Mary Haddad is an artist and student who took an idea she had about how to respond to the repeated destruction of a Black Lives Matter sign and turned that idea into a transformational, collaborative, creative experience for students of both the Oakwood Friends School, where the sign had been destroyed, and Spackenkill community which she's a part of. The result of her efforts is a beautiful mural commemorating the lives of just a few who have been killed by police in the past several years. Als...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 170
Kayleigh Stack is an activist, artist, community steward, medicine womxn and a member of the neurodivergent community assuming the various roles of multidisciplinary performance artist, ethnographic researcher, oral historian and acupuncture clinician. Over the past ten years she has orchestrated spaces for people to share recorded audios of poignant histories and stories oriented around critical social and political narratives to be presented in an Oral History Performance Initiative: The Commu...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 169
Silvia Federici is an Italian and American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist and anarchist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor, and she has also worked as a teacher in Nigeria. She was co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, and an organizer with the wages for housework campaign. In 1973, she helped start Wages for Housework groups in the US. In 1975 she pu...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 168
It's the return of Marielena Ferrer-Harrington! She was a contributor to the book Espiritualidad y Politica which was published 10 years ago, and she feels it's time to start revisiting these subjects from today's lens. Mariaelena is the Executive Director of Humanamente — a diversity and inclusion consulting organization, Chair of the Athena Network New York — a psychosocial support network in the area of social services, health, and specifically in mental health, for immigrants experiencing ps...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 167
Spring Rebirthing time over here at i want what SHE has . With the shift to Moon-Daze comes a rebirthing of sorts that has slowly been unfolding since the beginning of the year. Stepping into our role as the antidote to the patriarchy, celebrating the feminine as embodied by women identifying, those who honor their intuition, feeling, creativity, community and take good care of themselves and others. I couldn't have wished for better guests to begin this new unfolding, the ones and only... I ONE...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 166
Happy Women's History Month! In collaboration with Women's History Month Kingston , we bring the discussion of Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch to a close this week, diving into Chapter 5, "Colonization and Christianization." We went way off text, but had a very meaningful (to me) discussion about some vitally important topics. Sassafras has copies of the book if you want to read and revisit this in more detail. Let us know if you do. We can keep the conversation going... Here's Carolita'...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 165
Happy Women's History Month! In collaboration with Women's History Month Kingston , we continue the discussion of Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch . This week we're discussing Chapter 4, "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe," summed up here: “You are the true Hyenas, that allure us with the fairness of your skins and when folly has brought us within your reach, you leap upon us. You are the traitors of Wisdom, the impediment to Industry... the clogs to Virtue and the goads that drive us to all...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 164
Happy Women's History Month! In collaboration with Women's History Month Kingston , we continue the discussion of Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch . This week we're discussing Chapter 3, "The Great Caliban:The Struggle Against the Rebel Body." In Silvia Federici's words, "[o]ne of the preconditions for capitalist development was the process that Michel Foucault defined as the ‘disciplining of the body,’ which in my view consisted of an attempt by state and church to transform the individu...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 163
Happy Women's History Month! In collaboration with Women's History Month Kingston , we continue the discussion of Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch . This week we're discussion Chapter 2, "The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women: Constructing 'Difference' in the 'Transition to Capitalism'" and it's myriad of topics including: Capitalist Accumulation and the Accumulation of Labor in Europe; Land Privatization in Europe, the Production of Scarcity and the Separation of Product...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 162
