Satellite Sisters

Finding the Fun! Favorite Moments of this Satellite Sisters Season. Julie's Mod Squad. Caftan Dreams. Marriage Tips. Satellite Sisters Celebration Afterglow.  Funniest Highlights of 2021. Caftan Dreams! Marriage Tips! Julie’s Mod Squad and our after-party from the 20th anniversary show. Enjoy the sisters' picks of the brightest spots of this year assembled together on one podcast episode. Hilarity...

This is the Satellite Sisters  Friends & Fiction Special  for Summer 2021. On today’s show, fascinating interviews about their books and their lives with authors  Mary Alice Monroe, Kristin Harmel and Kristy Woodson Harvey. Mary Alice Monroe Kristin Harmel Kristy Woodson Harvey Three new books out, but three totally different life stories! We’ve also talked to  Mary Kay Andrews  and  Patti Cal...

Our favorite Olympics moments so far, some thank-you's to listeners who are in Japan, some warnings about hiking with Google and an interview with  Naomi Hirahara , author of Clark & Division, featured on our  Best Beach Bag Books list. Clark & Division is historical fiction meets mystery, available August 3. Here's a great  list of Naomi Hirahara's book events.  You can  order Clark &...

Our Satellite Sisters Summer Olympics Special: What we are looking forward to, what we will miss and a special interview with  Kat Holmes, member of USA Fencing  who is going for the gold and daughter of longtime Satellite Sisters listener Lorrie! Satellite Sister of the Week:  Astronaut Wally Funk . Thanks,  NBC ! We'll be watching ALL the  Olympic action, starting with the Opening Ceremonies  Fr...

Gen Z wants to kill email? Magpies are more deadly than bears? Citrus oils don't belong on your face? Giant goldfish are taking over Minnesota lakes? What is happening, people??? If Gen Z kills emai l, which the NYT says they are trying to do, where will we find all of our messages? Vacationing in the Colorado mountains, Julie spies a bear, a  wolf  and a magpie and has advice for encountering eac...

The big reveal of the Satellite Sisters Best Beach Bag Books List for 2021! The complete list of our picks is on our  blog at satelltesisters.com . Today we discuss our choices and also interview best-selling author  Christina Baker Kline  about her l atest book The Exiles , just out now in paperback. On the episode, we mention a few of our favorites below but they are ALL on the  FULL LIST HERE  ...

Summer Cooking Spectacular! Liz launches the new Cooking With Liz: Summer of Snacks and Claire Tansey joins us with summer recipes and two new classes to announce: Summer Cooking School for Tweens and Teens (Sisters get $20 off with code EASY20 and all prices are CAD):  https://cart.learnlife.ca/summer-cooking-school/ Summer Cocktails Master Class:  https://cart.learnlife.ca/cocktails-masterclass/...

The Satellite Sisters interview the author of the heartfelt and hilarious  The Guncle Steven Rowley . Previously by Rowley, bestsellers  Lily and the Octopus  and  The Editor . Lian Dolan  announces a new Sweeney Sisters contest on  Instagram ! It's called #SweeneysintheWild. Post your photos of The Sweeney Sisters book in the wild - reading at the beach, on your bedside table, in the library, any...

Naomi Osaka, UFO's Yes or No, Post-Pandemic Tipping, Sweeney Sisters Online Book Clubs Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open for mental health reasons: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/07/naomi-osaka-among-new-generation-tennis-stars-opening-up-about-racism-mental-health/ Article by Lindsay Crouse about Naomi Osaka and Michelle Wie West. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/sports/golf...

Liz's #littlevictories, Lian's caftan dreams and Julie's post-covid roundtable Post-Covid anxieties: Cave Syndrome : The struggle is real. Are you feeling it? Airplane freak-out : Lian fears a similar fate. Early motto for 2022? Liz is stealing  Backroads'  theme: Dolce Tempo! Entertaining Sisters: Julie recommends  HGTV Hometown Takeover Lian celebrates Jean Smart Week!  Hacks and Mare of Easttow...

Today's #1 Lesson: Whip The Pony! Some quick sports psychology for all.  The Man Who Didn't Invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos.  Story in LA Times.   Podcast interview  with Sam Dean, the LA Times business reporter who wrote the story. The  business of snacking . The latest on  Bill Gates' behavior at Microsoft . Wedding Trends for 2021 from The Knot.  Entertaining Sisters: The Marfa Tapes   Jack Ingram,...

We interview Chandra Sanders about  The Mom Project , retraining and supporting women who want to get back into the workforce after the pandemic. Here's  Chandra on NBC News . Here's more info about  RISE .  Cicadas  are coming! Lian's  Vegan Farro Salad  and  Flatbread Pizza  are a hit! Entertaining Sisters: We recommend  Girls5Eva on Peacock . (BTW,  Peacock is free .) Fantastic cast and so funn...

