I Read It On A Podcast

Welcome to part 2. We are rounding out season 1 with the second half the episode with Lauren Anderson and Girls Just Wanna Have Funds". Host, Meg Harris is joined by Chicago local, Lauren Anderson, to explore the book, “Girls Just Wanna Have Funds” by Emma Due Bitz, Camilla Falkenberg, and Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen. In short, this is “a feminist guide to investing.” "Finance" and "Investing" are two...

Host, Meg Harris is joined by Chicago local, Lauren Anderson, to explore the book, “Girls Just Wanna Have Funds” by Emma Due Bitz, Camilla Falkenberg, and Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen. In short, this is “a feminist guide to investing.” "Finance" and "Investing" are two of the unspoken "scary" words among women. As the authors say "women are taught to manage money. Men are taught to manage wealth." This...

On this episode Meg is joined by Chicago local, Oni Gabor to discuss the book, National Dish, by Anya Von Bremzen. The author explores the origins of national dishes in four different countries. She explains that a food studies scholar, which I did not know was a thing and now need to redo my major, claims national cuisines suffer from “problematic obviousness” where their origins seem so overt, w...

Today, host, Meg Harris, is joined by local Chicago comedian and actress, Lauren Page. Together they discuss the book, “Pleasure Activism” by Adrienne Maree Brown, a social justice facilitator focused on black liberation, a doula/healer, and a pleasure activist. Her book seeks to answer a single question: how do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience?

Today host, Meg Harris, is joined by Chicago local, Grace Juracka to discuss the book, The Magic of Mushrooms by Sandra Lawrence. In which Lawrence guides us through a tour of the way fungi and mushrooms have infiltrated human existence through mythology, medicine, and folklore. Discover new chapters in human's quest for immorality, covert insurance schemes, and the origins of our cultural affilia...

Host, Meg Harris, is joined by Chicago-based publishing editor, Lauren Kelliher to discuss Amanda Montell's, Wordslut. Amanda Montell is a linguist. She studies Linguistics, which she defines as “the scientific study of how language works in the real world.” Under that umbrella is socio-linguistics - the study of language and human sociology interest. This episode extracts the key themes, highligh...

Host Meg Harris is joined by Kelsey Schmidt to discuss You Didn't Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney. The author is the original host of the hit podcast, Normal Gossip. McKinney's book goes into the history of gossip and the roles it plays in our society with examples from what we know about Picasso to the hand it played with Brittany Spears and how it protects our social mores.

On this episode, host Meg Harris, is joined by Savanna Crosby to talk about Cultish by Amanda Montell. In the book, Montell breaks down how cults manufacture intense ideology and belonging cues through language. We cover it all from the horrors of Jonestown and Heaven's Gate to the community mindset of Cross Fit and MLM social media schemes. Savanna and Meg even offer a window into their own brush...

I Read It On A Podcast is a guide through some of the top non-fiction books written by female authors. Meg Harris is that nerdy, funny friend at the bar giving you the anecdotal sparknotes on why humans swim, the history of gossip, and the girly pop version of wealth management. Joined by local Chicago comedians and friends, the show spills the tea through your TBR.