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
The Rakess Scarlett Peckham
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisnaros
Miracle’s Boys by Jaqueline Woodson

Book Stores Recs:

Word Up: https://www.wordupbooks.com/
Lit Bar: http://www.thelitbar.com/

Donate to the Family of Breonna Taylor : https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor

Donate to the Louisville Community Bail Fund:

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Clap When You Land Book Club Jun 24, 2020

For this month’s book club, we read Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. We absolutely loved this book. It’s prose, written in verse, which makes the story even more engaging (and the lines more powerful and poignant). This is the story of two 16 year old girls, Yahaira and Camino who lose their father in a plane crash. Both girls (growing up in New York City and the Dominican Republic, respectively) grow up loving their father and having a close relationship with him. But upon his death, they learn of each other. The book tells each of their stories and struggles. We absolutely loved this book and enjoyed discussing it!

Join in the discussion on the Facebook Group.

And tomorrow be on the lookout for a bonus episode with the author - Elizabeth Acevedo!

Instagram:

@shopbfreedom
@designaddictmom

Obsessions

What we’re reading this week:

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibrim X Kendi
Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman (comes out 7/14)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
So You want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Sponsors:

Prose: Go to prose.com/bop to get 15% off your first order.

Podcasts:

Check out Bookable wherever you get your podcasts

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Ayana Lage on Anti-Racism on Social Media, Going Viral, and Being a Black influencer Right Now Jun 17, 2020

Ayana Lage is a freelance marketer and writer in Tampa. More recently, a few of her videos about Black Lives Matter went viral. (We highly recommend her as a resource for everything from virtue signaling to microaggressions, and her stance on Blackout Tuesday, and more to come!) She joins us today to talk about the intensity of the last few weeks, and her thoughts on it all. Everything from how it feels to go viral, what brands can do to be more inclusive (and who is doing it right!), and how growth on her platform is affecting her life personally and professionally. She answers your questions about how the regular person can use their social media presence to support Black Lives Matter and support anti-racist activism. Do yourself a favor and check out her videos and follow her for continued education and insight.

Don’t forget - tomorrow Grace’s Amazon The Drop Collection goes on sale! Go to her instagram to sign up for text message alerts.

More Ayana:

Instagram:

@simplycyn
@moemotivate
@tiffanyima
@iamavoter
@influencerpaygap
@pullupforchange

Obsessions

What we’re reading this week:

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

June Book Club Pick:

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Sponsors:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Sarah Flint: Go to sarahflint.com and use code SARAHFLINT-BOP to get $50 off your first order.

Podcasts:

Skimm This Podcast

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Work Wife Summit: Rachael King - Becca’s RomComPods Co-creator joins us! Jun 10, 2020

This week our friend Rachael King joins us! Rachael is the co creator of RomComPods, Founder and CEO of PodPeople, a podcast producer, and host of TWO podcasts - The Escape List and Tape Club.

We turn the tables a little and Grace interviews Becca and Rachael about the inspiration for and making of RomComPods from the script writing process to casting to ideas for future seasons, and what it’s like working with your best friend. We also ask Rachael all of your podcast and travel questions!

Be sure to like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

More Rachael:

@rachaelgking
@romcompods
@tapeclub
@theescapelistpod

Favorite Rom Coms:

Rachael’s Top 3:

While You Were Sleeping
Forget Paris
Last Holiday

Becca’s Top 3ish:

The Wedding Date
Friends With Kids
Sleeping with Other People
Notting Hill
That Thing you Do

Grace’s Top 3:

Something’s Gotta Give
How to Lose a guy in Ten Days
Home Again

Instagram:

@ayanagabriellelage
@mister_michelle
@hayet.ridia
@taymocha
@iamrachelricketts

Obsessions

What we’re reading this week:

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

June Book Club Pick:

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Sponsors:

Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/60bop and use code 60BOP to get $60 off your first box.

Podcasts:

Skimm This Podcast

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Sneak Preview: RomComPods is LIVE! Jun 08, 2020

Get a sneak peek of Becca's new podcast project, which debuts TODAY! If you love it (and I really hope you do!), you can listen to the first episode and subscribe here.

Our Favorite Books By Black Authors Jun 03, 2020

This week we are using our platform to spotlight the incredible Black authors that we love. We have gathered some of our favorite books and also invited our past podcast guests ‘drop by’ to give their recs, too! We know that many people (including us!) are looking for ways to learn more about anti-racism, things that we can do, and ways to support the Black community in an active way. So we encourage you to pick up a book, share with your friends, buy from Black-owned bookstores, and continue to learn and grow.

We look forward to discussing these books with you in the facebook group!

Here is a link to a google doc with anti-racism resources that we mentioned. This was created by Tatum Dorrell, Matthew Herndon, and Jourdan Dorrell.

Here is a link to Black-Owned Bookstores too!

Books (all links are through The Lit Bar via bookshop.org):

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
American Spy by Lauren Wilkerson
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
Anything by Jasmine Guillory
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Wow No Thank You by Samantha Irby
What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Read
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Nikki Giovanni - Poet
Langston Hughes - Poet
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

What we’re reading this week:

Reputation by Sarah Shepard
Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
Rodham by Curtis Sinfeld
The Art of Showing Up by Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Buying from Black-owned bookstores (can buy through Bookshop.org digitally):

The Lit bar in The Bronx
Sisters Uptown in Manhattan
Semicolon in Chicago
Afri Ware in Chicago
Mahogany Books in DC
Harriet’s bookshop in Philly
Uncle Bobbies in Philly
Hakim’s Bookstore in Philly
For Keeps Books in Atlanta
Marcus Books in Oakland
The Dock Bookshop in Fort Worth
ESO Won in LA

June Book Club Pick:

Clap While You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Sponsors:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10
Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com/bop50 with offer code BOP50 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires Book Club May 27, 2020

For this month’s book club we’re discussing The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks. This book came highly recommended by Grace’s mom and it definitely sparked some fun conversation. While this is not the type of book either of us typically pick up, we wanted something more fun to take some pressure off during quarantine.

The story follows Patricia Campbell, a southern housewife, who joins a true crime book club where she forms a tight knit group of female friends. When they discover that their neighbor, James Harris, is actually a vampire who is terrorizing the town and feeding on children, the women of the book club stand up to take matters into their own hands. Who ever thought a book club would end in cold-blooded murder?!

As always, we can’t wait to hear what you think in the Facebook group - let us know!

Instagram:

@karensgoingwild
@sophiafranklin
@alexandracooper

Obsessions:

Books:

Happy and You Know it by Laura Hankin
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
My Best Friends Exorcism by Grady Hendricks
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness
The Betrothed by Kiera Cass
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Perfectly Famous By Emily Liebert
The Lies We Told by Camilla Way
The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochan
The Art of Showing Up by Rachel Wilkerson Miller

June Club:

Coming Soon! Check instagram.

Podcast to Check Out!

Skimm This: A weekly podcast unpacking the most complex news stories of the week. Tune in every Friday at 7a ET.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Listener Q&A Part 2: Pop Culture, Beauty, and Books! May 20, 2020

We loved all of your listener questions! We had so many that we split them into two episodes and today we are back with a part 2! We saved the most fun ones for this episode. We’re covering everything from AIM screennames and celebrity crushes (Grace and Paul Rudd are going backpacking together? Becca stalks Scott Foley’s wife for updates?) to home decor inspo, how we found (and decorated our apartments), our favorite artists, and go-to gifts to give. And it wouldn’t be an episode of Bad on Paper if we didn’t share our best beauty and book recs!

Small Businesses Mentioned:

Products mentioned:

Instagram:

@emmaberyl
@marc.ange
@caracara_nyc

Obsessions:

Codenames

Books:

Happy and You Know it by Laura Hankin
The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
On the Island by Tracy Garvis Graves
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

May Book Club:

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks

Sponsors:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.

Podcast to Check Out!

Natch Beaut Podcast hosted by Jackie Johnson

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Celebrity Tanner & Isle of Paradise Founder, Jules Von Hep, on Body Positivity, Self Tanning, and Building his Brand. May 13, 2020

After a highly requested (micro) deep-dive into Normal People (we loved the show maybe even more than the book!), we chat with Jules Von Hep! Jules is a celebrity tanning expert and the founder of the (clean! vegan!) line Isle of Paradise. We chat with him about how quarantine is going in the UK and then move along to his career and how he founded Isle of Paradise.

He walks us through his career path and how he got to where he is today (he’s tanned everyone from Kate Moss to Kendall Jenner!),how + why he started Isle of Paradise, and of course all his best self-tanning advice - answering all of your self tanning questions and providing helpful tips for first timers. But the best part of the interview was all of the incredible life advice. Jules talks about saying no (his advice here is so good), navigating negativity, and how to be more body confident!

More Jules!

@julesvonhep

@theisleofparadise

E-book: Get Body Posi by Jules Von Hep

Podcast: Jules and Sarah

Products mentioned:

Isle of Paradise line at Sephora and Sephora.com

Link to the LA times article about Normal People

Instagram:

Obsessions:

Books:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
Happy and You Know it by Laura Hankin
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

May Book Club:

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks

Sponsors:

Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10

Podcast to Check Out!

Gee Thanks Just Bought it Podcast

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

A grab bag of listener questions… a little bit of everything! May 06, 2020

In today’s episode, we polled you to come up with a big grab bag of questions. We cover a wide range of topics from college life to cooking (Becca’s carbonara!). We also talk about how we maintain our privacy (spoiler alert: we’re in charge!) and all sorts of other things. Will Becca ever get a dog? Has Grace always been a cat person? Does she walk Tyrion? How did we meet? We got a ton of podcast related questions so we also give a behind the scenes look at the process of creating Bad on Paper. This is a fun episode - pour a glass of wine and come hang out with us!

Products mentioned:

Plush Knit Joggers Old Navy

Obsessions:

Outerbanks TV series
Daily Harvest
Never Have I Ever on Netflix

Books:

Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
Who’s That Girl? by Mhairi McFarlane
You Had Me at Hello by Mhairi McFarlane

May Book Club:

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks

Sponsors:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10

Podcast to Check Out!

Skimm This Podcast

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bonus: Rebecca Serle on In Five Years and More! Apr 30, 2020

Yesterday we talked about In Five Years by Rebecca Serle and today she is joining us to give a behind the scenes look at how she wrote the book! Rebecca is an author and television writer in NYC and LA, she has written 6 novels and co-developed the hit television adaptation of her YA series, Famous in Love. We talk about the differences between screenwriting and writing a novel (and why her heart stays with books!) - and the process of adapting a book into a TV show. We talk about the overarching role of fate and free will as themes in all of her books, and where she draws inspiration. Rebecca also answers our questions about hair routine, who would be on her Dinner List, favorite books, favorite authors, and what she has been reading.

