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SPECIAL Satellite Sisters Listener Appreciation Day: You're the Best, Sisters and Misters! It's a SPECIAL Day. It's Listener Appreciation Day on Satellite Sisters. For the first time in 20 years, we are devoting an entire episode to thanking you, sisters and misters. We want you to know how much you have meant to us over the years by celebrating how smart, funny, kind and quirky YOU are. You're The Best!We also feature 4 "Longtime Listener, First Time Caller" Interviews, another first! Special thanks to Josh Blue, Laurie Levine, Tara James and Lindsay Currie for agreeing to play along with us on Zoom. On the podcast, we have excerpts from those conversations. All next week we will be posting the complete video calls in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. If you are not a member, now is a good time to join.We also have two big announcements:First, to thank you, we have cut all the prices in the Satellite Sisters Shop from November 3 though November 17. If you've ever been tempted to stock up on some Satellit

We were right. Friendship is good for you and your health! Today's guest on friendship is Lydia Denworth, author of Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond. More fascinating writing from Lydia here, here and here. Also, Lian reminds listeners they can still register for Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop. It's virtual, starts Friday and Lian is part of the fun. Julie bids farewell to TAB, the beverage of her teenage years. And Liz shares the tale of terrible neighbors doing terrible things to each other. There is SOME comedy in it, we promise.Julie's tips on How To Host A Virtual Thanksgiving.Liz announces a new season of Cooking With Liz: One Complete Holiday Meal! Info will be posted on the Satellite Sisters website and in the Facebook Group.Thank you to our sponsors. Please support us by using these special urls and codes:MeUndies: www.meundies.com/sistersBrooklinen: www.brooklinen.com Use promo code sistersFabFitFun: www.fabfitfun.com Use coupon code sistersRothy's

Today's Locktober Expert is Dr. Leslie Korn, an expert in Natural and Integrative Medicine specializing in treating trauma, chronic illness and optimal wellness and author of Natural Woman. She's got some great advice for us and a special offer on her online classes. See below for details. Also today, Liz spills the beans on backstage with Ina Garten and how she prepped for her Zoom night with the Barefoot Contessa at Sixth & I. Ina Garten's new book is Modern Comfort Food.To try an online course from Dr. Leslie Korn, follow these instructions:1. Access LKIIM Courses website: https://bit.ly/2FHJdRaor https://institute.drlesliekorn.com/courses2. You will get a 50% off on all courses by using the coupon code SISTERS50.3. The coupon will be available from October 20th to October 26th.4. To make it valid, delete the current code at the checkout page and enter the new code: SISTERS50.5. In case there's not coupon showing when checking out, you will have to enter the code in "add a coupon" Her latest book is Na

How can we find more joy and connection over the holidays even if we are not together? Rabbi Judy Greenfeld, the Relationship Rabbi, joins us with advice. Here's more info about her on her Nachshon Minyan website. Plus, Lian tells us about how Martha Stewart has been quarantining and why its important to smile even under your mask, Julie has tips for how to mage your inevitable meltdowns and Liz realizes she actually had that boss Sylvie from Emily in Paris. Merde!We have new products in the Satellite Sisters Shop including Stay Connected, Peace & Sauce and I'm An Eyeballer. You can find everything on our website here: https://satellitesisters.com/shop/Entertaining Sisters:True Appaloosa on Amazon Prime is a fascinating documentary about a horse breeder that Julie recommends for adventure lovers, horse lovers and anyone curious far-off places like Kyrgystan.We're still talking about Emily in Paris on Netflix plus Lian recommends two more shows in that genre:Call Your Agent on Netflix is French and fabulou

Locktober begins! All month the Satellite Sisters will bring you experts with advice on handling extended lockdown. Today its Dr. Stephanie Newman on managing anxiety, setting goals and empathy. Stephanie is a NY psychotherapist as well as an author. Her new novel, BARBARIANS AT THE PTA, explores bullying and quickly became an Amazon best-seller in multiple categories.Lian will be on Friends and Fiction on Wednesday October 7 at 7 pm ET/4 pm Pacific. Julie and Liz will also drop in. Here is the Streamyard link to join the event: https://streamyard.com/tittn7wp4dOn Tuesday October 13, Liz will appear online at our favorite arts and culture organization Sixth and I to introduce Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contesa herself! You can buy tickets here. For $40, you can get a signed copy of her new book Modern Comfort Food and a link to the online event.Julie thinks watching animal videos may be the best way to manage anxiety. Her suggestions are:Warriorcanineconnection.orgKittenrescue.orgNationalzoo.si.edu/webcamsExplo

