Anxiously

This week, as we emerge from our pandemic social hibernation, Lisa and Aimee wonder what it means to be a good friend.  They are joined by H. Alan Scott, the subject of the forthcoming documentary Latter Day Jew and the co-host of “Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast.” A veritable Golden Girls expert, H. Alan shares wisdom on friendship from the fictional Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia, and offers his perspective on the importance of friendships throughout the dramatic ups and downs of his own life, from coming out as gay in a conservative religious family, undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, and converting to Judaism.  Thank you for being a listener. This is the last episode of Season 1. We'll be back with more Anxiously in Season 2. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee wonder why they have so much trouble forming good habits—and sticking to them—even when they know doing so will make them happier.  They are joined by Gretchen Rubin, host of the podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” and author of the New York Times-bestselling book The Happiness Project. Gretchen explains her Four Tendencies framework—which posits that each of us fall into one of the following four categories: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels—and how understanding your personality profile can help you better incentivize wanted behaviors and habits for yourself.   Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about bugs. Anxious when they see them, anxious when they think they see them, and anxious just thinking about them.  They are joined by Stephen Kimmey, who has been in the pest control business for 13 years. He gamely answers every question you've ever wanted to ask an exterminator, and helps Lisa and Aimee take control of their fear of bugs (or at least not let it control them).  Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about their Jewish identity: wondering whether they know enough, if they are “Jewish enough,” and what that even means. They are joined by Rabbi Sari Laufer of Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles, who explains the many different ways that Judaism can be part of our modern lives, particularly for those of us who find ourselves seeking spirituality elsewhere, from meditation apps to the yoga studio. Rabbi Laufer also helps Lisa and Aimee understand that living Jewishly looks different to each person, and that trying to measure up to some external ideal of being “Jewish enough” isn't a useful exercise.  Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, with Mother's Day approaching, Lisa and Aimee consider their relationships with their mothers, and wonder whether they'll ever outgrow their desire for their mothers' approval.  They are joined by actress Tovah Feldshuh, who has played her share of Jewish mothers on stage and screen, and whose latest work is the memoir Lilyville: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I've Played. She tells Lisa and Aimee about her deeply complicated relationship with her mother Lily, how her lifelong quest for the validation she never got from her mother growing up fueled her career in the arts and, finally, how she and Lily became nearly inseparable towards the end of Lily's life. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about marriage. Specifically, the role anxiety plays in their own marriages. They are joined by their husbands, Liel and Daniel, who gamely describe how they approach the anxieties they married into, and how they try to either offset or balance out the stress level in their homes. Plus we find out what makes Liel and Daniel anxious themselves. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about money — anxious to think about it, anxious to talk about it, and anxious to deal with bureaucratic realities of adulthood like taxes and paperwork.  They're joined by Jean Chatzky, host of the podcast HerMoney and CEO of HerMoney.com, whose latest book is “Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve.” She explains why women often feel less confident about money, and shares her tips for how we can all achieve a healthier (and less stressful) relationship with our finances.  Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee examine their complicated relationship with their bodies—how they can be both attuned enough to obsess over various aches and pains, while also feeling the disjointed distancing that societal expectations of beauty can create. They're joined by illustrator Ariella Elovic, who runs @thecheekyblog and wrote and illustrated Cheeky: A Head to Toe Memoir. Ariella shares how she found body acceptance thanks to a tight-knit group of girlfriends at summer camp, and offers her honest and entertaining approach to loving your body, in all of its exquisite wonder and, occasionally, grossness. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee consider the years they spent freaking out about germs before the COVID pandemic had everyone stockpiling Purell, and how their behavior—and their rationalizations of it—has changed in the past year. They're joined by A.J. Jacobs, who's written about overcoming his own germaphobia, and who offers all sorts of insights into how we can all be less consumed by germs in our daily lives. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are finding that they're always busy, always rushing, and often running out the door way too late. Could they be doing better when it comes to being productive, or are they just holding themselves to impossibly high standards? They're joined by Zibby Owens, the majorly multi-tasking host of the podcast “Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books” and editor of Moms Don't Have Time to: A Quarantine Anthology. Zibby helps them embrace the overbooked nature of our lives today and offers a new way to think about tackling their to-do lists: task-stacking. