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Under the Influence with Jo Piazza — 410 episodes

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1

The Art of the Heist: Why We Root for Thieves

2

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

3

How to Actually Relax This Summer

4

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

5

What Should We Be Watching Right Now? With Kate Casey

6

Ballerina Farm Gets Real With Steph McNeal

7

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

8

Sad Beige Babies With Sad Beige Parents

9

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

10

Sunday Nice Things: Family Money

11

Royals Were the Original Reality Television Stars

12

What Killed the Girl Power Movement?

13

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

14

The Burnout Beneath Ambition

15

We Need to Talk About Spencer Pratt

16

What to Read After Yesteryear and the History of Tradwives

17

Pregnancy in the Age of Social Media

18

Why Does the World Hate Ambitious Women?

19

A Sneak Peek of THE PARISIAN HEIST

20

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

21

Visit Ballerina Farm With Me

22

Art is For Everyone With Liz Lidgett

23

Moving at a Human Pace With Isaac Fitzgerald

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

The False Choice Between Tradwife and Girlboss

34

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

35

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

36

How the Right Won the Attention Economy

37

Sunday Nice Things: Creation Myth

38

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

39

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

40

Not Having Kids Is Not a Tragedy

41

How Vulnerable Kids Became Clickbait

42

How History Erased Mothers

43

Grab Bag: Where Did Love Taza Go?

44

Sunday Nice Things: Birth With Babylist

45

Can You Actually Retire Early When You Have Kids?

46

How to Be a Rich Old Lady

47

Toe Pick!

48

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

49

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

50

Why Planning Summer Has Become a Nightmare

51

From Momfluencers to MILFs: Who Gets Labeled a Bad Mother

52

Moms Just Want (Deserve) to Have Fun

53

Perimenopause, GLPs, and the Medical Gaslighting of Women

54

The Heated Rivalry Episode

55

Sunday Nice Things: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

56

Just a Busy Season and Other Lies We Tell About Motherhood

57

My Most Anticipated Book of the Year

58

More Joy in January

59

Tidying up in the New Year with Tidy Dad

60

What We Want Less of in 2026

61

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

62

How to Build Deep Friendships Without Burning Yourself Out

63

How to Travel with Kids

64

Sunday Nice Things: Dissecting Tradwives and Feminism

65

We've Reached Peak Tradwife

66

Holiday Rage, Hormones, and the Power of No

67

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

68

Australia Just Banned Social Media for Teens. What Happens Next

69

The Books by Women History Tried to Forget

70

Sunday Nice Things: The Nanny Wars

71

The Author Who Took On AI and Won

72

You're Not Broken, Our Idea of Motherhood Is

73

All the London Recommendations with Three Feral Kids

74

Sunday Nice Things: Uncover

75

Do I Need a Hobby?

76

The Women History Forgets

77

Can Instagram Ever Be Safe for Teens?

78

Guns & Gossip: My So Called Life Rewatch Episode Three

79

Rewatch My So Called Life With Me

80

We’re Not Going Quietly Into Perimenopause

81

The Antidote to Tradwife Economics

82

How to Unf*ck Your Conditioning as a Mother

83

How to Find an Agent and Sell a Book

84

Sunday Nice Things: Heart Trouble

85

Want to Feel Human Again? Break Your Phone Addiction

86

So Your Parents Are Old

87

Sunday Nice Things: Taylor Isn't a Tradwife

88

Gabrielle Hamilton on the Myths That Make a Family

89

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

90

Divorcing Heterosexuality (and Other Data-Driven Decisions)

91

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

92

Sunday Nice Things: Book Journey x Alka Joshi

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

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The Bright Side of Not Drinking

95

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

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

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Strong Enough to Survive Toddlers With Andre Crews

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Sunday Nice Things: Women's Work

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The Messy Truth About Potty Training

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How We Divide Household and Parenting Labor in Our House

101

Can Creativity and Motherhood CoExist?

102

How Patagonia Rewrote the Rules of Influence With David Gelles

103

Sunday Nice Things: Broadway Husbands

104

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

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

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Sunday Nice Things: Totally Booked with Zibby

107

What No One Teaches You About Taking Care of a House

108

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

109

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

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

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Sunday Nice Things: Death Virgin

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Breaking the Cycle of More

113

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

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Sunday Night Things: The Billionaires Who Want to Live Forever

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

116

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

117

Sunday Nice Things: Starter Marriage

118

Can Plastic Surgery Keep Up With AI?

