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Lovely listener,

Transitions are hard. I see the mixed emotions in my kids as another school year ends. I see it in my problematic skin, which can't seem to cope with the summer heat. And of course, there's work: Jen and I are transitioning 
Stable Genius Productions from the "omg, what are we doing" stage to the "eyes on the prize" stage. It's not easy.

Today's 
ZigZag episode is all about transitions: specifically, the one some folks must make when their industry changes or even goes away. Like voice-over artist Mallory Kasdan. You've probably heard her in dozens of ads, from Crest White Strips to Nickelodeon. Mallory was KILLING IT. But over the last couple years, as social media and celebs got into the game, the jobs stopped coming.

Mallory's had to find a new way to pay the bills and keep health insurance for her family. After years of sounding like the “hip mom,” she's decided to sound like HERSELF. I love this episode...

LISTEN

Scroll down for links to other recent (and awesome) podcast episodes from us this month, including the debut of Season 5 of IRL, the podcast I host for Firefox. We go DEEP on digital privacy so if you've been into the NY Times' Privacy Project or joined our Privacy Paradox experiment in 2017, you will totally dig this season.   

Meanwhile, you've been sending fascinating and insightful emails and voice memos. We read and listen to them all. Thank you. I'm working on an upcoming episode about how work and life are shifting for you. How you're trying to live by your values while still paying the bills. Please email me at hello@stableg.com or just reply to this newsletter. 

Happy solstice to you! May the day feel deliciously long.  
Manoush x

P.S. Here's our illustrator Sara Wong's take on work, motherhood, and finding space for yourself between the two. I think it applies to dads as well. 

LISTEN TO OUR OTHER NEW EPISODES: 

On Note to Self, Dr. Gloria Mark's shares her groundbreaking study on how personality determines whether internet blockers can help you focus at work.

Also on Note to Self, the CEO of Crystal, a service that coaches people on how to talk to colleagues, explains his personal epiphany about using people's online data to psychoanalyze their personalities for profit.

On IRL, Season 5 kicks off with The Privacy Policy Policy (no, that's not a typo) and a look at how tech companies' Terms of Service warp our understanding of consent.

READ TO GO DEEPER:
The mommy blog is dead. Long live the mommy blog.
Missing our reporting on blockchain? Read about Facebook's new cryptocurrency.
Phishing has come to Google Calendar. Please read. For real.
The future of marketing is bespoke everything. I can't decide if this is good or bad.
Mindfulness is supposed to be an antidote to capitalism...but is it also the enemy of activism

I RECOMMEND:
The most recent episode of Mallory Kasdan's podcast MILK. Her guest is her oncologist sister. 'Cause I feel like cancer is freaking everywhere these days and talking about it makes me, oddly, feel better.

I'm devouring Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, a book written by a therapist, given to me...by my therapist.

Can you tell I just had a birthday and have mortality on the brain :)

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