Raising Kids in Manhattan: Native New Yorkers, Bat Mitzvah After-Parties & "New York Is My Third Parent" — with Mallory Schultz

She Was Fired for Retweeting a Trans Woman Who Supports Israel | Dr. Logan Levkoff

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2460430/fan_mail/new] Dr. Logan Levkoff has spent her career doing the work most people are too uncomfortable to do — teaching kids and teens about sex, consent, relationships, and their bodies. She's been doing it for over two decades, in some of New York City's most prestigious schools. On March 16th, she was fired. Not because of anything that happened in a classroom. But because a group of parents objected to her public identity as a proud Zionist, the administration found a pretext to let her go. The smoking gun? A retweet. Written by a trans woman, defending Israel. Dr. Logan joins Eva and Caroline for one of our most important conversations to date. We get into the firing, the witch hunt, the instafada, why Zionism is code for Jew, the deafening silence of feminist movements after October 7th, and what it means to raise proud Jewish children in this moment. Oh, and it turns out she taught Caroline sex ed in eighth grade. So buckle up!  Mic'd & Medicated — real talk about the things everyone is thinking but nobody is saying out loud. New episodes every Thursday. SHOWNOTES: Logan's Show https://www.loganlevkoff.com/the-sexy-side-of-zionism [https://www.loganlevkoff.com/the-sexy-side-of-zionism] Book of the week: Be A Refusnik https://a.co/d/01itQ4R5 We’re two New York City women talking candidly about the chaos of modern life, from relationships, parenting, working in and out of the home, to what it takes to stay semi-sane in a world that expects you to hold it all together and be #blessed. We couldn’t find an honest and vulnerable conversation — so we started one! If you need a laugh, a cry, or just want to hear someone else admit their flaws and validate your crazy, you’re in the right place. Be ready to be… Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! * Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated [https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated] and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts] * Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated [https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated] * Check out our website: micdandmedicated.com [https://www.micdandmedicated.com/] Surgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

Spring Cleaning Your Life: Perspective, Underwear & the Art of Winnowing

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2460430/fan_mail/new] What does a drawer full of old underwear have to do with your emotional blind spots? More than you'd think.  This week, Caroline and Eva tackle spring cleaning — and quickly realize that it's a perfect metaphor for everything: your closet, your relationships, your mindset, and yes, your lingerie situation.  They dig into construal level theory (why it's easier to give advice than take it), the Jewish concept of Seder and order, Marie Kondo's fatal flaw, road rage, meditation, grounding yourself in nature, and why the best perspective sometimes comes from your friend ruthlessly going through your underwear drawer.  Word of the Week: Winnow.  Book of the Week: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. https://www.amazon.com/Im-Glad-My-Mom-Died/dp/1982185821 We’re two New York City women talking candidly about the chaos of modern life, from relationships, parenting, working in and out of the home, to what it takes to stay semi-sane in a world that expects you to hold it all together and be #blessed. We couldn’t find an honest and vulnerable conversation — so we started one! If you need a laugh, a cry, or just want to hear someone else admit their flaws and validate your crazy, you’re in the right place. Be ready to be… Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! * Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated [https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated] and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts] * Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated [https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated] * Check out our website: micdandmedicated.com [https://www.micdandmedicated.com/] Surgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

Raising Kids in Manhattan: Native New Yorkers, Bat Mitzvah After-Parties & "New York Is My Third Parent" — with Mallory Schultz

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2460430/fan_mail/new] Two NYC moms walk into a couch — one's leaving for Miami, the other's staying — and a third native New Yorker joins them to make it make sense. This week Eva and Caroline are joined by Mallory Schultz — founder and creative director of luxury event studio House of Mal, former Condé Nast editor (Bon Appétit, Self, Martha Stewart's Everyday Food), and a fourth-generation New Yorker raising her own kids in the city she grew up in. They get into all of it: what it actually means to raise kids in Manhattan, the Bat Mitzvah after-party industrial complex, why "buzz balls" are now a security concern, the magazine girlhood that doesn't exist anymore, Hill schools vs city schools, why Mallory thinks rigid women are the f--ing best, the case against Greenwich (and the missing frozen yogurt), Stockholm Syndrome New Yorkers, and the surprising fact that Manhattan is just one of five boroughs (which Eva did not know). Plus: there's an unforgettable wedding-party-planner-seizure story you'll be repeating at your next dinner. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unexpert. New episodes every Thursday. Find Mallory at @houseofmal We’re two New York City women talking candidly about the chaos of modern life, from relationships, parenting, working in and out of the home, to what it takes to stay semi-sane in a world that expects you to hold it all together and be #blessed. We couldn’t find an honest and vulnerable conversation — so we started one! If you need a laugh, a cry, or just want to hear someone else admit their flaws and validate your crazy, you’re in the right place. Be ready to be… Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! * Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated [https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated] and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts] * Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated [https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated] * Check out our website: micdandmedicated.com [https://www.micdandmedicated.com/] Surgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

