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Salon Confessions PodcastThe Energy of GIfts: [Dark Diamonds] and Precious KnicknacksFor this episode, we talk about the energy of gifts, which we thought was a great topic for the confessional, because it’s something that can sometimes feel like a secret, even if it’s a happy, special secret.So we dove into things like gifts from our dads and how rare that was, special gifts from and for our kids, and the feeling of purging gifts that had energy associated with them. Gifts that came from loving people but no longer serve us, and the grief of letting them go; gifts that hold the e...
2025-09-2756 minSalon Confessions PodcastLove, Truth, Leaky Bladders and Saggy Boobs: Real Talk with Jen & HarperHere we are - kicking off SEASON 6 of our grand Salon Confessions adventure! Each episode, Harper heads into Jen’s private nail studio and we lock the door, pull the curtain, and confess to the altar of polish all of the things that women want to talk about but rarely do. We talk about the foibles, fallacies, and frustrations of being women in perimenopause, and bring on guests to discuss things that go on behind the public curtains of our lives. As we kick off this season, we wanted to do...
2025-09-201h 04Salon Confessions PodcastSeason 5 [Radiant Renewal] - Recapping our Longest Season Yet!Welcome to the Season 5 wrap-up of Salon Confessions. This is our longest season yet, coming in at 14 episodes! We just couldn’t stop! At the end of every season, we like to give you a wrap-up of all the episodes so if you are new to Salon Confessions or missed anything you can get a recap and stay up to date on all the topics we covered. Maybe there’s something you want to go back and re-listen to, or missed completely and want to check out.This season was FILLED with episodes we loved making a...
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Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S6: E14 - Physical Media: Part 2 - THE GRIFTERS with S.A. Cosby & Jordan Harper & THIEF & NIGHT MOVES with Priscilla PageWe're back with part two of our ongoing summer series devoted to the newest physical media releases from The Criterion Collection & today's episode is a must for neo-noir fans everywhere. First up, you'll hear from bestselling award-winning authors S.A. Cosby (whose newest novel KING OF ASHES just hit shelves last week) & Jordan Harper (SHE RIDES SHOTGUN & EVERYBODY KNOWS) on director Stephen Frears' outstanding adaptation of author Jim Thompson's THE GRIFTERS. Then we leave the '90s behind & go further back in time to catch up with the brilliant film essayist & historian Priscilla Page on two of her all-time...
2025-06-221h 14Salon Confessions PodcastRethinking Skincare (and Roses) with Dr. Ebru of AveseenaIn this episode, we welcome one final virtual guest into Jen’s nail studio with us - Dr. Ebru of Aveseena Skin Care. Dr. Ebru is an internationally recognized immunologist with decades of research under her belt, and a personal passion for science, skin, and women's well-being. She has spent her career studying the intricate relationship between the immune system and the skin—especially how stress, aging, and environmental triggers affect women as we move through different life stages. Her work is rooted not just in clinical knowledge, but in a deep care for women’s healt...
2025-06-2156 minSalon Confessions PodcastIn the Confessional with a Menopausal Femme Fatale! Satori ShakoorOur guest today has a litany of writing, performing, music, and acting credits to her name. Satori Shakoor began her career with acclaim as a background singer and recording artist, touring with George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic as one of the iconic Brides of Funkenstein - later becoming an actor, comedienne, and television comedy writer.in 2011 she joined one of my favorite storytelling organizations - The Moth - as a Mainstage storyteller and host, and continued her spotlight achievements as a 2017 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow, host for Detroit Performs live, and emcee for the 2024 Kresge Centennial Event w...
2025-06-081h 03Salon Confessions PodcastA [Motley] Crew: Rue is live in the Confessional!When we shifted from a sporadic side project to a consistent show, my first priority was learning how to edit. Because we record during live manicures, our setup is... challenging. Between “sound bleed” from sitting close together and the background noise—filing, beeping, clinking—we basically picked the worst environment for beginner podcasters.During a mini-sabbatical from work, Harper was laser-focused on improving our audio. But none of the podcasting advice out there addressed our kind of sound setup or issues. Then she found Rue. Harper upgraded our gear, learned...
2025-06-021h 11Salon Confessions PodcastFinding our Femininity - When do we feel it and Why?What defines femininity, or masculinity, and how do you connect with those elements of yourself? That’s the question we are pondering in today’s episode.In our last episode, Jen and Harper went to a spa and did a Yoni steam, where we sat over pots of steaming herbs to help moisturize and revitalize our female parts. As we talked about it afterward, Jen shared that it was a good way to connect with her Feminine side, and after that conversation, Harper could not get that comment out of her head.
2025-05-251h 01Salon Confessions PodcastJen & Harper Try It Out: A Royal Yoni Steam AdventureThis season, we haven’t yet done a Try It Out episode, and we really thought long and hard about doing a sauna and open water cold plunge, since we live in a cold weather state and cold plunge is supposed to be the best new health trend. But as this season crept on, we kept not scheduling that cold plunge, and finally realized we just really didn’t want to. Thankfully, Jen did some more research and found out it’s not as good for menopausal women as it is for men and younger women, so that gave us an ea...
2025-05-0459 minSalon Confessions PodcastI'm So Hot!! Why am I So Hot?!?!As women in our 50s, we often turn to topics related to perimenopause and menopause, because frankly, there is no end to the things we can talk about in this area. One of the things we’ve both noticed is that our internal core temperature has seemed to be higher these days, but neither of us felt like we were really having what seemed like “hot flashes.” At least not in the way we had seen and heard them described. Gross night sweats, evening face flushing, or just generally feeling warmer all the time, sure, bu...
2025-04-2759 minSalon Confessions PodcastJen 'Recked' Her What? A Pelvic Floor OdysseyThe pelvic floor is the entire group of muscles, tendons, organs, and structures that make up the area that includes our bladder, vagina and uterus, and perineum, rectum and anus. For women, there is a lot going on down there, and when something is off, we might get sent to several different specialists to help diagnose and treat the problem. Thankfully, more and more women’s healthcare is addressing the pelvic floor and pelvic area health holistically, and we would love to hear your success stories with your healthcare professionals! Please send them in to us at SalonConfessionsPodcast@gmail.com.
2025-04-1358 minSalon Confessions PodcastGigglefest Medicine- When Laughing with your Bestie is the Perfect Cure to a Terrible DayWe’ve been doing this for FIVE seasons now, and every season, we end up with an episode that makes us laugh more than any other. We call these our Gigglefests, and they are our favorite episodes to record and share with you. We think they best capture the essence of our friendship, and the essence of all friendships. Our closest friends are the people we can go and sit with when we are having the absolute worst day and they will just hang out and be there with us, and if we need help with a pick me up, t...
