Satellite Sisters

This podcast is the live audio from the Satellite Sisters appearance at the Santa Monica Public Library on April 22, 2017. Liz Dolan, Lian Dolan, Sheila Dolan, Monica Dolan and Julie Dolan are all on stage for an Ask Us Anything session. The Satellite Sisters take questions from the live audience, reminisce about their favorite Satellite Sisters memories and share behind-the-scenes stories.   Thanks to the Santa Monica Public Library for the great venue and to the Satellite Sisters listeners from all over the country who attended this special event. You're the Best! For our BRAND NEW August 2018 ASK US ANYTHING episode, go here. Thanks also to the sponsors of our August 14 podcast episode. Use these special urls for special deals: Beach Body On Demand: Text sisters to 303030 ThirdLove Bras Nectar Mattresses Zip Recuiter To listen to our LIVE episode from Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn, go here.  This event was to launch our most recent book You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship.  For great Satellite Sist

On this bonus LIVE show, we introduce you to the Satellite Sisters Next Generation, read from our book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" and give you our philosophy of friendship and Satellite Sisterhood. Plus, we answer your questions and introduce you to our brothers and cousins. This all took place at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn NY in October 2015.  This very special show includes Lian Dolan, Liz Dolan, Sheila Dolan and Julie Dolan plus the Next Gen contributors to our book: Julie's daughter-in-law Lauren Hinkson, Sheila's daughter Ruthie Marantz and our nieces Fiona Dolan, Katherine Dolan Nordenson and Meghan Dolan Saporita. Plus a cameo by Julie's granddaughter Alice!  Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"  Next week we will release a BRAND NEW Ask Us Anything 2018 episode. Julie, Liz and Lian answer the questions you posted in our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group.  Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group here to get in on future conve

Gwyneth Paltrow: Nut or Not? We ask that question today based on this story from the New York Times Magazine. Plus, how to stay connected to your adult sons, managing a house full of house guests and celebrating Julie's 40th wedding anniversary.  This week's podcast sponsors are: Harrys  Use promo code sisters Framebridge  Use promo code sisters The New Yorker  Use promo code sister  Brooklinen  Use promo code sisters Kopari We'll be on hiatus for the month of August but are releasing three specials. On Aug 14, you'll get our newest Ask Us Anything. You asked in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group, we answered on this special episode. Plus, on August 7th, we'll drop our LIVE Special for the Brooklyn NYC Powerhouse Arena to launch our book You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship. All five sisters participate as well as our Next Gen daughters, nieces and daughters-in-law. On Aug 21, we'll release our LIVE Ask Us Anything from Santa Monica in May 2015. Please subscribe to get every episode. On Entertaining

On today's show, Liz receives a threatening email that's trying to extort her. What should she do? Julie says "Call the cops". What's your advice? Julie has travel trends, plus Liz and Julie both share their personal top 5 travel tips. In Entertaining Sisters, we suggest 6 movies that will inspire you to travel. Plus Mamma Mia 2, of course! For more info on the internet scam Liz explains, go here. Then she went here to determine with data breach she had been a victim of.  All of Julie's travel trends came from Southern Living Magazine and Huffington Post. Who is up for a Global Scavenger Hunt?? This week's sponsors are: MeUndies Liquid-IV.com  Use the promo code sisters at checkout Zip Recruiter Nectar The movies Liz recommended are: The Last Emperor to see The Forbidden City, Beijing, China. Apartment Zero to see Buenos Aires, Argentina. To Live And Die In L.A. for a fantastic LA car chase! The movies Julie recommended are: Mamma Mia 2 Greece! Croatia! Whatever! The Lunchbox to see India. Lost In Translation

On today's podcast, Julie and Lian both recap the fun Satellite Sisters weekends they had. Julie is our resident Russia expert so she comments on the news of the week from Helsinki, Liz shares a story about how to engage your creativity to avoid a midlife crisis and Lian is super excited about Mamma Mia 2. It's going to help her get over the end of the World Cup and Wimbledon. Here's a link to the story on creativity by Laura Holson of the New York Times and a link to Lian Dolan's cover story about female CEO's from Pasadena Magazine. Please support our sponsors this week: Nectar  Beach Body On Demand: Text sisters to 303030 Rothys  Use promo code sisters at checkout ThirdLove Review our annual Satellite Sisters Beach Bag Books List here. Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.  For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here.  Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"  To subscribe to Sate

