Francesca Mariano: Behind the Mic
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay sits down with co-host of Chicks in the Office, Francesca Mariano! Francesca starts off by sharing stories from her wedding, opens up about her first year of marriage, and passes along her best tips for couples on their wedding day. She then talks through her mental health journey that began during her time at Georgetown — including what ultimately led her to leave college, start therapy, and redefine what success looked like for her. Francesca reflects on the biggest takeaways from that chapter of her life, how she landed an internship at Barstool, how Chicks in the Office came to life, and what it’s been like maintaining such a strong friendship and business partnership with her co-host Ria Ciuffo over the years. She also shares the self-care tools that keep her grounded, the advice she’d give her college-aged self, and the accomplishment she’s most proud of today.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.2 | Every little thing that happened at that time felt like the end of the world. |
| 0:07.9 | My life is over. |
| 0:09.2 | What am I going to do? |
| 0:10.2 | What was that time like for you? |
| 0:12.1 | My biggest downfall at the time with my mental health was talking to anybody. |
| 0:16.8 | I buried, very buried, never had any issues before. |
| 0:20.1 | I can't admit I have a problem now. |
| 0:21.9 | Really not doing well in school. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm supposed to be good at this. |
| 0:25.3 | That fear of failure. |
| 0:26.4 | And I'm like, I'm failing, but I cannot admit that I'm failing. |
| 0:29.0 | That just, it just puts so much pressure. |
| 0:31.9 | I just put so much pressure on myself. |
| 0:33.8 | I froze. |
| 0:34.8 | Am I like the biggest loser ever? |
| 0:36.6 | That's just like kind of what I dealt with constantly in my mind. I started as an intern at bar school and that just kind of like flipped everything around. Graduate, you get a job, you know, you go through all the steps. When I was in school still and I got the job at barstool, Dave was like, hey, we'll hire you full time. You'd have to be here every day. |
| 0:58.6 | You can't do school and this. Yeah. Oh my God, that person's not going to college. Like, what a disaster? And now I'm like, that was ridiculous. You can do so much with your life. |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah. Without going the traditional route. I'm really proud that I fought to do that at that time and not |
| 1:12.3 | kind of crumble. |
| 1:33.3 | Friend, welcome to the squeeze. Thank you for having me this is so fun to get to do it in reverse i know and i rarely sit in this chair i was going to ask is this like an often occurrence |
| 1:39.9 | for you do you like it do you dislike it i love. And I just, we just don't do it that |
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