We Should Talk About That

Send me a Text Message about the show! Jess and Jess are coming to you live from  Nepenthe  Art Gallery located in Ft. Hunt/Alexandria, VA.  The theme of this audience involved conversation was centered around women (and a few men!) in their 40's, 50's and 60's deciding to move toward other areas of professional interest in second, third, fourth iterations of their careers. Attendee...

Send me a Text Message about the show! You might have seen her on an interview last week with Glennon Doyle- but here they are- and The Two Jess(es) get to talk to her too! One of the most exciting interviews and conversations for these two self-professed self-help junkies, the leading pioneer of the self-help movement, Melody Beattie is here to talk about the ever confusing and all consuming prac...

Send me a Text Message about the show! If you are one to lose yourself on Instagram or TikTok watching food accounts, most likely you have run across Becca Rae-Tucker, AKA @thesweetfeminist. Becca started using cake as a canvas for expressing her political opinion, specifically about abortion and female productive rights and the concept has really taken off. With several hundred thousand followers...

Send me a Text Message about the show! We’re sharing a special episode from another podcast, A Slight Change of Plans , from Pushkin Industries. In this preview first responder, Christy Warren, a firefighter and paramedic for over 25 years, was used to being the one to help people. That was until the trauma she repressed from the harder parts of the job caught up with her and she ended up being th...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Since 1970, women have added 2 TRILLION dollars to the United States economy through their increased labor force participation, and we have lost 67% of that progress since the beginning of the pandemic. On top of that, the inflation rate of goods and services towards women is DOUBLE that of goods and services towards men. Katica Roy, gender economist, and fou...

Send me a Text Message about the show! As a homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was the only escape from her dysfunctional childhood. But upward mobility required crafting the perfect resilience narrative. She had to prove that she was an “overcomer,” made stronger by all that she had endured.  The truth was more comp...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Cody Keenan rose from a campaign intern in his hometown to become the chief speechwriter at the White House and Barack Obama’s post-presidential collaborator- and he is here to share his experiences with Jess and Jess. In particular and of most interest in this conversation are the ten days in June of 2015, following the mass murder of nine Black worshipers i...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Even though the First Amendment actually prohibits view-based restrictions on access, school districts across the country are banning books that address perceived "sensitive topics," such as issues related to LGBTQ+ topics in reading material, but The 19th*'s education reporter, Nadra Nittle, gives Jess and Jess a full spectrum understanding of...

Send me a Text Message about the show! This is the stuff. Jess and Jess get the tremendous opportunity to chat with Vanessa Bennett, host of Cheaper Than Therapy podcast and co-author of It's Not Me , It's You. (out September 6, 2022) Vanessa and her therapist partner, Jon Kim (The Angry Therapist) have compiled a top ten list of relationship struggles they see with their own clients, as...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Jess and Jess kick off SEASON 4 with a characteristically vulnerable, and at times, uncomfortable, reflection on the last three seasons of podcasting, and how the state of openness and abundance is informing how they move forward in the podcast, and in their lives. This season's conversation will be geared around the word, the feeling, the reality of ABU...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Abundance.  More than enough. Plenty.  Jess and Jess are ready to tackle that concept and will be bringing you all sorts of ideas, experiences and opinions around the idea, reality and state of being in abundance for the entire next season! You can follow the show on Instagram at  @westatpod (https://www.instagram.com/ ) If you would like to keep up with all...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Jess and Jess love to talk about grief. So this week's conversation with licensed grief therapist, Edy Nathan, around her bestselling book, "It's Grief," where she examines the emotional and devastating impact of loss and trauma. Grief is hard to talk about- but in this conversation, grief is framed within the context of the Hero/Shero&apo...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Ableism. It's everywhere- in the media, in our schools, in the line at the supermarket. But how many of us actually understand what it is, and the part we play in it? Alycia Anderson, founder and CEO of The Alycia Anderson Company, LLC. Working tirelessly to educate companies and other founders on diversity, equity, inclusion, Alycia considers herself a...

Send me a Text Message about the show! What defines a toxic relationship? Well, it's a spectrum- and it isn't JUST about intimate relationships- it can by any relationship that feels unhealthy. And you are the only person who gets to decide when it feels unhealthy for YOU. The toxic personalities are all about filling themselves up, says Dr. Heidi, and because many of us, especially as w...

Send me a Text Message about the show! What does it mean to be "too old?" Bonnie Marcus has researched this question considerably and  maintains that we, as women, hold ourselves back with self-sabotaging beliefs that we are too old to be taken seriously, or move to the next professional step. Bonnie has made it her mission to support women of all ages, but especially those who are 50+ a...

Send me a Text Message about the show! It is undisputed that COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on all of us, worldwide. Job juggling, The Great Resignation, social justice, Black Lives Matter, our health, and overall peace of mind- but more than anything, our CHILDREN- what about the children? Not one of us has escaped this mess unscathed. In her new book, The Stolen Year (due out August 23, 2022) Nation...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Dr. Amie Hornaman, a.k.a The Thyroid-Fixer, is a woman on a mission to optimize thyroid patients around the world and give them their lives back using her proprietary transformational program: The FIX Method. She is also the founder of the Institute for Thyroid and Hormone Optimization. After her own experience of insufferable symptoms, misdiagnoses and impro...

Send me a Text Message about the show! As we move out of some of the loneliest years in recent history as a result of isolating, covid and ever polarizing events causing division in our world,  Jess and Jess sit down with wellness and loneliness expert, Olivia Ash. Olivia breaks down the actual definition loneliness and how often project our perceived impressions are what we create our own definit...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Safety expert and former scientist, Cathy Pedrayes is best known to her 2.3 million TikTok followers as the “mom friend.” With her signature blue dress and pearls, Cathy's content includes clever safety tips, such as how sleeping with a door closed can save a life and go-to lies for awkward situations. Cathy’s safety life hacks have been covered by Good...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Herrin Hopper and Holly Harper met in 2015 when their kids were in the same preschool program on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Through normal socializing with other parents, somehow six moms - all married and all living in the same 10-block radius - became friends. Sometime in 2016, Holly disclosed to Herrin that her marriage was in BIG trouble. Infidelity...

Send me a Text Message about the show! We, along with millions of women in America, are feeling the depths of despair, panic and grief. We are heartbroken. 💔 The law, as it stands now, has overturned women’s rights to make decisions about their own bodies, their futures regarding motherhood and economy- in one fell swoop, futures have been stolen, autonomy has been smashed and the patriarchy has...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Growing up a Queer Bangladeshi Muslim in Australia, Róisín struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, Róisín distanced herself from her South Asian heritage and identity. Years later, living in the United States, she realized that the customs, practices, and even food of her native culture that had once made her different—everything from ashwagandha to p...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Jess and Jess realized that one of the most popular points of conversation with their friends (40 and over!) has been what to do about their aging faces. Botox? Age gracefully? Sunscreen? Serums? Facials? What's good, what's bad, what's somewhere in between? So they decided to bring this conversation to a wider audience, and invited their WeSTA...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Who else thinks living in a 30 foot converted school bus and traveling around the country taking empowering photos of women in nature sounds like THE DREAM? Incredibly talented photographer, Sarah Marcella spent 2.5 months traveling the US in her Subaru a few years ago in order to really learn how to be alone, with herself in all her many layers. And what she...

Send me a Text Message about the show! Jess and Jess have felt lost, forlorn, broken-hearted and out of words this last week. Shocked and encompassed soul crushing grief, along with many other Americans, TTJ(es) had to sit in the muck of shock until they came to the same conclusion: We HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS. One of the best things about building this WeSTAT community is so many are willing to si...