How Are We 40?

How Are We 40?

By Taylor Harris & Whitney Casser-Harris | Women’s Lifestyle & Relationships PodcastSociety & CultureRelationshipsPersonal Journals
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How Are We 40? episodes

  • Bam! 🀄️ It’s Time To Talk Mahjong

    Tay + Whit sit down with Bamboo Haus Mahjong founder Young-Yi Clinton to find out what all the fuss is about when it comes to every sophisticated woman’s latest obsession. 🀄️ This convo leaves us ready cancel all our weeknight plans and lean into some friendly competition.


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    43 min
  • Ashley Tisdale's Mama Drama 🚨🚨🚨

    This week, we’re diving headfirst into the Ashley Tisdale mom-group drama that broke the internet (and group chats everywhere). When does “being left out” cross the line into toxic—and when is it just… part of life? We unpack the politics of modern mommy groups, why they can feel like middle school with strollers, and whether every hurt feeling actually needs a public essay. 


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    52 min
  • Sweatshirt Tied Around The Waist Culture

    This week, Whit and Tay unpack their recent family getaway to Woodloch Pines—a place that exists somewhere between summer camp and team-building corporate retreat. Tay shares her latest true-crime obsession, and Whit recounts the emotional rollercoaster of losing her phone and attempting to recover it from the black hole of the Metro-North’s Lost & Found. 


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    54 min
  • The Goddamn LaBubu

    Tay + Whit are closing out 2025 the only way they know how: recapping the pop culture moments that had everyone talking. They also share their unfiltered thoughts on New Year’s Eve as a concept—and what they’re actually doing to ring in 2026. 


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    49 min
  • Tay + Whit's Christmas Spectacular: Pt. 2 🎄🌟🎅

    Because one episode was not enough, welcome to Part 2 of our Christmas Spectacular. Whit reveals the extreme measures required to conceal gifts from her kids (who miss nothing), Tay questions the entire concept of Christmas card culture, and together they expose the advent calendar as the original MLM. 


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    42 min
  • Tay + Whit's Christmas Spectacular: Pt. 1 🎁❄️✨

    Welcome to our Christmas Spectacular 🎄—a surprise bonus episode we absolutely did not plan. We had so much holiday chaos to unpack that this episode fully escalated into a two-parter. In Part 1: the hospice-state of Whit’s ornaments, the lasting trauma of childhood Christmas pageants, and the truly batshit plot points of our favorite Christmas movies. 🎁❄️🎅


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    42 min
  • Confidence, Comfort, Creativity
    If you’ve ever said “I have nothing to wear” while standing in front of a very full closet, this one’s for you. This week, Tay + Whit are joined by stylist Caleigh O’Donnell, who helps clients identify their patterns, preferences, and core motivations—rather than just buying more clothes. Drawing on her background in anthropology, consumer insights, and design strategy, Caleigh treats getting dressed as a human-behavior problem, not a fashion one. Plus: why most style rules don’t work, how patterns show up in our closets, and why getting dressed is more about self-knowledge than shopping.

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    37 min
  • Are You Bringing A FreshDirect Bag To David Sedaris?

    This week, Tay + Whit crack open the Fall/Winter Fail Files—and take a scenic tour through all the ways they’ve been seasonally victimized. They’re revisiting their peak pick-me eras (complete with the questionable hair choices), reliving the moment Whit’s Halloween décor literally blew to shreds, and unpacking the mystery of the faux tree that showed up at Tay’s Brooklyn apartment… uninvited, unpurchased, and inexplicably on her doorstep.


    It’s unfiltered, unhinged, and deeply on-brand. Welcome to the holiday meltdown.

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    1 hr 7 min
  • I Love A Sequin ✨
    This week, Tay + Whit sit down with influencer Jackie Giardina to talk fashion fearlessness— from ignoring every “dress for your body type” rule we were fed in the 2000s to embracing full-tilt holiday sparkle. Consider this your permission slip to wear the thing, try the trend, and stop asking if it’s “flattering.”

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    43 min
  • I Don't Wanna Fist A Turkey 🦃✨
    It’s the Thanksgiving episode! 🦃🌽💫 And Tay + Whit are talking all things gobble-gobble. From the unhinged fever dream that is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to the culinary phenomenon known as Bread Sauce. Also on the docket: mystery smells in Whit’s house and a deep dive discussion on why men read like they’re preparing to lead Union troops at dawn.

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    45 min

About How Are We 40?

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Welcome to How Are We 40?, a podcast for women in their late 30s and 40s navigating adulthood, relationships, and the unhinged reality of modern womanhood. Each week, sisters-in-law…