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Fangirls, Fandoms, & Dungeons & Dragons (feat. Akilah Hughes) Jul 17, 2018

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Move over gatekeeping nerds, fan girls have arrived and we're here to stay. We speak to Bustle's very own Sage Young about what her daily life as a super fan is like, and Caitlin challenges the notion that she doesn't have any hobbies with her friend, comedian and writer Akilah Hughes. Also, we follow our producer Anna as she fulfills her lifelong dream of playing Dungeons & Dragons with the guidance of self-taught Dungeon Master Sara Detrik and Twenty Sided Store owner Lauren Bilanko. Join us to get an easy game plan for entering the world of Dungeons & Dragons for yourself.

Follow Akilah @AkilahObviously on Twitter and @akilahh on Instagram.

Find Sage @sageyoungest and @HeadOverFeels.

Go play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with Sara Detrik at Hex & Co or visit Lauren Bilanko (and play another game of Dungeons & Dragons) at Twenty Sided Store in Brooklyn.

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Surviving Your Student Loans (feat. Gaby Dunn) Jul 10, 2018

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Gaby Dunn of Panoply's Bad With Money podcast joins us to share her own student loan story followed by a conversation between Bustle's Melissa Louis-Jacque and My Money, My Future's Ramona Ortega about money and women of color and Dani Fankhauser's story of how she paid off over $70,000 of debt in five years.

Get more of Gaby by listening to Panoply's Bad With Money With Gaby Dunnor following her on Twitter @gabydunn.

And please, go to My Money, My Future and learn more about Ramona's amazing program.

And check out Dani Fankhauser's book Shameless and find her on Twitter @danifankhauser.

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Latinx Beauty Is All-American Beauty Jul 03, 2018

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In honor of Bustle's fashion and beauty editorial program All American, we're joined by Fashion and Beauty Editor Sara Tan to discuss how the beauty routines of first generation Americans have been shaped by their parents' cultural backgrounds.

We then explore the unique connection the Latinx community has to beauty and fashion through conversations between celebrity manicurist Elizabeth Garcia, editor and poet Brittany Leitner, comedian X Mayo, and writer Angie Jaime as they lead us through their mothers’ beauty routines, sources of pride, and forms of resistance, in their own words.

This episode is sponsored by McDonalds.

Find X Mayo on Instagram @80dollarsandasuitcase and what her on Strangers on Facebook Watch!

Find Elizabeth Garcia on Instagram @nails_byely and www.elizabeth-garcia.com

Find Angie Jaime at www.angiejaime.com

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Should I Have A Kid? (Feat. Cheryl Strayed) Jun 26, 2018

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How do you really know when you're ready to start a family? Or if that's something you're ever going to want? Last week, we explored all the ups and downs of trying to conceive, and this week, we talk to New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller, writer EJ Dickson, and writer Cheryl Strayed (we're trying to be casual about it) about what it's like after you have a child and how to know if this is something that's actually for you.

Check out Claire Cane Miller on Twitter and the New York Times.

Find EJ Dickson on Twitter.

And of course, find Cheryl Strayed on Twitter and her podcast, Dear Sugars wherever you listen to podcasts.

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The Fertility Cliff: Should We Really Be Worried? Jun 19, 2018

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Should we really be worried about falling off the fertility cliff? Is 35 the magic age where everything just stops working? How do we as women separate the truths about fertility from the myths, lies, and unknown?

Join us as we visit the WNYC studio to discuss fertility and age with Molly Webster of Radiolab, call Elizabeth Katkin, author of "Conceivability: What I Learned Exploring The Frontiers of Fertility" and speak to a contributor to Romper's new series Trying.

Check out the first episode ofRadiolab's Gonads series, The Primordial Journey.

Check out Romper's new series Trying here.

Find Elizabeth Katkin's new book "Conceivability: What I Learned Exploring the Frontiers of Fertility" here.

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Dog Influencers, Gross Habits, & Adopting Your (Maybe) BFF Jun 12, 2018

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Today's episode is all about dogs — the good, the bad, and the gross. From former owner and stylist of Toast Meets World, Katie Sturino, to owner of The Dog Agency, Loni Edwards, to the many, many dog owners on staff at Bustle, join us for a surprisingly introspective episode on man's best(?) friend.

For more on Loni Edwards, check out The Dog Agency here.

Check out Katie Sutirno's fashion blog The 12ish Style and her beauty brand, megababe!

For more on Loni and The Dog Agency, listen to her podcast, PetInsider, and check out PetCon!

This episode is sponsored by the new GoodMorningAmerica.com.

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Not A Wedding Episode (Feat. Michelle Buteau, Jill Filipovic, & Emma Willmann) Jun 05, 2018

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Welcome back to Season 2! To celebrate our first episode back, we're definitely not going to talk about weddings in this episode. Instead, we're talking to comedians Emma Willmann and Michelle Buteau and writer Jill Filipovic about what it really means to be an adult and the new ways that millennial women are defining their lives.

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Check out Bustle's newest issue, Something New at https://www.bustle.com/something-new

Listen to Michelle Buteau's Late Night Whenever on WNYC!

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Jackie Cruz On Creating Her Own Path Apr 10, 2018

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This episode, we're doing things a bit differently, promoting Bustle's newest podcast "Latina to Latina" with Alicia Menendez and its first episode, featuring Jackie Cruz.

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Mercury Retrograde Explained (Hold On To Your Phones!) Apr 03, 2018

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Forgot to turn on your alarm and need a planet to blame? Or do you feel a more spiritual connection with Mercury Retrograde? Whether you're a diehard believer in astrology or loud and proud skeptic, you can't get away from hearing about it. Listen to this week's episode to discover the science behind Mercury Retrograde from Inverse's Rae Paoletta and then get answers to all of your burning astrology questions from Elite Daily astrologer and comedian Rosebud Baker.

To hear more from Rae, follow Inverse's podcast "I Need My Space" on Twitter and Instagram @INeedMySpacePod and listen here: goo.gl/aXBZy

And while you're at it, follow Rosebud @rosebudbaker and listen to her co-host the podcast "Two Less Lonely Girls" with Corinne Fisher here: https://goo.gl/KLGX6q

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Support Your Local Muslim Girl Gang Mar 27, 2018

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Happy Muslim Women's Day! We're thrilled to feature an interview with Amani, founder and editor-in-chief of MuslimGirl, who joins us to discuss what you can—and should—do to celebrate Muslim Women's Day 2018.

We were also lucky to welcome activist and now author Blair Imani into the Bustle studio to discuss her upcoming book "Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History".

Finally, we're joined by figure skater and Olympic medalist Adam Rippon, who joined us to discuss how his identity impacted his Olympic dreams.

Now get out there and tweet, tag, and share with #MuslimWomensDay!

Find Amani on Twitter @xoamani and on Instagram @amani.

Find Blair on Twitter and Instagram @BlairImani. And learn more about her upcoming book here: www.modernherstory.com

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