This week, Kate is joined by style journalist Elizabeth Holmes (author of the popular instagram series So Many Thoughts & recent NYT Bestselling book, HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style). They discuss all things royal style & protocol, diplomatic dressing, their favorite Meghan & Kate moments, the Oprah interview, the [lack of] follow up by the family, Meghan's media coverage, Lilibet, royal stylists, and more! At the beginning for a brief pop culture roundup, Kate shares her thoug...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 171
This week, Kate is joined by Betches co-founder and chief creative officer Sami Sage to discuss the latest about #FreeBritney, among other topics. From 4th of July culture, to patriotism, to Taylor Swift, this episode has a little bit of everything. Kate starts off the episode by talking through some of the recent developments since the interview to get everyone up to speed as well. Enjoy! Tickets to Track 5 NYC: https://dice.fm/event/lv5vp-kate-kennedy-track-five-a-be-there-in-five-live-event-5...
Jul 09, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 171
A personal update from Kate, your resident Childless Millennial. TW: infertility, miscarriage. — Support our sponsors: Allform is offering 20% off all orders for our listeners at Allform.com/bethereinfive Go to Framebridge.com and use promo code BETHEREINFIVE to save an additional 15% off your first order Get 10% off your first order with my promo code BETHEREINFIVE at OSEAmalibu.com...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 170
In this second installment, Kate reads hilarious, heartbreaking, and sometimes traumatizing stories from listeners' most memorable summers at Church camps, suburban pools, and more. Enjoy! patreon.com/bethereinfive Follow Kate on instagram at instagram.com/bethereinfive SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/bethereinfive You can try them worry-free for 30 nights, with free shipping and returns. And my listeners get an exclusive 15% off...
Jun 25, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 169
This week, Kate shares her own musings along with listener stories about all things nostalgic summertime. Primarily focused on suburban pool culture and summer camp tales, these stories made her laugh, cry, gasp, and long for simpler times when her only agenda was to eat snack bar chicken tenders, scope for megahotties, and wait for a hot summer's day to melt into a thunderstormy afternoon complete with sandwiches, dry clothes, and the Disney channel. Fair warning, a lot of the camp stories are ...
Jun 18, 2021•2 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 169
This week, Kate’s sister is live for the first time from her new place in sunny California and they have a fun, lighthearted convo about nostalgia and pop culture that covers the following topics: 90s bedroom decor, Spencer Gifts couture The coolest cars as a teenager Storm chasing career ambitions inspired by tornado movies Influencers & tumbler/adult sippy cups sweeping the nation A questionable segment going through the notes app in our phones Kelly’s drafts of Bumble replies The phenomen...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 168
In part 2 of this quarter's series where Kate answers listener voicemails, she covers a lot of ground with a wide range of topical depth. This episode covers: -A discussion of the 'Troubled Teen' industry and the under the radar abuse of boot camps/wilderness therapy camps/conversion therapy programs that con parents into thinking that legitimate therapeutic treatment is being provided to their children.-An overview of what happened with Chrissy Teigen & Courtney Stoddard and a diatribe abou...
Jun 05, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 167
A two part episode! This week, Kate had so many interesting voicemails, she broke it up into two parts. In part 1, she answers some of the lighter fare, such as: How would she define a Hot Girl Summer? and other musings about the pursuit of hotness in our youth, feat. yet another country music tangent. How does she feel about Swifties calling Olivia Rodrigo a snake because she sent a PR package to Kim K? Where the hell do you make real friends as an adult? How does she feel about shopping dates?...
May 29, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 166
This week, Kate discusses a topic that combines her interests in both weddings and purity culture by reading listener-submitted stories about church-mandated pre-marital counseling, something she had a particularly interesting experience doing. This counseling is often done not by clergy members but by random married couples at the church. Without curriculum regulation, married couples teach engaged couples how to be married based on their personal anecdotal best practices, and the results range...
May 22, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 165
This week, Kate reviews Taylor Swift's Grammy-winning, iconic sophomore album, Fearless. She examines it both from the lens of nostalgia for when it first came out and also details her reaction to the new version released April 9th. From her favorite songs, to opinions on improved re-records, to favorite vault songs, to [shocking] emotional reflections on when she first heard these songs, Kate dives into the album like it's brand new. Beyond that, she hopes to tie it back to the poetry that lies...
