Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Carol Marcowitz Show. I'm a
Speaker 1: columnist at The New York Post and Fox News, co
Speaker 1: author of the best selling book Stolen Youth, and I'm
Speaker 1: so excited to join the Clay and Buck podcast network
Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio. For years, people asked me why I didn't
Speaker 1: have a podcast, and you know, I'd be on radio
Speaker 1: and TV a lot, but I didn't want to add
Speaker 1: another podcast to the pile. I didn't want to do
Speaker 1: news of the day or have interviews or people where
Speaker 1: they discussed the news of the day. I felt like
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people doing that, some like
Speaker 1: Clay and Buck doing it exceptionally well, and I didn't
Speaker 1: have anything to add. So what I realized was that
Speaker 1: people want to hear about other things. And my most
Speaker 1: popular columns and conversations were when I'd get into cultural
Speaker 1: and social issues. What's marriage really like? Why are we
Speaker 1: lied to about what it's like to have children? What
Speaker 1: does it mean to succeed in your career? I call
Speaker 1: these the kinds of conversations that make people really lean
Speaker 1: in and listen. It's not background conversation, it's the stuff
Speaker 1: that really matters that I haven't seen other people cover
Speaker 1: in their podcasts, So that's what we're going to do here.
Speaker 1: My format is going to be a short monologue or
Speaker 1: two followed by a conversation. You might know the people
Speaker 1: I'm interviewing, you might not, but you're going to hear
Speaker 1: them get asked questions they've never been asked before. You'll
Speaker 1: hear me ask successful people whether they feel like they've
Speaker 1: made it. We'll talk about advice that they have, whether
Speaker 1: about career or life in general. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about relationships, how to make them work, how to find
Speaker 1: the right person, how to keep the spark alive, what
Speaker 1: matters in marriage, Why sex is the most important part
Speaker 1: of a relationship. And I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: people are going to challenge me on that one. But
Speaker 1: I have some thoughts why the joy of children is
Speaker 1: so impossible to convey. I'll tell you a little bit
Speaker 1: about myself. I was born in the Soviet Union and
Speaker 1: grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I'm married to an
Speaker 1: immigrant from Israel who grew up in Queens. You know,
Speaker 1: two immigrant kids from the boroughs of New York. We
Speaker 1: finished building our dream house in Brooklyn and fully moved
Speaker 1: in March of twenty twenty. We were New York supremacists.
Speaker 1: We were never leaving until COVID exposed some things about
Speaker 1: our beloved city that we just could not unsea. So
Speaker 1: my husband and I, along with our three children, picked
Speaker 1: up and moved to South Florida. In January, it will
Speaker 1: be two years that we are Floridians. We're part of
Speaker 1: a larger migration around this country from places like New
Speaker 1: York and California, two places like Texas and Florida and
Speaker 1: Tennessee and other states. We've loved Florida so much. We're
Speaker 1: really so happy here. But on this pod, we'll discuss
Speaker 1: what a move like that really means. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people make moves after high school, after college,
Speaker 1: but what's it like to have to restart your life
Speaker 1: in a new place as an adult? How do you
Speaker 1: do that? How do you make friends? How do you
Speaker 1: find your people? Things that I love include poker, whiskey, travel,
Speaker 1: talking to people. That's probably my favorite. I love meeting
Speaker 1: new people, and I'm married to curmudgeon who is not
Speaker 1: super into that. So you guys will be my outlet
Speaker 1: as I talk to everybody as much as I want.
Speaker 1: I imagine I'll be talking about all of these things
Speaker 1: from time to time, and I'll also be taking your
Speaker 1: questions and offering my advice if you want it. The
Speaker 1: email address to send me notes is Carolmarkowitz Show at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com, and we'll do our best to get
Speaker 1: your question answered on the show. I do hope you'll
Speaker 1: listen along. This is the first time I've done a podcast,
Speaker 1: like I've said, and I would love to see where
Speaker 1: this goes with all of you. Join me for The
Speaker 1: Carol Markowitz Show, debuting Monday, October second, with new episodes
Speaker 1: dropping every Monday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.