One Bad Mother

OBM favorite Kevin Maher joins Biz to talk about his new short, Dracula's Super Scary Halloween! Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of MaximumFun.org. Go to MaximumFun.org/join to become a member! Share a personal or commercial message on the show! Details at MaximumFun.org/Jumbotron . Visit our Linktree for our website, merch, and more! https://linktr.ee/onebad...

She's NOT doing it at us! Writer Alyssa Ages joins Biz to talk about powerlifting, teaching her kids healthy body image, and a life-changing realization about playing Little League. Get your copy of Secrets of Giants: A Journey to Uncover the True Meaning of Strength wherever books are sold. Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of MaximumFun.org. Go to MaximumFun....

♫ I want turkey, salmon, chicken, We're with you crying in the kitchen! ♫ Chesca Hause, creator of Litterbox Comics, joins Biz to talk anthropomorphic kittens, reposting the cult classics, and how drawing pets is easier than drawing humans. Get your copy of the new Litterbox Comics collection, Parenting is Weird: Tails from the Litterbox, wherever books are sold. Read Litterbox Comics at www. Litt...

How many vaginas does it take to understand the role of evolutionary biology into modern social environments? On One Bad Mother, two. Maybe. Cat Bohannon, researcher and author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, joins Biz to talk fancy miscarriages, chimpanzees, and the oeuvre of Ridley Scott. Get your copy of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of...

Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of MaximumFun.org. Go to MaximumFun.org/join to become a member! Share a personal or commercial message on the show! Details at MaximumFun.org/Jumbotron. Visit our Linktree for our website, merch, and more! https://linktr.ee/onebadmother You can suggest a topic or a guest for an upcoming show by sending an email to onebadmother...

Support for birthing people? Affordable maternal health care? Come into our hot air balloon to see the world, because you're not getting it here. Journalist and host of the Uncared For podcast, SuChin Pak, joins Biz to talk Costa Rican health care, birthing regrets, and the privilege of greener grass.  Listen to Uncared For and Add to Cart wherever fine pods are cast. Learn more about the Roots Co...

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses-- Oh, wait, you don't speak English? Not you. Saadia Khan, host of the Immigrantly podcast, sits down with Biz to talk collectivism versus individualism, privileged immigration, and the immature moodiness of a teenage USA. Listen to Immigrantly and Invisible Hate podcasts on the podcatcher of your choice. Learn more about Saadia by visiting www. I...

There's no popping this queer joy bubble! Author, activist, and YouTuber Lindz Amer joins Biz to talk ze and ze, "Hard" Conversations and Hard Conversations, and Pronoun Practice roleplay. Get your copy of Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kids and Their Allies and pre-order Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They at Lindz Amer's website or at the bookstore of your choice. Learn more about L...

Mommy's Little Helper (Part 2)! The only thing THAT's not helping is the systemic undermining of parental self-agency, racial equality, and redistribution of labor! Celeste Yvonne, author of It's Not About The Wine: The Loaded Truth Behind Mommy Wine Culture, joins Biz to talk faux feminism, white privilege drinking, and the lies behind Candie's shoes. Preorder your copy of It's Not About The Wine...

We're back! And burned out already! Amanda Diekman, founder and author of Low-Demand Parenting , joins Biz to discuss parenting PTSD, the trouble with masking, and opening a package of Oreos in the middle of the supermarket.  Learn more about Amanda Diekman and her work on Low-Demand Parenting , by visiting her website, www. AmandaDiekman.com . Follow and contact Amanda on her Instagram, @lowdeman...

Biz is still on vacation in Sweden with the family! Here is one of our favorite episodes with Elinor Cleghorn from November of 2022. Here, in the year of our Lord 1542, we hereby declare women to be the source of all sin and malevolency! Oh wait, it's 2022. Same headline though. Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women, returns to talk about immoral acts of the most grievous kind and more fun beach...

In Part 2 of Biz's conversation with author Cheryl Klein, we dive deeper into buckets, Exc-HELL sheets, and feeling bad when you're "not allowed" to feel bad. Read Cheryl's piece, "I Can Say This Now," at MUTHA magazine . Learn more about Cheryl, her writing, and her book Crybaby: Infertility, Illness, and Other Things That Were Not the End of the World , by visiting her website, CherylEKlein.com...

Just because you don't give birth doesn't mean you can't suffer postpartum depression. Author Cheryl Klein sits down with Biz for part 1 of an epic conversation about the business of adoption. Read Cheryl's piece, "I Can Say This Now," at MUTHA magazine . Learn more about Cheryl, her writing, and her book Crybaby: Infertility, Illness, and Other Things That Were Not the End of the World , by visit...

