EarBuds Podcast Collective Recommendations

Podcasts helping to bring awareness and honesty to the women's health conversation, curated by Spencer Moore for our podcast recommendation newsletter.

In this episode, Jamie sits down with Paula Berry, a licensed clinical social worker, trauma specialist, and cancer survivor, to talk about the emotional side of cancer that often goes unspoken. Paula shares her personal experience with colorectal cancer, including treatment, life-altering surgery, and the unexpected mental health challenges that followed. Together, they explore what emotional sur...

This week, we sit down for a candid and powerful conversation with Ms. Alexandra Harbushka, founder of Life with Herpes, a leading resource dedicated to supporting individuals living with this common condition. In this must-listen episode, we dive deep into the often-unspoken emotional landscape of a herpes diagnosis. We explore the pervasive issues of stigma and shame that are unfortunately attac...

What if a sleep doctor didn't recognize her own sleep apnea? Dr. Valerie Cacho shares her personal journey from diagnosing patients to becoming one—revealing how women's sleep apnea symptoms look nothing like the textbook. In this episode, Dr. Cacho and Dr. Alison Kole dive into why women with "mild" sleep apnea may face serious cardiovascular risks, the unique phenomenon of RE...

When you are immersed in the Disney bubble, nothing else matters. Inside the bubble is joy, love, and self-expression. In this episode, I'm sharing a personal story about how being in Disney World affected me in a way I did not anticipate. I went into it saying I would not wear those "silly ears." Then a few hours later, I was wearing Disney Pride ears.  But this story is about more...

Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The Baroness: The Galápagos Murder Mystery Nobody Solved   The Galápagos Islands were supposed to be an escape from the world. But for a handful of European settlers, jealousy, betrayal, and suspicion turned their isolated paradise into the setting for one of history's strangest mysteries. When the self-proclaimed Baroness of this remot...

Introducing an upcoming season of Personally, called Discount Dave (and the Fix). When David Lee Roth crashes the backstage party at a Shakespeare Festival, Becca — a hedonistic young actor, is set on a path of self-reckoning. A harrowing and hilarious blend of memoir and auto-fiction, Discount Dave (and The Fix) is the true-ish story of a fake rockstar, a real trial and what it means to stop runn...

In the aftermath of “The Event” the crew of Dolos Space Station 769, along with the station’s resident AI, have spent weeks scanning the earth’s surface for survivors, but to no avail. As the situation becomes ever more dire, disagreements emerge about the proper way to respond to the crisis before they run out of the limited resources that they need to survive in orbit.  In celebration of our pre...

What is it like to talk to people who knew your loved ones who died? My quest to get intimate with death begins as I talk with someone who knew my parents who I never knew existed until after they died.  I met Marie Bowden very shortly after my father died. He was her mentor, but she and I had not met. Through our conversation, I learned that she is a person surrounded by death. She grew up in a h...

In the woods outside Carmel, New York, a hunter finds the bones of a twelve-year-old girl. She had been missing. The people meant to protect her had looked the other way. Police set their sights on two teenage drug dealers, who are convicted of her murder and sent to prison. But this is just the beginning of the story. Now, buried records, ignored warnings, and a justice system that may have gotte...

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In this episode, Jerry takes another excursion to meet with Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) and English visual artist, Hannah Claus.  Hannah is in London exhibiting at the High Commission of Canada in the U.K. as part of their commitment to show work by Indigenous Canadian artists. Her body of work titled tsi iotnekahtentiónhatie - éntie nonkwá:ti [where the waters flow - south shore] tells the story of t...

Zippers are the most common machine all around us. But it's a minor miracle how that came to be.  Pictures of early zippers and other links at articlesofinterest.substack.com Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In remotest Siberia, an intrepid archaeologist uncovers the oldest rug known to man. The Moors of north Africa occupy Spain, bringing new floor coverings with them. A young girl’s innovation turns a small Georgia town into the carpet capital of the world. And the Dalai Lama flees Tibet, taking his carpets with him… A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris. For ad-free listening, exclusive cont...

Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things. Throughout this week he is examining the great shifts in the global economy and in imperial power in the 19th century. Today he is with a large wooden drum that the legendary Kitchener of Khartoum brought from Sudan for Queen Victoria, just after his army had killed 11000 Sudanese soldiers in battle. The drum takes Neil back to the extr...

A pyrotechnic dragon roared flames into the river Thames during the coronation week of Elizabeth of York in 1487. These explosive displays were employed as a sign of might and majesty throughout the reign of Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I was the first English monarch to establish their own fire master. By the time of the Gunpowder Plot, fireworks were used not only to celebrate, but to com...