To celebrate the 400th episode of this podcast, I talk to my friend and fellow podcaster Alyssa Benjamin, a strategist who works with values-based brands. Her podcast,Our Nature, explores the methods, systems and practices that bring us into greater alignment with the natural world. Our conversation covers finding “inner stability”, career pivots, leaving New York, dating, and more.
This week I spoke with Jennie Edgar, a visual artist and founder of So Textual, a platform that promotes community around reading. She also writes and designs for thoughtful brands to refine their editorial voice and aesthetic expression. We talk about styles of reading, affect theory, book culture, literary artists we love, and what it means to be a narrative-led person.
Jocelyn Kelly Reid has 15 years of sales and marketing experience and now helps women around money and finance in a unique way. We talk about trauma, burnout, needing open space, working through financial blocks, the importance of directly communicating needs, and more. This episode ends with my lovely conversation with midwestern mattress maker Tim Masters, founder of My Green Mattress.
This week’s episode is the second half of my conversation with Virgie Tovar: author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts on weight-based discrimination and body image. Part 2 features the end of our over-two-hour Zoom conversation as well as clips from previous conversations and a special guest, our mutual friend Isabel Foxen Duke.
Virgie Tovar--author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts on weight-based discrimination and body image--is back on the podcast! I’ve been eager to talk to her again ever since last summer's episode. We talked over Zoom for two hours and our conversation covered dressing rooms, letting go of a normative timeline, control, markers of success, happiness research, and more.
This week I spoke to Brendan Francis Newnam, host of the travel podcastNot Lost. We talk about how he made the show and I picked out a few clips that particularly landed with me, including the balance between sharing vulnerably and holding back, how our trauma impacts our openness to relationships, and thoughts on loneliness, rejection, and connection.
This week's episode is part two of my conversation with artist Kimmy Quillin. In this second half of our nearly-three-hour Zoom conversation, we talk more about her process—how she creates conditions for creativity, incorporating chance in her work, and what she calls intentional chaos. We end the episode with questions I gathered from a bunch of our mutual friends to ask her.
This episode is part 1 of my conversation with artist Kimmy Quillin. We begin by talking about mornings, her coffee routines and how being heliotropic, time of day, and color inform her painting. She talks about working in different mediums, the realties of living as an artist, our mutual love of Craigslist, highs and lows of releasing art and how she takes care of herself throughout it all.
This episode is a conversation with art advisor, curator, and author Maria Brito about career and creative pivots when things aren’t working, reinvention, using intuition in work and art, the importance of solitude, and much more. Maria's kindness is always evident throughout and she gives me gentle and wise advice, which I’ve since been working on.
Sam Salad is not only hilarious, but he’s also humble, original, creative, and truly one of the best writers—and especially copywriters—I’ve ever met. Sam with his partner Rebma are the designers behind the LA-based clothing line MEALS, which "bakes 'food culture' into apparel, blurring the lines between the clothes we eat and the food we wear.”