Podcast The Newsletter

Podcast The Newsletter

👩‍❤️‍👨 Awkward adolescence 📓 the sinking of a cruise ship 🚢 sick in Disney World 🤮 a mystery box 📦

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Lauren Passell
Nov 08, 2021
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Bonjour!

Today is Monday, November 8. There are 204 days until I go on my next Disney cruise. If you don’t have time for the whole newsletter: Here’s a new show that is so much fun, this is about a musician saving the lives of 571 people on a sinking cruise ship, and this was so emotional that when I passed it along to a coworker, she was unable to finish it.

This week we’re getting to peek into the listening life of Zoë Ruderman, Head of Digital at PEOPLE, overseeing one of the biggest websites in the country. She’s also currently executive producing two podcasts for the brand: the daily news podcast, PEOPLE Every Day, and Me Becoming Mom, a weekly celebrity interview show, which she hosts.

In each episode of Me Becoming Mom she interviews a famous woman about her journey to motherhood. It launched with Hoda Kotb, who spoke about adopting her two girls (and yes, everyone, including me, cried.) More recent episodes included Real Housewife Kandi Burruss, Alyssa Milano, and Olympic gold m…

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