2025-04-0559 minSalon Confessions PodcastExtreme Healing! With Mari RuddyOn this episode, we invited Harper's friend Mari Ruddy to come in and get a pedicure and tell us about her story and her book Extreme Healing: Reclaim Your Life and Learn to Love Your Body.Extreme Healing shares Mari's journey of finding salvation through cycling, running, and triathlon. These activities carried her through trauma, type 1 diabetes, and three rounds of cancer. In this book, Mari shares hard-won wisdom and personal experiences, aiming to inspire and motivate you to embrace the endurance athlete mindset and lifestyle for your health, joy, and well-being.Mari’s story is...
2025-03-151h 14Salon Confessions PodcastGrey's Analysis: A Young Adult’s Take on Mental HealthTen years ago when Harper met her now husband Hudson, he brought a vibrant young 12-year-old into her life, her step-kiddo and soul-child, Grey. Grey is someone with depth, alertness, creativity, sensitivity, and an adventurous spirit. Grey has never walked the straight and narrow road, but has always found her way, meeting life's challenges with courage and confidence.Grey is a senior in college, and we asked them to come on the show to talk about mental health, and their work in mental health support with at-risk youth, as well as her own mental health. We w...
2025-03-1058 minSalon Confessions PodcastTwinkle Fingers, Twinkle Thumbs, That's The Way the LIFEHACKS Come!The great thing about Life Hacks is they can be ANYTHING. It can be things about cleaning your house or your stuff, managing your time, salvaging and repurposing, changing your mindset, cooking and meal planning, or just about anything that is a part of your daily life that someone has figured out an easier way to do. And really, all of us have life hacks. Maybe some of them are things we picked up from childhood that our parents or grandparents did, and we didn’t even know they were lifehacks until adulthood.One of the best thing...
2025-03-0157 minSalon Confessions Podcast[Hypnotic Dreams]: The Elusive Good Night's SleepWelcome to Season 5 of Salon Confessions!On our first episode of the season, we are talking about SLEEP! Do you remember being young and able to sleep through the night all the way until 11am or even noon? Harper was never great at falling asleep, but she didn’t suffer from sleepless nights very often. Yet every decade, that precious commodity of sleep just seems to slip further and further away, despite all of the urgent warnings about how vital it is to our health. These days, we celebrate when we get a full 7 hours...
2025-02-0857 minSalon Confessions PodcastBONUS EPISODE! Jen & Harper's 2025 Words of the YearEach year for many years, Jen and Harper have chosen a word of the year to help guide and direct our mindset for the year ahead. Choosing a word of the year is different than making a resolution. We are not about the “new year, new me” attitude that is so quick to fail.
A word of the year is intentionally open to interpretation, and helps guide our thoughts, actions, and beliefs. In years past, Jen and Harper have chosen words like Abundance, Joy, Adventure, and Hope, and last year Jen chose Consistency and I chose...
2025-01-1254 min
The Ripple Effect Podcast with Steve Harper2024 Wrapped: The Ripple Effect with Steve Harper Podcast RecapAs we wrap up the year, let’s take a moment to look back at all the remarkable faces, voices, and lessons that graced The Ripple Effect with Steve Harper podcast stage. Everyone can share, but not everyone can inspire. It takes a truly exceptional person to possess the courage to share and the story to inspire. I’m proud to say we met many of these people this year! We’ve learned from experts in their respective fields, and people with one-of-a-kind stories have uplifted us. If knowledge is money, we’ll be Billionaires! This...
2024-12-2735 minSalon Confessions PodcastA Very Glittery 2024 Ur-ine Review!In this episode, Jen and Harper are walking back through our 2024 seasons 3 and 4, reminding ourselves what we’ve done and how much fun we’ve had, and helping you get to know us a bit if you are new. And if you are a long-time listener, we hope this episode is a fun walk down memory lane too. We thank you so much for being here with us on this journey, for being loyal Confessionistas, and encouraging us with your comments, feedback, and ideas! Please keep them coming! Email us at SalonConfessionsPodcast@gmail.com, or find us on the Socials...
2024-12-211h 02Salon Confessions PodcastWomen’s Bodies: Why the HELL is This Still A Mystery?With the war that is raging over healthcare and women’s rights to have agency over the private choices that they make with their healthcare providers, we realize that our listeners want to talk about these issues more. Women of all ages are frustrated and outraged at the lack of care, the cost of care, and the poor quality of care. Even more than that, the research and education on women’s biology and physiology - how our bodies actually function - has been atrociously underfunded, leaving us without answers, living in mystery.
What WE kn...
2024-12-1458 min
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S5: E32 - Jean-Claude Van Damme with Jed Ayres, Jordan Harper, & Priscilla PageIn this super-sized celebration of the Muscles from Brussels, three of my dearest friends and your listener-favorite guests return to the podcast to discuss the life and career of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme. Offering an extensive overview of his entire filmography, courtesy of the show's two certified Van Damme experts in film essayist Priscilla Page and novelist Jed Ayres, and with sharp insights on the industry from novelist-screenwriter-producer Jordan Harper, this sunny, research-filled, frequently hilarious, occasionally downright wild conversation is sure to delight film fans. Focusing on some of his most famous movies as well as other titles...
2024-12-092h 19Salon Confessions PodcastJen & Harper Try it Out: A Float Spa Horror StoryA few weeks ago Jen and Harper kicked off a sub-series called “Jen and Harper Try it Out.” In our Try it Out Series, we give things a try that you might see ads for on social media that look really interesting but you aren’t sure whether they will be worth it or not. It might be a new kind of medspa treatment, or self-care, or unique therapy or experience.
Harper recently saw a BOGO ad for a Float Spa on Facebook and clicked "buy now!" so she and Jen could do another one of...
2024-12-0756 minSalon Confessions PodcastMidlife Meds: Menobelly, Hormone Therapy, and Hyperfocus!This year has been a year of trial and error and learning for Jen and Harper, figuring out what treatments, prescriptions, and supplements will work for us as we go through perimenopause, Hashimoto’s, ADHD, and other women’s issues and aging issues.
Since we’ve spent so much time sharing our challenges, we’re dedicating this episode to sharing some updates with you on what treatments we’ve landed on that have been working for us, and how we’re feeling after the frustrations and trials of the past year or so. And we vehemently believe that sharing th...
2024-11-291h 00Salon Confessions PodcastTo Dye or Not to Dye: The Salon Confessions [Battle Royale]Because we share a lot of very personal and intimate confessions on this show, we’ve chosen to keep our names and faces confidential, so you probably don’t know that Jen is a curly red head, and Harper is a long-haired wavy blondy-brown-silvery head. We both recently entered our 50s and talk a lot about the aging process on this show, but one thing we haven’t talked a lot about is the great debate - “to dye, or not to dye.” As in, our hair color.
Harper stopped coloring her hair several years ago so...