More Rebecca:

rebeccaserle.com
@rebecca_serle on instagram
@rebecca_serle on twitter

Rebecca’s Books:

Favorite Authors:

Sally Rooney
Curtis Enfeld
Emma Straub

Favorite YA Authors:

Jen Smith
Jennie Han
Lauren Oliver
Lila Sales
Alexa Hillier

Book Recs:

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

In Five Years Book Club Apr 29, 2020

This month, we read In Five Years by Rebecca Serle. We both absolutely loved this book and read it in under 24 hours. Before diving into the book, we do our usual quarantine catch up. We are both healthy, staying busy, and Tyrion (Grace’s cat) seems to have developed a newfound love for Zoom calls.

This book is about best friends, Dannie and Bella. Dannie is a little bit uptight and is one of those women who always has a plan and knows exactly what she wants. Meanwhile, Bella is a bit more flighty and romantic. On the night that Dannie gets engaged to her long-time boyfriend, David, she has an extremely vivid dream of where her life will be in 5 years. She’s in a different apartment, with a different (and sexy) man. We then see how the next five years play out and what happens. Dannie is jilted when she meets Bella’s new boyfriend Greg - it’s the man from her dream! Bella falls ill and a series of other events happen to turn Dannie’s life upside down. She ends up exactly where the dream predicted - discovering that fate is most certainly real. This book will make you cry - but the good kind! This is our favorite book from 2020 - we hope you love it as much as we did!

Cathartic Cry Reading Recs:

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@stanleytucci

Books:

Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey
The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

May Book Club:

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks

Sponsors:

The Last Guest House by Megan Miranda: Purchase the paperback from independent bookstores through bookshop.org or any ebook retailer.

Podcast to Check Out!

Get Thanks Just Bought it Podcast

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Whatcha cooking (in quarantine)? Apr 22, 2020

Is it just us, or is quarantine making home chefs of us all?! In this episode we share our favorite recipes, favorite food inspiration accounts to follow, and our personal pantry and grocery shopping staples. We have some strong opinions on condiments, our panic buys,and quarantine cooking fails. We also talk about our cooking bucket list, the best things we’ve made during isolation, and where we want to go the moment the ban is lifted.

Favorite Food Instagram Accounts:

@lizadams
@definedish
@alisoneroman
@brunchboys
@dennistheprescott
@howsweeteats
@grossypelosi
@mollybaz
@whatsgabycooking
@meghandono

Food Blogs:

What’s Gaby Cooking
New York Times Cooking (and Sam Sifton’s weekly newsletter)
Bon appétit
Smitten Kitchen

Cookbooks:

Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
Dining in by Alison Roman
It’s all Good by Gwyneth Paltrow (& Julia Turshen)
It’s all Easy by Gwyneth Paltrow
Salt Fat Acid Heat By Samin Nosrat
Cravings by Chrissy Tiegan
Oh She Glows Cookbook
Salad for President
Cook Beautiful By Athena Calderone
The Food Lab y By J Kenji Alt
Half Baked Harvest Cookbook

Our go-to recipes:

Goop Broccoli and Arugula Soup
Oh She Glows Tomato Soup (from cookbook)
Alison Roman’s Salmon with Citrusy Shallots (from cookbook)
Grace’s Grandmother’s Meatballs
Chrissy Tiegan’s Vegetable lasagna (from cookbook)
Julia Turshen Turkey Ricotta meatballs
How Sweet eats sheet pan gnocchi
NYT salmon fried rice
Chicken thighs and dirty rice
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Alison Roman Tiny Salty Chocolate cookies (from cookbook)

Williamsburg Take out Recs:

12 Chairs Mediterranean
Butchers Daughter
Bozu
Dunkin delivered
Spice for thai
Motorino or two boots for Pizza

Food Delivery Services:

Foodkick
Instacart
Norwich Farms for CSA stuff

Obsessions:

The Baker and The Beauty: Israeli version on Amazon Prime; US version on Hulu
White Collar
NuFace

Instagram:

@Caralynmirand
@melissawoodhealth

Books we are starting:

No Filter By Sarah Frier
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

April Book Club:

In Five Years by Rebecca Searle

Sponsors:

The Last Guest House by Megan Miranda: Purchase the paperback from independent bookstores through bookshop.org or any ebook retailer. For a limited time the ebook is only $1.99 (through 4/26)
Hot and Bothered: Check out their Twilight in quarantine series wherever you listen to podcasts

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

FMK: Quarantine Edition Apr 15, 2020

Today, we poured ourselves a glass of wine and play a remote game of FMK (Fuck, Marry, Kill) with YOUR prompts! But first, we catch up on how we are holding up in quarantine. We are definitely a mix of adjusting and feeling trapped, but over all we are doing alright.

This episode is a weird one and we are into it. We go through all the important categories… books, meals, celebs, TV characters. Becca kills breakfast (and short men?) and Grace makes a surprising choice when it comes to the Younger cast. Also: who knew the hardest questions would be about food?? We hope you enjoy and are inspired to prompt your friends… we highly recommend setting up a FMK Zoom with your own friends!

Podcasts Mentioned:

Gee Thanks Just Bought It

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@ryan.heffington
@pippyeats

Books we are starting:

The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin (out june 2)
No Filter By Sarah Frier
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

April Book Club:

In Five Years by Rebecca Searle

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #6: Stacey Abrams on Voting Rights Apr 13, 2020

Stacey Abrams, needs no introduction but we’ll give her one anyway. She’s a New York times bestselling author, non profit CEO, and political leader.. and today she joins us to answer all our questions about voting rights: an incredibly important issue that we didn’t know NEARLY enough about before this interview.

After losing her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, Abrams created Fair Fight to ensure that all Americans were able to vote and to have their votes counted. We talk to her about the different forms of voter suppression and how this disproportionately affects people of color, women, the elderly, and college students. We also discuss how we can make sure we have a safe and fair election in 2020.

About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

For more info:

Follow Stacey on social: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Fair Count: Website, Twitter

Fair Fight: Website, Twitter

Fair Fight 2020

Pre-order Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams out June 2020

Investing 101: Sallie Krawcheck on the gender wealth gap Apr 08, 2020

In today’s episode, we chatted with Sallie Krawcheck (founder and CEO of Ellevest) about the relationship women have with investing. Sallie has been one of our dream guests for some time now and we both learned so much from our conversation. Sallie explains the difference between the wage gap and the wealth gap for women, and the different ways that women spend, save, and manage money. Sallie gives us advice about saving vs. investing, how to get lower interest rates, common mistakes, and how to be more critical about where your money is invested. We also get personal, talking marriage, prenup meltdowns, educating your children about money, and more!

More Sallie:

ellevest.com app or site
@salliekrawcheck on insta. twitter, etc.

Article mentioned:

Buy the dip

Podcasts Mentioned:

Obsessions:

Oh She Glows Tomato Soup (from this cookbook)
Damages
Playing the game Risk online
Night sleep mask

Instagram:

@sciene.sam
@grossypelosi

Books we are starting:

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Us Again by Elle Maxwell
Mr. President by Katy Evans

April Book Club:

In Five Years by Rebecca Searle

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bonus: Discussing Jessica Simpson’s Memoir (with guest Katie Sturino) Apr 06, 2020

We couldn’t stop thinking (or talking) about this book and our friend Jess, so we asked friend of the pod, Katie Sturino to join us to discuss Jessica Simpson’s memoir, Open Book. Forget what you think you know about Jessica Simpson (seriously, none of us were superfans or even really fans before this book, but we sure as hell are now!). Her book dives deep into her childhood, music career, relationships, and struggles with addiction. Needless to say, we could not get enough! We discuss the juicy celebrity goss, body image issues, family dynamics, and more in this ep. Seriously, if you haven’t read (or listened to this book!), we can’t recommend it enough. Looking forward to hearing your hot takes, join us in the FB group to discuss!

And make sure to subscribe to Katie’s podcast, Boob Sweat, and follow her on Instagram @katiesturino.

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Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Distraction Zone: How We’re Staying Entertained While Distancing Apr 01, 2020

First of all, it’s our 2 year podcasting anniversary! In today’s ep we’re sharing all our best quarantine distractions and recommendations. Between all the family FaceTimes, Zoom happy hours, Powerpoint parties, cooking, organizing, and checking in with family and friends it’s easy to forget to keep a routine and take care of yourself too! We want to help by giving some light hearted and fun ways to lose yourself (in a book, tv show, movie, podcast, etc), even if it’s only for a little while.

We hope you all stay safe and healthy… come join us in the Facebook group to talk about YOUR favorite distractions and what’s keeping you sane(ish).

Currently Reading:

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
Open Book by Jessica Simpson (especially the audiobook)
All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault
The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (Becca didn’t like)
Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy by Lucy Ann Holmes

Becca’s recs!

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
Throne of Glass Series (7 books) by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses (3 books) by Sarah J. Maas
The Conspiracy of Us Series (3 books) by Maggie Hall
The Chronos File Series (3 books) by Rysa Walker
The Selection Series by Kiera Cass
Who’s that Girl by Mhairi McFarlane
My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams
Would like to Meet by Rachel Winters
Famous in Love Series by Rebecca Searle
To All the Boys I loved Before by Jenny Han
Anna and the French Kiss (3 books) by Stephanie Perkins
Royals by Rachel Hawkins

Grace’s Recs

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
You are not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
The Honey Don’t List by Christina Lauren
Peachtree Bluff Series (3 books) by Kristy Woodson Harvey
The Thousandth Floor Series By Kathrine McGee
American Royals by Kathrine McGee
The Paper Princess Series by Erin Watt

Listen Rec:

The Financial Confessions Podcast
Everything is Fine Kim France Podcast
Girls Gotta Eat Podcast
Gee Thanks I Bought it Podcast

Grace TV Recs

Gossip Girl
Sex and The City
The Blacklist
Little Fires Everywhere
Amazon’s Making the Cut with Tim Gun And Heidi Klum

Becca TV recs

The Morning Show on Apple TV
Little Fires Everywhere
Grey’s Anatomy
The West Wing
Virgin River

Grace Movie Rec

It’s Complicated
Something’s Gotta Give
Home Again
What Women Want
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Catch Me if you Can
Harry Potter Movies
Twilight Movies

Becca’s Movie Rec

The Wedding Year
The Wedding Date
Center Stage
The American President
Chalet Girl
Friends with Kids

Products:

At Home Workouts:

Melissa Wood Health
SkyTing TV
Tracy Anderson

Obsessions:

Gina Julian Artist Graphic Rainbow Painting
The Morning Show
Jessica Simpson’s Audiobook

Instagram:

@nytcooking
@clarkbar
@gina_julian

Books we are starting:

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

April Book Club:

In Five Years by Rebecca Searle

Sponsors:

Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10!
Sarah Flint: Go to sarahflint.com and use code BOP50 to get $50 off your first order of any shoe.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

I’ll Give You The Sun Book Club Mar 25, 2020

Our March Book Club Pick is I’ll Give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson. Before we get into the book, we talk a little bit about Coronavirus and how we’re feeling. This book is the perfect quarantine read as it feels a bit like a cozy warm hug.

