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Codename Pioneer Trailer
Codename Pioneer - November 07, 2020 23:56 - 36 secondsKamala Harris will make history as the first female, African-American, and Indian-American Vice President of the United States. Join Jaleesa Johnson as she breaks down all Kamala-related news on Codename Pioneer.
New Year, New Book, and Introducing New Pods!
Tell Me About Your Mother - January 06, 2019 00:35 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsCheck out Amy's new book, Forget "Having It All": How America Messed Up Motherhood—and How to Fix It (https://www.amywestervelt.com/book). We'll be back with another season later in 2019, but in the meantime, check out some other Critical Frequency pods, Peace of Mind with Bhi Bhiman (https://fa...
Best of TMAYM, with Ashley C. Ford, Porochista Khakpour, Rebecca Traister, Aparna Nancherla, and more
Tell Me About Your Mother - December 10, 2018 22:28 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn our season 3 finale, we take a listen back through three seasons full of fascinating women. Episode sponsors: StoryWorth - visit storyworth.com/tellme for $20 off Zola - visit zola.com/tellme to start your free website and get $50 off your registry completion
What Amy Roost Learned from Her Mom about Civil Rights, Keeping Quiet, Parenting, and More
Tell Me About Your Mother - November 09, 2018 21:39 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJournalist and podcaster Amy Roost has a really incredible life story, starting with the fact that she was a "replacement" child in a wild adoption story. Here she tells us that story, plus how watching her mother taught her to fight for civil rights, never live vicariously through her children,...
Jenny Kaplan and Her Mom Kathy Manninng on the New "Year of the Woman"
Tell Me About Your Mother - November 07, 2018 20:38 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJenny Kaplan grew up watching her mom take herself and her career as seriously as she took her family and her responsibility to the broader community. This year her mom was one of hundreds of women who decided to run in the wake of the 2016 election, prompting Jenny herself to make some big move...
Author Rebecca Traister on Living Feminist Ideals and Who's Allowed to Have a Temper
Tell Me About Your Mother - October 09, 2018 19:47 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAuthor Rebecca Traister's new book Good and Mad looks at how society has handled women's rage throughout history, how it has been punished, and how it has served as a catalyst for political victories and social change. In this episode, we get some interesting insights into the first woman Traist...
Giphy's Stephanie Weber on Growing Up with a Single Mom Who Taught Her to Navigate Tech, Know Her Worth, and Never Fake an Orgasm
Tell Me About Your Mother - September 30, 2018 10:32 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsGiphy producer Stephanie Weber moved around a lot as a kid. Her single mom wasn't following men in the 1980s, she was chasing a career as a computer programmer. They were a tight unit then and still are today, but Stephanie sometimes wonders if growing up in a matriarchal family has had an impac...
Ski Mountaineer Hilaree Nelson (O'Neil) on How Her Mom Inspired Her to Climb Mountains
Tell Me About Your Mother - September 21, 2018 22:59 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsLegendary ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson is the first woman to have climbed and ski'd down so many mountains it's hard to count. She was determined to keep it up after having kids, in part because of the impression her mom left on her as a kid. For $50 off select Casper mattresses: casper.com...
Storyteller Emily Zulauf on Moving Closer to Her Mom, and Why Every Parent Should Have the Race Talk
Tell Me About Your Mother - September 15, 2018 07:37 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsEmily Zulauf is the Fiction Lead for a new game studio in Seattle, where she tries to come up with cool characters and weird, scifi-y names for things. She was with Pixar Animation Studios for almost eight years, as a Creative Development Associate and as a Script Supervisor for Inside Out. She ...
Amy Westervelt on the Mom Who Started It All
Tell Me About Your Mother - September 08, 2018 04:37 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAfter a few requests from listeners, Amy tells the story of her own complicated mother-daughter relationship. This week's episode is sponsored by: Audible -- visit audible.com/TellMe for a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook! Casper - visit casper.com/Mother for $50 off select mattresses
Writer Sarah Miller on Narcissism, Emotional Distance, and the Unrealistic Expectations We Put on Moms
Tell Me About Your Mother - September 01, 2018 00:24 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSarah Miller is an editor for Popula and a writer (mostly of super smart humor pieces) for The New Yorker, The Cut, and various other publications. In this episode she talks about what she admires about her mom, what she wishes were different, and the misogyny inherent in the expectations most p...
Journalist Maya Francis on What Her Mom Has Taught Her About Being a Working Mom and a Black Woman Who Owns Her Story
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 10, 2018 02:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn the Season 2 closer, we talk to journalist and commentator (and Critical Frequency co-founder!) Maya Francis about her mom being a teen mom long before she had Maya, having siblings who had completely different childhoods from her own, how her parents taught her about race and gender, and how...
Author Lauren Muscarella on Maternal Loss
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 07, 2018 05:04 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAuthor Lauren Muscarella lost her mom when she was 20, and says there were aspects of their relationship that she had to work through on her own, long after her mom passed. In this episode we delve into how Lauren did that, why it was so important to her mom that Lauren pursue every opportunity,...
