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Sunday Nice Things: Basket Case Dec 08, 2024

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Happy Sunday! We are dropping a new show in your feed today. This is Basket Case (LOVE THE NAME). Where do you go when your own thoughts are unsafe? Basket Case, a series hosted by Nicole Kelly (NK), decodes the kaleidoscope of mental health and uncovers how our brain contorts our reality through original reporting, tender conversations, and deeply personal explorations. On this episode, Bertranna’s autism makes her obsessed with finding the Truth about neurodiversity.

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Suffs Broke Open My Soul, An Interview with Nikki James Dec 05, 2024

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Behind every powerful woman… are more powerful women taking justice into their own hands. That is currently more true than ever. When I saw Suffs the musical the other day I found myself sobbing in the bathroom with complete strangers and I simply had to talk about it with the magical Nikki James who portrays the inimitable Ida B. Wells in this Broadway masterpiece.

SUFFS brings to life a complicated chapter in the ongoing battle for the right to vote: the American women’s suffrage movement. In the seven years leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, an impassioned group of suffragists—“Suffs” as they called themselves—took to the streets, pioneering protest tactics that transformed the country. They risked their lives as they clashed with the president, the public, and each other. A thrilling story of brilliant, flawed women working against and across generational, racial, and class divides, SUFFS boldly explores the victories and failures of a fight for equality that is still far from over.

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Ballerina Farm's MAGA Cover Reveal Dec 03, 2024

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This week Hannah Neeleman, the founder and CEO of the brand Ballerina Farm appeared on the cover of Evie magazine, the MAGA-friendly lady magazine that claims to be an alternative to traditional media’s abject feminism. If we had any questions about the Neeleman family’s political leanings (I didn’t) then this answers them for us. On the cover Hannah is posed seductively in a prairie field whilst milking a cow in a pristine linen dress.

The magazine, which is cleverly designed to looks exactly like other recognizable women’s brands like Vogue and Elle, touts MAGA-friendly headlines like THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SEXY: Why Society Needs Aspirational Beauty.

Here to talk about all of it is NYT bestselling author of A Well-Trained Wife, Tia Levings.

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Prime Domination: Amazon's Holiday Shopping Conquest with Dana Mattioli Nov 27, 2024

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As we head into Black Friday and the vortex of holiday shopping we need to chat just a little bit about the Amazon of it all. Today’s guest is Dana Mattioli, author of THE EVERYTHING WAR: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own The World and Remake Corporate Power. She’s helping us dive into all of our feelings about shopping with Amazon and how to weigh the often wonderful convenience of it with the challenges faced by small businesses and the safety concerns related to some products sold on on the site.

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The Ozempic of it All Nov 26, 2024

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If women don't have real conversations about their health and their bodies then we will never get the healthcare we deserve. Get ready for lots of real and honest talk about Ozempic and the semi-glutides as Jo chats with Glynnis about all the questions people ask her about taking the drugs for the past three months including:

Why did you start?
Do you hate food now?
Do you feel sick all the time?
How do people react when you tell them?
Are you gonna stay on it forever?

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Sunday Nice Things: The Family That Travels Together Nov 24, 2024

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Today we're dropping an episode of Committed in your feed.

As a parent, how do you transcend the regular run of the mill parent/child relationship? How do you turn your bond into a real friendship? When Jessica's two kids were young, she pulled them out of traditional school, began homeschooling them and started traveling abroad. They left the U S a decade ago in search of a more authentic path. Since then they've lived in an RV in Europe for three years, learned to sail and crossed the Atlantic together as a family.

This has been challenging and insane and also delightful and wonderful.

Today we're talking to Jessica and Largo, her 17-year-old son, about how this lifestyle has strengthened their bond. This is the first in a two-part episode. In the first episode we dig into the foundation of their relationship and next week are getting into the mother-son duo's decision to hike the Appalachian trail together.

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Restoring Sanity in a Digital World Nov 21, 2024

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AI technology is significantly increasing social media addiction every single day by predicting user behavior. It’s now more imperative than ever that parents model healthy screen habits to influence their children's behavior before it’s too late.

In this episode, long-time tech exec Mark Weinstein, author of Restoring Our Sanity Online, discusses the evolution of social media, the rise of surveillance capitalism, and the increasing addiction to social media driven by AI. He emphasizes the need for parents to model healthy behaviors and protect their children from online dangers. Weinstein also highlights the importance of legislative measures to ensure online safety and shares insights from his experiences speaking with social media executives.

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The Real Secret of Success—Be a Likable Badass Nov 19, 2024

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How can you get the status you need and deserve? What makes people WANT to work with you?

As a professor of organizational behavior at University of North Carolina Alison Fragale, the author of Likeable Badass, is trying to help women figure out how to gain the status we deserve. It’s easy to feel powerless at work and at home. But there are strategies we can use to boost our status with coworkers, potential employers, audiences and even our own kids.

We're also going to dive into negotiation techniques that work every time.

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Create Stronger Friendships and Get Rid of Toxic Ones Nov 14, 2024

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Friendships are the backbones of many of our lives. But they also feel harder than ever to maintain and nurture. We need more strategic approached to our friendships and we also need a blueprint for how to cull toxic friends from our lives. Here to give us all of it is Anna Goldfarb, the author of Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections. Anna argues that we need to update our approach to friendships in a way that accounts for the hyper-fluid society we live in. The key to forming a lasting bond is what Anna calls “Wholehearted Friendship”―proven strategies to enhance enthusiastic connection.