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A Spiritual Hug with Nadia Bolz-Weber
Today’s IGTBO episode is a spiritual hug – as previous guest and friend of the pod Kelly Corrigon called it – with guest Nadia Bolz-Weber, a beautiful writer, a fellow griever, and a pastor. Don't be frightened away from this episode if you are not a religious person – there won’t be any lecturing here. Nadia is not that kind of religious person. She’s the kind of religious person that, at the ver
There’s an Alien Inside Me: Medical Misogyny, a Rom-Com, and Struggles with Infertility
Nicole was 21 years old and had an alien growing inside her chest.
Well, no, not really. But it WAS an extremely large tumor growing inside of her that very much FELT like an alien — an alien that doctors had told her multiple times was just weight gain. After dismissal time after time again, Nicole finally meets a surgeon who tells her that she has a massive cyst on her fallopian tube that was
The Summer Reading List with Kate Baer
Summer is coming, and you know what that means – beach days (or days spent inside with the AC blasting, no judgment) with your favorite books. Today, Nora and friend of the pod and special guest Kate Baer get together to give you the Ultimate Summer Reading List for 2026, including Lena Dunham’s new memoir, a creepy novel that’s like if the Hunger Games and Love Island had a baby, and many more (s
It's (still) Okay To Laugh (and crying is still cool, too)
It has been 10 years since Nora’s first book, “It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too)” was published. A lot has changed since – she got remarried, had another child, and started this podcast to carve a space in the world for conversations that really matter. In honor of IOTL’s 10th birthday, today Nora is reading the two chapters out loud and live annotating – connecting with the person she was s
Creativity is For Everyone (The Artist’s Way with Elizabeth Kott)
Burnout seems like the biggest thing all of us have in common right now. It’s hard NOT to get burnt out when the world is rife with injustice and horror and you’re expected to carry on as normal. Here’s the thing: you don’t have to carry on as normal. But you do have to reach out and find joy – it’s going to keep you alive. It’s going to keep you going. It’s going to remind you that you won’t alwa
What Is Happening and Where Are We? with Catherine Newman
On this episode of IGTBO, Nora is joined by her favorite living novelist, Catherine Newman, to put a little more OK in your day. They talk about celebrating sobriety and not drinking, Artemis II, how to unwind with the Bear Valley Eagle Cam, and the importance of family (and highly intense family card games). If your anxious heart needs a break from the whirlwind of Bad outside (and need to feel v
Dancing for the Devil: Dr. Edith Eger on Surviving the Holocaust and Turning Trauma Into Purpose
Edith Eger was only 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary during World War II. Her future was ripped from her when she and her family were imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. Edith’s parents were sent to the gas chambers immediately – but Edith survived, forced to entertain Dr Mengele – known as the Angel of Death – until she survived the death march. For many years after, Edith stru
Getting Married Again Doesn’t Make You A Bad Widow with Leslie Harter-Berg
I get questions all the time about being a remarried widow. How did I do it? How did I know? Is Matthew jealous of Aaron? How can you love two people at the same time?
When you become a widow, you’re a widow forever. You will never not have a dead spouse. You will never stop wishing you could talk to them again. You will never replace that love. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find love – or you
IGTBO: A Goose-Forward Home with Sharon McMahon
Here on IGTBO, we're not about toxic positivity -- we're about finding things that are good even when the world is dark. Today's guest, Sharon McMahon -- a fellow tall woman -- brought her OK things, including geese, being in a goose-forward household, and the acts of kindness that can change the trajectory of your life.
For any long-time fans of IGTBO, this is a classic bird episode, and we cou
Advice-cast: The Worst Thing to Say When Someone’s Grieving, Feeling like a Loser at Work, and Trying to Love Your Body When No One Else Loves Theirs
Thanks for Asking is a group project – we could not make this show without you. You’re not just a listener. You’re a participant. We want to make a show about what matters to you. That’s why we have our inboxes always open, with our operator (Nora) standing by to take your calls and texts. So that’s what today’s episode is about: your struggles, your vents, your anxieties.
