Podcasts

Podcasts I Guest Host

Podcasts I Previously Hosted

Selected Guest Appearances

Normal Gossip
The Minder, The Grinder, The Finder with Elise Hu

The Longest Shortest Time
Elise Hu on Sharks, Cheeseburgers, and Raising Kids Abroad

Vibe Check
Two Ladies and a Mutha featuring Elise Hu

How to Be A Better Human
How to Embrace — And Challenge — The Idea of Beauty

Apple News in Conversation
The real reason so many people are getting cosmetic surgery

The Sam Sanders Show
Inside 2024’s Tech Revolution with Taylor Lorenz and Elise Hu

Marketplace’s This is Uncomfortable
You Used to be So Pretty

Vox’s Today Explained
Why American Sunscreen Sucks

The Stacks
Chasing Artificial Standards with Elise Hu

NPR’s It’s Been A Minute
Beauty Culture in South Korea Reveals a Grim Future

Fat Mascara
Technology, K-Beauty, and The Future of Beauty with Elise Hu

Planet Money
Shopping for Parental Benefits Around the World

Slate’s The Waves
The Hustle of Being Beautiful

Simplify by Blinkist
Beauty is Personal and Political

Forever 35
Lessons of K-Beauty with Elise Hu

Conde Nast’s Women Who Travel
Writer Elise Hu on Life in Seoul and the Rise of K Beauty

KQED Forum
Elise Hu on South Korean Beauty Culture and the Quest To Be ‘Flawless’

KERA’s Think with Kris Boyd
How South Korea Became the Beauty Capital of the World

They Call Us Bruce
They Call Us Asian Faces

TED Radio Hour
Elise Hu: The Beauty Ideal

Settlers of Seoul
Elise Hu on Journalism, Gender Equality and Pyeongchang 2018

The Divided States of Women
Bonus: Elise Hu on Gender Equality

Korea and the World
Episode 44: Elise Hu

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I also make podcasts for commercial and editorial clients as the co-founder and CEO of the audio production company, Reasonable Volume. We make the flagship podcasts for WeTransfer, Github and a future of work show for Microsoft, the Grist show Temperature Check, our own indie podcast, Labor, about the social science of parenthood, and other cool shows.

Reach out if you want to make something together!

My Book, FLAWLESS, is Available Now

FLAWLESS is a wide-ranging journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South Korea’s booming K-beauty industry and the culture it promotes.