Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer alternate debate and interview episodes on Brazilian social issues.
Mamilos treats public arguments as long, careful conversations rather than quick takes. Recent episodes move from child marriage and teen social media rules to women’s health, career change, offline life, and the small etiquette codes that shape daily living.
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Mamilos is a long-running Brazilian Portuguese podcast (800+ episodes) built around two weekly formats: a Tuesday 'debate' episode that brings together experts with differing perspectives on a specific social issue, and a Thursday interview episode with a single guest discussing their trajectory and worldview. The show is co-hosted, with Cris Bartz and Juva Lauer (sometimes credited as 'Ju') anchoring conversations and steering guests toward concrete Brazilian data and personal reflection rather than abstract argument. Guests skew toward subject-matter experts — NGO program directors (Plan Internacional Brasil), academic researchers, physicians such as an endocrinologist discussing obesity in women, communication and mediation specialists, and cultural figures like musician Gaby Amarantos. Recurring subject areas include children's and girls' rights (including child marriage and legal statutes like the ECA), gender and women's health across life stages, interpersonal and workplace communication, the psychological effects of technology and constant connectivity, and profiles of Brazilian artists and their cultural context. Episodes routinely cite Brazilian census figures, legal codes, and academic studies alongside personal anecdotes from hosts and guests. Some episodes take a panel format with multiple hosts and a guest discussing a shared experience, such as a group trip, rather than a strict one-on-one interview. Tone is generally measured and investigative for social-issue episodes and warmer or more personal for cultural-profile episodes. Episode lengths run roughly 40 to 90 minutes. Listeners who want deep-dive, research-backed conversations on Brazilian social issues, gender, health, and culture — rather than news recaps or comedy — are the core audience. The show does not appear to focus on true crime, politics-as-horse-race, or entertainment news; its throughline is applying research and expert perspective to everyday social questions.
Made for: Portuguese-speaking listeners interested in research-grounded conversation about Brazilian social issues, gender, health, and culture.
What sets it apart: Splits its week into a multi-expert debate format and a single-guest interview format, both leaning on Brazilian legal and survey data rather than opinion.
Bem-vindo ao Mamilos, um espaço pra gente conversar de peito aberto sobre tudo! Toda terça-feira é dia de mergulhar em polêmicas com o Mamilos Debate! Juntamos especialistas e perspectivas diferentes numa mesa redonda pra discutir temas que incomodam, provocam questionamentos e reflexões. Às quintas, vem tomar um café com a gente e conhecer pessoas incríveis em papos descontraídos. É a sua chance de passar um tempo gostoso, conhecendo melhor as pessoas que você admira e descobrindo os bastidores das suas trajetórias e visões de mundo. Estamos há 10 anos te ajudando a entender melhor a sociedade, o m...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Mamilos turns Brazilian public questions into patient, human-scale conversations about language, care, conflict, and social change.
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A careful conversation about child marriage, coercion, and the narrow choices that can erase a girl's childhood.
Child marriage in Brazil is treated here as a social failure hiding inside the language of choice. Mamilos frames it around the moment childhood protection collapses: school, play, health, and safety give way to adult burdens, often under pressure from poverty, pregnancy, family…
A reflective Amazonia conversation about pleasure, fear, chosen discomfort and what makes life feel interesting.
Mamilos turns a shared trip to Amazonia into a patient conversation about pleasure, comfort and the kinds of discomfort people choose for themselves.
A careful, humane conversation about obesity, women's health, and the right to choose and care for one's own body.
Mamilos takes obesity out of the old moral and cultural frame and places it where the episode says it belongs: health. Cris Bartz steers the conversation toward the female body, asking why science took so long to look closely at women's physiology, even in weight loss.
A thoughtful conversation about slowing down as a shared cultural agreement, not a solo discipline project.
Mamilos #549 treats slowing down as a shared cultural problem, not a private productivity project. Cris opens from a familiar contradiction: people are tired of screens and constant content, yet offline gatherings are filling up again, from shows to museums.
A thoughtful Mamilos episode about making dialogue possible before goodwill is guaranteed.
Mamilos treats dialogue as a social practice, not a soft ideal. Ju and Cris open with the question of how to say what needs to be said without wrapping it in thorns, then move into the fear that often makes people avoid the face-to-face moment altogether.
A clear Mamilos conversation about consensus, safety, and the language that keeps disagreement open to persuasion.
Mamilos turns a charged question about Brazilian women and consensus into a practical conversation about language, persuasion, and shared ground.
