Bad On Paper

Today we’re discussing our September book club pick: Majesty (American Royals book #2) by Katharine McGee. We’re also joined by the author herself to get a behind the scenes peek at the writing process, the real-life royal inspiration moments, and gossip on what’s next for this series. We loved this book and can’t wait to talk about it with you. Join in the discussion on the Facebook Group.   More Katharine McGee: @katharinemcgee  katharinemcgee.com   Katharine McGee Book Recs: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld Pretty Things by Janelle Brown Obsessions: Beyond Yoga Bike Shorts Facebook Group SoulCycle at Home John Mulaney Kid Gorgeous Harry Potter Virtual Box Set The Home Edit TV Show Instagram: @thedailytay @sydnesummer @foodloversdiary We’re Reading: Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Boudain The Roommate by Rosie Danan October Book Club: You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria Sponsor: Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout. Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper. Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We are back to answer more of your career questions! In this episode we dig a little deeper into some of your more specific situations and hear from a listener looking to transition from the dental field into marketing, someone who’s boss refuses to give them feedback, and someone debating what to do about their maternity leave. We also tackle some questions on work and Covid — from motivation to desk decor.   “Finding a new career” book recs: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert The Career Code by Hillary Kerr The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker Obsessions: Naadam’s fall cashmere SoulCycle at-home Bike Instagram: @lesrochesrouges @lichennyc @alyssarosenheck We’re Reading: Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover Destination Wedding by Dicta Bosu In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo Before She Was Helen by Caroline Cooney Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman The Roommate by Rosie Danan September Book Club: Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee Sponsor: Betterhelp: Get 10% off your first month by visiting betterhelp.com/badonpaper. Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

It’s finally here - the Grossy Pelosi / Bad on Paper crossover episode (AKA Gross on Paper). Dan Pelosi is the creator behind the Instagram account @grossypelosi and website, danpelosi.com. Today, he joins us to talk all things food! Dan shares his cooking origin story: from a childhood spent in his grandparents kitchen to having his own platform. He runs down a list of meals for when you are trying to impress or just decompress, gives grocery shopping tips, and chats ways to repurpose leftovers. And — of course — a few Bimpy stories along the way!   More Dan: @grossypelosi danpelosi.com Grossery List (for offer codes) donate to Sage donate to Okra Project Purchase Merch on Website     Cookbooks: Where Cooking Begins by Carla Lalli Barefoot Contessa Cookbooks River Cafe Cookbook - 30th Anniversary Edition Obsessions: VOTE Tees: SW Designs Jess Keys / Alice & Wonder Camilyn Beth Partners Coffee: Brooklyn Roast Show: Episodes (on Netflix) Instagram: @punkpostco @michellearmas007 @karlareed We’re Reading: Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover The Mall by Megan McCafferty Destination Wedding by Dicta Bosu Kings County by David Goodwillie September Book Club: Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee Sponsor: Bombas: So give a pair of socks when you buy a pair and get 20% off your first purchase bombas.com/BOP Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order. Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

It’s been a while since we have talked about our jobs and answered your career questions so today… we’re doing it! We got so many questions that we split ‘em up into two episodes, so stay tuned for part 2!   Today we have a mix of personal questions about our careers and some of your more meaty, specific scenarios. We dig into the different ways we have built up our audience and client base, vetting clients and determining your worth. We talk about our 5-10 year plan (more like, lack thereof!), grad school, imposter syndrome, how to effectively network and how our political beliefs have affected the podcast and our jobs. We really loved all of your specific work questions, and we give advice to folks who have been encountering challenges with job titles, managing people, asking for more money (what is your spaghetti number?), and being pigeonholed into a role you dislike. Please send us more of these questions, we love them!   Obsessions: Parachute Linen Bedding West Elm Wine Glasses Instagram: @stay_snatched @saralyon9 and @sovehome We’re Reading: Follow Me by Cathleen Barber When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Kings County by David Goodwillie September Book Club: Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee Sponsor: Bon Viv:  Try them and take a photo of your favorite flavor and tag us on instagram! Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout. Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

