It's our first live show! At CaveatNYC! We don't know what we're doing! You may be able to tell! In this VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: Kim's mom, Eve France!Singer/songwriter Amy Rigby sings us some of her beautiful songs and we cry!!Plus: listener questions and a whole lot of nonsense!! To support the production of the show, please join our Patreon: patreon.com/everythingisfine For Everything Is Fine merch, head to Tee Public: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast You can...

Our guest this week is New York Times writer Susan Dominus. Susan has worked for the Times since 2007, first as a Metro columnist and then as staff writer with The New York Times Magazine. In 2018, she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize, for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. And her most recent piece, "Women Have Been Misled About Menopause," went viral in a big way. To support the production of the show, please join our Patreon:...

Jenn and Kim introduce Jenn's new podcast STIFFED, from Crooked Media and iHeart media, which is available wherever you get your podcasts, including here: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/stiffed/ To support the production of the show, please join our Patreon: patreon.com/everythingisfine For Everything Is Fine merch, head to Tee Public: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kim and Jenn discuss not actually loving attention, how to be social in groups, human pyramids, Yellowjackets, Justine Bateman, the joy radiating from Drew Barrymore's talk show, a new shoe line Jenn loves, Kim's wedding plans and a whole lot more! SHOW NOTES Jenn's new project STIFFED: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stiffed/id1678710956 Nurse Gigi on Instagram Ivy Lee Copenhagen boots: https://ivyleecopenhagen.com/ To support the production of the show, please join our Patreon:...

Our guest today is Valerie Monroe. Val is a return Everything Is Fine guest who appeared in one of our most popular episodes ever. She was a longtime beauty director at O, The Oprah Magazine and she’s written hundreds of articles on a wide range of topics for many national publications, including The New York Times. Val writes the Substack newsletter, How Not to F*ck Up Your Face and, as of recently!, an advice column on The Cut of the same name. There are still a few seats left for our live...

This week we're talking all about religion in childhood, dumb TV we're watching, a new lipstick trick, plastic surgery without shame, wedding planning and all the stuff we always talk about. Our live show in New York is April 9th/4pm at Caveat NYC. Get your tickets for the in-person show and also the livestream here: https://caveat.nyc/events/everything-is-fine-podcast-4-9-2023 This week we're recommending Makeup Forever Lip Liner To support the production of the show, please join our...

Carlene Bauer — author of our favorite 2022 book, GIRLS THEY WRITE SONGS ABOUT — joins us today to talk writing, female friendship, ambition, choosing a child-free life, capturing 90s New York, what is it to be Gen X in mid-life and whole a lot more. SHOW NOTES Our live show in New York is April 9th/4pm at Caveat NYC. Get your tickets for the in-person show and also the livestream here: https://caveat.nyc/events/everything-is-fine-podcast-4-9-2023 To support the production of the show,...

We're doing our first live show! When: April 9th, 4pm at Caveat NYC. Get your tickets for the in-person show and also the livestream here: https://caveat.nyc/events/everything-is-fine-podcast-4-9-2023 Otherwise, it's a short, sweet episode this week because we lost an interview to the recording gods but we're still talking about finding joy in aging, dressy outfits, feeling intolerant of b******t, Condé Nast snobbery, what it is to really see another person, when online friends become IRL...

This week it's just Kim and Jenn talking about: overcoming COVID, movies and TV we're watching, magic, impressions, aging hair, bag recommendations, and why baby's breath is the worst. Plus: Listener questions and a whole lot more! SHOW NOTES SHOW NOTES "Aftersun" "To Leslie" "The Trip" Marc Maron's comedy hour "From Bleak to Dark" Clare V bags Il Bisonte bags Baggu bags HAIRSTORY hair products Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jenn has COVID this week so we're re-running a favorite episode on midlife friendship with Dr. Marisa Franco. Dr, Franco walks us through exactly how to make new friends as we get older, the common mistakes we're making with our friendships, how to handle friend conflict, and what to do when it's time for a friendship to end. Also check out Dr. Franco's new book, “Platonic: The Surprising New Science of Making and Keeping Friends As An Adult,” which came out last year. Hosted on Acast. See...

Our guest this week is Cindy Gallop, a founder and entrepreneur and former advertising exec who now helms several of her own businesses, including the social sex platform Make Love Not Porn — the mission of which is socializing and normalizing sex. Cindy launched MakeLoveNotPorn with a TEDTalk in 2009, that talk has been viewed 2 and half million times. She’s also just launched a newsletter called Dear Cindy, where readers can ask her anything, especially, for our purposes, about having great...

This week we're discussing death and also recommending mascara! It's a wild life! We all contain multitudes! If you want to support the production of the show, please join our Patreon: patreon.com/everythingisfine For Everything Is Fine merch, head to Tee Public: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast SHOW NOTES SHOW NOTES This week we're recommending: Poker Face Brit Box Stonehouse The Super 8 Years (Annie Ernaux) If Books Could Kill podcast (the Men Are From Mars,...

This week we're talking with teacher, author, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, and composer (!!!) Julia Cameron. Julia is best known for her international best seller, THE ARTIST'S WAY, which was first published in 1992. Her latest book, WRITE FOR LIFE: Creative Tools for Every Writer, was published in January. In this episode Julia helps Jenn and Kim through writing blocks, talks about creative flow as a kind of spirituality, and why she thinks it's far too daunting to think about the...

