Lez Get Sumthin Straight

Join Marisa and Amy as they round out Season 3 of LezGetSumthinStraight and this one is for the ladies; Mental Health and Menopause. The women get candid about "the changes", and not just the night sweats and weight gain, but the mental aspect that being peri-menopausal presents. What, if anything, can be done to combat the struggle? As per usual, nothing is discussed without its fair share of laughter and no one laughs at themselves more than Marisa and Amy. Wait til you hear where they've been the last week and what the plans are for Season 4 of LezGetSumthinStraight!

Join Marisa and Amy as they discuss the good and the ugly of Woke and Cancel Culture. They explore the difference between real oppression and hurt feelings, why is everyone so offended? The ladies do their best to approach these concepts with objective mindsets but through the filter of their Gen X upbringing and who gives a fuck attitude. There is always something to laugh at when Marisa and Amy get into it! Here's your invitation to the conversation and Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Hey Everybody we're back! Join Amy and Marisa as they re-connect after a few weeks off. This week we're just catching up. Talking about current events, telling stories, and laughing at each other! This is what friends do, pick up where you left off. Plus, this week's Hump Day Special: What was your favorite year of life thus far? Some of our answers may surprise you. What was your favorite year and why? Thanks for listening to Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Join Marisa and Amy as they explore the 9 best tips for cultivating healthy relationships. Do you follow through with making plans with friends? Are you busy chasing people who show you they don't want to be in your life and neglecting the ones that do? Can you be both reliable and empathetic while setting up healthy boundaries to protect your own mental and emotional health? Marisa and Amy discuss it all, what they are good at and where they fall short. Also, on this Hump Day, Marisa shares a "going back to the office" story that will have you howling laughing. Tune in, join the conversation, and Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Amy and Marisa are back for 2023 with a brand new topic! Overcome the Over Stimulation. Women especially are so overly stimulated during the holidays, decorating, cooking, baking, and making holiday miracles that we often just need a way to shut off and turn down the mental noise. Being overly stimulated often manifests itself as anger, and then we are so often accused of being a bitch. I'm not angry, I'm overstimulated. Join the ladies as they discuss ways to decompress, reset, and turn off the mental noise and bright lights that the holidays bring. Keep listening to Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Join Marisa and Amy on their last episode of the year "Reflections and Resolutions" as they look back on the year and discuss what they have learned, what they could do better, and how looking ahead brings the promise of a new start!

They're BAACCKKKKKKKKK!!!! Join Marisa and Amy as this navigate the mom hell this is creating Christmas Magic! Its a Holly Jolly Holiday Hell! Do you lower the volume on your holiday preparations or do you find ways to organize and keep up with the madness? Marisa and Amy laugh through it all and give their take on what the holidays are like for them.

On this episode of Lez Get Sumthin Straight, Marisa and Amy just riff about random topics but rest assured, once they get going it gets funnier and funnier. Also, Marisa shouts out a couple of friends and promotes small businesses, only the ones she likes of course. Check out Jay Carlin and Carlin Engraving LLC (carlin_engraving on Instagram) The East Coast's wickedest hand engraver and exquisite laser design cutting and jewelry repair. You ride horses or know an equestrian? Did you catch Episode 20 on Men's Mental Health? Help support Ed and check out EB Ribbon Racks, handmade and beautifully crafted wood ribbon racks to display your most prized accomplishments (EB Ribbon Racks on Facebook / ebribbonracks@gmail.com). Interested in amazing works of art? Check out CorinnaMaggyDesigns.com for divinely expressed mandalas and other stunning pieces. Also check out Jenn Depinto at Your Art To Remember, From 1st smiles, to homes, old photographs, and furry friends, Jenn creates art that keeps your memories alive forever. Her style is perfectly life-like and beautifully captures the very essence of your most memorable photo in paint (yourarttoremember.com). Keep Listening and Laughing with Marisa and Amy on Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

