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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
📰 “Summer is upon us”
“Summer is upon us, which means vacation travel. happy healthy reviews safe and fun travel information to make the season memorable.”
Listen to happy healthy | Summer 2021 Travel Planning (8 min)
👸🏻 “The go-to shopping app”
“The most-downloaded fashion app is now Shein, and it’s created a new behavior: Real-Time Fashion. Yelp whipped up data on how you’re dining, but it tells us more about Yelp than the recovery. And Sinclair is launching the 1st nationwide regional sports network”
Listen to Snacks Daily | “A $6 handbag beat Amazon” — Shein’s real-time fashion (19 min)
💡 Computer Chips & Rental Cars
“A complex global supply chain is straining under pent-up post-vaccine demand. NPR’s Scott Horsley explains what’s going on”
Listen to Consider This | Why Everything is More Expensive (12 min)
🤰🏻 Do you sometimes feel like a ‘dormant volcano’?
Hear discussions on “the job description we’ve somehow accepted for motherhood, how to know whether your partner is a co-builder or an assistant, and how to make the invisible load of caretaking visible—and potentially bearable. “
Listen to We Can Do Hard Things | Is our exhaustion a sign that we’re CareTicking time bombs? (64 min)
😎 A brief interaction…
⚠️💣”When Hallie was 17, she spent a few minutes with a stranger who changed her life. A decade later, Hallie sets out to find her.”
Listen to Heavyweight | Hallie (16 min)
🧗 “We all screw up”
“What comes afterwards can make or break a relationship. In this episode, psychologist Harriet Lerner shares her tips for apologizing well and moving forward.”
Listen to Life Kit | You’re Probably Apologizing All Wrong (17 min)
👨👩👧👦 “She’s so quiet that sometimes she even feels invisible”
“When she stays after school one day to study in the library she accidentally gets locked in overnight! Much to her surprise, she ends up making friends with someone else who tends to feel invisible: a sweet ghost named Amy who has been living in the library that her father built almost 100 years ago. “
Listen to Little Stories Everywhere | Maeve The Invisible (20 min)
⏭ Once the darling of Silicon Valley…
“Now under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Elizabeth Holmes is forced to answer tough questions under oath. The claims that Elizabeth had been repeating are under fire; the woman who once had all the answers, suddenly seems to have none.”
Listen to The Dropout | The Downfall (41 min)
🎬 Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering | TED