Claire Tansey joins us today, publication day for her great new cookbook Dinner, Uncomplicated. We've already tested some of the recipes ourselves. Winners are announced for our #satsisterslookwhatidid contest - 1 randomly drawn from the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group and another from Instagram. Did you win? Listen to find out.We tackle the new Netflix documentary called The Social Dilemma. Have you seen it? Julie and Liz have. Lian's got some ambitious plans for holiday decoration that she lays out. Liz has good news about aging from a study she read about in Fast Company.Entertaining Sisters:Lian recommends the audiobook of Lucy Foley's The Guest ListShe and her son are watching The Last Dance on Netflix. It's the Michael Jordan documentary that originally aired on ESPN.Liz is a little late to the party but she's loving The Great British Baking Show.Visit our new website www.satellitesisters.com.Subscribe to our new newsletter Pep Talk here.For more info on Lian Dolan's newest novel The Sweeney Sisters, v

The Satellite Sisters thank Ruth Bader Ginsburg and share many of the things we have read or listened to since learning of her passing.RBG New York Times ObituaryRBG First Woman To Lie In StateNina Totenberg on Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg's Advice for LivingAmicus Podcast from Dahlia Lithwick on the Women of Harvard Law '59Julie recommends this new book on college admissions: Who Gets In and Why by Jeffrey SelingoLian recommends breathing! And this new book that's all about breathing and your nose.Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James NestorWhat dentists are seeing now in this time of stress.Entertaining Sisters:Remain In Love audiobook read by Chris Frantz.Sara Bareilles TV show on Apple TV +: Little VoiceSara Bareilles on Dax Shepherd's podcast.Visit our new website www.satellitesisters.com.Subscribe to our new newsletter Pep Talk here.For more info on Lian Dolan's newest novel The Sweeney Sisters, visit her website here.Buy The Sweeney Sisters here on bookshop.org or here on amazon.Join

Chris Frantz of The Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club joins us to talk about his new memoir Remain In Love. Two iconic bands. One unforgettable life. A lovely guy married to rock goddess Tina Weymouth. What's not to love? Not only are we huge fans of Chris' but he and Tina live in Fairfield, CT, the town where we grew up.Check out Lian's new Spotify playlist: Satellite Sisters Talking Heads TalkJulie has highlights from entries so far in our Facebook Group and Instagram contest #satsisterslookwhatidid. From the sublime to the ridiculous, some top notch work, sisters and misters!This contest runs through September 28th.Post photos of things you accomplished - big things or small! It's all worthy.Use the hashtag #satsisterslookwhatidid with your post.Got it? We want to celebrate what you are getting done so use #satsisterslookwhatidid when you post it in your own instagram feed or in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. We'll do a random drawing on the show Sept 29 and two sisters or misters will get a bag of Sat

Lian catches us up on her dancing progress ( new Rhumba!), Julie accidentally invents a new beauty product and Liz goes from Yosemite to Nosemite. Plus: Russian poisonings are back in the news, we are all struggling with some covid-induced social awkwardness, we salute favorite teacher Shirley Thormann and share the little-known story of Olympic athlete Otis Davis who became a life-long teacher.NEW CONTEST: LOOK WHAT I DID!Our new contest on Instagram and in our Facebook Group begins today and runs through September 28th.Post photos of things you accomplished - big things or small! It's all worthy.Use the hashtag #satsisterslookwhatidid with your post.Got it? We want to celebrate what you are getting done so use #satsisterslookwhatidid when you post it in your own instagram feed or in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. We'll do a random drawing on the show Sept 29 and two sisters or misters will get a bag of Satellite Sisters swag. One from Instagram and one from the Facebook Group.ENTERTAINING SISTERSLiz

We're back! Lian, Julie and Liz announce plans for the Fall 2020 season including a special series of helpful interviews during what we are calling Locktober. We are here for you, sisters and misters! Also today, some thoughts about the legacies of Chadwick Bozeman and Coach John Thompson.Lian shares information about growth of colon cancer in young people and reccomends these:Ryan Coogler’s tribute to Chadwick BosemanKatie Couric's CRC interview about the puzzling rise of colon cancer in young people.Urban Nana Julie Dolan has two helpful stories:School Daze: Where's College? Anywhere You WantPandemic Parenting: Parenting with an audienceEntertaining Sisters:Lian recommends this podcast (not new but new to her and she loves it): 99% InvisibleLiz has some recommendations for what works and what doesn't as an outdoor movie. Her two faves this summer: Napoleon Dynamite and Black Panther. Maybe skip Jurassic Park if you have nearby neighbors or dogs who might be agitated by the scary noises.Grand Prize winner in

