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Thanks For Asking
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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Polyamory Is Easier When One Of Them Is Dead: Answering Widow Questions with Rebecca Woolf
People tend to tiptoe around anything to do with widowhood. We know that people are clumsy with their words and their actions, and often, they don’t w...
He Was A Mirror Of Me: Trauma, Memories, and Family Myths Changing Lives
Our lives are shaped by our families. Not just our habits, family recipes, and noses – our stories, too. You probably know stories about your great-gr...
He Was A Mirror Of Me: Trauma, Memories, and Family Myths Changing Lives
Our lives are shaped by our families. Not just our habits, family recipes, and noses – our stories, too. You probably know stories about your great-gr...
Crusty Soul Energy with Elizabeth Kott
On today’s episode, Nora is joined by Elizabeth Kott to renew your hope in humanity and give you your much-needed dose of OK. If you continue to forge...
Help! I Was Dumped By A Widow
People are clumsy when it comes to widows – we’ve made a handful of episodes about just how clumsy we can be. But we don’t often talk about how widows...
456. Is This a 90s Summer? with Jo Piazza
Some days, OK things are all around us and naming them is a breeze. On other days, it feels like you have never, EVER been OK in your entire life. Wha...
The Best at Suffering Award: Maggie Smith on Life After Divorce and Letting Go of Perfection
When you’re a planner and life throws you a big, rusty wrench, how do you live in the aftermath? If you’re anything like us, you desire control. A per...
9 Things You Need To Hear If You're Struggling: Laura McKowen on addiction, guilt, and recovery
Drinking is a really acceptable thing in the US. Most towns have liquor stores on every few corners. Every home decor store has products with some var...
A Bluebird Day with Laura McKowen
What’s okay with Laura McKowen right now? After we talk about the weather (and who doesn’t love to talk about the weather?) we go on a journey through...
SUMMER OF SURRENDER: Let’s give up, girls
There is no shame in giving up, despite the fact that the #Girlboss from the 2010s in us all might be rolling over in her metaphorical grave at the th...
Uprooted: What Can Happen When a Black Child Is Transracially Adopted by a White Family?
Adoption is often viewed as a happy ending, and sometimes it is! But for Thenedra, her experiences as a child in the foster care system and later as a...
Nothing Starts on Sunday but Birth Control with Courtney Maum
If you’ve been feeling like life is throwing everything at you all at once – burnout, exhaustion, chaos – today’s episode is for you. Today, Nora is j...
What happens after Viral Fame? Rebecca Black can tell you.
In 2011, it was impossible to escape the “Friday” music video. September 16, 2011 changed the trajectory of pop culture – and of 13-year-old Rebecca B...
Happyish Complicated Father’s Day to all who struggle to celebrate! with Dayna Kathan
Father's Day can be complicated.
In this special mini-episode, we hear an essay from writer Hannah Diaz titled No One Sent Flowers for th...
A Spiritual Hug with Nadia Bolz-Weber
Today’s IGTBO episode is a spiritual hug – as previous guest and friend of the pod Kelly Corrigon called it – with guest Nadia Bolz-Weber, a beautiful...
There’s an Alien Inside Me: Medical Misogyny, a Rom-Com, and Struggles with Infertility
Nicole was 21 years old and had an alien growing inside her chest.
Well, no, not really. But it WAS an extremely large tumor growing ins...
The Summer Reading List with Kate Baer
Summer is coming, and you know what that means – beach days (or days spent inside with the AC blasting, no judgment) with your favorite books. Today,...
It's (still) Okay To Laugh (and crying is still cool, too)
It has been 10 years since Nora’s first book, “It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too)” was published. A lot has changed since – she got remarried, ha...
Creativity is For Everyone (The Artist’s Way with Elizabeth Kott)
Burnout seems like the biggest thing all of us have in common right now. It’s hard NOT to get burnt out when the world is rife with injustice and horr...