2024-11-2357 minSalon Confessions PodcastLaughter: The [Tango Passion] of A Great MarriageJen & Harper have a lot of fun with their husbands. Jen & "OfJen" and Harper & Hudson spend a lot of time laughing in their marriages, and in today's episode, we are sharing some of our best and funniest marriage stories. These are the gut-busters, the giggle-fests, and the truest of true confessions.
We bring you into our homes and tell you all the god's honest truths about what really goes on, and how we navigate marriage with as much humor as we can.
It turns out, Harper is a lot...
2024-11-1655 minSalon Confessions PodcastTime to Spill the [Teal] on The Forever DateBack in Season 2, we did an episode called “Drive Thru Pie: The Fine Art of Dating Your Spouse” and it is one of our top 10 episodes. During that episode, I referenced a couple I know that does a monthly date day, and during the pandemic when we were all stuck inside, their date day was building a blanket fort inside their house and getting a bunch of craft supplies and making little plant terrariums together inside the blanket fort. I thought it was one of the most charming ideas I’d ever seen! My friends Corey and Emma have made t...
2024-11-0152 minSalon Confessions PodcastExploring the Shadows: What We Don't Say About Caring for Aging ParentsThere are plenty of articles and videos that talk about caring for aging parents. These headlines often focus on the logistical challenges of aging and navigating the healthcare system or planning for retirement or choosing when to transition parents into assisted living residences.
But do you know what we don’t talk much about? The added complexities of all of these challenges when you and your siblings disagree on how to take care of your parents, especially at the very end of their lives. These kinds of arguments can break up sibling relationships forever.
2024-10-261h 00Salon Confessions PodcastJen & Harper Try It Out: Confessions About The Harmonic Egg®We love trying new things (thanks ADHD!), and since we are out there doing it anyway, we figured we would share our experiences with you and give you our perspectives together in a more organized, coordinated way. Hopefully, anyway!
So we are starting a new sub-series of Salon Confessions called Jen and Harper Try It Out.
For this inaugural Jen & Harper Try It episode, Jen took me to a Harmonic Egg®. The Harmonic Egg® was invented by a woman named Gail Lynn in 2016, and according to their website, over 140 of these have been sold in 10 coun...
2024-10-1956 minSalon Confessions PodcastFriends by Choice, Family by ChanceIn this world of precious relationships, there is one very special category that stands on its own, and that is the family members that we choose as friends. These are the ones who you call or text after a bad day or when you have a ridiculous story to tell. But these are also the people who know your origin story because they were there with you. Your sibling, your cousin, maybe an aunt or an in-law or step-relative that has become a vital part of your inner circle, and without whom your world would fall out of balance. For...
2024-10-1250 minSalon Confessions PodcastSpooky Spooky Woo Woo: Gettin [Deep Violet] In the ConfessionalIt’s October, the season of Halloween, ghost stories, and mysterious, unexplainable events.
In the confessional, we call that any day that ends in Y.
Jen & Harper's has deepened through the years as we share stories of things that are unexplainable, metaphysical, energetically connected, and otherwise what we tend to call “woowoo.”
In past episodes, we’ve talked about things like Mercury Retrograde, having readings done, or other metaphysical ideas that may have left you either nodding in understanding or looking off to the left wit...
2024-10-0556 minSalon Confessions PodcastFears of Tears: Jen & Harper Try Not to Hate Crying (as much)Hey Confessionistas! We are back AT LAST!
Way back in May, we closed out an outstanding Season 3 with promises and intentions to be back in July, and then life got LIFEY. I mean, really, REALLY lifey.
It’s safe to say that this is a time of TRANSITION for Jen and Harper, and while that growth and transition process continues for us both, we are finally at a point where we can bring time and energy back to this beautiful podcast that we love so much!
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2024-09-2857 min
The Grit & Grace Leadership PodcastBuilding a Beauty Brand With Purpose: The Story of Cheekbone Beauty with Jenn HarperWhat if building a successful business also meant uplifting communities and protecting the planet? Join us for a transformative conversation with Jenn Harper, the trailblazing founder of Cheekbone Beauty. Jenn shares her inspiring journey from a life-changing dream to creating a beauty brand deeply rooted in Indigenous values and sustainability.Inspired by iconic brands like Tom's Shoes and Patagonia, Jenn reveals how prioritizing people and the planet over profits became her guiding light. Learn how she navigated countless books, networking events, and the vital role of resilience and strong personal values in her entrepreneurial success....
2024-09-0320 minSalon Confessions PodcastHarper’s [Old and Blue Again] and Retail Therapy is Not Allowed (FFS!)Welcome to the Season 3 Finale of Salon Confessions Podcast! This episode is the last episode in our Season 3 lineup before we take a break for a few weeks to get ready for Season 4.
We have explored a lot of ground this season:
S3-E1: Jen & Harper share our words of the year
S3-E2: A Man's Take on Midlife Dating with special guest Michael
S3-E3-4: Perimenopause BS
S3-E5: Travel
S3-E6: Jen finally teaches us about Nail Care
S3-E7: Belly Laughing ab...
2024-05-1058 minSalon Confessions PodcastWorky-Work Confessions with Kay from F* My Work Life PodcastKay is co-host and producer of the Fuck My Work Life Podcast, and she responded to our Perimenopause series with her own confessions about Perimenopause BS. She shared her experiences and frustrations in a letter on our "Butts and Bikinis" episode [S3:Ep9], and we asked her if she would join us in the virtual confessional for a conversation about careers, career transitions, and fucky-fuck, worky-work BS.
Our careers are a huge part of our identities and we spend so much time and energy inside of our work lives. For example, Jen has been a n...
2024-05-031h 03Salon Confessions PodcastBethany Helps Us Calm Down About PronounsToday, we are talking about pronouns. Jen and Harper have a diverse circle of family and friends from all kinds of backgrounds. We have a core belief that inclusion matters, and we stand allied with marginalized and underrepresented people across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, gender identity, and the many other ways that people choose to identify themselves.
As allies, we are on board with using whatever pronouns a person wants to use, and support all efforts towards inclusion and belonging for people across the gender identity spectrum. But we have to be hone...
2024-04-261h 01Salon Confessions PodcastBehind the [Masquerade]: Zoe Answers our ENM QuestionsZoe is a friend of Harper's who opened up last year that she practices ENM (Ethical Non-Monogamy) while they were floating around on paddleboards one sunny evening.
Her take was so informed and positive that Harper asked if she would be willing to come into The Confessional to share her experience and give us a bit of the “behind the curtain” view of how dating and relationships work in ENM, and how it helped her and her partner grow even closer. She shared with us more about the inner work she did to explore the i...
2024-04-1959 minSalon Confessions Podcast[Butts & Bikinis]: Catching Up with Jen & HarperIn each episode of this podcast Harper goes to Jen’s nail studio, affectionately called “The Confessional” and we talk about health, beauty, and relationship topics that we think need to be more out in the open and widely discussed. These are the things we often carry shame or fear about bringing up with others, but when we do, it’s better for everyone! We learn from one another, we externalize the stories we hold in secret and find that in reality, others have similar experiences and they are grateful that we shared our story.
