Things My Mother Forgot to Mention
Things My Mother Forgot to Mention is the podcast for every woman who’s ever said, “Wait—why didn’t anyone mention this to me?” Join Jan and Patti—two outspoken, curious, outrageous women—as they dive headfirst into the messy, magical, and often WTF realities of aging, health, and womanhood. From rogue chin hairs and vaginal thinning, to mental status, perimenopause, and scalp cancer (yes, really)—nothing is off limits. It’s funny. It’s raw. It’s real talk your mother definitely skipped.
Things My Mother Forgot to Mention
Latest Episodes
The Messy Reality of Leaving a Long-Term Relationship
This week we got into something we know almost everyone has struggled with: what it actually takes to walk away from a long-term relationship.We both share our personal experiences of leaving long relationships, including the whys, the g...
Mama Trauma with Stephanie Baker
In this episode, we're joined by Stephanie Baker, a licensed trauma counselor, Army veteran, and EMDR therapist who knows firsthand that birth doesn't always go according to plan. What started as a near-perfect pregnancy took a sharp turn, and ...
Open Wide: Horror Stories From the Chair
Teeth. The thing nobody warns you about until you're crying in the dental chair with half your face numb and a stranger drilling into your mouth for the third time that visit.This episode is Jan and Patti getting brutally honest about th...
Hip Replacements, Leukemia, and Learning to Advocate with Nicole Grose Ph.D
Nobody sat us down and said, "Hey, one day your hips might just stop working." And yet here we are.In this episode, Jan and Patti are joined by the brilliant Nicole Grose, a retired professor, Gen X middle child, leukemia survivor, and n...
The Joint Adventure: Hips, Knees, and Everything Nobody Told You
So Jan's basically building a new body one joint at a time, and we figured it was time to talk about it.As of recording, Jan is eight weeks out from her fourth joint replacement, a knee this time, and we got into all of it. The parts the...