On today's podcast, Julie has insights on the amazing Thai cave rescue. She lived in Thailand. Lian covers the World Cup (good riddance Russia!), Wimbledon (go Moms!) and welcomes LeBron to Los Angeles. Liz shares news on Smorgasburg and new food trends and provides film and book recommendations. Plus, travel news and trends. Julie says cruises are back! We are on board. Plus plastic straws are gone. Save the seas! Thanks to our sponsors this week. Here are links to our special urls for special deals:  Kopari MeUndies Care.com Harry's  Use our code sisters at checkout.  For more on our entertainment recommendations, check out these links:  Podcast: Heaven's Gate hosted by Glynn Washington.  Documentary: Three Identical Strangers  Audiobook: Something In The Water by Catherine Steadman Oscar-winning film about Russian state-sponsored doping: Icarus on Netflix.  Also review the rest of our our annual Satellite Sisters Beach Bag Books List here. Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversa

It's time to get reading, Satellite Sisterhood. On our blog here, you'll find the complete Satellite Sisters Best Beach Bag Books List for 2018. On the podcast, we preview the list and interview writer Jenna Blum, author of The Lost Family, our Satellite Sisters Sumer Read of 2018. Please listen and share our complete list with your Satellite Sisters and book club friends.  We've got some books perfect for a day in the sun and some books that may be better savored on a rainy afternoon at the cabin. We have books that will take you to distant shores while you stay at home and books about bookstores, because that's a whole category we love. And even a couple of non-fiction titles to keep it real this summer.  Thanks for supporting this week's podcast sponsors: The New Yorker  Please use this link and the promo code sisters Rothys Please use this link and the promo code sisters Away Please use this link and the promo code sisters20 ZipRecruiter Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversat

Lian has a complete music festival report from Arroyo Seco Weekend + summer fun tips including 6 new gin + tonics! Julie has some good news from New Zealand, Waco and the U. S. Open plus announces a possible big adventure. Liz investigates a Satellite Sisters mystery that is either a major fraud or a major windfall. What's your theory?  Julie recommends the documentary about Fred Rogers Won't You Be My Neighbor? Thanks to our sponsors this week: Framebridge   Use this link and promo code sisters Nectar  Use our special link. MeUndies  Use our special link Brooklinen  Use this link and promo code sisters  Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.  For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Father's Day. Tick, tock! Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here.  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here. To find

On today's show, a special salute to all the living first ladies who stepped forward to speak out in support of children and families at the border. Plus Julie reports on Brooklyn fashion trends, Liz rides a scooter and lives to tell the tale and Lian finds the fun in our our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. Also, a depressing report on the pregnancy penalty for working women and an uplifting Ted Talk from Nashville TedX by Martha Ivester called Hire A Mom.  Laura Bush Op Ed from the Washington Post here.  NYT Pregnancy Penalty story here.  Our Satellite Sisters Summer Read is The Lost Family by Jenna Blum. Jenna will join us on our July 3rd episode.  Thank you to our sponsors this week: Ritual  FabFitFun  Use promo code sisters at checkout  Kneipp  Use promo code sisters at checkout Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.  For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Father's Day. Tick, tock! Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters b

Lian has a complete travel report on her visit to Paris last month. Liz has strong feelings about the IHOP/IHOB marketing nonsense. Julie is our North Korean expert and has her own theory about Kim Jong Un. Plus we discuss suicide prevention in light of the sad deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain and tell you about an amazing Satellite Sister of the Week we learned about from Debi Abood in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group.  Our sponsors for this podcast episode are: Care.com Harry's BeachBody On Demand: Text sisters to 303030 ZipRecruiter Here is the New York Times about suicide prevention and what to do if you have a loved one who is severely depressed. And here's story: Suicide rates are rising. What should we do about it?  Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 Veterans Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.  For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Father's Day. Tick, tock! Click h