In this episode we are joined by Venita Aspen, an influencer, model, creative, and co-host of the newly launched podcast, Group Chat Realness. Venita tells us about everything from working fashion week to culinary school and her journey to the career she has today — owning her own creative agency, The Aspen Agency. We dive into what keeps her creative and inspired, and how she takes care of herself (mentally, physically, brows & skincare). We learn more about the Aspen Agency, her life as an influencer in the wake of BLM and the changes she has seen since the movement began, and of course… the birth of her podcast! Then, we (of course!) dive into ALL of her favorite Charleston Recs!   Black creators + brands: @glamazondiaries @prepfordwife  @shadesofpink Partake snack brand LaPierre nail polish   Venita’s Skincare Routine: Neutrogena Hydro Boost Clinique Sunscreen Cleanser by Jemaine Dermatology Glossier Serum Venita’s Brow Routine: Benefit Brow in shade 5 Benefit Brow Pencil Set with Anastasia Brow Gel in ebony Charleston Reccs: Hannibal’s Kitchen Dave’s Carry Out Park Circle Creamery Leon’s Oyster Shoppe Melfi’s Felix Fast and French More Venita: @venitaaspen on Twitter and Instagram @groupchatrealness on instagram Group Chat Realness Podcast venitaaspen.com Obsessions: Theragun Flatiron Pepper Co. Instagram: @ieatlobsterrolls @confettitherescuepup @nasimpedrad @jeanpauldonadini @mackinstyle We’re Reading: Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee You Had Me at Hola  by Alexis Daria More than Maybe by Erin Hahn Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu September Book Club: Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee Sponsor: Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/80BOP and use code 80BOP to get $80 off your first box and free shipping! Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more! Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily! Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

Joining us today is Stef Feldman, the National Policy Director for Vice President Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign. Stef walks us through her career path from local government in Atlanta to the White House, shedding light on how important it is to work with a political candidate that inspires you and how Joe Biden has inspired and empowered her. She shares her experience working on the campaign, the day-to-day of her job, and then we dive into Biden’s policies and perspectives. We talk about how COVID has impacted the campaign, Biden’s policies to contain and recover from the virus and his plans to scale up testing. We talk about healthcare, women’s reproductive health, and what is happening with the Affordable Care Act. We also talk about racial inequality in America and what Biden plans to do about it. Lastly, Stef give us tips on how to vote and how to get involved. We all need to make sure we have a voting plan in place! About Bad on Politics: Bad on Politics is a monthly bonus episode where we invite a guest expert to help us break down a political topic. We get it, politics is confusing and there's a anxiety-inducing amount of news coverage to follow. So, we're here to ask the "dumb" questions so you don't have to. We want to break things down so you can understand what's going on and make an informed opinion.   For more info: Joebiden.com Text WOMEN to 30330 to find out how you can get involved Text VOTE to 30330 for voting information  

For our August Book Club we read The Comeback by Ella Berman. The book follows Grace Turner, a young actress who disappeared from Hollywood at the height of her career. During her rise to fame as a teenager, she was sexually and emotionally abused by Abel Yorke, the director who made her famous. After she’s invited to present him with a lifetime achievement award she begins to plot her revenge. Even though Grace is a pretty unlikeable character we still loved her story and root for her revenge. This book isn’t in either of our normal wheel houses, but we loved the story and hope you loved it too! Let’s discuss in the FB group!     Obsessions: Shaker and Spoon  H&M dresses   Instagram: @misterzimi @bookishandblack   We’re Reading: Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee The Changeling by Victor LaValle You Had Me at Hola  by Alexis Daria   September Book Club: Majesty (American Royals Book 2) by Katharine McGee   Sponsor: Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout. Bon Viv Spiked Seltzer : Try one and take a photo of your favorite flavor and tag us on instagram!   Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!   Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!   Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

