Welcome to 2025! Need a little Pep Talk to get going this year? Us too! On this Satellite Sisters episode, a fresh take on themes for 2025 with Lian and then a round up of our themes from years past. Plus, the spirituality of cats, Tuesday Trends, Color of the year and how to subscribe to Lizness School. Thanks to Earth Breeze laundry sheets for sponsoring the show. We love their laundry detergent sheets and think you will, too. To get our special deal, head to this page. Lizness School is movin...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 9 min
For future episodes of Lizness School in 2025, please follow the dedicated Lizness School feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast app you prefer. Feed also available on the Lizness School Show Page on Megaphone. To send Liz your learning goals for the new year, email liznessschool@gmail.com. We want to hear them for our first show of 2025. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Start at...
Dec 27, 2024•39 min
New Show with your Satellite Sisters! A sisterly catch up with Liz, Lian, Sheila and Monica. Liz comes home from college and reviews her semester at Stanford. Liz has a new strategy for Holidays 2025 and a possible theme for 2025. And Sheila and Monica announce a new rebrand for the Lab Rats. Hmm, where do rats do when they retire? Celebrate the season with entertainment recommendations and more. Books make Great Gifts! Find Lian's Books here including The Marriage Sabbatical and the pre-order o...
Dec 17, 2024•57 min
On Lizness School Episode 8, Liz has the scoop on the many de-stressing activities happening on the Stanford campus during exam period for the undergrads. Therapy bunnies, anyone? Plus, if listeners want to take the same art history class Liz took this fall, it's being offered on Stanford's Continuing Studies platform this winter. Here's a link to How To Look At Art and Why with Alex Nemerov and here's a link to the whole Winter Quarter offering on Stanford Continuing Studies. To send Liz your l...
Dec 12, 2024•35 min
You have questions about Satellite Sisters and we answer. A classic episode from 2018 that fills in the backstory on the sisters, the podcast, the work and lots of personal insights from Liz Dolan, Lian Dolan and Julie Dolan. The who's, jobs, why's and what's of the Satellite Sisters multi-verse. Plus, we each reveal our hidden skills. Thank you to this week’s Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes to support them and our show. OSEA, clean beauty products OSEAM...
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min
BONUS: To get the Lizness School podcast in its own feed, please FOLLOW the show in your podcast app of choice. In Lizness School Episode 7, Liz attends a Stanford vs Cal water polo game, collects her thoughts on Designing Her Life and hangs out with some students from Stanford GSB for conversation, Chipotle and a dark fantasy feminist retelling of the Mulan story The Night End With Fire by K X Song. Plus, Liz and Leah both take Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies Quiz and discuss the implications ...
Nov 28, 2024•35 min
Satellite Sisters BONUS: In Lizness School Episode 6, Liz does her Life Transition Reflection and she likes it! Plus two death-defying wellness activities - pickleball and a hike in the redwood forest. In Liz's LTR, she explains her Cooking With Liz live Facebook show during the pandemic. Here she makes Ina Garten's Roast Chicken: https://youtu.be/Ghq-vZUM-4w?si=LWUy3T_V1xstCGoP It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distingu...
Nov 14, 2024•38 min
A Satellite Sisters Classic from 2020. All five sisters gather for Thanksgiving plans, a Lab Rats Deep Dive and some entertainment recommendations including the Nicole Kidman vehicle, The Undoing. Thank you to this week’s Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes to support them and our show. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. betterhelp.com/satellite Navage, daily nasal therapy Navage.com/SISTERS and use our promo code SISTERS OSEA, clean beauty produc...
Nov 12, 2024•52 min
It's Democracy Day at Stanford and there's a lot going on. Liz has the day off from classes to attend special gatherings, seminars and maybe even parties. Link to Stanford Democracy Day activities. This is a special Satellite Sisters preview of Liz's new podcast Lizness School. This is Episode 5. Start from Episode 1 if you have not listened yet. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her...
Nov 05, 2024•39 min
A special Satellite Sisters preview of Liz's new podcast Lizness School. This is Episode 4. Start from Episode 1 if you have not listened yet. It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! To continue to get episodes, be sure to follow the show in the separate Lizness School feed on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. In this episode classes actually start! She ex...
