Mic'd and Medicated: Unfiltered, Unafraid, and UnExpert

Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal
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You have thought it. We said it. Out loud. On a microphone. For everyone. Mic'd and Medicated is Caroline and Eva — two married moms in New York City who refuse to pretend everything is fine. Every week they sit on the couch and get into the conversations most women are having in their heads but nowhere else. Marriage. Motherhood. Ambition. Aging. Identity. Politics. Sex. Money. The things you think about at 2AM that you would never say at a dinner party. They overshare on purpose. Because every time they say the thing nobody is supposed to say, someone writes in and says — I thought I was the only one. You are not the only one. That is the whole point. Guests range from reproductive endocrinologists to celebrity jewelers to politicians to parenting experts who are also, like everyone else, completely figuring it out as they go. Funny. Honest. Occasionally chaotic. Always real. This is not a podcast for women who have it together. This is a podcast for women who are done pretending they do. New episodes every Thursday. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unexpert.

  1. 3d ago

    Camp Pickup, Mic'd-Up Husbands, and Why Kids Need to Struggle a Little

    Send us Fan Mail Caroline and Eva are both back from visiting-day weekend in Portland, Maine, where they mic'd up their husbands at dinner, compared hotels, and picked their kids up from sleepaway camp.   From there it turns into the real debate: has camp gone soft? They dig into how kid communication has changed (texted photos vs. one letter a summer), the "modern camps" trend of sensory rooms and neurodiversity programming (Caroline swears it's real, Eva's not convinced), a contraband cup-of-noodle-soup story that comes back to haunt them, and whether "resilience" was ever actually the point. Plus: book of the week — Funny Story by Emily Henry, a light beach read with more heart than expected — a Demon Copperhead check-in, a Claude cameo settling a bar bet about what "t**s up" actually means, and a dad joke that needed its own disclaimer. #campmom #sleepawaycamp #podcast #momsofinstagram Chapters: 0:00 – Cold open: testing mics, first-ever virtual episode0:53 – Back from Portland, Maine2:43 – Take two: officially recording2:57 – Portland, Maine vs. Portland, Oregon3:37 – A retold comedy bit that goes somewhere wild5:49 – They actually drove, not flew7:23 – Hotel comparison: Caroline's "5-star" vs. Eva's Marriott9:21 – The hard-boiled-egg tangent10:24 – Mic'ing up the husbands at dinner11:00 – The peacock vs. caged chameleon bit12:41 – How pickup actually went13:25 – Eva's daughter's first camp pickup meltdown, revisited14:55 – "Divorce dad Sunday" and the two-day visiting policy16:05 – Activities they're both opting out of17:53 – Tangent: what does "t**s up" actually mean?19:43 – Was this pickup as emotional? Session-length debate21:11 – Why send your kid to camp if you already have the Hamptons?21:32 – Has camp shifted from "just fun" to skill-building?22:20 – How technology changed how much parents hear from camp23:36 – Snack nostalgia and the contraband cup-of-noodle story25:04 – The burn story (aka karma's a bitch)27:43 – The dad who napped through all of visiting day28:51 – The "modern camps" debate32:17 – Book of the week: Funny Story by Emily Henry36:16 – Closing joke + sign-offWe'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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2026 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal 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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

  2. Jul 23

    Stuck in Junction: Caroline's Move to Miami and Eva's Midlife Standstill

    Send us Fan Mail Caroline is halfway between two states with 32 unopened boxes and no idea what's in most of them. Eva hasn't moved an inch — and that's exactly the problem. It started with a plane movie: Eternity, starring Elizabeth Olsen, about a waystation between life and the afterlife called Junction, where you get exactly one shot to pick where you'll spend forever. Caroline couldn't stop thinking about it, and it becomes the lens for the whole episode — because it turns out they're both stuck in their own version of Junction. Caroline's is physical: mid-move to Miami, emotionally committed but living out of boxes, watching her old couch get sent to storage while her daughter has a full meltdown about it. Eva's is quieter and, she admits, harder to explain — a stable life, a happy family, nothing forcing her hand, and still this nagging sense that she stepped off the achievement treadmill and doesn't know which direction to walk in. They get into the psychology of it (there's an actual term for this — the "neutral zone," the disorienting space between an ending and a new beginning), why people get weirdly drawn to you the moment you announce a big change, the guilt of moving kids away from a hometown, and why regret is a waste of time even when you can't stop doing it anyway. Plus: the book of the week (Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver), a Chucky-adjacent couch standoff with a 13-year-old, and this week's meme. #junction #midlife #podcast #momsofinstagram Chapters:  0:00 – Cold open: "big episode" bit + the perfectionist confession1:40 – The "save the marriage" trip that became a family trip2:15 – The plane movie: Eternity, and what "Junction" actually means5:30 – Eva's physical junction: the move to Miami, 32 boxes, nothing settled8:55 – Why people get so interested in you the moment you're mid-change9:45 – The movie's real twist: two husbands, one impossible choice11:15 – "You can do it too" — manifesting the move and the election-exodus talk13:22 – New York permanence vs. the "everyone eventually leaves" places15:43 – Moving kids: age, timing, and why there's no clean answer18:00 – Cop-out or reality? Debating how hard a big move actually is20:21 – The midlife version of junction: gratitude vs. "what's still left"22:33 – The snail-without-a-shell metaphor24:57 – Off the treadmill: achievement mode vs. actually deciding for yourself27:20 – What New York gives you (and what it's stopped giving you)29:30 – Try it before you buy it: renting a life before committing to it32:17 – Book of the week: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver34:32 – Live interruption: the Great Couch Rebellion begins37:53 – What the couch meltdown is actually teaching their daughter40:14 – Kids have a delayed reaction to change — here's what to watch for42:24 – Meme of the week + sign-off 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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