This is o...
2024-04-121h 05Salon Confessions PodcastLaurie's Story: Menopause and IncontinenceOne of Jen’s good friends and clients is Laurie. And as Jen and Laurie were discussing menopause-related issues, Laurie shared her story about incontinence.
We always assumed that age-related incontinence was mostly due to going through childbirth, and was a separate issue from hormonal changes. Laurie really educated us about why that isn’t the case at all.
In fact, stress-incontinence can be directly connected to decreased estrogen and other hormone levels in our bodies, which dry out our tissues and cause atrophy. In this episode, Laurie shares her story about incontinence with us, in the...
2024-04-0553 minSalon Confessions PodcastPower Cords and Furry Toes: How Women Deal with Body HairBody hair! Our culture has really wild standards about what women should do about body hair. The beauty industry also has ever-evolving methods for removing it. Shaving, waxing, tweezing... Does anyone remember the Epilady? Now we have electrolysis and laser hair removal. What are we missing? The list truly goes on and on.
So in this episode, we start at the top with our eyebrows, and work our way down all the way to our toes, exploring our perceptions of body hair, and the various methods we’ve tried to get rid of it, or NOT. I mean, so wh...
2024-03-2846 minSalon Confessions PodcastConfessions from Jen: Secrets of a Nail Care ExpertHarper's a gel polish girl, and acrylic has always mystified Her. So in this episode, she asks Jen a bunch of in-depth questions about what acrylic and artificial nails are, and what people should think about when getting those services.
Harper's been going to Jen to get her nails done for 8 or 9 years now, and she's seen how Jen's process has evolved, and how her nails have evolved as a result of getting a regular manicure. They are stronger, they rarely break or crack, and the funny bumps and twists on my thumbnails are go...
2024-03-2150 min
Mortgage Lending MasteryLaying the Blueprint for Your Loan with The Mortgage Architect, Dee Ann HarperJoin Jen in this special episode of Mortgage Lending Mastery where she sits down with guest Dee Ann Harper, The Mortgage Architect. Dee Ann shares what made her decide to open her own mortgage company and how she helps craft a plan for her borrowers.About Dee Ann HarperDee Ann Harper–Principal of InTrust Mortgage. She is known as The Mortgage Architect. Dee Ann has a passion for helping others. As an expert in providing alternative solutions for mortgage financing.She provides innovative solutions for clients wh...
2024-03-2144 minSalon Confessions Podcast[Shiny Plum] Travels: The [Grape Nectar] of LifeIn this episode, we are talking about travel. Jen and Harper both love to travel, and we both married men who love to travel. We are constantly planning our next trip, and it’s rare for either of us to go more than 3 months without getting on an airplane to fly somewhere. Because it’s so normal for us, we don’t really think about how unique that is, but then we realized that we always have people in our lives commenting about our travels and asking where we are going next. So we decided to spend some time talking ab...
2024-03-1454 minSalon Confessions Podcast[Dark Diamonds]: Perimenopausal Women Tell All - Part 2In last week’s episode, we started exploring our questions and confusion and a-ha moments that we’ve had so far about being in perimenopause. Full disclosure, we have way more questions than answers, but we also think that’s the whole point of having this conversation.
At every significant phase of my life as a woman - puberty, getting pregnant, post-pregnancy hormones - all of those times offered pretty straightforward, medically supported guidance. Perimenopause - not so much. We don’t get standard hormone level tests at our annual physicals. We don’t get assessed for perimenopause...
2024-03-0845 min
The Ripple Effect Podcast with Steve HarperSmall Steps to Giant Leaps with Jen MacI’m excited for you to meet our special guest Jen Mac! I’ve been following her on social media for a while now, and her work never ceases to inspire me. It took me a lot of courage to reach out to her, but she finally graced us with her presence here at The Ripple Effect Podcast. She is a life coach, a speaker, a principle-driven woman, and a Rippler of positivity. Our guest for today is none other than Jen Mac! Like most of us, Jen’s career and personal life didn’t have tha...
2024-03-0552 minSalon Confessions Podcast[Butterfly Queens]: Perimenopausal Women Tell ALL (Part 1)Jen and Harper are both approaching 50 years old, and in the past couple of years, everything we thought we knew about how our bodies worked is flying piece by piece out the window.
For the next two episodes, we are going to be sharing our very candid, very complicated, real-life experiences with perimenopause, and what we know, don’t know, or are not sure we know.
We believe that talking, shouting, cursing, and laughing about the crazy mess that is perimenopause and menopause can actually help us, because the reality is that women are very co...
2024-03-0158 minSalon Confessions PodcastOur first MAN-icure: A Male Perspective on Midlife Dating!Harper's friend Michael joins us in the Confessional to get his very first manicure, and shares his experiences and perspective on midlife dating, using ALL the apps, and what relationship means at this stage.
As Michael will share himself in this episode, he’s over 50, and after his divorce a couple of years ago, he re-entered the dating world, which is now a world of confusing and sometimes shocking apps. He’s told Harper and her husband Hudson so many wild stories about his experiences, that we asked if he’d be willing to join us in the Co...
2024-02-2357 minSalon Confessions PodcastFast & Consistent: Growing a ‘Pretty Orchard’ in 2024!Hey Confessionistas! Welcome to Season 3 of Salon Confessions Podcast, the podcast recorded live in my friend Jen’s nail studio while she’s giving me a manicure.
As we kick off Season 3, we are starting with our 2024 Words of the Year. Jen and Harper rebuke resolutions, but have each been choosing a theme word of the year for many years. Choosing a theme word is a fascinating journey, and each year we learn a bit more about ourselves by living with intention and reflection centered on a single word. In years past, we’ve chosen words like Abundance...
2024-02-1652 minSalon Confessions PodcastDrive Thru Pie: The Fine Art of Dating Your Spouse In this episode, we talk about dating our spouses. But really, it could be a spouse, or a long term partner. We are both happily remarried, and this time around put a lot more thought and intention about spending quality time together. For Jen and her hubby, that is often weekend travel dates, or an afternoon biking or going for a walk. Harper and her husband Hudson tend to plan dates that are fancy, or more involved. Hudson actually loves to plan dates, and sometimes Harper will just get a calendar invite in her email that says something like “Exciting...
2023-12-2250 minSalon Confessions PodcastManaging Your Camera Face - What We’ve Learned about Botox and other MedSpa ServicesA unique part of the spa and salon service industry is a category known as “MedSpa.” these are minimally invasive medical services are provided for cosmetology purposes, and include things like Botox, lip and cheek fillers, laser hair removal, Hydrafacials, and micro-current.
