The World's Largest Wildlife Crossing and The Death / Rebirth of Skinny Jeans with Serena Wolf (author of You Do You)
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: Nature + Pop Culture News with Jessica Murnane
Jessica Murnane
4.9 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in California (world's largest wildlife crossing), the return of skinny jeans, how trends are dictated, and the problem with designing for the internet and not ourselves.
About this week's guest: Since graduating from Harvard and Le Cordon Bleu Paris, Serena Wolf has put her culinary skills to work as a private chef, culinary instructor, recipe developer, author, and blogger at Domesticate-Me.com. She is the author of The Dude Diet, The Dude Diet: Dinnertime, and You Do You. Serena's work has been featured on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, People, Real Simple, SELF, Women's Day, as well as many other well-known publications and media outlets.
Show notes!
This week's sponsor: The Working Garden Project
Serena's IG
You Do You: 100+ Endlessly Adaptable Recipes to Boost Your Culinary Confidence
Things we talked about:
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
The New + Improved Skinny Jeans via Vogue
It Must Be Nice To Be A West Village Girl via The Cut
The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you
Dunbar's number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships
The associations between social comparison on social media and young adults mental health
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| 1:06.4 | Okay. Gardenproject.com. Hello, I'm Jessica Mernan, and this is Inside and Outside and Nature and Pop Culture podcast. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm a horticultural therapy practitioner, and I'm obsessed with both nature and pop culture. |
| 1:17.4 | So I bring some nature news. That's the outside part. And then my guests bring something |
| 1:21.5 | pop culture related. They're obsessed with. That's the inside part. Today, my guest is my pal, |
| 1:26.9 | Serena Wolf. She's a private chef, |
| 1:29.0 | culinary instructor, and the author of so many cookbooks, the do diet, the do diet dinner time, |
| 1:34.6 | and her upcoming cookbook called You Do You. She's been on the Today Show, Good Morning |
| 1:39.0 | America, millions of different magazines. In this episode, we talk about the largest |
| 1:43.9 | animal crossing ever |
| 1:45.7 | being built in California. And then a conversation about the return of skinny jeans, |
| 1:51.2 | which turns into a conversation around personal identity, which turns into a conversation |
| 1:56.7 | about how we design ourselves for the internet and not ourselves. You can find everything we |
| 2:02.6 | discuss in the show notes at basket gardens.com. And if you've been thinking about learning to grow, |
| 2:07.8 | cut flowers, veggies, or herbs, or start a garden for yourself with plants from the nursery, |
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