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There’s nothing better than a podcast guest who “goes there” — and Jenny Mollen does. This no-holds-barred conversation runs the gamut from Jenny’s new book Dictator Lunches, inspired by her tyrant children, to the many ways she competes with her husband (actor Jason Biggs), to her fear of abduction and needing people to be obsessed with her (Kane and Michele are). Jenny, a bestselling author, is smart, brutally honest and outrageous; she had the Messy Situations crew dying. Need a laugh? Tune in.  VISIT JennyMollen.com FOLLOW:  @jennymollen @dictatorlunches @michprom   @imkane @messysitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special episode, Kane, Michele and producer Mesh rehash the rude, cringe-worthy, strange, obnoxious, hyper-sexual and just plain head-scratching behavior they’ve encountered on dating apps. While we’ve all heard romantic app-assisted success stories, it’s hard to imagine how love connections actually happen judging by the lot of losers, man-children and blatant golddigers crossing our feeds these days. Take a listen to hear the hilarious highlights. And don’t worry, we’re keeping hope alive!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris met Jorge when he was on a 3-month work assignment in San Antonio, Texas —and with zero plans to relocate, he made it clear that this fling would never be a real thing. Famous last words. Four years after returning to San Francisco, Chris did move to Texas to be with Jorge, but the next few chapters of their love story would include illness, betrayal, miscommunication, a devastating family loss and a near-death experience. Tune in to hear how the saga ended! FOLLOW:  @michprom   @imkane @messysitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you’re a 20-something grinding it out in the nightlife and events industry in New York City, exhaustion is part of the deal. But when Sumanah Khan started feeling so unwell and fatigued that she had to go to the hospital, she wasn’t prepared for what doctors discovered: Her heart was enlarged and only working at a 5% capacity, likely the result of viral infection or some other toxic environmental exposure. Sumanah’s harrowing health crisis includes several faulty pacemakers, too many surgeries to count and an addiction to the opioid medications she was liberally given for pain. Sumanah’s healing and addiction recovery was further fueled by her passion for yoga and its ability to put us in touch with our body’s innate power and divine support. Also, don’t miss Kane’s monkeypox update at the top of the episode. Instagram: @messysitch @imkane @michprom @sumanahkhan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re bringing you an episode from another one of Lola Media’s shows —Founder Stories. This installment is special to us because it follows the entrepreneurial journey of Messy Situation’s co-host, Kane Sarhan. Follow along as Kane discusses everything from growing up in rural Michigan to moving to New York City where he became a bartender to ascending the ladder at one of the country’s chicest hotel brands. With formidable grit and industriousness, Kane made important connections, built valuable relationships and ultimately became a cofounder of THE WELL, a health and hospitality start up with a burgeoning global footprint. It wasn’t all smooth sailing… there were a lot of messes to navigate on the road to success. Take a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After years as a free-wheeling stand-up comic, Helen Hong bought a house with her sister, who was about to undergo IVF. To everyone’s shock, her sister got pregnant on the very first try. That’s when Helen became, in her words, a reluctant “baby daddy” who shares the absurd, unglamorous responsibility of taking care of an infant who is basically an adorable asshole. Listen in as Helen describes — in unfiltered detail — how she went from trolling for sex on the road to changing her nephew’s shitty diapers, all while weathering her own health crisis. At the top of the show, Kane shares his messiest situation yet when he reveals that he’s awaiting nerve-wracking test results. This episode will have you shrieking.  FOLLOW:  @michprom   @imkane @messysitch @funnyhelenhong RESOURCES:  helenhong.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are small messes, there are big messes and then there are epic messes. This episode kicks off a two-part series because the journey to redemption for this week’s guest was a decades-long one. Gentle-seeming Monty began scamming people when he was 8 years old and discovered he had a knack for it. Over the years he used his charm, intelligence and reckless bravado to dupe neighbors, strangers, one very wealthy older woman and the military — and that’s just for starters. If this story was on the big screen, it might be titled “The Grifter With a Heart of Gold.”  FOLLOW IG:  @michprom   @imkane @messysitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, co-host Kane shares his own Messy Situation: A close friend is hiding a potentially dangerous health secret from his new boyfriend — the operative word being potentially. And by confiding in Kane (and inviting him to dinner with his BF!), this friend has put Kane smack in the middle of a moral dilemma. Michele and Kane talk through the emotions— pressure, guilt, responsibility and more, while diving into the nuances of this particular health issue. The main question: When it comes to a person’s health status, does privacy trump putting someone else at risk, even if that risk is small?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When Laura Friedman Williams’ 22-year marriage came crashing down, she was terrified of what the future might hold. Little did she know, the next year of her life would be filled with more men, more sex and more satisfaction than she’d experienced in the previous three decades. By embracing one-night stands and no-strings sex, Laura reclaimed her sexual sovereignty and never looked back. It takes a lot to make Kane and Michele’s jaws drop, but Laura managed to do it with her unfiltered and empowering story. Head’s up: You may want to take notes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Messy Situation’s very own producer, Mesh Lakhani, steps up to the mic from behind the scenes to confess the stomach-seizing moments he’s experienced launching his podcast company Lola Media. With complete transparency, Mesh discusses the unexpected pain points of going it alone, while Messy Situations co-host and serial entrepreneur, Kane, jumps in to validate the universal fears all entrepreneurs face. Rahaf Harfoush, a strategist, digital anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author, joins as the Clean-up Crew, dismantling the self-defeating thoughts we’re all programmed to have — and that threaten to stand in the way of success.