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Thanks For Asking — 223 episodes

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Uprooted: What Can Happen When a Black Child Is Transracially Adopted by a White Family?

2

Nothing Starts on Sunday but Birth Control with Courtney Maum

3

What happens after Viral Fame? Rebecca Black can tell you.

4

Happyish Complicated Father’s Day to all who struggle to celebrate! with Dayna Kathan

5

A Spiritual Hug with Nadia Bolz-Weber

6

There’s an Alien Inside Me: Medical Misogyny, a Rom-Com, and Struggles with Infertility

7

The Summer Reading List with Kate Baer

8

It's (still) Okay To Laugh (and crying is still cool, too)

9

Creativity is For Everyone (The Artist’s Way with Elizabeth Kott)

10

What Is Happening and Where Are We? with Catherine Newman

11

Dancing for the Devil: Dr. Edith Eger on Surviving the Holocaust and Turning Trauma Into Purpose

12

Getting Married Again Doesn’t Make You A Bad Widow with Leslie Harter-Berg

13

IGTBO: A Goose-Forward Home with Sharon McMahon

14

Advice-cast: The Worst Thing to Say When Someone’s Grieving, Feeling like a Loser at Work, and Trying to Love Your Body When No One Else Loves Theirs

15

Food, Forgiveness and the Cost of Being Thin: A Conversation with Geneen Roth

16

Baja Blast Your Body (feat. Ralph)

17

Honest Motherhood with Libby Ward

18

Friends To The End: Cancer, Friendship and Grief

19

How you {really} are: Aging parents, falling out of love with your work, disappointing gender reveals, secondhand embarrassment and being the worst mom in the world

20

A Daily Dose of Wonder with Kelly Corrigan

21

AI Deadbots Want To Cure Your Grief

22

I Can’t Have Kids and My Friends Are Pregnant

23

Middle School Divorcee | It's Going to be OK with Elise Loehnen

24

Wind Phone (Part 3)

25

Dead Sibling Society (Part 1)

26

Under a Cloud of Loss

27

There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 2)

28

There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 1)

29

Wind Phone (Part 2)

30

Okay Boomers

31

The Return of Ralph: It’s Going to be OK

32

Update: The Fat Guy with the Alcohol

33

How Do You Grieve Someone Who Isn’t Dead with the Antlers

34

When Grandma and Grandpa Die, Can I Have Their iPad? with Kate Kennedy

35

Normalize “bad women” with Rebecca Woolf

36

IGTBO: Widow Weddings, Sleepovers, and My Dead Uncle’s Sweater

37

The Wind Phone: Part 1

38

Happyish Holidays 2025

39

Goodbye, 2025

40

Baby Wants a Gas Mask

41

Your Pettiest Crimes with Caroline Moss

42

The Grief Album of the Year with Will Anderson

43

AITA: I Want to Leave My Dying Boyfriend

44

THANKS-giving

45

How to Con a Catfish

46

Talking to My Dead Husband with Psychic Medium Laura Lynne Jackson

47

Digitally Crushed by Grief

48

Help, My Parents Are Hoarders!

49

Should I Go Back to Work? with Kate Kennedy

50

I’m Getting in the Casket With You w/Caroline Moss

51

The IBS in Me Recognizes the IBS in You w/Caroline Moss

52

From The Archives: October 8, 1988

53

Prescription for a Widow

54

22 & Struggling (is it just me??)

55

You’re Not Too Old, It’s Not Too Late Part 2(with Cheryl Sparks)

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You're Not Too Old, It's Not Too Late(with Jamie Golden)

57

Gen Z Dating is Weird: Your Calls

58

Dead People Lore

59

Patients Over Profits

60

TFA x IMO: Michelle Obama Told Me I'm Not a Loser!

61

The Widower (Girl, run)

62

Hysterectomies, Health Insurance, and Husbands: TFA Live-Call In #1

63

Giving Away the Farm

64

Update: How to Lose Your Name with Hayley Paige (Cheval)

65

Tales of a Type B

66

Pull over on the freeway, it's a PowerPoint Emergency! | Corporate Horror Stories Pt. 2 with Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip

67

Health Insurance Horror Stories

68

Everyone is Lying To You: influencer culture with Jo Piazza

69

Signs from the Other Side

70

I Was the Other Woman... And He Died

71

How Do I Trust in Love When My Heart Has Been Broken?

72

UnWorld with Jayson Greene

73

What Do People Do All Day?

74

S3: I've Made a Huge Mistake

75

S3: Emergency! Banner Ads!

76

Corporate Horror Stories

77

Help, I Said the Wrong Thing!

78

Finding Meaning In The New Age of Anxiety

79

Pep Talks 2

80

What It’s Like to Be a Brain Surgeon, with Dan Heath

81

Her Parents Skipped Her Wedding(Estrangement)

82

Pep Talks

83

You’re Lonely: What’s the prescription? An Interview with author Julia Hotz, author of The Connection Cure

84

Embarrassing Stories

85

How Do You Care for Yourself?