We decided to do a lighter episode this week. On instagram we asked you to propose some fun ‘would you rather’ scenarios and boy, did you deliver! Some are crazy (but for better or worse we still made our choice!), some are silly, and we definitely didn’t agree on everything. Which one of us would give up booze? Which one would give up travel? Who would rather have a lobster claw for an arm than a floor length white beard? What could make us give up books? What about quarantining forever? You can learn a lot about a person in a good game of WYR.  We hope this episode makes you laugh!   Obsessions: Bug Bite Thing: Bugbitething.com D.S. & Derga Candle - Holy Ficus Our Place Pan   Instagram: @cocktails4breakfast @yourbestfriendjoey   We’re Reading: American Royals 2: Majesty by Katharine McGee How to be an Anti Racist (Audiobook) Ibram X. Kendi Rodham: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld Deadly Little Scandals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory The Changeling by Victor LaValle     August Book Club: The Comeback by Ella Berman   Sponsor: Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer   Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!   Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!   Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

She’s baaaack! Our most popular guest Carly Heitlinger (of the lifestyle blog Carly the Prepster!) joins us this week to catch up on how she is feeling at this point in the pandemic and what she has been doing to cope with anxiety and inability to really plan anything. Anything… but her upcoming wedding, that is! She gives us the scoop on her super-surprise proposal and tells us more about her fiance Mike (and his family). We also talk a little bit about politics and Carly’s decision to endorse Joe Biden. Lastly, we chat about blogging during a pandemic - it’s definitely been interesting? We wind down the episode talking about favorite snacks (hard agree on one choice, hard disagree on another) and how she manages to only follow 50 people on Instagram!   More Carly: carlytheprepster.com @carly on instagram @carlysbookclub on instagram @carlysstitchclub on instagram   Obsessions: Family Gold by Local Eclectic Tanya Taylor Summer Pajamas and Robe Numberzilla   Instagram: @grossypelosi @gemmacorrell @greceghanem   We’re Reading: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson   August Book Club: The Comeback by Ella Berman   Sponsor: Prose: Go to prose.com/BOP for your free in-depth hair quiz and 15% off your order.   Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!   Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!   Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.

This week we are joined by Traci Thomas! Traci is the host of The Stacks Podcast, a mom to twin girls, and an avid non-fiction reader. We get a behind the scenes look at how she chooses books for the pod, her favorite books of 2020 (and all time), and talk about the book she wishes would be written. We loved getting her perspective as she’s such a big non-fiction reader and both filled up our Bookshop.org carts with her recs while recording this episode. We talk about BLM, Black authors, and how to really do anti-racism work. We also chat about what happened with Book of the Month and how she is feeling about that.   More Traci: The Stacks Patreon @thestackspod  on Instagram @thestackspod_  on Twitter thestackspodcast.com   Book Subscriptions: Check out Traci's Post    Episodes to listen to in the Stacks: Beloved with DeMaris B. Hill Kiese Layman Interview Red at The Bone with Jason Reynolds  Homefire With Tawny Newsome Ibram X Kendi Interview   Top 3 books 2020: Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey Sula by Toni Morrison Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry   Top 3 books Ever: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and Garth Williams  The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson   Memoirs: The Other Side by Lacy M Johnson Heavy by Kiese Laymon Men we Reaped by Jesmyn Ward Jesus Land by Julia Sheeres   Audiobooks: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Inside Out by Demi Moore Open Book by Jessica Simpson   Other books mentioned: Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases  The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcom X by Les Payne The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J Moore Columbine by Dave Cullen A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown by Julia Sheeres   Obsessions: Group Chat Realness Podcast Taylor Swift’s New Album: Folklore   Instagram: @wantshowasyoung @holycitychic   We’re Reading: The Wife Stalker by Liv Constantine Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson   August Book Club: The Comeback by Ella Berman   Sponsor: Night: Go to discovernight.com and get 20% off with code BOP20 at checkout.   Join our FB group for amazing book recs & more!   Like and subscribe to RomComPods. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit Grace’s blog, The Stripe. New posts daily!   Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Grace on Instagram @graceatwood and Becca @beccamfreeman.