Two Voices. No filter. Talking Truth from Italy

We knew that by the time we recorded, edited and released this episode, things would have advanced even further and sure enough they have. While we are currently seeing tech bros lament the too-fast progress of the machines they created, here us regular humans are trying to wade through what to think about it all... but what about Italy? Italy was the first country in the EU to pass a comprehensive AI law. It ranks seventh in the world for AI research, and yet, fewer than one in ten of its sma

We're back and doing what we do best: talking honestly about guilt. Not the tidy "here's how you can fix it" version, but the real thing: the guilt of dropping your daughter at camp while she clutches her stuffed hedgehog, the guilt of taking a vacation you've worked two years to earn, the guilt of being a working mother (or not being one), and the exhaustion we all seem to currrently embody. Georgette on leaving for Scotland and Northern Ireland mid-launch of Vivace Media; Valentina on why "l

Wellness has become a $4 trillion global industry and somewhere between sleep, movement, and nutrition, it started selling us anxiety as often as it sells solutions. In our first-ever guest episode (and Season Two opener), Georgette and Valentina sit down with Ilaria Di Donato and Gloria Fuson of Relax Firenze to talk about what wellness actually means once you strip away the LED masks, the 4am influencer routines, and the supplement cabinets. We trace "mens sana in corpore sano" back to its re

How many languages do you actually need to survive (and thrive) in Italy? In this fun summer special, Georgette and Valentina pull back the curtain on their own language journeys: from raising trilingual kids and losing native accents to navigating the "humiliation phase" of learning a new tongue. Whether you're struggling with double consonants in Italian, suffering as the "left out" parent, trying to raise multilingual children, or just wondering why Italians refuse to eat Asian tagliatelle,

While you could dare say that two married people talking about relationships isn't the sexiest premise for an episode, stick with us here. Georgette and Valentina get personal about how they met their partners after painful breakups — and the sixteen (and twelve) years since. Valentina shares how she met Mario after her husband walked out with zero warning, the votive candle that led to her pregnancy three months later, and the "pomodoro technique" she used to survive the heartbreak. Georgette

Are you traveling for real reasons — or just to escape your own life? No shame just curious! This week on Two Voices, No Filter, Georgette and Valentina go through 2026's weirdest travel trends: dead zoning (disconnecting completely, no signal, no Wi-Fi), glow-cations (traveling abroad for cheaper wellness treatments — Turkish teeth, Albanian surgery, Korean skincare), and the rise of "why-cations" — trips built around a personal need instead of a destination. They also get into the uncomforta