If you need to vent, a
Food, Forgiveness and the Cost of Being Thin: A Conversation with Geneen Roth
Every woman in the world has shared one feeling: that their body is wrong. We like to say that we've come "so far," but just open any social media app and see the body warping, the products marketed as "a drink to stop your cravings" or "patches that help you drop two sizes," and the endless comments on teenage girls' appearances. In the world we live in, skinny equals good -- and all women are su
Baja Blast Your Body (feat. Ralph)
This week on It's Going To Be OK: a 13-year-old boy tries to convince his mother that he should be allowed to have a Baja Blast at 7pm on a school night, sings the praises of Wetzel's Pretzels and asks whether or not he can become CEO of McDonald's if he drops out of 8th grade...It's the return of Ralph!
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Honest Motherhood with Libby Ward
What makes a good mom? Is it adhering to the perfectly packaged image of a shiny, happy woman cooking lavish meals with her 2.5 children, always cleaning, never complaining, and never NOT grateful, doting, and happy? No – but that doesn’t mean that the expectations are any more attainable. Any choice a mom makes is immediately subject to scrutiny or ridicule. Anything she does is under a microscop
Friends To The End: Cancer, Friendship and Grief
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It’s rare to have a friendship that actually lasts forever, but that’s what Josie and Miles have. When Miles’s cancer comes back after years of remission, Josie is there for him every step of the way … until there are no more steps to take.
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How you {really} are: Aging parents, falling out of love with your work, disappointing gender reveals, secondhand embarrassment and being the worst mom in the world
Today, we're giving validation, pep talks and space to vent for listeners struggling with:
Aging parents who don't take care of their health
Falling out of love with your work and feeling like you're totally ineffective (you aren't!)
Being hit by a grief tsunami and losing your ambition
Feeling like a horrible mother for being disappointed by a gender reveal (we have THOUGHTS!)
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A Daily Dose of Wonder with Kelly Corrigan
You know what makes things feel more okay? Kelly Corrigan, the host of Kelly Corrigan Wonders and the author of so many wonderful books (my favorite is Tell Me More). Today, Kelly and Nora dig through a treasure trove of (more than) okay things, including unexpected gratitude from an adult child (CALL YOUR MOM!), a book about a possible alien encounter, slow but steady civic progress and much more
AI Deadbots Want To Cure Your Grief
As long as people have been grieving, we have found a way to memorialize our dead people. We grievers keep voicemails, photos, letters, clothes – whatever we can to remember our people. With the rise of AI, it’s no wonder companies desperate to increase their shareholder value have turned to us, the grievers. But it’s not our money they want (or at least, not JUST our money) – it’s our dead people
I Can’t Have Kids and My Friends Are Pregnant
On today’s episode, we hear from Cora Danielson, a comic who has been wrestling with something many women do – her inability to have children despite wanting them very, very much. Her outlet? Improv comedy and the community that came with it, offering her people she could always confide in. Now, two of the women in her group are pregnant and it’s messing with Cora’s head. Her friends haven’t told
Middle School Divorcee | It's Going to be OK with Elise Loehnen
We would never tell you that everything is going to be OK, but we will tell you that something will be. Today, Nora and guest Elise Loehnen share the things that make them feel like the world isn’t crumbling down around them.
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Wind Phone (Part 3)
What would you say to your dead person? We’re listening in on the Wind Phone.
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Dead Sibling Society (Part 1)
If you lose a spouse, you’re a widow. If you lose your parents, an orphan. But we don’t have the language for someone who lost a sibling – your first friend, your first ally, your first enemy (probably, at least temporarily). Grief always feels like a gut punch, but losing a sibling is a unique kind of pain that we don’t talk about enough.
So today, I’m joined by Steph Wittels Wachs, former TTF
Under a Cloud of Loss
This episode originally ran in 2016, and we pulled it out of the archives to share with you here, and to kick off a new season of TTFA Anthologies, where we pull together a themed season of some of our best episodes. This season the theme is Grief: It’s Complicated…stories about the kind of grief you won’t find in the sympathy card aisle. Stories like the one you’re about hear. We have a separate
There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 2)
“Can I move in with you?”
Laurel Louise Anderson (lovingly called Miss Ma’am) posed the question to our producer and her son, Marcel Malekebu, in the summer of 2024. After nearly a year of Marcel asking and a year of her denying, the request came seemingly out of nowhere. His mom moved in, and Marcel and his wife Jenae became caregivers not only to their two very young daughters, but to Miss Ma’
There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 1)
“Can I move in with you?”
Laurel Louise Anderson (lovingly called Miss Ma’am) posed the question to our producer and her son, Marcel Malekebu, in the summer of 2024. After nearly a year of Marcel asking and a year of her denying, the request came seemingly out of nowhere. His mom moved in, and Marcel and his wife Jenae became caregivers not only to their two very young daughters, but to Miss Ma’a
Wind Phone (Part 2)
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Okay Boomers
“Okay, boomer” will go down in history as one of the funniest (and truest) ways to shut down a boomer whining about younger generations who just don’t get it. But this episode is not about what boomers don’t understand. This is an appreciation episode about the boomers who get it. Nora and friend of the pod Caroline Moss are here to tell you all about their favorite boomers. It’s time to give them
The Return of Ralph: It’s Going to be OK
Things are not good in the world right now, and you don’t need us to tell you that. But despair is also not good. Having no hope is not good. And Nora believes that the antidote to despair is action – doing things for others in whatever capacity you can. So she and her son Ralph are bringing back IGTBO for you as an exercise in seeing the OK things in the world around you, even when it seems like
Update: The Fat Guy with the Alcohol
It’s been a year and a half since we aired an episode where we spoke with Evan about his past and his current health journey of losing weight and reclaiming his life. In this episode, Evan tells us what he’s been up to and also surprises us with how much his perspective has changed since his weight loss surgery.
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How Do You Grieve Someone Who Isn’t Dead with the Antlers
Today, Nora interviews Peter Silberman of the Antlers, a band whose album Hospice changed her life twice: first in 2010, after a horrible breakup, and then in 2011, when her husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Over a decade later, thanks to a little bit of fate and Peter’s cousin April, Nora and Peter talk about the album, what it means, grief, anger, and how art connects us all.
When Grandma and Grandpa Die, Can I Have Their iPad? with Kate Kennedy
The world is not especially great right now. In the midst of all the chaos and nightmare fuel, today’s episode of Thanks for Asking is an emotional palate cleanser. Nora and friend of the pod Kate Kennedy are here to deliver some silliness with the weirdest things your kids have said to you, written to you, or drawn for you. And yes, it gets very, very weird.
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Normalize “bad women” with Rebecca Woolf
Being a widow is complicated. On top of the earth-shattering grief you experience, there’s a huge societal pressure to be the perfect image of a grieving partner, missing the love of your life. But what if the person who died was actually kind of a huge jerk? How do you take care of someone who doesn’t really deserve it? And what does it mean to be a good woman or a good widow?
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IGTBO: Widow Weddings, Sleepovers, and My Dead Uncle’s Sweater
You’ve seen the headlines. You’ve looked at the world. You know, like we do, that not everything is going to be OK. But to start 2026, we’re going to look at some of the things that make us feel like something will be OK. If you need a sign that there is still good in the world, let this be it.
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The Wind Phone: Part 1
If you have known loss, you know how it feels to pick up the phone to call your person only to realize they won’t answer. This episode is all about your calls – the things you wish you could tell your people. Somewhere, somehow, we know they’re listening.
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Happyish Holidays 2025
It’s time for Happyish Holidays, 2025 edition! Though we might not see you in person this year, Nora’s still here to listen to and tell your holiday stories gone awry. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll remember that the holidays don’t have to be happy all the time – happy-ish is the best we can ask for.
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Goodbye, 2025
2025 is coming to a close, if you can believe it. If you’re feeling stressed (and maybe a little relieved) that the end of the year is here, you aren’t alone. This week, Nora’s sharing her strategies for finishing out 2025 and ushering in 2026 – without the expectations that you have to become a shiny, brand new, unblemished version of yourself. If you want a gentle, helpful guide for starting 20
Baby Wants a Gas Mask
Kids ask for the darndest things, and this year, Nora’s youngest asked for… a gas mask. An old-timey gas mask. So, she asked for the weirdest things that your kids have asked Santa for, AKA a nightmare fuel gift guide. (Warning: do not listen with little kids in the car because we will discuss Santa!)
