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We're back! Lian, Julie and Liz announce plans for the Fall 2020 season including a special series of helpful interviews during what we are calling Locktober. We are here for you, sisters and misters! Also today, some thoughts about the legacies of Chadwick Bozeman and Coach John Thompson. Lian shares information about growth of colon cancer in young people and reccomends these: Ryan Coogler’s tribute to Chadwick Boseman Katie Couric's CRC interview about the puzzling rise of colon cancer in young people. Urban Nana Julie Dolan has two helpful stories: School Daze: Where's College? Anywhere You Want Pandemic Parenting: Parenting with an audience Entertaining Sisters: Lian recommends this podcast (not new but new to her and she loves it): 99% Invisible Liz has some recommendations for what works and what doesn't as an outdoor movie. Her two faves this summer: Napoleon Dynamite and Black Panther. Maybe skip Jurassic Park if you have nearby neighbors or dogs who might be agitated by the scary noises. Grand Prize

On this special Satellite Sisters, Lian Dolan takes us to Rome, Pompeii and Paris, great highlights of earlier travel with her son Colin. Plus, Liz Dolan goes to the Emmys and her shoes explode. Whaaaaaaa???? To listen to the original full episode from Rome and Pompeii, go here. To listen to the original full episode from Paris, go here. To listen to the full Exploding Shoes episode, go here. Visit our new website www.satellitesisters.com. Subscribe to our new newsletter Pep Talk here. For more info on Lian Dolan's newest novel The Sweeney Sisters, visit her website here. Buy The Sweeney Sisters here on bookshop.org or here on amazon. Join our community: Facebook Page, Facebook Group and on Instagram and Twitter @satsisters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first of our special August 2020 episodes. With or without Tokyo, we've got Olympic Fever! First up, we share the highlights of our Rio Olympics episode August 21, 2016. Lian and Liz came home from Rio full of tales to share with Julie and the whole sisterhood and misterhood. Track & Field, Swimming, Sandwiches and Beer. It was a great trip. Some athlete highlights we witnessed: Usain Bolt wins the 100m, Simone Manuel scores gold in the 100m Free, Michael Phelps doubles in front of our eyes, Wayde van Niekerk sets a new world record in the Men's 400m and Michelle Carter uses her last throw to claim that shot put gold. In the second half of the show, Lian interviews Elise Hooper author of FAST GIRLS, A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team. We featured this book on our 2020 Best Beach Bag Books list which you can see here. You can order any book on that list in our Satellite Sisters Bookshop.org shop here. An excellent way to support indie bookstores. Lian thanks all the sisters and misters who

Sign up for our new weekly newsletter PEP TALK here. Get in the spirit. Liz's Best Olympic movies: Blades of Glory I, Tonya Miracle Downwhill Racer Chariots of Fire Julie recommends the British Binge-Cation on Hulu. Lian thanks all the sisters and misters who have been vacationing with The Sweeney Sisters. Don't have your copy yet? To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org (which supports indie bookstores.) To order any of the books on our Satellite Sisters Beach Bag Books list, go to this list on bookshop.org. Lian has several online book appearances coming up including a book club discussion about The Sweeney Sisters every Wednesday night on Crowdcast. It's fun and free. Sign up for an upcoming week with your whole book club! Meetings will go on hiatus in August and begin again in September. More details here on her website and shared on the Satellite Sisters Facebook Page and in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. Check out the brand new Satellite Sisters website!  Follow @sa

We've got it all this week. Remembrance of John Lewis, advice for parents with new college grads searching for jobs (or not), workplace insight during a layoff, the latest announcement on the next season of Cooking With Liz, Nana Camp news on her top 3 ointments and a whole lot of magazine hodge-podge. We love you magazine editors, but you are clearly running out of content! Plus in Entertaining Sisters, a new book from an old friend. Visit our new website here: www.satellitesisters.com Our favorite new word from science to describe this current phase humans and animals are in: anthropause. All the books we recommend can be found here: https://bookshop.org/shop/liandolan Magazine Hodge Podge! Real Simple Millie. A new magazine for female investors. Southern Living. Julie's on board with okra. Lian not so much. Good Housekeeping. Do your feet hurt? Julie shares Good Housekeeping's explanation why. Read more about Financial Infidelity here. To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org

