Our Mothers Ourselves
Katie Hafner -- longtime New York Times reporter and author of "Mother Daughter Me" -- interviews the offspring of one extraordinary mother. The concept is simple. And sometimes simple turns profound.
Podcasting since 2020 • 60 episodes
Our Mothers Ourselves
Latest Episodes
Happy Mother's Day: Nancy Adler, Who Mastered the Balancing Act of Work and Motherhood
Nancy Adler was a renowned health psychologist who documented the powerful role that education, income and self-perceived social status play in a person's health and longevity.She was that rare person who was highly accomplished in ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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37:46
The "Relentlessly Positive" Yvonne Young Clark – A Conversation with Carol Lawson
A companion interview to Season 3 of Lost Women of Science, this episode is about the trailblazing mechanical engineer Yvonne Young "Y.Y." Clark. Katie talks with Y.Y,'s daughter, Ca...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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32:13
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For Father's Day. Talmadge Everett King Sr.: "If Your Father Builds a Wooden House...."
Two years ago, to mark Father’s Day, I sat in the closet I’m sitting in now (which you can see only in your mind’s eye), and had an extraordinary conversation with Dr. Talmadge E. King, Jr., a world-renowned lung specialist who is dean of t...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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39:39
Eve Metz's Hidden History. A conversation with Julie Metz
Several years ago, Julie Metz found something in the back of a drawer among her mother's slips and perfumes: a small book filled with handwritten notes to her mother, who was then called Eva, later Eve.The discovery started Julie...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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35:26
Mary Trageser, Self-Deprecating Matriarch. A Conversation with Charlie Trageser
Mary Trageser is about to celebrate her 100th birthday this April, but she doesn't want any fuss about it. She's had a very adventurous life, growing up as a child of the Great Depression, surviving bombings in London during World War II, then ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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30:53
