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Send us Fan Mail Ozempic & Mounjaro: Five Years Later, I'm Ready to Talk About It Sassy Chanelle Podcast | Hosted by Christi Chanelle It started in 2021 when I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Then this crazy little word called Ozempic entered my world. Five years later, I'm ready to talk about it. The weight loss. The weight gain. The plateaus. The frustration. And everything nob...

Send us Fan Mail 5 Ways to Protect Yourself A morning walk. A parking garage. A night out with friends. Everyday situations can raise questions about our safety—and we deserve to feel more prepared. This week on Sassy Chanelle , we’re talking about five ways women can take a more active role in protecting themselves. From lighting and personal alarms to defensive spray, emergency phone features, a...

Send us Fan Mail We're strong. We're independent. We're dependable. And we're exhausted from being everybody's everything. For years, women have been praised for doing it all. Raising families, managing careers, keeping households running, planning every gathering, and somehow making it look effortless. But here's my question: When did being capable become an agreemen...

Send us Fan Mail CONTROL: PART 1 — RELIGION How do you control women? For generations, one of the most powerful tools has been religion—or more specifically, the way religion has been interpreted, taught, and weaponized by men to define what women should be, how we should behave, what we should tolerate, and how much power we're allowed to have. In Part 1 of this three-part series, I'm t...

Send us Fan Mail Sassy Chanelle | Hosted by Christi Chanelle Seven men named in a civil lawsuit. A fraternity Snapchat chat. A woman who says she was sexually assaulted. And a question we need to ask: What about her future? In this episode, I discuss a former Cornell student’s allegations of sexual assault and drugging at the Chi Phi fraternity house, the Snapchat messages described in her lawsuit...

Send us Fan Mail What if the person everyone else thinks is wonderful is the person making you question your own sanity? This week on Sassy Chanelle , we're talking about narcissism — but we're also turning the mirror around. What does narcissistic behavior actually look like? When is someone showing a concerning pattern, and when are we taking completely normal human emotions — jealousy...

Send us Fan Mail Was Dolly Parton a feminist? A liberal? A conservative? Or was she simply Dolly? We love putting people into boxes. We decide what someone believes, which side they're on, and whether they're one of “us” or one of “them.” But Dolly Parton spent a lifetime making that almost impossible. She championed women without necessarily embracing the feminist label. She supported t...

Send us Fan Mail Hayden Panettiere was only 36 years old, but the more I learned about her life, the more I realized how much of her story I never knew. I started listening to Hayden’s memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning , narrated by Hayden herself, and then I went down the rabbit hole. Her childhood in Hollywood. Remember the Titans . Heroes . Fame. Relationships. Motherhood. Addiction. The people s...

Send us Fan Mail Sassy Politics gave me a community, helped me find my voice, and taught me how to stand up for what I believe in. But politics was never all of me. In this episode, I’m sharing why Sassy Politics is becoming Sassy Chanelle and what this next chapter means for the show. We’ll still talk about the things that matter, but now there’s room for all of it. True crime, documentaries, rel...

Send us Fan Mail Nolan Wells was 18 years old. My son Trevor turned 18 last week. After hearing the recording from the boat, I couldn’t move on to either of the other episodes I had planned. The chaos in the background, Nolan’s friends screaming, and the realization that an ordinary day at the lake could become the worst day of a family’s life stayed with me. In this episode, I talk about what it...

Send us Fan Mail What if one of the greatest scientific minds in history wasn't the only genius in the room? This week on Sassy Politics , Christi Chanelle explores the life of Mileva Marić , Albert Einstein's first wife, accomplished physicist, and one of history's most debated forgotten women. Did she contribute to Einstein's groundbreaking work? What do we actually know, and...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the biggest story isn't the headline. It's what it reveals about us. I actually re-recorded this episode. Not because I got something wrong. Not because I changed my mind. But because I realized I hadn't gone far enough. As new information continues to emerge in the Nolan Wells case, it's important to let evidence guide our conclusions. We owe every p...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when one of the world's greatest scientific achievements becomes the center of some of the internet's biggest mysteries? This week on Sassy Politics , we're diving into CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, and the five biggest theories people are talking about online. I'm not a physicist, and I don't claim to be. I'm just really freaking curi...

