Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza

jo.piazza@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

Jo Piazza breaks down how social media’s polished marketing ecosystem became a high-stakes machine—especially for women and mothers. The show is a sharp, media-savvy look at commodification, power dynamics, and the cultural systems behind influencer life.

Metrics

Episodes: 403

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.3/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Contact Information

jo.piazza@gmail.com

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Host

Jo Piazza - Journalist and mom Jo Piazza hosts Under the Influence, examining how social media and aspirational marketing developed into a money-driven system that reshapes identity, relationships, and agency—...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Writers/journalists, authors, cultural commentators, and media/communications experts; often people with direct research access or a strong body of work connecting social media/influencer culture to gender, power, and consumer dynamics.
Required Achievements:  
Published book (often bestselling or notable nonfiction), Notable media work (journalism, podcasting, or public cultural analysis), Subject-matter credibility via reporting, research, or expertise in gender/media/marketing systems

Recent Guest Discussions

Courtney Kocak - Behind-the-scenes Look At Girls Gone Wild; Misogyny And Power Dynamics In Media; Branding Problems; The Manosphere; Abortion Shame; Sex Positivity After Trauma; Online Accountability And Political/media Ecosystem Dynamics.

Melanie Benjamin - The Windsor Affair Novel; Royals As Precursors To Celebrity Culture And Reality Tv; Media Obsession With Women Vs. Women; Recurring Female Archetypes And Historical Parallels To Modern Public Figures.

Recent Topics

Social Media, Gender, Marketing, Power Dynamics, Consumer Culture

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Under the Influence with Jo Piazza
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Sad Beige Babies With Sad Beige Parents

June 11, 2026

Sad beige motherhood helped inspire this podcast. This week we're diving into the internet aesthetic that convinced an entire generation of mothers that parenting should look like a luxury hotel lobby in Denmark. We talk with Hayley DeRoche, aka The Official Sad Beige and author of Dress Your Baby in Sage and Taupe, about how influencer culture turned motherhood into a perfectly curated performance built on guilt, consumption, and extremely expensive neutral-toned stacking cups. We get into...

Girls Gone Wild Go Feral—Behind the Scenes of the Show That Shaped a Generation

June 09, 2026

What if the women from Girls Gone Wild finally got the mic? This week we go all the way back to the horrifyingly normalized misogyny of the early 2000s with author and podcaster Courtney Kocak, who spent seven deeply unsettling weeks working on the actual Girls Gone Wild tour bus. Courtney takes us inside the world Joe Francis built: drunk college girls signing contracts they didn’t understand, creepy power dynamics disguised as “fun,” and the moment she realized the entire machine was des...

Sunday Nice Things: Family Money

June 07, 2026

So excited to drop Family Money from Babylist into your feed! Having a baby comes with real money questions, no matter where you're starting from. Welcome to Family Money, a new podcast from Babylist, because it shouldn't feel like only some people know how to play the game. Family Money is the podcast about the financial side of family life that parents think about constantly but rarely say out loud. Childcare costs. Saving strategies. What it actually means to give your kids a good life. ...

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