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Aimee and Lisa are anxious about knowing enough. They're also wondering why they feel the constant need to seem smart and cultured and perfectly well-read. Is it just them? Everyone? Or mostly just women? They are joined by Ophira Eisenberg, comedian and host of NPR's trivia game show ‘Ask Me Another,' who offers context into our cultural obsession with knowing all sorts of random facts, reminds them that ‘trivia' literally refers to small or unimportant matters, and confirms that there are in fact gendered elements to knowledge-based insecurities. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about the internet. Lisa tries to avoid social media while Aimee finds herself going down Instagram rabbitholes late into the night, and they both wonder: Why does it seem like the experience of being online lately is all trolls and no fun? They're joined by New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz, author of the book Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, who explains that social media is designed to be addictive, just like junk food. He also assures Lisa and Aimee that there is still good to be found in certain pockets of the internet—but that we should still remember to unplug every now and then. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about nature: ticks, bears, and assorted other dangers that lurk in the great outdoors. They're joined by Outside parks and travel columnist Emily Pennington, who documents her visit to every U.S. national park in a forthcoming book. Emily explains how she got into camping and outdoors life, shares how empowering being alone in nature can be, and offers some helpful tips on repelling ticks while hiking. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about “the big fear:” death, and specifically the death of loved ones. They're joined by NYU associate chaplain Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer, who offers wisdom from the Muslim tradition about death and mourning, shares the perspective he's gained from a year marked by funerals, and gives Lisa and Aimee an assignment to take an unexpected field trip. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about COVID—about protecting themselves and their loved ones from the virus, of course, but also about navigating a world where every encounter is a potential vector for transmission. What to say to the maskless neighbor who wants to chit chat, or to the strangers not properly distancing at the grocery store? To answer these questions and more, they're joined by Australian philosopher Ben Bramble, who published Pandemic Ethics: 8 Big Questions of COVID-19. Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod. Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie. Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Anxiously, a new podcast from Tablet Studios.  Each week hosts Lisa Sandell and Aimee Friedman grapple with one of their anxieties—from the trivial to the existential—in a humorous and heartfelt way. From germs to mortality, they're tackling it all. They're helped along the way by smart and entertaining guests who offer perspective and advice.  This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about handling raw chicken, stressed about being bad cooks, and confused about where this leaves them as proud feminists. They're joined by cookbook author Shannon Sarna, who helps them address the many layers of this chicken anxiety, and offers some fun advice for the next time they're in the kitchen  Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. This episode is sponsored by Soom Foods, which makes delicious tahini, chocolate sweet tahini, and silan date syrup. Use discount code ANXIOUS and receive 15% off your first order at soomfoods.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Anxiously, a new podcast from Tablet Studios.  Each week hosts Lisa Sandell and Aimee Friedman grapple with one of their anxieties—from the trivial to the existential—in a humorous and heartfelt way. From germs to mortality, they're tackling it all. They're helped along the way by smart and entertaining guests who offer perspective and advice.  This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about getting older, and wondering if they're getting less relevant. They're joined by fashion commentator and bon vivant Simon Doonan, who explains that confidence is the secret ingredient to style, praises the virtues of “embracing hagdom,” and suggests that Lisa and Aimee adopt a signature sartorial flourish, like a motorcycle jacket.    Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. This episode is sponsored by Soom Foods, which makes delicious tahini, chocolate sweet tahini, and silan date syrup. Use discount code ANXIOUS and receive 15% off your first order at soomfoods.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Anxiously, a new podcast from Tablet Studios.  Each week hosts Lisa Sandell and Aimee Friedman grapple with one of their anxieties—from the trivial to the existential—in a humorous and heartfelt way. From germs to mortality, they're tackling it all, helped along the way by smart and entertaining guests who offer perspective and advice.    This week, Lisa and Aimee are anxious about the state of the world. They are joined by novelist Anne Roiphe, who talks to them about learning to handle everything the universe throws your way, about writing angry letters to her relative, Roy Cohn, and about meeting a cute Israeli soldier at the Metropolitan Museum.    Like the show? Send us a note at anxiously@tabletmag.com. Follow us on Instagram @anxiouslypod and on Twitter @anxiouslypod.    Our theme music is by Low Cut Connie.   Check out all of Tablet's podcasts at tabletmag.com/podcasts. This episode is sponsored by Soom Foods, which makes delicious tahini, chocolate sweet tahini, and silan date syrup. Use discount code ANXIOUS and receive 15% off your first order at soomfoods.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices