Awesome Etiquette

Awesome Etiquette

Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette with advice based on consideration, respect, and honesty. Like their great-great-grandmother, Emily Post, Lizzie and Dan look for the reasons behinds the traditional rules to guide their search for the correct behavior in all kinds of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.

Episodes

Episode 580 - Condolence Acknowledgement

October 20, 2025 • 65 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on delivering acknowledgments for condolence notes a year after a death, a football party fumble, and serving tea with tea bags. For community members, your question of the week is about guests who bring uninvited guests. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.  Become a subscriber - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...
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Episode 579 - Unusual Hostess Gift

October 13, 2025 • 81 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on feeling left out of an invitation, how long people should talk at a gathering, and an unusual hostess gift situation. For community members, your question of the week is about asking people if they’re going to have kids. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we hear from featured Emily Post trainer, Trina Boos, of the Boost Academy of Excellence.  Jo...
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Episode 578 - Cheeky Workplace Gossip

October 6, 2025 • 62 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on workplace gossip, nosy questions about a baby, and bringing food to a restaurant. For community members, your question of the week is about uninvited pets at a host’s home. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on cheek kisses.  Support the show - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode 577 - Tipping Before Service

September 29, 2025 • 68 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on an uncashed wedding gift check, tipping before you receive the service, and eating corn on the cob. For community members, your question of the week is about a separate kids' reception at a wedding. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on our annual business etiquette train-the-trainer week.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Episode 576 - Clinking Glasses

September 22, 2025 • 54 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on the tradition of clinking glasses during a wedding reception, when people ask you if you’ll baptize your baby, and whether you can uninvite someone from a French practice group. For community members, your question of the week is about the polite time to arrive at a party. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on thank you notes. Learn more about your ad ch...
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Episode 575 - Two Parties, Two Gifts?

September 15, 2025 • 52 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating with a retainer, return addresses for families with two last names, and birthday gifts for kids with two parties. For community members, your question of the week is about the difference between baby showers and baby sprinkles. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on when to talk business at a networking event. Join the etiquette community - emilyp...
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Episode 574 - Gifting Diamonds

September 8, 2025 • 46 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on gifting diamonds, overhearing racist comments, and when people ignore you in the elevator. For community members, your question of the week is about hosting your first tea party. Plus your weekly etiquette challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Afternoon Tea from Emily’s 1922 edition. Join the community - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....
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Episode 573 - Nuts With Shells

September 1, 2025 • 58 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating nuts with shells, being confused for your twin, and under-ordering at a business lunch. For community members, your question of the week is about sending a birth announcement with a registry. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment wedding gift giving from Business Insider. Join the community - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices....
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Episode 572 - Selling a Hand-Me-Down

August 25, 2025 • 67 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on tipping at gas stations, communication written by AI, and selling a hand-me-down. For community members, your question of the week is about when kids are part of a wedding ceremony but aren’t invited to the reception. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on the service counter stare. Join the community - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad cho...
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Episode 571 - Connection Request

August 18, 2025 • 61 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on a LinkedIn request just before a job interview, how to respond to nosy questions about finances, and what to do when someone calls you babe. For community members, your question of the week is about planning a garden party. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment. Support the show - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
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Episode 570 - Water Signs

August 11, 2025 • 61 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether the host should drink water at a party, an unusual coffee shop conundrum, and titles for lawyers on wedding invitations. For community members, your question of the week is about a certain leaked celebrity wedding invitation. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.  Join the community - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choice...
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Episode 569 - Family Tickets

August 4, 2025 • 58 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to respond when people ask what church you go to, paying for family tickets to your child’s performances, and whether it’s okay to stop visiting someone who has two large dogs. For community members, your question of the week is about how to end a tradition of dinner parties with friends. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on business social tips.  ...
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Episode 568 - Armrest Performance

July 28, 2025 • 56 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on a dinner party seating conundrum, switching back to a former hairdresser, and which armrest is yours at a theater. For community members, your question of the week is about whether two wedding ceremonies means two wedding gifts. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on business etiquette from Emily’s original Etiquette, in society, in business, in politics,...
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Episode 567 - Wedding Text Invitation

July 21, 2025 • 60 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether a graduation announcement requires a gift, an interesting wedding text invitation, and how to use retired military titles. For community members, your question of the week is about bad behaviors in the library. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on manners for business meal guests.  Join the community - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about yo...
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Episode 566 - Old Fashioned Voicemail

July 14, 2025 • 62 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to proactively handle bad guest behavior before an event, whether it’s now rude to leave a voicemail, and how to get to know the new neighbors. For community members, your question of the week is about contributing to a honeymoon fund on a limited income. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on hosts and guests.  Join the community - emilypost.substac...
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Episode 565 - Not Hungry?

July 7, 2025 • 75 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to comment on a friend’s AI-generated music, a relative who asks you to get a better gift, and commenting on an Ozempic user’s eating habits. For community members, your question of the week is about some drama over wearing white to a wedding. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on the people who inspire us to use good manners. Get the Emily Post ne...
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Episode 564 - To Defend a Friend

June 30, 2025 • 66 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on the phrase ‘this turns my stomach’, whether to jump in and defend a friend, and whether to bring a gift to a ‘no gifts’ party. For community members, your question of the week is about an interesting auto-response email. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.  Join the community, support the show - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad c...
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Episode 563 - Conversation Enders

June 23, 2025 • 56 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to tell someone you gave to their honeymoon fund, which direction to place a folded napkin, and how to end a conversation at a party. For community members, your question of the week is about men’s naming titles when a repeated name skips a generation. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on beach etiquette.  Join the community, support the show - emi...
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Episode 562 - Leadership

June 16, 2025 • 49 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to proceed when someone doesn’t pay their share of a gift, how to acknowledge a divorce, and whether you can order from a restaurant where a former employee works. For community members, your question of the week is about what to do when a receptionist is listening in on your PT medical appointments. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on leadership f...
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Episode 561 - Anonymous Salute

June 9, 2025 • 53 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether to tell someone about your salute for them, texting someone during a difficult time, and how to talk to someone about their body odor. For community members, your question of the week is about what to do when people keep cancelling meetings. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on entertaining etiquette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...
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