Slate Conversations
A feed of the up close and the personal, drawn from Working and across the Slate podcast network. Let’s talk.
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Well, Now: Eating for Health
How to develop a healthy relationship with food despite society’s push to look a certain way.
38 min
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Hear Me Out: There’s No Lesser-Evil Candidate
There’s the billionaire class, and then there’s the rest of us.
49 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Two Friends, at 35 and 95, ...
When despair for the state of the world got them down, friends Jess Serrante and Joanna Macy found a new way forward.
47 min
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How To!: Fall Out of Love (Encore)
I fell hard for my best friend—he doesn’t love me back.
30 min
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Care & Feeding: We Need to Stop Losing Library ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on turning the page.
34 min
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Working: How a Big Band Leader and Composer Wra...
Darcy James Argue, bandleader for the 18-piece jazz band Secret Society, describes the many hats that he has to weave and wear.
47 min
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Dear Prudence | I’m Dating My Former Professor ...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by comedian and writer Samantha Bee.
29 min
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Care & Feeding: Parenting Fearlessly, Onstage a...
Slate’s parenting podcast on stepping into the spotlight.
47 min
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Well, Now: How to Reclaim Your Life After a Hea...
What’s the realistic path to recovery after a stroke, and what new ways can doctors help?
43 min
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Money Talks: How to Save a Doomed Economy
Economist Paul Collier discusses rebuilding regions and countries that have been left behind.
33 min
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Hear Me Out: Schools Do Too Much (Often Badly)
We’re expecting them to care and feed and educate.
40 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Life and Death Inside the P...
Crystal Hefner talks about her decade living with Hugh Hefner, how money worked in their made-for-TV marriage, and the complicated pain of losing him.
47 min
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How To!: Be a Family (and Still Be You)
Dr. Lucy Blake on connecting with loved ones who couldn’t be more different
37 min
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Care & Feeding: My Son Is Ruining Our Summer
Slate’s parenting podcast on constant complaints.
43 min
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Working: The Founder of a Life-Changing Writers...
Author and poet Judith Barrington talks about Flight of the Mind, a workshop she ran for 17 years.
36 min
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Slate Money: Nate Silver and the Secret World o...
Author and statistician Nate Silver joins the Money squad to discuss Silicon Valley psychology, AI doomsday, and the promise and peril of risking it all.
50 min
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Dear Prudence: My Husband and I Divorced Amicab...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by Rod and Karen Morrow, co-hosts of the pop-culture and politics podcast The Black Guy Who Tips.
39 min
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Care & Feeding: My Kid’s a (Really) Sore Loser
Slate’s parenting podcast on sportsmanship.
44 min
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Well, Now: Food Is More Than Fuel
In Eat & Flourish, award-winning food journalist Mary Beth Albright shows how food supports our emotional well-being.
50 min
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How To!: Do Housework (and Not Hate It)
Dale Aucoin on making those dreaded chores a little easier.
34 min
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Hear Me Out: Fact-Checks Make Audiences Suspicious
Debunking stuff might be eroding trust, not enhancing it.
31 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Miranda July’s Perimenopaus...
The bestselling author and filmmaker suggests new ways to talk about and think about menopause.
51 min
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Care & Feeding: Is My Kid Ruining Hikes On Purp...
Slate’s parenting podcast on having the energy for everything but.
31 min
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Working: How a TV Writer Keeps the Ideas Coming
Mike Gauyo has written for popular shows like Insecure and Ginny and Georgia. Now he’s hustling to create and pitch the next exciting thing.
41 min
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ICYMI: Should I Stop Sharing My Location? Why D...
We ask internet culture writer Steffi Cao how to navigate your best (and worst) behaviors online
36 min