When she was 18 years old, Cassidy Gard became a reader of my blog, Ramshackle Glam. Nearly twenty years later, we're peers -- and both writing about burnout, motherhood, and what happens when the life you built stops making sense. In her twenties, Cassidy was chasing the dream: red carpets, national TV, access, visibility — the version of success we were all taught to want. By 30, everything cracked: grief, isolation, panic attacks. From there, her life took a turn she never could have planned — including a solo road trip to Montana, buying a cabin on six acres, and completely rethinking what success actually means. In this episode, we talk about: The early internet era (NonSociety, blogging, YouTube) and how we learned to “be a brand” before it had a name Why burnout isn’t about overwork — it’s about misalignment The difference between being ambitious and being in survival mode Postpartum rage, resentment, and the invisible labor no one prepares you for Sobriety, relationships, and how your environment shapes your life Why reinvention often feels like failure before it feels like freedom This is not a tidy transformation story. It’s a conversation about what breaks — and what gets rebuilt.

What happens when the influencer economy grows up — and starts raising children inside it?

In this episode of Like Me, Jordan Reid sits down with journalist and author Fortesa Latifi to discuss her new book, Like, Follow, Subscribe — a deeply reported look at family vloggers, mom influencers, and the children whose lives are documented, monetized, and consumed online.

Together, they explore:

1. The shift from early mom blogging to child-centered influencer content
2. The blurry line between sharing and exploitation
3. Why authenticity online may be impossible
4. The role of class, labor, and economics in shaping who can “opt out”
5. The psychological impact of growing up as content
6. And why this conversation is far more complicated than “good vs bad parenting”

This episode also gets personal, as Jordan reflects on her own experience as part of the first generation of lifestyle bloggers — and what it means to look back at that era through a very different lens.

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Claire Zulkey has been writing online for more than two decades, which means she’s lived through blogs, social media, newsletters, and every version of the internet in between. In this episode, we talk about what happens when the part of your life that used to give you endless material — work, parenting, relationships, ambition — starts to feel less like inspiration and more like logistics. We talk about burnout, perimenopause, aging parents, teenagers, creative dry spells, and the weird guilt of not having something new to say when your job is to keep saying things.

It’s a conversation about the stage of life where you don’t necessarily want attention anymore — but you’re still here anyway.

Today’s guest is J. Kenji López-Alt — and this one is especially fun for me, because we went to high school together.

I knew Kenji before he was a New York Times bestselling author, before The Food Lab became a kind of home-cook bible, before his name turned into a citation people use to win arguments on the internet. And the funny thing is: I “rediscovered” him the way you rediscover anyone from your past now — online. Around 2009, I got hooked on these incredibly obsessive, weirdly readable deep dives on Serious Eats about things like In-N-Out burgers and hard-boiling eggs, and I remember thinking…that is a very specific name. That has to be the Kenji I knew.

What I love about this conversation is that it’s not really about food — it’s about what happens when your opinions become canon, when strangers feel entitled not just to your expertise but to your life, and how you draw a line between being open and being available, especially when it comes to topics like, say, divorce. And sobriety.

We talk about the culture of internet rage, why “best” is a dangerous word, and the very specific kind of success that looks less like a yacht and more like…being able to buy the good cheese without thinking twice. I didn’t expect this one to go in the direction it did. I loved it so much.

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Maegan Tintari (@lovemaegan) was a critical part of the very first wave of fashion bloggers — back when posting an outfit felt embarrassing, sponsored content made you a “sellout,” and no one knew this could become a real career. I’ve personally followed her career since the start of my own, and talking to her in person for the first time ever felt like falling back into a conversation that had been going on for years.

In this episode…well, let’s just say I cried, and had realizations that I’ve been searching for for years, in real time. Because we talked about what that era actually felt like — and what happened to us when it seemed to all collapse almost overnight.

We discuss, among other things: The viral DIY that changed Maegan’s trajectory, the spectacular collapse of Glam Media, GOMI and the emotional toll of public scrutiny, and the very particular grief of not being able to recognize yourself when you look in the mirror.

1. Check out Maegan’s website
2. Subscribe to 💗 ...love, Maegan on Substack
3. Read Maegan’s novel-in-progress
4. Read about the collapse of Glam Media
5. Follow @lovemaegan on IG
6. Follow @likemepod on Instagram

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In the early 2000s, Nadine Jolie Courtney — who you might remember from her earliest incarnation as Jolie in the City — was a magazine beauty editor who started an anonymous blog revealing the behind-the-scenes excess, hierarchies, and absurdities of the beauty industry. The blog exploded. She was outed by the New York Post, she was fired from Conde Nast, and she suddenly found herself on morning shows explaining what a “weblog” even was — at a moment when legacy media had no vocabulary for what was was about to hit them.

What followed was a career that looks, in retrospect, like a roadmap of the modern visibility economy: book deals in her twenties, the rise and fall of sponsored blogging, getting dropped by management when follower counts became currency, a stint on Bravo that came with both opportunity and collateral damage, and ultimately a pivot back to what she always was at heart — a writer.

In this conversation, Nadine and host Jordan Reid talk candidly about what it was like to be early without necessarily being strategic. They get into the grief of stepping away from platforms that once defined them, the weird betrayal of being “fired” from an industry they helped build, and what it means to reclaim visibility on your own terms in midlife.

This episode is about what happens when the thing you love becomes the thing you do — and it loves you, and supports you, and makes your wildest dreams possible…until, one day, it doesn’t.

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In 2019, journalist Joanna Schroeder spoke a truth that the public was very much not ready to hear. She tweeted about how the alt-right was radicalizing our boys, and the fallout changed her career and her life forever.

Now the author of the acclaimed Talk To Your Boys, Joanna discusses death threats, how to navigate the fine line between loving women and hating men, the extremely weird moment that made her consider leaving the internet altogether, and this guy called "Clavicular."

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In this episode of Like Me, Jordan Reid sits down with Jamie Stone, a beauty blogger who’s been online since 2006—back when blogging was still a side project, brand deals were paid in lip gloss, and no one quite knew what they were building.

The conversation moves beyond platforms and into the emotional realities of long-term visibility: aging in an industry obsessed with newness, deciding what parts of your life are still yours, and how grief, fertility struggles, and personal loss reshape what it means to show up online. Jamie speaks candidly about writing through grief, sharing her IVF journey with intention and boundaries, and why micro-influence can still carry real impact.

This episode is about growing up alongside the internet—and choosing not to contort yourself to keep up with it.