Circling the Drain
Ellie Dvorkin Dunn & Julia Granacki
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Circling the Drain episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Circling the Drain for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Circling the Drain episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
The Hazardous Footstool with Georgia Clark
Circling the Drain
06/08/22 • 68 min
Georgia Clark is a novelist, performer, and screenwriter. She's the author of the newly released Island Time, as well as It Had To Be You, The Bucket List, and others. She is also the host and founder of the popular storytelling night, Generation Women, which Ellie has performed in and which we wholeheartedly love and recommend. At the time of this recording, Georgia's wife was very pregnant with the human who is now their daughter, and though Georgia has not yet had to contend with symptoms or behaviors related to her own hormonal changes, she had some amusing things to say about pregnancy hormones. Join us for a very special Pride Month Pod where we manage to discuss boners, boobs, and babies, AND introduce our new favorite literary object: The Hazardous Footstool.
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Georgia Clark website
Island Time book
Generation Women
Twitter: @georgialouclark
@GenWomenUS
facebook: @Georgia Clark
@genwomen
Instagram: @georgialouclark
@generation_women
What Happens When Trans Women Experience Symptoms Of Menopause?
Midlife Schmidlife podcast
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Mom Friends + Poop Friends = Best Friends with Ashley Hearon Smith and Keri Setaro
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07/20/22 • 62 min
We didn't know it was possible to find a pair of women willing to discuss boobs and vaginas and poop in as vivid detail as we do, but the universe granted us Ashley Hearon Smith and Keri Sotaro, and we couldn't be happier. Co-hosts of the popular Momtourage podcast, these hilarious women are known to drop a plethora of f-bombs about parenting, thus making them the relatable mom group rejects you didn’t know you needed. This episode covers the magical combo platter of postpartum AND perimenopausal hormones, the mental health issues associated with being a new mom, and the unique scent of a grandmother's vajayjay. How might one know what their Bubbe's nether regions smell like? You'll have to tune in to find out.
Momtourage Podcast
Momtourage Insta
Momtourage facebook
Momtourage YouTube
Momtourage TikTok
Ashley Hearon Smith website
Ashley's twitter
Ashley's Insta
Keri Sotaro website
Keri's Insta
Keri's facebook
Invisibilia Poop Friends episode
Julia's Wellness Coaching Website
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Purely Elizabeth Affiliate Link
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Aggression, Digression, and a Nutella Obsession with Sofia Moncayo and Jenna Hodges Struble
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10/20/21 • 60 min
Sofia Moncayo and Jenna Struble are badass women who do good things for other people. We love a do-gooder, but when do-gooders can also be candid about their body issues and emotional struggles, we melt a little. In this episode, we introduce a brand new segment, invent a brand new word (chromosonahormonal), and talk about a brand new subject: tits and ass. Ok fine, that last one isn't brand new, but it's always a good time.
Donate to Mosaic Food Pantry and select "Covid 19 Sunnyside/Woodside Food Distribution" from the pulldown menu
AP News article featuring Sofia and her work
New England Center for Circus Arts
and @neccacircus on Instagram and FB
Glennon Doyle's Untamed
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10/26/22 • 53 min
Tamsen Fadal and Jo Lamarca Mathisen call themselves Meno Sisters. They hit it off after a mutual friend "thrust them together" because of how much they both seemed to enjoy talking about menopause, and have remained extremely close ever since. Tamsen is an Emmy award-winning journalist and NYC news anchor who recently created #MenopauseTok on TikTok to bring creators together to share their menopause journey, and Jo (who has also won a few Emmys!) is the former Executive Producer of Today with Hoda & Jenna. They are now working together on a documentary called It’s Not Me...It’s (Me)nopause. We are thrilled to have them on the show for the second half of Menopause Awareness Month because, like us, they value the importance of spreading essential information about women's health in midlife, and they do it with humor wherever possible. We talk about the difficulties of working in television while experiencing brain fog, hot flashes, and anxiety, we ponder the discrepancy in our mental age and the age of our knees, and we spout off pithy aphorisms best suited for wall art made of wood.
