Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Who Gets to Write History with Sharon McMahon

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a former history and government teacher Sharon McMahon thought she could do something to help combat all the misinformation and confusion she was s...

The Secret Life of a Real Life Mormon Trad Wife

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we see images of #tradwives on social media we see beautiful images of domestic bliss. Young women looking at this content could be easily tricke...

The Deeper Meaning in Mormon #MomTok Trash

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's take a deep dive into the intensely dramatic and overly scandalous new reality show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Joining me today is New Yo...

We've Got Issues

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's Jo's 44th birthday. We've got a little advice, a little hilarity and a brand new podcast to share with you. Jo has been working on a new show wit...

Anti-Consumer-tok! Thrifting Advice from TikTok?

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Raised by a single mother in Dayton, Ohio, Macy Eleni began thrifting at age 12 out of financial necessity and to help escape anxiety from bullies ...

How Moms can Make Friends and Dinner with Caroline Chambers

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When you're a mom two things can feel impossible, making new friends and making dinner. In today's episode we are joined by NYT bestselling author Car...

Murder, Sex and Crazy Panties in the Galapagos

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. Let's dive into a gothic true tale of murder, sex, jealousy and mayhem in paradise. In Eden Undone Abbott Kah...

Sunday Nice Things: A Look Back at Wilder

01 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a year since the release of the Wilder podcast about the life and legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder! Thousands of people have listened to the W...

Can Astrology Give us Hope for the Future?

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Astrology is all over the social medias, for better or worse. Here to guide us through it today is a woman who has been reading the stars for women's ...

Real Men Cry, Deal With It

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In light of the recent attacks on Gus Walz for showing a beautiful display of emotion when his dad took the stage at the DNC we are discussing how dan...

The True History of the Trad Wife

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do #TradWives have any real basis in American history? Are they nostalgia or mythology? Here to unpack it is journalist Clara Bingham, the author of T...

Add a Chicken to It (Let's Talk Henfluencing)

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Never forget that if it exists in the world there is an influencer for it. Welcome to the world of HENFLUENCERS where people dance and drink and sing ...

The Future Under the Christian Patriarchy with Tia Levings

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What will the future really look like under Project 2025? Tia Levings escaped an abusive marriage and has since transformed her life through years of ...

Sunday Nice Things: Kelly Corrigan Wonders

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's Sunday Nice Things manages to combine two of my favorite women to listen to—Krista Tippett, the journalist and creator of On Being and Kelly...

Media Addiction is Reshaping Childhood—Here's What We Can Do About It

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can parents save their kids from social media addiction? What can we be doing right now to make the digital world better for all children? The ans...

Redefining Ambition and Success with Liz Tenety of Motherly

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Being a woman in the world isn't easy. Being a mom isn't easy. How do we find time for ourselves when we're caring for everyone and everything around ...

Sunday Nice Things: Good Advice

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here are 43 pieces of good advice that do not suck, gleaned from a life that is aging like a fine cheese. Read the original 43 pieces of advice for 43...

The Ballerina Farm Master Plan

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A new interview with the CEOs of the Ballerina Farm brand reveals startling never-before-heard details about their lives together, their courtship and...

Other Women's Bodies

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Glynnis and I as we talk about our aging and changing bodies and the wildly popular books that dive into perimenopause and menopause. We talk abo...

Sunday Nice Things: The Only One in the Room

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Sunday Nice Things we are bringing you an episode of The Only One in the Room, a podcast by writer Laura Cathcart Robbins about what it i...

When Judy Blume Was a Struggling Housewife

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before Judy Blume was JUDY EFFING BLUME she was a mother of two searching for purpose outside of her home in 1960s suburban New Jersey. Today we're ta...

Victoria Hunter's Viral Tradwife Video

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria Hunter went viral on Instagram for her unconventional depiction of a 'trad wife.' Dressed in a long modest dress, Victoria identified herself...

Sunday Nice Things: How to be Fine

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Sunday Nice Things! Introducing, HOW TO BE FINE. Half advice show, half reality show. Join podcast besties Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Gree...

Who is a Worthy Mother with Gretchen Sisson

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What makes a worthy mother and who gets to decide that? It's a question that is often considered when we think about things like adoption, abortion an...

Motherhood and Creativity with Eye Mama Project

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we dive into the transformative power of motherhood on creativity. Join us as we chat with photographer and filmmaker Karni Arieli about her...

Sunday Nice Things: Committed, Because I Love Ya

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's Sunday Nice Things is Jo's OG podcast, Committed. Levi and Jared are ready to get engaged. But Levi has been keeping his relationship with Jar...

