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I'm back with part 2 of our conversation with therapists and couple Vanessa Bennett and John Kim. In this episode, we continue with their thoughts on taking breaks from fights and confronting your partner about annoyances. Additionally, we discussed codependency, abandonment issues, personal accountability, and more! John is a licensed therapist and author whose journey started with divorce and he...

My husband, Timmy, and I talked to therapists and couple Vanessa Bennett and John Kim. We learned so much about attachment styles, love languages, the fantasy of finding the one, fighting productively, codependency, personal accountability, and so so much more. This is going to be one part of two! John is a licensed therapist and author whose journey started with divorce and healing from a broken...

LET'S TALK BEAUTY. ILIA is the OG of clean, thoughtfully formulated beauty products! I live for the Lip Wrap Reviving Balm, Multi-Stick, and Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40. You must add essentials to your beauty regime. ILIA founder Sasha Plavsic joined me to talk about thoughtful beauty, why it’s important to her, her favorite products, career advice, and more! Sasha creates safe and effective beau...

Honor Creative, a boutique design studio based in Nashville, is my go-to for creating a unique brand identity. Brooke Boling, Founder and CEO, totally understood my vision and brought it to life!! So grateful. We discussed the weight an intentional logo can have, her design process, and how to avoid creative burnout. PLUS, I get her insight on a new business venture I have. Brooke’s career spans e...

Social Media evolved the entire marketing game and fashion industry. Lindsey Carter is here to talk about her efforts in social media while creating her athleisure brand, SET! She is the Founder and CEO of SET Active, a direct-to-consumer apparel company building confidence and connection through clothing. Lindsey’s passion for cultivating community and the strategic decision to initially only rel...

Amanda Hirsch. Officially obsessed with her. So fun. If you don't listen to "Not Skinny But Not Fat, " you must! Her show and social are homes for everything pop culture, celebrity gossip, and reality TV recaps. My cup of tea!! So glad she spills it. I could talk about this stuff all day. Amanda's self-deprecating humor, honesty, and relatability will have you hooked. We talked about everything "N...

My favorite guest (and person) is back!! If you're wondering how my husband, Tim, is and what he's up to, this will answer most of your questions. We've hit some major parenting milestones, including getting Sonny into kindergarten! What a journey. We recapped that experience and talked about co-parenting to get Sonny to sleep, how T's grieving his dad, his packing tips, and more! Catch more of my...

More glam! Gimme gimme. This episode is all about HAIRSTYLING! Rosibel Del Jesus is my hairstylist in NY and one of the hardest workers I know! Lucky to know her and work with her every time I'm on the east coast. I'm so excited for you to meet her. Rosie is known for working on red carpet looks, editorial, and celebrity styling. You can find her work in Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, BRIDES, Saks Fift...

SO SO sooo excited about this episode! My new favorite makeup artist is here to educate!! As soon as we met, Isabel Y Rosado and I clicked. During New York Fashion Week, she just got me...and my skin and eyes and brows and lips, everything. We talked about all of her personal + kit essentials, broke down our favorite fashion week looks, facing our social anxiety, and more! Isabel Y Rosado is an ed...

As I mentioned last week, I ran into Kelly Cutrone at fashion week. Within two seconds we were back to our Fashion Mom/Daughter dynamic. I am so grateful we are putting the past behind us to move forward. This was so so so much fun and really filled up my heart. We laughed a lot while reminiscing about The Hills and The City! Plus, we touched on our falling out - business can get complicated but w...

Can’t express how grateful I am that I went to New York Fashion Week this year. I got more out of it than I imagined. I feel motivated, excited, rejuvenated, creative, happy…the list goes on. During this solo entry, I gave you notes on collections that spoke to me the most, what I learned about myself during my time alone, how this experience is inspiring my career goals and more! (What do you thi...

A lot of us share the goal of wanting a healthy lifestyle. It's daunting. We can easily give ourselves a hard time if we deviate only slightly. Rachael DeVaux is here to make healthy habits not so scary. We talked about easy recipes for healthy snacking, workout tips while traveling, and ways to set realistic expectations for yourself & your goals. She is a registered dietitian and personal tr...

