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What the Heck is Happening with Kate Middleton with Caro Burke

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - March 13, 2024 18:41 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Very important topic today in this emergency episode—what the heck is going on with Kate Middleton? We do a deep dive into all the conspiracy theories (and how the Swifties are involved), the specifics of the photo manipulation, why people even give a flying eff and most importantly what this ha...

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How to be Fabulous at Every Age with Lyn Slater

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - March 11, 2024 14:11 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
"If we weren't so afraid of being old, we could have a vision in our head of what we could be when we are an older woman." — Lyn Slater In 2014, Lynn Slater became an accidental icon when she started a fashion blog and Instagram account in her early sixties. The media went wild and all of the s...

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

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - March 07, 2024 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Gen X is the scrappiest generation and we might just be the generation to change how we think about and treat perimenopause. Today we get to talk to my dear friend Stacy London about perimenopause and perimenopause influencers. When Stacy was going through perimenopause herself advocacy and educ...

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Bonus: A Sicilian Road Trip With My Best Friend

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - March 06, 2024 22:50 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
There is nothing better than leaving your children and going on vacation with your best friend. My own BF Jackie crashed my reporting trip in Sicily this week (much to my delight) and it reminded me of the importance of both travel and girlfriend time. This does not sound like  every other epis...

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How Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - March 05, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Social media is incredibly toxic for women and girls. I say this all the time,  and sometimes I start to feel like a real conspiracy theorist, like the social media version of a prepper telling you to build a tunnel under your house with lots of canned goods, but it is still something I truly be...

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Sunday Nice Things: The Silver Chain

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - March 03, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Today's Sunday Nice Things has everything that you want in a Sunday listen—swingers, the seventies and puritanical Minnesota.  From my friends who bring you the Terrible Thanks for Asking podcast comes a new show called Time Capsule: The Silver Chain. This is an 8-episode “true no-crime” docume...

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Grief is for People with Sloane Crosley

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 29, 2024 14:49 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
There is no one-size fits all cure for grief. It's something you just have to go through and we all go through it in different ways. There has recently been a rise in grief influencers on Instagram and some of them can be quite predatory, targeting people at their most vulnerable time to purchas...

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Using Instagram to Save Your Child

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 27, 2024 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
We've talked a lot on this podcast about using kids as content and where the line should be drawn.  We've also talked about mothers posting pictures of their sick kids to get attention. But there is another side to the story. What if your child had a rare disease?  What if one of the only ways t...

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Sunday Nice Things: Momplicated with Big Time Adulting

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 25, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
On today's episode of Sunday Nice Things we are bringing you the series Momplicated where host Dana Phillips dives into the dumpster fire of motherhood with women who aren't afraid to swim around in the muck and pick trash out of your hair. Today she is joined by the hilarious Caitlin Murray, wh...

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

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 22, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Pandora's Box is open. We will never go backwards in terms of technology. Social media literacy is media literacy. There are more eyeballs on small screens scrolling through influencers than people reading political news or watching television shows. Influencers have more of an impact on people ...

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Breaking News on Ruby Franke

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 21, 2024 21:40 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 696 ratings
The former family Youtuber and vlogger Ruby Franke has been sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for felony child abuse. And frankly, I'm just going to say it here—I hope she serves the maximum sentence. This comes after Ruby has admitted to punishing her children in a variety of horrific ways....

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Problematic TV Parents and Sexy TV Dads with Pop Culture Moms

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 20, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Have you ever rewatched a beloved movie as an adult and then been shocked, absolutely shocked by the behavior of the parents in it? A great example is The Parent Trap (both versions) in which two parents choose to abandon one of the children because they don't like one another. Today we are gett...

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Sunday Nice Things: SSR (Shit She Read) Pod

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 18, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Each week on the SSR (Shit She Read) podcast host Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first time ever a book they may have missed as a kid.  The show covers everything from The Baby-Sitters Club to Holes to Nancy Drew and Harry Potter. ...

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

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 16, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Welcome to Friday Quickies....the Daily for influencer and social news with more foul language and swingers. This week we talk about Taylor Swift giving her boyfriend's podcast a boost, Minnesota joining the good fight to pay influencer kids and why Instagram is censoring your politics and how y...

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Inside a Mother's Open Marriage With Molly Winter

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Molly Winter recently hit the New York Times bestseller list with her memoir MORE, an account of the first ten years of opening up her marriage when her children were young. She is still happily married and she says her marriage and sex life is better than ever because she has been able to explo...

