Mini-Ep 396: Mini-Eps Are Back!

Doree and Elise hear from listeners about how to be parent friends when your kids aren't friends, normalizing staying inside during the summer as a form of self-care, and some great weeknight dinner recs. Come for the listener questions, and stick around for the Trader Joe’s segment! To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doree and Elise chat about free mugging, coffee drinking, and cute clothes. Then, they invite award-winning journalist and podcast producer Shima Oliaee (Dolly Parton’s America) on the show to talk about her latest show The Competition, about the complicated quasi-pageant “The Distinguished Young Women” program; getting delightfully scammed by a Sephora employee; and what it was like to watch the Dobbs decision come down among girls. Mentioned in this EpisodeTo leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doree shares a game-changing sofa sleeper rec and Elise enjoys the summer mood with fresh cherries. Then, listeners call in about how to keep their musical tastes evolving and hair prods that really do the work, and Doree reveals the results of her latest enneagram test! Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doree and Elise chat about the interesting recipes their mom’s passed down before Casey Lewis (Gen-Z analyst and author of the After School newsletter) joins them to share what the teens and tweens are doing for self-care, why she watches the denim back-to-school trends in particular, and what she hopes for the teens on dating apps.Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doree and Elise talk weeknight dinners, hosting as a way to expand your social circle, and the Trader Joe’s staples they both recommend. Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doree and Elise prepare for the hectic end of the school year. Then, they speak with Ann Powers, NPR’s music critic and author of TRAVELING: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, about not being too young for qigong, Joni Mitchell’s songwriting brilliance, what Taylor Swift’s future albums might sound like, which musicians she’s most excited about right now, and how to listen to music like a music critic. Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the return of mini-eps, Doree and Elise are starting off with some good ol’ prod recs before answering questions about everything from how to keep summer going when you’re at your 9-5, to surprising questions like, what’s Elise’s enneagram?Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Doree and Elise start the summer strong with an introduction to this new season of the podcast. Then they welcome Sequoia Holmes, host of Black People Love Paramore, to the podcast to chat all about the formative nature of the music you listened to as a middle schooler, astrology as a fun way to view identity, what life moving online means for the youths these days, and the power of movies as cultural touchstones.Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach Doree & Elise at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s Kate’s last episode hosting Forever35! But before we send her off, she and Doree bring producer extraordinaire Samee Junio on for a full-circle moment. They discuss how the pod has changed them all for the better, Samee’s latest “foot care as self-care” practices, the intensity and joy watching wrestling has brought into their life, and how someone might be stealing their Tatcha products one face-sized scoopful at a time. Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach them at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Shop our merch at balancebound.co/shop/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate and Doree detail the sweet gifts that their kids got them before Elise Hu joins them to chat about their shared love of all things Costco, the joy of laughing in public, the drugstore cleanser Elise can’t live without, and the K-beauty product she has to smuggle in since it’s not sold in North America. Elise will be joining Doree as Forever35 co-host for the summer!Mentioned in this EpisodePre-order a signed book from Kate! (And find Kate's newsletter here)Join Kate Spencer at the LA book launch for One Last Summer - June 13th!To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach them at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at [email protected] forever35podcast.com for links to everything they mention on the show or visit shopmyshelf.us/forever35.Shop our merch at balancebound.co/shop/forever35.Follow the podcast on Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and sign up for the newsletter at forever35podcast.com/newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.