The Former First Lady Shares Fashion Secrets: Best Podcasts This Week

This Week's Highlight

IMO: Fashion Focus

This new spin-off from Michelle Obama's audio series aligns with the publication of a coffee-table book documenting her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (typical of the Obama brand), with appearances by such as former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and actress Jane Fonda. Much like the host, the show delivers substance alongside its polish, disclosing important details about the challenges she faced as the inaugural African American first lady to live in the White House.

The Pause

Exam outcomes. The bus. Your wedding day. We're familiar with the conflicting feelings associated with expectation. Now imagine waiting for a lover in prison? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between clinical death and revival? In this thoughtful series, narrator Katy Davis hears remarkable accounts of navigating such uncertainty.

The Prevention Expert

Host the presenter
Reporter Dyan Neary, presenter of The Preventionist series.

This podcast from a major media investigative unit continues their legacy of in-depth reporting into controversial topics. Host Dyan Neary meets parents whose minors were placed in foster care after claims of mistreatment were attributed to one physician, and questions whether an overly cautious strategy was justified.

The Truth Unveiled

Freedom of information requests aren't the sexiest topic, but reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic turn them into a compelling series. The revelations they've discovered via these requests in the US comprise persuading the former president's aide to testify under oath that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

European Comparison: Top Performers

This special production puts EU nations in competition on accommodation, childcare and substance regulations to identify the best. The family support installment examines multiple topics from Iceland's women's strike to the reality that highly-praised Sweden nightmarishly limits childcare for toddlers if a new sibling arrives. The top-ranked support service? It isn't from Scandinavia.

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