Exploring what it really means for a woman to "have it all." Sometimes cheeky, sometimes heartfelt. A blog and live show (show premiering in NYC in March 2013). On Twitter at @HABHIA, or chat up host @amanda_hirsch.


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May 6, 2013
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NPR wants to hear from women - what’s a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Add to their Tumblr blog. (This is tied to their series on the Changing Lives of Women.)

NPR wants to hear from women - what’s a piece of advice that’s helped you at work? Add to their Tumblr blog. (This is tied to their series on the Changing Lives of Women.)


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Mar 13, 2013
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Should we automatically assume that the woman running the company is doing more with her life than the woman who has negotiated a three-day week?

— Mary Louise Kelly in The Daily Beast


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Mar 8, 2013
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Far from having it all, most working women live in danger of losing it all

Ellen Bravo on BillMoyers.com


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Mar 8, 2013
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Beyond Sheryl, Marisa and Lena »

What if instead of flaming the media circus around Sheryl Sandberg, Marisa Mayer and Lena Dunham, we told stories about powerful women who aren’t already in the spotlight? And what if we measured power by, say, compassionate action, instead of executive status and salary?


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Mar 8, 2013
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…Women with any sort of success or advantage are supposed to be self-deprecating.

Why Do We Hate Successful Women? on Slate.com


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Mar 6, 2013
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The first Having a Ball Having it All live show was on Friday, and all in attendance did, indeed, have a ball. Listen in on my opening monologue, in which I get into character as Melody Bell, the perfect woman, and talk about phone calls with Beyonce, breast feeding my kids til they’re 6, rehabilitating llamas in Africa and so much more…


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Mar 4, 2013
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Can you get naked and still have it all?

Attacking Judd for her nude scenes is part and parcel of the right’s current strategy to discredit promising female advocates,” says Think Progress in this article.


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Mar 1, 2013
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Having a Ball Having it All: the theme song. Written by Jordan Hirsch, performed by yours truly. 

Show tonite at 9:30 - details and tix.


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Mar 1, 2013
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Live Show Tonight!

Funny ladies like Aparna Nancherla and Meghan O’Keefe weigh in on what it means to “have it all” tonight at 9:30! 

Details and tix


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Feb 27, 2013
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Every woman I know who feels like she “has it all” — and there are many — has done it in a unique way.

Sarah Lacy