In today's conversation about women and work and kids and school, we cite several studies. Women Carrying The Burden of Education During Covid from Ms. Magazine Interruptions of Working Parents at Home with Kids from The Washington Post Stanford Business School on Equity and Inclusion Concerns in New Work/Life Reality. Leadership Lessons in the Time Of Corona from L A Times On a lighter note: TidBits! Goodbye Buffets. Hello Endless Entrees? We are not certain this is such a good idea. Julie's headed to Dinosaur National Park! It's all part of Nana Camp 2020 Liz will be making Gold Creek Salmon BBQ on Cooking With Liz this week. Tune in at the Facebook Group on Saturday noon and Sunday noon Pacific Time for the fish you will not be eating on the Alaska cruise you are not taking this summer. Thanks to Heidi who provided the best vacation of the year for The Sweeney Sisters and took us along in the Facebook Group. To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org (which supports indie bo

Susan Wiggs Interview plus New Website Goes Live, Outdoor Movies at Home, Work Advice Lian and Julie interview Susan Wiggs in the second half today's show. First up, info on our new website, some ideas about backyard movies this summer and some work advice and perspective from Liz. We freshened up our website! Check it out at www.satellitesisters.com. (If you have issues, be sure to clear your cache.) Many thanks to our web design Kate McMillan. You can find her at www.outboxonline.com or email her at kate@outboxonline.com. On the site, you get all the latest info about us, our books, the Satellite Sisters history and how to work with us for speeches or events. Plus a complete audio archive of every podcast episode - more than 850! Working It Out: Liz recommends some of these resources. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s guidance on returning to work and the National Employment Law Practice NELP’s resource guide for workers offer more detailed ideas. California’s Department of Industrial Rela

Satellite Mister Carl Reiner, Family Test Results, Saharan Dust Storms, Black Hole Collisions, 4th of July Extravaganza Plans FAREWELL to the ultimate Satellite Mister Carl Reiner, one of our all-time favorite guests EVER. Lian still can't believe that he told us on our radio show in 2003 that Satellite Sisters "was a really good idea for a show!" Family Test Results: We've got some tests to report in the family. Keeps wearing those masks and social distancing, people!  News from the natural world: WHAT IS A SAHARAN DUST STORM? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/29/saharan-dust-united-states-get-another-cloud-week/3281263001/ The MOST EXCITING THING IN ASTROPHYSICS!!!  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/science/black-hole-collision-ligo.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesscienc ANIMALS MISS US. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/06/24/some-zoo-animals-are-doing-fine-without-visitors-many-are-lonely-without-us/?arc404=true Cooking With Liz: Lian explains do’s and don’t for the Watermelon

Lian's inspired by Stephanie Koontz's speech about taking a "close the gap" year at her son's college graduation, Julie has tales of Love in the Time of Covid and Liz shares the insane details of the ex-EBay execs arrested for Cyberstalking with a warning: There IS such a thing as a bad idea in a brainstorming meeting. Plus special thanks to listener Jean Sandman Manthorne who figured out what our grandfather William Klarman did for a living. Family mystery solved! Lian has several online book appearances coming up including a book club discussion about The Sweeney Sisters every Wednesday night on Crowdcast. It's fun and free. Sign up for an upcoming week with your whole book club! More details here on her website and shared on the Satellite Sisters Facebook Page and in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. Watch Lian interview writer Gina Fattore in our Facebook Group . This premieres Friday June 26th at 9 am Pacific Time. To order Lian's novel The Sweeney Sisters go to amazon or bookshop.org (which supports

Satellite Sister Lian Dolan on this special episode drop of The Book Club Girl podcast talking about The Sweeney Sisters. The Book Club Girl Podcast is a biweekly podcast on which the show’s co-hosts, Tavia Kowalchuk and Eliza Rosenberry, talk about books perfectly suited for book clubs. They focus on one book each episode and this week, it’s The Sweeney Sisters. Plus, Summer reading recommendations & an audio clip from The Sweeney Sisters . Find out more about The Sweeney Sisters here. Find out more about The Book Club Girls Podcast here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lack of motivation. Academic backsliding. Social distancing collapsing. And everyone's driving you batty. Does this sound familiar? Do you have teens and college kids in the house? Do you have pandemic parenting questions? Susan Borison and Stephanie Silverman of Your Teen Media have answers. We tackle questions from the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group about what's happening in your house. And the stress and anxiety that everyone in the family feels. To find more Satellite Sisters:   For all information about all things Satellite Sisters, go to our website: https://satellitesisters.com You can listen to Satellite Sisters podcasts at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, any other podcast app or our website. Lian Dolan's new book The Sweeney Sisters is available at www.bookshop.org To listen to Lian's new Satellite Sisters playlists, download the Spotify app to your phone. Spotify. Search on Satellite Sisters and you'll see the white logos for her playlists. You'll also see blue logos for more than 840 Satellit