The end of The Americans on TV, the summer sleeper hit RBG, some Tuesday trends and our June book club interview:  Where The Peacocks Sing by Alison Singh Gee - all of this on today's podcast plus Julie has a dilemma at Trader Joe's. What would you have done?  Thanks to today's podcast sponsors. Please use our special links: Away  Use the promo code sisters DagneDover  Use the promo code sisters Storyworth Nectar Who needs another Star Wars movie when RGB, a documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a Summer Sleeper Hit according to The Washington Post!  Congratulations to Erich Bergen, one of our favorites from Madam Secretary, for making his debut tonight on Broadway in Waitress. Much to discuss here on both Satellite Sisters and on Satellite Sisters Talk TV Recap of the Madam Secretary season finale.  Need more on Julie's Tuesday Trends? Go here:  Watching Power Washing Videos on YouTube Top ten objects your kids don’t want Join our Satellite Sisters Facebook Group to get in on the conversation.  For great

On today's podcast, Lian has a complete report on the Italian leg of her trip, Julie has a Urban Nana report on children's movies and Liz attends Paul Simon at the Hollywood Bowl with Sheila. Travel! Movies! Music! Your Satellite Sisters bring it.  Lian also has a full blog post here with many travel tips, books and links. She recommends the Small Group Early Entrance Vatican Tour, but Livitaly has lots of different options for travelers to Italy in Rome, Venice and beyond. Click here to see a complete list. Thanks to our sponsors: Harry's Tula  Use promo code sisters Ritual Dagne Dover  Use promo code sisters For great Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters gifts from our online shop, go here. Father's Day. Tick, tock! Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here.  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here. To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here.  The complete Satellite S

Welcome to our Stunt Sister Kate Casey and our real sisters Sheila Dolan and Monica Dolan. Kate Casey is a comedian, author, and host of the wildly entertaining Reality Life with Kate Casey podcast. She is considered the Diane Sawyer of reality television interviewing reality stars of the past and present and forcing a varied group of guests to watch and review an episode of a reality television show. With Kate, we discuss the season finale of Dancing With The Stars (Tonya's redemption?), the Netflix documentary series Wild Wild Country and the impending birth of Kate's fifth child. For Tuesday Trends, Monica has an idea about the sharing economy and Sheila is interested in rebranding herself professionally. Should she call herself a Homework Therapist?  Liz lists her favorite parts of the royal wedding today and Julie has four things she loved about the college graduation she just attended.  To listen to Kate's interview with the directors of Wild, Wild Country, go here. Visit Kate's website here.  For great

Katie Couric in the house! The Satellite Sisters Liz Dolan and Julie Dolan welcome Katie Couric to the podcast to talk about her Nat Geo series America Inside Out, her podcast Katie Couric, and the importance of having thoughtful conversations about important issues. Amen, sister! You can watch America Inside Out on Hulu and Facebook as well as on Nat Geo TV. Special guests Sheila Dolan and Monica Dolan also join this episode with the latest news from their lives.  Thanks to our sponsors:  Harry's FabFitFun  Use promo code sisters  BeachBody On Demand: Text sisters to 303030 Nectar  For great Satellite Sisters gifts from our online shop, go here.  Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here.  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here. To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here.  The complete Satellite Sisters podcast audio archive is here. Don't forget to subscribe to Satellit

Julie on how to robot-proof your kids, Liz on what Big Pizza thinks about the new laws about posting calorie counts + facial recognition software at the Royal Wedding and Lian's prep for her big trip next week to Rome and Paris - it's all on todays podcast. Plus our health and wellness recap Operation Sea Turtle and recommendations on movies, television shows (Jane The Virgin on Netflix) and audiobooks you will enjoy (The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee). Finally, Julie says you are washing your bras all wrong.  Here are links to today's podcast sponsors with special urls:  Rover  Use promo code sisters Storyworth Care Cool-Jams  Use promo code sisters For great Satellite Sisters gifts from our online shop, go here.  Click here to buy our Satellite Sisters book "You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship"  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Apple Podcasts, click here.  To subscribe to Satellite Sisters on Stitcher, click here. To find Satellite Sisters on Spotify, click here.  The

