Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Latest Episodes:

Fear and Finance with Farnoosh Torabi Nov 13, 2023

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What are you afraid of? Today we are talking about fears and finances. Because our phones are listening to us all the time they can probably hear us when we voice these fears out loud. Jo has recently been served a bunch of financial influencers who want to sell her advice to be a millionaire in a $500 course. These finance charlatans are preying on all of our very real fears. Thankfully we were able to call up an actual personal finance expert and the author of the new book on fear, A HEALTHY STATE OF PANIC to talk Jo off the ledge and tell us who we should actually follow (or not follow) when it comes to our money terrors. Welcome Farnoosh Torabi to UTI.

Order Farnoosh's Book A HEALTHY STATE OF PANIC here.

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You Are a Good Mom Nov 10, 2023

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I want to tell all of you moms out there something very important today.

You are a good mom, a good parent, a good caretaker. You are good. You are good at taking care of your children.

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Are Trad Wives Happier Than You? Nov 09, 2023

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Are trad wives happier than the rest of us? So many of the women I know who are bad-ass boss babes struggling to juggle it all—career, relevance, fulfillment, being a good mother, being good at work, being OK at being a wife—are really unhappy and anxious. I don’t believe in being submissive to your husband and I don’t particularly want to stay home and be the sole caregiver for my children and the only one taking care of my house. But I have been hearing from many traditional wives who say THEY LOVE THEIR CHOICE. They are happy and in fact they believe their decision to opt out of the system where women work their asses off outside of the home IS RADICAL. Today we will be hearing from some of these women in their own words.

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You can subscribe to the Radical Mom's Union Substack HERE.You can also follow Andrea at @instinctualmothering and Nicki @Nicki.french

You can follow Bianca Saeed on her Instagram @motherhoodempowerment.

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Protecting Boys From Toxic Social Media with Peggy Orenstein Nov 06, 2023

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Don't Spy On Your Kids' Phones with Dr. Devorah Heitner Nov 01, 2023

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Order Devorah's Book HERE

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A Look Into Cancer Influencing with Kelli Stuart Oct 29, 2023

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A couple of years ago, Kelli Stuart was diagnosed with breast cancer after she went in for a routine mammogram and it did not go the way she expected. Once Kelli got her diagnosis she wanted to find one thing in her life that she could control. Like a lot of women that I know and love, Kelli is a doer and a fixer. She talked to all of the doctors and did the treatments that they recommended, but she also wanted to do more. She wanted to know more.

While Kelli was waiting for her treatments to do their thing, she went down a deep rabbit hole of cancer influencers. Some of it was helpful, because finding community when you are going through it can be a wonderful thing. But some of it got dark, and unhelpful, and even scary. Some of the influencers she found were recommending treatments that were so expensive people were mortgaging their homes. I asked her to come on today to share her personal story with diving into this cancer influencer rabbit hole and the moment that she realized she had to dig herself out of it.

You can follow Kelli here and order her book The Master Craftsman here.

And if you want to surprise all your family members with copies of The Sicilian Inheritance come Spring you should definitely do that. I won't stop you. In fact, I'll come make dinner...or at the very least I'll order the Hello Fresh.

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Would You Pick Your Kids Nose on Instagram? With Mom Uncharted Oct 26, 2023

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A lot of parents are putting really gross shit of their kids online every single day. And millions of people are watching it. Millions!

Millions. We are talking about poop blowouts and booger picking videos and vomit and pee and every possible bodily fluid you can imagine. Sarah Adams is the unfortunate recipient of many of these videos. Ever since Sarah started the anti-sharenting account, Mom Uncharted, where she discusses the perils and pitfalls of sharing your kids online, her audience have been sending her every single gross video that they come across, including the ones that feel a little (sometimes maybe a lot) dangerous. This is one of THOSE episodes....the kind where you will never want to share your kids online again.

It's gross, but also it's scary, and sometimes even dangerous videos of children.

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What Do We Do With Mom Rage? With Minna Dubin Oct 23, 2023

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You can read Minna's original piece in the New York Times here and buy Mom Rage here.

As always, grab your Sicilian Inheritance often and early. I need to know how many cannolis to make for the launch!

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Is Lex Delarosa's #TradWife Account Satire? with Lex Delarosa Oct 20, 2023

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Earlier this week we asked whether the "traditional wife" Lex Delarosa was trolling us with her Instagram account. So many of you were convinced that her content was satire. UTI is here to clear up the confusion once and for all. You'll have to listen to find out the answer. But what I can tell you is that this conversation veers off into so many different tangents, including the massive levels of hate Lex gets on her account. The comments she gets vary from things like, "I don't like your hair," to "you should be murdered." I think this Friday bonus episode (to close out #Tradwife Week) will surprise you and give you plenty to think about.

Happy Friday all! You can follow Lex here.

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Soft Girls Don't Want Your Hustle with Steph McNeil Oct 18, 2023

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Have you heard about #softgirls? They're young women who want to check out of hustle culture. Their greatest dream is to achieve nothing. She doesn't want to be a girl boss. In fact, a lot of them do not want to work for pay at all. She just wants to perfect her skincare regime and do all the Pilates. Are these women aspiring to be little more than trophy wives? Are they the gateway drug to #tradwives and a life of submission to men? We're here to find out with Glamour reporter Stephanie McNeal who wrote a truly excellent piece on the #softgirls for Glamour mag.

Read all of Steph's Glamour pieces, but especially her one on soft girls here.

You can buy her book Swipe Up For More here.

As always, you can pre-order the Sicilian Inheritance and I might just show up at your house with Sicilian wine and cannoli.

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