This Changes Things

How does one become a Puberty Mogul? Accidentally, according to Vanessa Bennett - but also on purpose, by raising four kids and caring deeply about how to support their growth, development, self-knowledge and self-esteem. Vanessa is the co-author of This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained and co-host of "The Puberty Podcast," both with pediatrician Cara Natterson, and is the President of Order of Magnitude, a puberty stage-of-life company to solve the pain points while empowering kids and their adults. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," Vanessa talks to host Shoshanna Hecht about jumping in as an entrepreneur when you don't know all the answers, cornering an underserved market, and how it's always, always better to be awkward together than clueless alone.

Show Notes:

Book:
This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723035/this-is-so-awkward-by-cara-natterson-md-and-vanessa-kroll-bennett/

Podcast:
The Puberty Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-puberty-podcast/id1576221880

Website:
Order of Magnitude
https://www.orderofmagnitude.co/

Social Media:
https://www.tiktok.com/@spillingthepubertea
https://www.instagram.com/spillingthepubertea

Email: [email protected]


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
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Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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What happens when we achieve our goals? What if we realize that what we thought we wanted isn’t really what we want anymore? What if the thing we thought we were supposed to do, isn’t actually what gives us purpose? And who decides what we are “supposed” to do, anyway? These are the questions that author & technology journalist Jessi Hempel considers weekly in her acclaimed podcast “Hello Monday” which examines the evolving culture of work, and in her book, “The Family Outing,” about the evolution of her family members and their identities. In this episode of “Your New Life Blend,” host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Jessi about finding purpose in our work, taking stock of how we are evolving, and making space for where we’ve been and where we’re going, and how we can all pursue the most authentic version of ourself.

Show Notes:

Book:
The Family Outing: A Memoir
https://www.jessijhempel.com/book

Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/hello-monday-with-jessi-hempel/id1453893304

Website:
https://www.jessijhempel.com/book

Social Media:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessihempel
https://www.instagram.com/jessiwrites
https://twitter.com/jessiwrites


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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How extremely online are you? When you create and consume, who or what is influencing you? Whose voices are being heard, and amplified, and platformed? Who are you giving your attention to, and who's taking it? And, who's making money off that? These are just a few questions that tech reporter, columnist and creator Taylor Lorenz wants to get you thinking about in her new book, "Extremely Online The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet," which looks at the rise of the modern social internet and how it created our current digital landscape across information, commerce, and connection. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Taylor about how social media wrested power back from traditional gatekeepers, how women have driven the influencer industry (thank you, monetization), why boundaries are critical (always and forever) and how we can and must push tech companies to be better custodians of our user experience, the information we receive, and our data. Obviously you should share this episode across all platforms.

Show Notes:

Book:
Extremely Online The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
https://www.extremelyonlinebook.com

Social Media:
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz
https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz
https://www.instagram.com/extremelyonlinebook
https://www.instagram.com/taylorlorenz3.0
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorlorenz/
https://www.tiktok.com/@taylorlorenz

Online:
https://taylorlorenz.substack.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/taylor-lorenz/


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Jo Piazza "can't stop making things" - podcasts, novels, non-fiction books, newsletters, books by characters on popular TV shows, and most recently, companion podcasts to soon-to-be-released novels, in this case, a true crime podcast about the based-on-a-true-crime novel that is also based on her great-great-grandmother. This, like most sentences about Jo Piazza, is not an exhaustive list. From her early-career days as a gossip reporter for the NYC tabloids to her far-flung days as travel writer to her career as a bestselling author of many books to her pivot to producing and hosting podcasts (plural) while still writing books (plural) to writing a chatty, newsy, fun newsletter about all of it, Jo has built a career around telling stories. In between she got married (wrote a book about marriage) and had three kids (has a podcast about motherhood), and, with her latest book, "The Sicilian Inheritance," tells a story of women and adventure - that just so happens to feel close to home. In this (very fun) episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht sits down with Jo to discuss what it feels like to become the CEO of your own brand, why she loves writing for women, and why she loves telling the world about brave, badass women.

Newsletter:
https://jopiazza.substack.com/

Books:

The Sicilian Inheritance
https://amzn.to/45xcmEx

You Were Always Mine (with Christine Pride)
https://www.amazon.com/You-Were-Always-Mine-Novel/dp/1668005506

We Are Not Like Them (with Christine Pride)
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Not-Like-Them/dp/1982181036

Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win
https://www.amazon.com/Charlotte-Walsh-Likes-Win-Piazza-ebook/dp/B075RPKLF6

Marriage Vacation (as Pauline Brooks)
https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Vacation-Pauline-Brooks/dp/1982100206

How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage
https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Married-Continents-Surviving/dp/0451495551

If Nuns Ruled The World: Ten Sisters On A Mission
https://www.amazon.com/If-Nuns-Ruled-World-Sisters-ebook/dp/B00LUA02RA

