The Unfillable Hole

We're recapping Jenn's famous week in New York and talking all about splurge shopping, feeling fancy, Condé Nast reunions, longtime friendship, plus listener questions and more!Come see us LIVE at CAVEAT NYC on JUNE 16th at 5pm*** https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everything-is-fine-monsters-of-ambition-tour-tickets-901777319237You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comYou can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.com(so many Substacks!)You can order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's just Kim and Jenn this week and we're talking all about Jenn's new book "Ambition Monster" but also shopping, finding sales, running out of meds, vitamin D, feeling humbled and humiliated plus: listener questions and a whole lot more!***THIS WEEK: Come see us LIVE at CAVEAT NYC on JUNE 16th at 5pm*** https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everything-is-fine-monsters-of-ambition-tour-tickets-901777319237You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comYou can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.com(so many Substacks!)You can order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Honestly not even sure what we're talking about this week but it's something like :ex-boyfriends, "Hacks," ambition, creative chemistry, publishing, Anna Wintour, adulthood and maintaining a home, Jenn's book is out in ONE WEEK, plus listener questions and a whole lot more. You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comYou can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.comYou can still pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode: ARE BEN AND J.LO BREAKING UP? How to stop being bitter, is it possible to break the complaining habit?, getting better at small talk, the ongoing internal war of confidence vs. competence plus listener questions and a whole lot more!Come see us LIVE at CAVEAT NYC on JUNE 16th at 5pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everything-is-fine-monsters-of-ambition-tour-tickets-901777319237And in PHILLY at FERGIE'S PUB on JUNE 17th at 6pm: https://m.bpt.me/event/6307864?You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comNEW: you can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.com(so many Substacks!)You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come see us LIVE at CAVEAT NYC on JUNE 16th at 5pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everything-is-fine-monsters-of-ambition-tour-tickets-901777319237And in PHILLY at FERGIE'S PUB on JUNE 17th at 6pm: https://m.bpt.me/event/6307864?You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comNEW: you can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.com(so many Substacks!)You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest today is writer Jami Attenberg. Jami is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including THE MIDDLESTEINS and ALL GROWN UP, the memoir, I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU, and, most recently, the bestselling writing guide 1000 WORDS. She is also the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project, and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. Jami’s new novel, A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN will be released in September.You can find Jami on her Substack: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.comYou can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comNEW: you can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.com(so many Substacks!)You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jenn's losing her mind with book stuff, Kim's sorting through a mood, neither made a "things to talk about" list. Let's see how it goes!You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comNEW: you can find Jenn on her substack: jennromolini.substack.comYou can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is writer and podcaster Jane Marie. Jane is a Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist, a former producer of This American Life, the host of the acclaimed podcast, The Dream, and, more recently, Dear Jane Marie, and the co-founder of the podcast studio Little Everywhere. Her first book, Selling The Dream: The Billion Dollar Industry Bankrupting America came out last month. We're talking all about Jane's work along with money, class, aging, ambition, the scam of "soulmates" and a whole lot more.You can find Jane at: https://www.jane-marie.com/You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comNEW: you can find Jenn on her substack: jennromolini.substack.comYou can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Marriage and necks and turtlenecks and moisturizers and re-watching "Sex and the City" plus listener questions and a whole lot more!You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comNEW: you can find Jenn on her substack: jennromolini.substack.comYou can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest this week is New York Magazine Features Writer Emily Gould. Emily was previously an editor at Gawker and a publisher of Emily Books, an imprint of Coffee House Press focusing on women’s first-person writing. She is the author of the novels PERFECT TUNES and FRIENDSHIP and the essay collection AND THE HEART SAYS WHATEVER and, most recently, she wrote the moving essay "The Lure of Divorce," which we talk about a lot in this episode, along with mental health crises, two-writer marriages, being "famous in Midtown," the great media scourge, ambition later in life and a lot more. You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.comYou can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585To follow Jenn's beauty recs: instagram.com/jennromolinisvanity/Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.