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Ep 259: 10 Questions for the Anniversary of a Big Event
Episode 259
Thursday, March 6, 2025 • Duration 57:42
This month marks 5 years still the Covid-19 pandemic turned our lives upside down.
In this episode, I'm sharing 10 questions that can be used as journal prompts or conversation starters on the anniversary of any big event.
I'm focusing my answers to these prompts on the five-year mark of the pandemic, but each question is crafted to be universal for any big event in your past.
JOIN ME ON SUBSTACK for a JOURNAL PARTY on this topic with the members of Secret Stuff
I'll also be posting all of the prompts on social media and in the show notes
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RELATED EPISODES:
10 Questions for Starting Over
10 Questions To Ask Yourself in the Middle of Anything
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Ep 258: Best Books Lately
Episode 258
Thursday, February 27, 2025 • Duration 01:53:49
This is a very special episode of Best Books Lately. Special because it's been awhile since we've had one, special because it's with my longtime internet friend and book twin Liz Hein, and special because we're weaving together some of the most important themes of 10 Things To Tell You: sharing your stuff, connection, and, of course, BOOKS.
In this conversation, Liz and I are not only talking about the best books we've read lately (and we've both read some great things!), Liz is also sharing about the life of her father, legendary Chicago photographer Rich Hein, who passed away unexpectedly last month. Liz's book selections are inspired by her dad, and I love that we could honor his memory in this way.
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Rich Hein's obituary was on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times
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LAURA'S BOOKS:
Beautyland by Marie Helene Bertino
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
Liars by Sarah Manguso
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
LIZ'S BOOKS:
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
ALSO MENTIONED:
Bob Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
All Fours by Miranda July
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
EPISODES MENTIONED:
Ep. 250 Best Books of the Year 2024
Ep. 252 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 with Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast
Ep. 195 Why do smart people love dumb tv?
Ep 239 Horror for Beginners with Meredith Monday Schwartz
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Ep 257: How To Survive on Social Media in 2025
Episode 257
Thursday, February 20, 2025 • Duration 01:05:09
As the headlines get harder, the politics more divisive, and the platforms themselves more corrupt, many of us are rethinking our social media usage in 2025.
Yeah, sure, we've all said this before in the past. So we take breaks, or delete the apps off our phones, but we always come crawling back. Social media is just an ingrained part of our lives now. It's where we get our news, it's how we connect with others, it's a source of entertainment and expression.
And yet...there is something different about this moment in internet history. People really are fed up, but it also seems impossible to quit cold turkey. There has to be a middle ground between spending large chunks of our day scrolling and walking away from social media completely. In this episode I'm walking through my own personal process of changing my relationship with my phone.
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MENTIONED in this episode:
Opal app
RELATED episodes:
Ep 253: Regrets and Reflections After 15 Years of Working on the Internet
Ep 246: A Funeral for Twitter
Ep 211: The Cell Phone Contract (A conversation with my kids)
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Ep 256: Here Be Dragons: Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma (with Melanie Shankle)
Episode 256
Thursday, February 13, 2025 • Duration 51:17
Sometimes you read a friend's book and you're jealous they wrote something this good. This is how I felt when I read writer and podcast Melanie Shankle's latest Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma.
This book is about Melanie's very complicated relationship with her mom, woven together with her own Big Feelings about the mean girls that took over her daughter's high school experience. As someone who regularly preaches that all of us should be sharing our stuff, my jaw dropped at some of the stories that Melanie is able to share so well.
In this conversation, Melanie and I talk about all of those things. It's a tender topic, but Melanie is, as always, full of humor and wisdom in the face of it all.
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Buy Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma
Listen to The Big Boo Cast
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MENTIONED in this episode:
The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs
Ep 243: Best Books Lately with Sophie Hudson
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Ep 255: Making R-Rated Art As A Mom
Episode 255
Thursday, February 6, 2025 • Duration 01:26:08
Now THIS is truly a conversation you won't hear anywhere else. My friend, television show runner Stacy Rukeyser, joins me to talk about making R-rated art when you're a mom.
