Under the Influence with Jo Piazza
Episodes
The Real Secret of Success—Be a Likable Badass
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can you get the status you need and deserve? What makes people WANT to work with you? As a professor of organizational behavior at University of N...
Create Stronger Friendships and Get Rid of Toxic Ones
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friendships are the backbones of many of our lives. But they also feel harder than ever to maintain and nurture. We need more strategic approached to ...
Debunking the Myths of Traditional Motherhood
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is a good mother? What is a bad mother. What is a traditional mother? Let's sit with all those questions for just a hot second and then realize...
How to Talk to Your Kids About the Election and Trump AND EVERYTHING
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I woke up Wednesday morning in a sheet cake and red wine coma, floating in confusion, grief and fury. And yet I still had to parent. We still have to ...
You Deserve All the Hope
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take some time for yourself to enjoy this election day....to enjoy the fact that you got to vote for a woman for president. We get to savor that. And ...
Sunday Nice Things: Frugal Friends
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's take a break from election doom scrolling to clean out our closets. And while we do it why not try out a new podcast called Frugal Friends all a...
A Very Influencer Halloween with Sara Petersen
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Influencers who hate Halloween, influencers who make you feel like you're failing Halloween (no more boo baskets people), plus a little Ballerina Farm...
Can a Poem Have a Punchline? With @MaryOliversDrunkCousin
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why can't I do a back walkover as a 44 year old woman? That is the central theme of this hilarious episode with Lyndsay Rush, AKA @MaryOliversDrunkCou...
The Kids Are All Right With Gabrielle and Ben Blair
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Parenting is a long game. After parenting six kids for the past twenty-eight years Gabrielle and Ben Blair know that better than anyone. I love advice...
Legislating Utah Mom Influencers, FINALLY!
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the Ruby Franke scandal, Utah is finally considering legislation to protect and compensate the children of influencers. Joining us toda...
Spicy Sex and Smart Ladies
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are 30 million romance readers in the United States and 50% read a book a week. That is a lot of books my friends! Today we are talking to our f...
The Cost of Scrolling—Free Yourself From Impulse Spending This Holiday Season
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's a fine line between marketing and creating false desires and influencers stomp all over it. Influencers often convince women they have problem...
Sunday Nice Things: Life Beyond Stay-at-home Motherhood
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For today's Sunday Nice Things we are dropping in an episode of Mom to More. Join Sharon Macey, former SAHM and mother of 3 as she dives deep into con...
The Kids Aren't Alright—Getting Rid of Toxic Achievement Culture
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is everyone so burnout? Modern parenting has shifted towards a focus on status and achievement, often at the expense of genuine happiness and well...
$$$Mormon #MomTok Money$$$
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Mormon #MomTok ladies are making serious bank and I want to talk about it. Many of these women are the breadwinners in their families and that is ...
Owning Your Own Story with Lauren Sisler
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Sisler’s journey of overcoming the shame of losing her parents to opioid addiction hasn’t been easy, but she has allowed it to give her pur...
How Digital Beauty Standards Are Messing Us Up with Elise Hu
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What has digital culture done to our standards of beauty and to our wallets when we have to spend to reach those standards of beauty. The proliferatio...
Sunday Things: True Crime with RedRum
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So many of you have been asking me for true crime podcast recommendations and I have a few I can drop in the feed. Let's start today with REDRUM. REDR...
The House in Habit of it All
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is our first episode taking a look at the rise of "independent journalist" Jessica Reed Kraus through the lens of the recent RFK Jr. sexting scan...
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...