Mother's Day Shout-Outs, Sweatpants Bonfires, Yeti Lifestyle, Interview with author Mary Kay Andrews We share your Mother's Day dedications this week plus we interview author  Mary Kay Andrews , whose  latest book The Newcomer  is just out. Mary Kay is one of the authors who hosts  Friends and Fiction on Facebook . The Satellite Sisters will appear on Friends and Fiction on Mother's Day.  Log in  ...

Lian's Volunteer Career, MOD Squad saves Julie's day, Liz's Major Dog Announcement So many dog tales this week, starting with  this one from Lian's friend . Liz has an announcement about her dog Hooper and is skeptical about that  photo of Tiger Woods with his dog . 40 days in a French cave ? Julie doesn't get it. News on  COVID vaccines and false mammogram positives . Lian tracks the trajectory o...

Our guest is  Annabelle Gurwitch, author of You're Leaving When? Adventures in Downwardly Mobility. Entertaining Sisters: Book Clubs for Lian Dolan's The Sweeney Sisters now out in paperback : Sign up for  Lian's groups on June 3rd and June 16th on Crowdcast.  Or go to Lian's website and request a visit to your own book club! Nomadland on Hulu.  Highly recommended by Lian. Two animal-related shows...

We recap the wonderful Satellite Sisters Celebration at Sixth & I. Two paws up! What did you miss behind the screens? We review. Many thanks to the wonderful team at Sixth & I and to our event sponsor AWAY . HOW TO BUY A TICKET TO THE ZOOM RECORDING: If you did not buy a ticket to the live #satsisterscelebration, but would like to buy the Zoom recording of the show, you can do that here ....

Today is Sweeney Sisters Paperback Pub Date! Congratulations, Lian Dolan! Plus Tuesday Trends, Health News, Tickets for Sunday's LIVE Satellite Sisters Celebration, Mike Nichols: A Life  Lian Dolan's The Sweeney Sisters is published in paperback TODAY.  Links for ordering here . Tickets for our  LIVE Virtual Satellite Sisters Celebration this Sunday here . The show featuring all five Satellite Sis...

The Satellite Sisters welcome Andrew Morton , author of the new book Elizabeth and Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters . Also, discussions of Pandemic-Provoked Projects and Re-Entry Anxiety. Plus a salute to authors Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry . Buy tickets to our LIVE April 11th Satellite Sisters Celebration and win a chance to be the Satellite Sister or Mister who plays Sat...

Special Travel Episode: Author Hannah Kirshner from Japan on her new book Water, Wood and Wild Things plus Travel Fantasies, Advice, TV and Cookbooks Welcome and Happy Pub Day to  Hannah Kirshner , author of  Water, Wood and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town . Hannah joins us from her home in Yamanaka, Japan. More about  Hannah and her book here . You can subs...

Solid Gold Satellite Sister Marlo Thomas talks about her new podcast Double Date . She and husband Phil Donahue have interviewed dozen of celebrity couples on the secrets of long-term marriage . Also today, Julie, Lian and Liz discuss the Oprah/Harry/Meghan interview on CBS . Lian shares news about the 2021 International Women of Courage . Liz announces her new Board of Director position for the W...

To kick off Women's History Month, our guest today is  best selling author Patti Callahan . Her newest work of historical fiction is  Surviving Savannah . We also recommend Wild Swan about Florence Nightingale, an Audible Original voiced by Cynthia Erivo. In other news, we discuss two new important documentaries: The new HBO documentary  Allen vs Farrow  and the Hulu documentary from the NYT  Fram...

Buy  tickets to live virtual Satellite Sisters Celebration Sunday April 11 at 7 pm EDT/4 pm PDT here on the Sixth & I  platform. The promo code for early purchase is sisters It's podcast episode #888 for the Satellite Sisters. Lucky! Winners of our lucky #satsisters888 drawings announced. Julie reviews what she learned in Texas last week. Lian has a Winter Safety Tip:  Walk Like A Penguin Liz...

In sports, who's the Greatest Of All Time? Today we discuss Tom Brady, Serena Williams and Tiger Woods. Listeners thought they saw Liz in the  Tiger documentary on HBOMax . She took a look and shares some thoughts about working with him early in his career. Plus fun news from Serena Williams at the  Australian Open here  and  a tour of her trophy room here . We discuss an interesting article about...

Writer  Nancy Johnson  joins the Satellite Sisters today to discuss her acclaimed debut novel  The Kindest Lie . Plus Liz is back with a health status report and a big announcement on her theme for 2021. PLUS, her own review of the excellent service she received from Lian and her son Colin this weekend. They came to install and deinstall a few things that will make her recovery much easier. We are...

RIP Larry King . We’ll never forget the crazy weird book party we attended at your house once for your producer  Wendy Walker’s book called Producer . Lian tells the tale of the party that Larry forgot. Satellite Sisters of the Week: The Sisters’ Gambit. Yes.  Watching sisters play chess on Twitch  is a thing.  Thank you  Amanda Gorman  for reminding us what poetry can do and the importance of the...