  3. Jul 16

    Homesick Camp Letters, Golf Kick, and Our Nantucket Envy

    Send us Fan Mail Caroline asks Claude (yes, the AI) to settle a mid-marriage word fight — and it doesn't go how you'd think. Eva and Caroline record their first-ever remote episode and immediately start bickering about lighting. From there: the great camp-letter drought, a 5-minute phone call that ends in "Mom, the counselor's looking at me," Eva's golf debut and her sudden mastery of terms like "compression," and a full spiral of envy over the carefree, helmet-free energy of Nantucket. A messy, funny check-in on camp season and everything it stirs up. #campmom #podcast #momsofinstagram Chapters: 0:00 – Welcome + first remote recording nerves0:48 – Camp episode recap & the great photo shortage2:14 – Getting camera-ready (dodging photos, "profesh" setups)3:38 – The Sandy airport story5:53 – Landing in Maine vs. JFK8:07 – Camp letters: "a little fun" vs. "a good time"10:02 – Mail then vs. now (the empty envelope)11:27 – The 5-minute phone call: "Mom, wrap it up"14:06 – Killing plants (RIP to Helen's garden)16:20 – Dog food instructions and other adult failures18:54 – "Two things can be true": missing home and enjoying camp21:04 – Tech glitch + the Claude cameo22:55 – Asking Claude to fact-check a word choice mid-fight25:03 – The Nantucket envy monologue28:43 – Letting kids do hard things (and not offering an out)32:37 – Sign-off 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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

  4. Jul 9

    Zibby Owens on Rebuilding Her Life After Divorce

    Send us Fan Mail Zibby Owens — author, podcaster, and founder of a media and publishing company — joins Eva and Caroline to talk divorce, reinventing your identity after years as a stay-at-home mom, and starting over at 40 through dating and remarriage. The conversation kicks off, though, with a parenting disaster: a school "puberty prep" video with hyperlinked FAQs that gave her fourth grader a full definition list he was never supposed to see. From there it goes everywhere — the slow accumulation of small decisions that ends a marriage, what it takes to rebuild a life afterward, and why Zibby's open about using weight-loss medication to quiet the "food noise" she'd carried since childhood. She also gives the first-ever preview of her upcoming memoir, Between Chapters, out September 27th. Word of the week: reinvention. Book of the week: Between Chapters by Zibby Owens. 00:00 The school video that went horribly wrong  —:— Divorce and the small decisions that add up  —:— Rebuilding an identity after "just" a stay-at-home mom  —:— Dating and remarrying at 40  —:— Weight-loss medication and quieting food noise  —:— Between Chapters — first preview Shownotes: Website: zibbyowens.com (home of her Substack "Zibby's Highlights," covering books, life, and stories) Podcast: Totally Booked with Zibby (formerly Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books) includes daily interviews centered around books, authors, and story creators in 30 minutes or less Book pre-order: Between Chapters, out September 27th — you can pre-order here -- https://zibbymedia.com/products/between-chaptersInstagram: @zibbyowens Bookstore: Zibby's Bookshop — located at 1113 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, with an online shop as well Zibby Substack: @zibbyowens On Being Jewish Now: https://onbeingjewishnow.substack.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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

  5. Jul 2

    I Sent My Kid to Screen-Free Camp (She Has No Idea About the Facial Recognition)

