Episode 105: Whitney Wagner: Talking to herself

An archival re-release. Whitney Wagner Hartley spent her twenties and early thirties as a working commercial model in LA, then pivoted to skincare and wellness content on Instagram, and then, after the last election, into unapologetically political commentary that's cost her brand deals but built her a devoted following. We get into her "Marked Safe" initiative (tracking which brands are quietly funding disinformation), growing up the tomboy eldest daughter of two lifelong activists, meeting her husband as a kid in Idaho over a shared ice cream cone, becoming a mom during the pandemic, and raising a socially aware son in a genuinely scary media landscape. Also: the time she almost took her wedding ring off for Joshua Jackson in a hotel lobby.

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Produced by: Mutha Life

Music by: Ronen Landa