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Episode 386: Asking Better Questions with Tonya Mosley

Forever35

Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu

Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Health & Fitness, Arts

4.75K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Emmy award-winning journalist and the co-host of Fresh Air Tonya Mosley joins the show to discuss how intrinsic storytelling is to her life, the way leaning into our authentic selves makes for better work, and her pop culture recs of the moment. 



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Dori

0:16.2

Shafrier. And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

0:24.3

And today we have one of Elise's friends on the show.

0:26.5

She is many people's friends.

0:30.4

I am very privileged to count her among my friends.

0:35.3

It is Tanya Mosley, a name you all are probably familiar with.

0:39.2

She is one of the hosts, along with Terry Gross, of fresh air.

0:46.9

Probably heard of it. This is a really great Tanya story, which we don't get into because I didn't learn it until after we had already interviewed her for this very episode, which is she caught wind

0:54.1

that in an upcoming Grey's Anatomy episode,

0:57.0

a writer on Grey's Anatomy wrote like a voiceover of something on the radio and the way they

1:04.5

described the voice was someone in their 30s comma Tanya Mosley like.

1:11.4

And so what? one in their 30s, comma, Tanya Mosley like. No.

1:12.5

Oh my God.

1:14.1

And so one of the writers was like, why don't we just ask Tanya Mosley to do it?

1:20.7

And so they reached out to Tanya and she got to go on the lot, which is the old general

1:27.2

hospital lot and go record a voiceover in a studio

1:32.0

there where they tape Gray's Anatomy as Tanya Mosley. And the best part was in the script,

1:39.1

she's described as 30s, comma, Tanya Mosley like. And as you all will find out, she is not in her 30s,

1:48.5

which we get into in the conversation. I'm sure she'll be thrilled to have us, you know,

1:55.0

mentioning that at the top of the show. Sorry, Tanya. It's so great. Yeah. So that seems like a really fun, fun gig.

2:03.8

I always, I find it like one of my pet peeves the way they depict reporters in television and film, like the way they kind of depict the mob right on the staircase outside the courthouse.

2:14.7

And everybody's like yelling questions.

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