Michelle Obama Shares Style Insights: Must-Listen Podcasts of the Week

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IMO: Fashion Focus

This fresh installment of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast aligns with the publication of a hardcover volume documenting her style journey. The production is sleek (typical of the Obama brand), featuring guests such as ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and actress Jane Fonda. In the style of the woman herself, the series delivers substance in addition to its style, uncovering significant insights about the pressures she dealt with as the inaugural African American first lady to live in the White House.

The Pause

Test results. The bus. Your wedding day. Everyone knows the mixed emotions associated with expectation. However, consider expecting a jailed romantic interest? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the period spanning passing away and being revived? This reflective podcast, host Katy Davis collects remarkable accounts of managing unpredictable situations.

The Preventionist

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Reporter Dyan Neary, presenter of The Preventionist series.

This series by a renowned production house upholds their reputation of hard-hitting investigations into debated issues. Host Dyan Neary speaks with families whose kids were placed in foster care after claims of mistreatment were attributed to one physician, and probes whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was appropriate.

Disclosure

Public records inquiries might sound dry, but journalist Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic transform them into a lively listen. The stories they've unearthed by using them in the US feature obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to admit to a court that the leader's social media posts aren't factual.

The Europeans: Who Does It Best?

This limited series puts EU nations against each other on housing, early education and substance regulations to establish the best. The family support installment analyzes multiple topics from Iceland's women's strike to the situation where much-vaunted Sweden nightmarishly limits daycare for young children if their parents have another baby. The top-ranked support service? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.

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