Happpppppy New Year listeners! We're Girl Talking about What did you do for New Years Eve? What does New Year's mean to you? Do you set intentions for the year? We did, sort of. Our first guest today is Meghan Don , is an Award-Winning Author, Multi-Faith Minister, and an Initiate of the Sophian Lineage. She has worked extensively with the Christian mystics, the Kabbalistic teachings, and Jungian psychology. She is renowned for her work in helping to raise the feminine consciousness and confiden...
Jan 02, 2019•2 hr•Ep. 50
Happy Holidays Folks! We taped this show just for you!!! We hope you're all having a good holiday. Are you doing ok? Do you need to listen to the Food Psych Podcast because you're having some food issues coming up around the holidays? Need some Buddhism wisdom from the Ram Dass Podcast ? We know that the holidays can be a challenging time. Theresa and Shana share some stories about the concept of 'freedom' and the freedom you get from really experiencing the challenges of life, and how it can he...
Dec 26, 2018•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 49
Hello Hello!!! How has your week been? We're gonna guess BIZZY!!! OK! Today on the show we wanted to talk about volunteering... it seems like this time of year folks come out to help those less fortunate, which is WONDERFUL but we also wanted to let you know that we can think about helping out all year round! We are also giving a shout out to our listeners to tell us: what topics do you want us to cover in our next season? who do you want us to interview? what round-table discussion would you li...
Dec 19, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 48
Hello listeners! Shana is BACK in the studio yay! We also are asking our listeners for feedback and idea's as we are signed up for another season here, we are going to revamp our show, is there anything you're looking for, interested in that we're not covering? Tell us! she@iwantwhatshehas.org Amara Projansky is our first guest today! She is a Hudson Valley native, and also the Founder and CEO of Luminary Media , the publisher of Chronogram , Upstate House , Upstater , Explore the Hudson Valley ...
Dec 12, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 47
ONE MORE WEEK and Shana returns. Calling in from Ohio today. As we begin playing clips from the film RBG, we are still circling this conversation around anger as we ponder Associate Justice Ginsburg's mother's advice to her, "Be a lady, don’t be overcome by useless emotions like anger." Useless? Is it? Let us know what you think! Our first guest today is Liz Baker, a Kingston community builder and uplifter who co-founded Broadway Arts as a place to bring community together and encourage creative...
Dec 05, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 46
Theresa is flying solo today while Shana is out on tour and winding her way back east! Theresa welcomes guests Sarah Bisceglie founder of SEB Visions and Jeanne Brooks founder of Virago Futures for a lively show about anger, energy, healing, design thinking and truth telling. Sarah's work can be summed up as striving to make the world a better place by scaling great ideas. As a trained artist and healer, she integrates her many talents and passions into her visioning work to build mission driven...
Nov 28, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 45
Hello listeners! Hello! Happy gratitude week. Shana is calling in from the road, she's in the middle of her tour and at her mom's in Oregon on the west coast. We are wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving, and we talk about gratitude today. Our first guest is Nada Khodlova a licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Board Certified Dance Movement Psychotherapist. Nada has served so many over the years in a clinical setting and is now bringing the healing art of dance to women and girls as The Dancing ...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 44
Hello Hello! Shana is calling in from Santa Barbara, and still out on tour. During the week Theresa and Shana share various articles and podcasts with each other, this week Shana sent Theresa a new This American Life podcast episode "But That's What Happened", it peeks into the secret conversations that happen in the Mormon religion between bishops and young women and men around sexuality. Check it out and let us know what you think, it might be cathartic for those of you who have experienced th...
Nov 14, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 43
Happy election results! Let's hear it for the rainbow!!! And the women who are a part of that rainbow. It's about time politics looked different. As this NY Times Article explores, the women "marched, they ran, and on Election Day, they won." Way to do it ladies, of both parties! Shana's calling in from the road on her 2018 Fall Tour, and today she and Theresa thanked all of those who volunteered and canvassed and worked so hard against the odds to get their candidates elected. Congratulations t...
Nov 07, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 42
Hello Hello! Happy Halloweeeeeen!!! Theresa is BACK and in the house Today on the show we premiered Shana's new Depeche Mode cover track of " Stripped " . Our first interview today is Anne Brannen , aka Pandora. She is a Wiccan Priestess, also works in reclaiming the Feri tradition, she is a retired professor of Medieval Studies, now living with her wife in Albuquerque New Mexico. She is pursuing her artistic and poetic side after years of other musings. Shana originally heard her interviewed on...
