We Should Talk About That

Updated: 24 Mar 2025 • 273 episodes
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Join host, Jessica Kidwell, as she attempts to unpack the uncomfortable topics that nobody is talking about, but definitely should. With intention to hold real, authentic, conversation about EVERYTHING, Jessica brings her humor and a healthy dose of self-deprecation to the table as she invites a weekly guest to unpack issues relating to parenthood, grief, imposter syndrome, body image, middle age, the plight of the working mom and more.   

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Send me a Text Message about the show! Raffi Grinberg is a Business leader, educator, and author of the new book "How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now)”. Based in Washington DC., he co-founded The Constructive Dialogue Institute (with Jonathan Haidt) and runs the invi

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Send me a Text Message about the show! I’m a little late to highlight rare disease month.  Technically, the month of February traditionally is Rare Disease awareness month with Rare Disease Day falling on February 28th.  But, sadly, as is happening with so many awareness months and days in the US, the FDA/NIH planned 2

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Send me a Text Message about the show! The broken rung: a phenomenon even more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success.  Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men do and have higher average GPAs. But then a strang

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Send me a Text Message about the show! I like talking about uncomfortable things.  It"s why I have this podcast-so that I have a space to be able to explore topics that might make some people feel uncomfortable, but are typically things we should be talking about more often.  Today is no different. Today I want to talk

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Send me a Text Message about the show! Is talking about the environment controversial?  Nope.   And yet.....why does the worry wort inside my head always stop and ask "Uh oh-will this be seen as political"?  Luckily,  I have the fearless Debbie Levin as my guest today to quiet that pesky worry wort and lead me in a fan

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Send me a Text Message about the show! Time to do an update on how things are going in the Department of Education now that we are 623 days into the Trump administration.  Wait, no…..I’m being told it has actually been 27 days.  I’m sorry. So when I last spoke about the Dept of Education, it was November 18th and I was

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