These services tend to be more expensive and require special licensing and training. And they also tend to be services that the average person thinks of when we look at the stars of a Real Housewives or Kardashians show. But the reality is, one rarely talked about effect of the pandemic is that more and more peo...
2023-12-151h 01Salon Confessions PodcastClimbing to the Top(az): Fab Fashion Finds from Jen & HarperOnce upon a time, we loved going to the mall. Shopping from store to store for hours on end? YES PLEASE!
These days, that sounds a bit like torture. The stores at the mall either feel too frumpy, or they make clothes that don't fit our aging bodies quite right. Worst of all, we get into fashion ruts buying the same 4 pieces over and over again from the same stores.
Jen got asked by a listener to talk about how she uses subscription clothing boxes, and Jen in turn, asked Harper about how she finds...
2023-12-0847 minSalon Confessions PodcastAging: Gracefully, Painfully, Woefully, WiselyAs women in our upper 40s, Jen and Harper are regularly surprised and horrified at the growing list of health issues, wrinkles, and maintenance required to feel well. But we refuse to buy into the following:
- Everything that acts up mysteriously is somehow as a result of menopause, hormone imbalance, or some version of an autoimmune disorder. We refuse to buy into the idea that physical issues that are confusing and systemic always deserve a "well you are just aging" label. Get the damn blood test and keep asking for answers!
- Caring for...
2023-12-0142 minSalon Confessions PodcastThanks! ~From The ConfessionalThis week, we are sharing a short but sweet Thanksgiving episode, talking about all of the things and people we are thankful for today.
To our patient and wonderful husbands - we love you! Thank you for your unending support.
To Rue Spence, our wonderful production support for the past 4 months - THANK YOU!! We are so much better because of you!
To our Confessionistas - Your Engagement Makes This Podcast Possible! And from Harper in particular - thank you for helping her HEAL.
In this episode, while we do give...
2023-11-2430 minSalon Confessions PodcastNeedles & Red: Holiday Stress and How We Can Manage It...BetterThe holidays are here again! And so is the stress of over-booked schedules, seeing people you don't always like, and crossing paths with strangers when one or both of you is at the brink of screaming.
Stress is part of life, and according to the book "The Power of Full Engagement" by Jim Loehr, it's not actually all bad. But we need balanced amounts of healthy stress to perform at our best. Harper has been overwhelmed by stress lately, and had to revisit all the lessons she's learned over the years for managing and coping and regaining healthy stress balance. Jen...
2023-11-1747 minSalon Confessions Podcast5 Steps to Finding Your Square: A Holiday Guide for Managing Toxic BSHooray! It's November and the holiday season is upon us! Family time and parties galore! But wait...that also means high potential for drama, the annual dredging up of past conflicts, and that one person that drives you to the brink (and beyond).
Holidays can be filled with wonderful moments and challenging memories. They may come with a side of grief, a heaping helping of manipulation with guilt gravy, and Aunt Becky's famous obligation salad. It's the season of feeling like you have to do more, be more, and give more, while your cup rapidly dries out.
2023-11-1046 minSalon Confessions PodcastWhat the (Indigo) Frock is with These Affirmations?In this episode, we take a bit of a detour. Instead of manicure, this time we are recording while Jen's giving Harper a pedicure, which makes it a little different. And most of the time we have a specific in-depth topic we are covering. But this week, we changed it up. See, Jen had given me this cute little bag of cards for Christmas last year called “My little bag of sweary affirmations.” You may have seen them advertised in your Facebook ads. They are super cute, and who doesn’t like a good f-bomb with a side of affirmation?
But, l...
2023-11-0356 min
Unlock Your Teaching Potential8 Steps to Tackle (and Triumph) Teacher Burnout with Amber HarperHave a question for the show? Text us here!Feeling burned out from the classroom?Remember that navigating burnout is an ongoing journey and not a quick fix. The good news? You can initiate positive change today.On episode 2 of the Take Notes podcast, I sit down with Amber Harper, the brilliant mind behind Burned-In Teacher, and together we unpack the world of teacher burnout.Amber shared her personal experience of burnout and how she turned her life around after a public...
2023-11-0236 minSalon Confessions PodcastLife After Breast Cancer: Honest Confessions from a SurvivorIt's October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and we are bringing you a special episode with Harper's lifelong friend Alison. They grew up a block away from each other, and have taken care of each other through thick and thin. Alison was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2013, and is 10 years past that diagnosis and the years of treatment that followed. She is in remission, but still lives with cancer every day.
Whether it’s the daily worry of when cancer might return, the guilt of surviving when so many others don’t, the stress of navigating insu...
2023-10-2759 minSalon Confessions PodcastAxolotl in Love: When Your Partner Has ADHDRaise your hand if you have recently diagnosed youself with ADHD! [Harper raises her hand].
In this episode, Jen welcomes another client Bets, and her partner Kendra into the confessional to talk about ADHD. Kendra has been diagnosed with ADHD, and Bets is a professional in special education with experience working in this area. Together, they are adorable, and helped us understand how ADHD can impact relationships in both challenging and wonderful ways.
While Bets gets a manicure, the 4 of us talk about ADHD, and Harper finally admits she's diagnosed herself with ADHD, and hopes...
2023-10-201h 00Salon Confessions PodcastPopcorn Days: Mint & MeditationWhat are Popcorn Days? Jen & Harper describe them as the days when times are tough, money is tight, your soul is in disarray and you have some growth to do. In times like that, nourishing your body with healthy nutrition is pretty low on the priority list. Having a bowl of freshly popped popcorn and a glass of wine for dinner is easy, satisfies the "crunch" factor and the "warm meal" requirement, and takes one more thing off of the list of to-dos for the day.
As a result, our popcorn days were SKINNY! But were we...
2023-10-1348 minSalon Confessions PodcastSeason 2 Premiere! NEW! Seeing (Summer) Red: Our Complicated Relationship with WeightWe talk about A LOT of difficult topics on purpose, but one that we rarely mention is weight. Or more specifically, our mindset about our size, shape, and the number on the scale. While we'd love to have a pure and pristinely positive outlook on our bodies, that's not how it works in real life. In real life, shame comes and goes, comparing ourselves to others comes and goes, and moments we feel amazing come and go. These moments aren't necessarily even related to our actual weight or size, but rather to our mindset in a given moment.
2023-10-0644 minSalon Confessions PodcastLa Photographia Boudoir...Oooh La La!Hashimoto's. Peri-Menopause. Mom-Bod. As we approach 50, health issues and hormones and LIFE can change how we feel in our bodies. But what if...WHAT IF we choose to love our shape as we are today, and preserve our current form forever in a sexy boudoir photo shoot?
That's exactly what Harper did, mom-bod and all.
In this episode, Harper shares the entire experience, from finding a photographer to panicking 10 minutes before she had to leave and racing to her pre-session mani-pedi with Jen with a towel on her head and a tank top on in...
