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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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It’s Giving Junior Varsity Tradwife: The Viral Pipeline Grooming Gen Z Girls

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Sunday Nice Things: (RE) Committed

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The PBS Kids Crisis: It’s Not Just About Sesame Street

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The Quiet Influence and Power of Dolly Parton

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Sunday Nice Things: That Aged Well

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Father’s Day Shouldn’t Be a Hallmark Holiday—It Should Be a Reckoning

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How to Get Published: A Literary Agent Tells All

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Sunday Nice Things: Glamorous Trash

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Welcome to the Cult of Skinny with EJ Dickson

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MAGA Makeovers and the Death of Individuality

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Sunday Nice Things: The Secret Lives of Debt Heads

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Motherhood Has Been Hacked With Amanda Hess

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An Influencer's Child Died and the Internet Came For Her

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Sunday Nice Things: On Drugs, from Other People’s Problems

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Is Motherhood Hard Everywhere, or Just in America?

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Is Your Kid an Asshole or Just a Kid? With Melinda Wenner Moyer

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Sunday Nice Things: How to Write a Good Book with Andi Bartz

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Where's the F*cking Village?

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What If You’re Not Sure You Want Kids?

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Sunday Nice Things: Your New Favorite Kid Podcast

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How to Raise Successful Kids with Susan Dominus

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Raising Good Humans Without God: A Secular Parenting Survival Guide

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Sunday Nice Things: The Family Skeptical

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The Wild Courage to Go After What You Want (with former Google Exec Jenny Wood)

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We Survived Girls Gone Wild Just to Get Tradwives?

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Sunday Nice Things: Normal Curves

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Will Your Kid Have to be a Brand to Survive?

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Lessons from Spring Break: Trashtasic Vegas With Kids, Zion, and a Baby Who Hate...

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Is Megan Markle a #TradWife?

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Bridget Jones, Real Lady Necks, and the Golden Age of Rom-Coms (with Erin Carlso...

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Sunday Nice Things: Parenting in the Digital Age with These Packs Puck

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Did You Think Life Would Be Better Than This?

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Your Hormones Aren’t the Problem—This Is

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How Toxic Masculinity and Online Spaces Are Reshaping Boyhood

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What's Worse Than The Glass Ceiling? The Broken Rung!

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Will You Ever Be Enough? A Chat With Melissa Arnot?

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Are Influencers Ruining Italy?

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Sunday Nice Things: Too Much Money

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America Gets a Failing Grade in Women's Health—SURPRISE!

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What if Social Media Were Good for Tween Girls?

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Navigating Grief and Grief Influencing Online

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Can You Change Your Personality?

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Sunday Nice Things: How Do I Balance My Hormones?

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How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Blowing up Your to Follow Your Dreams Life with Elle Cosimano

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Scrubbing Toilets to the Today Show: Tyler Moore's Accidental Influence

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Sunday Nice Things: How to Build a Bookish Community

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Having a Baby Can Break You with Sarah Hoover

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How to Communicate Better On and Offline with Charles Duhigg

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Sunday Nice Things: Romances & Practicalities with Nick Aster

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