Welcome to the first of our special August 2020 episodes. With or without Tokyo, we've got Olympic Fever! First up, we share the highlights of our Rio Olympics episode August 21, 2016. Lian and Liz came home from Rio full of tales to share with Julie and the whole sisterhood and misterhood. Track & Field, Swimming, Sandwiches and Beer. It was a great trip. Some athlete highlights we witnessed: Usain Bolt wins the 100m, Simone Manuel scores gold in the 100m Free, Michael Phelps doubles in front of our eyes, Wayde van Niekerk sets a new world record in the Men's 400m and Michelle Carter uses her last throw to claim that shot put gold.In the second half of the show, Lian interviews Elise Hooper author of FAST GIRLS, A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team. We featured this book on our 2020 Best Beach Bag Books list which you can see here. You can order any book on that list in our Satellite Sisters Bookshop.org shop here. An excellent way to support indie bookstores.Lian thanks all the sisters and misters w

Sign up for our new weekly newsletter PEP TALK here.Get in the spirit. Liz's Best Olympic movies:Blades of GloryI, TonyaMiracleDownwhill RacerChariots of FireJulie recommends the British Binge-Cation on Hulu.Lian thanks all the sisters and misters who have been vacationing with The Sweeney Sisters. Don't have your copy yet? To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org (which supports indie bookstores.)To order any of the books on our Satellite Sisters Beach Bag Books list, go to this list on bookshop.org.Lian has several online book appearances coming up including a book club discussion about The Sweeney Sisters every Wednesday night on Crowdcast. It's fun and free. Sign up for an upcoming week with your whole book club! Meetings will go on hiatus in August and begin again in September. More details here on her website and shared on the Satellite Sisters Facebook Page and in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group.Check out the brand new Satellite Sisters website! Follow @satsisters on

We've got it all this week. Remembrance of John Lewis, advice for parents with new college grads searching for jobs (or not), workplace insight during a layoff, the latest announcement on the next season of Cooking With Liz, Nana Camp news on her top 3 ointments and a whole lot of magazine hodge-podge. We love you magazine editors, but you are clearly running out of content! Plus in Entertaining Sisters, a new book from an old friend.Visit our new website here: www.satellitesisters.com Our favorite new word from science to describe this current phase humans and animals are in: anthropause.All the books we recommend can be found here: https://bookshop.org/shop/liandolanMagazine Hodge Podge!Real SimpleMillie. A new magazine for female investors.Southern Living. Julie's on board with okra. Lian not so much.Good Housekeeping. Do your feet hurt? Julie shares Good Housekeeping's explanation why.Read more about Financial Infidelity here.To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org (which su

In today's conversation about women and work and kids and school, we cite several studies.Women Carrying The Burden of Education During Covid from Ms. MagazineInterruptions of Working Parents at Home with Kids from The Washington PostStanford Business School on Equity and Inclusion Concerns in New Work/Life Reality. Leadership Lessons in the Time Of Corona from L A TimesOn a lighter note: TidBits!Goodbye Buffets. Hello Endless Entrees? We are not certain this is such a good idea.Julie's headed to Dinosaur National Park! It's all part of Nana Camp 2020Liz will be making Gold Creek Salmon BBQ on Cooking With Liz this week. Tune in at the Facebook Group on Saturday noon and Sunday noon Pacific Time for the fish you will not be eating on the Alaska cruise you are not taking this summer.Thanks to Heidi who provided the best vacation of the year for The Sweeney Sisters and took us along in the Facebook Group. To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org (which supports indie bookstores.)T

Susan Wiggs Interview plus New Website Goes Live, Outdoor Movies at Home, Work AdviceLian and Julie interview Susan Wiggs in the second half today's show. First up, info on our new website, some ideas about backyard movies this summer and some work advice and perspective from Liz.We freshened up our website! Check it out at www.satellitesisters.com. (If you have issues, be sure to clear your cache.) Many thanks to our web design Kate McMillan. You can find her at www.outboxonline.com or email her at kate@outboxonline.com. On the site, you get all the latest info about us, our books, the Satellite Sisters history and how to work with us for speeches or events. Plus a complete audio archive of every podcast episode - more than 850!Working It Out: Liz recommends some of these resources. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s guidance on returning to work and the National Employment Law Practice NELP’s resource guide for workers offer more detailed ideas. California’s Department of Industrial Relatio

