Adulthood Made Easy
Summary: If you feel lost in a new city, overwhelmed by your taxes, frustrated by dating, or scared to switch jobs, tune in weekly to Adulthood Made Easy, where twenty-something host Sam Zabell works through listeners’ problems and questions about the sometimes-scary “real world.” Along the way, she addresses many of her own struggles with adulthood, resulting in a show any college graduate (and beyond) can relate to.
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This week on Adulthood Made Easy’s Guide for Grads, get insider tricks to make your resume and cover letter stand out. This episode of Adulthood Made Easy is sponsored by Next Issue. Next Issue is like Netflix for magazines… only better - with access to all the latest issues. Check it out - go to NextIssue.com/EASY for your free trial today.
Moving to a new city is just one more of the scary things you have to do immediately after graduation. In the second installment of Guide for Grads, Sam talks to Terri White, editor of Time Out New York, about the best ways to get to know an entirely new place.
For the next five weeks, Adulthood Made Easy’s Samantha Zabell helps you navigate about some of the most important, stressful issues that soon-to-be college grads are facing. The first installment: how to stay in touch with your friends. Sam speaks to Dr. Andrea Bonior, psychologist and author of “The Friendship Fix,” on how to keep up with all of your best friends, even if you end up on opposite ends of the country.
Sam talks to real estate expert Ilyce Glink for advice on finding an apartment in her budget, deciphering a lease, and how to deal with awful landlords. Adulthood Made Easy is brought to you by Squarespace, the easiest way to create a beautiful website, blog, or online store for you and your ideas. Squarespace features an elegant interface, beautiful templates, and 24/7 customer support. Right now, go to Squarespace.com, and enter the offer code REALSIMPLE at checkout to get 10% off. Squarespace. Build it Beautiful.
Sam and Real Simple home editor Stephanie Sisco talk cleaning hacks, must-have supplies, and the germiest things you keep forgetting to clean. This week’s episode is sponsored by The Honest Company — safe products for your family and home. Remember that if you purchase your first bundle by Mother’s day, you’re going to get a free gift, worth $20. Just use the code “real simple” at checkout and it’s yours. www.honest.com
Sam talks to Amy Zavatto, wine and spirits expert, about how to buy and order wine like an adult—that means it probably costs more than $5 a bottle.
How do you online date, anyway? An app? A website? All about how to find a good catch through online dating.
How do you identify that person at the office who will guide and advise you without sounding like you’re looking for a babysitter? Sam consults Bucky Keady, Vice President of Talent Management at Time Inc., to find out.
In this episode, finance expert and author Nicole Lapin offers an easy way to sort out your finances—because it's possible to set a budget and still have a little money leftover for the fun stuff.
Doing your taxes is a necessary, yet stressful, rite of passage. In this episode, Sam talks to tax expert Barbara Weltman to go over the process and what mistakes to avoid (it’s less boring than it sounds).
Sam talks to Joe Yonan, cookbook author and Food and Dining editor at the Washington Post, about kitchen essentials, grocery shopping tips, and how to make weeknight meals much easier.
In this episode, Sam Zabell talks to Greg Giangrande, her company's Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer, for tips on negotiating your first salary, and exactly how to ask for that first raise. The catch: her boss, and her boss's boss, are in the room with her, too.
