My So-Called Midlife with Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is best known as the founder of Girls Who Code, but this podcast catches her at a different moment. She's married, raising two kids, and by most external measures has achieved everything she set out to do. The question driving the show is blunt: why does she still feel so unsatisfied? TIME named it one of the 10 best podcasts of 2024, and the guest list explains why. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Gloria Steinem, Mel Robbins, and Esther Perel have all appeared on the show. Produced by Lemonada Media, this isn't a DIY bedroom podcast. The production values are high, and Saujani's interview style is vulnerable in ways that public figures rarely allow themselves to be. She talks about midlife not as something to survive but as something to actually live through intentionally. The conversations range from sex therapy to career reinvention to the specific loneliness of high-achieving women who don't feel allowed to admit they're struggling. The show stands out because of Saujani's willingness to go first. She doesn't position herself as the expert dispensing advice. She's openly confused, frustrated, and searching, and that honesty makes the celebrity guests more candid than they'd be in a typical interview. It's a smart, well-produced show that treats midlife as something worth paying serious attention to.