Thanks For Asking

By Feelings & Co.

A call-in show from author Nora McInerny that lets real people get real honest about how they're really doing. Operators(me) are standing by to take your calls.

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November 11, 2025 Talking to My Dead Husband with Psychic Medium Laura Lynne Jackson
Last year, Laura Lynne Jackson changed Nora’s life forever – she helped Nora talk to Aaron ten years after his death. Today, they reunite to talk about signs, connections, and her newest book, Guided: The Secret Path to An Illuminated Life.
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1h 25min
November 04, 2025 Digitally Crushed by Grief
There are times we expect grief to hit us: death anniversaries, birthdays, holidays. But when grief attacks us out of nowhere, what do we do? How do we deal? And even worse – what if it happens digitally? If our dead partner’s Instagram is suddenly gone? If their voicemails or texts get deleted? Grief is a language that all of us will someday be able to speak. Today, we’re listening to those of us who have been crushed by digital grief.

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1h 4min
October 28, 2025 Help, My Parents Are Hoarders!
What is it like to have hoarders for parents? Today, Nora and guest Jane Marie are telling you about it with audience submissions and real-life stories – buckle up and get ready to learn.
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1h 15min
October 21, 2025 Should I Go Back to Work? with Kate Kennedy
Today, Nora and guest host Kate Kennedy discuss the least controversial topic ever: motherhood and work. When a listener wrote about the anxiety she was feeling ahead of her maternity leave ending, Nora knew it was time to talk about an experience that many mothers suffer in silence – what your life, career, and mental health look like after having a kid.
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1h 25min
October 17, 2025 I’m Getting in the Casket With You w/Caroline Moss
We loved the stories about your adult friendships so much we had to make a part two featuring your voicemails! Join Nora and Caroline Moss of Gee Thanks, Just Bought It as they react to your emails, texts, and voicemails about the unlikely way you found your platonic soulmate.
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Caroline is on Instagram and Substack
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1h 22min
October 14, 2025 The IBS in Me Recognizes the IBS in You w/Caroline Moss
This is a PSA: you’re not too old to make a best friend. Just because you no longer have assigned seating in a classroom or a playground or playdates doesn’t mean you can’t find your best friend in the whole world on Twitter (we’re never calling it X) or Slack or… a hospitalization program? The point is, putting yourself out there can be embarrassing, but you never know when you’re going to stumble across the person that is going to change your life. In this episode, Nora is joined by her platonic soulmate, Caroline Moss of Gee Thanks, Just Bought It! to read your adult bestie stories and tell their own.
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Shop my favorite bras and underwear at ⁠⁠SKIMS.com⁠⁠. After you place your order, be sure to let them know I sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and be sure to select my show in the dropdown menu that follows.
Go to ⁠⁠indeed.com/TFA⁠⁠ for all of your hiring needs!
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Find your fall staples at ⁠⁠Quince.com/TFA⁠⁠!

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59min
October 08, 2025 From The Archives: October 8, 1988
Suffering can feel like such a singular experience -- like there’s no one else in the world who understands what we’re going through. But sometimes, if we look hard enough, we find that our singular experience intersects with another.
This is the story of two young girls whose stories intertwined during a tragic accident on October 8, 1988 … though they wouldn’t meet for decades to come.

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54min
October 07, 2025 Prescription for a Widow
When can a widow date again? Would you believe it if we told you that the answer lies in the Real Housewives of New York? Today, that’s what Nora’s doing – using Season 7 of the renowned reality TV show as a lens for dating after losing your partner.
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Find your fall staples at Quince.com/TFA!

Check out Nora's books It's Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) and No Happy Endings .

You can find Nora's TED talk here.

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38min
September 30, 2025 22 & Struggling (is it just me??)
Even if you have not been 22 with an abusive ex-boyfriend, broke, homesick, and friendless in a new city, you have, at one point or another, felt like today’s texter – certain that you are alone and forever lost in uncontrollable chaos. Nora’s here to remind you that we are not the worst thing that happened to us. We are not our mistakes. We are infinite and expansive. And there is always hope for tomorrow.
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37min
September 23, 2025 You’re Not Too Old, It’s Not Too Late Part 2(with Cheryl Sparks)
Last week, Nora set out to prove that no one is ever too old and it's never too late to try something entirely new. The mailbox was so full of amazing, inspiring stories that Nora knew there had to be a second part with Cheryl Sparks, an amazing fashion influencer who got her start later than you might think (@ifitstuesday on Instagram).

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