One Bad Mother to Listeners: Protect our trans kids. Over. Kate Brookes, journalist and author of Transister: Raising Twins in a Gender-Bending World , joins Biz to talk blocking the haters, praying for gay, and heels, flats, and gowns. Pre-order your copy of Transister , out August 8, 2023, wherever books are sold. Learn more about Kate, her writing, and her advocacy by visiting her website, www....

Special delivery! One Alternative Family with Fertility and Sperm Complications on the side. Julia Karol, host of the Stork'd podcast, sits down with with Biz to talk different familial configurations, rude billboards, and going it alone. Listen to the Stork'd podcast wherever fine pods are cast. Learn more about Julia and Stork'd by visiting her website, www.storkdpodcast.com . Thank you to all o...

She slices! She dices! She engineers! She comedies! It's Mom! How does she do it? With biting wit. Comedian, triathlete, engineer, and filmmaker Anu Vaidyanathan joins Biz to talk pressure cookers, passive aggression on the dance floor, and the long road to comedy. Learn more about Anu, her short films, her comedy, and book by visiting www. AnuVaidyanathan.com . Thank you to all our listeners who...

Southern ladies don't disclose about the bedroom, but did you know that Viagra is awesome? The Ellis Sisters ride again as Helen Ellis, author of the new book Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge , joins Biz to talk pulling plugs, being visited by Jenna Bush, and literary criticism from Mama. Get your copy of Helen's new book,  Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions From a Happy Marriage , where...

To Snoo or not to Snoo? Pick your baby gear indulgence and add to cart! Kulap Vilaysack, host of the Who Charted? and Add to Cart podcasts, sits down with Biz to talk hero journeys, long roads to motherhood, and the line between baby Keurigs and wipe warmers. Listen to Kulap's podcast with SuChin Pak, Add to Cart , wherever fine pods are cast. Watch Kulap's autobiographical documentary, Origin Sto...

It's Fear and Loathing in the Mommy Forums! Gonzo Parenting founder Jay Rooke joins Biz to talk the success rates of restaurant ownership, the benefits of failure, and how sharing can get us all through it. Learn more about Jay Rooke, his book , podcast and Gonzo Parenting by visiting their website, www. GonzoParenting.com . Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of...

If you don't look down, you can keep on running. Laura Cathcart Robbins, podcaster and author of Stash: My Life in Hiding , joins Biz to talk about labradoodles, being the only POC in the room, and the road to recovery. Learn more about Laura Cathcart Robbins and get your copy of Stash by visiting Laura's website, www. LauraCathcartRobbins.com . Thank you to all our listeners who support the show...

FUSSELMAN! Principal Biz sits down with The Means author Amy Fusselman to talk houses in The Hamptons, pass/fail parenting, and celebrating what we didn't forget. Get your copy of  The Means as well as Amy's other books wherever books are sold. Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of MaximumFun.org. Go to MaximumFun.org/join to become a member! This week, we're sp...

It's the 500th episode of One Bad Mother! Returning from her first appearance in episode 2 is comedian Laurie Kilmartin. Pull up a stool and join us for the grand re-opening of the Low Bar! Learn more about Laurie Kilmartin's comedy and books by visiting her website, www. Kilmartin.com . Listen to her Max Fun podcast with Jackie Kashian, The Jackie and Laurie Show , wherever fine pods are cast. Th...

It takes two to make a baby... Or maybe it takes three. Plus science. And doctors. Michelle Tea, MUTHA co-founder and author of Knocking Myself Up , returns to talk about her IVF journey, partners and pink triangles, and "trying." Plus, Biz reflects. Get your copy of Michelle's new book, Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of my (In)Fertility , wherever books are sold. Learn more about Michelle and her w...

Home and life feeling like a wreck? Slap some paint on that fixer-upper. Author and poet Maggie Smith joins Biz to talk whittling words, Good Bones, and her new memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful. Plus, Biz is in purgatory. Get your copy of Maggie Smith's memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful , wherever books are sold. Learn more about Maggie and her work by visiting her website, ww...

Lousy, selfish millennials hogging all the avocados and... turning 40?!? Catherine Shoichet of CNN Digital joins Biz to talk generational labels and being the bologna in the sandwich. Plus, Biz says thank you. Read Catherine's piece, " Millennials like me turned 40 this year. Everything you think you know about us is wrong " on CNN Digital. Learn more about Catherine and her writing at her website...