2023-09-291h 06Salon Confessions PodcastHot Tip! Do NOT Eat the Kiwi (BRAND NEW EPISODE!)Here at Salon Confessions, we are committed to discussing things that may be uncomfortable, embarrassing, or hard to discuss. And we try to do it with both insight and humor so that you have a chance to hear other women share their real-life experiences while also having a giggle to keep these topics from getting too heavy. So this week, we are going share a BRAND NEW EPISODE and talk about colonoscopies.
While conventional standards of femininity still have many of us shuddering to talk about anything related to what comes out of our rear ends, thankfully mor...
2023-09-2154 minSalon Confessions PodcastYes, Women Get Protruding Butt Veins Too!The word of the day is Hemorrhoid. Yes, those nasty butthole bummers that itch, burn, and embarrass the literal S*** out of us. This episode is for the curious, the fellow sufferers, and the support teams of sufferers. Join us for an enlightening and funny discussion of what a hemorrhoid is, what it feels like, our experiences with treating them, how they interfere with seggsy time, and funny as hell stories about canceling your waxing appointments when they flare - because if we don't laugh, we'll cry.
We would also like to open up a debate about...
2023-09-151h 04Salon Confessions PodcastSometimes You Just Need a Good Laugh, a Great Friend, and an Exploding Kombucha. This is that episode. (REMASTERED)Harper was having a weird emotional day and when Jen asked what topic they were going to cover, she said "I just want to tell funny stories and laugh." So that's what they did. And it was very therapeutic.
In this episode, we tell stories that made us belly laugh at the time, and we are still laughing about later. Several of them involve peeing. For some reason, that $h!t is hilarious! Then there was the time Harper walked in on her 90 year old grandparents in a very compromising position. OMG. Or the time a stylist...
2023-09-0845 minSalon Confessions PodcastFriendship Part 2 (BRAND NEW!): Making Friends in Mid-Life, and the Pros and Cons of Friend GroupsIn Part 1 on friendships, we talked about parting ways. In this episode, we explore how to make new friends in mid-life. How deep do you want to get with a new acquaintance? Is there such as thing as "friend-dating?" It turns out there is - Harper even got friend-picked-up by a woman in a liquor store and 4 years later they are still close friends! But what about Friend Groups? There can be some sticky-tricky social dynamics in these circles - whether they come together organically or through a book club or neighborhood Facebook group. Why is it weird when...
2023-09-0134 minSalon Confessions PodcastFriendship Part 1: Breaking up (with friends) is hard to do. But do we do it often enough? (REMASTERED)Friendships! These relationships are so important to us, yet sometimes we don't pause to consider whether we've outgrown each other. We hang on to "friends" even when the relationship becomes unhealthy or one-sided.
In this episode, we welcome our friend K to the show, and talk about breaking up with friends. We've all had the experience of breaking up with a friend, and it has sometimes felt as painful as the breakup of a romantic relationship. But it's part of growth. We've learned how to establish healthier boundaries for ourselves, and made more effort...
2023-09-0136 min
Salon Confessions PodcastGiving Up vs Letting Go. AFGO from the universe...FFS! (REMASTERED)In this episode we explore the differences and similarities between giving up and letting go, and realize sometimes the most grown up thing to do is let go, which our hyper-responsible ego sometimes thinks is quitting, aka BAD, letting myself and others down, failure of the highest form. But it's not quitting to leave the job that's killing your soul, or the relationship that is harming you, or clinging to silence in order to keep *other people's* peace. It's OK TO LET GO friends!
So much of this topic ended up bringing us back around to our rec...
2023-08-2543 minSalon Confessions PodcastMercury Retrograde, Jen (might) have chest hair, and Harper pitches a tent in the living room. What can we learn here? (REMASTERED)Are you sensitive to the energy of Mercury in retrograde? We are! In this episode, we share what we know about this mood-bending phase that happens 3-4 times per year, and share stories of what happens when the emotions run hot and wild. It's one of Harper's funniest stories and involves a Christmas tree, a tent, and a midnight meltdown. Maybe you have never heard of it, or maybe you know nothing about it but blame every crazy thing that happens on it. Either way, you will get a lot out of this episode.
NEW B...
2023-08-231h 08
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S4: E28 - Video Store Weekend '89 with Jordan HarperI have a pretty busy week lined up so you're getting this new episode early! Returning to the podcast today, we have a fan favorite in the form of Mr. Jordan Harper. One of my dearest friends, this podcast's very first guest, and my Pandemic Movie Club, and Game Night crew buddy, Jordan is the Edgar award-winning author of She Rides Shotgun, Love & Other Wounds, The Last King of California, & Everybody Knows. Additionally, a screenwriter and producer of such shows as The Mentalist, Gotham, and Hightown, Jordan crafted one of the most beautiful pilots for L.A...
2023-08-131h 25Salon Confessions PodcastAlcohol vs Cannabis: Is the Buzz worth the Hype? (REMASTERED)Do you prefer a cocktail, glass of wine, or a beer when Friday Happy Hour Hits? Or are you more into a weed high from smoking, vaping or popping an edible? It turns out, quite a lot of you are using cannabis! So in this episode, we discuss our thoughts and experiences with these two popular mood-altering substances. Harper, a cannabis virgin, decides to experiment with edibles in a recreational-use legal state. Listen to her super dorky first-timer experience at a fancy cannabis shop. She and Hudson then end up taking their first-ever gummy at a clothing-optional spa, because...why...
2023-08-1158 minSalon Confessions PodcastSalon Confessions Ep 4: Have Juice, Will Travel (or...Jen and Harper do a cleanse!)It's the start of a new year and Harper and Jen needed a body reset. After exploring a few different cleanse programs, they picked the 1 day juice cleanse and 3 day meal-replacement cleanse from Lemonkind. These were gluten and soy-free and looked easy to do. Thanks to a shipping snafu, Harper and her husband Hudson had to do the cleanse while on a trip to Seattle. Hear the hi-jinks of mainlining juice in the TSA line, and trying to stay up to finish day 1's juice program while jet lagged. Meanwhile, Jen couldn't keep her eyes open and missed chewing her...
2023-08-0441 minSalon Confessions PodcastWait, is adulting sometimes self-care? That is SO annoying. (REMASTERED)After a moment of morning insight, Harper asks Jen whether adulting is sometimes actually self-care and they realize that even paying stupid bills can be stupid self-care. Once that bridge is crossed, what else will we discover we just need to make a mindshift about? Does adulting always need to have such a negative connotation? Is self-care more than luxury pampering? Listen as we debate and explore ideas we once thought of as adulting and now begrudgingly start to consider self-care...dammit.
PLUS: We've added bonus content with updates on how we are doing with all of our...
