EhMaGawd!

This episode of EhMaGawd is all about getting back out there. Whether you’re suffering a debilitating loss or just a bad haircut, a voice eventually announces, “Last call at the pity party,” to tell you it’s time to move on. Sometimes that voice is a friend who is tired of watching you mope, but most often it’s your own. Can you trust it? What if you make the same mistakes all over again? And how do you nawt get unhinged on Hinge? We get into all of it.

Digressions include: Figs as fashion, the F.O.M. strategy, and why men ghost on dating apps.

Plus, we’ll help a GLU who’s trying to live her best life, but someone very important to her is holding her back.

Enjoy!

Welcome to another book club/summer collection episode of EhMaGawd. This one is all about Dylan, who has a lot to learn about love, the tennis kind and the romantic kind.

Dylan spends her summer in Hawaii, blackmailing Svetlana Slootskia, a hot tennis star with severe anger issues. Having just finished a stint in rehab after knocking a ball girl’s teeth out on national television, Svetlana needs a comeback. And Dylan? She needs to lose her lip virginity to J.T., a Zac Ephron type who has the hots for Svetlana.

Still with us?

Dylan takes a page from Massie’s manipulative playbook, intentionally pisses off Svetlana, and records her tantrum on her LG Chocolate phone. (Remember those? Lisi, who wrote about it, didn’t.) Dylan promises to erase the incriminating video if Svetlana teaches her how to become a hot blond tennis star, so she has a chance with J.T. For those who don’t remember, Dylan is a redhead who has never played tennis and detests exercise. What could possibly go right?

Digressions include: chicken with raisins and cinnamon, 23 & Me, and Lisi’s real-time revelation, The Clique College Collection. Fun idea, right?

xoxo Lisi & Ellen

In today’s episode of EhMaGawd, we’re talking about the P-word.

Pain.

When it’s therapeutic to share your discomfort, when it's detrimental, and when it's okay to tell someone to shut the F up and do something about it. Because you don’t want to be the miserable GLU no one wants to sit beside at the birthday brunch, but you also don’t want to be so stoic no one can relate. It’s a hard balance to strike, but we figure it out, thanks to some inspiration from Lisi’s hardcore friend who got her tonsils removed without anesthesia. #Russia

Digressions include: hair as an indicator of mental health; trying to have compassion for balding men but not quite getting there; the doc You Can See Everything; and why Ellen has reached her Austin city limit.

We’ll answer a very relatable question from a GLU who is acting a little too needy toward her crush. In addition to our Orna-grade advice, Lisi recommends Elizabeth Gilbert’s stunningly honest memoir, All the Way to the River. If you think you get a little extra when you want reassurance…my Gawd. 

Welcome GLUS! If you ever wondered how the Pretty Committee summered between seventh and eighth grade, the Clique Summer Collection is for you. It featured five novellas: Massie, Claire, Alicia, Dylan, and Kristen, which came in an ah-dorable jewley box with a cosmetic bag full of Glossip Girl lip gloss. Don’t remember? Lisi busts hers out and models it for you. Caution: you will be jealous.

Ah-bviously we’re starting with MASSIE.

Short story shorter: She gets the hoof from riding camp after she glues a girl to her saddle. In their biggest parenting move yet, the Blocks take Massie’s credit cards away until she repays them for camp. And she does. By selling makeup to twelve-year-olds.

WARNING: If you or someone you love is sensitive to face-shaming, outdated Puff Daddy references, or tweens who openly humiliate their friends to sell beauty products, the novella might not be for you.

But the conversation is.

Lisi and Ellen debate the pros and cons of Massie Block’s approach and share a technique for giving advice that will help you get your point across without getting canceled.

Enjoy at your own risk!

xoxo Lisi & Ellen

In today’s episode of EhMaGawd: what makes an alpha girl so alpha-y? What’s the one thing all alphas have in common? What makes a clique work? What blows them up? And what do RHONY, SATC, The Clique, and Bridesmaids teach us about the social systems we unconsciously create in real life?

Digressions include Ellen’s Botox math, Italy prep, and self-care.

This episode of EhMaGawd goes out to all the GLUs with scars on their hearts or, in Ellen’s case, open wounds.

Ellen opens up about her devastating breakup with the man she thought she would marry. She’s brave, honest, and deeply vulnerable. You don’t have to be nursing a fresh wound to find meaning in her story, but if you are, grab a box of Puffs (with lotion) and know that you are not alone.

Even if you’re not ready to move on, this conversation will definitely help you move forward. 

Unfun Fact: There are two questions every GLU has asked her crush at one point or another:

1. Are you okay?
2. What are you thinking about?

99.9% of the time, their answers are:

1. Yeah.
2. Nuthin’.
3. Now the GLU is spiraling because she assumes he’s hiding something. But what if there were a way to find out what was happening between those waxy ears of his? Thanks to the Pretty Committee, there is.

Today we’re cackling about the eighth novel in the Clique series: Sealed With A Diss, where we finally get to see what’s inside Skye Hamilton’s secret room.

Eh.

Ma.

Gawd.

It’s ah-mazing.

In addition to the incredible contents, the girls have access to a secret camera that records the Sensitivity Training class at Briarwood Academy. The days of wondering what their crushes think are over. Now they can actually find out. And what they learn will change their relationships forever.

Lisi and Ellen talk about snooping in general: when it’s useful, when it’s problematic, and when it calls for a restraining order.

Digressions include: Lisi’s COVID, RHONY, The Notebook, and why everyone assumes Layne Abeley is queer.

Enjoy!

xoxo Lisi & Ellen

Hi GLUs!

As you know, most conversations about aging focus on how to cheat it: look younger, feel stronger, think clearer. But we rarely talk about the sloppy junk drawer of ages we schlepp inside us every day. The restless 6-year-old, the brooding 15-year-old, the lost 23-year-old, and on and on and on…

So, on this episode of EhMaGawd, we talk about the dizzying ricochet we feel as we shoot from one age to the other, depending on what’s happening in real time. What “age stage” do we revert to when we’re at our worst? And for the love of Gawd, why can’t we stop feeling like insecure teenagers?

And speaking of ricochet, there are endless digressions in this one. Lisi’s empty next, Ellen’s new one, Mad Men, and the best decade for music, to name a few. 

Prepare to have your mind, body, and spirit buh-lown away. Today on EhMaGawd, you get to meet our smart, sassy, and loving SOUL sister, Penelope Mandel. Penelope tells us how she knew she was a spiritual intuitive, what it feels like to communicate with the other side, and whether or not we should be afraid of dying.

Her visions have saved her own life, the lives of her clients, and have even helped the New York Police Department solve crimes. How does she do a reading while holding objects? Over the phone? On the subway? Would we be able to throw her a surprise party without her knowing? And why were Ellen and Lisi sweating so damn much while talking to her?

If you have Penelope’s gift, you already know the answers to these questions. For those of you who don’t, listen up. It’s a great one.

Want a 30-minute reading from Penelope? Text her at 917.796.8205.

Pro tip: wear a strong antiperspirant.

One year.

Twelve mindsets.

A new you every month.

That’s what we’re exploring in this episode of EhMaGawd. Because whoever came up with the whole New Year’s resolution thing, which then morphed into the New Year’s intention thing, had it all wrong. How are we supposed to set goals in January for the GLUs we will become in May, October, or December? We can’t; that’s how.

This is what Mindset of the Month is all about. We’ll tell you what inspired it, what ours are for August, and how the “fresh start effect” will help you tame the fire horse that is 2026 so it doesn’t trample you. So, saddle up, buttercup, let’s ride!