Michelle Obama Shares Outfit Stories: Must-Listen Podcasts This Week
Top Selection
IMO: Style Stories
This latest series of the former first lady's audio series accompanies the launch of a coffee-table book documenting her fashion evolution. It's a highly polished affair (in true Obama fashion), with appearances by including ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and actress Jane Fonda. Similar to Michelle personally, the podcast provides meaning alongside its glamour, disclosing significant insights about the challenges she encountered as the pioneering Black female to live in the White House.
Waiting Game
Medical reports. Public transport. Your wedding day. We all experience the conflicting feelings linked to expectation. Now imagine expecting a jailed romantic interest? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the period spanning clinical death and revival? This reflective podcast, host Katy Davis collects incredible narratives of dealing with the unknown.
The Interventionist
This podcast from a renowned production house maintains their legacy of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Presenter Dyan Neary speaks with parents whose kids were removed from their care after reports of harm were made by one physician, and questions whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was the right one.
Disclosure
Freedom of information requests might sound dry, but journalist Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic transform them into a lively listen. The information they've obtained via these requests in the US include obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to admit to a court that the commander-in-chief's tweets aren't literal.
EU Nations: Best Practices
A new miniseries places European countries in competition on real estate, parental support and substance regulations to establish the best. The family support installment analyzes multiple topics such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the reality that much-vaunted Sweden severely restricts preschool services if the family expands. The best childcare system? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.