Tamsen and Jo
It's Not Me... It's (Me)nopause documentary
It's Not Me... It's (Me)nopause Insta
Tamsen Fadal Website
Tamsen Fadal Insta
Tamsen Fadal Facebook
Tamsen Fadal Twitter
Tamsen Fadal TikTok - #menopausetok
Joanne LaMarca Mathisen Insta
Joanne LaMarca Mathisen Facebook
Menopause Awareness Month Roundup (Part 2)
State of Menopause
Digital Health Companies Elektra Health, Vera Whole Health, Gennev, and Alloy
Revel
The Functional Pelvis
Menopause Cafe
Addyi - FDA-approved women's libido drug
Julia G Wellness
Erin's Faces Affiliate Link
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Life's Tough. Laugh More. with Kambri Crews
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02/07/24 • 60 min
How does a child of deaf adults who grew up in a tin shed with no running water or electricity witness her father commit a violent crime and then grow up to be the joyful owner of a comedy venue? Kambri Crews will tell you how! Author of the acclaimed New York Times best selling book Burn Down the Ground and sole owner and operator of Q.E.D. which was voted #1 comedy club in NYC by Time Out NY, Kambri is a damn delight. Her message, "Life's Tough. Laugh More." is evident as she chuckles about light things such as restaurant staff seeing her use sign language and then ignorantly handing her a menu in Braille, and heavy things such as her father attempting murder not once but twice. As Julia says, "If at first you don't succeed...". We also discuss gross habits like picking at your skin and chewing the inside of your own mouth, having to read the instructions for how to boil rice at least fifteen times, and how ice skating in midlife can result in the ass of your dreams. Thanks to all our listeners for your generous donations - we're thrilled to be back and we can't wait to tell you what's next.
Topics and timestamps
12:29 - Menopause and then breast cancer
14:35 - Kambri's autobiographical book, Burn Down the Ground, in which a child of impoverished deaf parents witnesses her father trying to kill her mother
23:48 - Processing trauma without traditional therapy
26:00 - How to laugh yourself back from rock bottom
30:20 - How an imaginitive child grows up to run her own events space
36:15 - Ice skating in midlife to optimize joy (and a tight butt)
Handles and sites
Q.E.D. Astoria
Buy books through Q.E.D. instead of other places
Kambri's website
Kambri's Insta
QED Insta
QED Facebook
Kambri facebook
List of Resources Mentioned
Cheek biting: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment
Something Was Wrong podcast
Flaco the Owl’s Year of Freedom From the Central Park Zoo
Other Links
Erin's Faces Affiliate Link
Julia G Wellness
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A Bubble Bath for Your Brain with Dr. Wendy Suzuki
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08/16/23 • 59 min
Dr. Wendy Suzuki is a professor of Neural Science and Psychology and author of two incredible books, Good Anxiety and Healthy Brain, Happy Life. Her TED talk, The Brain-Changing Benefits of Exercise, has more than 60 million views, making it the 2nd most viewed TED talk of 2018. In spite of our awe, we managed to pick her fancy brain about many things, like how hormonal changes can lead to increased anxiety, tips for building resilience and staying motivated to exercise, and what to do about "choking" (AKA brain farts or derping). She told us all about her concept of "micro flow", causing us to envision a tiny Flo from the Progressive commercials sitting on our shoulders. This is why she is the Dean of the College of Arts and Science at NYU and we are not! We also talk about Ellie going braless for the summer and Julia rubbing emu oil on her skin. If you think the latter is problematic, remember Julia's words: "The emu is already dead at this point."
Topics and timestamps
14:00 - The transformative effects that exercise has on the brain
21:56 - How hormonal changes can lead to increased anxiety
27:46 - Building resilience
34:26 - Tips for staying motivated to exercise
40:10 - What to do about "choking" AKA brain farts
49:09 - Flow vs. Microflow
Handles and sites
Dr. Suzuki's Website
Good Anxiety by Dr. Suzuki
Healthy Brain, Happy Life by Dr. Suzuki
Dr. Suzuki's Insta
Dr. Suzuki's facebook
List of Resources Mentioned
Three Vaccines for Fall: What You Need to Know
Dr. Suzuki's TED Talk: The brain-changing benefits of exercise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's TED Talk: Flow, the secret to happiness
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Cancer Classes at Kellerman's with Stephanie Kilroy and Nancy Ellwood
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11/17/21 • 64 min
Stephanie Kilroy and Nancy Ellwood are badass b*tches who have overcome breast cancer and rectal cancer, and who are determined to laugh about the good ("We were surrounded by family and friends"), the bad ("I went through menopause twice!"), and the ugly ("I had a bag of liquid poop hanging off my body"). Tune in for a candid chat about doodies, doobies, dildos, and how it always comes back to Dirty Dancing.
