The Double Shift
Katherine Goldstein
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ICYMI: Holiday "Don't List" Inspo with Kathleen Donahoe
I have a great time talking with Kathleen Donahoe about the health realities that led her to be an expert don’t list creator, how she’s using her budget to drive her holiday Don’t List this year, and…
ICYMI: Deep Casual Hosting w/ Virginia Sole-Smith!
I had a blast talking to Virginia Sole-Smith about her “Friend Friday” tradition, and the insights she’s gathered from the Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith Community about making Deep Casual…
Deep Casual Hosting Live w/Amanda Litman
I had a blast talking about Amanda Litman’s weekly experiment of hosting friends at her Brooklyn apartment every Saturday night. My favorite parts of this conversation were discussing how NOT having…
Building Community: Live with Shannon Watts
I felt an absolute zing of electricity when I opened a message a few weeks ago asking if Shannon Watts could interview ME for her Substack Live series. Along with being a longtime fan of the…
UPDATES From Me and How “Busyness” Stops us From Meaningful Connection (Audio)
I’m back with an update on what I’ve been working on—The How to Find Your People Club, an IRL community-building project tackling loneliness and disconnection. Plus, exciting news: I’m writing a…
The Crucial Differences Between Community and Friendship, Explained. (Audio)
We are constantly surrounded by aspirational images of human connectedness but according to American Time Use Survey data, Americans' time socializing in person declined 20% from 2003 to 2023. The…
Mothers are Already the Safety Net. Now We Must Be a Firewall. (Audio)
I am very angry right now. In my community, I’m witnessing a fixable systemic childcare problem be cemented squarely on the shoulders of individual families, rather than those with power and…
Eight Things That Make My Life a Lil Better (Audio)
After all of the intensity of being a business lady and switching platforms in the last few weeks, I thought I’d change gears with this occasional beloved series on a wide range of things that make…
The 2024 Candidate That Fills Me With Hope (AUDIO)
In this week’s audio newsletter is an essay about Sophia Chitlik, who is running for NC state senate here in Durham, North Carolina. What excites me the most about Sophia is that she’s promoting a…
On Taking Risks and “Starting Over” (Audio)
Welcome to the audio version of The Double Shift newsletter, read by yours truly, Katherine Goldstein.Today’s edition is about my big financial decision to switch newsletter platforms, and what it…
Announcing: A Playbook to Transform How America Cares (Audio)
For some of you, it may have been a minute since you've heard from me since we stopped producing episodes last year. But I want you to know I'm still working hard on all sorts of issues and stories…
Announcing... The Double Shift’s Next Chapter
It’s been a minute since you’ve heard from us, but Katherine is excited to share news about the next chapter of The Double Shift, a newsletter and community that’s a social change laboratory for…
This is Not Goodbye
The Double Shift podcast launched three years ago to share the real stories of motherhood in America, and radically explore the social forces that make being a mom so challenging. We’ve brought you…
The Check’s Not in the Mail
For six months last year, tens of millions of families could count on consistent, predictable support from their government to help defray the steep financial cost of raising a child in this…
Building a Movement for Paid Leave
Changing workplaces to make them substantially better for moms and caregivers is, in fact, possible.Inspired by our show on paid family leave back in 2019, we hear from some Double Shift listeners…
Pro-Mother, Pro-Abortion
Here at the Double Shift, we love to dismantle stigma through storytelling. So our guest this episode, Kenya Martin (aka "Abortion Diva"), speaks to our souls. Kenya is a former abortion clinic…
“Good Moms” and the COVID Vaccine
COVID vaccinations for five to 11 year olds are here, and for so many parents and caregivers this moment could not have come soon enough. Others are taking a wait-and-see approach, including many…
All Mothers are Essential Workers (Part 2)
While other news outlets have “moved on'' from talking about how mad and burnt out moms are, we’re just getting started. In part two of this intimate, in-the-moment audio diary series, host Katherine…
“We’re All In This Together”? (Part 1)
Every mother has been touched by the pandemic and every mother has a story that deserves to be heard...including our own host, Katherine Goldstein.In this two-part series, Katherine shares her story…
Introducing: Home. Made.
While we are on hiatus, check out a show we think you’ll love. It’s called Home. Made. Today we are sharing the full episode of the series, called “Is There A Doctor In The Dollhouse?” It’s about…
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The Double Shift has published 59 episodes since January 2019, covering topics in Kids & Family, Parenting.
The Double Shift is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 31m.
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