The book is the story of Jude and Noah - twins who were once inseparable, but have now grown apart. Via alternating timelines, we learn the heartbreaking reasons that this has happened. Noah tells the story of their younger years, meanwhile Jude’s timeline takes place three years later when they are 16. It’s magically written and a feel good read… we can’t recommend it enough!

Stay safe and healthy, and come join us in the Facebook group to talk about the book!

Products mentioned:

Obsessions:

Plush Knit Joggers for women from Old Navy (Pandemic Pants)
Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu
Tie Dye Sweatsuit from PJ Salvage (sold out, unfortunately, but similar here)
Ugg Slippers

Instagram:

@goldfishsmiles
@hithapalepu
@ashleyspivey
@rouge_18
@aminatou
@alisoneroman

Books:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson

April Book Club:

In Five Years by Rebecca Searle

Podcast:

The Adaptables by Random House (Little Fires Everywhere podcast; we are guests on episode 3!)

Sponsors:

Beauty Counter: Go to beautycounter.com and get 10% of your first order of $100 or more with Code BOP. Hurry! Offer expires at the end of March!
Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Rothy’s: rothys.com/BOP

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Alisha Ramos, Founder of Girls Night In, talks Self Care, Career Changes, and Confidence Mar 18, 2020

Alisha Ramos, Founder and CEO of Girls Night In, and self proclaimed indoor kid/introvert, joins us to share her journey to create her company and the ways her business has changed as it grows. We talk about starting and scaling a business, work/life balance, and its challenges as a female founder. We dish on our self care pet peeves (we all have them!), our definitions of self care, and what is next for GNI. We also talk of our love of a good newsletter and Alisha’s idea of the perfect night in.

Favorite Newsletters:

Girls’ Night In
A Thing or Two from Claire & Erica
What To Cook This Week from The New York Times
Internet Brunch
Mollie Chen’s newsletter
The Broadsheet
The Ann Friedman Weekly
Mary Laura Phillpott’s newsletter
Jasmine Guillory’s newsletter
The Stripe Newsletter (Subscribe at bottom)
Five Smart Reads newsletter from Hitha Palepu
Chips + Dips Newsletter

Obsessions:

Alison Roman Dining In: Sour Cream Flatbread recipe
Plush Knit Joggers for women from Old Navy

Instagram:

@marysummershafner // @laviestylehouse
@romcompods

Books:

He Started It by Samantha Downing
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

March Book Club Book:

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

Podcast:

Subscribe to : Otherppl Podcast with Brad Listi (@otherppl on Twitter)

Sponsors:

Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10!
LOLA: Take 30% off your first month subscription - mylola.com and enter code BOP30 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #5: Planned Parenthood’s Kelley Robinson on Reproductive Rights Mar 16, 2020

Kelley Robinson, Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund joins us to answer all of our questions about the state of reproductive rights. Kelley explains some common misconceptions around Planned Parenthood, and then helps us to understand the spike in abortion restrictions that happened in 2019. We also dig into the abortion case currently in front of the supreme court, and talk about other cases being heard by the Supreme Court this year. Then we talk about Title X and dive into how reproductive rights figure into the 2020 election.

About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

For more info:

Planned Parenthood Action Fund website

PPAF Trump Tracker

PPAF Reproductive rights conversation guide

We Testify

National Network of Abortion Funds

All Things Reading! Nostalgia, How We Manage To Read So Much, + More. Mar 11, 2020

In this episode we dive into our personal reading histories and talk about our reading lives. We share stories about how we became readers, our favorite childhood books - Sweet Valley High, Babysitters Club, R.L. Stein, etc. Although we have different reading routines, ways we organize books, and views on putting a book down (to DNF or not to DNF, that is the question!) - we can agree that vacation reading is the best reading. We share our favorite recent books, our process for vetting the books for our monthly book club, and the books we think are overrated. If you ever have trouble finding new books, or picking something to read we list our top ways to find new reads.

Podcast mentioned:

Grace & Becca on The SSR podcast discussing Sweet Valley High Book #1

Obsessions:

Alison Roman’s Tiny Salty Chocolate Cookies (From her cookbook Nothing Fancy)
Corgi Pods silicone air pods case

Instagram: (Authors!)

@emmastraub
@kathrinemcgee
@kristywharvey
@andreadunlop
@lindseykelk
@jasminespics

Bookstagram:

@nycbookgirl
@ashleyspivy
@hithapalepu
@booksaremagicbk
@jordys.book.club
@sarahsbookshelves
@grlpwrdreads
@marylauraphillpott
@inkandfable
@molliereads
@worldswithinpages
@carly
@literaryjo
@frombwithlove
@ashleybrookebookclub

Books:

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
Verity by Colleen Hoover
You are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Feels like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
The Twin By Natasha Preston
He Started It by Samantha Downing
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Stray by Stephanie Danler
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
The Betrothed by Kiera Cass
Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters
This is Big by Marisa Meltzer (out in april)
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

March Book Club Book:

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

Sponsors:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Beautycounter:
- Before March 15: free shipping of your order of $100 at beautycounter.com with code BOP - restrictions apply
- Between March 15th and 31st new customers can get 10% of their first purchase with Code BOP - restrictions apply
Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Tara Foley, founder of Follain, tells us everything we need to know about clean beauty Mar 04, 2020

In this episode we talk clean beauty with the founder of Follain, Tara Foley. Tara, a self-described “activist-at-heart” shares with us her journey from discovering clean beauty to opening Follain. We dive deep on what clean really means and the regulation around the terms natural and clean (spoiler: there is none). She also gives us her top ingredients to watch out for. Our favorite part of the episode, though, has to be Tara’s amazing product recs. We chat about everything from budget-friendly to high-tech clean beauty recs and she gives us specific suggestions for both dry skin and acne-prone skin routines. If you’re thinking about using more clean products, Tara makes that sound a whole lot less daunting and this episode is the perfect place to start!

More Tara:

Follain stores and Follain.com
Products are also sold at Anthropologie & Ulta
Instagram: @tcofoley

Products mentioned:

Follain Refillable Everything Soap
Reverie hair products (specifically the hair milk & heat protectant)
Innersense hair bath
Rahua hair line (also has a purple shampoo)
Fekkai - The One hair line - new clean reformulation
Weleda skin food
Cheap clean brands: Burt’s Bees, Seaweed Bath Co
Tata Harper Regenerating Cleanser
Tata Harper Resurfacing Mask
Clark’s Botanicals Deep Moisture Mask
Sleeping masks: Josh Rosebrooks Advance Hydration Mask
For dry skin: Vital Balm Cream
For acne-prone skin cleansers: Osmia black clay soap, Indie Lee Purifying Face Wash
For acne-prone skin moisturizers: Indie Lee Squalane Oil, Osmia Balance Facial Serum, Ursa Major Fortifying Face Balm
Saie Dew Balm
Saie Super Gel
Glossier Lash Slick
RMS Buriti Bronzer
RMS Un Cover-up
Ilia Lipstick - Color: Crimson & Clover
Josh Rosebrooks Hydrating Accelerator
One Love Organics Vitamin C Serum
Biossance Squalane & Lactic Acid Night Serum
Biossance Squalane & Peptide Eye Gel
Ole Henricksen Banana Bright Eye Cream
Naturopathica Vitamin K Eye Gel
Patyka Energizing Eye Gel (rollerball)
May Lindstrom The Blue Cocoon
May Lindstrom The Youth Dew
Josh Rosebrooks Vital Balm Cream
Vapor Foundation
Ilia Sheer Tinted Moisturizer
Beautycounter Dew Skin (w/ SPF)
Kosas Lipstick: Color Rosewater
Lovefresh Super Strength Deodorant

Obsessions:

Instagram:

@somewherelately

Books:

Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wroble
This is Big by Marisa Meltzer (out in april)
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

March Book Club Book:

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

Sponsors:

HelloFresh: Get 10 free meals at hellofresh.com/BOP10 and use code BOP10. (includes free shipping)
You are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Followers Book Club Feb 26, 2020

Followers by Megan Angelo is a thought provoking take on influencer culture. The book alternates between the present day story of Orla and Floss living in modern day New York with their own reality TV show; and Marlow, 35 years from now living in a town called Constellation where influencers have become government employees and have their lives broadcasted 23/7. It’s sharp and witty (and a bit of a cautionary tale - when does sharing go TOO FAR?) This book is a great conversation starter and will take you on a wild ride from New York to California to a futuristic (internet-free) colony called Atlantis. We couldn’t put this book down and are still thinking about it weeks later!

Obsessions:

Under Armour Eclipse Sports bra (not the one with the zip)
Cadbury Creme Eggs
Love is Blind on Netflix
The Outsider on HBO
Urban Stems x East Olivia flowers

Instagram:

@eastolivia

Books:

February Book Club Book:

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

Podcast Recommendations:

But That’s Another Story Podcast

Sponsors:

Penguin Random House: For the month of March commit to 10-30 minutes #readtosleep and let us know how it’s going! To enter to win Parachute Bedding and 25 free books at prh.com/badonpaper
Clear: 2 months Free go to clearme.com/bopclear and use code BOPCLEAR at checkout.
Rothy’s: Try Rothy’s at rothys.com/bop

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Taylor Lorenz on Internet Culture, Influencers, Trolls, and TikTok. Feb 19, 2020

Taylor Lorenz is a journalist at the New York Times covering Internet Culture. In our conversation, she maps out the jobs that led her to where she is today and how she developed her own beat. We also delve into everything going on on the internet: from influencers to trolls to TikTok. Whether you’re looking to get current (what is The Hype House?) or are an internet culture vulture with strong feelings on Caroline Calloway, we cover it all in our conversation.

More Taylor Lorenz:

twitter: @taylorlorenz
instagram: @taylorlorenz
tiktok: @taylorlorenz

Taylor’s Favorite Journalists to follow:

Check out her list on twitter!

Articles mentioned:

Products Mentioned:

Instagram:

Books:

February Book Club Book:

Followers By Megan Angelo

Sponsors:

Rent the Runway: Go to renttherunway.com and use code BOP to get $200 off your 60 day trial.
Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Subscribe to: Gee Thanks Just Bought it Podcast

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Being Single Doesn’t Have to Suck! Feb 12, 2020

In this (highly requested) episode we are talking about being single in your thirties! We answer all of your questions about dating, and give the best advice we can from our own experiences. This episode is broken into four parts: why being single in your thirties is actually pretty great, how to stay positive, how to make new friends (and keep the old), and all things DATING (another hot topic). We share our weirdest dates, our favorite apps (and when to delete them), ways to meet people IRL, thoughts on freezing our eggs, and managing dating app burnout. If there’s one thing you take away from this episode, it’s the importance of building a life you truly love - one that feels good to YOU… with our without a partner!