Life as an OG Influencer

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Julia Dzafic has been in the influencing game for 15 years, making her what I like to call an OG influencer. She has been a blogger and an Instagramme...

Escape from the Christian Patriarchy

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With all the chatter about #tradwives and #homesteading and #homeschooling we need to be talking about the realities of some of the highly Christian P...

Sunday Nice Things: The Creative and the AI

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dropping a new show into your feeds today for Sunday Nice Things. The Creative and the AI is a journey through how artificial intelligence is rapidly ...

Stop Giving All the F*cks AND What to Read Right Now

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today, I am joined by the hilarious Laura Belgray, an award-winning copywriting expert and the true queen of libing unapologetically. Laura's book Tou...

Let's Take Back Masculinity From the Douchebags!

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Online culture has been defining very specific ways to be masculine and feminine. So does culture at large. Masculine is often thought of as dominant,...

Sunday Nice Things: You Probably Think This Story's About You

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New podcast alert! Today we are bringing you a show called You Probably Think This Story's About You. You Probably Think This Story’s About You is a...

We Are All Burnt Out on Politics! Here's Some Hope (And a Wagon Full of Penguins)

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is a Cute-servative? It's an adorable nickname that conservative women are giving to themselves online as part of the Barbie-rific branding of th...

Could Your Family Opt out of Technology? This One Did! Here's How.

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if we opted out of technology? What would it look like? Who would we be? Let's find out. Founder of global tech-free movement The Opt-Out Family,...

Sunday Nice Things: We Are the Great Turning

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have just a taste of a new series called We Are the Great Turning that is truly bringing me hope and resilience when it comes to talking abou...

Who is Nara Smith and is she a #TradWife?

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nara Smith cooks Oreos and cereal from scratch in her pristine kitchen filled with SMEG appliances. She is a 23-year-old mother of three married to he...

Women Hold Everything Together. What If We Stopped?

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Other countries have social safety nets. America has women. We are holding it all together at the seams even as we are often falling apart. Today I am...

Let's Go Fly a Plane with Nick Aster

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh out of the cockpit. I am joined by Nick Aster for a fun little bonus session to debrief on our new flying hobby. Somehow we also talk about how ...

Beach Reads to Grab Now (Spice and Thrills and No Throbbing Members)

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For mom summer is often the season of no affordable childcare. But it is also the season of trying to ignore your children at the beach or public pool...

ADHD Help for Women on Social Media: The Good and the Bad

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we know, there is an influencer for everything. And ADHD (particularly ADHD for women) is one of those things that now has a ton of influencers. Th...

Confessions of a Recovering Helicopter Mom

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are talking to a self-described "recovering helicopter mom," to discuss the challenges and transformations in her journey away from "perfect"...

Is Social Media Breaking Our Brains? Let's Ask a Neuroscientist!

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Screens and social media are allegedly giving us anxiety, shortening our attention spans and changing our brains in ways that may be irreversible....a...

How to Help Kids Navigate the Dangers of Social Media and Screens

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have a no B.S. guide to what is happening right now with kids and teens and screens and social media. Joining us is Dr. Alison Yeung, a phys...

Does Instagram Ruin Travel?

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A small town in Japan is trying to build an Instagram block wall to keep tourists from overrunning their village to take the "perfect" Instagram shot....

Sunday Nice Things: Magical Overthinkers with Amanda Montell

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is it just us, or does American culture have narcissismfever? Between 2004 and 2016, the volume of Google searches for the word “narcissist” grew...

Harrison Butker and the TradWives with Emily in Your Phone

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk about Harrison Butker's viral graduation this week where he informed women graduates that their highest career calling was to be a wife and...

Women and Pleasure with Glynnis MacNicol (PLUS All the thoughts on The Idea of You)

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The new hit romance The Idea of You has everyone buzzing about so-called middle-aged women and the pursuit of pleasure. What kinds of pleasure do we d...

Sunday Nice Things: The Magic of Audiobooks

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For today's Sunday Nice Things I get to chat with Rachel Hirsch, one of the incredible audiobook narrators of The Sicilian Inheritance. I love audiobo...

Help! My Therapist is on TikTok

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What would you do if you discovered your therapist was on TikTok? And worse than that...what if they were talking about things YOU told them in therap...

Genealogy Influencing is a Real Thing with The Barefoot Genealogist

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If it exists in the world there is an influencer for it. And Genealogy and family research is no exception. I found Crista Cowan (The Barefoot Genealo...

Meatfluencers with Nick Aster

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's journey into a strange corner of social media filled with uncomfortably buff men chowing down on raw meat. Yes, meatfluencing is a thing. My spe...

