Michelle Obama Shares Style Insights: Must-Listen Podcasts of the Week
Top Selection
IMO: Fashion Focus
This fresh installment from the former first lady's IMO podcast accompanies the launch of a hardcover volume exploring her wardrobe transformation. Everything is meticulously crafted (as expected from the Obamas), with appearances by including ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and actress Jane Fonda. Much like Michelle personally, the series delivers substance alongside its style, revealing important details about the pressures she faced as the inaugural African American first lady to occupy the White House.
Waiting Game
Exam outcomes. Your ride. Your big day. We all experience the conflicting feelings linked to anticipation. Now imagine waiting for a lover in prison? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the period spanning passing away and being revived? In this thoughtful series, narrator Katy Davis hears extraordinary stories of navigating such uncertainty.
The Interventionist
This production by an established audio team upholds their reputation of thorough examinations into controversial topics. Host Dyan Neary meets caregivers whose children were removed from their care after reports of harm were linked to one physician, and examines whether an overly cautious strategy was appropriate.
Revelations
Government document petitions aren't the sexiest topic, but journalist Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic transform them into a compelling series. The stories they've unearthed by using them in the US feature obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to state in legal proceedings that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.
The Europeans: Who Does It Best?
This limited series puts EU nations against each other on real estate, childcare and narcotics laws to determine the best. The childcare episode examines multiple topics such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the fact that highly-praised Sweden problematically reduces preschool services if their parents have another baby. The top-ranked support service? It isn't from Scandinavia.
