Episodes 59
Avg. Duration 31m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 4.7 (431)
Since Jan 2019
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Monthly
Format
Episodic
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About This Podcast

This year, The Double Shift will focus on IRL community building with a new initiative for 2025 called The How to Find Your People Club. Club members will get years-early access to some of the groundbreaking ideas and tools I’m developing for my book, which will be published by Penguin Random House in 2027. One of the benefits of club membership is audio newsletters, where I read my newsletter so you can listen on the go. Over the next year, this newsletter will feature public posts on topics like the difference between community and friendship, how to break free of gendered time constraints, wildly unexpected places to find meaningful connection, overcoming anxiety around social settings, and how important dinner parties are for foraging relationships (and how to throw one without getting overwhelmed) This feed will be occasionally updated, but for regular audio content, Come join the club over on substack for a private, members-only feed! Join us! https://thedoubleshift.substack.com/. The Double Shift from 2019-2022 was a narrative show to challenge the status quo of motherhood in America. Please enjoy our free archive of over 35 episodes.

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Recent Episodes

ICYMI: Holiday "Don't List" Inspo with Kathleen Donahoe

Dec 15, 2025 35m

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!

Oct 09, 2025 51m

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

Aug 18, 2025 49m

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

Mar 18, 2025 28m

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)

Mar 12, 2025 17m

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)

Feb 12, 2025 14m

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)

Mar 13, 2024 12m

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)

Mar 06, 2024 13m

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)

Feb 28, 2024 11m

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)

Feb 21, 2024 11m

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)

Oct 25, 2023 14m

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

Jun 22, 2022 9m

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

Feb 09, 2022 46m

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

Jan 26, 2022 46m

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

Dec 08, 2021 45m

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

Nov 24, 2021 50m

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

Nov 10, 2021 49m

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)

Oct 27, 2021 45m

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)

Oct 13, 2021 40m

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.

Aug 04, 2021 30m

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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