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The Double Shift

Katherine Goldstein

The Double Shift is a narrative show that challenges the status quo of motherhood in America. Katherine Goldstein and Angela Garbes are starting off the year with a series on the true cost o...

Episodes

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ICYMI: Holiday "Don't List" Inspo with Kathleen Donahoe

I have a great time talking with Kathleen Donahoe about the health realities that led her to be an expert don’t list creator, how she’s usin...

35:46Dec 15, 2025

ICYMI: Deep Casual Hosting w/ Virginia Sole-Smith!

I had a blast talking to Virginia Sole-Smith about her “Friend Friday” tradition, and the insights she’s gathered from the Burnt Toast by Vi...

51:32Oct 9, 2025

Deep Casual Hosting Live w/Amanda Litman

I had a blast talking about Amanda Litman ’s weekly experiment of hosting friends at her Brooklyn apartment every Saturday night. My favorit...

49:38Aug 18, 2025

Building Community: Live with Shannon Watts

I felt an absolute zing of electricity when I opened a message a few weeks ago asking if Shannon Watts could interview ME for her Substack L...

28:10Mar 18, 2025

UPDATES From Me and How “Busyness” Stops us From Meaningful Connection (Audio)

I’m back with an update on what I’ve been working on— The How to Find Your People Club , an IRL community-building project tackling loneline...

17:55Mar 12, 2025

The Crucial Differences Between Community and Friendship, Explained. (Audio)

We are constantly surrounded by aspirational images of human connectedness but according to American Time Use Survey data, Americans' time s...

14:11Feb 12, 2025

Mothers are Already the Safety Net. Now We Must Be a Firewall. (Audio)

I am very angry right now. In my community, I’m witnessing a fixable systemic childcare problem be cemented squarely on the shoulders of ind...

12:09Mar 13, 2024

Eight Things That Make My Life a Lil Better (Audio)

After all of the intensity of being a business lady and switching platforms in the last few weeks, I thought I’d change gears with this occa...

13:01Mar 6, 2024

The 2024 Candidate That Fills Me With Hope (AUDIO)

In this week’s audio newsletter is an essay about Sophia Chitlik, who is running for NC state senate here in Durham, North Carolina. What ex...

11:33Feb 28, 2024

On Taking Risks and “Starting Over” (Audio)

Welcome to the audio version of The Double Shift newsletter, read by yours truly, Katherine Goldstein. Today’s edition is about my big finan...

11:33Feb 21, 2024

Announcing: A Playbook to Transform How America Cares (Audio)

For some of you, it may have been a minute since you've heard from me since we stopped producing episodes last year. But I want you to know...

14:41Oct 25, 2023

Announcing... The Double Shift’s Next Chapter

It’s been a minute since you’ve heard from us, but Katherine is excited to share news about the next chapter of The Double Shift, a newslett...

9:36Jun 22, 2022

This is Not Goodbye

The Double Shift podcast launched three years ago to share the real stories of motherhood in America, and radically explore the social force...

46:22Feb 9, 2022

The Check’s Not in the Mail

For six months last year, tens of millions of families could count on consistent, predictable support from their government to help defray t...

46:32Jan 26, 2022

Building a Movement for Paid Leave

Changing workplaces to make them substantially better for moms and caregivers is, in fact, possible. Inspired by our show on paid family lea...

45:06Dec 8, 2021

Pro-Mother, Pro-Abortion

Here at the Double Shift, we love to dismantle stigma through storytelling. So our guest this episode, Kenya Martin (aka "Abortion Diva"), s...

50:42Nov 24, 2021

“Good Moms” and the COVID Vaccine

COVID vaccinations for five to 11 year olds are here, and for so many parents and caregivers this moment could not have come soon enough. Ot...

49:42Nov 10, 2021

All Mothers are Essential Workers (Part 2)

While other news outlets have “moved on'' from talking about how mad and burnt out moms are, we’re just getting started. In part two of this...

45:03Oct 27, 2021

“We’re All In This Together”? (Part 1)

Every mother has been touched by the pandemic and every mother has a story that deserves to be heard...including our own host, Katherine Gol...

40:28Oct 13, 2021

Introducing: Home. Made.

While we are on hiatus, check out a show we think you’ll love. It’s called Home. Made. Today we are sharing the full episode of the series,...

30:11Aug 4, 2021