May 13, 2021•2 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 164
Today's episode is a really fun bonus interview featuring Laura Tremaine (host of 10 Things To Tell You, author of "Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First.") Laura recently wrote a 'guidebook to life-giving conversations for deeper relationships' that is designed to help you identify unique details and anecdotes from your own life and cultivate genuine connections with others. These connections, of course, can only be made if you do one thing first: share your stuff. Kate and Laura talk about a variety...
May 09, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 164
This week, Kate takes on a new term, "cheugy," a made-up word from Tiktok that, via aggressive media coverage, has been thrust into the social lexicon. This episode examines the struggle between being lighthearted/letting comedy exist and the diversity that lies within financial security of millennials that is often forgotten when slinging semi-classist tropes. She dives into the definition of cheugy, attempting to validate the concept of being 'off-trend' by examining which items named were act...
May 07, 2021•2 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 163
In this episode, Kate does an unforeseen spinoff mini dive into something that wasn't on her radar until recently: highly instagrammable shake/smoothie/tea/coffee shops that are secretly tied to an MLM. With data showing that these 'nutrition shops' lose thousands annually, they have widely become known to be a covert recruiting tactic for Herbalife that are posing as mom & pop shops in small towns and cities alike. With minimalistic branding, instagram-friendly backdrops, little to no ingre...
May 01, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 162
This week, Kate concludes the three-part hybrid Rachel Hollis/self-help Venn diagram series by reading listener e-mails that detail interactions with RH's material and reveal a wide variety of personal implications found within her (and other self-help celebrities') messaging. Enjoy! Cut footage of first two episodes on patreon.com/bethereinfive As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/bethereinfive For a limited time, ButcherBox is offering new members 3 lbs...
Apr 24, 2021•2 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 161
In this (now) trilogy exploring the world of self-help 'mogul' Rachel Hollis, Kate reads a handful of listener emails and walks through the 4-part Venn diagram she's been building since October, mapping the similarities between cults, conservative religions, multi-level marketing schemes, and large-scale self-help gurus that hold conferences like Rachel Hollis and her former 'hero,' Tony Robbins (remember, "I own you?"). In the first hour, Kate reads emails while analyzing Rachel's RISE conferen...
Apr 17, 2021•2 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 160
A Rachel Hollis deep dive. In this episode, Kate dives into the recent controversy surrounding the self-help empire of Rachel Hollis, who is a wildly successful motivational speaker, podcast host, CEO of Rise (and formerly HollisCo), among other things, but is probably most well-known for being the author of NYT best sellers "Girl, Wash Your Face" and "Girl, Stop Apologizing." Kate starts with analysis of the troubling dialogue and caption of her now-deleted video and also now-deleted first apol...
Apr 11, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 159
This week, Kate answers listener voicemails ranging from a variety of light and heavy topics, such as:KaylorPurity culture affecting marriageFavorite celebrity rumor/folkloreDeux MoiExperiences with Tarot card readersFriendship fallouts on InstagramKate's current obsession: QuakerTokBest roller rink tunesWhat to do if a friend joins an MLM And much more! When you're finished, go to patreon.com/bethereinfive where she answers more questions! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Allform is offering 20% off all o...
Apr 02, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 158
This week, Kate snorkels through a variety of topics, with the core theme being overlooked and/or forgotten internet drama. She discusses Cinnamon Toast Crunch gate, sexism in Consumer Packaged Goods, talks about the role of cancel culture in the Bible, meanders through music with her favorite SAT words, talks about how you know influencers have 'made it,' then dives into one of her favorite internet communities: Candle Culture. From funny/forgotten candle rant youtubers, to her perceptions of B...
Mar 26, 2021•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 157
This week, Kate has the pleasure of being joined by one of her favorite microinfluencers and women's health advocates, Ailsa Emmel from @_happygocurly_. Ailsa and Kate talk about so many topics, from the ups and downs of instagram, to how she got started, to women's health Wednesday, cancel culture, Kate's fears about childbirth, sex ed, and more. Since Ailsa is a Certified Nurse Midwife, a large majority of this conversation is dedicated to discussing women's health, being open about our bodies...
Mar 19, 2021•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 157
Kate recaps Meghan Markle & Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah from last Sunday. The intro is new, with recent updates from Buckingham Palace and Kate discussing the British press' reaction, and the remainder of the episode is Kate's raw take from Sunday night right after it aired. If you already listened on Patreon, the first 30 mins or so are new! You can also listen to last night’s live show Bar Cart Sports on demand through the end of the weekend - onlocationlive.com/betherein...
