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Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza

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Under the Influence is a deep dive into social media, a place haunted by aspirational marketing where it feels like every other person is a social media influencer trying to sell you something, all while posed in perfect houses that never seem to get messy. And behind this airbrushed perfection is money, so much money. Billions and billions of dollars. Journalist and mom Jo Piazza looks at how we got here, what it all means and how the commodification of every single aspect of our lives is drivi...

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Taylor Frankie Paul is a Bingeable Trainwreck and ABC and the Bachelorette Knew...

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Women Are Being Gaslit About Birth, a Chat With Dr. Jennifer Lincoln

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How the Right Won the Attention Economy

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Sunday Nice Things: Creation Myth

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How Reality TV Changed How We Consume Stories with Survivor's Stephen Fishbach

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Is This Actually a Love Story? JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, the Nineties and Pa...

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Not Having Kids Is Not a Tragedy

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How Vulnerable Kids Became Clickbait

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How History Erased Mothers

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Grab Bag: Where Did Love Taza Go?

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Sunday Nice Things: Birth With Babylist

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Can You Actually Retire Early When You Have Kids?

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How to Be a Rich Old Lady

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Toe Pick!

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Grab Bag: The Ballerina Farm Raw Milk Scandal, Hating on the Katies & Intellectu...

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Moms Drive the Economy. So Why Are They Still Underpaid?

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Why Planning Summer Has Become a Nightmare

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From Momfluencers to MILFs: Who Gets Labeled a Bad Mother

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Moms Just Want (Deserve) to Have Fun

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Perimenopause, GLPs, and the Medical Gaslighting of Women

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The Heated Rivalry Episode

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Sunday Nice Things: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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Just a Busy Season and Other Lies We Tell About Motherhood

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My Most Anticipated Book of the Year

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More Joy in January

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Tidying up in the New Year with Tidy Dad

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What We Want Less of in 2026

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Holding Rosie: A Mother’s Story of SUDC and Survival

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How to Build Deep Friendships Without Burning Yourself Out

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How to Travel with Kids

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Sunday Nice Things: Dissecting Tradwives and Feminism

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We've Reached Peak Tradwife

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Holiday Rage, Hormones, and the Power of No

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Sunday Nice Things: Inside the World of a Teenage Tik-Tok Star

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Australia Just Banned Social Media for Teens. What Happens Next

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The Books by Women History Tried to Forget

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Sunday Nice Things: The Nanny Wars

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The Author Who Took On AI and Won

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You're Not Broken, Our Idea of Motherhood Is

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All the London Recommendations with Three Feral Kids

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Sunday Nice Things: Uncover

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Do I Need a Hobby?

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The Women History Forgets

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Can Instagram Ever Be Safe for Teens?

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Guns & Gossip: My So Called Life Rewatch Episode Three

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Rewatch My So Called Life With Me

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We’re Not Going Quietly Into Perimenopause

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The Antidote to Tradwife Economics

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How to Unf*ck Your Conditioning as a Mother

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How to Find an Agent and Sell a Book

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