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Join host Jo Piazza as she delves into the hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring stories of couples of all kinds who’ve soldiered through unimaginable circumstances, and after the longest of days, still want to wake up next to one another in the morning.
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Under the Influence is a deep dive into social media, a place haunted by aspirational marketing where it feels like every other person is a social media influencer trying to sell you something, all while posed in perfect houses that never seem to get messy. And behind this airbrushed perfection is money, so much money. Billions and billions of dollars. Journalist and mom Jo Piazza looks at how we got here, what it all means and how the commodification of every single aspect of our lives is d ...
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If you are curious about the ‘who dunnit’ and the ‘why dunnit’ and how and why victims become footnotes in their own murders, Crime Analyst is for you. Hosted by world renowned and award-winning Criminal Behavioural Analyst Laura Richards.
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Find your next great read. Book recommendations, book news and guests, including top authors and other book enthusiasts who discuss what’s happening in the world of books with a focus on frontlist and backlist fiction including literary fiction, suspense, historical, memoir and nonfiction.
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Bill Kenower, Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, talks to writers of all genres about the books we write and the lives we lead, and how these two are one in the same.
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The Pod Club is a new weekly show from iHeartRadio bringing you the very best recommendations from podcast insiders on what you should be listening to next. There are more podcasts than ever and we are your podcast obsessed best friend who listens to everything out there to recommend exactly what you want in your ears. Hosted by podcasting veteran Jo Piazza and a rotating cast of podcast hosts, producers and aficionados, The Pod Club makes your life easier by obsessing over everything the au ...
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Italy is the best. Art, Fashion, Food, Design, Innovation, Heritage, you name it, the Bel Paese is built on millennia of creativity and is teaming with innovators. Ciao Bella and host Erica Firpo talks with the creative forces behind Italy today - artists, designers, chefs, experts and aficionados. Cocktail conversations and behind-the-scenes visits that will make you want to pack your bags and go!
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Unleash Your Inner Creative is an Award-Winning podcast to help you become your full self & live a more creative & authentic life! I'm Lauren LoGrasso (a multi-passionate creative) & I believe repressed creativity causes much of the world's suffering, so I want to help you unleash! This podcast lives at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, mental health & self-development. With the help of guests like Julia Cameron (The Artists' Way), Guy Raz (How I built This) &brain coach, Jim Kwi ...
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Host Lina Forrestal brings you the New Mamas Podcast, a space created to give first time moms a voice and to have honest and raw conversations about motherhood. Lina and her guests are normalizing conversations around traditionally taboo topics: post-partum depression, post-partum anxiety, surviving the newborn phase, body image issues, co-parenting, divorce, and more. This podcast is meant to feel like a big virtual hug for moms everywhere. Instagram: @linaforrestal @newmamaspodcast Contact ...
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iHeartRadio knows how important the graduation ceremony is. After four long years of hard work, commencement offers one last moment to reflect before you toss your hat into the air and take on the world. We also know that because of these difficult times, a lot of graduates won’t get to attend their ceremony in person. So, we've partnered with some of the biggest names across industries, to write a commencement speech just for you.
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Best friends and co-authors of seven novels, including the Amazon Charts bestselling book, The Good Widow, Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke use biting humor to share lessons they’ve learned during their thirty-year friendship. They talk about their ups—and especially their downs. Including sharing the brutal truth about the rejection they’ve faced in the publishing industry. Listen in and hear for yourself why Liz and Lisa have also cultivated a passionate following on social media. They tell it li ...
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Jenny Mollen is someone who was never supposed to be good at commitment. Being the child of multiple divorces, an actress, and a Gemini, she had everything working against her. She once had a two year relationship with the foreign exchange student from her high school only after he left her high school and was back living in another country. When Jenny met her husband Jason, neither was looking for a relationship.They were young, naive, and had a lot more mistakes to make. It was most defini ...
