The Former First Lady Unveils Fashion Secrets: Top Podcasts This Week
Top Selection
IMO: Fashion Focus
This latest series of Michelle Obama's audio series accompanies the launch of a hardcover volume exploring her style journey. The production is sleek (typical of the Obama brand), featuring guests such as former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. In the style of Michelle personally, the show delivers substance in addition to its polish, disclosing significant insights about the expectations she dealt with as the pioneering Black female to live in the White House.
Waiting Game
Medical reports. Your ride. Your wedding day. We all experience the mixed emotions associated with expectation. Now imagine waiting for a lover in prison? A baby born via surrogate? Or the period spanning clinical death and revival? This contemplative show, host Katy Davis hears incredible narratives of navigating such uncertainty.
The Preventionist
This podcast from an established audio team maintains their tradition of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Journalist Dyan Neary meets families whose minors were removed from their care after claims of mistreatment were attributed to one physician, and probes whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was appropriate.
Revelations
Public records inquiries may seem boring, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic transform them into a lively listen. The stories they've unearthed via these requests in the US feature getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to state in legal proceedings that the commander-in-chief's tweets aren't literal.
EU Nations: Best Practices
This limited series positions member states head to head on accommodation, parental support and drug policy to identify the top performer. The family support installment examines different concerns such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the fact that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces childcare for toddlers if the family expands. The top-ranked support service? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.