Stacy has written on some really great shows over the years, but she was tasked with creating Netflix's first foray into erotica with her show Sex/Life back in 2021 and it brought up some questions about making this type of creative content when you're a mom. Stacy rightly points out that men likely wouldn't be asked (or be asking) the same type of questions, but it was a fascinating conversation to explore.
Stacy shares her fascinating Hollywood career trajectory, the column that broke open a One Tree Hill scandal, and the differences working in female-led writer's rooms.
This episode is a bit of a curve ball, but I think you'll be riveted.
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MENTIONED in this episode:
Stacy's great grandfather Hall Caine
The Manx Man
Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz
Un-real on Netflix
44 Chapters About 4 Men by BB Easton
Hollywood Reporter article about the One Tree Hill writer's room
RELATED Episodes:
Ep 189: About the Hollywood Strikes (And how it affects you)
Ep 195: Why do smart people watch dumb tv?
Ep 216: Stop Deferring Your Life (A ONE THING conversation with Amy B. Harris)
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Ep 254: If I Were Starting A Podcast Today...
Thursday, January 30, 2025 • Duration 01:10:27
Continuing my look back on 15 years of working on the internet (and the last decade as working as a podcaster), I'm addressing a question that I've gotten fairly often recently: Any advice on starting a podcast?
Based on my own mistakes working on three different shows, and observations about the podcast listening community and industry, in this episode I'm sharing what I would do if I started a new podcast today. While I speaking pretty specifically about podcasting in this episode, I also think that a lot of what I talk about applies to most creative endeavors on the internet in 2025.
I'm talking about creativity, marketing, mindset, equipment, and more. And at the end I give a little pep talk that maybe we all need.
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MENTIONED in this episode:
Audacity recording/editing software
Riverside.fm software for remote recording
Single microphone I used for years recording in person
Current microphone I use
RELATED episodes:
Ep 124: Behind the Scenes of Podcasting
Ep 205: 10 Things All Podcast Fans Should Know
Ep 253: Regrets and Reflections After 15 Years of Working On the Internet
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Ep 253: Regrets and Reflections on 15 Years of Working on the Internet
Thursday, January 23, 2025 • Duration 01:18:25
This month marks FIFTEEN years that I have been pursuing a career primarily by sharing myself on the internet. Starting with the Hollywood Housewife blog in January 2010, then building a social media presence, then becoming a podcaster and an author, and I have so many stories and thoughts to share about the last decade and a half.
On this episode, I'm talking about the things I did right, the things I definitely got wrong, and how I've evolved right along with the World Wide Web.
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MORE episodes on this topic:
Ep. 73: I Wrote a Book!
Ep. 63: Working From Home
Ep. 111: Behind The Scenes of Publishing, Marketing, and Launching a Book (with Kelly Gordon)
Ep. 166: How To Write a Book (in 10 Steps)
Ep. 174: 3 Things I've Learned While Working With a Business Coach (A Conversation with Retha Nichole)
MENTIONED in this episode:
Ep. 251: 10 Things I Learned in 2024
Sorta Awesome podcast
Smartest Person in the Room podcast
Racial Bias series on SPITR
Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First. by Laura Tremaine
The Life Council by Laura Tremaine
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Ep 252: Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Episode 252
Thursday, January 16, 2025 • Duration 01:17:48
No matter the question, reading is the answer. And in a year starting off like 2025 is, we certainly need a lot of answers to life's questions.
I am thrilled to welcome fellow Angeleno bookworm Traci Thomas (host of The Stacks podcast) to talk about the most anticipated new book releases of 2025. We talk about novels and nonfiction by debut and beloved authors publishing this year and sorry not sorry about this conversation that will send your book budget soaring. There are so many good books to look forward to in the next six months.
Also in this episode, Traci really gives me a lot to think about in terms of how we talk about books and why it's okay to be publicly critical of books that don't work for us. As an author who is jumpy about that concept, Traci really shifted my perspective on this.
