
Awesome Etiquette
Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette with advice based on consideration, respect, and honesty. Like their great-great-grandmother, Emily Post, Lizzie and Dan look for the reasons behinds the traditional rules to guide their search for the correct behavior in all kinds of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.
Latest episodes

Apr 11, 2022 • 57min
Episode 396 - Oh Napkins
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 letting people “sneak” behind you into secured areas, conveying race through emojis, text message thank yous, and napkin etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about talking to your partner about their table manners. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Gilded age etiquette from Mary Sherwood who would have been Emily’s etiquette advisor .See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 4, 2022 • 1h 7min
Episode 395 - A Wedding Off
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 acknowledging who is paying for the wedding on the invitation, whether or not RSVPs are a thing of the past,new houses that are full of stuff from previous residents, and a sample script for a canceled wedding. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about if spouses should always be invited too. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on serving butter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 28, 2022 • 1h 14min
Episode 394 - Profanity Please
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 tipping when service is sub par, which side of the table to sit on when meeting someone new, answering questions about no longer drinking alcohol, and how to handle encouraged profranity at work. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about dealing with a pushy landlord. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Emily writing the 1922 edition of etiquetteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 21, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 393 - We Don't Talk About...
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 calling a newly wed by her new last name, how to have conversations about genealogy without bragging, addressing families with multiple names as well as address parents vs babies, and a question about bringing your baby to a baby shower. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question of the week is about how to be a friend not a customer when friends are involved in Multi-Level marketing. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on family gossip and Bruno-no-no-no. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 14, 2022 • 1h 12min
Episode 392 - You Look Different
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 tipping the dog park staff, addressing noisy neighbors, a followup question to our plant-based dinner discussion, and addressing a sudden change in someone’s appearance. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about making etiquette around attire more gender inclusive. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 7, 2022 • 1h 1min
Episode 391 - Retirement Party
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 tipping the dog park staff, addressing noisy neighbors, a follow-up question to our plant-based dinner discussion, and addressing a sudden change in someone’s appearance. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about making etiquette around attire more gender inclusive. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on retirement parties.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 28, 2022 • 58min
Episode 390 - Do You Stack
*Aired one week early.
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 stacking plates at restaurants, writing thank you notes for gifts given to your small child, responding to suggestions from others about your career choices and addressing a repeat mistake by a business. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about expressing sympathy for someone with a chronic illness. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript where we go meta and look at the power of your etiquette questions and salutes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 21, 2022 • 59min
Episode 389 - Mistakes Were Made
Guest co-host Kelly Williams Brown, joins Lizzie post for a special edition of Awesome Etiquette celebrating the launch of their joint project Mistakes Were Made.
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 etiquette for save the date responses, consumable gifts arriving in non consumable fashion, signing thank you cards for you AND your partner, and a complicated tipping scenario. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about sending thank yous for gifts that were never received. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on the launch of our fun book Mistakes Were Made which is coauthored by Kelly Williams Brown who is also co hosting today’s show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 14, 2022 • 1h
Episode 388 - Second Wedding Gift
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 not wanting to pay for a second group wedding gift, not wanting to discuss your health with a family member, giving Emily Post books as gifts and not wanting to eat around others. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about keeping coffee around for guests when you don’t drink it. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Dining etiquette through the years from Margaret Visser’s, The Rituals of Dinner. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 2min
Episode 387 - Invitation Expenses
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 asking people to adjust their face masks, asking someone to pay you back for a ticket to an event you invited them to, whom to address gifts to at a baby shower and how to handle a meat conversation as a vegetarian. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about responding to others’ well-meaning comments about a child’s diagnosis. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on etiquette in regards to, diversity, equity and inclusion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices