Thanks for Asking

All Thanks for Asking Episodes

• Ep. 4.5 Stoptimizing: Creativity, Burnout and Life Beyond Productivity with Maria Bowler

  Rise and Grind, Girlbosses! It’s time to GROWTH HACK your way to your BEST SELF and make this the ULTIMATE year. If you don’t have time, you can make time, because excuses are no excuse. Just kidding! Like so many...

  March 4, 2025

  

• Ep. 4 – I Hate My Friend’s Partner…What Do I Do About It?

  Do you say something? Do you shut up? I’m just one woman with an opinion, so I took your calls and texts to answer this listener question: do you say something when your friend is in a relationship with someone...

  February 25, 2025

  

• Ep. 03.5 – Worrying, Fresh Retirement and Movie Extras

  If it’s Tuesday, the phone lines are open and operators (me) are standing by. Today we’re talk to callers from Honolulu to North Carolina about everything from worrying to working as an extra on Hallmark movies to existential crises. Learn...

  February 18, 2025

  

• Ep. 03- AI Wife

  As a widow, I get many emails from other widows. But this one – from a man who created an AI version of his dead wife – was definitely a first. And I knew I had to talk to him....

  February 11, 2025

  

• Your Mama’s Kitchen: John Legend

  Sharing a podcast we can’t get enough of: Your Mama’s Kitchen. It’s a show about cuisine and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are. Host Michele Norris talks to Michelle Obama, Glennon...

  February 4, 2025

  

• Are You Lonely?

  Loneliness is, according to people who know about these things, an epidemic on par with smoking and obesity. It affects our physical and mental health…and it seems like it’s affecting everyone. Today’s callers are experiencing loneliness in many different ways...

  January 28, 2025

  

• Ep. 02 – Are You Lonely?

  Loneliness is, according to people who know about these things, an epidemic on par with smoking and obesity. It affects our physical and mental health…and it seems like it’s affecting everyone. Today’s callers are experiencing loneliness in many different ways...

  January 28, 2025

  

• Ep. 02 – Are You Lonely?

  Loneliness is, according to people who know about these things, an epidemic on par with smoking and obesity. It affects our physical and mental health…and it seems like it’s affecting everyone. Today’s callers are experiencing loneliness in many different ways...

  January 28, 2025

  

• The Kindness of Strangers

  THINGS ARE DEFINITELY NOT OK RIGHT NOW! We know it. You know it. Your dog knows it (who told her??). But even when things are terrible, there’s something out there — however small — that is at least okay. Today’s...

  January 22, 2025

  

• Ep. 01.5 – The Kindness of Strangers

  THINGS ARE DEFINITELY NOT OK RIGHT NOW! We know it. You know it. Your dog knows it (who told her??). But even when things are terrible, there’s something out there — however small — that is at least okay. Today’s...

  January 22, 2025