Send us Fan Mail One hospital visit changed the questions I thought I'd be asking twenty years from now. After my dad's major back surgery, I found myself thinking about something I wasn't ready for: what happens when the people who always took care of us suddenly need us? This episode isn't really about politics. It's about aging parents, caregiving, Social Security, Medi...

Send us Fan Mail For years, I've been known for one thing. I built a box. Not a bad box. Not a broken box. A box I actually like. It's called Sassy Politics. But lately I've been asking myself a question I didn't expect: What happens when the thing you built starts feeling too small for who you're becoming? In this episode, I talk about identity, burnout, creativity, expec...

Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 62: The Silence We Inherit Episode Summary This week, Christi reflects on something far more personal than politics: silence. As the anniversary of her mother's death and birthday arrive just days apart, she finds herself thinking about grief, voice, and the lessons we carry long after someone is gone. Inspired by an article about women being told to stay quiet, Chris...

Send us Fan Mail Sassy Politics with Christi Chanelle Episode 61 Delaney Hall Detention Center: The Billion-Dollar Bed Release Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 There are people in America right now writing S.O.S. letters from inside a detention center. Not in a movie. Not in another country. Right here. Right now. In this episode of Sassy Politics, Christi Chanelle takes a deep dive into Delaney Hall D...

Send us Fan Mail 🎓 Raised for a World That No Longer Exists My son just graduated high school… and I can’t stop thinking about how different this moment feels compared to when we were growing up. Because the truth is: we raised this generation for a version of adulthood that barely exists anymore. Go to school. Work hard. Get the degree. Build a stable life. That was the blueprint. But today’s ge...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when billionaires, AI companies, and massive data centers start reshaping small-town America… while regular people are left asking questions about water, electricity, noise, and infrastructure? In this episode of Sassy Politics, Christi Chanelle breaks down the growing AI data center boom happening across the United States — from Kevin O’Leary’s controversial Utah pro...

Send us Fan Mail NOT POLITICS. JUST SURVIVAL. | Sassy Politics with Christi Chanelle Release Date: May 12, 2026 The world feels heavy right now. The anxiety is real. The disconnection is real. And maybe what we’re actually craving isn’t more politics… maybe it’s community. In this episode of Sassy Politics , Christi Chanelle gets vulnerable about the emotional exhaustion so many people are feeling...

Send us Fan Mail They used to call women hysterical… and lock them away for it. In this episode, Christi Chanelle breaks down the disturbing history of how women’s emotions, voices, and autonomy were once medicalized and controlled under the diagnosis of “hysteria”—and why that pattern may not be as far behind us as we think. From 19th-century asylums to the tragic story of Rosemary Kennedy, this...

Send us Fan Mail Sassy Politics | Show Notes Episode Title: This Is Where It All Shifted Episode Description Christi brings her partner and co-founder to the mic for a proper introduction to the Sassy Politics crew. Kelsey Jean is the First Link at Linked We Stand, and if you've been in the Discord or caught the livestreams, you're about to understand why she's become such a vital p...

Send us Fan Mail “They Drugged Women… Then Posted It Online” This is not new. This is not rare. This is happening. In this episode, we’re talking about something that should stop you in your tracks—women being drugged, violated, and recorded… and the terrifying reality that this has been happening quietly for far too long. But it doesn’t stop there. We connect the dots—from vulnerability to contro...

Send us Fan Mail 🔥 Episode Summary This isn’t just about one headline.  It’s not even just about one politician. This is about the system. In this episode, I break down what’s happening beneath the surface — the distractions, the narratives, and the moves being made while we’re all busy reacting in real time. Because the truth is…  the loudest stories aren’t always the most important ones. We’re...

Send us Fan Mail Who’s Pulling the Strings? This one right here? This is where things start to click. We always hear, “you can’t trust the media.” But nobody ever really stops to ask… why? In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on what “the media” actually means — who owns it, how messaging gets repeated, and why everything can start to feel… coordinated. This is Level 2.  This is where a...