Podcasts about women like us

You can read this episode's transcript at https://iwp.uiowa.edu/page/say-the-world-podcast-transcript-episode-5-wong-yi-eva.  Today's guest is the author Wong Yi, who also goes by Eva. We discussed how she uses research to enrich her fiction, the experience of living and writing in the age of social media, what it's like to have one's work adapted, and how it felt to write the libretto for a chamber opera based on the works of Xi Xi. Bio: Wong Yi Eva (fiction writer, essayist, librettist, editor; Hong Kong) is the author of short stories collections WAYS TO LOVE INA CROWDED CITY, THE FOUR SEASONS OF LAM YIP, PATCHED UP, and NEWS STORIES, as well as the libretti for Cantonese-language chamber opera WOMEN LIKE US, and multimedia concert THE HAPPY FAMILY. She won the 2018 Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Literary Arts) and was in 2020 among the “20 most anticipated young Sinophone novelists” in the Taiwanese magazine Unitas. She is working on stories exploring Hong Kong's historical monuments, and on texts for performance with music and other art forms. Her participation was made possible by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global. Read Wong Yi's English writing sample: https://iwp.uiowa.edu/sites/iwp/files/Wong-Yi-writing-sample_ENG.pdf  Read Wong Yi's writing sample in the original language: https://iwp.uiowa.edu/sites/iwp/files/Wong%20Yi%20Writing%20sample%20for%20IWP%20website_%20Chinese%20%281%29.pdf Say the World: An International Writing Podcast is made by the International Writing Program. The hosts are IWP Director Christopher Merrill, most recently the author of ON THE ROAD TO LVIV (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) and IWP Communications Coordinator Mike Meginnis, most recently the author of DROWNING PRACTICE (Ecco, 2022). Additional research, transcription, and other support provided by Research Assistant Derick Edgren Otero. IWP programming is primarily funded by the University of Iowa and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) at the U.S. Department of State, with additional funding provided by organizations like the Doris Duke Foundation, as well as donors like you. If you'd like to donate to IWP, go to bit.ly/iwp-support. Learn more about IWP at iwp.uiowa.edu.

Women Like Us Foundation is changing lives for many women in Kenya by providing much needed resources.  In this episode, Adam Torres interviewed Linda Rendleman, M.S., Visionary of Women Like Us Foundation & What's Next for Women Like Us. Explore the Women Like Us Foundation story, how people can get involved and the upcoming book Linda will be launching with Dr. Nancy O'Reilly and Mission Matters.Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule.Apply to be a guest on our podcast:https://missionmatters.lpages.co/podcastguest/Visit our website:https://missionmatters.com/Support the showMore FREE content from Mission Matters here: https://linktr.ee/missionmattersmedia

This week's episode is all about nudity, where to be nude, where not to be nude, who should be nude, and how you feel about being nude.  Ellen & Mandy head out to the Channel Country Ladies Day Weekend and Ellen has said she'll get nude for a life drawing class.  It's not Ellen's normal state, so have a listen to see if she does it or not.

Mandy and Ellen are back from Sydney and this is just a funny catch up about doctors, cafes, reviews, creepy men, coffee and Ellen's dog Stanley being a dickhead.  Oh....and also Mandy's driving record.

Mandy and Ellen have just got back from a fabulous weekend at the Channel Country Ladies Day weekend where they performed and also ran some workshops - one of them being a life drawing class where Mandy taught drawing techniques and Ellen was the nude model.  It's quite the journey!  The quality of this one is a little dodgy because it was mostly recorded on a portable device.  

We missed last week because we were both on very different holidays.  We catch up today to hear about those holidays - Mandy's was very White Lotus and Ellen's was very Waco Texas.  Enjoy.

Today we have our first live guest on the podcast!  Not that we've had non-live guest, but you know what we mean.  Our great friend and wonderful comedian Julia Wilson joins us and we talk all things comedy and everything else.  She's wonderful and definitely a woman like us.

Recorded at Airlie Beach on what looks like a Tazer, this one will sound a little different/dodgey.  But the content is the same funny stuff!  We talk about being disrespected and being treated like dirt and how we stand up to it, or not.  Because Mandy did a good standing up to someone in Airlie Beach - have a listen!

We're back, or as Mandy says "double-banging".  And don't google that.  Mandy does on the podcast and it's not what you think.  We start off dirty and end on talking about crapsules and eating pooh to heal your gut.  We're quite the wellness gurus!