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Your Pettiest Crimes with Caroline Moss
The holiday season can be tough – so we’re taking a break to (anonymously) celebrate some petty crimes. Nora is joined by fan favorite Caroline Moss of Gee Thanks, Just Bought It! to talk petty crimes (including being a shoplifter turned shopping influencer). Buckle in for stories from stealing from exes, getting revenge on rotten advisors, and sneaking something from Chipotle… you’re all crimina
The Grief Album of the Year with Will Anderson
If you know love and loss, you know how music can transport us to a moment that time stole from us. And if you know grief, you know how simultaneously beautiful and painful that can be. Today, Nora talks to Will Anderson, who released his debut solo album How Little Love Is/How Worth Everything chronicling his grief after the sudden loss of his wife, Courtney Kampa. They talk about grief, love, C
AITA: I Want to Leave My Dying Boyfriend
Her boyfriend is dying… What should she do? When you’re faced with the possibility of joining the Hot Young Widows Club, you get slammed with a million questions. And for this listener, the question was: Can I leave him even though he’s going to die? Today, Nora is joined by fellow Hot Young Widow, Tracy Koski, to get into all of it.
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THANKS-giving
The holiday season is hard for most people. Maybe you’re feeling a fresh loss, maybe you’re dealing with an annoying relative, maybe you’re just feeling hopeless. But we’re here to remind you that things are not hopeless. Today, we’re finding something that makes us feel OK.
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How to Con a Catfish
How do you get back into dating after being widowed? It’s something we’ve talked about before on Thanks for Asking, but never quite like this – because we’ve never talked about what it’s like to be catfished after your husband dies. Today, Nora is joined by Jessica, a widowed woman who found herself tangled in an online relationship with a catfish and decided to scam the scammer.
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Talking to My Dead Husband with Psychic Medium Laura Lynne Jackson
Last year, Laura Lynne Jackson changed Nora’s life forever – she helped Nora talk to Aaron ten years after his death. Today, they reunite to talk about signs, connections, and her newest book, Guided: The Secret Path to An Illuminated Life.
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Digitally Crushed by Grief
There are times we expect grief to hit us: death anniversaries, birthdays, holidays. But when grief attacks us out of nowhere, what do we do? How do we deal? And even worse – what if it happens digitally? If our dead partner’s Instagram is suddenly gone? If their voicemails or texts get deleted? Grief is a language that all of us will someday be able to speak. Today, we’re listening to those of us
Help, My Parents Are Hoarders!
What is it like to have hoarders for parents? Today, Nora and guest Jane Marie are telling you about it with audience submissions and real-life stories – buckle up and get ready to learn.
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Should I Go Back to Work? with Kate Kennedy
Today, Nora and guest host Kate Kennedy discuss the least controversial topic ever: motherhood and work. When a listener wrote about the anxiety she was feeling ahead of her maternity leave ending, Nora knew it was time to talk about an experience that many mothers suffer in silence – what your life, career, and mental health look like after having a kid.
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I’m Getting in the Casket With You w/Caroline Moss
We loved the stories about your adult friendships so much we had to make a part two featuring your voicemails! Join Nora and Caroline Moss of Gee Thanks, Just Bought It as they react to your emails, texts, and voicemails about the unlikely way you found your platonic soulmate.
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The IBS in Me Recognizes the IBS in You w/Caroline Moss
This is a PSA: you’re not too old to make a best friend. Just because you no longer have assigned seating in a classroom or a playground or playdates doesn’t mean you can’t find your best friend in the whole world on Twitter (we’re never calling it X) or Slack or… a hospitalization program? The point is, putting yourself out there can be embarrassing, but you never know when you’re going to stumbl
From The Archives: October 8, 1988
Suffering can feel like such a singular experience -- like there’s no one else in the world who understands what we’re going through. But sometimes, if we look hard enough, we find that our singular experience intersects with another.
This is the story of two young girls whose stories intertwined during a tragic accident on October 8, 1988 … though they wouldn’t meet for decades to come.
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Prescription for a Widow
When can a widow date again? Would you believe it if we told you that the answer lies in the Real Housewives of New York? Today, that’s what Nora’s doing – using Season 7 of the renowned reality TV show as a lens for dating after losing your partner.
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22 & Struggling (is it just me??)
