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Your mom is likely the first woman you met--good or bad. Our relationships with our mothers have an impact on us, and that's especially true for women. In Tell Me About Your Mother, journali...

Check out Amy's new book, Forget "Having It All": How America Messed Up Motherhood—and How to Fix It ( https://www.amywestervelt.com/book )....

In our season 3 finale, we take a listen back through three seasons full of fascinating women. Episode sponsors: StoryWorth - visit storywor...

Journalist and podcaster Amy Roost has a really incredible life story, starting with the fact that she was a "replacement" child in a wild a...

Jenny Kaplan grew up watching her mom take herself and her career as seriously as she took her family and her responsibility to the broader...

Author Rebecca Traister's new book Good and Mad looks at how society has handled women's rage throughout history, how it has been punished,...

Giphy producer Stephanie Weber moved around a lot as a kid. Her single mom wasn't following men in the 1980s, she was chasing a career as a...

Legendary ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson is the first woman to have climbed and ski'd down so many mountains it's hard to count. She was det...

Emily Zulauf is the Fiction Lead for a new game studio in Seattle, where she tries to come up with cool characters and weird, scifi-y names...

After a few requests from listeners, Amy tells the story of her own complicated mother-daughter relationship. This week's episode is sponsor...

Sarah Miller is an editor for Popula and a writer (mostly of super smart humor pieces) for The New Yorker, The Cut, and various other public...

In the Season 2 closer, we talk to journalist and commentator (and Critical Frequency co-founder!) Maya Francis about her mom being a teen m...

Author Lauren Muscarella lost her mom when she was 20, and says there were aspects of their relationship that she had to work through on her...

Filmmaker Amanda Micheli found the subject of her latest documentary, Vegas Baby , while researching financing options for her second round...

In this crossover episode with the Bearcat podcast , we meet Leticia Aguilar and hear how her mom's experience showed Leticia what sort of w...

Comedian Marcella Arguello grew up in the rural town of Modesto, Ca where her El Salvadoran parents dealt with plenty of casual racism long...

Sammy Nickalls (a writer and editor at AdWeek) says her mom has always been super supportive, even when she hasn't totally understood or agr...

Aparna Nancherla's mom was finishing up her residency as she was having Aparna and her sister. All three women dealt with anxiety and depres...

In part two of our Season 2 opener, writer Heather B. Armstrong (aka "Dooce") opens up about the challenges of living a lot of your private...

Heather B. Armstrong was one of the original "mommy bloggers," drawing an audience of millions with her honest accounting of motherhood back...

When Renita Parker Mobley heard comedian Sasheer Zamata interviewing her mom on This American Life last year it suddenly made her realize: s...

Maternal estrangement impacts tens of thousands of American women, but is still a fairly taboo topic. Writer Samantha Ladwig chronicled her...

Wesley Allsbrook is the artist behind the first-ever illustrated virtual reality film, Dear Angelica (produced by Oculus Studio. The film ce...

Allison (Alli) Maloney is the news and politics editor for Teen Vogue . Recorded on Mother's Day 2017, in Brooklyn, this episode centers on...

Porochista Khakpour is a highly acclaimed author. Her fiction books, Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion , have received...

Ashley C. Ford is the senior features writer for Refinery 29, and has also written for a wide range of other publications, including The Gua...

Our relationships with our mothers are complicated, and that's especially true for women, each generation of which has lived through decades...