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Thanks For Asking
A call-in show from author Nora McInerny that lets real people get real honest about how they're really doing. Operators(me) are standing by to take your calls. In case you didn't know, we're still making episodes that are available exclusively on Nora's Substack!
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The IBS in Me Recognizes the IBS in You w/Caroline Moss
This is a PSA: you’re not too old to make a best friend. Just because you no longer have assigned seating in a classroom or a playground or playdates...
From The Archives: October 8, 1988
Suffering can feel like such a singular experience -- like there’s no one else in the world who understands what we’re going through. But sometimes, i...
Prescription for a Widow
When can a widow date again? Would you believe it if we told you that the answer lies in the Real Housewives of New York? Today, that’s what Nora’s do...
22 & Struggling (is it just me??)
Even if you have not been 22 with an abusive ex-boyfriend, broke, homesick, and friendless in a new city, you have, at one point or another, felt like...
You’re Not Too Old, It’s Not Too Late Part 2(with Cheryl Sparks)
Last week, Nora set out to prove that no one is ever too old and it's never too late to try something entirely new. The mailbox was so full of amazing...
You're Not Too Old, It's Not Too Late(with Jamie Golden)
Nora recently got a question that asked, “Is 31 too old to pivot into a new career?” The short answer: NO! You’re not too old and it’s not too late to...
Gen Z Dating is Weird: Your Calls
What matters to you matters to me. That’s why I make sure to take time to do live calls and answer your questions. In this episode, we talk Gen Z dati...
Dead People Lore
Have you ever heard something really weird about someone… but at their funeral? I found out that allegedly my dad RODE A MOTORCYCLE. I wanted to hear...
Patients Over Profits
Nurses are the backbone of healthcare. From tending to patients to dealing with doctors, nurses do all the things. In honor of Labor Day, our favorite...
TFA x IMO: Michelle Obama Told Me I'm Not a Loser!
In this brief episode, Nora poses a question to Craig Robinson and Michelle Obama. And boy do they deliver!
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The Widower (Girl, run)
Every once and a while, we get an email that Nora just can’t resist making an entire episode about. This week’s subject is dating a widower – but is s...
Hysterectomies, Health Insurance, and Husbands: TFA Live-Call In #1
Nora started this show because she wants to talk to YOU, the listener, about what matters to you. So today, she talks to listeners about it all : gett...
Giving Away the Farm
Kathy Barker isn’t just the founder of Barker Farm – she’s a mother, an advocate for mental health awareness and breaking the stigma of food insecurit...
Update: How to Lose Your Name with Hayley Paige (Cheval)
It's been a few years since we last spoke with Hayley Paige about the legal battle that took her ideas, her job and her identity. In this episode, we...
Tales of a Type B
Have you ever looked at Nora and wondered, what is going on inside her head? Today, you’re going to learn. This episode is for the ADHD, messy, carefr...
Pull over on the freeway, it's a PowerPoint Emergency! | Corporate Horror Stories Pt. 2 with Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip
In this second installment of corporate horror stories, Nora is joined by Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip to hear all of your work horror stories –...
Health Insurance Horror Stories
America has a healthcare problem. One of those problems is Health Insurance, which I have said before and will say again, loudly and with my whole ent...
Everyone is Lying To You: influencer culture with Jo Piazza
Influencers are the people (women!) that people (women!) love to hate. But they also have a huge cultural and economic impact. It’s tangly, and Author...
Signs from the Other Side
I believe that our people never truly leave us. They stay with us. They live in us, always. If you need a sign that you’re not alone, let this – this...
I Was the Other Woman... And He Died
As a widow, I get a lot of grief emails. But this one stopped me right in my tracks with the subject line, “I was the other woman… and he died.” Today...
How Do I Trust in Love When My Heart Has Been Broken?
Nora talks with Jess, a struggling caller who has found herself in a relationship with someone she desperately wants to trust. But after a string of u...
UnWorld with Jayson Greene
In this episode, we catch back up with Jayson Greene, author of the memoir Once More We Saw Stars and learn about his new book and first novel, UnWorl...
What Do People Do All Day?
In this first episode of the newest installment of Thanks for Asking, Nora hears from three callers who explain what they actually do all day at work....
S3: I've Made a Huge Mistake
This is an episode from the new season of TTFA Anthologies, go to Apple Podcasts and Spotify to listen to the full season(and past seasons)!
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S3: Emergency! Banner Ads!
This is an episode from the new season of TTFA Anthologies, go to Apple Podcasts and Spotify to listen to the full season(and past seasons)!
Corporate Horror Stories
Work is not your life. Your life is not your work. We try really hard to separate them.
But, hey! We live in a world where that’s not pos...
Help, I Said the Wrong Thing!
Breaking news: humans make mistakes. This is not a bad thing! Our mistakes are how we learn and grow, and we have to get comfy with accepting that mis...
Finding Meaning In The New Age of Anxiety
The world doesn’t make a lot of sense right now, including other people and why they think the things they think and do the things they do. So I’m tap...
Pep Talks 2
Last week’s pep talk episode (https://noraborealis.substack.com/p/stop-being-mean-to-yourself) was such a hit we’re back with more (and I’m making som...
What It’s Like to Be a Brain Surgeon, with Dan Heath
Sharing an episode of “What It’s Like to Be…” from author Dan Heath. On the podcast, Dan explores the world of work, one profession at a time, and int...
Her Parents Skipped Her Wedding(Estrangement)
Estrangement is one of those hot button topic that everyone has an opinion about, and here’s mine: you have one job as a parent1, and that’s to love y...
Pep Talks
Every once in a while, we all need a little bit of solicited motivation from someone totally unqualified to give it. In this episode, Nora shells out ...
You’re Lonely: What’s the prescription? An Interview with author Julia Hotz, author of The Connection Cure
What if your doctor prescribed you a hiking group? A ceramics class? Not in place of whatever medication or treatment you may need, but as a complemen...
Embarrassing Stories
In this episode, we discuss the defining moments in our lives that forever branded us with shame.
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How Do You Care for Yourself?
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Angry and Grieving
Of all the stages of grief, anger has to be the ugliest one. The one that feels the ickiest no matter what side of it you’re on. So today we’re talkin...
Issa Rae on Friendships That Need to Go, from IMO
Sharing a new show from my friends at Higher Ground, hosted by Michelle Obama, called IMO. You know on Thanks for Asking, we keep it real and help eac...
Out of The Void, Into The Dating Pool
In this episode, we get an update from widower David Cherson. This is the first part of a two-part series called Life of a Lonely Widower.
IGTBO, TFA (Part 2)
Take a break from the doom and disaster and reset your psyche with some okay things.
We won’t ever say “everything is going to be okay” b...
Some Regrets
I cannot trust anyone who says No Regrets. Because really…you don’t have ANY? NONE?! Are you sure about that? I can tend towards the opposite mentalit...