On today's podcast, we tackle the news about the revolt of women at Nike, debate the divisive issue of brunch and discuss Julie's brewing war with a new neighbor. Lian rounds-up some tips and trends from magazines: O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple and Health. Julie recommends a new book The Kites and two TV shows: Being Serena and Dancing With The Stars. Liz reports on her night with the cast of The Crown and her day with Ronan Farrow.  We also announce the winners of our "You're The Best" photo contest on Facebook and Instagram. Thank you for your hundreds of photo entries. We just love seeing all your Satellite Sisters and Satellite Misters. Winners should email us at info@satellitesisters.com with your shipping details for prizes. And thanks to sponsors Salsa Basket, Nectar and Cool Jams. You're the best! Today's podcast sponsors are:  Away Salsa Basket  Use Coupon Code SISTERS ModCloth Use Promo Code SISTERS Zip Recruiter For great Satellite Sisters gifts, visit our online shop, go here.  Click here to

Urban Nana Julie Dolan is back from caring for her new granddaughter in Brooklyn. Big baby name announcement plus discussion of how Princess Kate managed to pull herself together for that royal baby photo. Lian has news about the e-coli outbreak. In addition to describing her "very L. A. day" that includes The Magic Castle, Lian announces an exciting trip next month to Italy and France. She's meeting her son who is there now on a semester abroad. She wants your travel tips. Fun restaurants in Paris? Best gelato in Rome? Post them in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. Liz has information about how to test for implicit bias. Try the test yourself. We announce our book club pick for the month of May. It's Where The Peacocks Sing by Alison Singh Gee. Plus, dog museums to visit.  To enter our Satellite Sisters "You're The Best" Photo Contest in our Facebook Group or on Instagram, details on our website www.satellitesisters,com including the scoop on prizes from Salsa Basket, Nectar and Cool Jams. Plus a copy of

Urban Nana is on assignment in Brooklyn today with her new granddaughter. We are joined by very special guest Kristen Meinzer, co-host of the wildly entertaining podcast When Meghan Met Harry: A Royal Weddingcast. Plus Satellite Sisters in the News: Beyonce, winners of the Boston Marathon, Pulitzer Prize winners Caroline Fraser, Jodi Kantor, Meghan Tuohy and Emily Steel, and former First Lady Barbara Bush. Lian suggests growlers as Mother's Day gifts and Liz reviews health and wellness tips from the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. We announce a live show of Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work at the L A Times Festival Of Books on Saturday April 21 at 10:30 on the podcast stage.  Breaking News: Safe For Work booked special guest Lian Dolan! Plus Liz and Lian will be signing copies of 'You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" at the Prospect Park Books booth (#103) from noon to 12:30.  To enter our Satellite Sisters "You're The Best" Photo Contest in our Facebook Group or on Instagram, details o

On today's podcast, we subpoena Zuckerberg to appear before the Bitter Business Bureau. Liz's data was shared with Cambridge Analytica, through no fault of her own, and Julie wants to give him a good talking to. Lian has a bone to pick with Jim Nance about the CBS Sports coverage of Augusta (It's just golf, Jim!). Julie's Royalty Report, Liz's latest on her new dog Hooper, and our health and fitness report Operation Sea Turtle. We've got some DNA results to share and some great pep talks from the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. Lian takes us inside her writing process on a creative non-fiction story she just handed in. The pain of a college thesis all these years later.  We announce a live show of Liz's workplace advice podcast Safe For Work at the L A Times Festival Of Books on Saturday April 21 at 10:30 on the podcast stage.  Breaking News: Safe For Work booked special guest Lian Dolan! Plus Liz and Lian will be signing copies of 'You're The Best: A Celebration of Friendship" at the Prospect Park Books bo

Karen's Karbo's In Praise of Difficult Women is our March book club pick. Karen joins Lian, Julie and Liz to talk about some of our favorite feisty, kooky, relentless, inscrutable, exacting women. Thank you JK Rowling, Kay Thompson, Helen Gurley Brown, Angela Merkel and Nora Ephron among others. Also on today's episode, we announce our April "You're The Best" photo contest in our Facebook Group and on Instagram. Details on our website www.satellitesisters,com including the scoop on prizes from Salsa Basket and Cool Jams.  In other news, Lian's son does not find her helpful travel tips all that helpful and Julie has a major Urban Nana announcement for the spring. This also involves children who may or may not be taking advice from their parents. Liz explains her new podcast Safe For Work and invites you to call in or write with questions. To leave a voicemail for the producers, call 424-224-5711 or email Safe@Wondery.com. Her sisters don't want advice from her but you might. Go here to listen:  wondery.fm/sist