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entrepreneur and activist Reshma Saujani has spent her career unearthing injustices and the latest really hit close to home: As a busy working mother of two, Reshma saw firsthand how the pandemic disproportionately impacted working moms, driving them out of the workforce and causing them to take on a third shift of duties (aka Zoom school). Acting as both guest and Clean-Up Crew, Reshma, the author of Pay Up, lays out the surprising reasons women get blamed and burden with all things kid-related, why even childless people should GAF, and how we can all be part of the solution she has imagined through her Marshall Plan for Moms.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During the height of the pandemic, entrepreneur and author Tina Wells followed her heart to Brazil to be with her boyfriend-turned fiancé, a pro soccer player. After many months in South America, Tina realized that a life there wasn’t viable for her personal and career happiness, so she made the difficult decision to break off the engagement and move home… but not before her ex got a giant tattoo of her face on his upper thigh, along with the words Always Together, which he still has to this day. Can you say awkward? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Lorraine decided to go into business with one of her closest friends, she never imagined it would impact her personal and professional life so profoundly. But after months of strange and suspicious behavior that had Lorraine thinking she might be “crazy,” she busted her best friend/business partner in an affair with her husband. Then the worst happened. Tune in to hear the way Lorraine caught her former friend and husband and how she and her business have emerged from this unimaginable ordeal. This week’s Clean-up Crew expert is Terri Cole, psychotherapist and author of Boundary Boss.  RESOURCES: Terri Cole Boundary Boss FOLLOW:  @michprom   @imkane @messysitch @terricole Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When women think of menopause, they often picture suffering through some annoying hot flashes and night sweats before it all blows over. But as today’s guest reveals, the hormonal shifts that accompany the end of the menstruating years can wreak havoc on a woman’s mental health. Beth, a confident, successful, happily married 50-year-old, bravely shares how menopause upended her life in a terrifying sneak attack that drastically altered her personality and caused her to experience mood swings that vascilated from rage to depression. Clean-up Crew expert Jordan Crofton, FNP, Director of Patient Care at THE WELL, steps in to dispel some long-held myths about hormone replacement therapy and offer whole-body advice for how to navigate this transition as smoothly as possible.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As cliché as it sounds, from the moment Michael and Nate locked eyes there was an irrepressible attraction. The problem: Nate was Michael’s married boss. Their work relationship required them to spend a lot of time together, including on overnight business trips — a danger zone that pushed the two to the edge. Then, their intimate text exchanges were discovered by Nate’s husband and things got really messy. Clean-up Crew experts Manjit Devgun, a mind coach and palm reader, and Valerie Oula, Director of Vibrational Energy Healing for THE WELL, join the episode to talk about the lessons embedded in love and career crises, and how to move forward with grace.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josie had been a social drinker since high school, but over the years — and especially over COVID — that drinking became a daily habit, sometimes resulting in her consuming an entire bottle of wine by herself after work. Highly functional, by day Josie has held down an executive-level job for decades— what wasn’t going well was the ways in which her drinking was impacting her relationship with her non-drinking, high-school-aged daughter. Josie candidly shares how things devolved and why she chose to go sober. This episode includes advice from Ruby Warrington, author of Sober Curious and the self-study program, The Sober Curious Reset, on how to re-evaluate your relationship with alcohol, curb consumption or quit. RESOURCES: Ruby Warrington Sober Curious  The Sober Curious Reset The Reframe App FOLLOW:  @michprom   @imkane @rubywarrington Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many relationships begin with a fiery physical connection, but few maintain that sexual chemistry when absolutely everything else has soured. In this episode, Kane and Michele welcome Alex on to share how a typical dating situation devolved into an extremely unhealthy cycle of behavior with his ex relentlessly pursuing him with calls, texts, threats, X-rated videos and more, until he gives in to “the best sex ever.” Clean-up Crew expert Shadeen Francis, a licensed therapist who specializes in sex therapy and emotional intelligence, weighs in to help Alex take accountability for his role in this messy situation and to empower him to change course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but nobody has their shit together 100 percent of the time — nobody. You can be excelling in one part of your life while another area is imploding. Those two states of being co-exist all the time, for everyone. Life is messy like that. And it's okay. What's not okay? Acting like you have it under control when you're spiraling. We want to help. Messy Situations empowers people to release feelings of shame by bravely revealing the unfiltered parts of their lives. Each week we'll discuss Messy Situations —big and small— submitted anonymously and shared by in-person guests, and then call in our Clean-Up Crew of wellness experts, mental-health pros, spiritual guides, energy healers, messy-life survivors and more to start mopping things up. We encourage anyone who is willing to confess their own mess — even science says it’s good for the soul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices