🎧 Podcast Playlist 6/9/21

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Enjoy this week’s episodes and post a comment if something moves you!

📰 Newsletter Topic 👸🏻 Society & Culture 💡 Ideas: Big and Small 🤰🏻 Motherhood 😎 Relax & Escape 🧗 Growth 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 For the Family ⏭ Series

💣= explicit language 🌭 = frank content ⚠️ = sensitive topic

📰 “Menopause is an evolutionary wonder!”

“There are only two mammals who have evolved to survive after their child bearing years: toothed whales and humans. This stage of life is called menopause and up until recently it was considered a “disease” by the medical establishment that needed to be cured.” Listen to Body Stuff with Jen Gunter | Is Menopause the Beginning of the End? (32 min)

👸🏻 “This episode will help you get your green thumb!”

“Do you have big plans for a vegetable garden or a tiny pot of window sill herbs? We cover the basics of hardiness zones, understanding good soil, and building raised beds so you can turn garden dreams into reality.” Listen to LifeKit | Breaking Ground on a Garden (18 min)

💡 Have you tried the Impossible Burger?

“Steve and Bruce talk about the negative externalities of factory-farmed meat, and why Bruce gave up antics like streaking at Buckingham Palace.” Listen to People I (Mostly) Admire | Bruce Friedrich Thinks There’s a Better Way to Eat Meat (45 min)

🤰🏻 “Instead of trying to hide your struggles, be a model for your kids”

“Dr. Krystal Lewis knows how hard—and how common—it is when kids struggle with anxiety early on, and she suggests some helpful coping mechanisms.” Listen to How To! | My Kid’s Anxiety Is Giving ME Anxiety! (29 min)

😎 If you’ve ever thought you were a bad mother… you haven’t heard of Maryon Cooper Hewitt

“In August 1934, Ann Cooper Hewitt was having lunch with her mother when she suddenly felt pain in her abdomen.  She later told papers that when she woke up from surgery, she heard a nurse saying that Ann “didn’t suspect a thing.” Listen to Criminal | Unfit (45 min)

🧗 “The seven psychological levers that bewitch our rational minds”

“Robert Cialdini gives a master class in how we buy, behave, or believe without a second thought.” Listen to Freakonomics Radio | How to Get Anyone to Do Anything (58 min)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 “Good thing it’s Freaky Friday!”

“Lessons include: both work and school take a special kind of endurance, we should respect each other’s efforts; parents will always look out for you, but that doesn’t mean you can’t look out for them, too!” Listen with your kids to What If World – Stories for Kids | What if parents went to school and kids went to work? (17 min)

⏭ “Elizabeth becomes a celebrity as Theranos breaks out of stealth mode”

“Elizabeth spends millions on advertising, recruiting the same agency as Apple and even an Oscar-winning director. But real patients are now getting Theranos tests, and for some the results are shocking.” Listen to episode 4 of The Dropout | A Star is Born (42 min)