Mandy Connell chats with Susan Witkin, Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker, and The Femininja Project's Cheryl Ilov talk about unique family traditions, spending time with family you disagree with, settling arguments with interpretive dance, Lori Lynn's epic craftiness and Susan's Jewish children exchanging ornaments.  Mandy's love of Christmas ornaments and the memories they invoke and the history of outdoor Christmas lights. They discuss fake vs. real, giving out huge tips for the holidays and saying Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays.  They dip their toes into how to deal with politics (and this was from last year BUT EVERYTHING STILL APPLIES) at the holiday table and talk about how social media just makes things worse.  There is a LOT in here! 

Mandy Connell chats with Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker, Susan Witkin, and Someone's Gotta's Aime Karam talk about Turkey Day! Mandy loves Thanksgiving for it's low pressure nature, Lori Lynn is mad we don't do a huge turkey dinner more often, and Susan is feeling grateful.  Aime does a Lebanese Thanksgiving, they talk ambrosia salads, dessert choices and how to pronounce Karo Syrup properly.  (By the way, Mandy is TOTALLY wrong about where Karo Syrup comes from) then they talk leftovers, gravy, green bean casserole and then had to leave to go get food.  They then do a quick round of what they are thankful for this year.  

Mandy Connell, Susan Witkin, Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker, and Someone's Gotta's Aime Karam start with the story of someone posting a photo of someone else while they were very ill.  They discuss making promises to pluck chin hair when someone is bedridden, and the power of prayer.  They discuss CaringBridge, oversharing on Facebook, vaguebooking, and lying about praying for others.  They have a long talk about why they believe in prayer and people who disparage "thoughts and prayers" on the internet. They discuss older people having sex and getting STDs, and promises you make to go through someone's underwear drawer.  Burying a skeleton when you redo your deck rounds things out.  

Mandy Connell, Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker and The Dirty Boot Diva Dahlia Weinstein discuss some topics from previous podcasts like the Golden Girls, gutsy calls and more.  They talk movies like I Tanya, The Joker and The Wrestler and uncomfortable movies to watch.  Dahlia says The Golden Girls are just Sex in the City: The Senior Years.  It's a walk down memory lane with SJP and Square Pegs, two-faced women, and who was in what a long time ago.  They talk Don Johnson, Antonio Banderas and hot older actors, HeeHaw, The Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Pitbulls pop up, owning an aggressive breed and more, Bond girls and why everyone in commercials is in a multi-cultural relationships. Is brunch a chick thing? It's a pop culture explosion!  

Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker, Susan Witkin and Someone's Gottas Aime Karam talk about the SNL comedian who got hired and fired when racist tweets and jokes came to light.  They discuss whether or not someone should lose their job for a racy podcast (well, Aime) and trying to navigate what's racist in the emoji world.  Aime believes everyone is inherently racist, Lori Lynn is searching for the appropriate and shifting race terminology, and Susan just asks what people want to be called.  From race to transgender to overly sensitive people complaining about plates, people just need to chill.  Somehow dominatrixes make an appearance as well. 

Mandy Connell chats with Someone's Gottas Aime Karam, Susan Witkin and Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker about Suzanne Somers posting a naked photo on Instagram at the ripe old age of 73. The tasteful photo doesn't reveal anything inappropriate but the backlash was pretty harsh by people who judged her for posting a nude at 73.  When is too old to wear certain clothes?  Why does our culture disrespect and ignore older people?  Geraldo Rivera's shirtless photo makes an appearance, pictures getting posted on the internet without permission, and a new generation sending naked photos ALL THE TIME according to Aime. They discuss open relationships, polyamory, and why those relationships almost always fail. Mandy goes off on what polygamy does to society overall, what China's one child policies have done and Sister Wives.  Plus, sex robots make a brief appearance. 

Mandy Connell, Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker, Susan Witkin and Someone's Gotta's Aime Karam discuss a leadership seminar the esteemed financial services company Ernst & Young sent women executives to where they learned that women's brains are like pancakes, bottle blonde is out and "leadership" is a "male" characteristic.  It all sounds like Ernst & Young is stuck in the 1950's and the women let fly about EXACTLY how they feel about some of the suggestions like sit with your ankles to the side so you don't seem sexually aggressive to your male colleagues.  YES, IT REALLY WAS THAT BAD.  They talk about how millennials are changing the workplace, creepy back rub guy and old dudes without boundaries and more.  Then they talk about Oprah and how they can get her on the show.  Oprah if you're listening, call us! Then they talk about tattoos because Aime just got a new one. 

Mandy Connell talks to Mouth-ful's Lori Lynn Barker, Susan Witkin and Someone's Gotta's Aime Karam talk about the cost of beauty in the modern age.  From an eight step facial care routine to Botox, filler and stem cell facials, they talk about it all.  You want to know about microneedling, how much it costs to have your hair done, Aime being the Girl On Fire when she set her hair on fire during a huge choir performance, Mandy burning off her bangs in Europe and an eyebrow at a party, and Lori Lynn burning her boob. What's with the ridiculous fake eyebrows girls are wearing? They talk network marketing and crazy pointy fake nails, ass masks and aestheticians and getting weird stuff removed from your face and they give their favorite cheap beauty secrets.  

Mandy Connell talks to blogger and cookbook author Mandy Lee about her gorgeous new cookbook and how cooking saved her sanity.  Lady and Pups is her blog, and The Art of Escapism Cooking is her new cookbook and Mandy Lee is her name.  When Mandy moved across the world with her new husband to Beijing, she drowned her sorrows and depression in the kitchen.  She started a blog before that was cool and poured her heart and soul into cooking away her pain.  The result is a wonderfully written, beautifully photographed book that is part self-help book, part exotic but attainable recipes.  Mandy is happier now that she is in Hong Kong, but even her failed dinner party recipes are worth buying the book! * Click Here!

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Mandy Connell talks to her younger brother John Gafford about their childhood and what it was like to grown up in the 1980s with our divorced parents.  If you ever wanted to know how she ended up the way she did, this is for you.  They discuss their mother's severe depression and being raised by "The Claw", setting their house on fire, committing insurance fraud by accident, him being on The Apprentice, Donald Trump not wanting to stand next to him, taking advantage of reality tv without making it your life, why Mandy had an accent and he didn't, making ninja movies, and moving into retirement communities. Be sure and enjoy the photo of little John at the pool too.  Heh.