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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
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How To!: Face the AI Revolution
Kevin Roose on using AI chatbots intelligently.
37 min
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Hear Me Out: Stop The Hiss-Teria. Outdoor Cats ...
These cats help us — and we can help them, too.
30 min
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How To!: Start Reading Books Again
Maryanne Wolf on the science of the reading brain.
34 min
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Working: Drag Queens Are Under Attack and Fight...
48 min
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The Waves: How to Survive in Hollywood
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Caroline Aaron discusses her career as a character actress.
26 min
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Hear Me Out: Don’t Celebrate the Trump Indictment
If you’re banking on a legal slam dunk and a president behind bars… we have some bad news.
32 min
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How To!: Breathe Like a Navy SEAL
World-class diver, Kirk Krack, on pushing your lungs past their limits.
32 min
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The Waves: Make Movies Horny Again
Films like Magic Mike: The Last Dance are an exception to our current sexless movie norm.
31 min
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Hear Me Out: Childbirth Should Be Free
Slate’s new podcast on the cost of delivering an American baby.
31 min
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How To!: Succeed at Social Media
Suzy Wagner on making social media work for you.
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