- 1 hour 10 minutesGetting Married Again Doesn’t Make You A Bad Widow with Leslie Harter-Berg
I get questions all the time about being a remarried widow. How did I do it? How did I know? Is Matthew jealous of Aaron? How can you love two people at the same time?
When you become a widow, you’re a widow forever. You will never not have a dead spouse. You will never stop wishing you could talk to them again. You will never replace that love. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find love – or yourself – all over again.
Today, I’m joined by fellow remarried widow Leslie Harter-Berg to talk about becoming a widow, getting remarried, and sharing our best advice for all the widows searching for answers out there.
You can find Leslie on Instagram here and her Substack here.
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5 May 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 2 minutesIGTBO: A Goose-Forward Home with Sharon McMahon
Here on IGTBO, we're not about toxic positivity -- we're about finding things that are good even when the world is dark. Today's guest, Sharon McMahon -- a fellow tall woman -- brought her OK things, including geese, being in a goose-forward household, and the acts of kindness that can change the trajectory of your life.
For any long-time fans of IGTBO, this is a classic bird episode, and we couldn’t be happier.
Sharon’s book: Amazon | Bookshop
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1 May 2026, 4:00 pm - 54 minutes 58 secondsAdvice-cast: The Worst Thing to Say When Someone’s Grieving, Feeling like a Loser at Work, and Trying to Love Your Body When No One Else Loves Theirs
Thanks for Asking is a group project – we could not make this show without you. You’re not just a listener. You’re a participant. We want to make a show about what matters to you. That’s why we have our inboxes always open, with our operator (Nora) standing by to take your calls and texts. So that’s what today’s episode is about: your struggles, your vents, your anxieties.
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28 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 26 minutesFood, Forgiveness and the Cost of Being Thin: A Conversation with Geneen Roth
Every woman in the world has shared one feeling: that their body is wrong. We like to say that we've come "so far," but just open any social media app and see the body warping, the products marketed as "a drink to stop your cravings" or "patches that help you drop two sizes," and the endless comments on teenage girls' appearances. In the world we live in, skinny equals good -- and all women are subjected to those standards. Today's guest, Geneen Roth, was crushed under the standards like the rest of us. She dieted, she binged, she purged, but it never fixed the guilt or shame.
To Geneen, the cost of being thin was not worth it, and she’s spent the last four decades writing, coaching and teaching about shame, guilt and their connection to how – and why – we eat.
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21 April 2026, 7:00 am - 50 minutes 19 secondsBaja Blast Your Body (feat. Ralph)
This week on It's Going To Be OK: a 13-year-old boy tries to convince his mother that he should be allowed to have a Baja Blast at 7pm on a school night, sings the praises of Wetzel's Pretzels and asks whether or not he can become CEO of McDonald's if he drops out of 8th grade...It's the return of Ralph!
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17 April 2026, 7:34 am - 1 hour 10 minutesHonest Motherhood with Libby Ward
What makes a good mom? Is it adhering to the perfectly packaged image of a shiny, happy woman cooking lavish meals with her 2.5 children, always cleaning, never complaining, and never NOT grateful, doting, and happy? No – but that doesn’t mean that the expectations are any more attainable. Any choice a mom makes is immediately subject to scrutiny or ridicule. Anything she does is under a microscope. She can’t miss a beat. She can’t wonder what her life might have been if she wasn’t a mother. And she DEFINITELY can’t do anything for herself.
Today, Nora talks with Libby Ward, the author of the brand new book Honest Motherhood: on Losing My Mind and Finding Myself.
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14 April 2026, 7:00 am - 52 minutes 52 secondsFriends To The End: Cancer, Friendship and Grief
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It’s rare to have a friendship that actually lasts forever, but that’s what Josie and Miles have. When Miles’s cancer comes back after years of remission, Josie is there for him every step of the way … until there are no more steps to take.
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9 April 2026, 11:00 am - 50 minutes 21 secondsHow you {really} are: Aging parents, falling out of love with your work, disappointing gender reveals, secondhand embarrassment and being the worst mom in the world
Today, we're giving validation, pep talks and space to vent for listeners struggling with:
- Aging parents who don't take care of their health
- Falling out of love with your work and feeling like you're totally ineffective (you aren't!)
- Being hit by a grief tsunami and losing your ambition
- Feeling like a horrible mother for being disappointed by a gender reveal (we have THOUGHTS!)
- The secondhand embarrassment of your boyfriend being bad at his job
- Being the worst mom in the world (not possible, Nora already is!)
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7 April 2026, 8:44 am - 1 hour 8 minutesA Daily Dose of Wonder with Kelly Corrigan
You know what makes things feel more okay? Kelly Corrigan, the host of Kelly Corrigan Wonders and the author of so many wonderful books (my favorite is Tell Me More). Today, Kelly and Nora dig through a treasure trove of (more than) okay things, including unexpected gratitude from an adult child (CALL YOUR MOM!), a book about a possible alien encounter, slow but steady civic progress and much more.
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3 April 2026, 11:00 am - 59 minutes 23 secondsAI Deadbots Want To Cure Your Grief
As long as people have been grieving, we have found a way to memorialize our dead people. We grievers keep voicemails, photos, letters, clothes – whatever we can to remember our people. With the rise of AI, it’s no wonder companies desperate to increase their shareholder value have turned to us, the grievers. But it’s not our money they want (or at least, not JUST our money) – it’s our dead people. Their voices, their words, their likeness. They want to reanimate our people, just without their bodies and souls.
A few months ago, I read an incredible article in The Atlantic, titled The AI Companies Trying To Make Grief Obsolete. I knew it was something I NEEDED to talk about, and it just so happened that the author, Charley, was willing to talk to me and share the story of her big brother, Ben, who passed unexpectedly in 2014.
Grief is not a problem to be solved. It is a part of life. A part that we need.
Read more about AI deadbots here or here. My 2016 piece in Slate is here.
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31 March 2026, 7:20 am - 1 hour 15 minutesI Can’t Have Kids and My Friends Are Pregnant
On today’s episode, we hear from Cora Danielson, a comic who has been wrestling with something many women do – her inability to have children despite wanting them very, very much. Her outlet? Improv comedy and the community that came with it, offering her people she could always confide in. Now, two of the women in her group are pregnant and it’s messing with Cora’s head. Her friends haven’t told her they’re pregnant because they don’t want to hurt her feelings, so she heard it from someone else. She feels, overwhelmingly, like they pity her. Today, Nora’s talking to Cora and answering the question many of us have held quietly in our hearts, “How do you deal with being the object of pity?”
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