Michelle Obama Shares Fashion Secrets: Top Audio Shows of the Week
This Week's Highlight
IMO: Fashion Focus
This fresh installment from Michelle Obama's IMO podcast aligns with the release of a coffee-table book chronicling her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (as expected from the Obamas), featuring guests such as style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. Similar to the host, the series provides meaning in addition to its style, revealing important details about the expectations she encountered as the inaugural African American first lady to occupy the White House.
The Pause
Test results. The bus. Your wedding day. Everyone knows the complex sentiments associated with expectation. However, consider waiting for a lover in prison? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the period spanning death and resuscitation? This reflective podcast, narrator Katy Davis listens to incredible narratives of navigating such uncertainty.
The Preventionist
This podcast by a major media investigative unit continues their legacy of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Host Dyan Neary speaks with caregivers whose children were taken away after claims of mistreatment were linked to the same doctor, and examines whether a preventive measure was justified.
Disclosure
Government document petitions might sound dry, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic turn them into a compelling series. The information they've obtained through these methods in the US feature obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to state in legal proceedings that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.
European Comparison: Top Performers
This special production puts EU nations against each other on housing, parental support and substance regulations to establish the top performer. The childcare episode analyzes multiple topics from Iceland's women's strike to the situation where much-vaunted Sweden nightmarishly limits preschool services if a new sibling arrives. The best childcare system? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.