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Meet the Anti-TradWife

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 13, 2024 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
It's not pretty. But it is real. There's a new breed of the ANTI-TRADWIFE out there and they are sharing the raw and honest stories about living a life submissive to a man and what it looks like on the other side. Today we are talking to Enitza Templeton, a mom of four who was a tradwife for ten...

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Sunday Nice Things: Gratitudeology

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 11, 2024 19:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Welcome to a new episode of Sunday Nice Things. This week we are bringing you the new show Gratitudeology created by my friend Jamie Hess. When Jamie  almost died, she woke up. As daughter of legendary broadcast journalist Joan Lunden, it seemed from the outside that Jamie had everything… so wh...

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

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 09, 2024 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Need some news you can use to talk about at your Super Bowl Party? We have Glamour reporter Steph McNeal here to explain the latest right wing conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce faking their relationship to help Biden. Also all the updates from Teen Vogue's Fortesa Latifi on l...

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

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 08, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Let's talk about anxiety, real talk about anxiety! Today we are joined by Julie Chavez, a librarian, mom of two and the author of the memoir Everyone But Myself. When you are a working mom, there is no time for debilitating anxiety. There's not.  And the terrifying aftershocks of Julie's first ...

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Escape from the Trad Wife Life with Tia Levings

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 06, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Tia Levings was recruited into a Christian fundamentalist movement as a young wife.   She quickly learned that being a godly and submissive wife in the Christian patriarchy included strict discipline and isolation, and required women to be silent keepers of the home.  Years of pain and abuse fol...

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Sunday Nice Things: This American Ex-Wife

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 04, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Welcome to Sunday Nice Things! Today we have an episode of This American Ex-Wife from the wonderful Lyz Lenz!     I first became obsessed with Lyz when I read her book God Land and then she came on an early episode of Under the Influence to talk about attending a mom influencing conference and ...

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A Taste of The Sicilian Inheritance

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 03, 2024 21:21 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
So many of you have asked me for an audio preview of The Sicilian Inheritance that I finally just sat down and created one! Why not! I love this part. In it our main character has just met our Sicilian protagonist Giusy in a Sicilian restaurant. It's filled with delicious food and wine and even ...

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Attack of the Fitfluencers

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - February 01, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
The #fitfluencers and #wellness brands are coming for you. And they've been on the attack since January 1. This time of alleged renewal and reinvention is the Super Bowl for brands hoping to sell you a "better" or a "thinner" you. YOU are the product during this time of year and brands pay big m...

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How to Start Writing with Jami Attenberg

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - January 30, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
We talk a lot about the negative parts of social media, but good things do happen online. One of those good things is community. Five years ago the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg started #1000WordsofSummer.  It’s an online community that convenes for two weeks in June to write ...

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Sunday Nice Things: She Pivots with Stacy London

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - January 28, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
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Ambitious Women Leaning into Family Life with Neha Ruch

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - January 25, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
What if we recognized the ambition inherent in motherhood? What if we normalized corporate career pauses? What if we didn't let ourselves be defined by the false mommy wars created by the media between work at home moms and work outside the home moms? Today we have Neha Ruch, creator of Mother U...

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

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - January 23, 2024 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Social media is political. That is a fact. You may think you're following beautiful images of a woman breastfeeding her baby in the Costa Rican jungle while her nine other children wait patiently by the waterfall, but pay closer attention and she is telling you not to vaccinate your children or ...

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Sunday Nice Things: The Cult of Perfect

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - January 21, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Welcome to Sunday Nice Things.....a bonus episode where we share a podcast we love, a book we love, a rant we have to get off our chests. It's a nice thing for Sunday because we deserve them. This week we have an episode of The Cult of Perfect podcast from my friends Sara Petersen and Virginia S...

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Let's Talk About the Mrs. America Pageant

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - January 18, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
Until about six months ago I didn't know that the Mrs. America pageant existed. And when I did some research and found that it originally judged contestants on their domestic acumen it felt a little trad wifey to me. When I talked about it on an episode I was contacted by a listener named Chloe ...

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The Evangelical Christians Are Coming in Hot on Instagram

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza - January 16, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 696 ratings
You know who is alive and well on Instagram?  Jesus.  And I say that without judgment, but it is true. Whether you realize it or not religion, namely Christianity, is being repackaged through beautiful images of motherhood and parenthood on social media. Today we talk to Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, ...

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