Awesome Etiquette

The Emily Post Institute
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Jul 17, 2023 • 1h 6min

Episode 462 - Helping Hands

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on bringing gifts to birthday dinners, navigating a wedding invite when the date has been posted online already, what to do when someone constantly interrupts you with questions, and avoiding neighborhood gossip. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about winning gracefully. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on lending a hand. All that's coming up!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 10, 2023 • 1h 22min

Episode 461 - Service Charge

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on feeling excluded from conversations, service charges at restaurants, RSVPing for a wedding before getting a formal invite, and declining to give tours of your home. For Awesome Etiquette community members your question is about asking your coworkers not to play explicit songs. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Emily's wedding day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jul 3, 2023 • 1h 20min

Episode 460 - Subject Change

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on responding to people who disrespect your religious beliefs, bosses who text you after hours, changing the subject during uncomfortable conversations, and a wedding invite that leaves out important information. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about dating in real life instead of finding people on apps. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on clam bakes and BBQ's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 26, 2023 • 1h 11min

Episode 459 - Andiamo

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on funeral invites, asking wedding guests to help with the honeymoon instead of giving gifts, tipping for a bottle of wine, and balancing honesty and consideration in casual conversations. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about slowing down a relationship. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on hosting tips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 19, 2023 • 1h 9min

Episode 458 - Talks Too Much

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on treats for staff members being shared with their kids,thank you notes for meal trains, invites sent in batches, and a renter who talks… a little too much. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about the term “junior” after the senior has passed on. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on sharing food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 12, 2023 • 1h 13min

Episode 457 - Text Better

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on being a better texter, correcting a friend’s manners, responding to comments about your appearance, and canceling coming to an event where you’re expected to bring the main course. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about leaning the seat back on an airplane. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on using someone’s vacation or second home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 5, 2023 • 59min

Episode 456 - Solo Finish

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on inviting families to pool parties, responding to your name being misspelled, suggesting a different restaurant than the one you were invited to, and passive aggressive bosses. For Awesome Etiquette paid subscribers our bonus question is about putting up a new fence with new neighbors. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript from Truly Emily Post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 29, 2023 • 1h 7min

Episode 455 - Everyone?

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on telling people about your new address, giving a gift to the host of a post-wedding brunch, addressing a group as ‘guys,’ and someone who invites themself to a gathering. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about interjecting to correct someone’s coffee order. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on emilys garden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 22, 2023 • 1h 2min

Episode 454 - Many Hosts

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On this week’s show we take your questions on inviting someone to a graduation with no celebration afterward, weeds in your neighbor’s yard, baby showers with a lot of hosts, and inviting someone who has just lost a child to a baby shower. For Awesome Etiquette community members our extra question is about inviting spouses to weddings when you’re not close with them. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript pulled from the 1950’s Emily Post cookbook with menu recommendations for entertaining. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 15, 2023 • 1h 16min

Episode 453 - Almost Everybody

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on guests who are gluten-free, asking others what they do for work, inviting almost everyone to a gathering, and tipping for an appliance delivery. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about difficult apologies. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on how we use Consideration, Respect and Honesty to answer etiquette questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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