Even if you have not been 22 with an abusive ex-boyfriend, broke, homesick, and friendless in a new city, you have, at one point or another, felt like today’s texter – certain that you are alone and forever lost in uncontrollable chaos. Nora’s here to remind you that we are not the worst thing that happened to us. We are not our mistakes. We are infinite and expansive. And there is always hope for
You’re Not Too Old, It’s Not Too Late Part 2(with Cheryl Sparks)
Last week, Nora set out to prove that no one is ever too old and it's never too late to try something entirely new. The mailbox was so full of amazing, inspiring stories that Nora knew there had to be a second part with Cheryl Sparks, an amazing fashion influencer who got her start later than you might think (@ifitstuesday on Instagram).
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You're Not Too Old, It's Not Too Late(with Jamie Golden)
Nora recently got a question that asked, “Is 31 too old to pivot into a new career?” The short answer: NO! You’re not too old and it’s not too late to decide to live your life exactly how you want to. Nora’s joined by Jamie Golden, host of The Pop Cast, to hear your stories about making fresh starts and pivots – because no matter where you are, there’s always an option, and there’s always more lif
Gen Z Dating is Weird: Your Calls
What matters to you matters to me. That’s why I make sure to take time to do live calls and answer your questions. In this episode, we talk Gen Z dating rules, life postpartum, invisible strings, and dealing our internal and external sadnesses and pressures. Grab a snack and buckle in – let’s chat.
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Dead People Lore
Have you ever heard something really weird about someone… but at their funeral? I found out that allegedly my dad RODE A MOTORCYCLE. I wanted to hear about the craziest lore that’s been dropped about people you knew after they died, and you delivered: handcuffs, bathtub gin, and secret pregnancies.
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Patients Over Profits
Nurses are the backbone of healthcare. From tending to patients to dealing with doctors, nurses do all the things. In honor of Labor Day, our favorite producer Marcel Malekebu interviews Tracie Ducksworth, a union chair for the Minnesota Nurses Association.
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TFA x IMO: Michelle Obama Told Me I'm Not a Loser!
In this brief episode, Nora poses a question to Craig Robinson and Michelle Obama. And boy do they deliver!
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The Widower (Girl, run)
Every once and a while, we get an email that Nora just can’t resist making an entire episode about. This week’s subject is dating a widower – but is she really? It seems like the connection is fading fast. Relationships are complicated, and sometimes, we all need a little tough love to remind us what we’re worth.
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Hysterectomies, Health Insurance, and Husbands: TFA Live-Call In #1
Nora started this show because she wants to talk to YOU, the listener, about what matters to you. So today, she talks to listeners about it all : getting a hysterectomy, a battle with cancer and health insurance companies (and how much we all hate health insurance companies!), and feeling invisible in a marriage.
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Giving Away the Farm
Kathy Barker isn’t just the founder of Barker Farm – she’s a mother, an advocate for mental health awareness and breaking the stigma of food insecurity, and a self-proclaimed “worker bee.” She’s committed to helping others, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also because she once needed that help. Today, she shares with Nora the story of surviving domestic violence, financial instabi
Update: How to Lose Your Name with Hayley Paige (Cheval)
It's been a few years since we last spoke with Hayley Paige about the legal battle that took her ideas, her job and her identity. In this episode, we get an update from Hayley. And we get to use her actual name!
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Tales of a Type B
Have you ever looked at Nora and wondered, what is going on inside her head? Today, you’re going to learn. This episode is for the ADHD, messy, carefree, anxious and also not anxious humans of the world: the Type Bs.
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Pull over on the freeway, it's a PowerPoint Emergency! | Corporate Horror Stories Pt. 2 with Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip
In this second installment of corporate horror stories, Nora is joined by Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip to hear all of your work horror stories – the good, the bad, and the juicy.
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Health Insurance Horror Stories
America has a healthcare problem. One of those problems is Health Insurance, which I have said before and will say again, loudly and with my whole entire chest, is a scam. I asked for your health insurance horror stories, and YOU DELIVERED.
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Everyone is Lying To You: influencer culture with Jo Piazza
Influencers are the people (women!) that people (women!) love to hate. But they also have a huge cultural and economic impact. It’s tangly, and Author and Podcaster Jo Piazza has been reporting on influencer culture for over 5 years. Her new book, Everyone is Lying To You, is a thriller set in the world of trad-wife influencers, and I loved it so much I had to sit down and talk to her about what w
Signs from the Other Side
I believe that our people never truly leave us. They stay with us. They live in us, always. If you need a sign that you’re not alone, let this – this episode – be it.
