{"podcast":{"title":"Nice Talk with Nikki Ogunnaike","slug":"nice-talk-with-nikki-ogunnaike-6918201","podcast_index_feed_id":6918201,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/FUFET8639272685","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/nice-talk","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3e378b88-cfa5-11f0-89fc-fbaf506da6db/image/99ed8ccb51c34b20192341b0a453cc55.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Marie Claire","episode_count":85,"summary":"Welcome to Nice Talk, hosted by Marie Claire Editor in Chief Nikki Ogunnaike. Each week, Nikki will sit down with fascinating women—entertainers, entrepreneurs, creators, athletes, and changemakers—to discuss money, power, and style. “Well-behaved” women have long been discouraged from speaking on these topics—style should be effortless, and conversations about money or power aren’t “proper,” “ladylike,” or “nice.” But Nikki’s definition of a Nice Talk is one where all parties walk away feeling empowered. Nikki’s guests are getting candid about how they navigated their come-ups, what makes them feel both powerful and powerless, and of course, how they use personal style to communicate with the world.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T18:20:24.260927+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-talk-with-nikki-ogunnaike-6918201"},"episode":{"title":"Author Jessica Knoll on Power Dynamics in Her New Novel Helpless","slug":"author-jessica-knoll-on-power-dynamics-in-her-new-novel-helpless","published_at":"2026-07-09T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-talk-with-nikki-ogunnaike-6918201/author-jessica-knoll-on-power-dynamics-in-her-new-novel-helpless","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-talk-with-nikki-ogunnaike-6918201","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/FUFET9167048109.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/FUFET9167048109.mp3","summary":"Jessica Knoll is the best-selling author of the novels Luckiest Girl Alive, Bright Young Women, and The Favorite Sister. On this episode, Knoll discusses how her own relationship with money and power informed the writing in her newest novel Helpless, which hit shelves on July 7. She also delves into what true success as a novelist would look like to her and how she feels in retrospect about her 2018 New York Times opinion piece \"I Want to Be Rich and I'm Not Sorry.\" Order Helpless here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Helpless/Jessica-Knoll/9781668062302","meta_description":"Jessica Knoll is the best-selling author of the novels Luckiest Girl Alive, Bright Young Women, and The Favorite Sister. On this episode, Knoll discusses…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1808,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nice-talk-with-nikki-ogunnaike-6918201/episodes/author-jessica-knoll-on-power-dynamics-in-her-new-novel-helpless/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nice-talk-with-nikki-ogunnaike-6918201/author-jessica-knoll-on-power-dynamics-in-her-new-novel-helpless.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}