Mic'd and Medicated: Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert

Send us Fan Mail Zibby Owens — author, podcaster, and founder of a media and publishing company — joins Eva and Caroline to talk divorce, reinventing your identity after years as a stay-at-home mom, and starting over at 40 through dating and remarriage. The conversation kicks off, though, with a parenting disaster: a school "puberty prep" video with hyperlinked FAQs that gave her fourth...

Send us Fan Mail It's supposed to be refreshing. Instead, we're hitting refresh. Eva and Caroline are recording from the summer studio for the first time this season, and all anyone can talk about is camp — specifically the very particular madness of being a parent who just sent a child to sleepaway camp for the first time. Caroline is forty-eight hours in and kidsick. Eva has already mi...

Send us Fan Mail The episode that started with a drug addict emptying his pockets into a tip jar at seven in the morning and ended with an explosive diarrhea metaphor — and everything in between was somehow coherent.  Eva and Caroline walk through every generation from the Greatest to Gen Alpha, and what strikes them most isn't just how each generation disappointed the one before it, but how...

Send us Fan Mail The movers came for the art first. Caroline's apartment walls are bare, the iconic portrait is boxed up and Miami-bound, and the move that's been theoretical for months just got very, very real. Eva walks in and both of them feel it — this is the end of something. What follows is one of their most honest conversations yet: about June as the cruelest month, about grieving...

Send us Fan Mail What does getting dressed actually say about you? This week Eva and Caroline sit down with Jessie Freschl — entrepreneur, personal stylist, and founder of three businesses — for a conversation about fashion that keeps going somewhere deeper than anyone expected. Jessie built her career working with women at every stage of life: new mothers whose bodies had shifted, professionals s...

Send us Fan Mail No guest this week -- just Eva and Caroline, completely unplanned and fully themselves. Caroline spent Mother's Day schlepping to Boston and clocking the timestamp on a gift purchased exactly 32 minutes before dinner. And her dog ate the one piece that makes the entire vacuum-sealed coat bag functional, and in that moment, she understood her marriage perfectly. Their husbands...

Send us Fan Mail Our fashion correspondent Jennifer Galante Hahn is back on the couch — and this time we're going deep on the most loaded object in New York City: the Hermès Birkin. What happens when the ultimate status symbol becomes the default? When a teenager at a crepe shop gets excited about her mom's new Birkin and her friends just look back down at their phones? When someone aban...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Logan Levkoff has spent her career doing the work most people are too uncomfortable to do — teaching kids and teens about sex, consent, relationships, and their bodies. She's been doing it for over two decades, in some of New York City's most prestigious schools. On March 16th, she was fired. Not because of anything that happened in a classroom. But because a group o...

Send us Fan Mail What does a drawer full of old underwear have to do with your emotional blind spots? More than you'd think.  This week, Caroline and Eva tackle spring cleaning — and quickly realize that it's a perfect metaphor for everything: your closet, your relationships, your mindset, and yes, your lingerie situation.  They dig into construal level theory (why it's easier to gi...

Send us Fan Mail Two NYC moms walk into a couch — one's leaving for Miami, the other's staying — and a third native New Yorker joins them to make it make sense. This week Eva and Caroline are joined by Mallory Schultz — founder and creative director of luxury event studio House of Mal, former Condé Nast editor (Bon Appétit, Self, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food), and a fourth-generat...

Send us Fan Mail Death, divorce and moving are the three most significant life changes a person can go through. We're not dead. We're not divorced. But one of us is moving to Miami — and apparently that qualifies. This episode is about why moving is so much harder than it looks. Not the logistics. The psychology. When you move you have to address every single thing you've ever accum...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest is Melissa Gellman Weiss — Barry's CMO, founder of Re/Gen, and one of the most honest women we've had on the show. And we mean honest. Melissa grew up in New Jersey but went to private school in New York City — and still doesn't lead with the NJ part. Her husband took one look at her NYC friends and said he didn't want their kids growing...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 is here — and we have a big reveal that we are absolutely not telling you in the description because we have finally learned something about marketing. What we will tell you: New York is giving Detroit energy, other cities are looking very sexy right now, and we just paid our taxes so emotions are running high. This season we are smarter, funnier, and slightly more plugge...