Celebrity Inc.: How Famous People Make Money
https://www.amazon.com/Celebrity-Inc-Famous-People-Money-ebook/dp/B005VWK9K8

The Knockoff (with Lucy Sykes)
https://www.amazon.com/Knockoff-Novel-Lucy-Sykes-ebook/dp/B00N6PD01W


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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When should we listen to our fear? What is it trying to tell us? Author and podcast host Farnoosh Torabi grapples with that question in her new book, “A Healthy State of Panic,” in which she tells her own story navigating her fear in her own life, and using it as crucial intel for decision-making, boundary-setting and goal-chasing. As the founder and host of the award-winning podcast “So Money” podcast, Farnoosh also knows well how handling our fears and anxieties around money can make the difference between holding us back - or helping us forward. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks to Farnooosh about how fear can help illuminate our values and priorities; reveal what we refuse to risk, and why; and help us realize what we are capable of. 

Show Notes

Website:
https://farnoosh.tv/

Podcast:
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
https://podcast.farnoosh.tv/

Books:

A Healthy State of Panic
https://ahealthystateofpanic.com/

When She Makes More
https://farnoosh.tv/books/when-she-makes-more/

Psych Yourself Rich
https://www.amazon.com/Psych-Yourself-Rich-Discipline-Financial/dp/0133886581

You're So Money
https://www.amazon.com/Youre-So-Money-Live-Rich/dp/0307406199

Social Media:
https://www.instagram.com/farnooshtorabi/
https://twitter.com/Farnoosh
https://www.linkedin.com/in/farnooshtorabi/


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Work, sleep, family, friends, fitness. Can you excel at all of these? And if you can't, which ones do you choose? Randi Zuckerberg lives her life by the philosophy of "pick three" - you can excel at three of those five, but if you try to do more, you won't make a dent in any of them. It's kind of an ironic maxim for someone with so many identifiers - founder, investor, performer, author, podcast host, not to mention mom, wife, daughter, and sister - but it's one Randi stands by, especially as she finds herself growing personally and professionally in this stage of a very public life and career. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend" Randi sits down with host Shoshanna Hecht for some very real talk about what we find - and make - time for, who the stakeholders are in that time, and what it means to build something that is well, truly and only yours.

Show Notes

The Hug
https://www.thehug.xyz/

& Mother
https://andmother.org/

Books:

Pick Three: You Can Have It All (Just Not Every Day)
https://www.amazon.com/Pick-Three-Have-Just-Every-ebook/dp/B074SGQR3K

Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
https://www.amazon.com/Dot-Complicated-Untangling-Wired-Lives-ebook/dp/B00BATNRH8

Dot.
https://www.amazon.com/Dot-Randi-Zuckerberg/dp/0062287516/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Missy President
https://www.amazon.com/Missy-President-1-Randi-Zuckerberg/dp/0692794840/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Social Media:
https://www.instagram.com/randizuckerberg
https://www.linkedin.com/in/randizuckerberg
https://twitter.com/randizuckerberg
https://www.facebook.com/randi

Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/crypto-cafe-with-randi-zuckerberg/id1617293896

Randi Zuckerberg Means Business
https://randi-zuckerberg-means-business.simplecast.com/


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
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Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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What if you could get a do-over and try out the Dream Job that got away? Not a side hustle, not a lateral move - just straight up starting from scratch to catch a glimpse of what might have been. That's what CEO and happily-married mom Alisha Fernandez Miranda did when she took a leave from her company and crossed the ocean to take a year of unpaid internships in the dream jobs of her childhood. Oh, and she kicked it all off in February 2020. The resulting memoir, "My What If Year," is a wild ride of starry-eyed immersion in Broadway, high art, and the other dreams of her youth... and the kind of self-reflection that can only come from throwing your life into upheaval, and then doubling down during a global pandemic. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," host Shoshanna Hecht talks with Alisha about what inspired her to take this leap, what changes it has brought to her life, and how to listen - really listen - to yourself.

Show Notes

Website:
https://www.alishafmiranda.com

Book:
"My What If Year: A Memoir"
https://www.alishafmiranda.com/my-what-if-year/#where-to-buy

Podcasts:

Extra Shot with Alisha Fernandez Miranda
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/extra-shot-with-alisha-fernandez-miranda/id1701154466

Quit Your Day Job
https://open.spotify.com/show/7yVd6Y6HCpNfQ9w2c4AzSm?si=a7c697492ea2486d

Social Media:

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alishafernandezmiranda/

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/alishafmiranda


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Who gets to have an opinion about technology? Whose perspectives are invited into these conversations - and who is ignored, downplayed or written out completely? Bridget Todd was fed up with the gatekeeping around technology - how it was discussed, who were the default leaders confidently making pronouncements and predictions, whose stories weren't being told - so she started a podcast, "There Are No Girls On The Internet," to explore the many ways in which marginalized voices shape technology and digital culture. Fast forward and her podcast has been showered with awards and critical acclaim, and Bridget is a leading voice on technology and culture. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend" she joins host Shoshanna Hecht to discuss her winding journey through the minefields of the media industry to get here (pour one out for whatever we thought we knew about media back in 2012), the joys and perils of entrepreneurship vs. a steady paycheck, and how important it is to our own identities to know that we are qualified to speak about the systems and industries that affect our lives. 