Oct 31, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 41
Hello listeners!!! Theresa called in from the badlands in South Dakota!! Check out her instagram for photos from her current road-trip HERE appropriately tagged #theresagongswest. In our catch up opening discussion Theresa tells us a story about The Moon Maiden of the Cahuilla tribe and their folklore or the creation of the moon! And what would you know, today's the full moon. Good job T.... Theresa reminds us that the moon is symbolic of water, water is very healing, when we work with water it ...
Oct 24, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 40
On today's show Shana's co- host is Lisa Padovani ! She is a dynamic costume designer, best known for her work on Party Monster, Mad Men, Gotham and Boardwalk Empire (to name only a few)... we begin: Have you all seen the show Transparent yet? Lisa just listened to an interview with creator Jill Soloway on NPR about her new book "She Wants It: Desire, Power and Toppling the Patriarchy" . Lisa loved the interview of course, Jill is fascinating, but she was noticing the challenge non gender confor...
Oct 17, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 39
Hello listeners! How are you? Shana here... Theresa is calling in from the road, she's on her way to Joshua Tree in California for a (((gong)))) retreat!! Amazing right? When we were discussing what to talk about today on our show, I mentioned the NY Times podcast "The Daily", they ran an interview with high schoolers in NYC talking about their take on the Kavanaugh decision it's called , "Who Is Believed and Who is Blamed". . Ultimately we wanted to just give a shout out to women who maybe expe...
Oct 10, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 38
Hello everyone! Some quick shoutouts today in the beginning of our show. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Documentary we've all been waiting for RBG is now online! We will be grabbing clips from the movie and playing them on our show in the future, so excited for this! You can watch it at home here. Shana is also again reminding us to make sure we are registered to vote, and for all questions voting related you can go to Vote Save America, fast and easy website to help you get ready for our upcoming elec...
Oct 03, 2018•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 37
Today on the show we honor our local community and their work on the #metoo Kingston panel that was held at lastnight at our local LGBTQ center. Also we discuss the Kavanaugh protests, and the power of young Yale women speaking out for the future of women's rights. Shana also wanted to share New York Times, The Daily podcast on revisiting what happened to Anita Hill in 1991 and what is happening today with Kavanaugh. How far have we come? Our first guest is Stephanie Monseu, co-founder of the Bi...
Sep 26, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 36
Hello lady listeners, how are you? Busy? We are! We still find the time tho to keep up with women in politics. In keeping with supporting the #metoo movement, we talk about the need to keep supporting women who are coming forth with their stories of sexual harassment and abuse. The COURAGE it takes to come forward!!! Please believe the women! Shout out Hillary Harvey's "The Voice" show here at Radio Kingston, she interviewed two local women who were arrested at the Brett Kavanaugh supreme court ...
Sep 19, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 35
JUST DO IT! Theresa gives a shout out to NIKE and their endorsement of Colin Kaepernick, (and surprisingly Shana reveals that she said 'no' to NIKE licensing one of her songs back in the day..wha??) Since tomorrow are the NY primaries we also talk about some of the candidates that are running, and we both agree that we feel we are due for a change in NY politics! One of Shana's favorite political podcasts, Pod Save America aired an interview with Stephanie Shriock of Emily's List and Shana wante...
Sep 12, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 34
Today on the show Shana and Theresa dive into their own personal stories around gynecology. Shana shares about her early years on birth control pills and near cancerous HPV diagnosis in her early 30's. And Theresa shares about her recent experiences getting much closer with gynecologists through her struggle trying to control her hormones both before and after IVF. We play a clip from the documentary 'She's Beautiful When She's Angry' on the women's movement and women's reproductive rights and t...
Sep 05, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 33
Today we're shouting out to Vote Save America, AND the NY Times podcast from last weekend, The Last "Year of the Woman". Our first guest is Judy Linn, photographer and Vassar professor, best known for her book Patti Smith 1969-1976 : Photographs by Judy Linn . Judy talks about her relationship to photography which started out quite rocky and quickly becomes the thing that she needs to try and figure out leading her to a lifelong relationship with the art form, and a very successful career. Judy ...
Aug 29, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 32
We're shouting out Emily Furr (full disclosure, she's Theresa friend) and Emily's amazingly feminist visual art show! Our first guest is Tina Barry , writer and author of Mall Flower who is working on a special art exhibit called The Virgina Project. The Virginia Project is a visual depiction of the fictionalized stories of Virginia Haggard and Jean McNeil. Tired of women like Haggard being eclipsed in history by their famous partners, Tina began crafting a mostly fictionalized account of Haggar...
