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Under the Influence with Jo Piazza — 425 episodes

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1

Pour Yourself a Cup of Ambition: Remembering Dolly

2

Why We Need Paid Leave Right Now

3

Sunday Nice Things: A New Book You'll Absolutely Love

4

Why We Keep Underestimating Conservative Women

5

The Joy of Giving Fewer F*cks

6

The Dark Side of Being a Good Girl

7

Grudges, Revenge, MLMs and Book Recs with Emily Paulson

8

Book Tour Brain & Majoring in Influencing

9

The Art of an Adventurous Life

10

Get Out of the Waiting Room of Your Life

11

The Best Ideas Come at 3 in the Morning with Allison Winn Scotch

12

How to Thrive Through Life's Plot Twists

13

Why We Keep Falling for Paris

14

Heists, Billionaires, and the Untold Story of Jo van Gogh

15

Laura Ingalls Wilder is Getting Her Due on TV

16

The Art of the Heist: Why We Root for Thieves

17

Life After Ambition: The Midlife Crisis We Weren't Prepared For

18

How to Actually Relax This Summer

19

Why We're All Binging Parks and Rec Right Now—The Most Hopeful Show on Television Was Almost Canceled

20

What Should We Be Watching Right Now? With Kate Casey

21

Ballerina Farm Gets Real With Steph McNeal

22

Jane Green on Rewilding, Reinvention, Mushrooms, Tattoos and Midlife Freedom

23

Sad Beige Babies With Sad Beige Parents

24

Girls Gone Wild Go Feral—Behind the Scenes of the Show That Shaped a Generation

25

Sunday Nice Things: Family Money

26

Royals Were the Original Reality Television Stars

27

What Killed the Girl Power Movement?

28

MAHA Moms, the Influencer Election and What the Hell Will Happen With Midterms With Emily Amick

29

The Burnout Beneath Ambition

30

We Need to Talk About Spencer Pratt

31

What to Read After Yesteryear and the History of Tradwives

32

Pregnancy in the Age of Social Media

33

Why Does the World Hate Ambitious Women?

34

A Sneak Peek of THE PARISIAN HEIST

35

Hating on the 3-Hour Mom—We'd Never Do This to a Man

36

Visit Ballerina Farm With Me

37

Art is For Everyone With Liz Lidgett

38

Moving at a Human Pace With Isaac Fitzgerald

39

Money, Marriage, And The Myth of “Having it All — Ask Jo Anything

40

Let's Read Alone Together a Chat With the Co-Founder of Silent Book Club

41

Get Outside! The Indoor Epidemic Is Real and It’s Wrecking Our Brains

42

My New True Crime Obsession in Utah—the Kouri Richins Murder Trial

43

Gen Z Men Are Getting More Conservative. What the Hell Happened?

44

The Fine Line Between Cult and Wellness Movement—One Woman's Escape From One Taste and Finding Humor in the Aftermath

45

The Chess Queen Who Wants Women to Stop Waiting for the Perfect Move

46

Why So Many Mothers Are Unraveling and Filled With Rage with Libby Ward

47

Gossip is Good For You! Dissecting Taylor Frankie Paul and the Justin Timberlake DUI Video

48

The False Choice Between Tradwife and Girlboss

49

Taylor Frankie Paul is a Bingeable Trainwreck and ABC and the Bachelorette Knew That Going Into This

50

Women Are Being Gaslit About Birth, a Chat With Dr. Jennifer Lincoln

51

How the Right Won the Attention Economy

52

Sunday Nice Things: Creation Myth

53

How Reality TV Changed How We Consume Stories with Survivor's Stephen Fishbach

54

Is This Actually a Love Story? JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, the Nineties and Parliament Lights

55

Not Having Kids Is Not a Tragedy

56

How Vulnerable Kids Became Clickbait

57

How History Erased Mothers

58

Grab Bag: Where Did Love Taza Go?

59

Sunday Nice Things: Birth With Babylist

60

Can You Actually Retire Early When You Have Kids?

61

How to Be a Rich Old Lady

62

Toe Pick!

63

Grab Bag: The Ballerina Farm Raw Milk Scandal, Hating on the Katies & Intellectual It Girls

64

Moms Drive the Economy. So Why Are They Still Underpaid?