Oct 30, 2024•40 min
It's Lizness not business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! In this episode she makes her move to a new apartment in Palo Alto and settles in with her dog Hooper. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignments all year so she is sure to get out of her boomer bubble. Th...
Oct 24, 2024•39 min
It's Lizness not Business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! Follow Lizness School on its separate feed on any podcast app. In this episode she registers for her classes from a hotel bed in Brooklyn in the middle of the night. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. Her producer and millennial mentor Leah Sutherland will give her additional assignme...
Oct 24, 2024•40 min
It's Lizness not Business this year for Liz Dolan as she starts her year as a Fellow at Stanford University's Distinguished Careers Institute. Join her! To get this podcast, search for Lizness School on any podcast app you use and FOLLOW. In this episode she explains her decision to spend this year at Stanford exploring her future and new ideas and provides her professional and personal backstory. Upcoming bi-weekly episodes will follow Liz through her entire year of exploration in Palo Alto. He...
Oct 24, 2024•25 min
A Satellite Sisters fave. Liz Dolan, Lian Dolan and Julie Dolan chatting it up about Liz's homeowner's association and Julie's upcoming Nana Trip with her grandchildren. Plus, Anna Winter takes her glasses off! For complete show notes, visit our website https://satellitesisters.com/blog/ Thank you to this week’s Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes to support them and our show. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. betterhelp.com/satellite Navage, dai...
Oct 22, 2024•59 min
Satellite Sisters covers the gamut from women in the workplace to drama in the skies to a first date. Yeah, Satellite Sisters Of The Week: Congrats to the astronauts who executed the first ever all-female space walk and to Ann McClain, the woman left behind who cheered them on. Personally, we would have behaved more like Aidy Bryant on the SNL skit. According to McKInsey and Fortune Magazine, what's between you and that last big promotion? It's not getting that first big promotion. They call it ...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 3 min
It's a Satellite Sisters Favorite Episode ! Sheila Dolan visits Julie and Liz to fill us in on her daughter Ruth's NYC Wedding and give us a full Mother of the Bride report. Plus, Sheila makes the case for Victoria Beckham and her beauty regime. And Lauren Bates from Wild Terrains returns to fill us in on a hot new travel destination: Lisbon. And Julie has a few notes for Disney. Thank you to this week’s Satellite Sisters sponsors. Please use these special urls and promo codes to support them an...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Liz tells Julie and Lian all about her first few weeks as a Fellow in Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute. She's got a new place to live in Palo Alto, has started her new classes and is starting to experience life on a college campus is 2024. It's been a while! Later in October she'll drop the first few episodes of Lizness School, a podcast she'll continue to make throughout the year sharing all of her experiences. The new episodes of Lizness School will be in the Satellite Sisters feed a...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Lian Dolan goes to South Dakota and wants to tell you all about the Little Town on the Prairie and the South Dakota Festival of Books. Plus, an interview with Caroline Fraser, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Wilder called Prairie Fires. A South Dakota Special with new material. Thanks to our sponsors: Better Help , online therapy betterhelp.com/satellite Navage, daily nasal therapy Navage.com/SISTERS and use our promo code SISTERS OSEA, clean beauty products OSEAMalibu.com, use code sats...
Sep 24, 2024•55 min
Lian Dolan, Julie Dolan and Liz Dolan share Part 5 of the Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses. This final episode is Sense of Direction. New Sponsor Alert! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/SATELLITE and get on your way to being your best self. Other sponsors of today's episode are: Osea https://oseamalibu.com Use code SATSISTERS at checkout Miraclesuit https://miraclesuit.com Use code sisters at checkout Navage https://navage.com/sisters ...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses Part 4: Sense of Adventure. Lian Dolan, Liz Dolan and Julie Dolan share the Satellite Sisters' thoughts on growing up with a sense of adventure. New Sponsor Alert! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/SATELLITE and get on your way to being your best self. Thank you these sponsors and to listeners who use these special urls and codes: Navage https://navage.com/sisters Use promo code sisters Osea https://osea...
Sep 10, 2024•53 min
This week's Sense of Humor episode is Part 3 of Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses, a 5-part series from Lian Dolan, Liz Dolan and Julie Dolan. Lian rehearsing for the dinner table, Funsuckers vs Funseekers, Men Stink and Other Lessons We Learned From Our Brothers plus who's the funniest in the family? The first episode Sense of Connection is here. The second episode Sense of Self is here. Thank you to this week's sponsors and to listeners who use these special urls and codes: Osea https://oseama...
