To All the Men I've Tolerated Before

This week, Natalie is joined by Julianna Coughlin. Julianna is the host of the Puffcast but is taking a break from her Hufflepuff lifestyle to do a deep dive on the misogyny within the Twilight films and movies. The two women chat about toxic relationship dynamics, weird story arcs the series took, and how literature can affect the way you feel about dating and forming relationships. Edward and Be...

Natalie is joined once again by Trina Ross. You’ve heard Trina commiserate with Natalie about how unemployment changed their mindsets on the workforce in Unemployment Broke My Brain. Now, Trina is back to share her passion about how you remove the mental and emotional stress that is working on your finances. Trina goes over the importance of goal setting and other tips while Natalie focuses on the...

Natalie is joined this week by Shehla Faizi. Shehla produces and hosts the podcast, "I'm A Muslim (And That's Okay!)", which is her take on creating a counter-narrative to popular media perceptions about Muslims. The women come together to talk about the parallel misogynistic practices experienced through their two different cultures. The resounding truth is when these faiths and political systems...

This episode was recorded live on Fireside. This week Natalie asks the Fireside audience to help answer her eternal question: “How am I supposed to date?” She revisits themes presented in episode four and reflects on how she feels about dating and her sexuality one year later. Her and members of the live audience share examples of their dating patterns including Natalie’s pattern of losing herself...

This week is a special episode with guest Wendi Cooper! Wendi Cooper is the Founder and Creative Director of C Spot Run Productions and the host of The 5 with Wendi Cooper and The Wendi Cooper Show- StoryViews Humans Over 50. Wendi is going to dish with Natalie about the men she has tolerated, whether it was men she had to consult, clients of her boss, or any other man who came into contact with W...

In this week’s episode, Natalie is joined by Julia Washington from Pop Culture Makes Me Jealous to discuss all things blaming and shaming in Hollywood. The women were inspired to process how women are shamed by our society by taking a look at how our culture revolves around judging celebrities. Topics of discussion will be celebrity divorce, court cases, and why we feel such ownership to celebriti...

This week, Natalie has Natalie New on to help her process something that has been bothering her. Natalie and Natalie have a huge love for the cast of Critical Role. With that love, came the heartbreaking realization that the community that surrounds the cast can sometimes bully, harass, or even threaten the female cast members just because they play Dungeons and Dragons a little differently than t...

Annie Sieg joined Natalie on Fireside to revisit themes of episode 32 “Making Bodies Art”. Natalie and Annie revisit some of their artwork that reflects how they were feeling about their bodies, their mental/emotional state, or how they felt about their art at the time of creating the piece. Filters being rampant on social media, body image changing over time, insecurities, and how our mental heal...

To All The Men I’ve Tolerated Before, the weekly podcast where host, Natalie Katona, invites guests on the podcast to chat about living in the world of men. The podcast delves into different male tropes the world has had to endure like the sports guy, the toxic boss, or the needy boyfriend. It also allows the guests to delve into how men have affected their comfort levels in the communities they t...

Natalie is joined this week by Marissa Meizz, founder of No More Lonely Friends. The challenge for this episode is diving deep on what it means to maintain friendships once you are an adult. The two women discuss roadblocks to healthy friendships such as wanting to fix everything for friends, the fear of rejection, only having enough time to work and not socialize, and the toll toxic friendships c...

Natalie is so excited this week to be talking to Brianna Peters from Sad in the City and Gotham Production Studios! Brianna has grown up in Ohio and  begun her adventure out of the Midwest by moving to New York City. The two women talk about the point in which they knew the Midwest and the areas they’ve grown up in no longer fit their dreams or aspirations for themselves. They also reflect on how...

This week, Natalie was honored to have a conversation with youth activist, Anusha Singh. Anusha is associated with Period.org, an organization that raises awareness on period poverty and fights to end the stigma against menstruation. Anusha and Natalie chat about her experiences going in front of Ohio legislators to speak against pink taxes on feminine products. They also do a deep dive on how per...