On this episode of Lez Get Sumthin Straight, join Marisa and Amy as they discuss the scary side of motherhood, intrusive thoughts, obsessive behavior, adjustment challenges, and the emotional side of motherhood that make being a mom, especially a single mom, really hard. A listener writes in to share her experience with obsessive intrusive thoughts of something dangerous happening to her kids. None of us are alone in this, we have all had those moments of paranoia and dread. Marisa shares her current experience with behavior issues in her 5 year old, and how to cope when parenting is constantly changing. It may be Friday but theres always room for a Hump Day special, this week, Marisa researches the concept of bonding over similar hates. Do you and your best friend hate all the same things? Amy talks about some of the things she's hating lately. This conversation turned out more exciting than expected as the ladies share their similar hates. Stay tuned and listen to Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Marisa and Amy are back for Season 3 of Lez Get Sumthin Straight! In this season opener Marisa decides maybe we shake things up a bit and discuss unpopular opinions. Maybe they get new listeners, maybe they just piss a bunch of people off. Listen as Amy weighs in and the girls discuss everything from "Paprika goes with everything", to the Kardashians, to Woke Culture, and the Medical Community's stance on Transgender people. Join Marisa and Amy for some honest yet hilarious conversation on this banger of a Season 3 opener of Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

It's the Season 2 Finale of Lez Get Sumthin Straight and do we have a treat for you. This weeks topic is Men's Mental Health. Join Marisa and Amy as they explore the stigma of men's mental health and how women can better support men on their journey. Don't just take it from us, this week Lez Get Sumthin Straight had the amazing opportunity to hear from real men talking about their own mental health journeys. Marisa shares two interviews with friend and co-worker John in a segment called “Men Get Hurt Too”, and her long time, childhood friend, and absolute bestie, Army Vet and 15 year law enforcement officer Ed in a segment called “It's Ok to Not be Ok, unless you're a man” These two men are fantastic as they share their personal journeys and struggles. We end with asking, “How can women better support men on their mental health journeys”? Their answers are powerful and profound. We end the episode with special guest Rich Ebbe, Marisa's husband, as Amy moderates an interview on the struggles and successes of dealing with mental health within a marriage. Tune in to this awe inspiring look into men's mental health from real life perspectives as we close our Season 2 of LEZ GET SUMTHIN STRAIGHT!

This episode goes deep, join Marisa and Amy as they discuss Amy's coming out experience and how her straight friends and family support her. The girls talk about what has changed in societal norms since Amy came out in 1993 and what she would have changed about her journey. How can straight advocates be more supportive of their LGBT friends? Don't forget its Hump Day, this week's Hump Day Special is "10 Random Questions". Tune in to Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Do you know toxic people in your life? Is someone sucking the life out of you and you don't know how to handle the situation? Join Marisa and Amy as they discuss how common of an issue this seems to be for many people, how to identify a toxic person, and how to set healthy boundaries. The girls go deep, explore their own experiences when dealing with toxic people and some of the common pitfalls. It's something many people seem to have in common and never really open up about. Marisa and Amy, as per usual, hold no punches. Don't forget it's Hump Day!!! Today's Hump Day Special....."Celebrity Gang Bang"! Who's on your list. Some choices the girls make may shock you! Tune in to Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Marisa and Amy take a hard look at the benefit of taking time away. While spending the Labor Day Weekend with 9 other girlfriends, we explore the gains of spending a few days away from your spouse and kids..... to refuel, to recharge, and energize yourself. For our "Hump Day Special" despite it being Saturday, we discuss, when to tell or not to tell?>>>>>. When you know someone's secret, when do you mind your business and when do you tell the truth of what you know. Listen as the ladies discuss the hard truths. Happy Labor Day Weekend!!!!

Perhaps the topic you have all been waiting for, celebrating their sixteenth (sexteenth) episode, Marisa and Amy just talk about sex! First time sex, bad sex, meaningful sex, sex within marriage, the peaks and valleys of sex, straight sex, gay sex, all the sex! The ladies masterfully navigate this topic with respect and love and of course tons of laughs. As per usual, there is always a lesson to be learned. Tune in as Marisa and Amy share their take on how to have a better, more meaningful sex life in your relationship! Let's Talk About Sex and Lez Get Sumthin Straight!!!