Documentary filmmaker Amanda Micheli on Feminism, Infertility, and What Family Means
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 06, 2018 04:51 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsFilmmaker Amanda Micheli found the subject of her latest documentary, Vegas Baby, while researching financing options for her second round of IVF. In this episode we talk about how her upbringing impacted her views on family and relationships, and how that impacted her reproductive decisions.
Leticia Aguilar Is a Bearcat
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 04, 2018 23:36 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this crossover episode with the Bearcat podcast, we meet Leticia Aguilar and hear how her mom's experience showed Leticia what sort of woman she did and did not want to be. Now she helps other Latina women figure out how to carve out their own paths.
Comedian Marcella Arguello on Moms, Men, and Machismo
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 03, 2018 14:29 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsComedian Marcella Arguello grew up in the rural town of Modesto, Ca where her El Salvadoran parents dealt with plenty of casual racism long before Trump. Marcella learned how to entertain herself as a kid, and how to combine the best of both feminine and masculine traits in one badass comic. Che...
Journalist Sammy Nickalls on Her Mom and #TalkingAboutIt
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 02, 2018 23:46 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSammy Nickalls (a writer and editor at AdWeek) says her mom has always been super supportive, even when she hasn't totally understood or agreed with her daughter. Sammy started the hashtag #TalkingAboutIt in the wake of her best friend's suicide to encourage people to more openly discuss mental ...
Comedian Aparna Nancherla on anxiety and comedy
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 01, 2018 17:25 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAparna Nancherla's mom was finishing up her residency as she was having Aparna and her sister. All three women dealt with anxiety and depression at different points in their lives, and for Aparna taking care of her mental health ultimately resulted in a successful career in comedy. Critical Fr...
Heather B. Armstrong ("Dooce"), Part 2, on Being a Super Public Mom
Tell Me About Your Mother - March 31, 2018 17:47 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn part two of our Season 2 opener, writer Heather B. Armstrong (aka "Dooce") opens up about the challenges of living a lot of your private life publicly, how she's navigated writing about family, and how her kids feel about all of it. Check out our Patreon link here!
Heather B. Armstrong, aka "Dooce" on the Wild World of "Mommy" Blogging and Why Her Mom Keeps Her in Utah
Tell Me About Your Mother - March 30, 2018 20:21 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHeather B. Armstrong was one of the original "mommy bloggers," drawing an audience of millions with her honest accounting of motherhood back in the early days of blogging. These days she has built a small media empire, but it's still a struggle to keep all the balls in the air, especially as a f...
Getting to Know Your Mom as a Person, with Renita Parker Mobley
Tell Me About Your Mother - January 18, 2018 09:12 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWhen Renita Parker Mobley heard comedian Sasheer Zamata interviewing her mom on This American Life last year it suddenly made her realize: she'd spent years mad at her mom for leaving her dad and kicking off a messy divorce, maybe it was time to get to understand her better as a woman, not just ...
Episode 5: Samantha Ladwig on Maternal Estrangement
Tell Me About Your Mother - December 13, 2017 23:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsMaternal estrangement impacts tens of thousands of American women, but is still a fairly taboo topic. Writer Samantha Ladwig chronicled her estrangement from her mother in an essay in the June/July 2017 issue of Bust that went viral. In this episode, she talks us through her decision to separate...
Episode 4: Wesley Allsbrook
Tell Me About Your Mother - August 11, 2017 06:41 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWesley Allsbrook is the artist behind the first-ever illustrated virtual reality film, Dear Angelica (produced by Oculus Studio. The film centers on a young woman (played by Mae Whitman) who has recently lost her actress mother (played by Geena Davis); it depicts an idealized relationship, and f...
Episode 3: Alli Maloney
Tell Me About Your Mother - June 20, 2017 06:24 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAllison (Alli) Maloney is the news and politics editor for Teen Vogue. Recorded on Mother's Day 2017, in Brooklyn, this episode centers on Alli's story and her complicated relationship with her alcoholic mom who left when Alli was three and never truly re-entered her life after that except for t...
Episode 2: Porochista Khakpour
Tell Me About Your Mother - May 27, 2017 19:15 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPorochista Khakpour is a highly acclaimed author. Her fiction books, Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion, have received and been nominated for various awards and she also contributes essays frequently to a variety of outlets. Her forthcoming memoir, Sick, chronicles her journe...
Episode 1: Ashley C. Ford
Tell Me About Your Mother - May 14, 2017 22:38 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAshley C. Ford is the senior features writer for Refinery 29, and has also written for a wide range of other publications, including The Guardian, Elle, and Teen Vogue. She was raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, by a single mom, after her dad was incarcerated when Ashley was six months old. In this ...
Trailer - Tell Me About Your Mother
Tell Me About Your Mother - April 21, 2017 20:55 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsOur relationships with our mothers are complicated, and that's especially true for women, each generation of which has lived through decades filled with changing norms and expectations. Your mom is likely the first female role model you had--good or bad. In Tell Me About Your Mother, journalist ...
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