Thanks For Asking
A call-in show from author Nora McInerny that lets real people get real honest about how they're really doing. Operators(me) are standing by to take your calls. In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack!
Episodes
April 29, 2025 • 67 mins
Every once in a while, we all need a little bit of solicited motivation from someone totally unqualified to give it. In this episode, Nora shells out loads of love and support in the first of our series of TFA Pep Talks.
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What if your doctor prescribed you a hiking group? A ceramics class? Not in place of whatever medication or treatment you may need, but as a complement to it? It’s called Social Prescribing, and journalist Julia Hotz traveled to some 30 countries to talk to patients and professionals who are at the forefront of this approach to wellness. I loved her book, and loved this conversation (and regret we didn’t have time to talk about AI ...
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April 15, 2025 • 62 mins
In this episode, we discuss the defining moments in our lives that forever branded us with shame.
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April 8, 2025 • 36 mins
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April 1, 2025 • 60 mins
Of all the stages of grief, anger has to be the ugliest one. The one that feels the ickiest no matter what side of it you’re on. So today we’re talking about it.
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March 27, 2025 • 68 mins
Sharing a new show from my friends at Higher Ground, hosted by Michelle Obama, called IMO. You know on Thanks for Asking, we keep it real and help each other through some of our hardest times. Similarly on IMO, Michelle and her big brother Craig Robinson tackle real questions from real folks just like you, offering practical advice, personal storytelling, and plenty of laughs. Each week, they’re joined by a guest to bring candid pe...
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March 25, 2025 • 64 mins
In this episode, we get an update from widower David Cherson. This is the first part of a two-part series called Life of a Lonely Widower.
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March 18, 2025 • 66 mins
Take a break from the doom and disaster and reset your psyche with some okay things.
We won’t ever say “everything is going to be okay” but we will do our best to find and focus on even the littlest okay things around us that aren’t the very worst.
Keep the bar low and your head up.
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March 11, 2025 • 30 mins
I cannot trust anyone who says No Regrets. Because really…you don’t have ANY? NONE?! Are you sure about that? I can tend towards the opposite mentality myself, but in between No Regrets and All Regrets is a safe middle ground of self-reflection and accountability without self-flagellation and rumination, and that is where we met today’s callers, who bravely dialed in to share their regrets - big and small.
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March 4, 2025 • 51 mins
Rise and Grind, Girlbosses! It’s time to GROWTH HACK your way to your BEST SELF and make this the ULTIMATE year. If you don’t have time, you can make time, because excuses are no excuse.
Just kidding! Like so many of us, author Maria Bowler found herself caught up in the Productivity Machine, which demands we do more and more and more for the sake of…what, exactly? For the sake of more, of course!
Maria’s new book, Making Time: ...
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February 25, 2025 • 28 mins
Do you say something? Do you shut up? I’m just one woman with an opinion, so I took your calls and texts to answer this listener question: do you say something when your friend is in a relationship with someone you hate?
This is a preview of Thanks for Asking, a call-in show about what matters to you. You can get the full episode on my Substack.
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February 18, 2025 • 66 mins
If it’s Tuesday, the phone lines are open and operators (me) are standing by. Today we’re talk to callers from Honolulu to North Carolina about everything from worrying to working as an extra on Hallmark movies to existential crises.
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February 11, 2025 • 31 mins
As a widow, I get many emails from other widows. But this one – from a man who created an AI version of his dead wife – was definitely a first. And I knew I had to talk to him.
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February 4, 2025 • 51 mins
Sharing a podcast we can’t get enough of: Your Mama’s Kitchen. It’s a show about cuisine and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are. Host Michele Norris talks to Michelle Obama, Glennon Doyle, José Andrés and so many other guests about the complexities of family life and how their earliest culinary experiences helped shape their personal and professional lives. And of course, each gu...
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January 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Loneliness is, according to people who know about these things, an epidemic on par with smoking and obesity. It affects our physical and mental health…and it seems like it’s affecting everyone. Today’s callers are experiencing loneliness in many different ways and for many different reasons, and if you are also feeling lonely…you’re definitely not alone.
Take a listen, then call someone (anyone!). Make a plan to hang out, and foll...
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January 22, 2025 • 38 mins
THINGS ARE DEFINITELY NOT OK RIGHT NOW! We know it. You know it. Your dog knows it (who told her??). But even when things are terrible, there’s something out there — however small — that is at least okay. Today’s episode is an exercise in finding (and sharing) the ok, with stories of the ways strangers have shown up for us in our times of need.
Thanks to everyone who called (or texted!) in.
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January 14, 2025 • 30 mins
The first episode of our new call-in show is here, and we have two callers who seemed to be totally unrelated: a new rancher in Texas, and a Swiftie with Cerebral Palsy in New York.
But (get your red string and your tinfoil hat) everything is connected! Especially us.
That’s easy to forget when we’re constantly pushed to see each other as the enemy, and something we need to remember now more than ever.
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January 9, 2025 • 61 mins
It’s been awhile since we’ve been in your feed, probably because we took a hiatus in March of 2024. Nearly a year later, we have some clarity on what’s next (it’s exciting!).
The new show will launch on January 14, but on Sunday I shared that 2025 is The Year of Less and at least 5 people said they were interested in hearing more about what that means and I couldn’t wait ANOTHER week because I simply don’t have the brain storage s...
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December 26, 2024 • 25 mins
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Most people I know are feeling overwhelmed, to put it lightly. Between the stuff you have to do (work, paying your b...
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December 19, 2024 • 25 mins
In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack!
We wanted to give all of our listeners a little preview of our most recent episode!
Consider joining Nora's Substack to listen to the rest of the episode, get additional bonus episodes, and ad-free episodes!
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Charles Bock was not interested in parenthood. He moved to New York to be a writer, not to change diapers. But when ...
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