Lighten Up with Melanie Dale

Melanie talks with Kendall Ashley, a writer at Nerdist and Geek & Sundry and editor at a publishing house, about bun-stuffing in ballet, her perspective as an editor, San Diego Comic-Con, and all their conflicted feelings about the new Harry Potter book, The Cursed Child. She has so many great recommendations for reading and viewing and Melanie shares about one of the most embarrassing moments of her life.

Melanie talks with Chris Marlow, founder of Help One Now and author of Doing Good Is Simple, about his new book, Ryan Reynold’s parenting tweets, and sending kids on mission trips. There may have been a moment when they were both talking about seals, but he meant Navy and Melanie was picturing the ones with whiskers and flippers. 

Melanie talks with Steen Jones, new author and founder of COLORS scarves, about her debut novel, The Door Keeper, our awesome kids with autism, spending the night in a treehouse, and reasons women were committed to mental institutions in the ninetheenth century that will melt your brain. Also, doing the sniff test on clothes and the pros and cons of nose rings. World-changing stuff.

Melanie talks with Osheta Moore, podcaster and blogger at Shalom in the City, about her practice of shalom, lightening up about dinners, and her hair. Then they deep dive into The Princess Bride about everything from favorite quotes, characters, and scenes to if The Machine could suck one year of your life away, which one would you want it to suck?

Melanie talks with Osheta Moore, podcaster and blogger at Shalom in the City, about her practice of shalom, lightening up about dinners, and her hair. Then they deep dive into The Princess Bride about everything from favorite quotes, characters, and scenes to if The Machine could suck one year of your life away, which one would you want it to suck?

Melanie talks with Jenny Rapson, editor of ForEveryMom.com, about three B’s: bad reviews, bikinis, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She reads her one-star reviews for the first time ever, Jenny shares how she thinks people need to lighten up, and they get all late-nineties nostalgic about the WB.

Melanie talks with The Happy Hour Podcast’s Jamie Ivey about visiting jail, The Walking Dead, books, being a sports mom, and what three things Jamie’s currently loving.

Melanie talks with Logan Wolfram, author of Curious Faith and head of Allume Conference, about how we can bring light to our communities, chopping off her hair and going gluten free, origami, launching her first book, and husbands buying maxipads. 

Melanie talks with Courtney DeFeo, author of In This House We Will Giggle and creator of ABC Scripture Cards about how Courtney is helping her kids lighten up and other extremely important topics, like naked podcasting, arm-on-hip picture posing, carpool karaoke, and these dang mixed messages we hear from the world.