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What does getting dressed actually say about you? This week Eva and Caroline sit down with Jessie Freschl — entrepreneur, personal stylist, and founder of three businesses — for a conversation about fashion that keeps going somewhere deeper than anyone expected.

Jessie built her career working with women at every stage of life: new mothers whose bodies had shifted, professionals stepping into bigger roles, women who simply needed someone to be present with them in the most private room in their home. Her nonprofit Repurpose takes luxury excess and redirects it to students entering fashion and creative industries. Her newest company, Turnstile, is a tech platform helping women unlock the potential of the closets they already have.

And then there's the E. Jean Carroll story — given 48 hours notice, asked to dress Carroll for her trial against President Trump, and pulling from her own nonprofit's resale inventory because no designer labels were allowed in that courtroom.

The conversation covers the psychology of styling, mirror meditation, how bodies change from your twenties to your fifties and what clothes can do about it, conscious consumption versus fast fashion, and what it really means to let someone into your closet — which is almost always also letting them into your life.

Also covered: Golda Meir's Milwaukee roots, the movie Chef, sweatpants as surrender, and what Eva ate before recording that everyone immediately noticed.

Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unexpert. New episodes every Thursday.

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SHOWNOTES:

https://www.jessiefreschl.com/

Janelle Monáe Yoga

MY LIFE

https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Golda-Meir/dp/0440156564

CHEF

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chef_2014

AS A JEW

https://www.amazon.com/As-Jew-Reclaiming-Story-Those/dp/0063374978

Psychology of Styling

https://open.substack.com/pub/freschtakes/p/the-psychology-of-styling?r=18lt3h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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No guest this week -- just Eva and Caroline, completely unplanned and fully themselves. Caroline spent Mother's Day schlepping to Boston and clocking the timestamp on a gift purchased exactly 32 minutes before dinner. And her dog ate the one piece that makes the entire vacuum-sealed coat bag functional, and in that moment, she understood her marriage perfectly. Their husbands are the hook. They are everything underneath it.

This episode covers the full emotional range of modern motherhood: the Mother's Day receipt audit, Jeremy's stress-test triumph, the case for Shabbat dinner, past-life regression, parallel play in marriage and why the phone is destroying it.

Word of the week is factotum — Latin for do everything, also another word for mom.

Mic'd & Medicated — Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unexpert. Find us at micdandmedicated.com.

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.

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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.

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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.

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