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Your mom is likely the first female role model you had--good or bad. Journalist Amy Westervelt talks to a variety of women about what their mothers taught them, connecting these...
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Your mom is likely the first female role model you had--good or bad. Journalist Amy Westervelt talks to a variety of women about what their mothers taught them, connecting these personal histories to the broader story of modern women.
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Tell Me About Your Mother
Tell Me About Your Mother
6 JAN 2019 · Check 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://fanlink.to/PeaceofMind) launching January 18th and The Double Shift (https://www.katherinegoldstein.com/the-double-shift-podcast/), the podcast for a new generation of mothers, launching February 11th. Â
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10 DEC 2018 · In our season 3 finale, we take a listen back through three seasons full of fascinating women.Â
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9 NOV 2018 · Journalist 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, and speak her truth.
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7 NOV 2018 · Jenny Kaplan grew up watching her mom take herself and her career as seriously as she took her family and her 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 moves. Here, she tells us about her mom, and introduces her new podcast Women Belong in the House.
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9 OCT 2018 · Author 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 Traister studied, and how it formed her ideas about womanhood, work, feminism, and more.Â
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30 SEP 2018 · Giphy 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 impact on her relationships with men today.Â
This episode's sponsor is Sun Basket. Visit sunbasket.com/mother for $35 off your first box.Â
21 SEP 2018 · Legendary 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.Â
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Storyteller Emily Zulauf on Moving Closer to Her Mom, and Why Every Parent Should Have the Race Talk
15 SEP 2018 · Emily 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. Before that, she was with Pixar Animation Studios, where she worked as a Script Supervisor for Inside Out. She spent two years as the co-executive director of the Seattle Clemency Project, and she's a mom with a four-year-old daughter.
Episode sponsor: Casper - Go to casper.com/mother for $50 off select mattresses. Terms and conditions apply.Â
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8 SEP 2018 · After 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!
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1 SEP 2018 · Sarah 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 people place on their mothers and their relationships with them.Â
This episode of TMAYM is sponsored by SunBasket. Go to sunbasket.com/MOTHER for $35 off your first order!
Your mom is likely the first female role model you had--good or bad. Journalist Amy Westervelt talks to a variety of women about what their mothers taught them, connecting these...
show more
Your mom is likely the first female role model you had--good or bad. Journalist Amy Westervelt talks to a variety of women about what their mothers taught them, connecting these personal histories to the broader story of modern women.
show less
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Author | Critical Frequency |
Organization | Critical Frequency |
Categories | Relationships , Documentary , Social Sciences |
Website | www.spreaker.com |
amy@criticalfrequency.org |
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