Raw Female

Kris finds the fountain of youth in a simple wax job. The sisters are back!

In this final Raw Reun of the series, Wendy, Kris & Allie recall fashion, beauty and music nightmares of decades past. 

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED WITH WENDY:

• ruffled collar with side buttons
• Jack & Diane
• Forenza sweaters backwards with a V
• Twist-a-Beads
• Pointy-toe Mias with pegged, acid-washed jeans
• Jellies & their dirt rings
• The queen of shoulder pads
• The Fe-mullet
• The psychology around the makeup mirror
• Blue frosted eye shadow
• Stripping your derm
• "I came from a bad tanning bed"
• Argyle sweater vest with nothing underneath
• Stirrup pants
• Overalls
• The Tennille haircut
• What were we singing?

LINKS TO RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Jack & Diane
• Conair Mood Mirror
• Kristy McNichol
• Kissing Potion
• Love's Baby Soft
• Tickle Deodorant
• Jordache Jeans
• Indian Earth
• Flashdance
• Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille
• Sunshine on My Shoulders by John Denver
• Afternoon Delight by the Starland Vocal Band
• The Stroke by Billy Squier

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RAW FEMALE: INFORMATIVE. SOLUTION-BASED. POSITIVE. FUN.

In this Raw Rerun, it's all about the hacks—and the screenplay. It's Part 2 of our chat with screenwriter/author Monica Corcoran Harel!

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED WITH MONICA IN PART 2:

• Invisibility  
• Paulina Porizkova
• Outer vs. inner image
• A female magazine that moved the needle 
• Monica's top beauty hacks 
• How Monica pops a brow
• Her husband got lucky, thanks to a brow gel pickup
• Monica's top wellness hack
• Strolling with a wine glass
• The power of a made bed
• A morning power trip
• A humanity hack
• Competing with women
• There's enough to go around
• Women lifting women 
• Confrontation 
• Monica's Netflix screenplay
• Hollywood's eyeing 50+ women, finally

LINKS TO RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Pretty Ripe
• Teen Vogue
• Kosas Air Brow gel
• Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer
• Amy Baer's Landline Pictures
• Writing partner Jordan Roter Stodel

OTHER RESOURCES THAT MONICA LOVES :

• Kosas Air Brow Gel
• Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs
• Levi's Ribcage Bootcut jeans
• Charlotte Stone clogs and sandals. 
• On Instagram: Garancedore, comedian Amy Sedaris, art historian/cultural critic Hilton Als. 
• Others:  Nicole Byer and comedyfortheinternet, plus DailyMail.com(trying to give it up!)

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RAW FEMALE: INFORMATIVE. SOLUTION-BASED. POSITIVE. FUN.

In this Raw Rerun, Kris & Allie sit down with screenwriter, journalist and best-selling author Monica Corcoran Harel, the founder of the weekly Pretty Ripe newsletter. Netflix just purchased her feature film screenplay, a byproduct of the spark she found in reinvention. Part 1 of a 2-part series.
HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED WITH MONICA:

• The culture of keeping up appearances
• Crazy kid's parties in Los Angeles, 'copters included!
• The gratitude for having a daughter at 42 
• Juicy and vibrant
• Mothers and their obsessions
• Aging positively and the gifts we get
• Menopause is a buzzword in Silicon Valley
• A slight detour on men's balls
• Gals and waxing: the politicizing of pubic hair
• Normalizing body hair with the Ladyist
• A "firing" sparks a reinvention in midlife: the start of something good
• Her fun screenplay that Netflix purchased
• The power of 50+ women entrepreneurs
• Loving the middle of everything
• Confidence, contacts, and capital were the keys to her pivot
• Don't overthink things and start small

LINKS TO RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• The Pretty Ripe newsletter
• Monica's New York Times pieces
• Gennev menopause platform
• Alan Cumming talking about scrotal lifting on the Nancy podcast
• The Ladyist (Ashley Armitage) on Instagram

OTHER RESOURCES THAT MONICA LOVES :

• Kosas Air Brow Gel
• Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs
• Levi's Ribcage Bootcut jeans
• Charlotte Stone clogs and sandals. 
• On Instagram: Garancedore, comedian Amy Sedaris, art historian/cultural critic Hilton Als. 
• Others:  Nicole Byer and comedyfortheinternet, plus DailyMail.com (trying to give it up!)

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In this Raw Rerun, our tech savvy mom was operating without a right-click and driving Kris crazy with her Adobe Acrobat.

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED ON NIT-PICKING MOM:

• Dave would order the fruit sliced & diced
• Outsourcing to the extreme
• Clearing off the badges
• 12,522 emails in the phone inbox
• Tight as a drum
• Mom's relying on flags
• Age vs email load has Mom hyperventilating
• Twinsies
• Garageband gives Kris anxiety
• No intersection with the meats
• Outsourcing and control issues
• She can't right-click
• Overnighting more mouses
• The Adobe Acrobat nightmare
• Deep dive or letting it go?

LINKS TO RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Precut fruit
• Adobe Acrobat
• Apple Magic Mouse

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RAW FEMALE: INFORMATIVE. SOLUTION-BASED. POSITIVE. FUN.

In this Raw Rerun, Allie can’t get beyond the fact that Mom doesn’t listen to Raw Female. And she’s got a plan.

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN "MOM WON'T LISTEN":

• Allie's ready to go rogue on her mother
• Too old for vag talk?
• Sensitive spot for the last born
• The cut-and-paste solution
• She's gonna regret it
• Allie is definitely not OK
• Kris is absolutely fine
• Nothing's resolved

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RAW FEMALE: INFORMATIVE. SOLUTION-BASED. POSITIVE. FUN.

In this rerun, the sisters are back and they're unpacking a pistachio problem. Quickly the conversation devolves into mother issues.

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED ON "PISTACHIO PROBLEMS":

• Paying to win
• Throwing money around like nuts
• Mom won't buy the meats, even at Costco
• The problem with the picnic
• Lettuce on the meatloaf
• Mom doesn't listen, nor will she refer us out
• Dangerous driver, pistachio-style
• Grabbing Mom's email list

LINKS TO RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Wonderful Pistachios
• Meatloaf fit for Nora Ephron: tasty!
• U.S. Route 101

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RAW FEMALE: INFORMATIVE. SOLUTION-BASED. POSITIVE. FUN.

In this Raw Rerun, Kris lands on a gyno that she’s finally in sync with. Fun & Games is a very confusing re-telling of various visits to the gyno, in search of answers to a couple symptoms with biopsies along the way. Good luck, listeners! Email us at [email protected] for clarification. And don’t visit Paper Source for any other reason than to have fun with paper and notecards!

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED:

• What a colposcopy is
• Tools of the trade
• Melon baller with teeth
• What she grabbed
• Reading about a colpo
• A lichen sclerosus diagnostic biopsy
• There’s a specialist for that
• The importance of self-advocacy 
• Finding a good match
• Think Out Loud doctors

LINKS TO RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What is a colposcopy?
• What is lichen sclerosus?
• Paper Source hole punches

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RAW FEMALE: INFORMATIVE. SOLUTION-BASED. POSITIVE. FUN.

In this rerun, Kris & Allie relive the last times they were hit on. One's a fairytale. One's a horror.

HERE’S WHAT WE DISCUSSED:

• the whole invisibility thing
• let’s pop a lip
• we love that stranger
• a sweet line
•  Allie at Goodwill
• “Mama, you ain’t too old to F*%#” 

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RAW FEMALE: INFORMATIVE. SOLUTION-BASED. POSITIVE. FUN.