Podcasts:

Obsessions:

Cheer - Netflix
Serum Stick - Tatcha

Instagram:

Books:

February Book Club Book:

Followers By Megan Angelo

Sponsors:

Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10!
HelloFresh: Get 10 free meals at hellofresh.com/BOP10 and use code BOP10. (includes free shipping)
LOLA: Take 30% off your first month subscription - mylola.com and enter code BOP30 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo on work wifing, closing their business, and the decision whether to have kids Feb 05, 2020

This is hands down one of our favorite interviews yet! Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur, founders of Of a Kind (RIP!), join us to talk about founding and running a business with your friend. We dive into how they split their roles in the business, travel styles, and hiring a management coach (AKA a business therapist). We also chat about how they’re processing the closure of their company and what’s next.

Then we turn to the subject of motherhood, and have an incredibly candid conversation about how Claire grappled with whether or not she wanted children, how Erica has defended her choice not to have children, and how they’ve supported each other and stayed close despite their disparate decisions. We wrap up with some recommendations for everything from skincare to podcasts to books.

More Claire + Erica:

@clairemazur
@ericacerulo
Claireanderica.com (sign up for their newsletter here!)
A Thing or Two Podcast
Work Wife: the Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses
Refinery29: Why I Don’t Want To Have Children Ever

Products Mentioned:

Podcasts:

Call Your Girlfriend Podcast
Sexy Unique Podcast (about Vanderpump Rules)
Jam Session Podcast (celebrity gossip)
Everything is Fine Podcast (about being women over 40)

Obsessions:

Instagram:

Books:

February Book Club Book:

Followers By Megan Angelo

Sponsors:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP10 and get any book for $10!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Good Girls Lie Book Club Jan 29, 2020

This month we read Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison. This book combines some of our favorite things: rich unsupervised teens at a boarding school, secret societies… and murder. Ash is an outcast, relocating from England to attend boarding school at the prestigious Goode School in Virginia. Her parents have passed away, she has an abusive past with her father, and she definitely has a lot of secrets. When she gets tapped for the Ivy Bound secret society, things go haywire. Her roommate dies and now we are trying to figure out who did it and why. Even though we found (nearly) every character to be deeply unlikable, we still really enjoyed the book. We got to rehash our love for secret societies (and the movie The Skulls). Grace reveals what happens in her sorority’s initiation rituals... and that she doesn’t like Gilmore Girls (gasp!).

Obsessions:

Amazon Weighted Blanket
Grace’s Gravity Blanket Blog Post
Grace & Frankie Season 6 on Netflix
Virgin River
Jexi (movie)
1917 (movie)
Healthy Chicken Tenders Recipe - Hello Adams Family
Humidifier from Amazon

Instagram Obsessions:

@Kathleenjenningsbeauty

Movie Mentioned:

The Skulls

Books Mentioned:

Good Girls Lie By JT Ellison

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

American Royals by Kathrine McGee

Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Miss You by Kate Eberlin
Two Lives by Lydia Bird by Josie Silver (out in March)

February Book Club Pick:

Followers by Megan Angelo

Sponsors: 

Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #4: Alyssa Mastromonaco on congressional elections and a grab bag of questions! Jan 24, 2020

We welcome back friend of the pod (and former Obama Deputy Chief of Staff), Alyssa Mastromonaco to answer our burning questions about this presidential election. Alyssa explains what happens to donations when a candidate drops out of the race, endorsements, and where you can go to find out more about the local politics that you can have a direct effect on. She also touches on Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Mike Bloomberg, and why we need to keep an eye on how the candidates spend their money (like during the Superbowl). She also explains how the caucus system works (it’s kind of crazy!) and why local politics are so important if you want to enact real change.

More Alyssa:

Twitter: @alyssamastro44

Instagram: @mastro175

Podcast: Hysteria

Alyssa’s Books:

Alyssa Recs:

Vote Save America

About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

How we organize everything from our inboxes to our closets! Jan 22, 2020

We’ve got that January motivation and are talking all about organization in this ep! We share about how we organize our lives (both physically in our homes, and our digital lives). We discuss how we handle filing papers, managing our closets, email boxes, and even reveal how often we clean! Becca breaks down her calendar system and Grace tells us about a paper planner that helps you organize your time (and looks pretty too). We also have plenty of recs on home goods that help you find a place to keep everything.

Products Mentioned:

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

Books Mentioned:

January Book Club Pick:

Good Girls Lie By JT Ellison

Sponsors: 

Rent the Runway: Go to renttherunway.com and use code BOP to get $200 off your 60 day trial.
Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

The Veronica(s) Beard talk to us about building their brand! Jan 15, 2020

We’re thrilled to have sister-in-law duo Veronica Swanson Beard + Veronica Miele Beard with us today! Besides being two of the most stylish women we know, they have built an incredible brand. Both women have incredible backgrounds (and stories) to share - it was fun learning how they got their start and went into business together. With backgrounds in design, entrepreneurship, finance, and a mutual love for fashion, they created a brand that it smart, stylish, and inclusive. We talk about extending their size range, their best-selling Dickie jackets, their 10 year anniversary, favorite fashion trends, and personal style icons. We also talk about the importance of family and life outside of work.

More about Veronica Beard:

Products Mentioned:

Vintner’s Daughter
Nars Laguna bronzer
Charlotte Tilbury eyeshadow palettes & IG tutorials
Active Argan Oils

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

Books Mentioned:

January Book Club Pick:

Good Girls Lie By JT Ellison

Sponsors: 

Kassatex: Take 20% off your first order when you shop at kassatex.com and enter code BOP20 at checkout
HelloFresh: Get 10 free meals at hellofresh.com/BOP10 and use code BOP10.
LOLA: Take 30% off your first month subscription - mylola.com and enter code BOP30 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

New Year, Same Us: Reflecting on 2019 and Setting Goals for 2020! Jan 08, 2020

It’s a brand new year (and a brand new decade!). While neither of us are huge fans of setting “resolutions,” (it just sounds so drastic!) today we wanted to reflect on last year and share some goals for 2020! This week we are looking back on 2019 and sharing our biggest accomplishments from the year (and what could have been better) and setting some goals for the year ahead! We have have a few shared goals too (growing the pod, making Delta platinum, to name a couple). We both have a lot to be thankful for and a lot to look forward to. So here’s to making this year calmer, cozier, and even better than the last!

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

Books Mentioned:

Things in Jars by Jess Kid (April release)
Quiet by Susan Kane
A Court of Thorns and Roses By Sarah J Maas
Followers by Megan Angelo (comes out end of January)
All Adults Here by Emma Straub (comes out in May)
One in A Million by Lindsey Kelk
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

January Book Club Pick:

Good Girls Lie By JT Ellison

Sponsors: 

Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP and get any book for $5!
FitFabFun: $10 off your first box with code BOP at fabfitfun.com.
Care of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and her blog TheStripe.com and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Kellie Brown on body positivity, her #fatatfashionweek hashtag, confidence, + more! Jan 01, 2020

Happy New Year! Today our friend Kellie Brown joins us. Kellie is the founder of And I Get Dressed, a brand consultant, blogger + Youtuber, fashion industry PR prodigy, and body positive activist (she created the #fatatfashionweek hashtag)... amongst other things! She is a long time New Yorker, who recently made the move to LA and tells us about her career journey, the evolution of her blog + Youtube channel, and working for herself. She shares her views on weight loss, the dangers of “new year, new me” mentality, confidence, the ways that people can weaponize words, and a quick cheat sheet on how to respond to fat-phobic friends and family. She also shares her “mirror trick” for self confidence. Kellie talk about what she is most proud of in her career and gives advice on how to make even the most basic (or some my say, classic!) wardrobe cooler with just a few key pieces.

More Kellie!

@itsmekellieb
And I Get Dressed on Youtube
https://andigetdressed.com/
Body Party Podcast (coming soon)

Products Mentioned:

Boscia Sake Hydrating and Brightening Serum
Murad Invisiblur Sunscreen
Necessaire Lotion
Nars Powermatte Lipstick
Summer Friday Jet Lag Mask
Rent The Runway (use code RTRBECCA for $50 off your first 2 months)
Stichfix

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

Books Mentioned:

January Book Club Pick:

Good Girls Lie By JT Ellison

Sponsors: 

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP and get any book for $5!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

One Day in December Book Club Dec 25, 2019

For our December book club, we’re reading One Day in December by Josie Silver. This was one of our favorite books from last year, so we had to make it a book club pick! What would you do if you had a “love at first sight” moment, but the man of your dreams turns out to be your best friend’s new boyfriend? The book follows the three of them over the course of a decade through life’s ups & downs and heartbreaks as they each grow and change. Grace reveals she once had her own “bus boy”. Both Grace and Becca share opinions on audiobooks (nuances and lack thereof in some cases), meeting men (#morecrushes2020), modern dating, and definitely think this should be a Hallmark movie.

Grace’s Top 5 of 2019:

Becca’s Top 5 of 2019:

Podcasts Mentioned:

British Chick - Lit Recommendations:

Obsessions:

Instagram:

Other Books Mentioned:

January Book Club Book:

Good Girls Lie By J.T. Ellison

Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Grace Interviews Becca! Decorating Her Apartment, The Term “Influencer”, and Freelance Life Dec 18, 2019

For this month’s “Just Us” episodes, Becca had the idea to interview each other! This week Grace interviews Becca. We crowdsourced the questions from you and had so much fun interviewing each other.

You already know Becca, but how well do you really know her? Today all of your questions are answered. Does Becca have a secret boyfriend? Becca tells us her goals for the podcast (and her instagram too!), what it’s like gaining an online following, thoughts on the word influencer and why she doesn’t consider herself one. Becca also talks about shifting to freelance, getting clients, managing people, and knowing when it is time to leave a job. We also get the scoop on using an interior decorator, the process, pros and cons, and of course a glimpse into her friendship with Grace!

Girls Weekend Ideas:

The Breakers in Palm Beach

More Mentions:

Digit App (for Budgeting)
We are Knitters

Christmas Movies Mentioned:

The Christmas Contract (Lifetime movie, basically a One Tree Hill Reunion)
A Christmas Inheritance (Netflix)

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

@stuffmomposts
@thedunmore
@indiahicksstyle
@jordansyatt (for practical diet inspiration)
@emmabaryl (Becca’s Decorator)

Books Mentioned:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Becca’s most inspiring book)
Radical Candor by Kim Scott (Becca’s fav book for managing people)
The Honey Don’t List by Christina Lauren
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (Out in Feb)
Anna K by Jenny Lee
One of Us is Next by Karen McManus (author of One of Us is Lying)
Six of Crows By Leigh Bardugo
The Authenticity Project by Claire Pooley (out Feb 5)

December Book Club Pick:

One Day in December by Josie Silver

Sponsors: 

Borghese: Get 25% off site wide at borghese.com and enter the code BOP25 at checkout.
LOLA Take 30% off your $5 trial set - mylola.com and enter code BOP30 at checkout.
Care/of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Kate Kennedy of Be There in Five on podcasting, influencer culture, and why her husband is blocked on Instagram. Dec 11, 2019

We’re so excited to have our friend Kate Kennedy join us today! You probably know her from her podcast, Be There in Five… OR her book Twinkle, Twinkle Social Media Star, her hilarious pop culture commentary on Instagram, or her viral doormat business. She talks about how she started her business, how she came up with the idea for the podcast, and her career journey. We talk about press trips, Instagram triggers, the influencers we admire most, and (of course) Taylor Swift, and why Kate is such a Stan. Kate makes her 2020 predictions for pop culture and influencer trends and gives great advice on following your dreams and how to inoffensively block your significant other and family on Instagram.

