Everything I Know About

By Everything I Know About Pod

Is it still a quarter-life crisis when you’re 30? Two charmingly obsessive friends attempt to answer life’s biggest questions with six decades of experience, some internet research, and too much expos... more

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How many episodes does Everything I Know About have?

The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.

Everything I Know About episodes:

March 20, 2024 Girl Talk: Female Founder Edition
We share the stories of four female founders we admire. From construction to candy, VC-backed to self-funded, they cover a wide spectrum of ways to build a business.
Topics covered:
-The myth of the young founder in Silicon Valley
-Different paths to found companies—venture capital vs angel investors vs bootstrapping
-Alternative exit strategies—acquisition, private equity
-How female founders lead differently
-Lucy Guo and her companies, Scale AI and Passes
-Kristine Locker and her startup Locker, a shoppable Pinterest
-Tracey Young’s $875M exit for PlanGrid and her new startup TigerEye
-Tara Bosch developing and selling SmartSweets
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37min
March 13, 2024 Living Abroad "like" the Locals
What’s the difference between an expat and a migrant? In this episode we explore the global impact of digital nomads and tourists, the community cost of airbnbs, and third-wave gentrification while unpacking our own experiences as expats.
Topics covered:
-Why are some groups labeled expats while others are migrants?
-Media portrayals vs our own experience as expats
-The rise of digital nomads
-Displacement of local populations
-The 3 waves of gentrification
-The billionaire class and investment properties
-The issue with Airbnb
-NYC’s changing response to gentrification
-Voluntourism and the ethics of being a tourist

Sources & transcript available to anyone at our ⁠Patreon⁠ ❤️
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43min
March 06, 2024 Girl Internet
The girls chat girl dinner, girl math, and the girlification of womanhood. Is Lucy secretly a clean girl? And wth is a blueberry girl?
Topics covered:
- Does the use of “girl” infantilize women? (spoiler: we think not)
- The changing connotations of womanhood & girlhood
- Cultural origins of the use of “girl”
- Girl internet & memes: girl dinner, girl math, girl hobbies, girl aesthetics
- Coquette and girlhood nostalgia
- Corporatization of the girl trend
- Modern girlhood and the influence of social media
- Sephora preteens
- Building community and togetherness

Sources & transcript available to anyone at our ⁠Patreon⁠ ❤️
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33min
February 28, 2024 Personality Tests
We each take personality tests and have some unexpected results. Is Jennifer actually likely to commit a crime of passion? 🔪 We dive into the history of personality tests, if there’s any science behind them, and why we’re all obsessed with categorizing ourselves.
Topics covered:
-The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
-The Enneagram personality test
-The Big Five personality test
-The Feelings Wheel
-How factors in our life (gender, socioeconomic status, birth order) affect our personality
-Do our personalities change over time, and can we change them intentionally?
-Why we like to categorize ourselves and ties to astrology and divination, tarot

Sources & transcript available to anyone at our ⁠Patreon⁠ ❤️
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50min
February 21, 2024 The Motherhood Decision
Why does becoming a mother feel harder than ever? We reveal our inner turmoil, unpack our fears, and try to understand what’s got us so jaded.
Topics covered:
-Frameworks to decide if you want to become a mother
-Portrayals of motherhood in the media
-The lifestyle considerations of motherhood
-Why America’s healthcare system and birthing process hurts the mother-infant bond
-The rise of the trad wife and desire for the soft life among young women
-What happens when a country’s population declines
-Ways other countries have the edge when it comes to supporting mothers
-The science behind the “geriatric pregnancy” at 35—is the cut-off accurate?

Other episodes referenced in this one:
Girlbossing Too Close to the Sun
Is Gilmore Girls America dead?
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49min
February 14, 2024 Love, Matchmaking, & Monogamy
Roses are red 🌹, violets are blue 💙, is monogamy dead or is love still true? We share a bit about our romantic lives and dive into how to find your perfect match, making love last, and the evolution of marriage.
Topics covered:
-Biologically, what makes us feel love?
-Marriage as an economic proposition and marriage for romance
-How can we make love last? (research from The Gottman Institute)
-Early predictors of divorce
-Conflict management in couples
-The history of human evolution in relation to monogamy and marriage
-Dating apps and the modern love landscape
-The New York Times 36 Questions to Fall in Love
-Polyamory and ethical non-monogamy

Sources & transcript available to anyone at our ⁠Patreon⁠ ❤️
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45min
February 07, 2024 The Chinese & Western Zodiac
Happy Lunar New Year! This is the year of the dragon 🐲 and not just because of Fourth Wing. Lucy shares her cultural heritage, and we explore the surprising intersections of the Chinese and Western Zodiacs, trying a bit of divination for ourselves.
Topics covered:
-Traditions and foods associated with Chinese New Year
-The Chinese Zodiac and the sexagenary cycle (60 year time system that combines the 12 zodiac animals with 5 elements and also yin and yang
-How the Chinese Zodiac and the Western Zodiac was developed
-The math and science behind the Western Zodiac
-Significance of entering the Age of Aquarius
-Zodiac compatibility
-We share our Western and Chinese Zodiac signs/charts
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42min
January 31, 2024 Girlbossing Too Close to the Sun
We talk girlboss culture, the rise, the fall, and those of us left in its wake, feeling burnt out and lost.
This was actually the first episode we ever recorded! 🫢
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28min
January 31, 2024 Is Gilmore Girls America dead?
Gilmore girlies anyone? Lucy, a huge fan of the show, and Jennifer, who has somehow escaped its gravitational pull, chat about the life portrayed in Stars Hollow, whether its the last remnant of a bygone era or if there’s still hope for us to find that close knit community and a job that takes care of us.
Topics covered:
-The vision of America portrayed in Gilmore Girls
-What jobs were like for our parents’ generation
-The plight of millennials and why we have less wealth than previous generations
-IBM’s cradle to grave culture in the 1960s
-Layoffs and the shift in corporate culture
-The decline of third spaces and community post COVID
-Differences in community within large cities like NYC and mid-size cities like Nashville
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24min
January 24, 2024 The Passion Economy
We get meta and talk about what the passion economy is, who’s participating in it (including us), and the sinister side of monetizing attention.
Topics covered:
-The rise of the passion economy
-Venture investors profiting from the passion economy
-Platforms that support creators (Patreon, Substack, Pietra)
-How much money successful creators can make
-The sinister side of the passion economy, MLMs
-What it takes to make it as an influencer
-Is being an influencer all that it’s made out to be
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32min

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How many episodes does Everything I Know About have?

The podcast currently has 55 episodes available.

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