In this episode, Marisa and Amy discuss life balance. Balancing the many responsibilities of work, wife, mom, friend, daughter, sister, and self has its challenges. It can be so hard to battle the anxiety and guilt that comes with feeling you are all things to all people and failing at all of it. Listen as the girls discuss their own personal experiences with balance and learn how coping with it all sometimes means giving yourself the space and forgiveness it takes to simply do your best. Whatever that looks like. Is "Everything Zen"? No, certainly not, but thats ok. This weeks Hump Day Special, "That Time I Lost My Shit"! We all do it but when you hear these stories, you'll feel better about yourself for sure. Hilarity ensues on this weeks 15th Episode of Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

This week Lez Get Sumthin Straight welcomes our first guest host Lori Demsey. In light of Netflix's new Documentary "Trainwreck" about the debacle that was the 1999 Woodstock festival. Amy and Lori have their own experience having been at the festival and it was truly a wild ride. Join us as we talk about that crazy weekend in July of '99! Don't forget it's Hump Day, todays special talks about the newest TikToc trend, Vabbing. You decide if you're for or against this new trend. Tune in to Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Marisa and Amy talk about some of the places they have traveled to from hard core camping in Pennsylvania to spa resorts at the Jersey shore, Salem Massachusetts and Riviera Maya Mexico. Every place has a story that have the girls cracking up. Find out how they met in 1995, the TV show that started them laughing together and how they never stopped.

Halloween is around the corner.....Wait no its not! Well next week is August and the retail stores will be putting Halloween candy out, so its basically Halloween! In this episode Marisa and Amy discuss the paranormal, Amy's love of psychics, and Marisa's general disbelief. Are mediums for real? Is intuition another common human trait based on life experience and a sense of knowing, or is it something greater than us? Join them as they take a deep space dive into the paranormal, spirits, are we alone in the Universe, and favorite scary spooky movies. Don't forget its Hump Day, this week, scary movies, which monster is which, and a movie theater brawl. All on, Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

If people aren't meant to mate for life how are we supposed to stay monogamous? Can relationships survive infidelity? Marisa and Amy discuss our animalistic need to be with multiple people and how we make sense of the social construct of monogamy. What would you define as cheating and is the physical or emotional betrayal worse? You'll be surprised where they take this conversation and in the midst of a very serious topic find yourself laughing through the whole thing. Don't forget its HUMP DAY! " I can't believe I survived"! Join Marisa and Amy as they discuss ridiculous true stories of the crazy things that happened to them and how they lived to tell the tale. LEZ GET SUMTHING STRAIGHT!

