Tell Me About Your Mother Podcast
1) New Year, New Book, and Introducing New Pods!
Check out Amy's new book, Forget "Having It All": How America Messed Up Motherhood—and How to Fix It (https://www.amywestervelt.com/book). We'll be back with another season later in 2019, but in the ...Show More
2) Best of TMAYM, with Ashley C. Ford, Porochista Khakpour, Rebecca Traister, Aparna Nancherla, and more
In our season 3 finale, we take a listen back through three seasons full of fascinating women. Episode sponsors: StoryWorth - visit storyworth.com/tellme for $20 off Zola - visit zola.com/t...Show More
3) What Amy Roost Learned from Her Mom about Civil Rights, Keeping Quiet, Parenting, and More
Journalist and podcaster Amy Roost has a really incredible life story, starting with the fact that she was a "replacement" child in a wild adoption story. Here she tells us that story, plus how watchi...Show More
4) Jenny Kaplan and Her Mom Kathy Manninng on the New "Year of the Woman"
Jenny Kaplan grew up watching her mom take herself and her career as seriously as she took her family and her broader community. This year her mom was one of hundreds of women who decided to run in th...Show More
5) Author Rebecca Traister on Living Feminist Ideals and Who's Allowed to Have a Temper
Author Rebecca Traister's new book Good and Mad looks at how society has handled women's rage throughout history, how it has been punished, and how it has served as a catalyst for political victories ...Show More
6) Giphy's Stephanie Weber on Growing Up with a Single Mom Who Taught Her to Navigate Tech, Know Her Worth, and Never Fake an Orgasm
Giphy producer Stephanie Weber moved around a lot as a kid. Her single mom wasn't following men in the 1980s, she was chasing a career as a computer programmer. They were a tight unit then and still a...Show More
7) Ski Mountaineer Hilaree Nelson (O'Neil) on How Her Mom Inspired Her to Climb Mountains
Legendary ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson is the first woman to have climbed and ski'd down so many mountains it's hard to count. She was determined to keep it up after having kids, in part because of ...Show More
8) Storyteller Emily Zulauf on Moving Closer to Her Mom, and Why Every Parent Should Have the Race Talk
Emily Zulauf is the Fiction Lead for a new game studio in Seattle, where she tries to come up with cool characters and weird, scifi-y names for things. Before that, she was with Pixar Animation Studio...Show More
9) Amy Westervelt on the Mom Who Started It All
After a few requests from listeners, Amy tells the story of her own complicated mother-daughter relationship. This week's episode is sponsored by: Audible -- visit audible.com/TellMe for a free ...Show More
10) Writer Sarah Miller on Narcissism, Emotional Distance, and the Unrealistic Expectations We Put on Moms
Sarah Miller is an editor for Popula and a writer (mostly of super smart humor pieces) for The New Yorker, The Cut, and various other publications. In this episode she talks about what she admires abo...Show More