More Kate!

@bethereinfive
Be There In Five Podcast
Grace’s Episode of Under the Influencer on Be There in Five.

Products Mentioned:

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

Tiktok #dogsoftiktok
@ambitiouskitchen

Books Mentioned:

December Book Club Pick:

One Day in December by Josie Silver

Sponsors: 

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Borghese: Get 25% off site wide at borghese.com and enter the code BOP25 at checkout.
HelloFresh: Get 9 free meals at hellofresh.com and use code BOP9.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #3: WTF is Medicare for all? Margot Sanger-Katz gives us a healthcare primer Dec 09, 2019

In this episode of Bad on Politics we dive into one of our most-requested topics… healthcare!

We’re joined by New York Times journalist, Margot Sanger-Katz, to break down the various healthcare structures on the table in this election and which candidates support which plan. We also spend some time discussing the implications of these plans and whether they’re feasible (or likely given our current congressional map). We’re certainly feeling way more healthcare-literate after this episode, and hope you do too!

For more Margot Sanger-Katz:

@sangerkatz on twitter

https://www.nytimes.com/by/margot-sanger-katz - for her articles

About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

Becca Interviews Grace! The blogging biz, dating stories, + more! Dec 04, 2019

For this month’s “Just Us” episodes, Becca had the idea to interview each other! This week Becca interviews Grace and in two weeks, Grace will interview Becca. We crowdsourced the questions from you and had so much fun interviewing each other.

You already know Grace but today she’s answering your questions. What really goes into working for yourself as an influencer, the nitty gritty behind choosing brands to work with, how sponsorships work, testing products, and even turning down brands she doesn’t like (awkward!). She shares some of her best dating advice and tells some juicy stories too! We chat about her love of Becca’s cooking, her work ethic, her love affair with Charleston, and of course her cat, Tyrion too!

Products Mentioned:

Farmacy Cleansing Balm
Dr. Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream
Weleda Skin Food & Skin Food Light (under $30)
Olay Retinol Serum
Olay Retinol Eye Cream
Seaweed Bath Co. Face Scrub (under $30)
Glossier Lash Slick (under $30)
L’Oreal Lash Paradise (under $30)
L’Oreal Liquid Lipstick (under $30)
Ilia Cosmetics
Kosas Cosmetics
W3ll People Bronzer

Store Mentioned:

Ron Robinson Gnome

Podcast Mentioned:

Terrible, Thanks for Asking

Obsessions:

Bow and Drape Sweatshirts (for Dogs AND Cats, too!)
Hourglass: Scattered Light Eyeshadow

Instagram Obsessions:

Books Mentioned:

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
One of us is Next by Karen M. McManus (sequel to: One of Us is Lying)
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (sequel to: Little White Lies)
Klutz Books!

December Book Club Pick:

One Day in December by Josie Silver

Sponsors: 

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Away: Visit awaytravel.com/BOP enter code BOP at checkout for $20 off.
Equilibria: Go to equilbriawomen.com and enter code BOP at check out for 15% off your first order (the beginner box is not included in this offer)

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Andrea Dunlop (the author of We Came Here to Forget) talks to us about her book! Nov 28, 2019

Yesterday we talked about We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop and today we’re so happy to have her with us for a special bonus episode where we talk about the book! We talk to her about her writing process and how she developed the plot line for the book (which is somehow both thrilling with a happy redemption story). We loved this book, and we learned more about Andrea’s personal experiences that led to writing this. She set out to debunk myths about the issue and what pop culture is getting right and wrong about Munchausen’s by proxy. Andrea is a pantser (not a plotter) when it comes to writing, and she reveals her process, the importance of resilience in the industry, and how she gives back to the community through social media.

Andrea on Instagram:

@andreadunlap

Andrea’s Books:

TV Shows that feature Munchausen’s by Proxy:

Famous Munchausen Cases Mentioned:

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Case
Lacey Spears Case

Books Mentioned:

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
My Sweet Angel by John Glatt
The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
The Wives by Tarryn Fisher
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn amazon
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
You by Caroline Kepnes
Looker by Laura Sims
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (Instead of the Woman in the Window! ha!)

Sponsors: 

FitFabFun: $10 off your first box with code BOP at fabfitfun.com
Book of the Month: Go to bookofthemonth.com and sign up using code BOP and get any book for $5!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We Came Here to Forget Book Club Nov 27, 2019

For this month’s book club, we’re talking about We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop. The book follows ex-professional skier, Katie Cleary as she starts a new life in Buenos Aires. Along the way, this book kept us guessing about the dark secret in her past that led her to move away and start a new life. We both devoured this book in one day: Grace needed to find out the shocking truth about Katie’s sister, while Becca was living for Katie’s story of redemption in Argentina—complete with tango lessons and a new, foreign lover.

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

@bookbaristas
@fatpompoms

Books Mentioned:

We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop (November Book Club Pick!)
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
One Day in December by Josie Silver

Sponsors:

Care/of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50 at checkout.
Borghese: Get 25% off site wide at borghese.com and enter the code BOP25 at checkout.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Lauren Chan on modeling, her new plus-size luxury clothing brand, and leaning into what makes you unique. Nov 20, 2019

Today we are joined by Lauren Chan, the founder and CEO of Henning, a newly launched luxury plus-size clothing brand. We’re completely in love with this brand and all its thoughtful details! We’re also obsessed with Lauren, TBH. She gives us a peek into her experiences as both a plus-size model and fashion editor for Glamour Magazine. We get her insight into how the plus-size modeling landscape has changed over the years and how modeling has affected her relationship with her body. Maybe most interesting, she pulls back the curtain on all the retouching (and padding!) that goes on behind the scenes. We’re shook! We also chat about her experience starting her own business (without any outside funding!), and the lessons she’s learned along the way.

Products, places, and links mentioned:

Check out Henning here. You can also take 15% off with code badonpaper15.
Follow Lauren at @lcchan and Henning at @henning
We had our celebratory pod dinner at Gramercy Tavern
We stayed at The Statler hotel in Dallas (and loved it!)

Lauren’s Skincare Routine:

Lauren’s Makeup Routine:

Obsessions:

Sarah Flint Perfect Bootie 70mm heel (BOP45 for $45 off)
The Body Stone

Instagram Obsessions:

@sarahfcarter
@_hellostella_

Books Mentioned:

We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop (November Book Club Pick!)
Modern Love edited by Daniel Jones
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J Maas

Sponsors:

Night Pillow: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.
Equilibria Women: Go to equilbriawomen.com and enter code BOP at check out for 15% off your first order (the beginner box is not included in this offer)
LOLA: you can 30% off your first month’s subscription with code BOP30 at www.mylola.com

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Personality Tests! A deep dive into the 5 love languages, The Enneagram, + Myers Briggs Nov 13, 2019

We don’t know about you but we are both personality test obsessed. Today we’re taking a look at three of our favorites: the 5 love languages, the Enneagram, and Myers Briggs. Every personality has its good and its bad, and we are both very cool with both sides of our own (thankfully!) If you ever think that Becca is roasting Grace, don’t worry - that is how she shows love. We also break down introverts vs. extroverts. Grace gets on her soapbox: Just because you’re introverted doesn’t mean you’re shy! We have a ton in common personality - wise, but when we differ, we definitely DIFFER! Take the quizzes yourself and see what we all have in common, and then come about them with us in the facebook group!

Quizzes Mentioned:

The 5 Love Languages - Take the test!
Enneagrams - Take the test!
Myers & Briggs - 16 Personalities: Take the test!

Podcast Mentioned:

Selfie

Obsessions:

Garlic Short Rib Recipe by Alison Roman
Modern Love - Amazon Prime
Kosas - lip oils - sephora

Instagram Obsessions:

@tristan_watson
@the_spines

Books Mentioned:

We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop (November Book Club Pick!)
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould

Sponsors:

Borghese: Go to borghese.com and enter code BOP25 for 25% off at checkout.
FitFabFun: $10 off your first box with code BOP at fabfitfun.com.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Eva Chen on writing children’s books, meeting Oprah, and why “balance” is a myth (and that’s okay)! Nov 06, 2019

Today we are joined by Eva Chen! Eva probably needs no introduction but she’s the Director of Fashion Partnerships at Instagram. What you may not know is that she’s also a children’s book author and the self proclaimed “Walter White of vintage Chanel jackets!” Eva talks about everything from changing careers, meeting your heroes IRL (Oprah!!), getting a book deal, and following your dreams. She also gets vulnerable, talking about what it’s like to worry that people won’t like her work. We round out the episode with all of Eva’s favorites: up & coming fashion designers, beauty obsessions (a very fancy face roller), a fancy hotel, and of course — YA novels.

Designers Mentioned:

Products Mentioned:

Obsessions:

Instagram Obsessions:

@Benlenovitz
@rachelista

For more Eva on Instagram:

@evachen212
@tbannister

Books Mentioned:

Get a life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop (November Book Club Pick!)
Throne of Glass Series by Sarah Maas
6 of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
The Queen of the Tearling Trilogy by Erika Johansen
The Selection by Kiera Cass

Eva’s Books:

Hotels Mentioned:

Sponsors:

Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% of your order with code BOP20
Equilibria: Go to equilbriawomen.com and enter code BOP for 15% off your first order (the beginner box is not included in this offer)
Away: Visit awaytravel.com enter code BOP at checkout for $20 off.

Check out tickets to our Fall live show in Dallas Tonight!

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Carly the Prepster: Unfiltered. Carly answers ALL your questions. Oct 31, 2019

“We have all sent a DM we regret” - Carly Heitlinger, carlytheprepster.com

Our friend Carly drops in for a bonus episode to answer literally every single one of your questions! She puts it all out there, the good, bad, and the ugly. She lets us in on the biggest misconceptions about her (She is not as outgoing as you may think, and she doesn’t share everything!), how she navigates being introverted, dealing with anxiety, and her thoughts on online snark forums. We also talk about breakups, sex, hair bows, and more! Lastly, she shares her advice for cutting the cord when a relationship is over - and how to get your control back!

Products Mentioned:

Awesome Etiquette Podcast

Coffee Break French Podcast

Blue Bistro (hulu series)

Books Mentioned:

Babysitters Club Series by Ann M. Martin

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Elin Hilderbrand’s Books

How Could She by Lauren Mechling

Bad Blood by John Carryrou

Quiet by Susan Cain

Audio Books Mentioned:

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (Tom Hanks narrates!)

