Mexican American Iowan

Five years ago, this week's caller lost his 15-year-old son. Today, he's raising his 15-year-old daughter and navigating what it means to live with grief while continuing to move forward. It's a conversation about loss, love, and the complicated ways joy and sorrow coexist. DEA N ... Show More

This week's caller met her husband while working on a cruise ship. She's got plenty of stories about life behind the scenes at sea: from a painful breakup that sent her into the world to finding love, to building a new life in California, and lots of cruise talk in between. Plus, ... Show More

This week's caller works in video games. The first half of the call gets into the current state of the industry and what it's like building a career in something you love. Halfway through, this caller earns a spot on one of our favorite unofficial Beautiful/Anonymous lists: peopl ... Show More

<p>From the outside people may think Sadie's life is super simple and easy, but in reality there is a lot that goes into every little thing she does, down to simply just posting an instagram story. In this episode Sadie talks about the real work side of what she does and how it c ... Show More

Today co-anchor (and literal ray of sunshine!) Savannah Guthrie chats with Brooke about their mutual love of Arizona, Savannah’s high school “slacker” days, and how her father’s sudden death pushed her toward the career she has today. The broadcast journalist and children’s book ... Show More

Asmaa al-Ghoul was an ambitious young journalist when she started reporting on Gaza – her hometown – for the newspaper she'd dreamed of working for in high school. But through the trauma of uprisings, wars, and a failed marriage, she began to question how much journalism really m ... Show More

Molly is a lawyer in Chicago, whose youngest kid is about to leave for college. As she prepares to be an empty nester, she’s thinking about selling her house and looking ahead to a whole new chapter. If you want to be on What We Spend, we'd love to hear from you. Write us at what ... Show More

Carmen discusses her not so rad time as a junior in high school. She may or may not have Covid, is stressed about AP tests, just took the ACT, all her friends have boyfriends, and SHE STILL CAN'T DRIVE. Yikes... (btw Carmen did end up getting a plant and it's named Eugene) Don't ... Show More

Its a hard-knock life! Amany talks to us about her struggles as a young woman as she maneuvers through marriage, abuse, motherhood and social structures that are stacked up against her. Amidst all this, Amany still has the optimism to see things through, and dream a life for her ... Show More

Deyana shares her experiences immigrating from Iran to the United States. She discusses the insecurities involved in being a young immigrant, graduating from high school in two years, working for a law firm at 16, and her strong drive to achieve great things. If you have a uniqu ... Show More

Bailey is in a little bit of a spiral thinking about her future right now, she just finished high school, her friends will be leaving for school soon, she doesn’t have any set plans and she is kinda FREAKING THE F OUT… In honor of these feelings, today she’s sitting down and talk ... Show More

High school. For some it can be the best years of our lives, for others...not so much. Emma dishes on the entire high school experience and shares all of her embarrassing stories, from awkward interactions with boys, attempting to be athletic, and a self-inflicted hickey?!? Plus, ... Show More

Once a married waitress in her late 20s, my dear friend and best selling author put everything on the line in order to go to grad school. The result? Her smash hit novel, Sweetbitter, and a career as a writer. We talk slumber parties, the beginning of our friendship (which involv ... Show More