Happy Women's History Month! In collaboration with Women's History Month Kingston , we begin the discussion of Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch . This week we're discussion section one, "All the World Needs a Jolt," and it's myriad of topics including "Serfdom as a Class Relation," "The Struggle on the Commons," "Liberty and Social Division," "The Heretical Movements," "The Politicization of Sexuality," "The Black Death and the Labor Crisis," and the rise of the State to counter the peasa...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 161
Today, I welcome back Jordan Scruggs, Director of the New Start for Women Program at SUNY Ulster . She was a guest way back in the day on Nov. 7, 2018 for Episode No. 42 and then again on Sept. 12, 2019 for Episode No. 86 . I obviously love her! Jordan is joined today by two phenomenal women. Arlene Coffey is 32 years old, a proud mama and a lover of life. She began New Start for Women through SUNY Ulster in July of 2020, where she is currently working on a certificate in General Management. Bei...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 160
Malebo Sephodi is a South African writer and researcher. With over 6 years corporate and just over 20 years community development experience, Malebo has worked and spoken in various parts of Africa, Europe and the Americas. She has worked with many Schools, NGO’s and the private sector tackling numerous socio-economic projects. She has been listed by Okay Africa as top 100 women in Africa in 2018 and a Mail and Guardian Top 200 Young People in 2018 . She was the recipient of the Fabulous Woman B...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 159
Rosalie Frankel is originally from the Bronx, but has made a home in many fantastic places like Vieques, Puerto Rico and Manhattan, and now calls Kingston her home. She has been making Collage since Kindergarten, setting figures free and featuring them in new stories. The work is an attempted examination of undeniable confusion inherent in the dichotomy between mirth and melancholy. She is exploring the lively stew of relationships as well as emotions. Her art is the vehicle to expose both the g...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 158
Edie Pijpers is a self-taught artist who picked up her first guitar at 20 in L.A. to learn a couple of chords so she could start expressing and writing. She learned to record and produce her own music and the year 2020 gave rise to a brand new album We Are The Ones . Edie is also a painter who started painting in her late twenties in Nashville which led her to creating and publishing several children’s books . She also plays around with animation, see her short film “ Day ” and music videos . He...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 157
Today's guest is Maryline Damour of Kingston Design Connection and Damour Drake . After many years working in marketing, business development and public relations for firms such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC and Accenture, Maryline returned to school to study interior design at Parsons The New School for Design. Originally from Haiti, Maryline has been actively involved in interior design projects in Haiti since the earthquake of 2010. She is currently developing a vocational school in Léo...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 156
Tracy Givens Hunter is Director of the Navigator Program at Public Policy and Education Fund of New York. She is an active practitioner of Restorative Justice Practices and Circle Keeping with Dutchess County Mediation Center and Westchester Restorative Justice Center. Tracy has over 20 years experience as an Activist and organizer regarding Racial Justice, Women Rights, Criminal justice, People’s Institute Survival and Beyond and Human Rights with organizations such as the NAACP, ACLU, BLM, and...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 155
Cory Nakasue is an astrology counselor, writer, and teacher. She is a family-initiated and self-taught astrologer in the Evolutionary and Psychological traditions, and is currently studying the ancient traditions. She has received additional tutelage from Joseph Addeo (NCGR), and participates in ongoing studies in tarot and ancient wisdom. She has over 25 years of experience in movement arts as a teacher and therapist, and has been mentored by some of the finest practitioners working in psycholo...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 154
Slipping into the New Year with some deep thoughts about the things I think about. Like... revisiting my last year's resolution to practice non-judgment and how I failed at it because of things like Kundalini Yoga and QAnon ( the irony is not lost on me that as I was doing my show they were storming the capitol ), my adjustment and recommitment to non-judgment inspired by Charles Eisenstein , vibration, serendipity, signs from the Universe, devotion, self-care and starting a book club! Who's in?...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 153
Belinda Farrell is a Certified Master Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, Huna Practitioner, and Reconnective Healing Practitioner. She's had an exceptionally adventurous life, teaching third grade for five years in Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, playing the character Snow White at Disneyland, as a TV News Reporter for KABC Channel 7 in Hollywood, working on the staff of Senator Charles H. Percy (Illinois) in Washington, D.C., firewalked 18 times with Tony Robbins, swam with dolphins, was a f...