Gaby Amarantos makes technobrega, faith, and Amazonian culture feel like one restless creative force.
Gaby Amarantos brings Rock Doido back to the ground it came from: technobrega, faith, Para culture, and the Amazon as something more lasting than a fashionable subject.
Anna Martin interviews writers and couples about the real stories behind Modern Love essays.
Knox and Jamie turn celebrity gossip, film deep dives, and streaming news into weekly comedy.
Two hosts revisit one film, show, or book a week, plus long personal tangents.
A Brazilian journalist spends years reinvestigating unsolved child disappearances in Paraná.
Robert Wright interviews specialists on Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Taiwan, and open-source AI.
A Baltimore bus driver's daily bus-seat reflections on money, faith, and family, signed "God's Boy."
Child marriage is framed as protection failing at the exact moment it should hold.
Comfort is not the simple option here.
Obesity leaves the culture-war lane.
Mamilos #549 contrapõe saturação das telas e retorno dos encontros presenciais, citando shows lotados, museus cheios, clubes de leitura e vinil.
This episode explores career transition possibilities in today's changing job market, discussing personal reinvention, recent tech layoffs like Twitter's 40% cuts, and Brazil's economic context.
This episode explores the invisible rules of daily life and social etiquette that everyone seems to know but many people struggle with in modern society.
This episode explores how misinformation and irregular treatments for obesity and weight control are being promoted on social media, often by health professionals selling unauthorized medications.
A debate on whether to ban social media for children under 16, exploring risks, parental signs, and public policy challenges.
A roundtable discussion exploring how personal changes affect relationships and identity.
This episode analyzes the collapse of world order through geopolitical conflicts, energy disputes, and escalating tensions in regions like Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, and Ukraine.
This episode of Mamilos explores climate change and the future through a conversation with Greenpeace Brasil's Carol Pasquale and Jurema Werneck, focusing on transforming COP results into actionable reality.
This episode explores why talking about oneself remains taboo and offers practical advice on how to confidently promote yourself in interviews, resumes, and LinkedIn without coming across as arrogant.
This republished episode explores how status codes in Brazil define luxury, belonging, and social imagination beyond just price, helping listeners plan their year by understanding the cultural significance of consumption.
This episode features psychoanalyst Maria Homem discussing whether feelings about current global and local crises represent anxiety about the future or simply lucidity, exploring how news affects our bodies and hope.
Dialogue starts with fear.
Consensus is not the missing piece.
A discussion about the central role of family in Brazilian identity, featuring psychoanalyst Vera Iaconelli.
Host Cris Bartz and guests discuss menopause symptoms, depression, and the lack of research on women's health.
This episode analyzes Brazil's tourism industry, its economic impact, and the social barriers to travel within the country.
The hosts introduce a debate on the role of suffering in personal development, with a commercial break for Insider.
Technobrag turns into a lesson in lightness.
This episode explores Brazil's position in global tourism, its economic impact, and the social barriers to travel within the country.
A psychoanalyst discusses the role of family in Brazilian identity and the complexities of family bonds during Christmas.
Host Cris Bartz discusses menopause symptoms and treatment with experts in a confessional-style conversation.
This episode explores the role of suffering as a catalyst for personal growth and societal change, featuring a roundtable debate.
A Brazilian podcast that opens with a warm welcome and introduces a special guest, journalist Ana Paula Padrão, for an in-depth conversation about her career and reinvention.
The hosts and guests discuss how to talk about oneself effectively, balancing self-promotion with humility, and the importance of consistency in building a personal brand.
An interview with author Tati Bernardi about class mobility, belonging, and the contradictions of success and identity.
This episode of Mamilos discusses cognitive aging and healthy aging with experts Natália Gonçalves and Milton Krennic.
A special edition of Mamilos featuring an interview with communicator Valéria Almeida about the power of listening and authentic dialogue.
A roundtable discussion on the challenges and medical aspects of infertility, featuring experts in reproduction and genetics.
A humorous and sarcastic interview with Jacira Doce, discussing identity, self-motivation, and life perspectives.
This episode discusses the subtle forms of hatred, particularly towards women, and how it affects teenagers and children, with a focus on building a culture of gender awareness.
A discussion about the pressures of adult life and a study on behavior and consumption.
This episode discusses restorative justice as a paradigm shift from punishment to cooperation and reconnection, featuring a judge and a coordinator from the São Paulo Court of Justice.