The Midlife Edit

For five episodes, we named the ghostwriters: the family, the culture, the relationship, the caregiver, and the job. But what happens when they finally put down the pen? Taking it back is supposed to feel like freedom...

What happens when what you do becomes who you are? In the final installment of The Ghostwriters series, Jen takes on one of the sneakiest ghostwriters of all: the job . The career, role, title—or simply the thing you do...

There's a version of you that only exists in the two seconds before anyone else in the house needs something — before the day remembers you're in it and hands you the list. In Episode 4 of Ghostwriters, Jen goes after a...

Episode Description There's a version of every relationship where two people pick up the same pen and write a better story together than either one could have written alone. But sometimes the pen changes hands —...

Episode Description It never met you. It didn't raise you. It doesn't know your name. And it still had an opinion about who you should become — your body, your ambition, exactly how much room you're allowed to take up...

Who wrote the story you're currently living? Not you — probably someone else. In this first episode of a brand new series, Jen introduces Ghostwriters: the five recurring authors — The Family, The Culture, The...

Not a One-Hit Wonder Recorded from a hotel room in San Antonio after a 2:45am wake-up and a 5am flight — thirty minutes from skipping the week entirely before deciding she couldn't. This week's episode was supposed to...

Audra Phelps grew up Mormon, married in the temple at 20, and spent the next decade doing everything right — and doing everything she was told. On today's episode she and Jen skip the standard "growing up in the church"...

Before Lauren Tetenbaum was the therapist and author everyone wants to talk to about menopause, she spent fifteen years as someone else's voice — literally. As an immigration attorney, she represented abuse and asylum...

A Hold the Pen Story — Follow-up to Episode 75 A few weeks ago, Jen told you to hold the pen. This week, she's naming who's actually been holding it. The pen doesn't get handed over all at once — it's passed quietly...

<p>Terry Tateossian's life reads like three different biographies stitched together — refugee at 11, tech entrepreneur through the dot-com boom, Forbes contributor and 40 Under 40 founder running a 40-person agency, and...

Terry Tateossian's life reads like three different biographies stitched together — refugee at 11, tech entrepreneur through the dot-com boom, Forbes contributor and 40 Under 40 founder running a 40-person agency, and...

When was the last time you made a decision nobody else influenced? Not your husband, your kids, your job, or your therapist...just you. This week, Jen shares the story behind a line that came out of nowhere on July 4th...

<p>When was the last time you made a decision nobody else influenced? Not your husband, your kids, your job, or your therapist...just you. This week, Jen shares the story behind a line that came out of nowhere on July...

This week starts with a mirror. Jen catches her own reflection mid-morning-routine and doesn't recognize the woman looking back - not because she looks older, but because she looks unedited . That moment cracks open two...