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What is a Cute-servative? It's an adorable nickname that conservative women are giving to themselves online as part of the Barbie-rific branding of the conservative party to young women. And this brand is working! Join us as we discuss the current political burnout many women are feeling and the critical need to stay engaged. Our guest, Emily Amick…
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Do you ever think about how your culture and heritage has affected the way you express yourself, the stories you tell and even the job you do? If you have listened to the pod for any length of time, you know I am very connected to my Sicilian ancestry, how it affects my creativity and life in general, so I am super excited about today’s guest. Toda…
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Laura interviews bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza about her transporting and immersive book, The Sicilian Inheritance, rooted in her own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect. The book and podcast are based on Jo’s great, great grandmot…
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On today’s pod, I’m sitting down with Nicole Jaques, a home cook, lifestyle influencer, and podcast host of “The Home CEO.” Nicole is also the author of Go Green When You Clean, which features DIY non-toxic cleaning product recipes. Her Instagram is packed with home tips, from food storage hacks to DIY bug repellents. Nicole started by sharing kitc…
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What if we opted out of technology? What would it look like? Who would we be? Let's find out. Founder of global tech-free movement The Opt-Out Family, Erin Loechner is a former social media influencer who walked away from a million fans to live a low-tech lifestyle—and is now teaching others how to do the same. Spoiler alert: Forget parental contro…
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Laura continues her interview with Josiah’s warrior mom, Liz Hilderbrand. With Josiah having been found Liz needed to see him. She was told charges would be filed and were coming. Liz asked to meet the prosecutors and the FBI agent to shake their hands, but the meeting took a very different turn, which left her reeling. Find out what happened and j…
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On episode 128 I speak with author Catherine Newman about summer hair, humor as survival strategy and Catherine’s previous job working in a sandwich shop. This episode of Books Are My People is sponsored by Let Gravity Seize the Dead by Darrin Doyle. Sandwich by Catherine Newman We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman Books Recommended: Q…
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Today we have just a taste of a new series called We Are the Great Turning that is truly bringing me hope and resilience when it comes to talking about the climate crisis. The show shines a light on 95-year-old legendary eco-spiritual teacher, Joanna Macy, in heartfelt, intimate dialogue with her friend, activist Jess Serrante. Together, they explo…
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On April 2 2021 6-year-old Corey Micciolo was taken to Southern Ocean County Medical Center in New Jersey by Christopher Gregor. Corey sadly died at 502pm, alone without his mother present. Corey had been discharged from Jersey Shore Medical Center the night before and was given a clean bill of health, bar many bruises and contusions on his body af…
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Bill welcomes novelist, short story writer, and essayist Debra Spark to the show. Debra is the author of five novels, two collections of short stories, and two books of essays on fiction writing. Her most recent books are the novel Discipline and the essay collection And Then Something Happened. With Deborah Joy Corey, she co-edited Breaking Bread,…
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From Italy to America and back again, for Cristina Mariani May, co-CEO of Banfi, the wine business is 100% Italian and American. With a 100 year-old grasp on importing Italian goods to America, Banfi has also been producing one of the top Brunellos for nearlly five decades. In this episode, Erica heads to Castello Banfi near Montalcino to talk fami…
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Nara Smith cooks Oreos and cereal from scratch in her pristine kitchen filled with SMEG appliances. She is a 23-year-old mother of three married to her teenage sweetheart Lucky Blue? She regularly broadcasts from her kitchen to more than six million social followers and until last week I had no idea who she was. But Nara Smith is a woman with power…
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On today’s pod, I’m going to be sitting down with the founder of Trashy, Kaitlin Mogentale. Trashy is a company that reduces food waste by transforming what others deemed waste - the pulp, stems and peels of veggies and veggies that were rejected for being imperfect…Into craveable, accessible and highly consumed snack food products, namely Veggie c…
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Bill welcomed award-winning novelist and short story writer Ellen Birkett Morris back to the show. Ellen’s novel Beware the Tall Grass is the winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence, judged by Lan Samantha Chang. She is the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah…