You can listen to Traci on The Stacks podcast
You can follow Traci on IG
You can read Traci on her substack Unstacked
You can join Traci's Patreon
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MOST ANTICIPATED 2025 BOOKS:
January Books:
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
February Books:
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays by Ira Madison III
Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
March Books:
Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky
I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon
There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
April Books:
Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life by Maggie Smith
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad
Authority: Essays by Andrea Long Chu
May Books:
Love and Exile by Shon Faye
The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s by Paul Elie
June Books:
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Weepers by Peter Mendelsun
ALSO MENTIONED in this episode:
Sara Hildreth of Fiction Matters
Episode 122 of The Stacks Podcast with Kiese Laymon, Breathe by Imani Perry Book Club
Episode 222: Stephen King Starter Kit Part II
The Keep It Podcast
Read Traci's Most Anticipated List of 2025 with a different set of books than she talks about here
Suleika Jaouad’s Substack, The Isolation Journals
MORE BOOKS mentioned in this episode:
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
South to America by Imani Perry
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation by Imani Perry
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
American War by Omar El Akkad
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot
You Can Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Ep 251: 10 Things I Learned In 2024
Episode 251
Thursday, January 2, 2025 • Duration 01:43:33
It may already be January, but it's time for my annual year-end reflection with 10 of the biggest things I learned that I hope will also resonate with you.
2024 was a weird year in so many ways. My lessons were all over the place, from examining self-confidence vs. self-esteem, finding out who I am in a crisis, being honest about what home renovations can bring up emotionally, facing my addiction to the news cycle, and discovering the big thing that motivates our family decisions.
It was a year full of light bulb moments. I hope this helps you reflect upon your own lessons, struggles, and triumphs of the last year.
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MENTIONED in this episode:
Ep 201: 10 Things I Learned in 2023
Ep 238: The Conversation That Changed My Year
Ep 246: A Funeral for Twitter
The neck alignment thing that really works
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Ep 250: Best Books of the Year!
Episode 250
Thursday, December 19, 2024 • Duration 02:17:09
It's the reading episode we look forward to all year! My real life book club members Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith join me for a supersized conversation about the best books we read in 2024.
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Since Stephanie, Yasmin, and I did a half-year Best Books episode together during the summer, we only gloss over a few of the books we discussed in depth in June. You can see the show notes from Ep 224: Best Books of the Year (So Far).
Also an EXTENDED CUT of this episode and the BONUS episode where the three of us share books that didn't work for us this year (including a big surprise from me) is available for paid members SECRET STUFF (now on Substack!)
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(Stephanie doesn't post books on IG)
MENTIONED in this episode:
Yasmin’s Best Books:
Ours by Phillip B. Williams
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee by Mikita Brottman
Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real
Stephanie’s Best Books:
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Laura’s Best Books:
Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Link to Patreon episode about the Bee Sting - (Available for $3!)
ALSO MENTIONED:
Yasmin’s Best Books (So Far) in the June Episode:
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
James by Percival Everett
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Stephanie’s Best Books (so far) in the June Episode:
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Laura’s Best Books (so far) in the June Episode:
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
How to Walk Into a Room by Emily P. Freeman
The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
Holly by Stephen King
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Secret Windows by Stephen King
The Body by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
You Can Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne, Ph.D.
All Fours by Miranda July
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First. by Laura Tremaine
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Within Arm’s Reach by Ann Napolitano
Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Couple Found Slain by Mikita Brottman
NPR Best Books of the Year list
NYT 10 Best Books of the Year list
NYT Best Books of the 21st Century
Ep. 243 Best Books Lately (with Sophie Hudson)
More Episodes with Yasmin and Stephanie:
Ep. 46: Book Club 2019
Ep. 90: Book Club’s Best Books of the Year 2020
Ep. 147: Best Books of the Year 2021
Ep. 153: Best Books of the Year 2022
Ep. 179: Best Books of 2023 (So Far)
Ep. 199: Best Books of the Year 2023
Ep. 224: Best Books of the Year (So Far)
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