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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. In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack!
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Sep 16, 2025 • 1h 23min
You're Not Too Old, It's Not Too Late(with Jamie Golden)
Jamie Golden, co-host of The Popcast and a former social worker, shares her inspiring journey of career pivoting. She and Nora discuss how age should never be a barrier to change, emphasizing that it's never too late to pursue passions. They recount anecdotes of early podcast successes, the challenges of navigating business transitions, and the importance of personal reinvention. Golden highlights the humor in her experiences and the value of community support, encouraging listeners to embrace their own transformative journeys.

Sep 12, 2025 • 59min
Gen Z Dating is Weird: Your Calls
What matters to you matters to me. That’s why I make sure to take time to do live calls and answer your questions. In this episode, we talk Gen Z dating rules, life postpartum, invisible strings, and dealing our internal and external sadnesses and pressures. Grab a snack and buckle in – let’s chat.
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Sep 9, 2025 • 48min
Dead People Lore
Have you ever heard something really weird about someone… but at their funeral? I found out that allegedly my dad RODE A MOTORCYCLE. I wanted to hear about the craziest lore that’s been dropped about people you knew after they died, and you delivered: handcuffs, bathtub gin, and secret pregnancies.
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Sep 1, 2025 • 1h 3min
Patients Over Profits
Nurses are the backbone of healthcare. From tending to patients to dealing with doctors, nurses do all the things. In honor of Labor Day, our favorite producer Marcel Malekebu interviews Tracie Ducksworth, a union chair for the Minnesota Nurses Association.
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Aug 29, 2025 • 21min
TFA x IMO: Michelle Obama Told Me I'm Not a Loser!
In this brief episode, Nora poses a question to Craig Robinson and Michelle Obama. And boy do they deliver!
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Aug 25, 2025 • 48min
The Widower (Girl, run)
Every once and a while, we get an email that Nora just can’t resist making an entire episode about. This week’s subject is dating a widower – but is she really? It seems like the connection is fading fast. Relationships are complicated, and sometimes, we all need a little tough love to remind us what we’re worth.
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Aug 19, 2025 • 1h 2min
Hysterectomies, Health Insurance, and Husbands: TFA Live-Call In #1
Nora started this show because she wants to talk to YOU, the listener, about what matters to you. So today, she talks to listeners about it all : getting a hysterectomy, a battle with cancer and health insurance companies (and how much we all hate health insurance companies!), and feeling invisible in a marriage.
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Aug 12, 2025 • 57min
Giving Away the Farm
Kathy Barker isn’t just the founder of Barker Farm – she’s a mother, an advocate for mental health awareness and breaking the stigma of food insecurity, and a self-proclaimed “worker bee.” She’s committed to helping others, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but also because she once needed that help. Today, she shares with Nora the story of surviving domestic violence, financial instability, and the building of Barker Farm.
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Aug 7, 2025 • 1h 6min
Update: How to Lose Your Name with Hayley Paige (Cheval)
It's been a few years since we last spoke with Hayley Paige about the legal battle that took her ideas, her job and her identity. In this episode, we get an update from Hayley. And we get to use her actual name!
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Aug 5, 2025 • 1h 7min
Tales of a Type B
Have you ever looked at Nora and wondered, what is going on inside her head? Today, you’re going to learn. This episode is for the ADHD, messy, carefree, anxious and also not anxious humans of the world: the Type Bs.
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