119

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

120

Sunday Nice Things: LEAD

121

All Your Perimenopause Questions Answered with Dr. Kim Einhorn

122

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

123

Sunday Nice Things: Unladylike

124

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

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Sunday Nice Things: The Messy Parts with Katie Sturino

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

127

Friend Breakups Will Stick With You Forever

128

Sunday Nice Things: Mental Health Rewritten

129

Out of F*cks to Give with Carla Sosenko

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She Turned Geology Into a Content Goldmine

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Sunday Nice Things: Fierce

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All of Our Thoughts on Poop Cruise with Nick Aster

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Real Talk on Weight Loss Drugs

134

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

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Sunday Nice Things: (RE) Committed

136

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

137

The Quiet Influence and Power of Dolly Parton

138

Sunday Nice Things: That Aged Well

139

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

140

How to Get Published: A Literary Agent Tells All

141

Sunday Nice Things: Glamorous Trash

142

Welcome to the Cult of Skinny with EJ Dickson

143

MAGA Makeovers and the Death of Individuality

144

Sunday Nice Things: The Secret Lives of Debt Heads

145

Motherhood Has Been Hacked With Amanda Hess

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

147

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

148

Is Motherhood Hard Everywhere, or Just in America?

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

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

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Where's the F*cking Village?

152

What If You’re Not Sure You Want Kids?

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Sunday Nice Things: Your New Favorite Kid Podcast

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How to Raise Successful Kids with Susan Dominus

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Raising Good Humans Without God: A Secular Parenting Survival Guide

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Sunday Nice Things: The Family Skeptical

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

158

We Survived Girls Gone Wild Just to Get Tradwives?

159

Sunday Nice Things: Normal Curves

160

Will Your Kid Have to be a Brand to Survive?

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

162

Is Megan Markle a #TradWife?

163

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

164

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

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Did You Think Life Would Be Better Than This?

166

Your Hormones Aren’t the Problem—This Is

167

How Toxic Masculinity and Online Spaces Are Reshaping Boyhood

168

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

169

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

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Are Influencers Ruining Italy?

171

Sunday Nice Things: Too Much Money

172

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

173

What if Social Media Were Good for Tween Girls?

174

Navigating Grief and Grief Influencing Online

175

Can You Change Your Personality?

176

Sunday Nice Things: How Do I Balance My Hormones?

177

How Will You Measure Your Life?

178

Blowing up Your to Follow Your Dreams Life with Elle Cosimano

179

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

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Sunday Nice Things: How to Build a Bookish Community

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Having a Baby Can Break You with Sarah Hoover

182

How to Communicate Better On and Offline with Charles Duhigg

183

Sunday Nice Things: Romances & Practicalities with Nick Aster

184

Are Gen X Women Having the Best Sex?

185

Going Full Crone With Jessica Grose

186

Sunday Nice Things: Oddly Specific with Meredith Lynch

187

The Hellscape of Summer Vacation for Moms

188

How to Be a Good Person in the World

189

A Terrible No Good Visit to the ER

190

Is Gender Equity Dead?

191

We've Lost the Plot in Skincare

192

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

193

The Myth of the Good Mother

194

Surviving Shame

195

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

196

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

197

Shari Franke Tells All

198

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

199

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

200

New Years Resolutions That Aren't Dumb

201

Who is Sick of Being a People Pleaser?

202

How to Pivot in 2025

203

You Deserve a Friend Trip (Live from Iceland)

204

The Ambitions of a Teenage TikTok Star

205

Sunday Nice Things: Where's My Village?

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When Influencers Make Us Feel Bad About Ourselves

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Ballerina Farm's Latest Flex

208

Sunday Nice Things: Basket Case

209

Suffs Broke Open My Soul, An Interview with Nikki James

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Ballerina Farm's MAGA Cover Reveal

211

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

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The Ozempic of it All

213

Sunday Nice Things: The Family That Travels Together

214

Restoring Sanity in a Digital World

215

The Real Secret of Success—Be a Likable Badass

216

Create Stronger Friendships and Get Rid of Toxic Ones

217

Debunking the Myths of Traditional Motherhood

218

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

219

You Deserve All the Hope

220

Sunday Nice Things: Frugal Friends

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A Very Influencer Halloween with Sara Petersen

222

Can a Poem Have a Punchline? With @MaryOliversDrunkCousin

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The Kids Are All Right With Gabrielle and Ben Blair

224

Legislating Utah Mom Influencers, FINALLY!

225

Spicy Sex and Smart Ladies

226

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

227

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

228

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

229

$$$Mormon #MomTok Money$$$

230

Owning Your Own Story with Lauren Sisler

231

How Digital Beauty Standards Are Messing Us Up with Elise Hu

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Sunday Things: True Crime with RedRum

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The House in Habit of it All

234

Who Gets to Write History with Sharon McMahon

235

The Secret Life of a Real Life Mormon Trad Wife

236

The Deeper Meaning in Mormon #MomTok Trash

237

We've Got Issues

238

Anti-Consumer-tok! Thrifting Advice from TikTok?

239

How Moms can Make Friends and Dinner with Caroline Chambers

240

Murder, Sex and Crazy Panties in the Galapagos

241

Sunday Nice Things: A Look Back at Wilder

242

Can Astrology Give us Hope for the Future?

