Michelle Obama Reveals Style Insights: Must-Listen Audio Shows This Week

This Week's Highlight

IMO: Fashion Focus

This new spin-off of the former first lady's audio series coincides with the launch of a coffee-table book documenting her wardrobe transformation. The production is sleek (as expected from the Obamas), featuring guests including former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. In the style of Michelle personally, the show provides meaning alongside its glamour, disclosing significant insights about the challenges she dealt with as the pioneering Black female to occupy the White House.

Waiting Game

Medical reports. Your ride. Your big day. We all experience the conflicting feelings linked to expectation. Now imagine awaiting an incarcerated partner? A baby born via surrogate? Or the time between death and resuscitation? In this thoughtful series, narrator Katy Davis listens to remarkable accounts of dealing with the unknown.

The Preventionist

Reporter the presenter
Investigative … Dyan Neary, host of The Preventionist podcast.

This production from an established audio team maintains their reputation of in-depth reporting into contentious subjects. Host Dyan Neary meets caregivers whose kids were taken away after reports of harm were linked to one physician, and probes whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was appropriate.

Disclosure

Freedom of information requests might sound dry, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic make them a lively listen. The information they've obtained through these methods in the US comprise getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to testify under oath that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

EU Nations: Best Practices

This limited series places European countries against each other on housing, childcare and drug policy to determine the best. The family support installment analyzes various issues from Iceland's women's strike to the reality that renowned Sweden severely restricts preschool services if the family expands. The best childcare system? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.

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