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Hiding in the Bathroom

Welcome to Hiding in the Bathroom! We examine the secret life of leadership, work, and success. From anxiety, work-life balance, figuring out what you want, and building the kind of business you love, we hear from leaders of all stripes.

Each week host Morra Aarons-Mele invites her favorite, most interesting friends and colleagues from politics, feminism, business media and psychology on to talk about creating the career and life you want, driving social change, smashing the patriarchy, and what to do when you want to hide in the bathroom.

It's like a "nerdy dinner party conversation between two great minds."

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Update frequency
every 10 days
Average duration
37 minutes
Episodes
61
Years Active
2016 - 2018
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Margaret Brennan: the Big Picture of the News

Margaret Brennan: the Big Picture of the News

She is the only woman host of a network Sunday morning news show, and even though she's a veteran journalist who has reported from Tehran, Baghdad, Kabul, and Beijing, covered the Iran nuclear deal, …

00:32:05  |   Mon 20 Aug 2018
Fixing Digital in Politics

Fixing Digital in Politics

What's the best path forward for digital campaigns? Online fundraising, organizing, and campaigning are fundamental to how we run for office now, but we're rightly nervous. Social media is a hugely p…

00:27:15  |   Tue 12 Jun 2018
How Do You Fix a Failed System?

How Do You Fix a Failed System?

Poet and scholar Gloria Anzaldua said "a woman who writes has power, and a woman who has power is feared." My guest Kelly Wickham Hurst says "Once writing started to happen for me, there was power th…

00:33:10  |   Tue 29 May 2018
No Match for Moms

No Match for Moms

From the time she was five, Kelsey Wirth traveled with her dad Tim Wirth as he was up for reelection in Congress- every two years in a swing district. Kelsey says she grew up in the spirit of both un…

00:26:41  |   Tue 22 May 2018
How Can I Do My Dream Work and Pay the Bills?

How Can I Do My Dream Work and Pay the Bills?

If there's one question I get over and over, it's "How can I pursue a dream career as a content creator/artist/inspirational speaker/influencer and still pay the mortgage?"

Is this you? On paper ever…

00:34:38  |   Sun 13 May 2018
The Mothers Are Coming

The Mothers Are Coming

"There is nothing a gun extremist has as much love for as we do for our children." That's the true theory of change behind Moms Demand Action, a 50 state strong movement of over 4 million Americans w…

00:25:42  |   Tue 01 May 2018
Introversion, Leadership, and Patriarchy

Introversion, Leadership, and Patriarchy

Gender, age, perception all color how introverts experience the world and how the world experiences us.

So I was excited to sit down with Jennifer Kahnweiler, "champion of introverts," and ask her ex…

00:29:57  |   Tue 10 Apr 2018
Cindy Gallop Disrupts Aging

Cindy Gallop Disrupts Aging

Cindy Gallop is a former advertising executive who now runs Make Love Not Porn, a startup rewriting the rules of sex online. 

Cindy is 57 and she "shouts it from the rooftops."

Whether you're a preco…

00:31:24  |   Mon 05 Mar 2018
Black Women Winning Office: Higher Heights is Drafting the Playbook

Black Women Winning Office: Higher Heights is Drafting the Playbook

“We have to create the leaders we want, and there is no more promising investment than Black women,” says my guest Kimberly Peeler-Allen. Peeler-Allen is co-founder of Higher Heights, which is buildi…

00:33:40  |   Tue 06 Feb 2018
What Does it Mean to Smash the Patriarchy

What Does it Mean to Smash the Patriarchy

Living life through the male gaze has become so normal, we may not even notice. That's why it's important to step back and examine the terms and constructs we use to describe and dissemble a world wh…

00:35:22  |   Tue 23 Jan 2018
Dealing with predators at work

Dealing with predators at work

Morra recorded this episode with writer, attorney, entrepreneur, founder of #Changetheratio and The List, and feminist thinker Rachel Sklar during the fall 2016 Trump campaign. We talked about sexual…

00:45:07  |   Mon 08 Jan 2018
What's Up With Werk?

What's Up With Werk?

You might assume a hi pressure, hi tech startup couldn't allow for flexibility. Not so says Werk co-founder Annie Dean: "We can't expect our team to meet our deadlines and innovate at the level we ex…

00:17:05  |   Tue 19 Dec 2017
Donna Brazile DGAF

Donna Brazile DGAF

"If you've been told to shut up, keep talking."

Donna shares great advice on how to get a seat at the table, and then be heard. 

Discussing her four decade career managing legendary political candida…

00:34:01  |   Mon 11 Dec 2017
22,000 Women are Coming for Donald Trump and the GOP

22,000 Women are Coming for Donald Trump and the GOP

Mad as hell? Here's the good news: the women across our country. A surge of women have stepped up to run for office. Over 22,000 of them, according to Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY's List, s…

00:32:14  |   Mon 04 Dec 2017
The News Industry has a Sexual Harassment Problem. Now What?

The News Industry has a Sexual Harassment Problem. Now What?

Katherine Goldstein was on the fast track to a top leadership position in digital journalism, with senior roles at Huffington Post and Conde Nast before she was 30.

Then she had a baby.

I met Katheri…

00:20:12  |   Tue 28 Nov 2017
Anxiety is a liar

Anxiety is a liar

"I no longer give anxiety decision making power in my life," says Ashley C. Ford. There was a long time when I just leaned into my anxiety, she says, but now, she can separate the feelings from reali…

00:28:05  |   Tue 14 Nov 2017
My Life As An Unhappy Overachiever

My Life As An Unhappy Overachiever

In this exclusive short excerpt from the new book Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There (When You'd Rather Stay Home) author and podcast host Morra shares her journey fr…

00:08:34  |   Wed 01 Nov 2017
Awesomely Luvvie: The Vision That Worked

Awesomely Luvvie: The Vision That Worked

Blogger and bestselling author Luvvie Ajayi's secret to building a great career and ensuring there's a team in her corner? Bringing her audience along on her professional journey. On this episode of …
00:37:11  |   Tue 09 May 2017
Speaking Truth, Finding Power

Speaking Truth, Finding Power

Reporting from throughout the city each day, Chicago Tribune reporter and 2017 Nieman Fellow Lolly Bowean has built a career telling the stories of people you probably aren't used to seeing in the ne…
00:41:32  |   Tue 02 May 2017
Money, Money, Money

Money, Money, Money

Annoying fact: men have more money than women. Cool fact: you can use your money to get ahead. On this episode of Hiding in the Bathroom, finance maven and Ellevest founder Sallie Krawcheck shares he…
00:37:05  |   Tue 25 Apr 2017
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