Send us Fan Mail We did it. Season 1 of our podcast is officially complete—and somehow, two self-proclaimed “techtards” made it to 55 episodes. From recording our first episode with no audio to convincing ourselves we understand mics, lighting, editing, and social media…this has been chaos, growth, and a lot of laughs. In this Season 1 finale, we’re reflecting on: The highs, the lows, and our favo...

Send us Fan Mail Most women are burnt out trying to do it all—career, family, self—and somehow still feel like they’re failing at every turn. So we have to ask… is “having it all” actually real, or is it the biggest lie we’ve been sold? In this episode of Mic’d and Medicated , we sit down (again) with Flavia Masson—screenwriter, artist, and a married woman who chose not to have children—to rip apa...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone has pet peeves… we just decided to say ours out loud (hopefully not so loud that we annoy you). Some of these are minor. Some are completely unhinged. And some might actually be… neurological. You might be dealing with misophonia—that very real phenomenon where certain sounds (gum smacking, soup slurping, aggressive keyboard typing on airplanes  ) instantly trigger your n...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Mic’d & Medicated , we sit down with Dr. Marnie Nussbaum, the Joan Rivers-meets-Elle Woods of dermatology.  From Botox and lip fillers to parenting chaos and midlife confidence, she spills the truth with humor, heart, and unfiltered advice. Get ready to laugh, learn, and finally embrace aging—and yourself—on your own terms. Whether you’re curious about the science...

Send us Fan Mail What does it truly mean to build a family — and what happens when the path isn’t traditional?  In this episode of Mic’d & Medicated, clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Fechter who specializes in couples with infertility and exploring adoption joins us on the couch. We unpack the emotional complexities of family planning, infidelity, adoption, cultural identity, and the decision t...

Send us Fan Mail What does modern motherhood really look like — behind the curated Instagram squares and school pickup smiles? This week on Mic’d and Medicated, we sit down with Lyss Stern, founder of DivaMoms, for an unfiltered conversation about parenting, ambition, mental health, and raising resilient kids in Manhattan. We talk about: • Why most moms secretly feel like they’re failing  • How vu...

Send us Fan Mail Are your hormones actually the problem? In this episode of Mic’d and Medicated , we sit down with double board-certified endocrinologist Dr. Caroline Messer to break down what’s really going on with hormones, metabolism, weight, mood, and longevity. We talk about: • Hashimoto’s and why it often overlaps with celiac disease  • Lactose intolerance vs. dairy allergy  • Hormone replac...

Send us Fan Mail Valentine’s Day: romantic, performative, overrated… or meaningful? In this episode of the Mic’d and Medicated Podcast, we unpack the real meaning of Valentine’s Day — from its ancient Roman origins to the modern pressures of love, marriage, and social media. Why do expectations feel higher the longer you’re in a relationship?  Why does gift-giving create so much pressure?  And has...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County Executive and candidate for Governor of New York, for a candid conversation about leadership in deeply polarized times—and what actually works in government. Bruce shares his professional journey from the private sector to public service and explains why real-world work experience matters in political leadership. We t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mic’d & Medicated , Caroline and Eva sit down with psychologist Dr. Rachel Goldman to talk about what’s really going on in our heads — and how to make it a little more enjoyable in there. From self-talk and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to body neutrality, social pressure, and the mental gymnastics of modern life , Dr. Goldman breaks down the mind-body...

Send us Fan Mail Resolutions feel like punishment. Manifesting feels like flirting with the universe. In this episode of Mic’d & Medicated, Caroline and Eva get unexpectedly inspired by The Secret—the idea that your thoughts aren’t just thoughts, they’re magnets. After years of forcing goals, obsessing over outcomes, and turning self-improvement into a personality flaw, they unpack why resolut...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, Caroline and Eva are joined by Dr. Jaime Knopman, reproductive endocrinologist, infertility specialist, and co-author of Own Your Fertility , for the conversation no one had with us early enough. The truth? Fertility doesn’t fall off a cliff — it slowly declines until one day it suddenly matters a lot. They dig into egg freezing as empowerment versus false...