Save me The Plums by Ruth Reichl

Sponsors:

Borghese: Get 25% off site wide at borghese.com and enter the code BOP25 at checkout.

For more Carly:

carlytheprepster.com

instagram: @carly

Twitter: @carly

bookstagram: @carlysbookclub

Facebook Group: Carly the Prepster Group

Goodreads: College Prepster

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in New York City and Dallas.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

How Could She by Lauren Mechling w/ Special Guest Carly Heitlinger Oct 30, 2019

Our October Book Club pick is How Could She by Lauren Mechling, and we are joined by friend of the pod, Carly Heitlinger (Carly the Prepster)! The three of us explore the complexities of female friendship in your 30’s, the book’s 3 central characters, and who we most identify with. Although not all of us loved this book completely, we definitely have a lot to say about it!

Products Mentioned:

Indie Lee Gentle Daily Peel Pads
Borghese Hand Masks (25% off with code BOP25 at borghese.com)

Mascaras:

Instagram Obsessions:

@wardrobe_oxygen
@Goodbyecroptop

Books Mentioned:

I’ll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie
Get a life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Throne of Glass by Sarah Jane Moss
We Came Here to Forget by Andrea Dunlop

Sponsors:

Care/of: 50% your first order at takecareof.com with offer code BOP50
Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% of your order with code BOP20

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in New York City and Dallas.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Cindy Crawford shares her supermodel secrets + takes us inside the modeling biz! Oct 23, 2019

Today’s guest needs no introduction… it’s Cindy Crawford! Besides being Grace’s dream guest, Cindy is also an absolute expert when it comes to skincare. She talks about growing up in the midwest, an early mean girls experience, and of course: her modeling career. She also let us peek behind the curtain and learn how she started her own skincare line, all the way down to the chemistry! She also tells us her favorite fashion trends, products… even her work out routine. She also lets us in on a few model secrets (her swap for soy sauce, her cocktail of choice). Cindy talks about balance, self care, and motherhood. We found Cindy’s life fascinating and didn’t think this was possible but somehow love her even more than before!

Products mentioned

Meaningful beauty - Cindy’s beauty line (also available at Ulta)
Amazon Ice Roller
Veronica Beard Blazers
Sarah Flint Perfect Pumps
Sarah Flint Flats
Sarah Flint Marina Boot
Cindy’s fave jeans: Redone, Frame, AG, Page, Citizens of Humanity, Midheaven
Nicola Bathie Earrings

Books:

A Little Life by Hana Yanagihara
Educated by Tara Westover
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
I’ll Never Tell by Catherine Mackenzie
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
How Could She by Lauren Mechling (October Book Club!)

TV Shows:

Euphoria on HBO
Modern Love on Amazon
Succession on NetFlix

Instagram Obsession:

@swissmiss
@verryrobin_co

Sponsors:

Sarah Flint: Take $45 off your first pair with code BOP45 at sarahflint.com

Equilibria: Go to Equilibriawomen.com and enter code BOP at check out for 15% off your first order (the beginner box is not included)

Modern Fertility: Get $20 off your first kit at modernfertility.com/BOP

Instagram Obsession:

@swissmiss

@verryrobin_co

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in Atlanta, New York City and Dallas.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Travel Routines, Tricks, Recs, and Some Very Strong Opinions! Oct 16, 2019

We have been traveling quite a bit for our live shows and more, so we thought it was time to share some of our vastly differing opinions when it comes to travel. We talk about hotels, airplanes, beauty routines, packing, planning, and everything in between. Needless to say, we have some differing views on a lot of things! Today, in addition to hopefully amusing you with our strong opinions, we help you navigate some of the more stressful parts of traveling through our own experiences. (And did you know customs has an app?) We share all the things we do to keep organized (and sane!) when it comes to traveling.

Things Mentioned:

Aaptiv App
New York Times: 36 hours series
TSA Pre-Check
The Points Guy

Hotels Mentioned:

The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles
The Ritz Carlton
Brown’s Hotel in London
The Breakers in Palm Beach
La Sultana in Morocco
Hotel du-cap-eden-roc in France
The Statler Dallas

Products Mentioned:

Pregnancy Pillow from Amazon
Silk Pajamas from Karen Mabon
Cookware Set from Simply Calphalon
Tumi Suitcase
Away Suitcases

Instagram Obsessions:

@chloeiscrazy
@blonde_atlas
@bowenyang

Books Mentioned:

How Could She by Lauren Mechling (October book club pick)
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

Sponsors:

Borghese: Special offer 25% sitewide borghese.com enter code BOP25 at checkout.
LOLA: You can 30% off your first month’s subscription with code BOP30 at www.mylola.com
Hello Fresh: For $80 off your first month hellofresh.com/BOP80 and enter code BOP80

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in DC, Philly, Atlanta, New York City and Dallas.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #2: Clare Malone Gives us a pre-Debate Primer! Oct 14, 2019

Friend of the pod and political writer for FiveThirtyEight, Clare Malone joins us to help sort through the top ten Democratic candidates on stage at the next debate. She takes a deep dive into the backgrounds of the top three front runners (Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders), and gives us the headlines on the rest (Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Julian Castro). Clare also breaks down the Republican challengers, too (Bill Weld, Joe Walsh, and Mark Sanford).

For more Clare Malone:

@claremalone on instagram and twitter

https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/clare-malone/ on fivethirtyeight.com

About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

Mollie Chen on changing careers, maintaining a balance, all things FOOD, and lazy girl skincare. Oct 09, 2019

We are back from San Francisco and off to Philly + DC next week! This week we’re joined by our friend Mollie Chen! She’s a brand consultant (and one of the Co-Founders of Birchbox!), a beauty guru, a mom, and a serious foodie. We talk about everything from knowing when it’s time to change careers to skincare for lazy people to the perfect day of eating in NYC. She also shares some great advice for new moms and maintaining a balance in your life.

Products Mentioned:

Pregnancy Pillow from Amazon

The Politician on Netflix

M.M. Lafleur trench coat

Philz Coffee

Garlic Press from Amazon

Mollie’s product recs (so many we made it it’s own doc!)

Instagram Obsessions:

@syattfitness

@palmbeachthrifters

Books Mentioned:

Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham

How Could She by Lauren Mechling (October book club pick)

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acebedo

The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

Mollie’s Medium posts - Leaving a Company You Started and A Type-A Guide to Time Off

Sponsors:

Night Pillow: Go to discovernight.com and enter Code BOP20 for 20% off.

Birchbox: Go to Birchbox.com/BOP and enter code BOP and get $5 off your first box!

Nicely Noted: Go to nicelynoted.com and receive $5 off your first month subscription with offer code: BOP5.

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in DC, Philly, Atlanta, New York City and Dallas.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Graham Norton on Fanboy Moments, Best-Smelling Celebs, and Becoming a Novelist at 52 Oct 02, 2019

This week, we are joined by Graham Norton, the beloved UK talk show host and author of a brand new novel! We talk to him about his show—everything from the funniest to the best-smelling guests and how he manages to get such good stories from his guests. Then we turn to his newest book, A Keeper. We couldn’t let him leave without a few grab bag questions too… so we also quizzed him on Dolly Parton, UK Drag Race, and more!

Outside of Graham, we talk about our tour (starts today in SF!), Grace’s birthday, and a new sleeping hack.

Products Mentioned:

Madewell hard sunglasses case (not available online)
Beauty Counter Blush in Nectar
Pregnancy Pillow from Amazon

Instagram Obsessions:

@farmrio
@farrisdoesfaces

Books Mentioned:

American Predator by Maureen Callahan
Obviously by Akilah Hughs
Anna K by Jenny Lee
Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodessser-Akner
The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky by Jana Casale

Sponsors:

Night Pillow: Go to discovernight.com and enter Code BOP20 for 20% off.
Equilibria: Go to https://equilibriawomen.com/ for 15% off your first order. Enter code BOP at checkout (Note: the beginner box is not included in this promotion).
Modern Fertility: Go to modernfertility.com/BOP for $20 off the test.

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in San Francisco, DC, Philly, Atlanta, New York City and Dallas.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Katharine McGee on the Behind the Scenes of American Royals and the Ins and Outs of the Publishing Industry Sep 26, 2019

Katharine McGee, the author of our September Book Club Pick, American Royals joins us to talk about the making of the book. We chat about the long road to publishing, how to get a book deal, how books turn into TV shows and movies, and how the New York Times Best Seller list works—it’s not how you think! We learned so much from her on today’s episode and cannot wait for the sequel!

Books Mentioned:

The Royal We by Jessica Morgan & Heather Cocks

99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown

The Royals by Kitty Kelley

Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood

Anna K - Jenny Lee (comes out next year)

Instagram:

@katharinemcgee

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in San Francisco, DC, Philly, Atlanta, New York City and Dallas.

Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!

Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

American Royals Book Club + Everything Royal Sep 25, 2019

Our September Book Club is here and we are so excited to dig into Katharine McGee’s American Royals, but beware it’s sprinkled with spoilers! This book posits a world where George Washington was the first King of America rather than the first President. The story follows his descendant, Princess Beatrice and her dramatic road to the throne. We also talk about everything Royal from books, movies, weddings, and gossip, and what we have been reading (and what we are close to putting down!).

Products Mentioned:

Glow Bar - $65 30 minute facial
Etsy - rainbow initial necklace

Instagram Obsessions:

@airmailweekly
@badonpolitics

Books Mentioned:

The Royal We by Jessica Morgan & Heather Cocks
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Royal Runaway by Lindsay Emory
Royals by Rachel Hawkins
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodessser-Akner
The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky by Jana Casale

Sponsors:

Care/of: Take 25% your first care of order takecareof.com and enter code BOP at checkout

Equilibria: Go to https://equilibriawomen.com/ for 15% off your first order. Enter code BOP at checkout (Note: the beginner box is not included in this promotion).

Check out tickets to our Fall live shows in San Francisco, DC, Philly, Atlanta, New York City and Dallas.

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Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Bad on Politics #1: Alyssa Mastromonaco on How The Primary Process Works & How To Get Involved In Politics Sep 23, 2019

Friend of the pod and former Obama Deputy Chief of Staff, Alyssa Mastromonaco, joins us to help break down what is happening in the current presidential election. Why are there so many candidates? Is this normal? When will the field narrow? And how does the primary process even work. Then we talk about how to learn about candidate platforms and how to get personally involved in politics. Alyssa's list of recs for understandable, trustworthy political coverage: @Jessicayellin (IG) @DMregister (twitter) @WBUR (twitter) @ZerlinaMaxwell (twitter) @Yashar (twitter) Vote Save America About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.

Bad On Politics Preview Sep 19, 2019

We're launching a new monthly series and wanted to give you a preview and some context before it goes live! Every month between now and November 2020, we're going to have a bonus episode centered around a political topic. Each month, we'll invite an expert to help school us on an issue or break down what's happening in the election. We can't wait to share our first episode with a repeat visit from Alyssa Mastromonaco.

