In Her Shoes from the Cut is a weekly conversation between a special guest and Lindsay Peoples, The Cut's Editor-in-Chief, exploring culture, style, sex, politics and more. Intimate, provocative, and probing, the Cut aims to ask questions before listeners even know they have them, always with a generous wit and an expansive idea of what is possible. From New York Magazine and The Vox Media Podcast Network. New episodes every other Wednesday.
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Chani Nicholas and Sonya Passi on Building a Business to Last
CHANI is the second largest astrology app on the market, even though its founders have prioritized growing slowly and sustainably. Today we speak to its founders, Chani N
Dec 13 2024 34 min
Sophia Amoruso is Still Proud of #Girlboss
In 2014, Sophia Amoruso was the founder and CEO of Nasty Gal and her book #Girlboss was a New York Times bestseller – plus responsible for coining the hashtag-turned-cult
Dec 6 2024 30 min
The Four Day Week Works, Just Ask Chelsea Fagan
Chelsea Fagan first started The Financial Diet as a personal blog about her own financial mistakes. Now it’s a cross-platform media company run by a small team of women w
Nov 29 2024 33 min
Aurora James Wants to Redefine Luxury and Build Black Wealth
When Aurora James was launching her luxury shoe line, Brother Vellies, she didn’t know that she’d eventually launch a non-profit and an equity fund dedicated to supportin
Nov 22 2024 35 min
Imara Jones on the Strategy Behind Trump’s Anti-Trans Ads
Imara Jones didn't necessarily set out to be the founder of a news organization: her company, TransLash Media, grew out of a documentary series she made in 2018 about bei
Nov 15 2024 39 min
Claire Mazur & Erica Cerulo Want to Give Romance the Marvel Treatment
Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo love a steamy, swoony romance novel. They also love a good business opportunity (Claire & Erica were behind the beloved yet shuttered retail
Oct 18 2024 35 min
Puja Patel on Leading — and Leaving — Pitchfork
In 2018, Puja Patel was named editor-in-chief of Pitchfork, the legendary music criticism publication. She had a vision for the site: make it more accessible, maybe a lit
Sep 27 2024 41 min
How Celebrity Esthetician Renée Rouleau Got Big by Saying No
Today, the start of a new special series about work. Hosted by friend of The Cut Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former executive editor of Teen Vogue and author of The Myth of Mak
Sep 23 2024 33 min
In Her Shoes: Taraji P. Henson
Actor, producer, and entrepreneur Taraji P. Henson talks to Lindsay about her illustrious career, including her roles in Hustle & Flow, EMPIRE and, most recently, The Col
Mar 27 2024 18 min
In Her Shoes, at SXSW: Dina Asher-Smith, Haley Rosen & Chloe Kim
Female athletes, both college and professional, continue to make gains in pay and TV-airtime equity, shatter records and break into once male-dominated sports.
Today's c
Mar 20 2024 46 min
In Her Shoes: Tracy Reese
In the summer of 2018, host Lindsay Peoples wrote a piece called Everywhere and Nowhere, What it’s Really Like to be Black and Work in Fashion. It shook the table and ush
Mar 6 2024 38 min
In Her Shoes: Natalie Johnson and Black Love Letters
Today's episode illuminates an essential foundation of Black life: namely, Black love.
A new book from Zando Press assembles letters and original illustrations on the to
Feb 28 2024 16 min
In Her Shoes: Jamila Wideman
Jamila Wideman has a fascinating career trajectory that's spanned law, advocacy, and basketball—and mentorship has been a thread stitched through all of it.
Wideman made
Feb 8 2024 21 min
In Her Shoes: Geraldine Chung
Our guest on In Her Shoes this week is Geraldine Chung, the founder of the beloved online fashion brand LCD.
It began as an online destination, showcasing an inspired mi
Nov 22 2023 25 min
In Her Shoes: Cathy Horyn
It's been a little over a month since the Cut wrapped its coverage of Paris Fashion Week. It's time to take the long look back at the full year in fashion. With industry
Nov 15 2023 34 min
In Her Shoes: Mara Hoffman
Mara Hoffman started her eponymous label in 2002 out of her Upper East Side apartment. More than a decade in, she had an epiphany about the fashion industry: without sust
Nov 8 2023 36 min
In Her Shoes: Ayanna Pressley
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has been a trailblazer pretty much her entire political career. In 2010, she was the first Black woman elected to the Boston City council an
Oct 25 2023 37 min
In Her Shoes: Audie Cornish
Audie Cornish is a journalism vet whose voice was our north star on NPR’s, All Things Considered for ten years. After being a public radio girl for most of her career, sh
Oct 11 2023 32 min
In Her Shoes: 50 Years of Hip Hop
This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop since the genre first erupted on the scene in the Bronx. On this episode, we hear from Bevy Smith, Debra Lee and music wri
Oct 4 2023 36 min
Into It: Olivia Rodrigo and the year of the girl
As Olivia Rodrigo releases Guts, we take stock of the singer-songwriter who seemed to come out of nowhere, fully realized as an artist, back in 2021. How did Olivia surpr
Sep 27 2023 41 min
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I started listening to The Cut’s podcast when Avery Trufelman was hired and stuck with it after she left. The narrative story telling and deeper dives into topics covered in the magazine were great. Since the podcast has exclusively become the “In Her Shoes” conversations it has gone downhill. The range of guests is great but the questions are often very surface and don’t make connections to a larger story. Like how does the podcast connect to the magazine now, other than the fact that Lindsay hosts it? Also, the episode intro where Lindsay says these are people we love, admire “or just find interesting” sounds SO condescending to me. I think The Cut needs to invest in rebuilding the podcast staff and finding a new vision for the content or just stop doing the pod.
RuandaC89 · Aug 2022
I agree strongly with another reviewer who said we could use more of the 2019-style episodes where the interviews felt intentional and not like something to just fill up the feed. There was also another reviewer who said this podcast may be too young for them, a millennial, and that it might be more for Gen Z. I am Gen Z and this stiff, generic production style definitely does not appeal to us either. It seems very millennial to me. That “mhmm? mhmm” is so annoying. It sounds like some consultant said you have to add a bunch of royalty-free-sounding music behind the host reading off a script. It could use a more conversational tone.
Silliest g00se · Jan 2023
I always enjoy the episodes but what is going on with this show? All of the hosts the past few years have been great and the stories give the essence of what I like about The Cut but there is no consistency. I am genuinely curious why they keep changing hosts and take breaks from putting out episodes.
Jackie in Cambridge · Apr 2022
I like this podcast, the topics are interesting and short enough to listen in one sitting. But there’s one thing that makes me reach for the pause button as fast as I can—vocal fry. I would love to, in the nicest way possible, just suggest to some of the reporters to have some awareness of the podcast as an audio medium and to try to speak in a normal, unaffected way.
SarahInChicago · Jan 2022
As a faithful “Sound Opinions” listener, I enjoyed hearing a different take on the R. Kelly debacle on this podcast. However, I found it journalistically questionable to not directly credit Jim Derogatis, and instead just refer to “that columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times”.
Kevin Finn · Jun 2022
I’m sure Lindsay is a talented and intelligent person, but being talented does not mean you will be a good podcast host; it is a specific skill set that clearly goes unappreciated by this publication. The production and conception of each episode feel like an afterthought. It’s just an all-around bad look for The Cut. Clearly nobody is permitted to give The Boss any honest feedback.
lovetheblackeyedpeas · Mar 2024
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