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📰 Newsletter Topic 👸🏻 Society & Culture 💡 Ideas: Big and Small 🤰🏻 Motherhood 😎 Relax & Escape 🧗 Growth 👨👩👧👧 For the Family ⏭ Series
💣= explicit language 🌭 = frank content ⚠️ = sensitive topic
📰 On Purpose with Jay Shetty | 7 Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others (31 min)
“It’s hard not to constantly compare yourself to others. It’s hard to see all of the vacation pictures, the couple pictures and everyone’s seemingly perfect lives on display. However, what we don’t always realize is that we’re comparing our behind the scenes to someone else’s highlight reel.”
👸🏻 Death, Sex & Money | I Was in Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000 (41 min)
“Find out what happened when a 27-year-old listener deep in credit card debt asked their older sister for financial help.”
💡 Consider This | Workin’ 9 To 5 (23 min)
“Flexible hours for working parents, daycare centers at the office, equal pay. Between the 1960s and 1980s, there was a real sense that big workplace changes were just beyond the horizon. At the time a very common job for women was clerical work. Today on the show, we meet the women behind the movement that inspired the movie. And a look at how far we have — or haven’t — come since then.”
🤰🏻 What Fresh Hell | My Spouse and I Disagree about Discipline (7 min)
“When we choose a spouse we look for someone we’re attracted to, someone we love, and someone we can have fun with. Then we have kids and find ourselves co-running a household with competing viewpoints that we may not have discussed before.”
😎 How I Built This with Guy Raz | Soul Cycle (54 min)
“Before Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice met, they shared a common belief: New York City gyms didn’t have the kind of exercise classes they craved, and each of them wanted to change that. A fitness instructor introduced them over lunch in 2005, and before the meal was done they were set on opening a stationary bike studio, with a chic and aspirational vibe.”
🧗 Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard | Michael Moss (90 min)
💣”Michael Moss is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss food addiction, the invention of processed food, and what government oversight of the food industry would look like. Michael and Dax discuss free will when it comes to diet, how big food companies use marketing tactics to influence our choices, and that obesity is a crude measure of health. Michael explains the phenomena of dieting and how income inequality affects people’s access to healthy food.”
👨👩👧👦 Freakonomics | A Better Way To Eat (30 min)
“Takeru Kobayashi revolutionized the sport of competitive eating. What can the rest of us learn from his breakthrough?”
⏭ Business Wars | Estée Lauder vs L’Oréal | Skin in the Game | 3 (31 min)
“It’s 1962, and Estée Lauder is on fire, with well-received new products helping solidify their position as the top high-end makeup brand. But Revlon is hot on their tails, and to fend off the threat the Lauders decide to develop a new brand: Clinique.”