Mar 12, 2021•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 156
This week, Kate salutes one of the most iconic magazine series of our time: Seventeen's Trauma-rama. First, she discusses Meghan & Harry's upcoming interview, then does a brief Are You Afraid of the Dark detour, followed by reading from old Seventeen & YM magazines she bought off of eBay from their juiciest embarrassing stories sections. Following that, she reads crowd-sourced 'things that are embarrassing for no reason' anecdotes from listeners and discusses the discomfort of, well, jus...
Mar 05, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 155
This week, Kate does a continuation of last week's episode (Pussycat Dull) since more listeners submitted their tales of cringeworthy attempts to make their crush jealous. They somehow keep getting better. In between stories many of Kate's own anecdotes and insights are shared, from her being cast as a Valley Girl to a broader discussion of sexism in how women are judged for the way they speak. There's also discussions of things like the 00s 'mean girl' culture, a revisiting of Why Men Love Bitc...
Feb 25, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 154
This week, Kate reads from listener-submitted stories about the embarrassing (and now hilarious) ways in our youth that we tried to make people jealous and/or acutely aware of how well we're doing following a romantic rejection. From the classic "sorry wrong IM" all the way to a full John Tucker Must Die reenactment, these stories represent the good, the bad, and the delightfully cringy of Livin La Vida Four Loko in the mid-2000s. But first, Kate discusses some broader thoughts on mid-aughts med...
Feb 19, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 153
TW: Mention of EDs, body image discussion This week, Kate has a conversation with Erin Heatherton, a former Victoria's Secret Angel and Sports Illustrated model (among other things) who now lives in Chicago after having stepped back from the spotlight. She's now crushing it as an entrepreneur and somehow befriended Kate along the way, so they recorded a heart to heart about not only Erin's life and career but also about body image, problematic beauty standards, doing Ayahuasca, being in VS shows...
Feb 11, 2021•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 152
Kate answers listener voicemail questions on a variety of topics, e.g. music videos, her mom, fading friendships, city living, Dixie D'Amelio, societal pressures and more! Hotline: 312.379.9676 patreon.com/bethereinfive Right now, you can get a FREE rack of St. Louis Ribs, 1 pack of bacon and 1 pack of pulled pork for free in your first box. Just go to ButcherBox.com/BETHEREINFIVE Go Feals.com/bethereinfive and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping. Grab your Energy Liquid I.V. ...
Feb 04, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 151
It's been one year since Kate begged her listeners to start talking the 'Tok, and on this episode, Kate follows up on her original TikTok deep dive to update everyone on what's happened in the past year. She broadly discusses the big trends, cringy dance moves, obscure subcultures, roller coaster legislation, favorite follows, etc., but also dives into specifics about some of the app's biggest stars. She discusses the trajectory of the D'Amelios, Addison Rae, The Hype House, Sway House, and even...
Jan 29, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 150
This week, Kate takes on the Venn diagram of Instagram “life coaches,” self-help gurus, manifesting babes, and multi-level marketing #girlbosses that peddle the (often) false hope of financial freedom and entrepreneurial dreams through uncomfortable emoji-laden texts and Facebook messages. She discusses the problem with influencers selling one-size-fits-all solutions based on their anecdotal business experience and then reads crowd sourced stories from listeners who have been on the receiving en...
Jan 22, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 149
This week, Kate’s feeling metaphorically hungover from 2020 and is providing you some hot takes on a cold January night for a distraction in an ever-chaotic world. Recorded prior to (and cut off due to) the events today in DC, this episode includes discussions about: Neighborhoods trying the hardest to sound richTurtle Creek Lane’s new MercedesKim & Kanye’s divorceFreckled Fox’s separationA mini deep dive of SimplySuzys' Instagram bait-and-switchAre Instagram growth coaches the new MLM?A rev...
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 147
A fireside heart to heart via a double episode to keep you company through the end of 2020! In this episode, Kate recorded a holiday heart to heart, asking listeners what questions/topics they'd want to discuss if they were sitting down for dinner together. From wine selection at a dinner party, to what her experience has been like with other podcasters, what she'd say if she met TS, advice for those who are single, to hearing more about her husband and family, what she'd teach her younger self,...
Dec 26, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 146
In this bonus episode, Kate was trying to do a "quick recap" of all of the discussion and mystery surrounding Taylor Swift's 9th studio album’s surprise release. However, it is not quick and recap might be a generous word since she felt like she hasn't listened enough to go song-by-song. Yet she still manages to talk about it for like, evermore, and shares her observations surrounding this album, e.g. the comparisons to folklore, the theories leading up to (and the theories following) the sister...
Dec 21, 2020•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 145
