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Marriage and Martinis

Permission to Have Hard Conversations, With Jo Piazza

Marriage and Martinis

Adam Silverstein

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Danielle sat down with author, journalist, and podcaster Jo Piazza, to talk all about the importance of hard conversations in relationships (romantic and platonic) and why we need to stop avoiding them. The two of them discuss Jo's new book, We Are Not Like Them, which Jo co-wrote with her friend, Christine Pride. The story follows tan interracial friendship which is tested in many ways when one of their husbands (a police officer), shoots a black teenage boy. Danielle asks Jo all about the writing process and how nerve-wracking it must have been to tackle such an intensely polarizing topic. They also discuss why this was such a topic to explore head on no matter how uncomfortable, and how the timing played a huge role. Danielle and Jo also talk about Jo's podcast, Under The Influence, and how Jo is now delving into the complexities of social media and how it affects women especially, and why these platforms are such a mixture of positives and negatives. According to Jo, we need to talk about all of these truths in society, no matter how much it makes us nervous and uncomfortable. You do not need to have read Jo Piazza's books or listened to her podcasts to enjoy this episode. However, after listening, we're pretty sure you'll want to.


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Hey everybody, welcome to Marriage and Martini's, this is Danielle, thank you so much for

0:53.8

being here today. This is a conversation that I feel like was pretty different for me this

1:00.2

episode, but I really enjoyed every aspect of it. Joe, Piazza and I hit on so many different

1:07.8

areas of life throughout this conversation, and every single one of them felt so relatable.

1:13.4

And I feel like I was sort of ping ponging back and forth between topics because with Joe,

1:19.3

there was so much I wanted to hit on, but I think you'll really find that the conversation

1:25.0

definitely feels very much like just a relatable topic between two women.

1:32.4

And I knew I wanted to have Joe on the podcast for a while. I'm a big fan of the Committed

1:37.7

Pod, which is her podcast, which if you're obsessed with relationships and conversations,

1:43.8

like I am, you will absolutely love, definitely go check it out. And then she came out with her new

1:51.0

book, We Are Not Like Them, with her friend, Christine Pride. And I knew even further that I had

1:58.2

to have her on because this book explores race and friendship, interracial friendship, especially

2:07.8

in a way that is so complex and so complex and so nuanced, that I give them so much credit

2:17.3

for being so brave. It's a very brave topic to delve into, right? We all know that the race

2:23.8

conversation can be really uncomfortable. And especially for two women, a black woman,

2:31.0

and a white woman, to kind of come together and write this story about an interracial friendship,

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