2023-07-2836 minSalon Confessions PodcastSalon Confessions Ep 2: Harper Goes Hollywood (REMASTERED)Jen gives Harper a recommendation for her first "full Hollywood" wax. Find out what the difference is between a "Brazilian" and a "Hollywood," how to prepare for your waxing appointment, the variety of options you may encounter for doing the backside, and why Harper stood there smiling like an idiot. You are never too old to get waxed, even if there is some salt & pepper gray going on! But the real bottom line? Don't do it half-assed!
2023-07-2134 minSalon Confessions PodcastDivorced Divas (REMASTERED)Hi! We are Jen & Harper. In this episode, find out how we became such good friends, the silver linings of divorce, and how Jen's nail studio became THE CONFESSIONAL. We'll discuss what salon professionals have to do to keep the stories they hear confidential, and why clients (like Harper!) find this space so cathartic. We can't wait to meet you!!
2023-07-1434 min
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S4: E9 - Gambling Movies with Rob Belushi & Jordan HarperThis week, I was the luckiest host because shortly after both Rob Belushi and Jordan Harper dropped into Phoenix separately this year, I was once again able to reunite on the pod with not one but two of my favorite guys. The closest you can get to know what it's like to hang out with Rob and Jordan in real life, I was honored to have them join me for a long, funny, vulnerable, surprisingly philosophical conversation about God, addiction, acting, and the highs and lows of gambling movies, including OWNING MAHOWNY, MISSISSIPPI GRIND, and ROUNDERS. So double down...
2023-04-011h 38
One Wild DesignsEpisode 6 - Slow Design featuring Harper BeeToday we’re joined by Harper Bee, who’s distinctive style includes multiple stitch textures, delicate details, and a commitment to size and price inclusion. We’re talking about slow design, the smushy conflict between business and art, and the ways we bring our values for our work as real life humans.
Looking for links?
A Sweater for Usagi (Harper’s newest sweater pattern)
Postscript - Jen’s sweater is out on March 9
Bess’s yet-unnamed bralette - sneak peek!
Find us online
www.knitfixandchill.com, or email at hel...
2023-03-0857 min
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S3: E47 - Physical Media: Foreign & Art (with Walter Chaw, Jed Ayres, & Jordan Harper)Welcome to the second of three bonus episodes on films you can now find on physical media. Zeroing in on some of my favorite contemplative foreign & art-house releases, in this 82-minute installment of Watch With Jen, we discuss three films you can now find on Criterion disc, including THE POWER OF THE DOG, DRIVE MY CAR, & THE INFERNAL AFFAIRS TRILOGY, as well as MONSIEUR HIRE, which Cohen Films just made available on Blu-ray. An engaging, alternately soulful & funny chat, in a gem of an episode, you'll hear from three more of my dearest friends & your favorites from the show...
2022-12-281h 21
Mortgage Lending MasteryLaying the Blueprint for Your Loan with The Mortgage Architect, Dee Ann HarperJoin Jen in this special episode of Mortgage Lending Mastery where she sits down with guest Dee Ann Harper, The Mortgage Architect. Dee Ann shares what made her decide to open her own mortgage company and how she helps craft a plan for her borrowers.About Dee Ann HarperDee Ann Harper–Principal of InTrust Mortgage. She is known as The Mortgage Architect. Dee Ann has a passion for helping others. As an expert in providing alternative solutions for mortgage financing.She provides innovative solutions for clients who ar...
2022-11-1744 min
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S3: E34 - Crime Families with Jordan HarperReturning to the podcast today, we have a fan favorite in the form of Mr. Jordan Harper. One of my dearest friends, this podcast's very first guest, and my Pandemic Movie Club, and Game Night crew buddy, Jordan is the Edgar award-winning author of She Rides Shotgun, Love & Other Wounds, The Last King of California - releasing in September in the UK - and Everybody Knows, which will be available everywhere in 2023.Additionally, a screenwriter and producer of such shows as The Mentalist, Gotham, and Hightown, Jordan crafted one of the most beautiful pilots for L.A...
2022-09-141h 20
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S3: E11 - Murder Can Be Fun with Jordan HarperReturning to the podcast today, we have a fan favorite and one of my besties - that's right it's our very first guest and my Pandemic Movie Club buddy - the Edgar award-winning author of "She Rides Shotgun" and "Love and Other Wounds," Jordan Harper. A screenwriter and producer of such shows as "The Mentalist" and "Gotham," who also crafted one of the most beautiful pilots for "L.A. Confidential," which CBS stupidly didn't pick up, currently, Jordan is back in the writers' room for the third season of the Starz series "Hightown." Additionally (and goddamned annoyingly...
2022-03-151h 28
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker PodcastReconnecting to Our Faith Through Art: Morgan Harper NicholsThrough our entire Faith Shakers series, we’ve been finding the places where faith is vibrant and alive–both outside the church and inside it–and who has been creating safe spaces for faith to be expressed; no matter where you fall on the religious spectrum. For centuries, art has been an integral part of the religious tradition. Some of the most breathtaking art was commissioned by leaders of the church and still adorns the walls, architecture, windows and gardens in some of the most famous religious landmarks all over the world. However, over the last century, the tie to art...
2022-03-1554 min
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S2: E38 - Australian Westerns, John Woo, & Alain Delon Too (with Blake Howard, Jordan Harper, & Kate Gabrielle)Pack your sunglasses, suits, smokes, and Stetson hats, and get ready for a tour of international crime movies. In case the title of today's show didn't already give it away, this episode is different. Inspired by some of the requests I received from Patreon donors at "The Right Stuff" level who were looking for segments about new westerns, John Woo, and crime movies in general, I put together my first compilation episode based solely on the wishes of Watch With Jen fans.Fine-tuning the topics and enlisting the help of a few friends, including Blake Howard, Jordan...
2021-09-141h 50
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S2: E26 - Preston Sturges with Jordan HarperReturning to Watch With Jen today is one of the podcast's most popular and frequent guests - my good friend and Pandemic Movie Club buddy Jordan Harper.An Edgar award-winning crime writer of the remarkable novel She Rides Shotgun and the terrific book of short stories Love and Other Wounds, Jordan also works in Hollywood as a TV writer and producer and has been behind such series as The Mentalist, Gotham, and Hightown. He also created a stunning pilot for CBS of L.A. Confidential that was just celebrated at the ATX Festival as well....
2021-07-011h 18
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen - S2: E4 - David Mamet with Jordan HarperThis week, my good friend (and official friend of the show), the talented screenwriter and Edgar award-winning author Jordan Harper returns to the podcast to share his wit and wisdom with us once again. In this episode, which runs roughly the length of STATE & MAIN and SPARTAN, we discuss the enviable filmography and singular critical theories of the Pulitzer Prize winning raconteur David Mamet. (Note: this episode contains spoilers, especially with regard to THE SPANISH PRISONER, HEIST, and SPARTAN, so please proceed with caution).Theme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music Archive....
2021-01-291h 45
Another Episode PodcastEpisode 121 - Forrest Gump w/ Jen DamaHowdy Epi-hoes!
