Status or Style? The Birkin, the Bubble, and the Women Who Know the Difference with Jennifer Galante Han

Status or Style? The Birkin, the Bubble, and the Women Who Know the Difference with Jennifer Galante Han

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2460430/fan_mail/new] Our fashion correspondent Jennifer Galante Hahn is back on the couch — and this time we're going deep on the most loaded object in New York City: the Hermès Birkin. What happens when the ultimate status symbol becomes the default? When a teenager at a crepe shop gets excited about her mom's new Birkin and her friends just look back down at their phones? When someone abandons one at a Tribeca play space?  Jen, who is the founder of La Volta NYC, a luxury consignment business helping wealthy women rehome their unwanted bags to other wealthy women (Nobel Peace Prize forthcoming), walks us through the real difference between status and style; why Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy had both, and most Instagram influencers have neither; and why you should never have a real Birkin if your tits are that fake.  We also get into: Lauren Sanchez Bezos and why Eva misjudged her completely, the Net-a-Porter brown bag trick for hiding deliveries from your husband, money laundering via Venmo, the Prada puffer brigade at school pickup, the child who drew a cartoon house on someone's Hermès Birkin and how her grandmother denied everything, and why every designer sunglass brand licenses to the same company — so stop overpaying.  Word of the Week: Style  Book of the Week: What Remains by Carole Radziwill  Story of the Week: The grandmother who denied her granddaughter drew on the Birkin. She denied it.  Mic'd & Medicated — real talk about the things everyone is thinking but nobody is saying out loud. New episodes every Thursday. SHOWNOTES: Jen Galante Han website: http://www.lavoltanyc.com Instagram: @lavoltnyc  The No Stress Club: @thenostressclub 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 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