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I Was the Other Woman... And He Died
As a widow, I get a lot of grief emails. But this one stopped me right in my tracks with the subject line, “I was the other woman… and he died.” Today’s caller is not a widow. She’s not a girlfriend. She’s not a friend. She is the other woman, and she’s bringing us on her grief journey – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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How Do I Trust in Love When My Heart Has Been Broken?
Nora talks with Jess, a struggling caller who has found herself in a relationship with someone she desperately wants to trust. But after a string of unhealthy relationships, Jess can’t help but feel like she’s just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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UnWorld with Jayson Greene
In this episode, we catch back up with Jayson Greene, author of the memoir Once More We Saw Stars and learn about his new book and first novel, UnWorld.
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What Do People Do All Day?
In this first episode of the newest installment of Thanks for Asking, Nora hears from three callers who explain what they actually do all day at work. And even though they’re wildly different – a regenerative agriculture performance and data reporting manager, an oncology nurse working with phase one clinical trials for cancer patients, and someone who works at a yarn store – each one brings a uni
S3: I've Made a Huge Mistake
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Eva Hagberg is young, ambitious and about to get her Big Break — a byline in the New York Times! And then, she publishes an error. A big factual error. In the New York freaking Times! Cue the breakdown.
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Work is, to most of us, an important part of our lives. We spend something like a third of our lives at work, and even if we’re not working our “dream job” our work gives us a sense of purpose, accomplishment…and – oh, yeah – money to survive. But work –
Corporate Horror Stories
Work is not your life. Your life is not your work. We try really hard to separate them.
But, hey! We live in a world where that’s not possible all the time. As a former corporate girlboss who was once chained to her laptop panicking over the dimensions of banner ads and now a podcaster and writer full-time, I get it. Work is a massive part of our lives – we spend a third of our lives working. It
Help, I Said the Wrong Thing!
Breaking news: humans make mistakes. This is not a bad thing! Our mistakes are how we learn and grow, and we have to get comfy with accepting that mistakes are an uncomfortable part of the human experience.
But what happens when we say the wrong thing at the wrong time to someone that we love during the worst time of their life? And what happens when they can’t forgive you right away? What happe
Finding Meaning In The New Age of Anxiety
The world doesn’t make a lot of sense right now, including other people and why they think the things they think and do the things they do. So I’m tapping in Steven J. Heine, professor of Social and Cultural Psychology and the author of Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times to talk about:
-How these times are actually kind of precedented
Pep Talks 2
Last week’s pep talk episode (https://noraborealis.substack.com/p/stop-being-mean-to-yourself) was such a hit we’re back with more (and I’m making some phone calls today because WOW WE ARE ALL GOING THROUGH IT RIGHT NOW!!!)
Today we have two callers: a 32-year-old who feels lost after losing both of her parents and receiving a tough diagnosis, and a 23-year-old who is a little too wise beyond her
Her Parents Skipped Her Wedding(Estrangement)
Estrangement is one of those hot button topic that everyone has an opinion about, and here’s mine: you have one job as a parent1, and that’s to love your children. To show up for them. To support them. To not ditch out on their wedding LIKE A TOTAL WEIRDO.
Are things more complicated than that? Sure, people are complicated. But on this show I let you call in and talk about your life and your feel
Pep Talks
Every once in a while, we all need a little bit of solicited motivation from someone totally unqualified to give it. In this episode, Nora shells out loads of love and support in the first of our series of TFA Pep Talks.
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You’re Lonely: What’s the prescription? An Interview with author Julia Hotz, author of The Connection Cure
What if your doctor prescribed you a hiking group? A ceramics class? Not in place of whatever medication or treatment you may need, but as a complement to it? It’s called Social Prescribing, and journalist Julia Hotz traveled to some 30 countries to talk to patients and professionals who are at the forefront of this approach to wellness. I loved her book, and loved this conversation (and regret we
Embarrassing Stories
In this episode, we discuss the defining moments in our lives that forever branded us with shame.
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How Do You Care for Yourself?
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