Death, Divorce & Moving: What Your Attachment Style Says About How You Handle Change

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2460430/fan_mail/new] Death, divorce and moving are the three most significant life changes a person can go through. We're not dead. We're not divorced. But one of us is moving to Miami — and apparently that qualifies. This episode is about why moving is so much harder than it looks. Not the logistics. The psychology. When you move you have to address every single thing you've ever accumulated. Every dress, every dish, every half-filled diary from age nine. And somewhere in all of that stuff is the question: who was I when I bought this? Am I still that person? Do I want to be? We break down the four attachment styles — secure, anxious preoccupied, dismissive avoidant and fearful avoidant — and figure out which ones we are. Spoiler: Doug and Jeremy did not marry secure women. We get into why Caroline cried saying goodbye to empty walls, and thanked the house out loud. Why she has 35 diaries with one line each and cannot explain it. And why Eva's grandmother threw her wedding album in the trash, and what that says about all of us. We also recommend the book The Postcard, which will make you rethink everything you've ever thrown away. And we end with the Tech Tard moment of the week, which involves Caroline uploading an unedited video to Spotify. We're owning it. Word of the week: Anthropomorphize. And we learned what potpourri means. We were both right. Mic'd and Medicated — Two NYC women figuring it out in real time. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unexpert. We’re two New York City women talking candidly about the chaos of modern life, from relationships, parenting, working in and out of the home, to what it takes to stay semi-sane in a world that expects you to hold it all together and be #blessed. We couldn’t find an honest and vulnerable conversation — so we started one! If you need a laugh, a cry, or just want to hear someone else admit their flaws and validate your crazy, you’re in the right place. Be ready to be… Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! * Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated [https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated] and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts] * Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated [https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated] * Check out our website: micdandmedicated.com [https://www.micdandmedicated.com/] Surgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

She Built the Career. Felt Like a Failure Anyway. Now She's Just Getting Started — with Melissa Gellman Weiss

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2460430/fan_mail/new] This week's guest is Melissa Gellman Weiss — Barry's CMO, founder of Re/Gen, and one of the most honest women we've had on the show. And we mean honest. Melissa grew up in New Jersey but went to private school in New York City — and still doesn't lead with the NJ part. Her husband took one look at her NYC friends and said he didn't want their kids growing up like that. So they moved to Larchmont. She built a massive career — and spent two weeks a month away from home doing it. The guilt never left. She'll tell you she felt like a failure because her mom was the CEO of the house — completely in charge, completely present — and she was splitting herself in half trying to be both. We talked about what it actually costs a woman to choose ambition. Not in theory. In real life. We also got into: - Why everything good in her life happened after she got sober — 16 years and counting.  - The pressure cooker of NYC private school culture and why she opted her kids out of it.  - Why women our age are uniquely positioned to own the next decade — and why we keep underselling ourselves.  - What she'd tell her younger self now that she's on the other side of all of it. Melissa is the kind of woman who makes you feel less alone in your choices — whatever they are. This one hit close to home. 🎙️ Mic'd and Medicated — Two NYC women having the conversations everyone is thinking but nobody is saying out loud. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unexpert. 🔔 New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe so you don't miss what's next. 📲 Follow us on Instagram: @micdandmedicated We’re two New York City women talking candidly about the chaos of modern life, from relationships, parenting, working in and out of the home, to what it takes to stay semi-sane in a world that expects you to hold it all together and be #blessed. We couldn’t find an honest and vulnerable conversation — so we started one! If you need a laugh, a cry, or just want to hear someone else admit their flaws and validate your crazy, you’re in the right place. Be ready to be… Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! * Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated [https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated] and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcasts] * Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated [https://substack.com/@micdandmedicated] * Check out our website: micdandmedicated.com [https://www.micdandmedicated.com/] Surgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal