Michelle Obama Reveals Fashion Secrets: Top Audio Shows of the Week
This Week's Highlight
IMO: The Look
This latest series of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast coincides with the launch of a hardcover volume documenting her style journey. Everything is meticulously crafted (typical of the Obama brand), with appearances by including style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. In the style of the woman herself, the show offers depth alongside its style, revealing significant insights about the challenges she dealt with as the pioneering Black female to live in the White House.
Waiting Game
Test results. The bus. Your wedding day. We all experience the complex sentiments associated with expectation. However, consider waiting for a lover in prison? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between passing away and being revived? This contemplative show, presenter Katy Davis listens to extraordinary stories of navigating such uncertainty.
The Preventionist
This podcast by a renowned production house maintains their reputation of thorough examinations into controversial topics. Journalist Dyan Neary meets parents whose minors were removed from their care after claims of mistreatment were made by one physician, and probes whether an overly cautious strategy was justified.
Disclosure
Public records inquiries aren't the sexiest topic, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic turn them into a lively listen. The information they've obtained via these requests in the US feature obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to admit to a court that the commander-in-chief's tweets aren't literal.
The Europeans: Who Does It Best?
This special production places European countries in competition on real estate, parental support and substance regulations to establish the top performer. The parenting segment examines multiple topics such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the fact that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces childcare for toddlers if a new sibling arrives. The top-ranked support service? It isn't from Scandinavia.
