Parenting is a Joke Podcast
1) Advancing the "Advanced Maternal Age” With Emily Walsh
In this episode of Parenting Is a Joke, comedian Emily Walsh talks to Ophira Eisenberg about becoming a parent later in life and being labeled “advanced maternal age” by New York doctors while taking ...Show More
2) Emily Walsh Redefines What “Ready" Means
In this episode, Ophira talks with comic and new mom and comedian Emily Walsh, who shares how she spent her twenties and thirties convinced she didn’t want kids, only to find herself writing an Edinbu...Show More
3) Yes Day with Tweens: A Sticker Chart Success Story with Katy Strange
In this Snack episode, Ophira catches up with author and storyteller Katy Strange, who talks about the very specific chaos of raising two tweens while publishing her debut novel The Manly Man of God. ...Show More
4) Katy Strange is Raising and Existentialist
In this episode, Ophira talks with author and storyteller Katy (Katharine) Strange about the tangled realities of raising tweens while untangling a past shaped by evangelical culture. Katy shares how ...Show More
5) Turning Perimenopause Into a Professional Pivot with Kerri Maher
In this snack-sized conversation, Ophira Eisenberg talks with author and newly certified parenting coach Kerri Smith-Maher about how years of teaching writing, her daughter’s struggles, her own sobrie...Show More
6) Kerri Maher Finds Books Teens Will Actually Read
In this episode, Ophira Eisenberg talks with author and parent coach Kerri Maher (aka. Kerri Smith–Maher and also Kerri Majors) about the many names she has published under, the publishing-industry lu...Show More
7) Julia Scotti Wins The Nobel Prize for Comedy
Comedian Julia Scotti joins Ophira Eisenberg to talk about the long, winding path that brought her back to stand-up after transitioning and a decade away from comedy. Julia reflects on raising three c...Show More
8) Andy Richter Redefines Modern Dad
In this episode of Parenting Is a Joke, Andy Richter joins Ophira Eisenberg to talk about raising three kids across two generations—his 23-year-old son, 18-year-old daughter, and a four-year-old he’s ...Show More
9) From Travel Editor to Scary Mommy with Kate Auletta
In this Parenting Is a Joke snack episode, Ophira Eisenberg chats again with Kate Auletta, Editor-in-Chief of Scary Mommy and Romper, about her years as a journalist and the surprising turns that led ...Show More
10) Kate Auletta Makes Peace with Growing Kids and Growing Older
In this episode of Parenting is a Joke, Ophira talks with Kate Auletta, Editor-in-Chief of Scary Mommy and Romper, about raising two sons in the suburbs after growing up as a “true East Side” New York...Show More