Our first podcast back in what seems like ages and boy do we get around ALL the topics!  Weddings, cards, husbands, overseas travel, jackets, dogs balls and all the things.  We're back!!

We are back with a new mini-series!  We love a mini-series and this is one about the age that we are and we promise it will be fun no matter what age you are. In this episode we talk about body image and what it's like now that we're in our fifties.  Hint....we don't care.

Oh this one really heads in some directions we weren't planning on.  From creeps in hotels, favourite sex positions (hint in the name), maltesers, consent, and shallow graves.  There's a whole lot of laughing, coughing and bouncing around.  It's all fun in this one.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works that explore the many-layered lives of women.  Edwidge Danticat's essay “Women Like Us” honors the long line of strong women in her family, but also recognizes her need to distance herself in order to become a writer.  The reader is the late Lynne Thigpen. In an excerpt from Nora Ephron's Heartburn, performed by Joan Allen, a philandering husband gets just what he deserves.  And an order of nuns has hidden strengths—and comic timing—in Claire Luchette's “New Bees,” performed by Joanna Gleason. 

When you weren't loved in the ways you needed as a child by your caregivers, how are you to know how to love yourself as an adult? On this episode, I get vulnerable and share my journey with learning to love myself and unlearning the self hate. I share my experiences growing up, past toxic relationship and how I learned to have high self love for myself. To watch the video: https://youtu.be/ZxQtFcIfAws 1:1 Coaching: Patreon.com/ivebeenthatgirl Books: ivebeenthatgirl.net --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ivebeenthatgirltoo/support

We are back!  In this episode we talk about how you could kill someone at a wedding (not that we want to...really), and dangly bits on bodies and how anything that dangles shouldn't be seen, and we laugh....a lot!

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Amanda Prowse - Women like us: A memoir...with TRE's Hannah Murray

We're back and we're definitely out of our comfort zone talking about all the things going wrong with our bodies.  We promise you will be out of yours when you're listening too!

For Linda Rendleman, Women Like Us had its beginnings not as a foundation, but as a life mission. That mission of empowering and coaching women expanded to a business membership organization, magazine, T.V. show, radio and ultimately, a foundation. However, her dreams were cut short with a cancer diagnosis, so she took that dream and put it in an imaginary jeweled box, placing it in the top of her closet. Today, that box is fully open and thriving. The Women Like Us Center in Kenya, the non-profit she established, is now fully on its own as a Community Based Organization, or CBO, similar to a 501-C but in Africa. The foundation started here in the U.S. but is now focused mainly in Kenya. Linda can now devote her time mostly to her coaching for women facing their next chapter of life. In this article, we define three principles, especially for those looking to answer, “What's next?” but also for most anyone facing life's challenges. They are: discover a need, define your expertise and determine a plan. Full article here: https://goalsforyourlife.com/blog/women-like-us

We are back with the first episode in our new series Comfort Zone, where each week we make each other do something out of their comfort zone.  This week Mandy takes Ellen for a massage in a swanky resort spa.  Funny times ahead.

It's the week after the election, so this is our last instalment of The Campaign Trail.  Listen to how Mandy is coping with possibly being named first of the losers, and find out what she is going to do now, and what she's doing with all her jackets.

Mandy and Ellen finally catch up after finding time in Mandy's extraordinarily busy schedule...so busy that she forgot Ellen's birthday this week and Ellen reminded her during the podcast.  Couldn't resist. One week to go until the election!

Another week closer to election and we cover all sorts of serious political stuff, as well as some insider secrets like what Mandy's going to save Scott Morrison's number as in her phone and what Ellen would save it as.  It's getting closer!

Week 2 of Mandy's campaign trail is well underway so we cover all things campaigny as well as freaky kids, lost jewellery and cloacas.  You know us.  All the important stuff.

Hi friends!  We've finally found time to just have a general yarn and catch up.  We start with roasting chicken, we move through the floods and our experiences of it, talk about Parliament House, and end with Insurance.  It's not as boring as it sounds.  We also talk about putting things up our bums occasionally. 

SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents three works that explore the complicated lives of women.  Edwidge Danticat's essay “Women Like Us” honors the long line of strong women in her family, but also recognizes her need to distance herself in order to become a writer.  The reader is the late Lynne Thigpen.  In an excerpt from Nora Ephron's Heartburn, performed by Joan Allen, a philandering husband gets just what he deserves.  And an order of nuns has hidden strengths—and comic timing—in Claire Luchette's “New Bees,” performed by Joanna Gleason. Join and give!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/symphonyspacenyc?code=Splashpage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever Beaten the Odds at something in life? YES, YOU HAVE! The fact that you are here, having this human experience, is absolute proof that you have in fact beaten the odds... at being born! And in fact, that's the most important odd to beat thus far... and you DID IT! You are here. Today we're exploring Beating the Odds at this human thing we call “life”... life experiences, accomplishments, and at pushing ourselves in order to produce success/results not normally thought of as possible for someone like "us". Someone in our circumstances, our difficult pasts, our physical appearance, our education/how "smart" we are. The list goes on and on. “Too short, too tall, too fat, too skinny, too old, too young, not tech savvy, don't speak the right language, too busy, having come from a dysfuctional family... blah blah blah!” However, when we see someone else, seemingly unlikely to succeed, beat the odds, we begin to believe that maybe it's possible after all. That all it takes is reasonable doubt, a pinhole in the myth that things can't be what we want them to be, for us... whoever we are. The only reason to not try to do something should be, because we don't want to. Period. I'm speaking of something we have a desire to do, and that would be humanly possible for anyone else in a similar situation. In other words, I'm not taking about you telling me you can't become a heart surgeon because you're turning 92 yrs old next month. I would venture to guess that that is not, in fact, something you would want to do at 92. I'm talking about having a deep desire to accomplish something that our physical and mental ability would allow, and all we would have to do was try, and give it our all. But even in the event that you decided to become a heart surgeon (or whatever) at 92, would that not be the thrill of your life, and would you not inspire others to go after their dreams, no matter their age? The purpose of going after things we've never done before, in many cases, is just to learn what we're capable to do as human beings. Even if we never achieve the ultimate goal. The person we become in the process, and the experiences we have, the journey, and who we'll inspire on the way, is what it's all about! We don't have to set out to be "the first" in the world to do something... but the first for US, or in our family, is just as good! Even if we never get there. If we don't try, we'll for sure never get there, but what a pity to have never tried going after a dream or desire in this life. Dare to go after a dream or desire of yours. At something YOU want. Even if the results are not guaranteed. Wouldn't it be fun if you actually accomplished it? Dare to Beat the Odds, for you, and for those in your life that you can be an example to, of what's possible for WOMEN LIKE US, like you and me. To be coached by Addie: Send a DM to schedule a 20 minute, no-obligation consult call, at: https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/ Let's Connect! on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/women.rising.together/ Join our free Facebook community, Women Rising Together https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenrisingtogether2021 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/addie970/support

This is our chat about all things Christmas....and all the other things that we chatted about.  Have a great festive season everyone. Love Mandy & Ellen

Just a little catch up this week - it's been a busy one, but still we have time to talk about Ellen's grudge holding powers, Adele and how she's written a song about us, Mandy's boobs, and the bloody barking dog.

Coming to you from the Sunshine Coast of QLD this week, Mandy and Ellen are in a little holiday house, catching up on the week.  Mandy confesses two things that shock Ellen - one about her oven and the other about lay buys.  They also show each other their very, very different bras and undies.  Mundane...and hysterical.  That's them!

We're just catching up again this week.  We start talking about poop and end talking about masturbation.  Wow.  What a ride.

We've ditched your problems. We can't solve them.  Today we just have a good old chat and catch up - join us - and warning - you will want to "Eat A Biscuit" while you listen.

This week we dive into the French language and work out how to say rude things to kids in French, we talk about "pod wardrobes" and how boring they are, Mandy's driving rears it's ugly head again, Ellen follows a young man through town in a stalky kind of way and of course, we talk a little bit about conspiracy theories.  It's a mixed bag of problems!

Mandy and Ellen pull out some serious method acting in this week's podcast - all to solve your problems.  This week we tackle those smelly breathed family members, undies that go up your butt, stealing colleagues and nasty friends.  The acting is something to hear!

What do you do with that friend who has lost weight and now constantly tells you what to do and how she lost weight?  Does your partner have a friend who is with someone you don't get on with?  What happens to you vaccinated or unvaccinated friends next week when we are no longer able to mingle??  So many problems....and really so few useful solutions.  That's Mandy and Ellen!

