About this episode

Jo Piazza joins Ophira Eisenberg to discuss the challenges of parenting and the bizarre world of mom influencers while promoting her novel.

Best -selling author and podcaster Jo Piazza joins Ophira Eisenberg for a sharp, funny conversation about raising three kids while writing bestselling thrillers, hosting a hit podcast, and investigating the increasingly bizarre world of mom influencers. Piazza explains how her novel Everyone Is Lying to You grew out of years spent reporting on influencer culture, from attending lavish creator conferences to briefly attempting life as a momfluencer herself—an experiment that lasted about two weeks before her children and husband revolted against endless outfit changes and staged content shoots. The conversation moves between the realities of postpartum life that never make it into perfectly filtered Instagram feeds, the exhaustion that makes influencer fantasies so appealing to overwhelmed parents, and the strange cultural space between burnout-era “girlboss” expectations and the polished trad-wife aesthetic. Along the way, Piazza talks about having a third child after a very memorable Elton John concert, feeding her youngest “like the family dog” after abandoning precious organic baby food routines, blocking Cocomelon and Gabby’s Dollhouse with the same determination other…

People in this episode

Host: Ophira Eisenberg

Guest: Jo Piazza

Topics covered

• parenting
• influencer culture
• postpartum life
• momfluencers
• work-life balance
• media and gender
• family dynamics

Keywords

• parenting
• influencer
• momfluencer
• postpartum
• thrillers
• family
• media
• gender
• work-life balance

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Cocomelon, Gabby’s Dollhouse

Books & works: Everyone Is Lying to You

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