A story went viral on the NY Post and Reddit in the past 24 hours claiming that a husband left his wife because he became OBSESSED with a #tradwife on TikTok. This is the headline: TikTok ruined my husband of 12 years — now he wants a ‘tradwife’ and we’re… Listen ⇢

Quick update on the Ruby Franke story wherein everyone throws everyone else under the bus. Kevin Franke says he and Ruby were separated! He has been in “a fog” for the past year. Her sisters call her a narcisscist who should be put away forever and her sister-in-law just says… Listen ⇢

I want to tell all of you moms out there something very important today. You are a good mom, a good parent, a good caretaker. You are good. You are good at taking care of your children.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Listen on Spotify Listen ⇢

Does the Internet fundamentally hate women? Social media platforms can be a battleground, often subjecting women to harsh criticism and verbal violence. And no one knows that better than tech reporter, author and general Internet bad ass Taylor Lorenz.  Taylor has been called a lot of things online. She has… Listen ⇢

How many of you remember the Katie Sorensen story?  Maybe you don’t remember the name, but you might remember the episode we did a couple of years ago about the mom influencer in the Michael’s parking lot who falsely accused a Latino couple of trying to kidnap her kids to… Listen ⇢

Mom influencing is a multi-billion dollar industry. How the hell did we get here? How did influencing become a job? Why doesn’t Wikipedia mention mom bloggers in their history of women and what does the 19th Century economic philosopher Thorstein Veblen have to do with why we are so enchanted… Listen ⇢

There is a Harvard of influencing. Yes, you read that correctly. And we’re going there…or, at least we’re applying. Until recently Instagram was for looking, not buying. But one very savvy tech founder helped to solve that disconnect; a woman, naturally. Amber Venz Box is a 34 year old mother of… Listen ⇢

It’s no secret the internet can be a terrible place to be a woman. Any woman who ends up in the spotlight faces an intense amount of criticism and hate. For many reasons, the majority of that hate tends to come from other women and in the mom influencer industrial… Listen ⇢

In the influencer industry, women make more money than men, but, as in the real world, there’s still a steep racial pay gap. There’s an Instagram account that documents this. @InfluencerPayGap brings transparency to the money influencers make from brands and also to document the pay gap between white influencers… Listen ⇢