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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Hear Me Out: A Little Racism Can Be A Good Thing
We don’t always have to be a melting pot.
25 min
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How To!: Quit Your Calling
Daphne Gomez on leaving a job you loved to save your sanity, part two.
36 min
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The Waves: Finding Love Without Romance
Author Amy Key explores a life without romantic love, but with a lot of Joni Mitchell.
32 min
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Outward Pride Special: Is “I Do” Best for You?
A better way to protect all kinds of relationships—including queer ones.
34 min
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Hear Me Out: Corporate Pride is Tacky, Pointles...
The first Pride was a protest, after all.
42 min
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How To!: Help Teachers Thrive
Daphne Gomez on supporting educators, part one.
31 min
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Dear Prudence: I Think My Wife Is Cheating On M...
My wife has formed a flirty relationship with an AI tool and I can't shake off the sense of feeling replaced and insecure.
51 min
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The Waves: The Hustle of Being Beautiful
How can we interrogate the problems with beauty culture…while still enjoying our face masks and lip gloss?
37 min
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What Next: After They Testified: The Trans Phar...
Gwen Herzig went to the legislature to share her medical expertise on trans health care. What came next was humiliating.
24 min
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Hear Me Out: “Thank You For Your Service” Feels...
There are ways to thank vets that would actually make a difference.
25 min
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How To!: Sleep Apart to Save Your Relationship
Part two of Dr. Wendy Troxel’s tips for getting a good night’s rest.
29 min
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The Waves: I Don’t Care If You Like Me
Are female characters on shows like Killing Eve, Fleabag and 90s Rosanne anti-heroes, or just fully formed women?
33 min
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Hear Me Out: Policing Can’t Be Reformed And Mus...
Some systems are just too broken to fix.
31 min
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How To!: Sleep Like a Champ
Part one of Dr. Wendy Troxel’s tips for getting a good night’s sleep.
31 min
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The Waves: Why Medical Mysteries Plague Women
Journalist Allison Behringer is digging into new medical mysteries on this season of Bodies.
28 min
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Hear Me Out: Workplace DEI Trainings Do More Ha...
If you really want to make your workplace more inclusive, stop with the virtue signaling and actually do the work.
29 min
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How To!: Deliver Bad News Better
Dr. Robert Arnold on communicating with clarity and compassion.
32 min
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The Waves: What E. Jean Carroll Did For Women
She won her defamation case against Donald Trump. Will it have a lasting impact?
34 min
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Hear Me Out: Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything
They didn’t ask to be here, after all.
35 min
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The Waves: How to Protect Your Kids From Diet C...
Virginia Sole-Smith’s new book makes the radical case for letting your kids be kids when it comes to food. With Mom and Dad Are Fighting’s Jamilah Lemieux.
35 min
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Hear Me Out: The Iraq War Was a Necessary Evil
Iraqis are freer now than they would have been without us.
28 min
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How To!: Raise Kids in a Nation Full of Guns
Melinda Wenner Moyer on breaking out of the ‘what-ifs’ and creating actual change.
34 min
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The Waves: Making Friends As An Adult
Comedian and author Lane Moore talks about her new book on friendship, You Will Find Your People.
32 min
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What Next: Fighting for the Right to Die
Her state didn’t allow terminally-ill patients the choice to end their lives—but Vermont did.
23 min
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Hear Me Out: Trashy TV Is Actually Good For You
Love it or hate it, spectacle has a way of bringing us together.
29 min