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The Longest Shortest Time: A Women’s Health Show for Everyone
Hillary Frank | Realm
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Unconditional: A Tale of Two Mothers
11/11/2026 | 46 mins.Today we bring you a special episode from one of our favorite shows: STORIES by Lea Thau. This is a story of two mothers and what each did out of love, fear, and desperation, as told by their daughter, Deborah Jiang-Stein. At 19, Deborah was pulled over with a trunk load of dope, a .38 revolver, and a 10” switch blade, yet she avoided going to a women’s prison like the one in which she’d been born.
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Get Wedlocked!
Hillary has a new audiobook — a thriller about women’s health. Grab a copy wherever you get audiobooks!
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More about STORIES by Lea Thau
Lea Thau is a Peabody Award winning producer who created the beloved storytelling podcasts, Strangers and The Moth, and she’s back with a new podcast called STORIES by Lea Thau. Over the summer, she released some old fan favorites from Strangers with updates, and she just launch a new storytelling series that takes place in New York in the ‘90s. Her paying subscribers on Patreon and Substack loved it when she released it there, and it is now available FOR FREE wherever you get your podcasts. You can also follow STORIES by Lea Thau on Facebook and Instagram.
Deborah Jiang-Stein is author of the memoir Prison Baby, and the story collection Lucky Tomorrow, and she is founder & CEO of the unPrison Project, and to date, her work has reached more than 10% of female prisoners in the U.S., which the fastest growing prison population in the country, outpacing men 2-1.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesAdulting with Down Syndrome
04/11/2026 | 40 mins.Last time we talked to Sophie Stern, she was 13 and dying to become an adult. Now, she’s 23, and a freshman in college. She returns to the show with her mom, journalist and writer Amy Silverman, to talk about living away from home as a person with a disability.
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Get Wedlocked!
Hillary has a new audiobook — a thriller about women’s health. Grab a copy wherever you get audiobooks!
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Recommendations from the archive
• Hear Sophie and her mom talk about puberty 10 years ago! Coming of Age with Down Syndrome
We also have stories about parenting with a disability. Check out these two:
• Alex and the Oracular Lamb
• Blind Love
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Episode resources
• Learn more about Amy on her website, and read her book about Sophie: My Heart Can’t Even Believe It
• Check out this guide for hosting storytelling events with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, inspired by Sophie
• Amy’s story for Here & Now: A Mom Laments Limited Employment Prospects for Daughter with Down Syndrome
• Amy’s reporting for ProPublica about Arizona’s policies toward people with disabilities: State of Denial
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• Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe!
• Follow us on Instagram
• Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media
• Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!)
• Website: longestshortesttime.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesLST FAVES: Coming of Age with Down Syndrome
28/10/2026 | 39 mins.The day Sophie got her period, there were phone calls and high-fives all around. Sophie was psyched. But her mom, author Amy Silverman, felt torn. What does it mean to have a daughter with a grown-up body, and a mind that doesn't quite match?
⭐️ This episode originally ran on March 15, 2017 and is a favorite from the archives. We hope you enjoy, and we’ll be back next week with an update from Sophie and her mom!
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Get Wedlocked!
Hillary has a new audiobook — a thriller about women’s health. Grab a copy anywhere you get audiobooks!
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• Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe!
• Follow us on Instagram
• Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media
• Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!)
• Website: longestshortesttime.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesLet's Talk About WEDLOCKED, My New Feminist Thriller!
21/10/2026 | 40 mins.It’s here! My original audiobook WEDLOCKED is out now. LST production assistant Virginia Marshall turns the tables and puts me in the hot seat to talk about my new feminist thriller, steeped in the world of women’s health. (Plus, you’ll hear clips from the book!)
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Get Wedlocked!
• Purchase here, and listen wherever you find audiobooks! That includes Apple Books, Audible, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Libro.fm, and Spotify.
• Wanna chat with me about Wedlocked? Join LST+ and we’ll send you an exclusive link to a virtual book club on Tuesday, November 17 at 7pm ET.
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Recommendations from the archive
• The wild story of how birth control complications made a woman lose her pilot’s license: Xyla vs. the FAA
• Sex educator Danielle Bezalel spills all: Birth Control Troubles and Vibrator Triumphs
• A mystery about birth parents and secret experiments: Katz BACK in the Cradle
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• Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe!
• Follow us on Instagram
• Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media
• Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!)
• Website: longestshortesttime.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe Art of Family Shenanigans with Zak Rosen
14/10/2026 | 29 mins.Today we bring you a special episode of Weirdly Helpful from one of our favorite podcasters, Zak Rosen. In this conversation, Zak talks to Rebecca Garza-Bortman about her love of “shenanigans,” or humor-driven chaos. Rebecca talks about how she works that chaos into parenting and listeners share their own family shenanigans. (Plus: Hillary shares one of her own shenanigans with Zak at the top of the show.)
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More Shenanigans!
• Check out Hillary’s book Weird Parenting Wins, which is chock full of shenanigans from you, our listeners!
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• Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe!
• Follow us on Instagram
• Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media
• Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!)
• Website: longestshortesttime.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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About The Longest Shortest Time: A Women’s Health Show for Everyone
Stories of pregnancy, birth, fertility, intimacy after kids, and the surprises of perimenopause. The Longest Shortest Time is your companion for all stages of reproductive and women's health. Host and journalist Hillary Frank brings depth and humor to conversations about the physical and emotional realities of parenting, and of living in a body that keeps changing—but you don’t have to be a parent (or woman) to listen!
The Longest Shortest Time is back after a 5-year hiatus! New episodes drop every other Wednesday. Join LST+ for community, ad-free listening, and access to You Know What, our premium show featuring college students speaking candidly about sex, dating, and relationships.
If you’re new to the show or want to get reacquainted, check out some of our classic episodes:
• #27 Rewriting Your Birth Story
• #88 W. Kamau Bell Asks His Mom About Sex
• The Accidental Gay Parents Series (#60, #62, #80, #81, #125, #211)
• #79 Terry Gross on Not Having Kids
• It's a Real Mother: A Series About Workplace Discrimination (#141, #142, #143, #145)
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