Today we talk about taking action in the area of racial justice, both personally and professionally,then we've got some workplace advice (Stop The Unmasked Sneezing!), some entertainment ideas and a family controversy about our grandfather's actual line of work. Train conductor? Brewmaster? Truck Driver? Who knows. COVID-19 pandemic continues to have wide effects. Julie talks about education and cites info Students Falling Months Behind During Virus Disruptions. Liz is working on her approach to an "exposure budget" based on this story Five Rules To Live By During A Pandemic. Lian has interesting info on what college will be like in the fall. In Working it Out, Liz cites Forbes article: Dear White People, Ten Action Steps You Can Take To Promote Racial Justice In The Workplace and recommends this excellent podcast: Women At Work Podcasts from HBR: Sisterhood is Scarce and Sisterhood is Power. Podcast here. Find out more about Dolly Chugh’s book, “The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias,” here: h

A Satellite Sisters Check-In - Our Sadness, Our Hopes plus a Kindergarten Graduation and New Dog Pool.  We begin today just checking in. What are we feeling? What should be do about it? How can we support our friends and sisters? Where do we go from here, America? How do we heal the pain? From there, some good news. A thrilling lift-off to space and some exciting twists to the story. Did you know both astronauts are also married to astronauts? Julie celebrates graduation from kindergarten. Not hers, though it feels that way. She also makes a major purchase for her backyard yards that isn't exactly going swimmingly. A Dog Pool. In our work advice segment Working It Out, we answer two listener questions about how to get through these hard times. A working mom who is having trouble dealing with her first grader AND getting her actual job done, and another mother who, Franklin, just doesn't like having her husband and kids at home all day! Deb and Beth, we feel you. Post any of your own work-related questions on

Lian and Liz both have new quarantine habits. Liz even has a slogan. Stop The Slide. Lian has high praise for Mindy Kaling's new Netflix show Never Have I Ever. Special shout-out for surprise John McEnroe stunt casting. Liz answers some of your work and workplace questions from the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group. Resources mentioned during Liz's Satellite Sisters Working It Out segment: Time Magazine article: Scared To Return To Work Amid Coronavirus? Your Options Forbes Magazine: Planning For Early Retirement The Unemployment Rate Among Older Adults: What to do if you lose your job For concerns about discrimination or workplace safety. also seek out your state contacts for OSHA and National Labor Relations Board and speak to your union if you are represented by one. We also recommend this episode of Katie Couric's podcast that features an interview with Shake Shack's Danny Meyers and this Fresh Air episode with Tim Colicchio. For a wild fun historical story about the CIA and metal bands in the Cold War, li

Satellite Sisters 2020 Best Beach Bag Books Special! Interview with Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks, plus book and podcast recommendations from the Satellite Sisters For the complete list of Satellite Sisters Beach Bag Books for 2020 with links to all, go to our website here. To order any of these books and support indie bookstores, go to www.bookshop.org Don't forget about Lian Dolan's new book The Sweeney Sisters, also available at www.bookshop.org For more on Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, authors of You Are Not Alone and our interview subjects today, go here.  The new podcasts we recommended on this episode are: Dear Governor: A brand new 8 episode podcast series from our longtime Satellite Sister Corny Koehl. She tells the story of Jarvis Masters, a man on Death Row in California, and invites listeners to dig a little deeper into their own beliefs about what the death penalty accomplishes. Subscribe here. Facebook Page here. Sugar Calling: A new interview series from author Cheryl Strayed. Unlike

