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Inspiring you to take control of your life and #dothething.

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38: Let's dismantle the "lone male genius" myth

This week's guest is Liza Mundy, a senior fellow at New America and the author of this month's cover story in the Atlantic, "Why is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?"  

She's also the author of several books, including "The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family," and the upcoming book "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II."  

Listen to my conversation with Liza here. 

We talked about why Silicon Valley is still so tough for women, what's being done to fix it, and why we should dismantle the myth of the lone male genius.  

Read Liza's articles:  

Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful To Women? 

Why Janet Reno Fascinates, Confounds and Even Terrifies America? 

The Hillary Dilemma

Articles/books/etc mentioned:

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg

The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson

Elizabeth Gilbert TED Talk: Your elusive creative genius  

Read Liza's books:  

Pre-order her newest, book, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II."  

The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family

Michelle: A Biography

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37: Nisha Chittal on not telling her age, self care, and being a Wing Woman

"No matter what you do, no matter which end of the age spectrum you're on, people always judge you."  

Listen to my conversation with Nisha here! 

Follow Nisha online:  

https://twitter.com/NishaChittal  

http://tinyletter.com/theweekinladynews  

https://medium.com/@nishachittal  

http://www.nishachittal.com/

"Every woman knows this to be true: When you tell someone your age, you give them the power to decide how you're perceived. No matter your qualifications, people are predisposed to judge what you are really 'worth' to them based on your age. The point of someone asking your age is almost always so that the asker can make a judgement about you based on that age – what other reason is there?" - From her essay in The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Women. 

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36: Meet the women who are making reading cool

This week I spoke with Payton Cosell Turner and Eliza Wexelman, the rad women behind Girls At Library, the gorgeous and smart online journal dedicated to women who love literature. We debated the merits of print versus e-book, running a bicoastal business, and the importance of constantly re-educating yourself.  

"I feel like there are people similar to us who are interested in reading but also interested in visuals and creativity and I think just trying to create a place for other women or other readers who wanted to have a resource. It's all the things we wanted in a website."  

Listen to my conversation with Payton and Eliza here. 

Check out GAL here / Payton's Twitter / Eliza's Twitter

Some of the things we talked about:  

Into the Gloss

Graywolf Press

Books we talked about:  

Red Parts, Maggie Nelson

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso

1919, John Dos Passos

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

My favorite GAL interviews:  

Audrey Gelman

Wesley Pfleeger

Jeannette Lee

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35: You have the same number of hours in your day as Hilary Matfess

"It's absolutely become the norm for me to be the youngest, and at times most female person in the room. And it's really intimidating. But you kind of just have to put your head down and accept that you have a right to be there, and that more women should have the right to be at that table."

This week, Hilary Matfess talks about being a young woman in traditionally masculine spaces, reporting in Sub-Saharan Africa, her early lupus diagnosis, and how she got her first book deal.

Listen to my conversation with Hilary here. 

Hilary is a senior program officer at the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at the National Defense University, among about a hundred other credentials and affiliations. She's also a dear friend of mine, and her life and work ethic are amazingly inspiring.

Follow Hilary online here: twitter.com/HilaryMatfess www.hilarymatfess.com/

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34: The Women's March + a quick chat with Indira Cesarine

Listen to episode 34 here. 

This week I share a few sounds and stories from the Women's March on Washington this weekend. After that, I have a quick interview with Indira Cesarine, curator of the UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN exhibit at The Untitled Space in NYC.  

You can read more about the exhibit here.

Things we talked about:  

The Untitled Magazine

Making Art During Fascism, the pamphlet from Beth Pickens

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33: New Year’s resolutions, mental illness, and me

Listen to this week’s episode here. 

This week I'm dropping in a mini episode to talk about my somewhat new relationship with mental illness and goal-oriented behavior. If what I'm talking about resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you! Hit me up at [email protected].

