Hi, Sarah.

Welcome to Los Angeles.

Welcome to Los Angeles.

We've got another Friday episode.

And this one is very special to us because our guest is also a

Los Angeles friend. Amanda Montel is a writer,

linguist, and author of the critically acclaimed book Word Slut, a feminist guide to taking

back the English language, which has earned praise from readers and critics alike, including

write-ups and publications like The New York Times and Harper's Bazaar.

But before Amanda became a published author, she was a beauty editor.

Just like Kirby and me, that is how we met her when she was a little baby budding beauty editor,

23 years old or whatever.

She was a beauty editor at Bertie and Who What Where?

And since then, she's moved on to do these incredible things. So we are having her on our episode today to talk about the book because it is

now available in paperback. She's also working on another book. And she's giving us a little bit of a

sneak peek on that. She's very busy.

But she's also diving deep into, you know,

the somewhat problematic language that we use in the beauty industry.

She's giving us advice for how we can redefine the way we talk about ourselves and our bodies.

And she is talking to us about why it's actually really progressive of Kirby and me to

say like so freaking much like so much we just like really like wanted Amanda on this podcast

to like tell everybody we're really intellectual so no um I think one thing that Sarah and I really struggled with at the beginning

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