243

Real Men Cry, Deal With It

244

The True History of the Trad Wife

245

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

246

The Future Under the Christian Patriarchy with Tia Levings

247

Sunday Nice Things: Kelly Corrigan Wonders

248

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

249

Redefining Ambition and Success with Liz Tenety of Motherly

250

Sunday Nice Things: Good Advice

251

The Ballerina Farm Master Plan

252

Other Women's Bodies

253

Sunday Nice Things: The Only One in the Room

254

When Judy Blume Was a Struggling Housewife

255

Victoria Hunter's Viral Tradwife Video

256

Sunday Nice Things: How to be Fine

257

Who is a Worthy Mother with Gretchen Sisson

258

Motherhood and Creativity with Eye Mama Project

259

Sunday Nice Things: Committed, Because I Love Ya

260

Life as an OG Influencer

261

Escape from the Christian Patriarchy

262

Sunday Nice Things: The Creative and the AI

263

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

264

Let's Take Back Masculinity From the Douchebags!

265

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

266

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

267

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

268

Sunday Nice Things: We Are the Great Turning

269

Who is Nara Smith and is she a #TradWife?

270

Women Hold Everything Together. What If We Stopped?

271

Let's Go Fly a Plane with Nick Aster

272

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

273

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

274

Confessions of a Recovering Helicopter Mom

275

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

276

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

277

Does Instagram Ruin Travel?

278

Sunday Nice Things: Magical Overthinkers with Amanda Montell

279

Harrison Butker and the TradWives with Emily in Your Phone

280

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

281

Sunday Nice Things: The Magic of Audiobooks

282

Help! My Therapist is on TikTok

283

Genealogy Influencing is a Real Thing with The Barefoot Genealogist

284

Meatfluencers with Nick Aster

285

Messy Women and Money with Jean Chatzky

286

Taping Your Mouth Shut and Influencers in Books

287

Touched Out with Amanda Montei

288

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

289

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

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Default Parenting and the Mental Load with Renee Reina

291

Trad Dads and Dad Guilt

292

Sunday Nice Things: LORENZA

293

The Great Bookstagram Revolution with Jordy's Book Club

294

Nice Things: Healthy Screen Habits for Families

295

Bite-Sized Bits of Mindfulness

296

Embracing Uncertainty in Life and Parenting with Maggie Jackson

297

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

298

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

299

Midlife Career Switching to be a Post-Partum Doula

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Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell

301

Who Wants to Work at Buckingham Palace?

302

Facing Setbacks and Fostering Ambition

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#FarmLife in Real Life with Sayer Palmer

304

Sunday Nice Things: Back to the Babysitters Club

305

Influence, Books and Bookclubs with Zibby Owens

306

What the Heck is Happening with Kate Middleton with Caro Burke

307

How to be Fabulous at Every Age with Lyn Slater

308

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

309

Bonus: A Sicilian Road Trip With My Best Friend

310

How Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls

311

Sunday Nice Things: The Silver Chain

312

Grief is for People with Sloane Crosley

313

Using Instagram to Save Your Child

314

Sunday Nice Things: Momplicated with Big Time Adulting

315

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

316

Breaking News on Ruby Franke

317

Problematic TV Parents and Sexy TV Dads with Pop Culture Moms

318

Sunday Nice Things: SSR (Shit She Read) Pod

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

320

Inside a Mother's Open Marriage With Molly Winter

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Meet the Anti-TradWife

322

Sunday Nice Things: Gratitudeology

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

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

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Escape from the Trad Wife Life with Tia Levings

326

Sunday Nice Things: This American Ex-Wife

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A Taste of The Sicilian Inheritance

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Attack of the Fitfluencers

329

How to Start Writing with Jami Attenberg

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Sunday Nice Things: She Pivots with Stacy London

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Ambitious Women Leaning into Family Life with Neha Ruch

332

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

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Sunday Nice Things: The Cult of Perfect

334

Let's Talk About the Mrs. America Pageant

335

The Evangelical Christians Are Coming in Hot on Instagram

336

Who Needs Some Social Media Therapy?

337

The Nanny Wars on Social Media

338

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

339

Sobriety and Social Media with Suzanne Warye

340

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

341

Pranking Babies and Posting Potty Training With Fortesa Latifi

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New Years Resolutions That Do Not Suck

343

Are #TradWives Dangerous or Just Ridiculous With Kathryn Jezer Morton

344

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

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Ruby Franke Pleads Guilty to Sickening Child Abuse

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Getting Rid of Mom Shame with Emily Oster

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The $59 Million Wedding That Destroyed Social Media

348

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

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Debunking the Lies of Parenting Influencers

350

Confessions of a Former Trad Wife

351

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

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The Hatred of Women on the Internet with Taylor Lorenz

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Let's Quit the Parenting Advice Influencers

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The Exquisite Joy of Quitting Instagram with Marlee Grace

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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

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Women's Day Off the Internet is Not Today

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Bonus: Third Wheel with Jenny Mollen

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A Wild Request

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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

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The Future

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Do The Hustle

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Save Me

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Do No Harm

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The Parasocial Socials

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Bonus: A Little Dash of Comfort with Kate Baer

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Introducing: The Rise and Fall of LulaRoe

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Where’s My Village?

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Rule 35

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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!

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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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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