65

Why Planning Summer Has Become a Nightmare

66

From Momfluencers to MILFs: Who Gets Labeled a Bad Mother

67

Moms Just Want (Deserve) to Have Fun

68

Perimenopause, GLPs, and the Medical Gaslighting of Women

69

The Heated Rivalry Episode

70

Sunday Nice Things: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

71

Just a Busy Season and Other Lies We Tell About Motherhood

72

My Most Anticipated Book of the Year

73

More Joy in January

74

Tidying up in the New Year with Tidy Dad

75

What We Want Less of in 2026

76

Holding Rosie: A Mother’s Story of SUDC and Survival

77

How to Build Deep Friendships Without Burning Yourself Out

78

How to Travel with Kids

79

Sunday Nice Things: Dissecting Tradwives and Feminism

80

We've Reached Peak Tradwife

81

Holiday Rage, Hormones, and the Power of No

82

Sunday Nice Things: Inside the World of a Teenage Tik-Tok Star

83

Australia Just Banned Social Media for Teens. What Happens Next

84

The Books by Women History Tried to Forget

85

Sunday Nice Things: The Nanny Wars

86

The Author Who Took On AI and Won

87

You're Not Broken, Our Idea of Motherhood Is

88

All the London Recommendations with Three Feral Kids

89

Sunday Nice Things: Uncover

90

Do I Need a Hobby?

91

The Women History Forgets

92

Can Instagram Ever Be Safe for Teens?

93

Guns & Gossip: My So Called Life Rewatch Episode Three

94

Rewatch My So Called Life With Me

95

We’re Not Going Quietly Into Perimenopause

96

The Antidote to Tradwife Economics

97

How to Unf*ck Your Conditioning as a Mother

98

How to Find an Agent and Sell a Book

99

Sunday Nice Things: Heart Trouble

100

Want to Feel Human Again? Break Your Phone Addiction

101

So Your Parents Are Old

102

Sunday Nice Things: Taylor Isn't a Tradwife

103

Gabrielle Hamilton on the Myths That Make a Family

104

I Bought a Vintage Trailer… How Can I Turn it Into a Bookstore?

105

Divorcing Heterosexuality (and Other Data-Driven Decisions)

106

The Original It Girl: What Jane Birkin Can Teach Us About Fame, and Influence

107

Sunday Nice Things: Book Journey x Alka Joshi

108

I Miss the 90s. What I Really Miss is Real Life

109

The Bright Side of Not Drinking

110

Sunday Nice Things: Let's Talk About Birth with Lo & Behold

111

The Mental Load of Family Life: The Work You Can’t See But Always Feel

112

Strong Enough to Survive Toddlers With Andre Crews

113

Sunday Nice Things: Women's Work

114

The Messy Truth About Potty Training

115

How We Divide Household and Parenting Labor in Our House

116

Can Creativity and Motherhood CoExist?

117

How Patagonia Rewrote the Rules of Influence With David Gelles

118

Sunday Nice Things: Broadway Husbands

119

Here's What No One Tells You About Freezing Your Eggs With Danielle Robay

120

Forget Perfect Parties—Here’s How to Celebrate Every Day With Grossy Pelosi

121

Sunday Nice Things: Totally Booked with Zibby

122

What No One Teaches You About Taking Care of a House

123

Why Dads Get a Medal and Moms Get Judged—Parenting Double-Standards and Back to School

124

Instagram Made Me Feel Like a Bad Mom — So I Started a Podcast

125

Attainable Over Aspirational: How Kate Strickler of Naptime Kitchen Keeps It Real

126

Sunday Nice Things: Death Virgin

127

Breaking the Cycle of More

128

The Patriarchy’s New Branding: From Tradwives to Soft Girls With Dr. C. Nicole Mason

129

Sunday Night Things: The Billionaires Who Want to Live Forever

130

Sleep Is Not Self-Care (It’s Survival)

131

The Best Celebrity Memoirs (And the Worst, Sorry Not Sorry) with Chelsea Devantez

132

Sunday Nice Things: Starter Marriage

133

Can Plastic Surgery Keep Up With AI?