Messy Women and Money with Jean Chatzky

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is a prevailing narrative around women and money that says women are a mess financially. It isn't true! And we are talking about that today with...

Taping Your Mouth Shut and Influencers in Books

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For a long time every novel I read or rom com that I watched contained a lady journalist, or a hard-hitting ad executive. And about two years ago all ...

Touched Out with Amanda Montei

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I'm touched out. I say that all the time. Before I became a parent I didn't know that was possible. But once I became a mom my body was no longer my o...

Blowing Up Your Life (To Follow Your Dreams) with Elle Cosimano

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bestselling author Elle Cosimano (of the famed Finlay Donovan series) was miserable in her job working in real estate. Then her mother offered to care...

Sunday Nice Things: Sex and Cheese in Paris with Glynnis MacNicol

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On today's Sunday Nice things we have an episode of the podcast Your New Life Blend with my dear friend, soul mate and constant companion Glynnis MacN...

Default Parenting and the Mental Load with Renee Reina

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Renee Reina worked on her PhD in psychology for ten years. Then the pandemic happened and she started making TikToks and podcasts about mom life with...

Trad Dads and Dad Guilt

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Dogen offered himself up to me as a sacrificial lamb when he wrote to me and told me that he was the male equivalent of the trad wife. He was kid...

Sunday Nice Things: LORENZA

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dropping the Sicilian Inheritance true crime podcast into your feeds while she is hot. This show is a gonzo adventure. It is White Lotus Meets Only Mu...

The Great Bookstagram Revolution with Jordy's Book Club

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 I love book influencers! They're my biggest hype people. And my guest this week is Jordan Moblo, but you might know him better as Jordy's Book Club...

Nice Things: Healthy Screen Habits for Families

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hillary Wilkinson found the need to take a big look at technology when her children began asking for their own devices. Quickly overwhelmed, she found...

Bite-Sized Bits of Mindfulness

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty minutes a day of mediation seems pretty out of reach for most moms. Frankly five minutes of meditation seems pretty out of reach. Today we are ...

Embracing Uncertainty in Life and Parenting with Maggie Jackson

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is a daily dose of uncertainty exactly what we need? Is embracing uncertainty instead of fearing it the answer to happier and more curious parenting?...

Sunday Nice Things: Parenting with Empathy, from Pop Culture Moms

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sharing an episode of another podcast Jo is loving: Pop Culture Moms. Andie and Sabrina are toddler moms and best friends of 20 years. They’re takin...

White Lotus Meets Only Murders in the Building — The Sicilian Inheritance True Crime Podcast

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's finally here! The true-crime podcast where I try to solve my great great grandmother Lorenza's murder that The Sicilian Inheritance is based on. ...

Midlife Career Switching to be a Post-Partum Doula

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today kicks off our miniseries of women who have switched careers in midlife. My friend Corynne Cirilli used to be a gossip columnist and entertainmen...

Magical Overthinking with Amanda Montell

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why do human beings make terrible decisions? Is it our fault or is technology programming us to be irrational? Let's get into it with Renaissance Woma...

Who Wants to Work at Buckingham Palace?

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

All the latest on the dumpster fire coming out of Buckingham Palace. Apparently the royals think NOW is a good time to hire a new communications assis...

Facing Setbacks and Fostering Ambition

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're going to talk about two things that we don't talk about nearly often enough—career setbacks and women's ambition. And these things have...

#FarmLife in Real Life with Sayer Palmer

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of things get fetishized on Instagram and #farmlife is one of them. Farm life on social media is often portrayed as hazy, beautiful, aspirationa...

Sunday Nice Things: Back to the Babysitters Club

17 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who wants to enjoy a little bit of nostalgia this Sunday morning? Join Jo on the magical and wonderful happy-making Stuck in Stonybrook podcast where ...

Influence, Books and Bookclubs with Zibby Owens

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do YOU discover new books that you love? I think that people want to read what other people are reading. I think we are desperate for water cooler...

What the Heck is Happening with Kate Middleton with Caro Burke

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Very important topic today in this emergency episode—what the heck is going on with Kate Middleton? We do a deep dive into all the conspiracy theori...

How to be Fabulous at Every Age with Lyn Slater

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"If we weren't so afraid of being old, we could have a vision in our head of what we could be when we are an older woman." — Lyn Slater In 2014, Lyn...

Let's Talk About Perimenopause and Getting Older with Stacy London

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gen X is the scrappiest generation and we might just be the generation to change how we think about and treat perimenopause. Today we get to talk to m...