We are so thrilled to be back with this amazing conversation with Bridget Todd, an amazing trailblazer and thinker as "Your New Life Blend" returns after our summer hiatus!  

Show Notes 

Podcasts: 

There Are No Girls On The Internet
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-are-no-girls-on-the-internet/id1520715907

BEEF with Bridget Todd
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beef-with-bridget-todd/id1674072378

Internet Hate Machine
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/internet-hate-machine/id1648497305

Company: 

Unbossed Creative
https://www.unbossedcreative.com/

Social Media: 

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridget-todd-40250044/

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/bridgetmarieindc/

Twitter
https://twitter.com/BridgetMarie


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Why wait to be happy? Lyz Lenz was waiting, and waiting. She was married, she had two children, she was building a career as a writer that she loved. But she was in a marriage that was not working. Or, she was in a marriage that was not working for her. Once she realized this - and realized that it was not going to change - she ended her marriage. This started her life.

We are not taking liberties here with her bio - this is taken directly from the title of Lyz's upcoming book, "This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life," which drops this coming February. Lyz is now a nationally-recognized journalist and expert on politics, feminism, motherhood and ambition, faith and calling out the patriarchy, gleefully and righteously and without fear or favor. This will be her third book examining the structures that seek to control women (her two previous books were on faith and pregnancy/childbirth respectively), which we recommend reading along with her companion-piece newsletter, "Men Yell At Me." Lyz talks about all of this and more in this candid, funny conversation in this episode of "Your New Life Blend" with host Shoshanna Hecht, including where women can actually find freedom, the power of refusal, and all the reasons not to wait to be happy.

Books:

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
https://amzn.to/3DQY7io

Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women
https://amzn.to/45iED1W

God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
https://amzn.to/45lZRw0

Newsletter:

Men Yell At Me
https://lyz.substack.com/

Also mentioned:

I'm a Great Cook. Now That I'm Divorced, I'm Never Making Dinner for a Man Again
https://www.glamour.com/story/now-that-im-divorced-im-never-making-dinner-for-a-man-again

It Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal
https://www.glamour.com/story/it-took-divorce-to-make-my-marriage-equal

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, by Jane Ward
https://amzn.to/3OOtpNj

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/lyzl
https://www.instagram.com/lyzlenz


Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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Ashley Louise wants women to have it all. She wants women to have all the money, all the freedom, all the promotions, all the confidence, all the joy, and all the options. With her partner (and wife) Claire Wasserman, Ashley has built Ladies Get Paid into a juggernaut of resources to help women advance professionally and financially, and recognize - and be recognized for! - our value and our worth. In addition to building the company together, in the past few years Ashley and Claire have pivoted a business built primarily on live events, moved across the country, gotten married, and embarked on the alternately challenging, frustrating and rewarding process of conceiving a child together (successfully! Claire is now pregnant). You'd think that might be a pretty decent excuse to coast, but in true YNLB form, Ashley is constantly iterating, looking ahead to where she wants her and her family to be, and what new things she should be trying to get them there, and how she can learn from all of it and bring the good stuff back to her LGP community. In this episode of Your New Life Blend, host Shoshanna Hecht takes a deep dive with Ashley about all of it - making the big life changes, trying new things, getting over the fear that was holding her back, and why it's the best bet ever to put women front and center.

Website:

https://ladiesgetpaid.com
https://www.ashleylouise.xyz/

Book:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/ladies-get-paid-the-ultimate-guide-to-breaking-barriers-owning-your-worth-and-taking-command-of-your-career-claire-wasserman/18055523

Social:

https://twitter.com/ladiesgetpaid
https://www.instagram.com/ladiesgetpaid
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ladies-get-paid
https://www.facebook.com/ladiesgetpaid
https://vimeo.com/ladiesgetpaid

Podcast:

Ladies Get Paid
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ladies-get-paid/id1352819308?_ga=2.96448796.1854221724.1690998359-2068702724.1689965589

Guide: How to Use ChatGPT For Beginners
https://ladiesgetpaid.com/how-to-use-chatgpt/

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About Terawatt:

Website
https://terawatt.co

Social Media
https://www.linkedin.com/company/terawattgroups/
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Your New Life Blend is now This Changes Things!
New episodes are out — listen here: 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/this-changes-things/id1655128000

Host:
Shoshanna Hecht https://www.shoshannahecht.com/

Producer:
Rachel Sklar https://www.linkedin.com/in/sklarra/

Audio Engineer:
Ron Passaro https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronpassaro/

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