The 4 Best Under the Influence with Jo Piazza Podcast Episodes
1) If You Build It, They Will Come
What goes into making the perfect Instagram post? After being unceremoniously rejected from the Harvard of influencing, Jo manages to convince RewardStyle to let her in anyway. In this episode she put...Show More
2) A More Perfect Mother
It’s two in the morning and journalist and author Jo Piazza cannot stop scrolling and scrolling through Instagram, gazing at picture-perfect images of motherhood that look nothing like her own life mo...Show More
3) A Very Mrs. American Ballerina Farm
So many of you have asked me to do an episode on Ballerina Farm....so here we go! Meet Mrs. American…or rather the winner of the Mrs. American pageant, Mrs. South Dakota, better known as Hannah Neelem...Show More
4) The Sharenthood
The French have laws limiting parents who Instagram their children. We have no such restrictions in the United States. In fact, social media and the world of influencing are still the wild west when i...Show More
5) Sunday Nice Things: Uncover
You may think you know the NXIVM story. The secretive self-help empire. The sex cult headlines. The downfall of its leader, Keith Raniere. But the most famous woman at the center of the story has rema...Show More
6) Do I Need a Hobby?
Do you actually have hobbies, or do you just have things that feel like self-improvement projects? In this episode, Jo kicks off an “Adventure Year” with her best friend Jackie, a grad student in posi...Show More
7) The Women History Forgets
The stories we tell about women matter. How we amplify and promote those stories matters. To that end we are considering how to resurrect a history series we did years ago about bad ass women that his...Show More
8) Can Instagram Ever Be Safe for Teens?
Can parents ever really know what’s happening inside their kids’ phones? This episode takes a hard look at how Instagram says it’s protecting teens—and whether those promises hold up. Instagram’s Glob...Show More
9) Guns & Gossip: My So Called Life Rewatch Episode Three
We’re heading back to 1994 for My So-Called Life episode three, “Guns and Gossip.” A gun goes off at school, rumors spread, and Angela Chase is caught between wanting to be seen and wanting to disappe...Show More
10) Rewatch My So Called Life With Me
It’s been thirty years since My So-Called Life premiered—thirty years since Angela Chase fell for Jordan Catalano and quietly redefined what teenage angst looked like. This week, Under the Influence r...Show More