What Is Happening and Where Are We? with Catherine Newman
On this episode of IGTBO, Nora is joined by her favorite living novelist, Catherine Newman, to put a little more OK in your day. They talk about celeb...
What Is Happening and Where Are We? With Catherine Newman
On this episode of IGTBO, Nora is joined by her favorite living novelist, Catherine Newman, to put a little more OK in your day. They talk about celeb...
Dancing for the Devil: Dr. Edith Eger on Surviving the Holocaust and Turning Trauma Into Purpose
Edith Eger was only 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary during World War II. Her future was ripped from her when she and her family were impri...
Getting Married Again Doesn’t Make You A Bad Widow with Leslie Harter-Berg
I get questions all the time about being a remarried widow. How did I do it? How did I know? Is Matthew jealous of Aaron? How can you love two people...
IGTBO: A Goose-Forward Home with Sharon McMahon
Here on IGTBO, we're not about toxic positivity -- we're about finding things that are good even when the world is dark. Today's guest, Sharon McMahon...
Advice-cast: The Worst Thing to Say When Someone’s Grieving, Feeling like a Loser at Work, and Trying to Love Your Body When No One Else Loves Theirs
Thanks for Asking is a group project – we could not make this show without you. You’re not just a listener. You’re a participant. We want to make a sh...
Food, Forgiveness and the Cost of Being Thin: A Conversation with Geneen Roth
Every woman in the world has shared one feeling: that their body is wrong. We like to say that we've come "so far," but just open any social media app...
Baja Blast Your Body (feat. Ralph)
This week on It's Going To Be OK: a 13-year-old boy tries to convince his mother that he should be allowed to have a Baja Blast at 7pm on a school nig...
Honest Motherhood with Libby Ward
What makes a good mom? Is it adhering to the perfectly packaged image of a shiny, happy woman cooking lavish meals with her 2.5 children, always clean...
Friends To The End: Cancer, Friendship and Grief
Listen to TTFA Anthologies on Spotify, Apple, or anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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It’s rare to have a fr...
How you {really} are: Aging parents, falling out of love with your work, disappointing gender reveals, secondhand embarrassment and being the worst mom in the world
Today, we're giving validation, pep talks and space to vent for listeners struggling with:
Aging parents who don't take care of...
A Daily Dose of Wonder with Kelly Corrigan
You know what makes things feel more okay? Kelly Corrigan, the host of Kelly Corrigan Wonders and the author of so many wonderful books (my favorite i...
AI Deadbots Want To Cure Your Grief
As long as people have been grieving, we have found a way to memorialize our dead people. We grievers keep voicemails, photos, letters, clothes – what...
I Can’t Have Kids and My Friends Are Pregnant
On today’s episode, we hear from Cora Danielson, a comic who has been wrestling with something many women do – her inability to have children despite...
Middle School Divorcee | It's Going to be OK with Elise Loehnen
We would never tell you that everything is going to be OK, but we will tell you that something will be. Today, Nora and guest Elise Loehnen share the...
Wind Phone (Part 3)
What would you say to your dead person? We’re listening in on the Wind Phone.
You can find a wind phone near you here, or call us to l...
Dead Sibling Society (Part 1)
If you lose a spouse, you’re a widow. If you lose your parents, an orphan. But we don’t have the language for someone who lost a sibling – your first...
Under a Cloud of Loss
This episode originally ran in 2016, and we pulled it out of the archives to share with you here, and to kick off a new season of TTFA Anthologies, wh...
There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 2)
“Can I move in with you?”
Laurel Louise Anderson (lovingly called Miss Ma’am) posed the question to our producer and her son, Marcel Male...
There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 1)
“Can I move in with you?”
Laurel Louise Anderson (lovingly called Miss Ma’am) posed the question to our producer and her son, Marcel Male...
Wind Phone (Part 2)
What would you say to your dead person? We’re listening in on the Wind Phone.
You can find a wind phone near you here, or call us to lea...