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It's a wild ride this week let us tell ya! We start on noisy wet mouths, we go to Home Schooling and end up on a sex toy web site....ooh boy they cover it all!  Tune in and maybe don't let the kids listen - as if you do anyway!

Who washes up all the cups in your workplace and how do you get them to do it? How do you turn back your body to skinny time? How can you tell if your husband is mumbling more or if you are going deaf?  All these SOLVED by Mandy and Ellen....and more in today's episode.  Maybe not solved as such....but thrashed out anyway.  Enjoy.

We have our own problems, but we're not interested in solving those - these are real problems from real people getting advice from people who have no business giving advice about anything - us!  It's a lot of fun - first episode of our new series!

We love our friends - everyone does, but we still have awkward moments with them.  Mandy and Ellen have one on this podcast when Ellen talks about a friend Mandy broke up with, and Ellen didn't know they were back together!  It's all about friends this week.

Holidays are always awkward. Rooms that don't look anything like what you booked, air mattresses when you're fatter than your husband and you keep rolling him off, getting upgrade to first class with kids, eating weird things and staying in weird places.  Mandy and Ellen have had all the awkward moments!

Ellen has to call Mandy again today because they are still in lockdown. Doesn't stop them having awkward moments. Mandy tells a particularly awkward story about an elderly man in her car and Ellen recalls her most horrifying awkward moment that still haunts her to this day.  Oh and lots of stuff & nonsense in between.

Kids are renowned for giving you awkward moments, and Mandy and Ellen have 6 of the buggers between them.  Hear about when Ellen's son was looking at porn, when she was drinking wine when she wasn't supposed to, when Mandy dobbed on her mum and her Aunty and about her potty mouth gorgeous daughter.  Such funny stuff.  Bloody kids.

Linda Rendleman talks about ways she has helped women from founding one of the first women's websites to her charity, Women Like Us, which has helped transform womens lives in the U.S. and the world. Currently the Women Like Us Center educates women in Kenya skills to make them economically independent and help them feed their families. And Linda has also started coaching women to rediscover their self worth and redefine their life path.

Ellen tells one of the grossest stories you will ever hear about an eye booger, Mandy has lied on her resume heaps of times, and made a massive error of judgement at a gig for Accountants.  Special guest today is the hilarious Mark McConville who has had plenty of awkward moments at work over the years.  It's a funny one!

Is there anything more awkward than going to the doctors when it's to do with your dangly bits?  Probably not, but we go there.  Dangly bits, bits that are dangling that shouldn't be, neighbours looking at your bits....the lot.  Enjoy and maybe don't eat while you're listening. 

How does translation grapple with place and transport us through language? Chinese translator Jennifer Feeley joins Abby Ryder-Huth to talk about bringing a sense of Hong Kong and Cantonese speech to her translation of "Patient," a short story by Wong Yi published in 2020 by Asymptote. Wong Yi herself reads from the original, which you can read here. Later, Julia Conrad is in conversation with Persian translator Poupeh Missaghi, whose novel trans(re)lating house one (Coffee House Press, 2020) translates the city of Tehran in the wake of the city's 2009 election. They talk about how language and identity manifest in Poupeh's work both in and out of Persian, and the expansive forms translation can take. Listen here, or find us on Spotify or Apple Podcasts! **To be further transported-- You can catch Wong Yi's radio show, Book Review (開卷樂) on RTHK, or as a podcast here. Jennifer Feeley's translation of Wong Yi's Cantonese-language chamber opera, Women Like Us, is also streaming as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival through the 31st of May. Grab your rice noodle rolls with sweet sauce and enjoy from wherever you are. **Our theme music is by Nate Repasz, and this episode also features music by Ketsa, Daniel Birch, and Metre.

Elyse DeLucci (@ElyseDeLucci) welcomes you into her living room talking about a good Whole Foods find, women's arm pit hair, Peloton has arrived!, crypto talk, why Times Square is named Times Square, should he be buying gifts from *the card store* and MORE! LOVE to LOVE YA! Grab a Snickers (to eat on the Peloton) hang out and tawk to me, Elyse! Follow Elyse on TikTok: @ElyseDeLucci Follow Elyse on Instagram: Instagram.com/ElyseDeLucci

This week, a golf course designer who's also a photographer - or maybe the other way around - a poet who literally traced her ancestors' footsteps, a woman who wants to change the world for women and girls, the Harrison Center's new mission, and Butler University's MFA outreach programs.