This week, Natalie is joined by one of her favorite coworkers, Marchea Wiley. Natalie immediately felt a connection with Marchea because they have something very important in common. Both women are on the path to taking their creativity and talents and making their brands lucrative. The friends have a very honest discussion on why 9-5’s and working for someone else isn’t working for them at all. T...

On To All the Men I’ve Tolerated Before’s premiere live episode on Fireside, Natalie is highlighting some of the amazing guests from season 1! Join the panel as they walk you through how each episode will help you face what you’ve tolerated, reflect on how you grew, and be a source of positivity by manifesting a better future. Already on Team Tolerator? You may notice that this show runs different...

Natalie is joined this week by a very special friend, Karlee. Karlee came into Natalie’s life and she immediately saw herself in the big personality that Karlee wears with pride. The two women are going to talk about the pitfalls they fall into when they try to bring their large demeanors and make them fit into dating spaces. One question they continue to ponder is whether or not they will always...

This week Natalie is joined by Caitlin Grant to talk about the ins and outs of how our society views single people. The women get real about the financial strain and emotional landscape it takes to be single in today’s world. Whether it is getting questioning glances from loved ones, feeling like everything in your life is on you and you’re without support, or wondering why your achievements aren’...

This week Elizabeth Kyle is back and she helped Natalie realize she didn’t escape religious trauma. The goal of this episode was for Elizabeth to talk about Southern Bible Belt culture and it immediately shifted. The women have a cathartic hour where they let themselves express all the ways that the beliefs that were imposed on them in their youth through Christianity actually had a lasting effect...

This week, Natalie is getting some extra help on how to spot narcissism and abuse in relationships from Dr. Natalie Jones. Dr. Jones is the host of the podcast A Date with Darkness. Her goal is to take her experience and turn painful experiences of narcissistic abuse into healing nuggets. She is going to help Natalie wrap her mind around the true definition of narcissism and someone with narcissis...

Natalie is joined by the lovely Julia Washington from Pop Culture Makes Me Jealous for this week’s episode. Julia has experienced a thrill that Natalie has only dreamed of, dating musicians. They talk about the ins and outs of what makes musicians so magnetic to the two of them. The stage presence, the big hair, the raw talent, and the extreme eye contact are the things that make Natalie and Julia...

Natalie is joined this week by Lindy and Stephy from Turn of the Millennials! They will be chatting about everything millennials have lived through when it comes to dating. Grinding in a dark school gym, limited text messages, no phone calls until after 9:00pm, and group hangs were the hallmarks of how Millennials had to navigate dating in their teens. Then, the world shifted and Millennials were...

Natalie and her guest, Elizabeth, do not love themselves enough to ignore a bad boy in a leather jacket! Why? Because of the Shawn Hunters and Dawson Leerys of the world! Elizabeth is going to help Natalie dive deep into how the 90’s Male Protagonists that they grew up watching set them up for some awful dating mindsets. Why does Natalie love to caretake her partners and fix men? Probably because...

This week, Natalie has the distinct pleasure of interviewing one of the first supporters of TATMITB, Delanie Fischer. Delanie is the amazing host of E-Ficionado and the co-host of Self-Helpless. She is going to walk Natalie through her minimalist lifestyle and how relationships, capitalism, and the patriarchy play a role in her choice to live minimalistically. Her motto “I’m going to do only the t...

This week is an especially exciting week for Natalie! She is joined by Remy Kassimir, comedian and host of the podcast How C*m, to talk about their experiences trying to communicate about orgasming and pleasure with partners! Remy was a fantastic mentor for an hour as her and Natalie maneuvered through their past partners and how talking to them about pleasure has gone. Natalie lets Remy into her...

This week, Natalie is joined by a new friend, Taryn. Taryn began her nursing career on the brink of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She will walk Natalie through the struggles that nurses went through while we were honking our horns to celebrate them. The two women will also have an honest conversation about nurses’ perceived cost to a hospital compared to doctors’ worth to the hospital as well as what hap...

This week, Natalie has the amazing Sarah Casper on the podcast to talk about her work with teaching students about comprehensive consent. What do acroyoga and consent have in common? They revolve around having the communication skills to pull off having a conversation about what makes you comfortable and what your boundaries are whether its in a yoga pose or in a sexual relationship. Sarah helps N...