Life Opening Up, College Graduations and Admissions, Fantasy Escapes, Birdwatching Boom Lian's upcoming online appearances for The Sweeney Sisters include the Pequot Library, our hometown hangout that's featured in the book. Former college admissions officer Julie has thoughts about how admissions testing will or won't work in the future and Lian thinks about all the college graduations not taking place this spring, including her son's. Liz envies a castaway who was camping out on a forbidden island and is is surprised to learn about the YouTube Video sub-genre that's all about abandoned places. And Lian's on top of the bird-watching trend.  IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT DATE CHANGE FOR OUR SIXTH & I SATELLITE SISTERS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW:  This event has been rescheduled for June 13, 2021. Tickets for the May 17 show will be automatically honored for the new date, and no action is required. If you had tickets to the show in May and cannot attend the rescheduled show, please consider allowing the value of you

It's Lian Dolan pub date for The Sweeney Sisters. We celebrate with an Ask Lian Anything. Thanks for all your questions! For complete info on Lian's appearances online, go to her Lian Dolan author page here. To order The Sweeney Sisters and support indie bookstores in the process, go to Bookshop.org or Greenlight Book in Brooklyn. Julie and Lian review Cooking with Liz latest season: Roast Salmon. They have some constructive criticism. But miraculously Liz get's renewed for a Season 7!! The assignment is baking. Ruh-roh. You can watch all the Cooking With Liz episodes in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group or by following @satsisters on Instagram. Julie has some fascinating insight into how Denmark is opening their schools for the youngest kids. Will we be able to pull that off in the US? Entertaining Sisters: Julie and Liz are both watch Ozark. Dark but SO entertaining. Liz also recommends the Steven Sondheim 90th Birthday Party which you can find online here. Wildly entertaining and a nice palate cleanser

Final countdown has begun to the publication date of Lian's new novel The Sweeney Sisters on April 28. To get in on the east coast online event at A Mightly Blaze at 2 pm ET/11 am PT or the Vroman's west coast event at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET, go to Lian's author page here. Both events are free but the Vroman's event on crowdcast requires preregistration. On today's podcast, Julie has a HUGE idea for The New American Greeting. Get on board! More animal news from Lian. She's loving Pizza Groundhog, a worthy successor to Pizza Rat, plus the Adelaide Kangaroo. She recommends two podcasts on The Wolves of Yellowstone. This Is Love and Criminal. Cooking with Liz: Lian and Julie review Liz's preparation and presentation of this recipe for Turmeric-Spiced Cauliflower and Broccoli with Capers from Rancho La Puerta by Torrie Borrelli. Her book is The Mexican Keto Cookbook. Liz's assignment for Season 6 of Cooking with Liz is Lian's favorite salmon recipe. Roasted Salmon with Dill, Capers and Horseradish.  Entertaining Sisters

Weird Dreams, Tragic Optimism, Quarantrends and FOXES! Plus 'Cooking With Liz' S4 Review.  Lian Dolan's new novel The Sweeney Sisters comes out on April 28. Thanks for preordering the book online and at through local Indie bookstores here. Also, please ask your local library to order a copy. To follow all of Lian's activities, check out her new website. Get a signed bookplate from Lian. Fill out this Google doc. Corona Catch-Up. How are you doing? Julie recommends the Skullduggery Eyewitness Kits Perfect Cast Fossilworks Craft Kit for Nana Academy learning.  Cultivating a sense of tragic optimism despite the sense of overwhelming grief. Articles here and here. Weird Dreams? You are not alone. Book about Loneliness by Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD: Together. The Healing Power of Human Connection In A Sometimes Lonely World FOXES are Fun! Lian recommends the fascinating audiobook The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic

Lian Dolan's new novel The Sweeney Sisters comes out on April 28. Thanks for preordering the book online and at your local Indie book stores. Also, please ask your local library to order a copy. To follow all of Lian's activities, check out her new website. How to get a signed bookplate from Lian. Fill out this Google doc. Lian reviews good and bad relationship advice for corona couples: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/world/coronavirus-lockdown-relationships.html https://thebudgetsavvybride.com/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-how-covid19-is-making-and-breaking-relationships/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-life/202003/tough-problems-relationships-in-the-time-coronavirus https://www.talkspace.com/blog/coronavirus-relationship-quarantine-advice/ Living in co-housing under Stay At Home rules. Cooking With Liz Season 4 Announcement: LIVE FROM THE FRIDGE. In order to comply with LA County Public Health officials request to avoid going to grocery stores for the next two weeks, Liz's challenge in