Awesome Etiquette

Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette with advice based on consideration, respect, and honesty. Like their great-great-grandmother, Emily Post, Lizzie and Dan look for the reasons behinds the traditional rules to guide their search for the correct behavior in all kinds of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.

Society & Culture
Relationships
Kids & Family
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Episode 578 - Cheeky Workplace Gossip
On today’s show, we take your questions on workplace gossip, nosy questions about a baby, bringing food to a restaurant. For community members, your question of the week is about uninvited pets at a host’s home. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on cheek kisses.  Support the show - emilypost.substack.com
57 min
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Episode 577 - Tipping Before Service
On today’s show, we take your questions on an uncashed wedding gift check, tipping before you receive the service, eating corn on the cob. For community members, your question of the week is about a separate kids reception at a wedding. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on our annual business etiquette train the trainer week. 
62 min
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Episode 576 - Clinking Glasses
On today’s show, we take your questions on the tradition of clinking glasses during a wedding reception, when people ask you if you’ll baptize your baby, and whether you can uninvite someone from a French practice group. For community members, your question of the week is about the polite time to arrive to a party. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on thank you notes.
48 min
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Episode 575 - Two Parties, Two Gifts?
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating with a retainer, return addresses for families with two last names, and birthday gifts for kids with two parties. For community members, your question of the week is about the difference between baby showers and baby sprinkles. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on when to talk business at a networking event. Join the etiquette community - emilypost.substack.com
46 min
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Episode 574 - Gifting Diamonds
On today’s show, we take your questions on gifting diamonds, overhearing racist comments, and when people ignore you in the elevator. For community members, your question of the week is about hosting your first tea party. Plus your weekly etiquette challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Afternoon Tea from Emily’s 1922 edition. Join the community - emilypost.substack.com
40 min
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Episode 573 - Nuts With Shells
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating nuts with shells, being confused for your twin, and under-ordering at a business lunch. For community members, your question of the week is about sending a birth announcement with a registry. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment wedding gift giving from Business Insider. Join the community - emilypost.substack.com
52 min
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Episode 572 - Selling a Hand-Me-Down
On today’s show, we take your questions on tipping at gas stations, communication written by AI, and selling a hand-me-down. For community members, your question of the week is about when kids are part of a wedding ceremony but aren’t invited to the reception. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on the service counter stare. Join the community - emilypost.substack.com
62 min
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Episode 571 - Connection Request
On today’s show, we take your questions on a LinkedIn request just before a job interview, how to respond to nosy questions about finances, and what to do when someone calls you babe. For community members, your question of the week is about planning a garden party. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment. Support the show - emilypost.substack.com
57 min
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Episode 570 - Water Signs
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether the host should drink water at a party, an unusual coffee shop conundrum, and titles for lawyers on wedding invitations. For community members, your question of the week is about a certain leaked celebrity wedding invitation. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.  Join the community - emilypost.substack.com
55 min
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Episode 569 - Family Tickets
52 min
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Episode 568 - Armrest Performance
On today’s show, we take your questions on a dinner party seating conundrum, switching back to a former hairdresser, and which armrest is yours at a theater. For community members, your question of the week is about whether two wedding ceremonies means two wedding gifts. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on business etiquette from Emily’s original Etiquette, in society, in business, in politics, and at home.  Join the community - emilypost.substack.com
51 min
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Episode 567 - Wedding Text Invitation
55 min
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Episode 566 - Old Fashioned Voicemail
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to proactively handle bad guest behavior before an event, whether it’s now rude to leave a voicemail, and how to get to know the new neighbors. For community members, your question of the week is about contributing to a honeymoon fund on a limited income. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on hosts and guests.  Join the community - emilypost.substack.com
57 min
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Episode 565 - Not Hungry?
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to comment on a friend’s AI-generated music, a relative who asks you to get a better gift, and commenting on an Ozempic user’s eating habits. For community members, your question of the week is about some drama over wearing white to a wedding. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on the people who inspire us to use good manners. Get the Emily Post newsletter - emilypost.substack.com
69 min
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Episode 564 - To Defend a Friend
On today’s show, we take your questions on the phrase ‘this turns my stomach’, whether to jump in and defend a friend, and whether to bring a gift to a ‘no gifts’ party. For community members, your question of the week is about an interesting auto-response email. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.  Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com
60 min
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Episode 563 - Conversation Enders
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to tell someone you gave to their honeymoon fund, which direction to place a folded napkin, and how to end a conversation at a party. For community members, your question of the week is about men’s naming titles when a repeated name skips a generation. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on beach etiquette.  Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com
50 min
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Episode 562 - Leadership
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to proceed when someone doesn’t pay their share of a gift, how to acknowledge a divorce, and whether you can order from a restaurant where a former employee works. For community members, your question of the week is about what to do when a receptionist is listening in on your medical appointments. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on leadership from our brand new Emily Post's Business Etiquette.  Join the community - emilypost.substack.com
43 min
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Episode 561 - Anonymous Salute
48 min
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Episode 560 - To-Go on the Company Dime
48 min
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Episode 559 - Pickleball Anyone
On today’s show, we take your questions on friend requests from coworkers, when guests cancel last minute, and pickleball court etiquette. For community members, your question of the week is about how to respond when family members send you multiple videos every day. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we read the first of a two-part look at Emily Post’s engagement and wedding from Emily Post’s Biography.  Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com
53 min
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Episode 558 - Home Tour
On today’s show, we take your questions on unprofessional work attire, when a guest shows up to a fundraiser with a different agenda, and whether to offer a tour of your home. For community members, your question of the week is about how to politely opt out of social media. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment from our new business etiquette book. Join the Emily Post community - emilypost.substack.com
53 min
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Episode 557 - Group Text RSVP
On today’s show, we take your questions on issues with a group text RSVP, how to end a sympathy card, and table setting tips when you’re serving special courses. For community members, your question of the week is about people wearing mantillas at the Pope’s funeral. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Jane Austen etiquette  Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com
49 min
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Episode 556 - Congratulations, Graduates!
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether to host a party for a college grad, confusion over a very casual wedding, and etiquette around prescription sunglasses. For community members, your question of the week is about what to do when your mother-in-law invites extra guests to your wedding. Plus, your weekly challenge, an etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on graduation announcements.
45 min
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Episode 555 - Bistro Bowl
On today’s show, we take your questions on whose name goes first on a wedding shower invitation, what to wear to a wedding that’s in the morning and evening, and where to put your knife when eating from a bistro bowl. For community members, your question of the week is about hosting an inclusive cotillion. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where I interview our featured trainer. Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com
63 min
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Episode 554 - Bread Bowl
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating from a bread bowl…yum, tipping at an all-inclusive resort, and how to address members of Congress in a letter. For community members, your question of the week is about an issue with Zoom meeting invitations. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript on attire from Emily’s 1999 edition of Etiquette.
52 min