Marisa and Amy talk this week about their life before marriage and pining for those single days. Well that is if you had any single days. In this episode the girls discuss the impact your past has on your current relationship. Amy, having met her wife in her 30's versus Marisa who has been with her husband since she was 22. They explore the advantages and disadvantages of spending time as a single person versus growing up with your partner from a young age. Episode 10 does not disappoint as the girls get disgustingly nasty in this week's Hump Day Special: "Disgusting Sexual Activities and their Ridiculous Names", an online list they try to get through without laughing. Nope, thats just not possible. Here is your invitation to the conversation, so Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Join Marisa and Amy during a politically divisive environment, as they explore the best ways to have political discussions. Talking about opinions in politics is cathartic, but many people either tend to avoid it or need to brush up on their communication skills. Being raised by politically opposed parents, Marisa has a few take aways and shares her 4 simple rules of discussing heated politically divisive topics. Always the voice of blunt honesty, Amy has an opinion to share as well and of course, hilarity ensues. Don't forget this week's Hump Day Special, a nasty game of "Would You Rather", you will find eye opening and hilarious to say the least. Here's your invitation to the conversation, on this 9th episode of Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Marisa and Amy cover a few topics starting with a quick chat about the new LightYear Disney Movie and the "Kiss" heard round the world. The main topic this week is Mom Wine Culture: Accepting Community or Toxic Enabling? Join them as we discuss gray area drinking and how some can identify the line between casual drinking and problem drinking in the midst of a culture that promotes mom acceptance but can also hide when abuse has gone to an unhealthy level. There is lots to unpack but don't get it twisted, the girls are enjoying a nice bottle of Sauvie B as they discuss. No Judgement Zone Here! This weeks Hump Day Special: Random Things I hate and Other Peeves. What's your biggest pet peeve. Here's your invitation to the conversation, now Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Marisa and Amy discuss retirement plans and whether guilt of keeping close to extended family keeps people in one place when they'd much rather pick up and go. When you are in a time in your life when you're taking care of kids and aging parents, is it selfish to want to move some place else when you retire. What comes into play in your retirement planning decision making process? Also, are you truly your zodiac sign? Marisa and Amy talk about what makes them typical and sometimes atypical Aquarius and Aries. Join the conversation and Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Marisa and Amy explore the notion of keeping your circle of friends small. During your teens and twenties its about being a part of a huge crowd, but as you get older and certainly approaching your 40's, there is value in keeping your circle small. Know yourself, set healthy boundaries, and be accepting of the different types of people in your life and their purpose in your life. Some people come for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Know your crew, and keep those ride or dies in your small circle. It's ok to let go and move on. Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

In this episode Amy and Marisa pay homage to Mental Health Awareness Month and discuss the 30 Toxic Behaviors That Should Have No Place In Your Life from the website: aconsciousrethink.com. Join these two besties as they confirm or deny these toxic traits and laugh hysterically along the way. Do you identify with any of these behaviors? We bet you might! Dont forget this weeks Hump Day Special: Two Truths and A Lie. Can you guess which one is the lie? You might be surprised. Join us and Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

On this episode, Amy and Marisa talk about their non-bio children, how they made them, and how they prepared to parent a non-bio child. They discuss the differences and similarities of parenting a non-bio versus a biological child. Parenting is challenging and rewarding no matter how you cut it. Don't forget this weeks Hump Day Special "I Stopped Wearing Underwear and Other Things I No Longer Waste My Time Doing"!

How do you identify yourself? A nurse, a teacher, a cop, a firemen? Are we our careers and what do we do if there isn't fulfillment in that anymore? As we get older we covet time, freedom, travel; but we need the money to afford those things. In this episode, Marisa and Amy explore how you might find that everyday happiness, if your career isn't doing that for you anymore. Perhaps it never really did! When do we stop chasing the money and focus on what truly makes us happy? Don't forget this weeks Hump Day Special, "The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Done! Sober, Drunk, or High". Come join the conversation on this episode of Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

How are the roles in our relationships defined? Does it depend on masculine or feminine energy, and dominant or submissive characteristics? How do those roles change over time and how do they differ between straight and same-sex relationships? Amy and Marisa have a deep dive discussion on this episode of Lez Get Sumthin Straight, with relationship tips and blunders all while laughing at themselves through it all. Don't forget to catch this week's Hump Day Special: Never Trust a Fart Over 40! Follow and subscribe on Facebook and Spotify! Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

How do you make friends as an adult? Do you small talk the girl at the nail salon? Do you chit chat the parents at the kids birthday party? What happens if you make a connection with the mom but the dad is a dud or vice versa? Why does it feel like I'm on a date? Why does it have to be so hard? Amy and Marisa dive into the complexities of making new friendships, cultivating current relationships, and navigating it all. Listen, laugh, and Lez Get Sumthin Straight!

Hey Everybody, we are on our way. Marisa here just doing some sound tests and getting ready to bring you some hilarious and truly interesting content. Amy and I are excited to get started. Hope you'll listen, enjoy, and Lez Get Sumthin Straight.