134

Gwyneth Paltrow: First Influencer or MAHA Godmother? With Amy Odell

135

Sunday Nice Things: LEAD

136

All Your Perimenopause Questions Answered with Dr. Kim Einhorn

137

The Italian Lady Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

138

Sunday Nice Things: Unladylike

139

Content Creation Is a Business. Grace Atwood Treats It Like One.

140

Sunday Nice Things: The Messy Parts with Katie Sturino

141

The Smart Woman’s Guide to Escaping Into Reality TV With Kate Casey

142

Friend Breakups Will Stick With You Forever

143

Sunday Nice Things: Mental Health Rewritten

144

Out of F*cks to Give with Carla Sosenko

145

She Turned Geology Into a Content Goldmine

146

Sunday Nice Things: Fierce

147

All of Our Thoughts on Poop Cruise with Nick Aster

148

Real Talk on Weight Loss Drugs

149

It’s Giving Junior Varsity Tradwife: The Viral Pipeline Grooming Gen Z Girls

150

Sunday Nice Things: (RE) Committed

151

The PBS Kids Crisis: It’s Not Just About Sesame Street

152

The Quiet Influence and Power of Dolly Parton

153

Sunday Nice Things: That Aged Well

154

Father’s Day Shouldn’t Be a Hallmark Holiday—It Should Be a Reckoning

155

How to Get Published: A Literary Agent Tells All

156

Sunday Nice Things: Glamorous Trash

157

Welcome to the Cult of Skinny with EJ Dickson

158

MAGA Makeovers and the Death of Individuality

159

Sunday Nice Things: The Secret Lives of Debt Heads

160

Motherhood Has Been Hacked With Amanda Hess

161

An Influencer's Child Died and the Internet Came For Her

162

Sunday Nice Things: On Drugs, from Other People’s Problems

163

Is Motherhood Hard Everywhere, or Just in America?

164

Is Your Kid an Asshole or Just a Kid? With Melinda Wenner Moyer

165

Sunday Nice Things: How to Write a Good Book with Andi Bartz

166

Where's the F*cking Village?

167

What If You’re Not Sure You Want Kids?

168

Sunday Nice Things: Your New Favorite Kid Podcast

169

How to Raise Successful Kids with Susan Dominus

170

Raising Good Humans Without God: A Secular Parenting Survival Guide

171

Sunday Nice Things: The Family Skeptical

172

The Wild Courage to Go After What You Want (with former Google Exec Jenny Wood)

173

We Survived Girls Gone Wild Just to Get Tradwives?

174

Sunday Nice Things: Normal Curves

175

Will Your Kid Have to be a Brand to Survive?

176

Lessons from Spring Break: Trashtasic Vegas With Kids, Zion, and a Baby Who Hates Shoes

177

Is Megan Markle a #TradWife?

178

Bridget Jones, Real Lady Necks, and the Golden Age of Rom-Coms (with Erin Carlson)

179

Sunday Nice Things: Parenting in the Digital Age with These Packs Puck

180

Did You Think Life Would Be Better Than This?

181

Your Hormones Aren’t the Problem—This Is

182

How Toxic Masculinity and Online Spaces Are Reshaping Boyhood

183

What's Worse Than The Glass Ceiling? The Broken Rung!

184

Will You Ever Be Enough? A Chat With Melissa Arnot?

185

Are Influencers Ruining Italy?

186

Sunday Nice Things: Too Much Money

187

America Gets a Failing Grade in Women's Health—SURPRISE!

188

What if Social Media Were Good for Tween Girls?

189

Navigating Grief and Grief Influencing Online

190

Can You Change Your Personality?

191

Sunday Nice Things: How Do I Balance My Hormones?

192

How Will You Measure Your Life?

193

Blowing up Your to Follow Your Dreams Life with Elle Cosimano

194

Scrubbing Toilets to the Today Show: Tyler Moore's Accidental Influence

195

Sunday Nice Things: How to Build a Bookish Community

196

Having a Baby Can Break You with Sarah Hoover

197

How to Communicate Better On and Offline with Charles Duhigg

198

Sunday Nice Things: Romances & Practicalities with Nick Aster

199

Are Gen X Women Having the Best Sex?

200

Going Full Crone With Jessica Grose

201

Sunday Nice Things: Oddly Specific with Meredith Lynch

202

The Hellscape of Summer Vacation for Moms

203

How to Be a Good Person in the World

204

A Terrible No Good Visit to the ER

205

Is Gender Equity Dead?

206

We've Lost the Plot in Skincare

207

The Cult-Like Tactics of Marketers and Influencers with Mara Einstein

208

The Myth of the Good Mother

209

Surviving Shame

210

Protecting Kids and Teens on Social Media, A Talk With Nicole Lopez of Meta

211

A Revolution for Women's Work and Ambition with Neha Ruch

212

Shari Franke Tells All

213

Is This Normal? A Truly Excellent Chat with an Influencer OB-GYN

214

How Will I Die? (And How Will I Age?) with Deb Whitman

215

New Years Resolutions That Aren't Dumb

216

Who is Sick of Being a People Pleaser?

217

How to Pivot in 2025

218

You Deserve a Friend Trip (Live from Iceland)

219

The Ambitions of a Teenage TikTok Star

220

Sunday Nice Things: Where's My Village?

221

When Influencers Make Us Feel Bad About Ourselves

222

Ballerina Farm's Latest Flex

223

Sunday Nice Things: Basket Case

224

Suffs Broke Open My Soul, An Interview with Nikki James

225

Ballerina Farm's MAGA Cover Reveal

226

Prime Domination: Amazon's Holiday Shopping Conquest with Dana Mattioli

227

The Ozempic of it All

228

Sunday Nice Things: The Family That Travels Together

229

Restoring Sanity in a Digital World

230

The Real Secret of Success—Be a Likable Badass

231

Create Stronger Friendships and Get Rid of Toxic Ones

232

Debunking the Myths of Traditional Motherhood

233

How to Talk to Your Kids About the Election and Trump AND EVERYTHING

234

You Deserve All the Hope

235

Sunday Nice Things: Frugal Friends

236

A Very Influencer Halloween with Sara Petersen

237

Can a Poem Have a Punchline? With @MaryOliversDrunkCousin

238

The Kids Are All Right With Gabrielle and Ben Blair

239

Legislating Utah Mom Influencers, FINALLY!

240

Spicy Sex and Smart Ladies

241

The Cost of Scrolling—Free Yourself From Impulse Spending This Holiday Season

242

Sunday Nice Things: Life Beyond Stay-at-home Motherhood

243

The Kids Aren't Alright—Getting Rid of Toxic Achievement Culture

244

$$$Mormon #MomTok Money$$$

245

Owning Your Own Story with Lauren Sisler

246

How Digital Beauty Standards Are Messing Us Up with Elise Hu

247

Sunday Things: True Crime with RedRum

248

The House in Habit of it All

249

Who Gets to Write History with Sharon McMahon

250

The Secret Life of a Real Life Mormon Trad Wife

251

The Deeper Meaning in Mormon #MomTok Trash

252

We've Got Issues

253

Anti-Consumer-tok! Thrifting Advice from TikTok?

254

How Moms can Make Friends and Dinner with Caroline Chambers

255

Murder, Sex and Crazy Panties in the Galapagos

256

Sunday Nice Things: A Look Back at Wilder

257

Can Astrology Give us Hope for the Future?

258

Real Men Cry, Deal With It

259

The True History of the Trad Wife

260

Add a Chicken to It (Let's Talk Henfluencing)

261

The Future Under the Christian Patriarchy with Tia Levings

262

Sunday Nice Things: Kelly Corrigan Wonders

263

Media Addiction is Reshaping Childhood—Here's What We Can Do About It

264

Redefining Ambition and Success with Liz Tenety of Motherly

265

Sunday Nice Things: Good Advice

266

The Ballerina Farm Master Plan

267

Other Women's Bodies

268

Sunday Nice Things: The Only One in the Room

269

When Judy Blume Was a Struggling Housewife

270

Victoria Hunter's Viral Tradwife Video

271

Sunday Nice Things: How to be Fine

272

Who is a Worthy Mother with Gretchen Sisson

273

Motherhood and Creativity with Eye Mama Project

274

Sunday Nice Things: Committed, Because I Love Ya

275

Life as an OG Influencer

276

Escape from the Christian Patriarchy

277

Sunday Nice Things: The Creative and the AI

278

Stop Giving All the F*cks AND What to Read Right Now

279

Let's Take Back Masculinity From the Douchebags!

280

Sunday Nice Things: You Probably Think This Story's About You

281

We Are All Burnt Out on Politics! Here's Some Hope (And a Wagon Full of Penguins)

282

Could Your Family Opt out of Technology? This One Did! Here's How.

283

Sunday Nice Things: We Are the Great Turning

284

Who is Nara Smith and is she a #TradWife?

285

Women Hold Everything Together. What If We Stopped?

286

Let's Go Fly a Plane with Nick Aster

287

Beach Reads to Grab Now (Spice and Thrills and No Throbbing Members)

288

ADHD Help for Women on Social Media: The Good and the Bad

289

Confessions of a Recovering Helicopter Mom

290

Is Social Media Breaking Our Brains? Let's Ask a Neuroscientist!

291

How to Help Kids Navigate the Dangers of Social Media and Screens

292

Does Instagram Ruin Travel?

293

Sunday Nice Things: Magical Overthinkers with Amanda Montell

294

Harrison Butker and the TradWives with Emily in Your Phone

295

Women and Pleasure with Glynnis MacNicol (PLUS All the thoughts on The Idea of You)

296

Sunday Nice Things: The Magic of Audiobooks

297

Help! My Therapist is on TikTok

298

Genealogy Influencing is a Real Thing with The Barefoot Genealogist

299

Meatfluencers with Nick Aster

300

Messy Women and Money with Jean Chatzky

301

Taping Your Mouth Shut and Influencers in Books

302

Touched Out with Amanda Montei

303

Blowing Up Your Life (To Follow Your Dreams) with Elle Cosimano

304

Sunday Nice Things: Sex and Cheese in Paris with Glynnis MacNicol

305

Default Parenting and the Mental Load with Renee Reina

306

Trad Dads and Dad Guilt

307

Sunday Nice Things: LORENZA

308

The Great Bookstagram Revolution with Jordy's Book Club

309

Nice Things: Healthy Screen Habits for Families

310

Bite-Sized Bits of Mindfulness

311

Embracing Uncertainty in Life and Parenting with Maggie Jackson

312

Sunday Nice Things: Parenting with Empathy, from Pop Culture Moms

313

White Lotus Meets Only Murders in the Building — The Sicilian Inheritance True Crime Podcast

314

Midlife Career Switching to be a Post-Partum Doula

315

Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell

316

Who Wants to Work at Buckingham Palace?

317

Facing Setbacks and Fostering Ambition

318

#FarmLife in Real Life with Sayer Palmer

319

Sunday Nice Things: Back to the Babysitters Club

320

Influence, Books and Bookclubs with Zibby Owens

321

What the Heck is Happening with Kate Middleton with Caro Burke

322

How to be Fabulous at Every Age with Lyn Slater

323

Let's Talk About Perimenopause and Getting Older with Stacy London

324

Bonus: A Sicilian Road Trip With My Best Friend

325

How Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls

326

Sunday Nice Things: The Silver Chain

327

Grief is for People with Sloane Crosley

328

Using Instagram to Save Your Child

329

Sunday Nice Things: Momplicated with Big Time Adulting

330

Ballerina Farm is a Brand and Other Social Media Literacy We Need to Talk About

331

Breaking News on Ruby Franke

332

Problematic TV Parents and Sexy TV Dads with Pop Culture Moms

333

Sunday Nice Things: SSR (Shit She Read) Pod

334

A Quickie: Instagram Hates Politics, Taylor Swift Boosts Her Boyfriend and Minnesota Joins the Party

335

Inside a Mother's Open Marriage With Molly Winter

336

Meet the Anti-TradWife

337

Sunday Nice Things: Gratitudeology

338

A Quickie: The Right Wing's Travis and Taylor Conspiracy + Pay the Influencer Kids Already

339

I'm a High Functioning Mess...How About You?

