Welcome to Dear Prudence. I'm your prudence, Janay Desmond Harris. Today, I'll be answering

questions about coping with aging, dealing with a spouses out of control frenemy, and explaining

a little medicinal drug use to in-laws. And to help me answer these questions, I'll

be joined by Tanya Mosley. Tanya is a contributing host to fresh air with Terry Gross.

One of the world's most listened to podcasts and radio programs. She's also the creator

and host of the 2022 Webby Award-winning podcast Truth Be Told. Previously, Tanya was the

co-host of NPR's Midday program here and now. She's also served as a television anchor,

producer, and correspondent. She's won several awards for her groundbreaking journalism,

including a 2016 Emmy for her PBS series Beyond Ferguson, and an NABJ and RT-DNA award

for Best Series Black and Seattle. So on recent episodes, I've shared a few tweets from

my guests to help you get to know them, but since Tanya is too professional to really

say much on Twitter, and you would be too if you had all her accomplishments, and she's

actually my friend, I'm just going to share three things that I personally know about

her. One, she sees the good in everybody. She truly believes everyone has something to offer.

It's actually kind of infuriating because it's useless when it comes to mean-spirited

gossip between friends, but it's sincere. It's obviously a good thing. If she doesn't like you,

you need to reevaluate your life. Number two, she has a 10-year-old son who is a stand-up

comedian, and he absolutely destroys everyone in the family with his jokes on stage.

And number three, she's heavily into the woo-woo side of things. I think one of our early

hangouts was making vision boards about our hopes for the new year. She once gave me the gift

of an hour-long psychic reading, and she recently went to Jamaica to use magic mushrooms to have

a healing experience. That adventure is discussed in detail in the new season that her podcast

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