We the People DC Instagram handle. Sid Meier's Civilization

Subscribe to #aznbooks2017: tinyletter.com/aznbooks2017

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32: Fashion, feminism, and foreign policy with Lucie Goulet

"My biggest worry with it is people sleepwalking into really bad situations and not realizing until it's too late that a number of rights or a number of things as we know them have been stripped away from us."  

This week, I spoke with Lucie Goulet, founder and editor of Women in Foreign Policy (#wifp) about femininity in male-dominated spaces, the power of fashion, and working for free.  

Listen to my conversation with Lucie here.  

Read Women in Foreign Policy

***In the month of January, Lucie is going to be highlighting American women in foreign policy on her website, specifically women of color and LGBTQ women.***  

Resources we talked about:  

Foreign Policy Interrupted

Feminist Foreign Policy

Women in Diplomacy podcast

Listen to Lucie with past guest Ashley Milne-Tyte on The Broad Experience 

#wifp newsletter: When women work for free

Stacy-Marie Ishmael's #awesomewomen newsletter

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Support The Ladycast on Patreon!  

Subscribe to #aznbooks2017

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31: Mollie Reads on reading Harry Potter for the first time and becoming a freelance editor

This week, BookTuber Mollie Reads talks about how she became a reader, what it's like reading Harry Potter for the first time, and taking the plunge into freelance book editing.

Listen to my convo with Mollie Reads! 

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Follow Mollie on the Internet:

YouTube

Twitter

Instagram

Website

Books we talked about:

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity 

Under Rose-Tainted Skies

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Fiction Instagram account, Matilda and Harry Goodman

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30: Children's musician Laurie Berkner connects with her inner four year old

This week, children's musician Laurie Berkner talks about the difficulties she had connecting to children early in her career, starting her business, and frat boys getting wild to her music.

Listen to my conversation with Laurie Berkner! 

Buy Laurie Berkner's newest album, Superhero: amzn.to/2h8rGUl The Best of the Laurie Berkner Band: amzn.to/2gq4OeV

FOLLOW LAURIE ONLINE

Twitter: twitter.com/LaurieBerkner 

Instagram: @laurieberknerband

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheLaurieBerknerBand

Website: www.laurieberkner.com/

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29: I’ll Love You Forever (when the time is right)

"I fully expected it to be traumatizing because you see these movies or you read these books, or you hear about the girl from your high school whose whole life changed and she was stigmatized."

This week's episode is a bit of a departure from the usual episodes. An anonymous friend of mine shares the story of her abortion. 

You can listen to it here. 

A warning: This is not suitable for young folks, or for people who are upset by graphic descriptions of abortion. Please, please listen with discretion.

If you're pregnant and need someone to talk to, please feel free to email me at [email protected] I will put you in touch with my guest.

Also: 

Check out Love You Forever (it really is a great book) 

Donate to Planned Parenthood

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Being 25: A quick chat with Julia Carpenter about youth and ambition and neuroticism

I turned 25 this week, so my friend Julia joined me on the podcast to help me parse my feelings about this new age.

Listen to my convo with Julia here! 

Some references:

What advice would you give your 25-year-old self? 

Why pop culture just can't deal with black male sexuality

***Don't forget to get your tickets for the first ever Ladycast live show!!**

Follow Julia Carpenter online: 

Twitter 

A Woman to Know

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Episode 27: Chandler O'Leary and Jessica Spring on working slowly and creative partnerships

This week, I spoke with Jessica Spring and Chandler O'Leary, creators of the Dead Feminists broadsheet series and author of the new book that just came out, Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color!

Listen to my conversation with Jessica and Chandler here! 