340

Escape from the Trad Wife Life with Tia Levings

341

Sunday Nice Things: This American Ex-Wife

342

A Taste of The Sicilian Inheritance

343

Attack of the Fitfluencers

344

How to Start Writing with Jami Attenberg

345

Sunday Nice Things: She Pivots with Stacy London

346

Ambitious Women Leaning into Family Life with Neha Ruch

347

Trad Wives, Trad Lives and Politics with Emily in Your Phone

348

Sunday Nice Things: The Cult of Perfect

349

Let's Talk About the Mrs. America Pageant

350

The Evangelical Christians Are Coming in Hot on Instagram

351

Who Needs Some Social Media Therapy?

352

The Nanny Wars on Social Media

353

Who Does Instagram Choose to Censor? (Hint: Women)

354

Sobriety and Social Media with Suzanne Warye

355

Breaking: Ballerina Farm Had Her Baby...Why Do We Care?

356

Pranking Babies and Posting Potty Training With Fortesa Latifi

357

New Years Resolutions That Do Not Suck

358

Are #TradWives Dangerous or Just Ridiculous With Kathryn Jezer Morton

359

The #TradWives Are Coming For Your Husbands (According to the NY POST)

360

Ruby Franke Pleads Guilty to Sickening Child Abuse

361

Getting Rid of Mom Shame with Emily Oster

362

The $59 Million Wedding That Destroyed Social Media

363

An Update On Katie Sorenson From the Michael's Parking Lot

364

Debunking the Lies of Parenting Influencers

365

Confessions of a Former Trad Wife

366

Newborn Advice No One With Tell You With Modern Mom Probs (Tara Clark)

367

The Hatred of Women on the Internet with Taylor Lorenz

368

Let's Quit the Parenting Advice Influencers

369

The Exquisite Joy of Quitting Instagram with Marlee Grace

370

Botched Liposuction on TikTok

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Introducing TOO MUCH MONEY

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Fear and Finance with Farnoosh Torabi

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You Are a Good Mom

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Are Trad Wives Happier Than You?

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Protecting Boys From Toxic Social Media with Peggy Orenstein

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Don't Spy On Your Kids' Phones with Dr. Devorah Heitner

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A Look Into Cancer Influencing with Kelli Stuart

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Would You Pick Your Kids Nose on Instagram? With Mom Uncharted

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What Do We Do With Mom Rage? With Minna Dubin

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Is Lex Delarosa's #TradWife Account Satire? with Lex Delarosa

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Soft Girls Don't Want Your Hustle with Steph McNeil

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All About #TradWives with Anne Helen Petersen

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Can I Quit Being Influenced with Jessica Elefante

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Influencer Kids Are Probably Fed Up - With Fortesa Latifi

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Is a Sick Child Content? With Fortesa Latifi

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Just Feed the Damn Kids—With Virginia Sole-Smith

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Meta is Stealing Our Words! What Will They Take Next?

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Munchausen by Proxy on the Socials

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Infamous! A Chat About Ozempic

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Even More Ballerina Farm

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A Very Mrs. American Ballerina Farm

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Quick and Dirty Ruby Franke Update

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Who the hell is Ruby Franke?

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BONUS: The Business of Laura Ingalls Wilder

395

Women's Day Off the Internet is Not Today

396

Bonus: Third Wheel with Jenny Mollen

397

A Wild Request

398

Bonus: Holly Frey In Conversation With Seneca Women to Hear Winners Kris McDaniel and Andi Gordon

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Bonus: Secrets of the Sprakkar with Eliza Reid

400

The Future

401

Do The Hustle

402

Save Me

403

Do No Harm

404

The Parasocial Socials

405

Bonus: A Little Dash of Comfort with Kate Baer

406

Introducing: The Rise and Fall of LulaRoe

407

Where’s My Village?

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Rule 35

409

I Can't Quit You (or Can I?)

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Women's Day Off the Internet

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Under the Influence Season 2

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Bonus: Pay the Bookstagramers!

413

Bonus: I Wiped My Kids From My Instagram

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Bonus: In the Michael's Parking Lot

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Is This The End?

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416

It’s Time For A Reckoning

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Burning Cats

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An Intermission

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The Sharenthood

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If You Build It, They Will Come

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An Authentic Woman

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A Shoppable Life

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Women's Work

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A More Perfect Mother

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Under the Influence with Jo Piazza