Dec 31, 2020•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 152
I'm doing cartwheels about today's guest! Rachel Bernstein, LMFT , has been working with victims of cults and emotional abusers for 27 years. She believes that given the right set of circumstances, it’s all too easy for anyone to fall prey to sociopaths and manipulators. She is the host of IndoctriNation : A weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and how to protect yourself from systems of control. She wanted to give survivors a chance to tell their stories and for experts to teach us what...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 151
Susan Slotnick is a Visual Artist, Choreographer, Dancer, Writer, and Social Justice Volunteer. For 16 years, she has gone behind the walls at The Woodbourne Correctional facility and DFY (division for youth prison) every Friday and Sunday to bring the joy of modern dance to incarcerated men and boys under the auspices of RTA Rehabilitation through the Arts. She founded Figures-In-Flight Dance School and in 1995, the Company attained professional status, launching a paid tour of New York State s...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 150
Shauna Keating has a pretty awesome career as a user experience designer, teaches design for the web as an adjunct professor, and is a mentor at Thinkful 's UX/UI Design program. She's serving as President of AIGA Upstate New York and is a Co-Organizer and Emcee of the Hudson Valley Tech Meetup . She believes in building inclusive and friendly software. A work-life balance is also important to her, and that includes time for roller derby. Erin Barth-Dwyer handles Marketing and Business Developme...
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 149
Kelly Lyndgaard is the CEO and President of Unshattered and has been a leader and trailblazer for women throughout her lifetime. In addition to her impact in the non-profit world, she spent 16 years in the IT industry building, running, and transforming technology organizations. In 2015, she stepped away from her executive career to focus solely on the social enterprise she founded named Unshattered. Kelly is an engineer and physicist by training, but a problem solver and strategist at heart. In...
Dec 03, 2020•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 148
Today's guest is Grace Villamil , a multidisciplinary artist exploring interconnectivity between humans & nature through installation, video, and sound. She has performed live-video manipulations as accompaniment to electronic & live instruments in venues over the globe. Her work TAYO was done in collaboration with Ione (Pauline Oliveros’s life partner) and Lisa Kelley (founder of the deep listening community) to bring awareness to the separation of children and families & give suppo...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 147
Tamika Dunkley is the CEO of Seasoned Delicious Foods , a Registered Nurse for over a decade specializing in cardiac critical care, a dietitian, a Member of Saugerties Police Reform and Reinvention Committee and a Board Member of Harambee as well as Seasoned Gives . Seasoned Delicious is a dynamic Gourmet Foods Company located in the Hudson Valley, formed in 2016 with the goal to provide a range of delectable, health-based food products. In September of this year, they opened up the SDF cafe in ...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 146
Today I get to speak with two creative latinas, Perla and Martha. They've collaborated together on several projects including this short, OFF OFF OFF OFF Broadway , and their new radio show "No me Digas" on Radio Kingston. Martha Lorena Preve Ayora @martha_preve ✨one half of the dynamic duo behind No Me Digas on Radio Kingston. She is a Mexican theater and film actress, writer, director and producer. She is the co-founder of Something from Abroad @somethingfromabroad an Indie theater company bas...
Nov 14, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 145
Seems like a good day to focus on hope and healing. Allow me to introduce Lorry Salluzzi who is a stress management therapist, Lupus survivor, psychic medium, Reiki master, healer and teacher. She was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus in 1988 when her doctor could not be sure she would live through the night. Medications saved her, but she was not getting any better. Through the practice of Reiki and Guided Imagery Meditation, she achieved full remission 2 years later and has had no evidence of the ...
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 144
Beth Bengtson believes that real change happens when business talent supports non-profit missions, when women achieve economic independence, and personal passion meets organizational focus! She started WorkingForWomen (W4W) to provide a new operating structure that taps into all these pillars. She learned the power of purpose-driven business practices through years of education and professional experience. She has an MBA from Schiller International University in Paris, France, and a BS in manage...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 143
Gemma Calinda is an Advocate for People with Developmental Disabilities who is currently working as a field organizer for Caring Majority Rising, a political movement of seniors, people with disabilities, family caregivers, and domestic and home care workers. At the age of 16, Gemma was diagnosed with progressive Multiple Sclerosis in the midst of a flourishing athletic career. She is currently confined to a wheelchair, and her mobility is limited. In addition, the multiple sclerosis has caused ...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 142
83 years young, Barbara Sarah, has brought a lot of goodness to the world and shows no signs of slowing down. Following a breast cancer diagnosis in 1992, she left a 20-year career as a school social worker on Long Island and chose to dedicate herself to work in oncology. Founder of the Oncology Support Program at HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston, she is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NY State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and the NY State Gover...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 141