Bonus: A Sicilian Road Trip With My Best Friend

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is nothing better than leaving your children and going on vacation with your best friend. My own BF Jackie crashed my reporting trip in Sicily t...

How Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Social media is incredibly toxic for women and girls. I say this all the time, and sometimes I start to feel like a real conspiracy theorist, like th...

Sunday Nice Things: The Silver Chain

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today's Sunday Nice Things has everything that you want in a Sunday listen—swingers, the seventies and puritanical Minnesota. From my friends who b...

Grief is for People with Sloane Crosley

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is no one-size fits all cure for grief. It's something you just have to go through and we all go through it in different ways. There has recentl...

Using Instagram to Save Your Child

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We've talked a lot on this podcast about using kids as content and where the line should be drawn. We've also talked about mothers posting pictures o...

Sunday Nice Things: Momplicated with Big Time Adulting

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode of Sunday Nice Things we are bringing you the series Momplicated where host Dana Phillips dives into the dumpster fire of motherhoo...

Ballerina Farm is a Brand and Other Social Media Literacy We Need to Talk About

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pandora's Box is open. We will never go backwards in terms of technology. Social media literacy is media literacy. There are more eyeballs on small sc...

Breaking News on Ruby Franke

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The former family Youtuber and vlogger Ruby Franke has been sentenced to up to 60 years in prison for felony child abuse. And frankly, I'm just going ...

Problematic TV Parents and Sexy TV Dads with Pop Culture Moms

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever rewatched a beloved movie as an adult and then been shocked, absolutely shocked by the behavior of the parents in it? A great example is...

Sunday Nice Things: SSR (Shit She Read) Pod

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Each week on the SSR (Shit She Read) podcast host Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first...

A Quickie: Instagram Hates Politics, Taylor Swift Boosts Her Boyfriend and Minnesota Joins the Party

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Friday Quickies....the Daily for influencer and social news with more foul language and swingers. This week we talk about Taylor Swift givi...

Inside a Mother's Open Marriage With Molly Winter

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Molly Winter recently hit the New York Times bestseller list with her memoir MORE, an account of the first ten years of opening up her marriage when h...

Meet the Anti-TradWife

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's not pretty. But it is real. There's a new breed of the ANTI-TRADWIFE out there and they are sharing the raw and honest stories about living a lif...

Sunday Nice Things: Gratitudeology

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a new episode of Sunday Nice Things. This week we are bringing you the new show Gratitudeology created by my friend Jamie Hess. When Jamie ...

A Quickie: The Right Wing's Travis and Taylor Conspiracy + Pay the Influencer Kids Already

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Need some news you can use to talk about at your Super Bowl Party? We have Glamour reporter Steph McNeal here to explain the latest right wing conspir...

I'm a High Functioning Mess...How About You?

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk about anxiety, real talk about anxiety! Today we are joined by Julie Chavez, a librarian, mom of two and the author of the memoir Everyone ...

Escape from the Trad Wife Life with Tia Levings

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tia Levings was recruited into a Christian fundamentalist movement as a young wife.   She quickly learned that being a godly and submissive wife in t...

Sunday Nice Things: This American Ex-Wife

04 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Sunday Nice Things! Today we have an episode of This American Ex-Wife from the wonderful Lyz Lenz!     I first became obsessed with Lyz w...

A Taste of The Sicilian Inheritance

03 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

So many of you have asked me for an audio preview of The Sicilian Inheritance that I finally just sat down and created one! Why not! I love this part....

Attack of the Fitfluencers

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The #fitfluencers and #wellness brands are coming for you. And they've been on the attack since January 1. This time of alleged renewal and reinventio...

How to Start Writing with Jami Attenberg

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We talk a lot about the negative parts of social media, but good things do happen online. One of those good things is community. Five years ago the Ne...

Sunday Nice Things: She Pivots with Stacy London

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you want more of She Pivots you can find all the episodes here. Under the Influence is sponsored by Quince and Honeylove. Give yourself the luxury ...

Ambitious Women Leaning into Family Life with Neha Ruch

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if we recognized the ambition inherent in motherhood? What if we normalized corporate career pauses? What if we didn't let ourselves be defined b...

Trad Wives, Trad Lives and Politics with Emily in Your Phone

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Social media is political. That is a fact. You may think you're following beautiful images of a woman breastfeeding her baby in the Costa Rican jungle...

Sunday Nice Things: The Cult of Perfect

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Sunday Nice Things.....a bonus episode where we share a podcast we love, a book we love, a rant we have to get off our chests. It's a nice ...