86

Angry and Grieving

87

Issa Rae on Friendships That Need to Go, from IMO

88

Out of The Void, Into The Dating Pool

89

IGTBO, TFA (Part 2)

90

Some Regrets

91

Creativity, Burnout and Life Beyond Productivity with Maria Bowler

92

I Hate My Friend’s Partner…What Do I Do About It?

93

Worrying, Fresh Retirement and Movie Extras

94

AI Wife

95

Your Mama's Kitchen: John Legend

96

Are You Lonely?

97

The Kindness of Strangers

98

Interdependence, Trump Flags, and Taylor Swift

99

The Year of Less: Vision Boards, Awards, What’s Next in 2025

100

You're Not Lazy, You're Overwhelmed (feat. Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius)

101

I Will Do Better feat. Charles Bock

102

Update: Behind The Scammer feat. Celisia Stanton

103

Am I grieving right? With Dr. Katherine Shear

104

Happyish Holidays: The Worst Thanksgiving Ever?

105

AITA: Happyish Holidays Edition

106

“Seahorse Dad” from Refamulating

107

You don’t talk about telescopes? And other questions to distract yourself from Election Day anxiety (with Kate Kennedy!)

108

Forces Of Nature: A Conversation On Childhood Trauma with Gina Demillo Wagner

109

Interview: Making and keeping friends as a grown-up with Marisa Franco

110

More (More, More!) Obituaries

111

TTFA Anthologies: Two Letters- A Widow Remembers Her Husband With Two Letters

112

TTFA Anthologies: Stories of Suicide & Loss

113

The Resilience Myth with Soraya Chemaly

114

Now

115

Becoming Fairy Godmother: Egg Donation and Creating A New Kind of Family

116

Your Favorite Obituaries

117

More Than A Survivor: Rape, Activism and what comes next with Sarah Super

118

Terrible, Thanks For Everything!!

119

Time Capsule: The Silver Chain - Episode 1: The Silver Chain

120

The One That Got Away

121

Time Capsule: The Silver Chain - Trailer

122

Grudge Book is Back!

123

The First Stone: Cheating, shame and a series of unfortunate men

124

“Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything?” from Search Engine

125

86 Sundays

126

The Christmas Curse (Happyish Holidays 2023)

127

Loving into the Future

128

The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

129

Eat, Pray, Leave

130

...Always

131

Everything, All Of You...

132

The Trauma Sponge

133

Claire Has A Secret

134

The Teachers Are Not Alright

135

Still A Family

136

Meet The Sharents

137

From the Archives: About Bob

138

From The Archives: Nathan

139

From The Archives: Ripped From the Headlines

140

From the Archives: Witness

141

From the Archives: If/Then

142

From the Archives: The Broken Places

143

From the Archives: Not The Bummer Olympics

144

Wide Open Spaces

145

The Final Quince

146

Courtney's Secret Garden

147

Jamie The Good Times Gal

148

The Trail

149

Gifted and Terrible

150

Should I Have Kids?

151

Nora Needs a New Dad

152

Debt, Lies, and Other Things Our Parents Leave Us

153

How To Lose Your Name

154

Into The Void

155

Your Happyish Holiday Traditions

156

Happyish Holidays 2022

157

Blocked and Reported

158

Army Wife

159

Between Two Widows

160

After The Headlines

161

Bad Vibes Only

162

Update: The Beautiful Ones

163

Para-Mom

164

Overthinking About You

165

Born Fat

166

Anything Can Happen

167

Independence Days

168

The Missing Puzzle Piece

169

Asking for a Friend

170

Saved As Draft

171

Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

172

Girlboss or Bust

173

How Long Should Grief Last?

174

Brettina Has BPD

175

Motherless Day

176

Widowed*

177

How’s It Going In There? 2022 Edition

178

The Della Diaries

179

Lacuna

180

Tell Me About Them

181

Liam and the Letters

182

The Scammer Speaks

183

Self-Portrait of My Own Misery

184

26 Pages

185

These Are Your Confessions

186

In Absentia

187

We’re Supposed to Be Four

188

October 8, 1988

189

Behind The Scammer

190

War Stories

191

Why Are You Up?

192

The Grudge Book

193

Her Name Was Heather

194

The Gift

195

Cynthia

196

Happyish Holidays 2020

197

Miss North Dakota

198

Ride Through It

199

For The Next Ten Minutes

200

I See Big Things For You

201

What Happened to You? (Part 3)

202

What Happened to You? (Part 2)

203

What Happened to You? (Part 1)

204

A Face In The Crowd

205

The Bride Price

206

The Treatment

207

Happyish Holidays 2018

208

Heather

209

Soooo OCD

210

Two Letters

211

Route 91

212

Happyish Holidays 2017

213

What Does All This Loss Mean?

214

Chapter 2

215

Forever Alone? (Part 2)

216

Forever Alone? (Part 1)

217

Best Friends Forever

218

Semper Fi

219

Unbroken

220

Help Me Remember

221

Happyish Holidays

222

In Love and Memory

223

Sad Nora and the Secret Baby