    Send us Fan Mail It's supposed to be refreshing. Instead, we're hitting refresh. Eva and Caroline are recording from the summer studio for the first time this season, and all anyone can talk about is camp — specifically the very particular madness of being a parent who just sent a child to sleepaway camp for the first time. Caroline is forty-eight hours in and kidsick. Eva has already mistaken another child for her daughter on the Campanion app. And somehow none of this is surprising. They get into how camps have had to send formal written warnings to parents — please do not diagnose medical conditions from photos, please do not bribe your child to pose for the photographer, do not expect photos for the first three days — because the average camp parent has become so unhinged that the director's job is now half therapy, half crisis management, half explaining to grown adults that their kid standing alone in a photo does not mean they have no friends. They talk about the overpacking arms race, the medication spreadsheets, the Zoom therapists, the tutors, the two full-time photographers, and the charter planes — and whether any of it is actually for the kid or just anxiety management with a shopping component. But underneath all the chaos is something real: we were raised in a world of benign neglect, and we survived. We had first kisses at camp, we changed our names for the summer, we had brothers who didn't shower for six days and developed a rash you'd only see in a third-world country, and nobody called anybody's parents. And we turned out (mostly) fine. The question is whether we're raising a generation that will. Eva changed her name to Stephanie for an entire summer and was Lower Camper Captain. Caroline's mother wrote a letter promising caviar to celebrate her grandson’s return. And somewhere in Maine, a boy in a linen suit is having the time of his life while his mother scans 500 photos looking for his face. Book of the week: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer — six kids at an arts camp in 1974 who decide they're destined for greatness, and the decades that follow. Everything you love and grieve about the friendships you make at camp. 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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

  6. Jun 25

    Why Every Generation Thinks the Next One Is Ruined

    Send us Fan Mail The episode that started with a drug addict emptying his pockets into a tip jar at seven in the morning and ended with an explosive diarrhea metaphor — and everything in between was somehow coherent.  Eva and Caroline walk through every generation from the Greatest to Gen Alpha, and what strikes them most isn't just how each generation disappointed the one before it, but how the pendulum keeps swinging. The Greatest Generation stormed Normandy. Gen Z stormed college campuses in kaffiyehs. Caroline has been to Normandy, and it's humbling. Also, why Gen X latchkey kids grew up to raise the most anxious generation in history, how the millennial burnout became a cautionary tale Caroline watched in real time, what happens when a moral vacuum gets filled with woke ideology instead of religion, and why the only plastic surgery philosophy that matters is the Barbra Streisand exception. They also ask Claude to define what a woman is. It goes about as well as you'd expect.  The Tyler Fish bisexual bit. The Barbie-Ken gender crisis. The "never has a generation documented so much and achieved so little" meme. And a book recommendation from Deborah Spar that every woman in her twenties should read. Disclaimer: these are two unexpert observationists who are not anthropologists, not historians, and definitely not your doctor. They are, however, right about most of this. 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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

  7. Jun 18

    Caroline Is Leaving New York and We Are Not Okay

    Send us Fan Mail The movers came for the art first. Caroline's apartment walls are bare, the iconic portrait is boxed up and Miami-bound, and the move that's been theoretical for months just got very, very real. Eva walks in and both of them feel it — this is the end of something. What follows is one of their most honest conversations yet: about June as the cruelest month, about grieving things that aren't technically gone, about whether you can ever actually be present for the moments that matter most. Eva's middle son just graduated. Caroline is packing up a New York life. They're both in it. This episode goes deep on the pace of modern life, the one-third of Americans on SSRIs statistic, why Shabbat might be onto something, what New York City does and doesn't give you anymore, and Ferris Bueller's surprisingly correct take on time. Plus Mitch Hedberg, the rubber band marriage theory, and a kindergarten report card that explains everything about Caroline. Funny, sad, and very M&M. Don't miss this one. 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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

  8. Jun 11

    She Dressed E.She Dressed E. Jean Carroll for the Trump Trial: Fashion, Confidence & the Psychology of Your Closet

    Send us Fan Mail 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. @micdandmedicated | micdandmedicated.com 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 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. Please follow, like, review, and share the podcast with your family and friends! Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/micdandmedicated and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MicdMedicated/podcastsSubscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@micdandmedicatedCheck out our website: micdandmedicated.comSurgeon General Warning Disclaimer: We are self-prescribed unexperts, so if you have any real questions or need real advice, please call your nearest doctor. © 2025 Eva Heyman & Caroline Leventhal

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You have thought it. We said it. Out loud. On a microphone. For everyone. Mic'd and Medicated is Caroline and Eva — two married moms in New York City who refuse to pretend everything is fine. Every week they sit on the couch and get into the conversations most women are having in their heads but nowhere else. Marriage. Motherhood. Ambition. Aging. Identity. Politics. Sex. Money. The things you think about at 2AM that you would never say at a dinner party. They overshare on purpose. Because every time they say the thing nobody is supposed to say, someone writes in and says — I thought I was the only one. You are not the only one. That is the whole point. Guests range from reproductive endocrinologists to celebrity jewelers to politicians to parenting experts who are also, like everyone else, completely figuring it out as they go. Funny. Honest. Occasionally chaotic. Always real. This is not a podcast for women who have it together. This is a podcast for women who are done pretending they do. New episodes every Thursday. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Unexpert.

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