Aug 22, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 31
Yay, another episode full of amazingness! First, we check in and give a little nod to the plusses of social media, massage therapist Dana Ronquist and a video Shana saw on Dana's Facebook page celebrating full figured humans. It's time for a HOT FLASH and today Shana is blowing off some steam about all the pundits who insist upon focusing on the negative. INSTEAD support Solutions Journalism . There are certainly others, but Solutions Journalism is an example of how we can do journalism differen...
Aug 15, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 30
Today Shana and Theresa Girl Talk on the state of #metoo after tuning into 1A's coverage of CBS's handling of the allegations against Les Moonves and how corporations are preparing across the board for continued allegations to surface. Jacinta Bunnell brightens the studio with her creativity and enthusiasm for her feelings. Jacinta is an artist, activist, author and co-founder of B.R.A.W.L. She shares how studying Philosophy helped to shape her ability to think critically and how that in conjunc...
Aug 08, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 29
Shana's holding down the studio while Theresa is reporting in from Wisconsin. In Girl Talk, we talk about a new show idea of street interviews of hip grannies that Shana has affectionately dubbed "biddies." Which leads us to a shout out to Antonio from la Voz and his coverage of Grannies Respond and their caravan to the border at Texas to protest the government's treatment of immigrants seeking asylum. Then Shana and Theresa take a trip down memory lane to talk about life as they remembered it a...
Aug 01, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 28
In this week's Girl Talk, Shana shares with listeners the New York City initiative to include more women in the city's monuments. If you live in one of the five boroughs you can submit your nomination here . Theresa shares about the resistance she is having about being asked to sign an affidavit for a sexual discrimination lawsuit against a former employer and how she found solace in a post shared online at The Nib about why women don't speak up or want to protect the person who's done something...
Jul 25, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 27
In this week's Girl Talk, Shana and Theresa discuss the New York Public Library's Podcast episode featuring Aja Monet interviewing Roxanne Gay and the documentary film, She's Beautiful When She's Angry. Tiziana Agnello , Stylist and Founder of sustainable pet accessory line, Love Thy Beast talks about how she made it in NYC starting out with $500. She's shares her journey from student and textile lover finding her dream job at a fabric store to a styling career and eventually the opening of her ...
Jul 18, 2018•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 26
In this week's Girl Talk, Shana shares a tip on a new podcast from Dana Falsetti , a self defined "fat" yoga teacher who's podcast dives into confidence, authenticity, critical thinking, body justice, inclusivity and awareness. Theresa offers up another Morning Matcha podcast on emotional metabolism with Dr. Habib Sadeghi which she found helpful in better understanding the benefits of mindfulness and not collecting residual emotional build up from moment to moment. HOT FLASH! Shana's having a ho...
Jul 11, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 25
It's Independence Day, and today we're Girl Talking about the meaning of independence for ourselves and for everyone. For those of you wanting to work on your own white privilege, check out Wild Mystic Woman on Instagram. Shana and Theresa continue the conversation around eating habits and healing ourselves, freeing ourselves you might say from the emotional pull of food, and Shana shares from her journaling on her own personal beliefs. If you want support in this conversation around intuitive e...
Jul 04, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 24
Today we switch things up and extend Girl Talk to go deep into Geneen Roth's book, Women Food and God. Shana shares her personal story about her own relationship to food and dieting. After recently dipping back in to dieting after having believed she'd healed her relationship to food and herself, she opened herself up to learning more about the healing that she needs. We talked about the importance of being open to learning about ourselves and to compassionately witnessing ourselves, to listenin...
Jun 27, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 23
In this week's Girl Talk, Shana and Theresa talk about feeling insecure and how social media fuels this. Maiko Hata , jazz singer, joins us in the studio to talk about being a music therapist and the power of music to heal, how she finally chose to follow her heart and her desire to become a jazz singer, how she struggles with saying no in order to say yes to herself and how she maintains such a mindful and peaceful approach to life. You can follow her on Facebook for updates on her performances...
Jun 20, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 22
With Theresa calling in from her family visit in Wisconsin, she and Shana talk about what her nieces are up to, getting a feel on what it's like to be a young girl in today's world. Theresa shares her interview with Maria Jansdotter Farr and Emma and Jordan, two New Paltz High School students, participating in the Girls Inc. program and their podcast In Her Voice which digs into the topics of Toxic Masculinity, Gender-based Violence and Conditioned Sexism. Shana shares her interview with Alison ...
Jun 13, 2018•2 hr•Ep. 21