It's week 2 of our month-long celebration of HANKSgiving! That means this week we bring you another Tom Hanks film.
We had Chicago area comedian/content creator Jen Dama on the podcast to defend the actions of fellow Jenny in the Hanks classic Forrest Gump.
We play some games, we laugh, we cry... and that's all I have to say about that.
Check out everything Jen is doing by tracking down Your Best Friend Jen on Facebook.
Email the show at AnotherEpisodePodcast@gmail.com
Thanks for...
2020-11-111h 16
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen & Friends: Episode 30 - Jordan Harper RecommendsBack in the '90s, one of Jen's favorite things to do on a Friday night was visit her local mom and pop video store and cruise the shelves, particularly the Staff Recommends section, which more often than not consisted of clever, buried treasure you might've missed on a casual walkthrough.A crime movie buff with a specific interest in the trashy, low-budget indies we both came of age watching in the '90s, Jen's friend, Edgar award-winning novelist and screenwriter Jordan Harper is someone who you just know would've put together a killer shelf of movie...
2020-10-0559 min
Watch With Jen™Watch With Jen & Friends: Episode 16 - Travis WoodsFriendly, feisty, fresh, and oh, so very funny, Bright Wall/Dark Room staff writer and contributing editor Travis Woods is as passionate about film as he is endearingly supportive of all who love it. The host of the podcast Increment Vice (which takes a look at Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice one scene at a time), host Jen Johans chats with her friend about his obsession with "toxic masculinity in need of redemption" plotlines, devotion to L.A. topography on film, and notorious hatred of writing.Wrapping up the first round of her Missouri Boys Trio, which...
2020-10-0555 minWatch With Jen™Watch With Jen & Friends: Episode 1 - Jordan HarperIf her main podcast Watch With Jen is the studio track with lots of research and a dozen takes to get the right sound, then Jen's sister podcast Watch With Jen & Friends is the fun, live acoustic version where each week, she calls up a friend and they just talk movies and riff.Today's guest is Jordan Harper. A brilliant author with a quick, fresh wit, really cool taste, and a laid back conversationalist, it's inspiring to hear him wax about everything from MTV's The Challenge to Japanese women in prison films with the reverence most would...
2020-10-0537 min
Jen Lowry - Monarch: Books That Matter Publishing Clean Reads for K12Please Help M. Michelle Derosier's Happy Harper Project on ifundwomen.comhttps://ifundwomen.com/projects/happy-harper
Please help M. Michelle Derosier on her Happy Harper Children's Series and help make Michelle's creation come to life! She needs your support for all of the behind the scenes work to happen!
If you'd like to watch the YouTube live interview, click here: https://youtu.be/Zn-A5j7hCuI and she'll share her screen and talk you through your project.
2020-09-1537 min
The Burned-In Teacher Podcast with Amber HarperHow to Be a Happy Teacher with Jen MolitorIn this episode, I talk with Jen Molitor, author of The Happy Teacher Handbook, about her journey in education. Jen goes deep into her first years of teaching and how her feelings of burnout ultimately lead her to take a break from teaching, with the intention of never going back. But it was her leaning into her power of choice that empowered Jen to make the decisions that were best for her. Jen talks about the power of choice and how ultimately, it’s your CHOICE to remain burned out or to become burned-in!
2020-08-3146 min
Made Visible91. Jen Pastiloff, Listening Fiercely with Profound Hearing Loss and TinnitusJen Pastiloff has built her identity and career around connecting with people. She also has profound hearing loss and tinnitus and is deaf without her hearing aids. As a result, she’s had to cultivate other ways of understanding and hearing. On today’s episode, Jen and I talk about the specific challenges that come with tinnitus and hearing loss, the assumptions people make if they don’t know that she’s hard of hearing, and how a sense of courageousness helped her carve out a space to truly be herself. This episode previously aired on October 23, 2018. Lea...
2020-08-2546 min
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast[BONUS] White Women’s Toxic Tears, with Lisa Sharon HarperIn light of the uprisings of the past weeks, it is not enough to perform wokeness. We need true solidarity. True solidarity requires an understanding of the historical and cultural roots and current-day patterns of white women’s betrayals of people of color. It will also require repair. This is a raw, honest, informative, solidarity-building conversation with author and Freedom Road founder and president Lisa Sharon Harper. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
2020-06-111h 09
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast[BONUS] White Women’s Toxic Tears, with Lisa Sharon HarperIn light of the uprisings of the past weeks, it is not enough to perform wokeness. We need true solidarity. True solidarity requires an understanding of the historical and cultural roots and current-day patterns of white women’s betrayals of people of color. It will also require repair. This is a raw, honest, informative, solidarity-building conversation with author and Freedom Road founder and president Lisa Sharon Harper.
2020-06-111h 08
Made Visible79. Jen Gotch, Recognizing the Power of Optimism in Life, Work, and Mental HealthRight now, ban.do founder and CCO Jen Gotch was supposed to be on tour for her first book, “The Upside of Being Down.” But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the tour was cancelled. While she did feel sadness about that, as Jen says, her knee-jerk reaction when most things happen is, “this is going to be okay.” On today’s episode, Jen and I talk about the meaning of that phrase and the power of optimism, why she doesn’t feel the stigma of mental illness, and how she’s choosing to get the news these days. Learn more...
2020-04-0946 min
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker PodcastHow to Create a Politics of Love: Lisa Sharon HarperAre y’all ready to go to church? Because in this episode of our For the Love of Faith Icons series, author and activist Lisa Sharon Harper graces us once again with her singular wisdom and fire—and we are here. for. it. Lisa shares what’s been going on in her work since she appeared on the award-winning episode in 2018 that everyone is still talking about. She helps us make sense of the innumerable tensions we see in the world right now between different communities and shines a light on the “narrative gap” that exists in our world: how one st...
2020-01-211h 10
For The Love With Jen Hatmaker PodcastHow to Create a Politics of Love: Lisa Sharon HarperAre y’all ready to go to church? Because in this episode of our For the Love of Faith Icons series, author and activist Lisa Sharon Harper graces us once again with her singular wisdom and fire—and we are here. for. it. Lisa shares what’s been going on in her work since she appeared on the award-winning episode in 2018 that everyone is still talking about. She helps us make sense of the innumerable tensions we see in the world right now between different communities and shines a light on the “narrative gap” that exists in our world: how one st...
2020-01-211h 11
The Burned-In Teacher Podcast with Amber HarperEp #025 - Jen Giffen's Top Productivity and Time Management Tools for Wicked Work Flow in the ClassroomIn this episode, Jen Giffen, from The Shukes & Giff Podcast, shares her productivity tips and tools that she uses to keep all of her projects and notes straight as an educator. She also has a lot of wisdom to share about her struggle with teacher burnout and action steps she takes when it starts to creep into her life.
2019-03-1147 min