Simon Doonan on Drag Culture, Personal Style, and Unplugging from Technology Sep 18, 2019

In this week’s episode, we get to chat with the amazing (sparkly!) Simon Doonan about his brand new book Drag: The Complete Story - the first modern book about the cultural history of drag! Simon talks all things drag with us while answering your questions about finding your own personal style, his relationship with Jonathan Adler, and whether or not he will be appearing on another season of NBC’s Making It (spoiler: he is!).

Products Mentioned: * Veronica Beard Emerald Suit (Blazer, Pants) * Amazon Sunglasses

Instagram Obsessions: * @bat_geo * @pollywales

Books Mentioned: * Drag: The Complete Story by Simon Doonan * The Winker by Andrew Martin * The International Best Dressed List by Amy Fine Collins * The catalog for the Camp Exhibit at The Met * Good Girls Lie by JT Ellison comes out Dec 30th * The Testaments by Margaret Atwood * The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky Jena Casale * September book club - American Royals by Katharine McGee

Articles Mentioned: * I’m so Excited for 40th grade - Mary Laura Philpott Op Ed for NYT

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Let’s Talk Time Management: Our Best Productivity Tips. Sep 11, 2019

In this week’s episode, we discuss how we manage our time, calendars, and inboxes. We also discuss avoiding distractions like Instagram and email (spoiler: we’re a work in progress here), the comparison trap, and our biggest lessons on productivity. Grace explores the power of saying “no” and Becca has plenty of very Virgo-esque tips for organizing your calendar in inbox.

We also have a very exciting announcement about our NYC show and some strong feelings on hot sauce!

Products Mentioned

Time Management Resources:

Instagram Obsessions:

Books Mentioned:

We Came Here To Forget by Andrea Dunlop
The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
A Keeper by Graham Norton
October book club - American Royals by Katharine McGee

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Grace’s Sister Rebecca Atwood Talks Decorating with Color... and Embarrassing Family Stories! Sep 04, 2019

Today we have Grace’s sister Rebecca Atwood joining us! With two “Becca’s” and two sisters who sound almost exactly alike, things get a little wild! Rebecca is an artist and textile designer who has her own incredible product line and just wrote her second book! Today she's answering all of your questions about home decor... giving us the rundown on tastefully adding more color to our homes (and why “connector colors” are a must)! Stay tuned ‘till the very end for hilarious Atwood sister childhood stories from growing up on Cape Cod.

Products Mentioned:

The Breakers Palm Beach Resort
White Pepper Paint by Valspar
Case for Making Paints
Taylor Swift’s Newest Album
Grace’s Gold Vintage Mirror from Chairish

Books Mentioned:

Living with Color by Rebecca Atwood
Living with Pattern by Rebecca Atwood
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
American Royals by Katherine McGee
The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames
We Came Here To Forget by Andrea Dunlop
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Instagram Obsessions:

Grace: @round.boys
Becca Atwood: @purrsanlove
Becca Freeman: @henning

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Lisa Taddeo on the Behind The Scenes Story of Three Women Aug 29, 2019

Lisa Taddeo, the Author of our August Book Club Pick—Three Women—joins us to share how the book got made. She talked to us about how she found the three women profiled (and the hundreds of others that didn't make the cut), how the book has exceeded her expectations, and what's next for her (hint: there's a TV adaptation in the works).

Books mentioned:

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg

Somebody with a Little Hammer Mary Gaitskill

Lucia Berlin short stories

Anything by Grace Paley

William Trevor short stories

Alice Munro short stories

Tessa Hadley short stories

Three Women Book Club + Online Dating Updates Aug 28, 2019

For our August book club, we're tackling our first non-fiction pick: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. The book explores the psyches and sex lives of three very different women. It's equal parts salacious and emotionally relatable, and we have so much to say about this book. We also catch up about online dating apps, scheduling as self care, and what we've been reading and obsessing over.

Products Mentioned

Instagram obsessions

Books Mentioned:

Honestly, We Meant Well by Grant Ginder
Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Luxe Series
Chances Are by Richard Russo
American Royals - Katherine McGee

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Morgan Hoit (aka @nycbookgirl) Joins Us To Talk Broadway, Working in Publishing, and #Bookstagram Aug 21, 2019

This week we’re joined by Morgan Hoit, marketing manager at Avid Reader Press and voice of NYC Book Girl (one of our favorite bookstagram accounts!). We chat about everything from her love of theatre and how she manages anxiety, to how she feels about the SoulCycle boycott and the three books she can’t wait to read next year. Products Mentioned

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Books Mentioned

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett Graff
The Yellow House by Sara M. Broom
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Fleishman in in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
Hunger by Roxane Gay
The Bucket List by Georgia Clark
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Under A Dancing Star by Laura Wood
The Luxe Series by Anna Godbersen
Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement
Fight of the Century by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman

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Lauren Duca on Political Activism, Coming Out, and Confidence Under Fire Aug 14, 2019

This week we're joined by freelance journalist, author, and political activist, Lauren Duca. We chat about her career transition from pop culture to political writer, her hard-won skills on dealing with criticism, and her major year of changes from divorce to coming out. But most importantly, we also chat about her forthcoming book: How to Start A Revolution (out Sept 24).

Books Mentioned:

How to Start A Revolution (Lauren's Book!)

My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Luxe Series by Anna Godbersen

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

Products Mentioned:

Caudalie Elixir Face Mist

Goop Glow Microderm Scrub

Amazon Packing Cubes

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Summer Beauty Product Update + Announcing Our Fall Tour Dates! Aug 07, 2019

Today it's just us, and we're talking about all things BEAUTY! We both discuss the products we're loving (or in some cases a little underwhelmed by) this summer. We talk everything from skincare and makeup to sunless tanning, SPF, and hair removal.

But before that, we announce our Fall tour dates! We're hitting 6 cities this fall and are hoping to announce a couple more dates soon. If you live in San Francisco, Atlanta, DC, Philly, Dallas, or New York we hope to see you there!

Also in this episode: Grace got to see Where'd You Go Bernadette early (and has a dating low) and Becca is now the proud owner of the most gorgeous built-in bookshelves!

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Lauren Wilkinson Joins us to Talk About Her Book, American Spy! Jul 31, 2019

It's time for our July Book Club and today we are discussing American Spy. We are so honored that the author, Lauren Wilkinson, is joining us remotely! We talk about the book, her writing process (she rewrote it SIX times!), how the book began (a grad school assignment about a suburban family) and why she chose to leave the book open-ended. We also talk about more difficult social topics and how that inspired the book. This interview was so interesting.

Also in this episode, Grace is feeling like a celebrity (she went on a yoga retreat with a personal chef and she just got verified on Instagram) and Becca admits that she still thinks about the game Bloody Mary every time she goes to the bathroom at night.

Follow Lauren at @thrillkinson on Instagram and Twitter… and of course, buy her book!

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Books Mentioned

With the Fire on High

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Always Ask For More Money – Negotiating Your Salary, Getting A Promotion, and Setting Freelance Rates Jul 24, 2019

In this episode, we’re talking MONEY. From salaries (actual numbers!) to negotiations, asking for raises, and talking to your friends about money, we are diving deep. We answer your questions like how often do you ask for a raise and how to know how much to ask for? Becca steps on her soapbox when talking about stock options and how she wishes she could give her past self this advice. No matter where you are in life, we hope you find this episode helpful!

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Books Mentioned:

American Spy– our July book club!

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Alex Dickerson Joins Us to Discuss Friendship, Careers, Angry Cats, and Bad Break-Ups. Jul 17, 2019

In this episode, we are joined our third sorority house member (and other best friend), Alex Dickerson. It's a longer episode and we talk about everything from friendship and dating to careers and going back to school for na MBA. There's also a mini Grace roast and a few embarrassing stories. Alex has had an incredible career thus far, complete with nearly being the star of a reality TV show and going to business school in Barcelona. We also talk about her messy dating story (+ broken engagement), and how that has shaped her into the person she is today. This episode was so much fun, and we hope you love Alex as much as we do!

Also in this episode, Becca has purchased a fancy home luggage stand, and Grace is obsessed with Sephora’s new clean beauty line. If you’re looking for a new read, join us for our July book club where we talk about American Spy.

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Books Mentioned:

Tell Me Lies

Save Me the Plums

Three Women

Answering Your Questions About... Everything!! Jul 10, 2019

It’s just us this week, and we’ve got all your questions covered. We truly cover a little bit of everything in this episode, like dating (yes, we are on the apps. No, it’s not fun), travel rituals, reading (of course!), the future of the pod (total world podcast domination), and so much more! It was fun to get to interview ourselves this week!

Meanwhile, Grace is feeling like she’s getting her life together post-tour, and Becca read two full books during the long weekend. Also, head to our Instagram for a chance to win a copy of our July book club, American Spy!

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Books Mentioned:

The Last Time I Lied

The Good Liar

The Conspiracy of Us

The Paper Princess

All These Beautiful Strangers

Very Nice

How Could She

Save Me The Plums

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Akilah Hughes Shares Her Writing Process, Tips on Self-Confidence, and Her Love of Neopets. Jul 03, 2019

Today’s guest is the hilarious and brilliant Akilah Hughes! From YouTube to politics to writing her own book, there's nothing she can't do! We talk about a little bit of everything, from her favorite and least favorite part about traveling (hotels! touching things in the airport!), growing up in the south, how to feel confident on bad days, and… Neopets.

Also in this episode, we’ve wrapped up our summer tour! We’re definitely ready for some introvert time. Also, Becca reveals that her cleaning lady ghosted her and Grace is obsessed with Katie Sturino’s clothing line with Stitch Fix!

To keep up with our new friend Akilah, follow her on Twitter at @akilahobviously, on Instagram at @Akilahh, on YouTube, and pre-order her book, Obviously: Stories from my Timeline.

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Books Mentioned:

The Fourth Bear

Meaty

Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me

With the Fire on High

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

Waiting for Tom Hanks

How Could She

Save Me the Plums

The Girl He Used to Know

Magic for Liars

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Robinne Lee Takes Us Behind The Scenes of The Idea Of You Jun 27, 2019

We’re back already, because we have a very exciting bonus guest: Robinne Lee, the author of The Idea Of You. We talk about the inspiration behind the book, a possible movie adaptation, and (most importantly) if there will be a sequel.

Make sure to follow Robinne on Instagram and Twitter (@robinnelee) and leave The Idea of You a shining review on Goodreads and Amazon.

Books Mentioned

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The Idea of You Book Club + Emotional Support Group. Jun 26, 2019

It's our June Book Club! Today is Becca's Superbowl... also known as The Idea of You Emotional Support Group. If you’ve been listening for a while you know how OBSESSED we are with this book. Seriously, we’re still trying to figure out how life continues after reading it. We finally get to talk about it today. Becca has begun her healing process through writing her own sequel. In light of this book, Becca and Grace talk about their favorite boy band, leading to a heated debate over whether or not Mark Wahlberg was actually a real member of New Kids on the Block. Finally, we talk about the youngest age we would date and whether that changes if he was famous (hint: it does).

