So Into That

Today’s show kicks off with a BIG announcement… something that’s been in the works for years. I know you’re going to love it! I’ll fill you in on all the details, plus – why I'm relating so hardcore to the show One Day (spoiler: you get to hear all about me and George's FINAL breakup before we got engaged). And an update on what I’m calling “The Year of Me”. Why I’m taking time to reignite old pas...

My husband and I have been following the amazing Dr. Aditi Nerurkar for months now, and putting her tips to work in our sometimes-stressful lives. Now that she’s put all her wisdom together in a book and started her own Substack , it seemed like the time to ask her to share science-backed strategies for managing and mastering stress – beyond unhelpful and annoying clichés (“just relax?!”). So in t...

Every time I mention I went to boarding school, people are like "WOAH WOAH WOAH, please explain!"  So here's a primer on boarding school, why we loved it, what was hard, and why we think our friendship is still so strong despite not having lived in the same place for more than 15 years.    We also get into: * A basic, 101-level intro to boarding school  * Different “houses” on campus and their rep...

Cameron Rogers is a longtime friend and OG food/mom content creator who played a crucial role in helping me open up about my life online. True to her Freckled Foodie roots, she still develops recipes but these days you’re more likely to find her talking about motherhood, overall physical and mental health, and how they’re intertwined. So in this episode, we catch up about how to divide the labor o...

The response to Sohla’s episode , where we both shared a few things that our husbands have done to make us feel supported postpartum, and shared several elements of postpartum recovery that we wish we’d had a heads up on, was insane . Countless older moms, brand new moms, soon-to-be-moms, all the moms, wrote me to thank me for sharing the real deal about postpartum. But the #1 thing I heard was “I...

If you’re on Instagram, I can almost guarantee you’ve seen Caitlin Murray . She has a way of expressing exactly how many moms feel in the day-to-day grind while making you laugh out loud in the process. After I barely get through today’s intro (happy birthday, Mattis!), Caitlin and I talk about why we’re both out on extreme diets and restrictions and prefer a “damp” approach to alcohol these days…...

I first discovered Sohla El-Waylly in the early days of the pandemic, when Bon Appétit Test Kitchen videos were all the rage. She was by far my favorite contributor to that series, and now that she’s promoting her own cookbook and recently became a mom, this was the perfect time to catch up with her. So today, we talk a bit about “ Start Here ,” the A to Z guide that took Sohla 3 years to write. S...

I recently asked you for your questions, feedback, and topics you want to hear more about and you gave me a ton of great ideas. One of the most common questions was a version of, “So what’s your deal? What’s your background, and what exactly do you do now?” Good question. How did I wind up as a recipe developer/cookbook author/whatever-I-decide-to-call-myself-that-day? You’re about to find out. In...

Peloton classes have made me a much happier and less anxious person. As you’ll hear in this episode, I wish there was a government grant that gave all new mothers Peloton bikes upon the birth of their first child. Being able to exercise and boost those endorphins while the baby is sleeping has been a total game changer for me. And of their many great instructors, is my absolute favorite.  Emma’s t...

Amanda Hesser founded one of my favorite food and lifestyle brands, Food52 . It’s one of my go-to sources for recipe and gift inspiration… and what’s crazy is that building that hugely successful company is just a small part of Amanda’s life story. She was also a food writer and editor at the New York Times for many years, and she’s written cookbooks and a memoir called Cooking for Mr. Latte which...

The day I announced this podcast, the DM’s started rolling in. “You have to get Katie from Beach Reads and Bubbly on the podcast!” I was already all over it, I love Katie as much as all of you! I get a ton of my book recs from Katie’s page, @beachreadsandbubbly , but more than that, I’ve fallen in love with her down-to-earth, bubbly personality. We had so much fun chatting, after we stopped record...

Anela Malik is one of my favorite internet (and real-life) friends. There’s no one who I respect more when it comes to telling beautiful stories with video, and as you’ll see in this episode… she’s so much fun and hilarious, too. Today, we laugh a lot talking about our shared love of smutty books, and Anela opens up about the past year in which she went through a divorce and wound up doing a lot o...

Deb Perelman is the OG queen of food blogging — she started Smitten Kitchen in 2006 and has grown it to the absolute behemoth that it is today. In this episode, Deb made me giggle my pants off talking about our husbands’ cooking styles, the cheeky comment her 14-year-old son makes when she orders a drink, the food video trend that she wants to end in 2024, and much, much more. We also get into: *...

Emily Oster is my motherhood messiah. I consider myself to be a pretty relaxed mom, but I certainly didn’t start out that way. Emily’s data-based parenting approach is to thank for that. Anytime I’m starting to bug out about whether sleep training is going to mess up my baby for life, or if my kid is going to go to college only eating chicken fingers, or whether letting my kids watch an extra hour...

It’s official y’all… I’m joining the podcast game. Above, you’ll find a quick rundown of what this show’s going to be all about. My first episode with special guest Emily Oster drops today at 12p Eastern Time. I’ll send out an email around then with all the links where you can watch/listen! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episod...