I Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns
Back in the spring, we asked you to tell us about the hardest conversations you've ever had, and the ones you haven't had yet. A listener we're calling Jack wrote in about a conversation he wanted to ...
3 Nov 202134min
Order Up, Tapped Out: Life After Restaurant Burnout
In the last few months, millions of restaurant and hospitality workers have left their jobs. Right now, there are more job openings in this field than ever before. For many of these workers, the pande...
27 Okt 202137min
Succession's J. Smith-Cameron On Old Haunts and New Normals
A few weeks ago, I was back in New York City for the first time since 2019. It was great—I saw coworkers in person, and I had lunch at one of my old spots, the Waverly Diner, with actor J. Smith-Camer...
20 Okt 202134min
Your Infertility Stories Have Many Different Endings
Sometimes the path to parenthood isn’t a straight line. What happens when you hit speed bumps on the road to having kids? Earlier this year, I asked you about what happened when you realized becoming ...
29 Sep 202140min
"You Should Be Carrying This. Not Me."
When a listener named Chloe was in college, she says she was sexually assaulted at a party by a former classmate. She filed a police report, but her classmate was never charged with a crime. He left t...
22 Sep 202134min
When A Banker Became A Nun
Sister Josephine Garrett grew up Baptist and worked her way up the corporate ladder—eventually becoming a vice president at Bank of America, where she managed a few hundred employees. But after conver...
8 Sep 202125min
Decision Fatigue Is Real. We Called For Backup.
We recently asked you to tell us about the decisions you're struggling to make right now. There have been so many choices to make and risks to weigh lately, and after almost 18 months into this pandem...
1 Sep 202159min