Sep 03, 2024•56 min
This week's FAVORITE is Part 2 of our 5 part series Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses. The Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses continues. Today the focus is Sense of Self. Next week's episode will be Sense of Humor. Listen to our episode about Sense of Connection here. It's part of our live show from Big Fun Weekend. For the original book Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses, go here. Sponsors of today's episode are: Osea https://oseamalibu.com Use code SATSISTERS at checkout Miraclesuit https://mira...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Today's FAVORITE is the specially edited kick-off to the five- part series Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses. Part 1 is Sense of Connection. This was performed in front of a live audience at the Satellite Sisters Big Fun Weekend in Minneapolis October 14, 2023. It includes the Satellite Sisters Home Truths as well as what we have learned over the years about the importance of being connected. The second episode Sense of Self is here. The third episode Sense of Humor is here. The fourth episode S...
Aug 20, 2024•23 min
Lian Dolan goes to the MEA ranch in Santa Fe for the Thriving at Any Age workshop, a week devoted to reimagine midlife with medical information about menopause. Hear her thoughts on the workshop content, from creating a growth mindset to understanding the estrodial rollercoaster of perimenopause. Important links: For more information about MEA, their workshops and other articles: https://www.meawisdom.com/ https://time.com/6992308/modern-elder-academy/ https://www.fastcompany.com/91108274/the-on...
Aug 13, 2024•45 min
FAVORITE! It's our brand new Ask Us Anything from Summer 2023. Listener questions about the sisters, the podcast, their father, mother and brothers, birth order, places to go, languages spoken, best advice AND worst advice. And much more. Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special links and urls to support the podcast. Miraclesuit https://miraclesuit.com Use code sisters at checkout Butcher Box https://butcherbox.com Use code sisters at checkout Go to the Satellite Sister...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 3 min
FAVORITES: This episode is from 7/12/22, right before the start of the World T&F Championships in Eugene Oregon. It features an interview with Olympic Champion/World Champion sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross, who is on the NBC broadcasting team at the Paris Olympics and was the newest cast member of Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2021. If you are watching T&F from Paris, you'll see a lot of Sanya! Plus, our favorite sports movies of all time and some hot new up-and-coming sports from around t...
Jul 30, 2024•1 hr 12 min
FAVORITES: This was our preview to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (which really happened in 2021) and includes an interview with Kat Holmes, member of USA Fencing and daughter of longtime Satellite Sisters listener Lorrie! Guess what? Kat is back at the Paris Olympics this year. Go Next Gen Satellite Sister! Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special urls and codes to support them. Our exciting new sponsor is: Miracle Suit https://miraclesuit.com Use code sisters Plus: Prose htt...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 16 min
FAVORITES: Here are Sheila, Monica and Lian on April 9, 2008. A rolling stop brings Officer Rubbish into Sheila's life plus the Lab Rats review chewable calcium supplements. As the Rats say, calcium is the new prozac. Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special urls and codes to support them. Our exciting new sponsor is: Miracle Suit https://miraclesuit.com Use code sisters Plus: Prose https://prose.com/sisters Butcher Box https://butcherbox.com/sisters Use code sisters at...
Jul 16, 2024•50 min
FAVORITE: This Madness + Mayhem episode dates all the way back to fave conversations from 2005. Sheila is on the Cozy Couch. Julie has a Mensa Word Test for Liz, Sheila and Engineer John Ramos, Lian and Monica and listeners try to help Sheila with some credit card issues and Lian gets to scoop from Sheila about an unusual naked conversation she had. Thank you to our sponsors and to listeners for using these special urls and codes to support them. Our exciting new sponsor is: Miracle Suit https:/...
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 3 min
FAVORITES: We've never solved this 2008 mystery of Julie, the stranger and Zorro's slobbery tennis ball. Lian, Monica and Sheila can't believe Julie was so trusting with an odd request. What started as a "sticky situation" became a potentially dark tale. Julie recommends a new play based on Little House on the Prairie that's on stage in Minnesota. Lian has some new TV habits. Her household has become a Nick At Night household. Science with Sheila! Sheila has a list of the 10 things not to worry ...
Jul 02, 2024•54 min