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Other countries have social safety nets. America has women. We are holding it all together at the seams even as we are often falling apart. Today I am talking to the brilliant sociologist Jessica Calarco about her new book Holding it Together. We talk about how the United States leans on the unseen and unappreciated labor of women to keep the count…
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On the five-year anniversary of 25-year-old Josiah Hilderbrand’s disappearance, Laura interviews his warrior mom Liz Hilderbrand. Josiah disappeared whilst en-route to a concert at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington State on June 7, 2019. Liz explains when she first realised her son, Josiah, was missing and what happened next. A total of seven pe…
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Casey and Steven met on a study abroad program in Morocco when they were juniors in college. After school they traveled to Beijing to teach English and then to Mali to live in Timbuktu. Travel does something to a relationship. It creates intimacies and speeds up the way we learn about one another. Now, two decades later, Casey and Steven have opene…
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For mom summer is often the season of no affordable childcare. But it is also the season of trying to ignore your children at the beach or public pool. So today I am joined by my friend Jane Rosen, author of the new hit beach read Seven Summer Weekends, to talk about what we plan on reading this summer. We are also joined by some very special autho…
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Bill welcomes poet and writing instructor Meredith Heller to the show. Meredith is the author of Writing by Heart, Write a Poem, Save Your Life, and several poetry collections. A poet, singer-songwriter, avid nature lover, and educator with degrees in writing and education, she leads writing workshops online and in-person at schools, juvenile deten…
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As we know, there is an influencer for everything. And ADHD (particularly ADHD for women) is one of those things that now has a ton of influencers. There is a lot of misinformation and a lot of useful information. Many women are telling their own stories of ADHD for the first time ever on social media which is incredible. Today we are joined by Mer…
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Laura continues her fascinating conversation with Diana Parkes & Hetti Nanton unraveling the important & illuminating judicial review judgment & the risk assessment & management of Robert Brown. You won’t want to miss this. #JoannaSimpson #HerNameWasJoSimpson #RobertBrown #BritishAirwaysKiller #CoerciveControl #Stalking #PreventMurderInSlowMotionä …
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These week, on episode 127 I take it back to the OG days of the podcast five years ago when I struggled to get a guest on the show. Now, I am so lucky to get to pick amazing guests! This episode of Books Are My People is sponsored by The Year We Danced: A Memoir by Stephen E. Smith Books Recommended: I am Not Sydney Poitier by Percival Everett The …
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Nancy Brophy fills her novels with romantic betrayals and murder. It’s a far cry from her quiet life in the suburbs, where she and her chef husband, Dan, are living out their golden years. But when Dan is shot dead, Nancy finds herself at the center of a murder case that could be ripped from the pages of her novels. From Wondery, this is a story ab…
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Growing up in a historic five-star hotel on the shores of Lake Como, Jan Bucher is no stranger to the complexities and curiosities of luxury hospitality. As general manager of Bellagio’s Villa Serbelloni, Jan has accepted the four-generations-old torch that is running one of Como’s, and accordingly, the world’s, grandest hotels. Join Erica and Jan …
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Today we are talking to a self-described "recovering helicopter mom," to discuss the challenges and transformations in her journey away from "perfect" and overprotective motherhood. From dealing with childhood trauma to striving for supermom status, Cari Fund shares her poignant story of how she faced her toxic childhood straight on and vowed to be…
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On The Guest: Yemi Penn is a British-born Nigerian author, Engineer, TEDx speaker, and entrepreneur whose mission is to help others overcome and transform their traumas. As a true multi-passionate creative, she has managed to dip her toes into many industries. Most recently she released a short documentary titled “Did I Choose My Trauma?” that foll…
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Bill welcomes novelist Anastasia Zadeik to the show. ANASTASIA is a writer, editor, and narrative nonfiction performer. She lives in San Diego, CA, where she serves as Director of Communications for the San Diego Writers Festival, as a mentor for the literary nonprofit So Say We All, and as a board member for the International Memoir Writers Associ…
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Screens and social media are allegedly giving us anxiety, shortening our attention spans and changing our brains in ways that may be irreversible....at least according to the articles I have read. But I want to parse fact from fiction and click-bait headlines from actual scientific studies. Here to answer all of my burning questions about whether s…
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