A DAY IN THE LIFE!! SOLO JOURNAL. I love recording these. They are so refreshing to make and feel so liberating. I never thought I would love to just sit and talk alone in my office. In this audio diary I talk about: my new morning routine a new facial I tried  skincare and makeup products I'm loving right now (shop on  whitneyport.com  :D ) exciting work updates (including a little TEASER for som...

Max Stossel is a friend, Award-winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. Max’s performances are mind-expanding, profound, and hilarious all at once. We talked about his one-person show “Words That Move”! A live performance of nine stories told on stage at Kings Theater, each with its combination of live-action, VFX, and animation. It’s a fir...

We are inundated with information all day long everywhere we turn! Unfortunately, misinformation spreads like wildfire, especially in times of crisis. Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer finalist, and a CNN medical analyst who advocates for media literacy and slowing the spread of false news. She attended medical school at Cambridge University and worked as a disease det...

I love continuing this skincare conversation with many intelligent and talented industry professionals. We can get a full spectrum of information here, which is ideal as, of course, all of our skin is different! Dr. Simran Sethi, MD, taught me about her skincare research with women of color. Her skincare line, skin by Dr. Simran Sethi, helps women of color who struggle to find the right skincare p...

It’s a new year, and we are all trying to form new habits and routines. However, we must remember to give ourselves grace and allow for flexibility because success arises within variations of our goals. Michelle Segar is an award-winning lifestyle coach and sustainable behavior change researcher at the University of Michigan. For nearly three decades, she has pioneered methods to create sustainabl...

Happy New Year!! My guest is here to help us start the year in a healthier head space. Dr. Ethan Kross is one of the world's leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor and bestselling author in the University of Michigan's top-ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their he...

HIII!!! THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. Another year of WITH WHIT on the books. I can't believe it's been three years since the pilot of this podcast. I am so proud of this work, and I get to keep going because of your interest and ears. Here is a mashup of some of my favorite moments from beautiful guests! I pulled segments from these episodes: - POD'ING IN THE CAR! Tim and I Recap Our Vacay &am...

I have a new website!!! SOOOO excited! I put so much heart and soul into this and thought of you with every move I made. It is a new hub for ALL of my projects. Feels so good to have everything in one spot for you. Also, it is your one-stop shop for all products I design myself and shop for from other brands. Check out  whitneyport.com I worked with Chloe Digital on this fabulous project. During t...

This was such a cathartic one to record!! I gave you updates on Sonny's school search and the current pressures on my marriage. Stress. It's all okay. Life requires DBs, right? It felt so good to talk things through with myself. Truly an audio journal episode. The timing of this episode ended up happening perfectly as I also went through all of the relationship questions you had for me from my Ins...

 I love traveling so much. I miss the days when I did it ALL the time. Marriage, kids, and life make traveling a little more complicated! Which is fine! There is also this part of me that's a homebody loving my bubble with the boys. I learned there are ways to bring some of the little joys of traveling into your home! Darcy Guttwein is a seasoned world traveler with a passion for lifestyle improve...

I'm a major fan of Dr. Elsa Jungman's products and was thrilled to talk with her. When she was 18, she suffered from Toxic Shock Syndrome, leaving her skin incredibly sensitive. Since then, she earned a Ph. D. in Skin Pharmacology, dedicating her life to skin science. After researching the microbiome's relationship to skin health, she created her minimal and microbiome-friendly skincare line. Duri...

Empty house all to myself called for a new solo audio journal! A lot of you have questions about reality TV. So I went into a reflective dive on my experience filming 'The Hills' and 'The City' while answering the question if I'd ever do reality TV again. I also updated you on everything going on with me - what I'm grateful for, recovering from our disaster Europe trip, interviewing for Sonny's ne...

I still pinch myself over the fact that I married my best friend SEVEN years ago!! I am forever grateful to receive Timmy’s deep and powerful love. Before we jetted to Europe to celebrate our anniversary, we went through an article on JourneyforLifeNow.org titled “25 Questions All Married Couples Should Ask”. We discussed our fears, wishes for the future, traits we love, things we can improve, and...