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Bad On Paper

Join Becca Freeman and Olivia Muenter every Wednesday for a dose of books and banter, along with interviews with women who inspire us.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
67 minutes
Episodes
387
Years Active
2018 - 2025
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2022 Mid-Year Goals Check-In!

2022 Mid-Year Goals Check-In!

We’re already halfway through the year and it’s time for a 2022 goals check-in! Both Olivia and Becca share the personal and professional goals they set for this year, give an update on their progres…

01:02:16  |   Wed 22 Jun 2022
Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin

Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin

This week we’re discussing a topic we always get requests to cover, imposter syndrome! To help break things down, we brought on Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin, a licensed psychologist, executive coach, organiz…

00:59:58  |   Wed 15 Jun 2022
We’re Writing Books: Talking All About The Process So Far

We’re Writing Books: Talking All About The Process So Far

This week we’re (figuratively) ripping our skin off and talking about the books we’re writing! This is an appetizer to a series we’re planning to do this summer all about how a book gets made. We giv…

01:11:51  |   Wed 08 Jun 2022
14 Summer Reading Recs from Our Fave Bookstagrammers!

14 Summer Reading Recs from Our Fave Bookstagrammers!

This week we’re helping you build your summer reading list with recommendations from some of our favorite bookstagrammers! They each share two books they recommend we read this summer and answer a pr…

01:04:02  |   Wed 01 Jun 2022
Funny You Should Ask Book Club

Funny You Should Ask Book Club

It's finally time to talk about Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman! We loved this book and we’re so excited to talk about it. We share our feelings and respond to listener calls about the book, i…

01:03:11  |   Wed 25 May 2022
Author Emma Straub on Time Travel and Owning A Bookstore

Author Emma Straub on Time Travel and Owning A Bookstore

This week we’re chatting with New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books are Magic, Emma Straub! She’s the author of five novels, including This Time Tomorrow, which came out on May 17.

We…

00:59:48  |   Wed 18 May 2022
Getting Back to Travel: All Things Trip Planning

Getting Back to Travel: All Things Trip Planning

This week, we’re together in person to talk about TRAVEL! Specifically, travel planning. We have travel on the brain, and thought you might, too. We discuss how we choose our destinations, how far in…

00:58:05  |   Wed 11 May 2022
Ask an HR Rep: Phylicia Jones Answers Your Work Q’s

Ask an HR Rep: Phylicia Jones Answers Your Work Q’s

This week we welcome Phylicia Jones, Senior Director of Global People Development at PagerDuty, to answer all your work questions. She shares an overview of her career, what drew her to working in HR…

01:10:19  |   Wed 04 May 2022
Project Hail Mary Book Club

Project Hail Mary Book Club

Hi space nuts! It's time to discuss our April book club pick: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This book is Olivia’s most-recommended read, and Becca (to her surprise) loved the book, too! In this wee…

01:05:18  |   Wed 27 Apr 2022
Getting to Know Olivia: Answering Listener Q’s

Getting to Know Olivia: Answering Listener Q’s

Today, we’re continuing to get to know Olivia as she’s answering your questions! 

 

She answers questions including how she met her husband (and dog!), what she was like as a kid, her typical workday…

01:03:05  |   Wed 20 Apr 2022
Our Morning Routines!

Our Morning Routines!

This week we’re re-visiting a highly requested topic: our morning routines! We discuss the goals behind our morning routine, when we wake up (and when we have to be asleep to make that happen) what w…
01:03:30  |   Wed 13 Apr 2022
Olivia's First Episode!

Olivia's First Episode!

Reporting live from our first one-on-one hangout ever, Olivia and Becca are together in person to kick off this new era of Bad On Paper! To start off this month of getting to know Olivia, we’ll be an…
01:15:08  |   Wed 06 Apr 2022
Black Cake Book Club

Black Cake Book Club

It’s time to talk about our March book club pick: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. We absolutely LOVED this book. We discuss what grabbed us about this book, the themes of not understanding your pa…
01:04:35  |   Wed 30 Mar 2022
Reflecting on Grace’s 4-Years of Podcasting

Reflecting on Grace’s 4-Years of Podcasting

It's the last ‘Just Us’ episode with Grace, and we’re reflecting on our podcast memories throughout the years! We talk about Grace’s highs and lows of doing the podcast, what she’s learned about hers…
00:58:57  |   Wed 23 Mar 2022
Get to Know Our Incoming Co-Host Olivia Muenter!

Get to Know Our Incoming Co-Host Olivia Muenter!

This week, we’re getting to know Becca’s new cohost (starting April 6) Olivia Muenter

 

We talk to Olivia about her background, her initial thoughts when Becca approached her to be a co-host, what …

00:56:25  |   Wed 16 Mar 2022
Answering Your Questions!

Answering Your Questions!

This week, we’re doing a Q&A! We answer your questions about our favorite (and least favorite) Book Club Picks, future projects we’re excited about, getting motivated, how to get through a bad mood, …
01:04:04  |   Wed 09 Mar 2022
Writing Advice and Self-Care Picks with Forever35’s Kate Spencer

Writing Advice and Self-Care Picks with Forever35’s Kate Spencer

This week, we got the chance to chat with Kate Spencer, co-host of Forever35 and author of the memoir The Dead Moms Club. We talk about her first novel In a New York Minute (which is a Grace appro…

01:08:48  |   Wed 02 Mar 2022
Greenwich Park Book Club

Greenwich Park Book Club

This week, it’s finally time to talk about Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner! Grace loved this book, but Becca was… just meh! We discuss our differing opinions on the book, our mid-book theories,…

00:59:51  |   Wed 23 Feb 2022
Our Amazon Favorites!

Our Amazon Favorites!

We can’t believe we haven’t done this episode before, but today we’re sharing our favorite Amazon finds! To get a full list of our favorites, check out the show notes below or click this link

We a…

00:59:23  |   Wed 16 Feb 2022
An Announcement!

An Announcement!

So today we have some bittersweet news. In this episode, we talk about this big news, the future of the podcast, and our podcast highs from the last 4 years.  

 

‘Just Us’ Episodes we loved

Always A…

01:00:26  |   Wed 09 Feb 2022
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