Heavyweight (Podcast Obsession)

 

What’s making me happy this week is the podcast, Heavyweight.

I LOVE podcasts and often hop around from one show to the next when I’m in between audio books.

Heavyweight’s host, Jonathan Goldstein, helps his guests tackle a moment from their pasts that has haunted them or the moment that changed their lives. The topics are heavy for the guests, but Goldstein handles each episode with the perfect blend of humor, insight, compassion, and lightness, too. The title seems to come from the heaviness each guest has been carrying around before bringing the issue to Goldstein. (You can submit your “heavyweight” story here.)

I especially loved episode #17, titled, “Skye.” Skye’s 11-year-old son wants her to confront the girls who dropped her in middle school. They dropped her in a particularly cruel way. The juxtaposition of what Skye wants to teach her son and what one of those former “mean girls” wants to teach her own daughter is a beautiful moment in Goldstein’s writing on the show.

If you read and enjoy my friendship column, I think you will like this podcast for the same reasons I do.

I also like that Heavyweight, produced by Gimlet Media, is recorded in Goldstein’s studio in Minneapolis.

What are you listening to these days?

 

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Nina Badzin hosts the podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014, co-leads the writing groups at ModernWell in Minneapolis, and reviews 30+ books a year on her website.

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HI, I’M NINA BADZIN. I’m a writer fascinated by the dynamics of friendship, and I’ve been answering anonymous advice questions on the topic since 2014. I now also answer them on my podcast, Dear Nina! I’m a creative writing instructor at ModernWell in Minneapolis, a freelance writer and editor, and an avid reader who reviews 50 books a year. Welcome to my site! 

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DEAR NINA: Conversations About Friendship is a podcast and newsletter about the ups and downs of adult friendship. I’m the host, Nina Badzin, a Minneapolis-based writer who accepted a position as a friendship advice columnist in 2014 and never stopped. DEAR NINA, the podcast, started in 2021, and has been referenced in The Wall Street JournalThe Washington PostTime Magazine, The GuardianThe Chicago TribuneThe Minneapolis Star Tribune, and elsewhere

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