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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Care & Feeding: Gus Walz Moved You, Too
Slate’s parenting podcast on sharing big feelings.
37 min
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Well, Now: What Drag Queens Can Teach Us About ...
Navigating the healthcare system as a person of trans experience can be tough. Miss Peppermint shares her best practices.
41 min
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How To!: Cook at Home Like Sohla El-Waylly
Sohla El-Waylly on breaking up with takeout—and falling in love with your kitchen.
40 min
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Hear Me Out: Presidential Pardons Need Reform
But yes, they’re a force for good, too.
34 min
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Money Talks: How to Make the Next Wordle
Gamemaker Zach Gage of Puzzmo shares the secrets of the perfect puzzle.
33 min
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Death, Sex & Money: The Weight of Love
Listener stories about body size and relationships.
48 min
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Working: An Artist’s Guide to ADHD and Getting ...
Illustrator and podcaster Andy J. Pizza shares the routines and practices that help to direct his creativity.
45 min
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Dear Prudence | I Found My Happily Married Mom’...
45 min
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A Word: Prayer, Politics, and Power Shifts
Trump and Harris both want Black church support. Do they know how to find it?
39 min
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Care & Feeding: Gus Walz Loves His Dad. Here’s ...
Slate’s parenting podcast on the beautiful, the bad, and the ugly.
49 min
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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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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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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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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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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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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