This week we're talking all about feeling "fixed" in therapy when you're really not, Harry and Meghan and taking accountability for our mistakes, archival footage of Jenn partying in 1993, Annie Ernaux's "A Simple Passion," writing anxiety, publishing anxiety, why do we even create in the first place?, watching "Elvis," and... "Pretty Woman." Plus Kim identifies Richard Gere's bitchface...and we have beauty recommendations! SHOW NOTES Annie Ernaux's "A Simple Passion" Smashbox PHOTO FINISH...

This week! Kim's sick and it's a short episode... but we're still recommending things! Cleo From 5 to 7 Paul T. Goldman Ritual vitamins: ritual.com/FINE Shani Darden Lactic Acid Serum NEW: Head to our Tee Public store for EIF merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast/share ALSO: We have a Patreon! Sign up for invites to special events, exclusive content, and bonus EIF episodes: patreon.com/everythingisfine Our show's Instagram is @eifpodcast. We're also on...

Kim's on tour this week so we're answering a few listener questions (like how Lucky magazine actually came to be!) and, afterwards, Jenn interviews author Beth Pickens all about tapping into creativity in the new year — how to start, what to do when you're stuck, forming new habits, finding realistic flow, and most of all: how to use our creative goals as a balm and not a weapon against ourselves. Beth can be found on Instagram @bethpickensconsulting Her "Homework Club" for artists and...

Our guest this week is Lori Leibovitch, editor of the New York Times’ Well section, and we're talking all about getting and staying healthy in the new year, our new year's resolutions, and what is to live "well" in mid-life — and beyond. The book we mention on this episode — about female friendship— is Girls They Write Songs About by Carlene Bauer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our favorite books, movies, TV, comedy, podcasts, things we bought...and a few things we hated too: Here's our 2022 year in review. NEW: Head to our Tee Public store for EIF merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast/share ALSO: We have a Patreon! Sign up for invites to special events, exclusive content, and bonus EIF episodes: patreon.com/everythingisfine Our show's Instagram is @eifpodcast. We're also on Twitter @theeifpodcast and Facebook. you can find Kim on her...

Our guest this week is book influencer Lupita Aquino. Lupita runs the highly influential bookstagram account Lupita Reads and also recommends books on TikTok. Her list of most anticipated books of 2023 was recently published on Today.com. **Books Lupita mentions on the show** Good Talk by Mira Jacob You Gotta Be You by Brandon Goodman The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam...

It's a holiday season extravaganza! Kind of! Kim and Jenn discuss being secretly uptight, Triangle of Sadness, season 2 of White Lotus, Jenn's favorite new book, friendships that can't time travel, holiday party outfits when you're middle-aged, our favorite go-to gifts, mammograms, listener questions and a whole lot more! SHOW NOTES SHOW NOTES Girls They Write Songs About by Carlene Bauer Clare V pouch Commes des Garcons pouch Harry & David pears NEW: Head to our Tee Public store for EIF...

A week of good moods! A week of talking about Botox, pet peeves, admitting when you're the villain of your own story, ghosts, the shadow self, good and terrible Xmas music, "Fleishman Is in Trouble" and a lot more we cannot remember! NEW: Head to our Tee Public store for EIF merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast/share ALSO: We have a Patreon! Sign up for invites to special events, exclusive content, and bonus EIF...

A post-holiday meditation on middle age, the clothes that fit us as poorly as ex-boyfriends, our collective relationship with celebrity gossip, Frankenstein'd magazine covers, Jenn's rekindled relationship with Nutrafol, the magic of Hairstory Lift, surprise! we're Andy Rooney age, a riveting segment on socks, plus listener questions and a whole lot more! NEW: Head to our Tee Public store for EIF merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast/share ALSO: We have a...

This week it's a low-key conversation about eBay shopping, the joy of Bad Sisters, the new Selena Gomez documentary, side dishes and Thanksgiving, the pall of the Christmas season, being haunted by old objects, why sometimes you just need to go to f*cking IKEA, plus listener questions and more! NEW: Head to our Tee Public store for EIF merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast/share Also: We have a Patreon! Sign up for invites to special events, exclusive content,...

What are the advantages of a creative life post-40? How do we know what, where, and when to create? On the show to answer these questions (and a lot more) is writer and professor Lynn Steger Strong, author of the novels Hold Still, Want, and her newest, Flight. NEW: Head to our Tee Public store for EIF merch: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast/share Also: We have a Patreon! Sign up for invites to special events, exclusive content, and bonus EIF...

This week Kim and Jenn are talking with Gabrielle Blair, the founder of DesignMom.com and author of the new book Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way To Think About Abortion. NEW NEW NEW: EVERYTHING IS FINE MERCH! Hoodies! Tees! Onesies! Sweatshirts! Notebooks! More! Head to our new Tee Public store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/everything-is-fine-the-podcast/share Oh and here's a link to the red sherpa-lined sweatpants. Don't forget: We have a Patreon! Sign up for invites to special...