Smart Mouth Life

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today's episode features journalist Irin Carmon, a Harvard alumna, a senior correspondent at New York Magazine and a CNN contributor.

She is co-author with Shana Knizhnik of "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg." In 2017 and 2018, Irin worked with Washington Post reporter Amy Brittain to break the news of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Charlie Rose.

Previously, she was a reporter for MSCNBC, NBC News, Jezebel and Salon magazines.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today's episode features Wendy L. Hickey, who paired her passion of marketing and advertising with her love of promoting local artists and making art accessible to the masses through ArtPop Street Gallery.

ArtPop is quite literally a street gallery: the nonprofit promotes the work of local artists on available media space — billboards, buses, news racks, airports — and turn roads, highways and thoroughfares into opportunities for artistic appreciation and discovery.

Since 2014, ArtPop Street Gallery has promoted more than 350 artists from North Carolina to Las Vegas through public art installations using more than $20 million dollars of advertising space.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Smartie Talk is back!

It's an occasional episode of just Donna and Rachel having a conversation about a specific topic.

Today, it's holiday survival tips! We're here to help you have the most memorable holiday ever with our official Smartie Talk Holiday Survival Tips! Or, at the very least we'll share some coping mechanisms that have happily gotten us through in recent years.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today's episode features Janine Davis, an award-winning radio news and entertainment journalist. She is the founder of the Girl Talk Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit that hosts structured programs to develop girls' (ages 11-16) self-awareness, self-management and social competence.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world. Today, we're talking about all things vintage and entrepreneurism. Christi Schiavo-Williams grew up in as a new wavy/punk rock teen in the DC Metro suburbs where there were some phenomenal vintage shops in the 1980s, and opened her first vintage clothing store in 1991. She is the owner of Kitsch-y-Cool Vintage Clothing at Sleepy Poet Antique Mall.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today's episode features Dr. Alyse Kelly-Jones of Novant Mintview OB/GYN and frank discussion of perimenopause, menopause, sexual shame and more.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today's episode features Mayor Pro Tem Julie Eiselt who ran for Charlotte City Council in 2015 and is in her second term on the council, serving at-large and as Mayor Pro Tem. Julie chairs the Transportation & Planning Committee, and serves on the Intergovernmental Relations and Economic Development Committees. In the community, Julie serves as a board member for the Blumenthal Performing Arts and The Relatives.​

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Smartie Talk is back!

It's an occasional episode of just Donna and Rachel having a conversation about a specific topic.

Today, it's minding your business in business. Entrepreneurism isn't easy. Donna and Rachel get real about the highs, lows and asking for help.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today's episode features Tonya Russ Price, owner of Poprock Photography. She's a wedding photographer, food photographer, a champion of small business and all around badass who created a hashtag for the way her mom likes to drink wine. She's here to set us straight on a variety of things, including one of life's biggest mysteries: HOW CAN I LOOK GOOD IN PHOTOS?

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren't afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today's episode features Kathleen Purvis who, for more than 25 years, most recently at the Charlotte Observer, has been an incredible food editor, columnist and reporter. In early 2019, she left the Observer to strike out on her own, and has since been nominated for a James Beard Foundation journalism award (her third time as a finalist) and had work published in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, among other media outlets. She's published three books so far, the most recent is "Distilling The South," and is a walking encyclopedia of southern foodways knowledge.