LAUGHING MATTERS Podcast

Last week I promised. This week, I delivered. Matt Hyams is the breakout Instagram star who has healed millions of men and women through laughter…because LAUGHING MATTERS, even when it’s no laughing matter. And believe me, perimenopause is no laughing matter. Well, he and I did a thing I’ve been sitting on for a few weeks that I just HAD to share with you all first!!! If you have read any of my ea...

Another way to tell the same story: through a microphone! Here’s me speaking last week’s post for those of y’all who’d rather clean the house when you “read.” Or walk when you “read”. Or…whatever else you want to do when you “read.” And now, a revelatory moment of red flags in a past relationship and doing what we all like to do when we see them: ignore them. In Laughter, LStL Get full access to L...

Hey All! Attached is the audio version of last week’s post with bonus material: musical snippets! Even though it took me WAY too long to cut this in GarageBand, it kinda made me want to do a whole series with musical moments. I seriously need an AV team. Enjoy!xx,LStL p.s. Also, Happy May Day Everyone! It’s a national holiday here in France where everyone grocery shops the day before like it’s Cov...

Hey All! It’s been a doozy of a week. But at least the sun is shining in Paris and spring is springing. Watching the tulips bloom makes it hurt less that I just had to spend $9,000 on a new boiler for my home in Brooklyn for which I had to liquidate my dwindling assets. Such is “ this American life.” And the plumbers I found were the cheapest plumbers for the job . Eye roll. I am rethinking the im...

A couple of days ago, Tor and I were talking about the price of eggs and bird flu in the U.S. vs the price of eggs and lack of bird flu in France. Somehow, Tor stumbled upon an article about a British man who was sentenced to 3 years in prison for, as the title suggests, having sex with chickens. His wife was sentenced to six months for being complicit, ie a willing participant. (Women, we need to...

Here lies the podcast version of my latest Substack post of the same title. Here, I give my take on the two books The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma and The Five Second Rule by Mel Robbins. Little did I suspect that I would be developing my own “Rule of One”in the process. Ya never know what to expect when the fingers start doing the tapping. In Laughter,LStL Disclaimer: This podcast is presented solely...

Hey y’all! While I’m cookin’ up another post for this week, I’m releasing Episode #15 of my podcast from my post on September 12, 2024. Things are going a bit more smoothly here in Paris. Less bureaucracy, more getting to the business of creativity. Enjoy this little listening “morceau” and I will holler back atcha’ later this week! xx,LStL Get full access to LAUGHING MATTERS at lisastlou.substack...

And for your Sunday listening pleasure, the audio version of my June 12th, 2024 Substack post. Who doesn’t want to listen to the story of a young woman’s first time and her mother’s outrageous reaction to it? In Laughter,LStL Get full access to LAUGHING MATTERS at lisastlou.substack.com/subscribe

In honor of dropping-off my kid at the college he ended up at last weekend, I decided to post the podcast version of my April 2nd SubStack entry for your listening pleasure. Don’t worry…the whiny, Hanna-Barbera cartoon character voice I use at the beginning doesn’t last that long. LOL. It is also a prelude to my next post out tomorrow. Stay tuned! In Laughter, LStL p.s. I MUST recommend the podcas...

As we pack-up our home here in Brooklyn to embark on a year-long adventure in France, (yes, I WILL be writing about our experiences), I have been challenged in the realm of time and space in getting all the things done in all the time allotted in the span of a day. As a person who struggles with perfectionism, I have also emotionally flogged myself for missing a second week of posting here on Subs...

With Project 2025 looming and women continuing to be marginalized, Lisa interviews a violently heterosexual male (her partner, Tor Hyams) about the solution to the age-old quandary of feminism. Get full access to LAUGHING MATTERS at lisastlou.substack.com/subscribe

Well, in keeping up my perfect, weekly submission streak, I bring to you the podcast version of my “Tats & Tits” post. I know, I know, when I do this it is disappointing to some of you because you prefer the awesome, newly written entry about the terrible but funny things that happened to me in my past or recent life. But hang in…I’m just getting geared-up to go full-on memoir and have some fun in...

In honor of what would have been my grandma’s 100th birthday yesterday, I give you the audio version of my 4/16/2024 Substack post, “To RIP Or Not To RIP, That Is The Question”. She was the inspiration of that story and lives-on in the hearts of many. RIP Grandma Rice. Hi, I’m Lisa St. Lou. I hope you’ve been enjoying Laughing Matters. While nearly all of my posts will be free to read and share, p...

Hello you beautiful humans! Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am WAAAAAAY late in posting my usual memoir musings this week. Please let me bore you with the details as to why:  I am under a deadline for a revision of a play, we are in a visa hellscape with moving to France for a year and did I mention we are releasing a new album on 7/11? Yup. All that. Blah blah blah. Bored yet? Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut...

Last week I had the privilege and pleasure (accent on the last word there) of speaking with renowned sexologist and thought leader of intimacy and sexuality, Zoë Kors. I wish I could say I read her book when it came out two years ago, Radical Intimacy: Cultivate the Deeply Connected Relationships You Desire and Deserve  (Hachette, 2022), but I didn’t. I tossed it in the pile of books that I intend...

The journey to perimenopausal enlightenment began when I had a conversation about hair loss with my cousin, Dr. Karen Neubauer, a dermatologist from Kansas who has specialized in hair treatments among all the other things in life that go wrong with our dermis. (See Substack entry if curious.) Although we were talking about women’s hair loss and aging, she mentioned the 20+ year-old study about hor...

Here it is folx! My most-read, most-loved Substack post is in podcast form! Enjoy! In Laughter, LStL Get full access to LAUGHING MATTERS at lisastlou.substack.com/subscribe

When my fiancé met my family for the first time. Good thing we were already engaged! In Laughter, LStL Get full access to LAUGHING MATTERS at lisastlou.substack.com/subscribe

To my wonderful paid subscribers…I present to you Episode #3 of the LAUGHING MATTERS podcast! You are getting the first look, or shall I say, listen. I try my best to get it out on Fridays but, let’s just say, you are keeping me on my toes and I am loving the challenge of expressing this weird and wonderful new creative voice that’s been unleashed in the Substack Universe! Each podcast will be unl...

Well, I promised this for Friday, but due to technical difficulties, it’s comin’ at you HOT on a Sunday instead. Better late than never. My guest, Tor Hyams, and I discuss what to do if you ever find yourself in the slammer. Turns out, you got choices! Take a listen to hear what you may or may not have thought about when it comes to surviving on the “inside.” Spoiler alert, poop may or may not be...

Here it is folx! The first-ever episode of the Laughing Matters Podcast! As promised, it is free to all ears. Hope you like it! In Laugher, LStL Get full access to LAUGHING MATTERS at lisastlou.substack.com/subscribe