In My Hometown

About In My Hometown

The conversations we’re actually having. Asking the questions we’re all thinking. In My Hometown with Jamie Stein is about life, health, culture and everything we’re talking about after 40. Former reporter and comms executive Jamie Stein sits down with experts, fascinating people and friends for candid conversations about the things that matter right now — from health and family to relationships, empty nests, reinvention, second acts and the stories everyone is talking about. With curiosity, candor and a sense of fun, Jamie gets into the topics on our minds— and isn’t afraid to take the conversation somewhere unexpected. New episodes every week.

Publisher

Jamie Stein

Category

education · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Aug 2025

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 56 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   The Cornell 7, Caleb Flynn, Consent & Secret Botox?

   Food, family and culture writer Pamela Rothbard and Jamie Stein discuss consent, the Cornell 7 case, and the Caleb Flynn murder, exploring complex societal issues.

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Motherhood After They Leave: Empty Nest, Identity & Letting Go | Dr. Joann Finkelstein

   Clinical psychologist Dr. Joann Finkelstein and host Jamie Stein explore the emotional challenges and identity shifts mothers face during the empty nest transition.

3. 

   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Empty Nest, Lindsay Clancy & What We’re Talking About After 40

   Family, food and culture writer Pamela Rothbard and host Jamie Stein discuss the empty nest, the Lindsay Clancy case, and pop culture after 40.

Inside a recent episode

Empty Nest, Lindsay Clancy & What We’re Talking About After 40

Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The fact that she is paralyzed, there's so many sort of pieces to it. You know, my take is that, is that it's so, um, is that so many women that we know have gone through some sort of depression and on a spectrum, a postpartum depression. And so many of us know that people don't, I don't know if they don't take it seriously, but there's just, it's real in a sense. The psychosis aspect, I don't know enough about. Yeah, me neither. Okay. And, and so I think there's this feeling of, wow, like that, you know, that's real and, and we don't know enough about it. But then, um, then the fact that, um, someone would kill their three children, it's really, it is, it's horrible story. […]

Who has been a guest on In My Hometown

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Pamela Rothbard
• Joann Finkelstein
• Jill Grimes
• Joan Vassos
• Bela Gandhi

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

22 ratings

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