Hi, I'm Essie Cup, and I've spent my career interviewing people about politics, presidential elections, and some really tough breaking news.

But now I need a break, and I think you do too.

So on my new podcast, Off the Cup,

I'll still be interviewing people,

usually famous and most likely my friends.

But about life, you know, the stuff that consumes us

when we're not consumed by politics?

So come join me every Wednesday for some conversational self-care.

Listen to Off the Cup on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite

shows.

Hello from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan. This bonus episode is brought to you by the CBS original Elsbeth.

Every Saturday this month we're focusing on different women who've achieved remarkable

success and influence in their respective fields by upholding unique points of view and being exemplary leaders while

remaining true to themselves.

The Good Housewife shepherds her kids to school.

The good housewife does laundry and takes her husband's suit to the dry cleaner.

The good housewife mops the floors, tends to the garden, cooks dinner. The good housewife

housewife keeps dinner warm when her husband is late coming home from work.

She fends off her tiredness and boredom and she picks up a copy of the Feminine Mystique. The Good Housewife reads it and wonders,

maybe there's more to life than this.

Let's talk about the author of the Feminine Mystique, Betty Frudan.

Betty was born Betty Naomi Goldstein on February 4, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois.

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