Under the Influence with Jo Piazza
Under the Influence is a deep dive into social media, a place haunted by aspirational marketing where it feels like every other person is a social media influencer trying to sell you something, all while posed in perfect houses that never seem to get messy. And behind this airbrushed perfection is money, so much money. Billions and billions of dollars. Journalist and mom Jo Piazza looks at how we got here, what it all means and how the commodification of every single aspect of our lives is driving everyone (but mostly women and mothers) a little insane.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Is Megan Markle a #TradWife?
This week, we're asking the question on the Internet's bitchy lips: is Meghan Markle a tradwife? To get to the bottom of it, I'm dropping in a special crossover episode with Off With Their Headlines …
01:19:47 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Bridget Jones, Real Lady Necks, and the Golden Age of Rom-Coms (with Erin Carlson)
Why does Bridget Jones still hit us right in the feelings—decades later? Because she’s all of us. A little messy, a little lost, and still trying to figure it out.
This week, we’re diving into the j…
01:01:08 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Sunday Nice Things: Parenting in the Digital Age with These Packs Puck
Today I'm dropping an episode of These Packs Puck.
Anyone who's a parent knows how chaotic life with kids can be — but being a professional athlete and a parent comes with its own unique challenges…
00:51:46 |
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Did You Think Life Would Be Better Than This?
What happens when your life falls apart—and the Internet is watching?
Jessica Turner had the husband, the kids, the career, and the perfectly curated feed. But when her husband came out as gay, ever…
00:37:36 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Your Hormones Aren’t the Problem—This Is
Most of us think we understand our menstrual cycles. We track them with apps. We count the days. Maybe we even know when we’re ovulating. But what if everything you think you know is either oversimpl…
00:44:35 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
How Toxic Masculinity and Online Spaces Are Reshaping Boyhood
Online spaces and societal expectations are radicalizing young boys at an alarming rate. The haunting TV drama "Adolescence" depicts a 13-year-old boy arrested for murdering a female classmate—a fict…
00:38:57 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
What's Worse Than The Glass Ceiling? The Broken Rung!
You've earned the degree, landed the job, and crushed your first assignments—so why aren't you moving up? The shocking truth: it's not you, it's the system. "For every 100 men at the entry level that…
00:43:17 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Will You Ever Be Enough? A Chat With Melissa Arnot?
In this deeply personal episode, we sit down with extraordinary mountaineer Melissa Arnot, whose achievements include multiple Everest summits including one without supplemental oxygen. But this conv…
01:02:03 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Are Influencers Ruining Italy?
From wine windows that went viral during the pandemic to churches becoming TikTok sensations, we unpack how influencer culture is changing the way we experience historic and cultural sites all over t…
00:47:32 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Sunday Nice Things: Too Much Money
Today on Sunday Nice Things I'm dropping in an episode of the show Too Much Money that I made with my friend Doree Shafrir. The show is a wild ride through the crazy ways that billionaires spend thei…
00:41:56 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
America Gets a Failing Grade in Women's Health—SURPRISE!
The misinformation about birth control and women's rights on social media has reached a fever pitch. The other day I was served a reel telling me that taking birth control will both give me cancer an…
00:41:54 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
What if Social Media Were Good for Tween Girls?
Professor Katherine Phelps is shattering the stereotype that social media is purely destructive for young girls. After spending a ton of time with these young women and interviewing them about their …
01:03:40 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Navigating Grief and Grief Influencing Online
Today we're talking to Susie Shaw, a mother who bravely shares her journey through the devastating loss of her child, William. Susie recounts the harrowing day William went missing during a family sk…
00:38:17 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Can You Change Your Personality?
Have you ever wondered if you could stop being so neurotic, or become more of an extrovert? Are our personalities set in stone when we are born or can we adapt them over time? To find out Atlantic jo…
00:44:33 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Sunday Nice Things: How Do I Balance My Hormones?
I'm a little obsessed with this week's Sunday Nice Things. I am very excited to bring you the CRAMPED podcast. Cramped is one nerd’s quest to find out why we know next to nothing about period pain. T…
00:49:44 |
Sun 09 Mar 2025
How Will You Measure Your Life?
What if taking a step back from your career wasn't seen as slacking, but actually celebrated? Harvard Business School professor Christina Wallace discusses why we all deserve a season to dial it back…
00:44:06 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Blowing up Your to Follow Your Dreams Life with Elle Cosimano
In celebration of the release of Elle Cosimano's latest book Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave we are re-releasing our much beloved interview with Elle about how she blew up her life to follow her dr…
00:48:40 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Scrubbing Toilets to the Today Show: Tyler Moore's Accidental Influence
Tyler Moore, better known as @TidyDad, accidentally became an influencer while maintaining his day job as a NYC public school teacher and showing off his housekeeping skills on his blog and social me…
01:03:52 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Sunday Nice Things: How to Build a Bookish Community
I genuinely believe that books bring people together and I want to create space for more book events, book clubs and book discussions. Robin Kall is amazing at this. She has been running the Reading …
00:33:11 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
Having a Baby Can Break You with Sarah Hoover
Too many of us enter motherhood carrying expectations shaped by filtered social media posts, polished representations in media, and well-intentioned but incomplete stories from those who came before …
00:44:02 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
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