Also in this episode, Grace had a mini college reunion at the Boston live show and Becca is still distraught over this book, but is recovering with the show Dead to Me.

PSA: Tomorrow we are releasing a bonus episode with the incredible writer of this book, Robinne Lee, where we practically beg for a sequel. Don’t miss it!

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Books Mentioned:

The Idea of You

City of Girls

Tell Me Lies

Match Making for Beginners

The Friends We Keep

Mrs. Everything

I Miss You When I Blink

A Nearly Normal Family

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

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Ep 59: Aliza Licht Shares the Most Honest Career Advice We've Heard. Jun 19, 2019

We couldn't be more excited to have Aliza Licht with us this week! You may know her as "DKNY PR Girl" back in the day on Twitter and Tumblr. She recently left her role at Alice & Olivia and is launching her own podcast SOON. In today's episode, she answers all fo your career questions and gives some of the best and most honest career advice we've heard - advice for interns, why "Can I pick your brain" is everyone's least favorite question, the importance of paper trails, DIY PR strategies, and so much more.

Also in this episode, Becca has found the best place to buy blinds (we're such adults) and Grace is binge-watching a new show.

Make sure to follow Aliza on twitter and instagram, and buy her book, Leave Your Mark!

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Ep 58: The Nitty Gritty of Our Morning Routines Jun 12, 2019

Today it's just us, and we're interviewing each other about the nitty gritty of our morning routines. From breakfast to beauty products, we're breaking down our morning rituals.

This episode was inspired by a series on A Few Things with Claire And Erica. It's one of our favorite podcasts, you should check it out!

Also in this episode, Grace met (and clung for dear life to) Peter Hermann from Younger and Becca has a mortifying Uber saga that ended in -1 pairs of shoes.

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Ep 57: Makeup Lessons with Cassandra Garcia. Jun 05, 2019

Today we interviewed Cassandra Garcia... makeup artist to THE STARS... and us! Cassandra did our makeup for the NYC live show but she's also the in-house makeup artist for Bobbi Brown AND she does makeup for the cast of SNL. (+ other celebs!!) We gathered ALL your makeup questions for her and put her to the test. You may want to grab a notebook for this one as it gets pretty technical - in the best possible way. We're talking about making your makeup last, under eye concealer that won't settle into fine lines, and more. Do you really need a primer? What about a setting spray? Cassandra also shares her favorite luxury products + cheapie drugstore finds.

PS - the long wear cream eyeshadow we keep talking about is SHORE by Bobbi Brown. Not "Sure" or "The Shore!"

Be sure to follow Cassandra at @cygmakeup!

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Ep. 56: Normal People Book Club + What Makes a Book YA!? May 29, 2019

In this episode, we are talking about Normal People by Sally Rooney! We loved this book. In fact, we both agree that it’s one of the best books we've read this year. BUT we couldn’t decide… is it a “Young Adult” book? Let us know what you think! In light of this book, we talk about our own secret romances (or lack thereof!), power dynamics in relationships, and how your confidence can shift (for better or worse) over time.

Also, Becca had the worst travel day of her life, Grace is loving @sanctuarywrld on Instagram, and Becca and Grace are both obsessed with the Charlotte Tilbury Wonderglow Primer!

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Conversations with Friends

The Hunger Games

The Hate U Give

Listen to Your Heart

An American Marriage

American Spy

Little Fires Everywhere

The Idea of You

Park Avenue Summer

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Ep. 55: Linda Wells - Beauty, Career Advice, and Life after Allure. May 22, 2019

This week's guest needs no introduction! Linda Wells, the founder of Flesh Beauty and founding editor at Allure Magazine joins us for a conversation about beauty, careers, and more. Linda walks us through her entire career, beginning with her first interviews right out of college (and when her interviewer made her cry), to launching Allure, and most recently the creation of Flesh. We also dive into career advice, behind the scenes of the Best of Beauty awards, and of course, her favorite products! It was truly an honor to get to sit down with such a beauty icon!

Also in this episode, Grace and Becca have created their own sorority house, Grace is obsessed with @90sanxiety on Instagram, and Becca has fallen in love with @margaux shoes!

Make sure to follow Linda at @lindawellsny and @fleshbeauty.

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Books Mentioned:

That's What Frenemies Are For: A Novel

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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Ep. 54: Your 20s v 30s: work, relationships, and what we’ve learned May 15, 2019

It's just us this episode!! We’re doing a little bit of self-reflection today, talking about the differences between being in your twenties versus your thirties. Hopefully, for those of you in your twenties, we can offer a little advice. And for those of you in your thirties with us, we know you’ll relate! From the difference in how we date now, to what we thought our lives would look like in our thirties, this episode was fun to reflect on.

Also in this episode, Becca is obsessed with organizing her new apartment, and Grace is obsessed with her new Veronica Beard jacket!

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Books Mentioned

Rules of Civility

The Overstory

Park Avenue Summer

Red White and Royal Blue

The Royal We

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Ep. 53: Ashley & Rayna from Girls Gotta Eat Talk Dating, Finding Friends on Instagram, & Creating a Life You Love. May 08, 2019

In this episode, we had so much fun recording with the Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine from the Girls Gotta Eat Podcast! We talk about all things dating, from go-to first date outfits, to getting over a break-up (like… NOW), and of course, how to handle people who hound you about your love life. We also talk about making friends as an adult (it might include starting your own podcast!), creating a life you love, and the best restaurants in NYC.

Also in this episode, Becca is curtain-less, so she’s nervous about becoming the next Beck from You, and Grace is trying to find Tyrion a new best-dog-friend.

Make sure to follow @girlsgottaeatpodcast, @ashhess, and @onehungryjew on Instagram to keep up with them, and visit StupidLiveShows.com to find a Girls Gotta Eat live show near you!

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Ep. 52: Kathryn Gallagher Talks Body Confidence, Advice for Aspiring Actors, & Non-Terrible Times Square Places. May 01, 2019

In this episode, we sat down with the extremely talented and hilarious Kathryn Gallagher, one of the stars of one of our favorite shows, You! We love Kathryn’s focus body positivity and her perspective on how to handle the hard days. She also gives great advice on developing more confidence and for aspiring actors. Kathryn is amazing, and we know you’re gonna love her!

Also in this episode, WE’RE GOING ON TOUR! Go to badonpaper.com/live to find more details and buy tickets! Also, Becca is officially Grace’s neighbor, and Grace is obsessing over @drawingsofdogs on Instagram!

You can our new IRL friend on Instagram at @kathryngallagher, Twitter at @kathryng, and watch her in the new musical, Jagged Little Pill.

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Books Mentioned:

The Thousandth Floor

The Last Book Party

Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Bonus Ep. 51: Helena Glazer on Motherhood & Marriage, Blogging, & Finding Balance in It All. Apr 29, 2019

We’re back for a bonus episode with no other than Helena Glazer. We couldn’t get enough of her! Today we are talking about marriage and parenthood, and balancing both with her successful blog, Brooklyn Blonde! We also talk about her holy grail skincare and listening to what your skin needs, balancing “Insta-pretty” and “Insta-real,” and the secret to walking in heels in the city (hint… it involves a second pair of shoes).

We had such a blast recording this episode with Helena. Make sure to follow her on Instagram (@brooklynblonde1) and read her blog here!

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Ep. 50: Helena Glazer co-hosts the Daisy Jones & the Six Book Club! Apr 24, 2019

In this episode, we have one of our favorite bookworms and bloggers, Helena Glazer, joining us for the Daisy Jones & the Six book club! We highly value Helena’s book opinion, so we knew she had to be a pod guest. You guys raved about this book, so we’re excited to talk with Helena about it!

Also in this episode, Becca is obsessed with the Sleep Cycle app, and Grace loves following body-positive influencer, @CaralynMirand.

Because Helena is amazing and we had so many questions for her, we are releasing a BONUS episode next Monday where we will talk all things books, fashion, and skincare. You can follow Helena here and find her blog here!

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Books Mentioned

Daisy Jones & The Six

Rules of Civility

The Perfect Girlfriend

More Than Words

The Light We Lost

Ep. 49: What's It REALLY Like To Work For Yourself? Pitching, Finances, And Work/Life Balance When You're Self-Employed. Apr 17, 2019

In this episode, we are talking about work, specifically striking out on your own and being your own boss. We talk about our past jobs, how we decided to start working for ourselves, and the best and worst parts of self-employment. Plus we get super honest about how we manage finances while being self-employed. Of course, we have lots of hard-won advice for anyone who is considering going out on their own.

Also in this episode, Grace is obsessed with a future BOP guest and You star, Kathryn Gallagher and Becca is obsessed @PuntaCaliza (The hotel G&B stayed at on their recent Mexico trip). And... BIG NEWS… we are going on a (mini) TOUR! Make sure to follow @badonpaperpodcast to be the first to know the tour details!

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Books Mentioned:

The Idea of You– GRACE LOVED IT.

Behind Her Eyes

The Mother-in-Law

Rules of Civility

Daisy Jones and the Six

Don’t You Forget About Me

Who’s That Girl

City of Girls

The Lost Vintage

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Ep. 48: Indie Lee on Clean Beauty, Living Life 80/20, and Doing What Makes You Happy. Apr 10, 2019

In this episode, we sat down with Indie Lee, founder of her namesake clean beauty brand. Indie has an incredible story that led to not only led to her finding her purpose and passion (and launching her amazing beauty line), but also her insanely positive outlook on life. We talk about living life following the 80/20 rule, skincare products worth splurging on, and doing what makes you happiest. Indie is a breath of fresh air - we loved getting to sit down with her.

Also in this episode, we are still on a high from our live show, Becca is about to be Grace's neighbor, and Grace is officially part of the Sephora Squad!

Make sure to follow @indie_lee on Instagram, and check out her amazing products at indielee.com! Through the end of April use code BOP15 to take 15% off.

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Books Mentioned:

It Ends with Us

The Idea of You

Don’t You Forget About Me

Who’s That Girl

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

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Ep. 47: Alyssa Mastromonaco - the Obamas, the Importance of Lists, and Staying Calm Under Pressure. Apr 03, 2019

We are so excited about today's guest: Alyssa Mastromonaco. Alyssa is the co-host of the Crooked Media podcast Hysteria, a New York Times Best Selling Author, AND was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for the Obama administration! We ask her a million questions, from how to stay calm in a high pressure job, to how to talk productive conversations with people whose political views differ from yours, to three things she would take to a desert island. This episode is one of our all time favorites!

Also in this episode, Grace is obsessed with @averagefashionblogger, and Becca is battling with overly-optimistic “Past Becca.”

You can find Alyssa on Twitter at @alyssamastro44, and on Instagram at @Mastro175

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Books Mentioned:

So Here’s the Thing

Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Why Not Me?

The Unhoneymooners

I’m Fine and Neither Are You