Episodes
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April 17, 2026
The Good Mother Myth: Italy's Motherhood Ideal and What It Costs Women
The Italian mamma is one of the most recognisable images in the world. Warm, self-sacrificing, the center of everything really. But who decided that — and what does it ask women to give up? In today's episode, Georgette and Valentina get into the beautiful and the suffocating: the genuine intergenerational closeness Italy gets right, and the structural reality underneath it — wage penalties, invisible labour, and a career system that still treats motherhood as a private problem. One of them gr...
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April 10, 2026
When Your Tuscan Life Becomes Content: Drawing Boundaries
When does sharing your life become performing it? In this episode, Georgette and Valentina get specific about what it actually costs to build something public in a city the size of Florence — where the bar you photograph is the bar you drink at, and neighbours know who you are before you've met them. Drawing on Sasha's Substack smoke a vogue and a Vogue Business deep-dive into the era of radical honesty, they talk through what they protect, what they've given up, and why vulnerability as a strat...
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April 3, 2026
The Influencer Reckoning: Chiara Ferragni & the Wild West of Content
The court said she wasn't a criminal. The audience had already decided she wasn't trustworthy. Which verdict cost more? We're talking about Italy's most famous influencer and the wild west of content creation as a whole. Georgette and Valentina go through the full Ferragni timeline,-- the pandoro, the apology that backfired, the empire that nearly collapsed — and get into the disclosure and claims rules that most creators don't know or pretend not to know.
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March 27, 2026
Florence Is So Beautiful. But Why Does It Also Feel So Hard
Florence is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and it's not necessarily the easiest place to live in full time as a resident either. In this episode, Georgette and Valentina get honest about what the numbers reveal and what they've lived firsthand: soaring rents, disappearing neighbors, artisan shops replaced, and a generation of young Florentines packing their bags.We look at some real data—housing costs, Airbnb saturation, tourist footfall, the wages-vs-rent gap — and then we get pe...
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March 20, 2026
An American, an Italian, and the Conversations We Keep Having
Two women. One bed in Sansepolcro on a blog tour. That might have been an awkward way to kick off a friendship but in this pilot episode of Two Voices: No Filter, Georgette and Valentina introduce themselves properly — their backgrounds in media and content, why they're in Florence, and why they got tired enough of the filtered version of everything in Italy to finally start talking on record. Pull up a chair and join the fun!