We talked about the value of working slowly, the best and worst parts of creative partnerships, and why there can never be enough #content highlighting the work of amazing women.

www.deadfeminists.com/

Buy the book: www.deadfeminists.com/book/ Follow them on Instagram: instagram.com/deadfeminists 

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Episode 26: Strategist & fitness blogger Evann Clingan on side hustles, social media, and being relatable

This week's guest is digital strategist and fitness blogger Evann Clingan! I've known Evann for years now, but this was our first time chatting (almost) in person. Evann is a strategist with Mekanism where she works with influencers and brands to help tell stories on social media. On her off time, she runs a fitness blog, EvannClingan.com, where she writes about fitness classes in the NYC area.

Evann and I talked about how she balances her demanding job with her super successful side hustle, the fact that our jobs didn't exist three years ago, and how difficult it can be to not compare yourself to everyone on the planet.

Listen to my convo with Evann here! 

Check out Evann on the Internet: evannclingan.com/ twitter.com/evannclingan www.instagram.com/evannclingan/

*** Julia Carpenter: twitter.com/juliaccarpenter Subscribe to A Woman to Know: tinyletter.com/awomantoknow

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Episode 25: Having the courage to try something new, with comic book artist Robin Ha

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"I only wish that I gave myself a chance to actually do what I wanted to do even sooner."

Click here to listen to my conversation with Robin! 

I spoke this week with comic book artist Robin Ha, whose new book, Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes, came out early last month. Robin is a Korean immigrant who is formally trained in illustration, but who has continually pushed herself to #dothething throughout her life -- from moving to the U.S. and learning English, to learning to cook, to writing a whole damn book. Robin and I talk about the limitations we often put on ourselves when it comes to creative work, how cooking is similar to painting, and how most Asian mother-daughter relationships are very, very similar. *** Follow Robin on Twitter: twitter.com/RobinHaART Robin's blog: banchancomic.tumblr.com/ Get Robin's book: amzn.to/2c73Iq4 *** Julia Carpenter: twitter.com/juliaccarpenter Subscribe to A Woman to Know: tinyletter.com/awomantoknow *** Follow The Ladycast online: 
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Episode 24: Ashley Milne-Tyte on career transitions, grad school, and the perils of working for free

This week’s guest is journalist, teacher, and podcast producer/host, Ashley Milne-Tyte. Ashley is the host of The Broad Experience, a podcast about women and the workplace. In our conversation, we talked about Ashley’s late start in the journalism industry, how she became a feminist, and why she will never work for free.  

“I was raised with this idea that if you did good work, it would speak for itself and you would be rewarded. And that is such nonsense. But it took me years to realize that.”  

Listen to my conversation with Ashley here! 

Some of the things we talked about:  

The New York Times article that sparked her interest in women and their relationship to the economy

Woman’s Hour from the BBC

The Broad Experience series on work and intimacy:  

Part 1

Part 2

Follow Ashley online and listen to The Broad Experience:  

Twitter

Website 

PSST: Don’t forget to submit your questions for future Lady Problems advice episodes. 

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In this first Lady Problems episode, Rep. Cyndi Munson answers listener questions about facing criticism, taking the next steps in their careers, and combating the senior scaries.

Submit a question for an upcoming Lady Problems episode: theladycast.com/askalady

Listen to my full conversation with Cyndi here: Theladycast – 23-rep-cyndi-munson-on-failure-and-making-space-for-the-impossible-to-happen

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23: Rep. Cyndi Munson on failure and making space for the impossible to happen

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"For someone like me, I want to fill up every space, I want to be doing everything I can, and really, I was at a point in the beginning of 2015 where I was just tired of doing that. I was tired of filling every block of my calendar. I really felt like I needed to create space to allow the impossible to happen."

This week's guest is Oklahoma Rep. Cyndi Munson! We talked about growing up in a military family, her early career with the Girl Scouts, losing her first election, and more.

Listen to my conversation with Rep. Munson here! 

And listen to a bonus episode where Rep. Munson answers your questions! 

A couple of the things we covered:

Oklahoma Girls State

Skyfire Media

Follow Rep. Munson online: cyndimunson.com/ www.facebook.com/CyndiMunson85/