{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"CATTY CHATS LIVE!","title":"DON'T BUY WHAT SHE'S SELLING - with Lu Chekowsky","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4077,"description":"THANKS FOR BEING HERE! Please like, share and leave a comment! It helps us grow and get out the messages from people workingto make things suck less more than you know!\n_____________________________________________\nAuthor Lu Chekowsky was once haunted by couches.\n\nYou know how it goes: You’re considering buying a new sofa, so you poke around online to see what’s out there.\nThen, like a JD Vance fever dream, couches are everywhere when you go online. Each ad shows you a new style, a new color, a new furniture store.\nAnnoying, right? Lu says this is all part of advertisers’ plan.\n\nAs a former creative director for Facebook, Comedy Central, and MTV, Lu knows how this works. In fact, she throws back the curtain on modern advertising practices in her new memoir, “Don’t Buy What I’m Selling: On Breaking Up with Advertising and Finally Learning to Love My Whole, Fat Self.”\nWe spoke to Lu on Sunday, Oct. 4, when she joined Cat Ladies for America on Catty Chats Live to dish about her book, the “toxic nature of advertising” (her words), and learning to love the body she lives in.\n\nWe spoke to Lu about how she ignored the little voice in her head during her advertising career, why she decided to leave it all behind, and what the rest of us can do to scratch back against the onslaught of ads we see everywhere, everyday.\nYou’ll probably find a little bit of yourself, too.\n\nFollow Lu online: Website | Instagram | TikTok\n\nYou can also find this episode of CATTY CHATS LIVE on YouTube and all audio pod platforms include Apple podcasts.\nJoin Cat Ladies for America and Claw Back!\n\nCat Ladies for America is a network of cat ladies and their allies across the country. Through in-person and virtual chapters, individual actions, on-the-ground reporting and livestreamed interviews with people trying to make things suck less, CLFA is connecting people (and their cats) and giving them the tools to make a difference in their communities. Because “Cat Lady” is a state of mind, our clowder...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KQZFxyFO_IXzfrdNyh0wowNXdwmDlPVL05xEM-bZy14/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYzAy/MmNmMzI4MGEzMWEz/ZjY3MTIwOWU1MGE0/MTAwNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}