MONTHLY MEMO: Your guide to the crucial and, sometimes, comical events, holidays, protests and commemorations in October 2025

Read on to give yourself the conversational ammunition you need to be the smartest person in the room -- or the Zoom -- for the month ahead.

We begin the tenth month of the year with a government shutdown, which will likely be the focus of much of the news coming out of Washington.

But life is about more than politics.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and home to many exciting events including the World Series, Halloween, Indigenous Peoples’ Day (sometimes referred to as Columbus Day),…