Satellite Mister Carl Reiner, Family Test Results, Saharan Dust Storms, Black Hole Collisions, 4th of July Extravaganza PlansFAREWELL to the ultimate Satellite Mister Carl Reiner, one of our all-time favorite guests EVER. Lian still can't believe that he told us on our radio show in 2003 that Satellite Sisters "was a really good idea for a show!"Family Test Results: We've got some tests to report in the family. Keeps wearing those masks and social distancing, people! News from the natural world:WHAT IS A SAHARAN DUST STORM?https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/29/saharan-dust-united-states-get-another-cloud-week/3281263001/The MOST EXCITING THING IN ASTROPHYSICS!!! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/science/black-hole-collision-ligo.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimessciencANIMALS MISS US.https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/06/24/some-zoo-animals-are-doing-fine-without-visitors-many-are-lonely-without-us/?arc404=trueCooking With Liz: Lian explains do’s and don’t for the Watermelon Ice cre

Lian's inspired by Stephanie Koontz's speech about taking a "close the gap" year at her son's college graduation, Julie has tales of Love in the Time of Covid and Liz shares the insane details of the ex-EBay execs arrested for Cyberstalking with a warning: There IS such a thing as a bad idea in a brainstorming meeting. Plus special thanks to listener Jean Sandman Manthorne who figured out what our grandfather William Klarman did for a living. Family mystery solved!Lian has several online book appearances coming up including a book club discussion about The Sweeney Sisters every Wednesday night on Crowdcast. It's fun and free. Sign up for an upcoming week with your whole book club! More details here on her website and shared on the Satellite Sisters Facebook Page and in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group.Watch Lian interview writer Gina Fattore in our Facebook Group . This premieres Friday June 26th at 9 am Pacific Time.To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org (which supports in

Satellite Sister Lian Dolan on this special episode drop of The Book Club Girl podcast talking about The Sweeney Sisters. The Book Club Girl Podcast is a biweekly podcast on which the show’s co-hosts, Tavia Kowalchuk and Eliza Rosenberry, talk about books perfectly suited for book clubs. They focus on one book each episode and this week, it’s The Sweeney Sisters. Plus, Summer reading recommendations & an audio clip from The Sweeney Sisters .Find out more about The Sweeney Sisters here.Find out more about The Book Club Girls Podcast here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lack of motivation. Academic backsliding. Social distancing collapsing. And everyone's driving you batty. Does this sound familiar? Do you have teens and college kids in the house? Do you have pandemic parenting questions? Susan Borison and Stephanie Silverman of Your Teen Media have answers. We tackle questions from the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group about what's happening in your house. And the stress and anxiety that everyone in the family feels.To find more Satellite Sisters: For all information about all things Satellite Sisters, go to our website: https://satellitesisters.comYou can listen to Satellite Sisters podcasts at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, any other podcast app or our website.Lian Dolan's new book The Sweeney Sisters is available at www.bookshop.orgTo listen to Lian's new Satellite Sisters playlists, download the Spotify app to your phone. Spotify. Search on Satellite Sisters and you'll see the white logos for her playlists. You'll also see blue logos for more than 840 Satellite Siste

Today we talk about taking action in the area of racial justice, both personally and professionally,then we've got some workplace advice (Stop The Unmasked Sneezing!), some entertainment ideas and a family controversy about our grandfather's actual line of work. Train conductor? Brewmaster? Truck Driver? Who knows.COVID-19 pandemic continues to have wide effects. Julie talks about education and cites info Students Falling Months Behind During Virus Disruptions. Liz is working on her approach to an "exposure budget" based on this story Five Rules To Live By During A Pandemic. Lian has interesting info on what college will be like in the fall.In Working it Out, Liz cites Forbes article: Dear White People, Ten Action Steps You Can Take To Promote Racial Justice In The Workplace and recommends this excellent podcast: Women At Work Podcasts from HBR: Sisterhood is Scarce and Sisterhood is Power. Podcast here.Find out more about Dolly Chugh’s book, “The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias,” here: http