Steph: Valley Forge and Montgomery County, PA
Nancy: Arcadia Publishing
Chick Mission
Breastcancer.org: Effexor for treatment of hot flashes
NY Times: Should Your Cocktail Carry a Cancer Warning?
The Body Keeps the Score
Heal Documentary
What can I do to reduce my odds of being diagnosed with breast cancer?
Most common cancers in women and how to detect them early
Vessel Health
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#ihadanabortion - A CTD Bonus Episode!
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05/18/22 • 32 min
Can you use "Covid" and "abortion" in the same sentence? We can and we did. More on that in today's special bonus episode where we talk about Julia's abortion, Ellie's mother's pre-Roe abortion, and Ellie's grandmother's illegal abortion in 1960's London... a discussion that was inspired by the current climate as well as Alison Leiby's one-woman show, "Oh God, A Show About Abortion." If you too are feeling white hot rage in reaction to the SCOTUS draft decision leak along with fear and trepidation as we face the approaching dystopian hell-scape, this episode is for you!
Organizations that deserve your money!
Abortion Access Front
NARAL Pro-choice America
Center for Reproductive Rights
Holler Health Justice
New Voices for Reproductive Justice
Bold Futures
Planned Parenthood
Gender Justice
Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund
The Afiya Center
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Going Commando with Blaire Postman
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10/25/23 • 39 min
Blaire Postman is a comedian who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and then embraced it as a super-power. She created a solo show called Lady ADHD: Hilariously Mind Blowing Observations from a Hyper-Insightful Brain. Due to a current medication shortage, we got to interview Blaire ten days into "going commando", and we talked about emotional dysregulation, song-stimming, and how a performance piece about a topic like ADHD can make audiences feel seen and not alone. We can relate to that for sure. We hope that you will relate to Ellie cursing at her son in a fit of perimenopausal aggression, and Julia's incredulousness at the fact that they only just invented a crash test dummy that mimics the female form.
Topics and timestamps
12:50 Being diagnosed with ADHD as a 30-year-old female
16:30 The ADHD medicine shortage
18:23 Emotional dysregulation related to Adult ADHD
22:35 A job interview and mismatched shoes
29:00 Audience members' reactions to Lady ADHD
Handles and sites
Blaire's website
Blaire's Insta
Blaire's YouTube
List of Resources Mentioned
This is the first crash test dummy modelled on the female body. Will it make cars safer for women?
Adult ADHD
Clip of Blaire and a guest "song-stimming"
Other Links
Erin's Faces Affiliate Link
Julia G Wellness
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Sad, Fat, and Dry with Dr. Linda Dahl
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02/02/22 • 64 min
Who would think that an otolaryngologist could make us giggle like 12 year-olds at a slumber party, but that's exactly what happened with the fabulous Dr. Linda Dahl. You will hear a great deal of cackles, guffaws, and even a hearty snort as we cover the journey of this incredible woman who has excelled at enough careers to span several lifetimes. Learn about her work as one of the only female ringside fight doctors, her path from breastfeeding frustration to becoming an expert and author of two books on the topic, and her unique approach to confidence via the advice of a patient who also happened to be a dominatrix. Best of all, she reminds us that the symptoms of perimenopause can be so confusing that even a medical expert can be convinced that she's dying. Dying... of menopause.
Dr. Linda Dahl
Linda's Facebook
Linda's Twitter
Linda's Instagram
Better Breastfeeding: A Doctor's Guide to Nursing Without Pain and Frustration
Tooth and Nail: The Making of a Female Fight Doctor
Clinician's Guide to Breastfeeding: Evidence-based Evaluation and Management
August Period Products
Buzzfeed Article about Nadya Okamoto
Dr. Gary Goldman
Dr. Carolyn DeLucia
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FAQ
How many episodes does Circling the Drain have?
Circling the Drain currently has 71 episodes available.
What topics does Circling the Drain cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Midlife, Humor, Women'S Health, Aging, Podcasts, Menopause and Sexuality.
What is the most popular episode on Circling the Drain?
The episode title 'Mom Friends + Poop Friends = Best Friends with Ashley Hearon Smith and Keri Setaro' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Circling the Drain?
The average episode length on Circling the Drain is 59 minutes.
How often are episodes of Circling the Drain released?
Episodes of Circling the Drain are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Circling the Drain?
The first episode of Circling the Drain was released on Jun 23, 2021.
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