Michelle Obama Reveals Style Insights: Top Podcasts This Week

This Week's Highlight

IMO: The Look

This fresh installment from the former first lady's IMO podcast coincides with the launch of a visual tome chronicling her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (in true Obama fashion), featuring guests including style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. Much like the woman herself, the podcast delivers substance in addition to its polish, disclosing fascinating perspectives about the expectations she dealt with as the pioneering Black female to live in the White House.

Waiting Game

Exam outcomes. The bus. Your marriage ceremony. Everyone knows the complex sentiments that come with expectation. However, consider awaiting an incarcerated partner? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the interval from death and resuscitation? This contemplative show, presenter Katy Davis hears extraordinary stories of navigating such uncertainty.

The Preventionist

Reporter Dyan Neary, presenter of The Preventionist series.

This series from an established audio team maintains their tradition of thorough examinations into debated issues. Host Dyan Neary meets caregivers whose kids were removed from their care after reports of harm were made by one physician, and probes whether a preventive measure was the right one.

Disclosure

Government document petitions aren't the sexiest topic, but reporter Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic transform them into a lively listen. The information they've obtained via these requests in the US comprise getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to state in legal proceedings that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

EU Nations: Best Practices

This limited series puts EU nations in competition on real estate, parental support and narcotics laws to determine the top performer. The childcare episode examines various issues including Iceland's feminist protest to the situation where renowned Sweden severely restricts daycare for young children if their parents have another baby. The finest provider of childcare? It's not Scandinavian.