Woo hoo, it's a solar eclipse, a partial one at least, and we're broadcasting live from outside the radio station having some fun talking about what the eclipse has meant to others, means to us, might mean to you, and how Marielena spent the last full solar eclipse. New Moon Solar Eclipse Blessings to YOU! Big thanks to the Radio Kingston Tech Team, Carrie, Eli, Bern and Daniel for making it happen! Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org. Our show music is from Shana Fala...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 320
Today, my guest is Joanna Leffeld , more famously known as the “ Moolah Doula .” She’s worn many roles in her life including certified financial planner, mom, yoga teacher, artist, and hospice volunteer. She was a guest on the show a few years ago where she laid the foundation of what and why she does her work. In the past few years, she's gone deeper into her own healing as it relates to trauma and ancestral trauma. Today she talks about how this relates to her work, how it's helped her surface...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 319
Today on the show I am joined by Martha Williams who has spent her life as a serial creative firebrand. She is an award winning filmmaker , writer, and choreographer, and kept the lights on with creative direction, video production, consulting, coaching and training. After 20 years of following her calling Martha realized that even though she was lucky (or crazy) enough to be making art she was still not making the difference she set out to make. While her art was activist in nature, squeezing o...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 318
Jami Smith is a music journalist and creator of Songs That Saved Your Life , a queer rock history newsletter on Substack. She has also written for The Advocate, OUT magazine, and OUT Traveler. Jami believes that if “Rock & Roll Jeopardy” were still on the air, she would’ve beat Mark McGrath. Her new show on Radio Kingston, " Songs that Saved Your Life " shines a spotlight on the often untold stories of rock & roll. Each week, she’ll celebrate her favorite icons and allies with genres ran...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 317
During this month's installment of Spirituality and Politics, Marielena and I are talking about the important women in our lives. This leads to a conversation about women's role as caretaker and the feminist movement and a slight rant about the patriarchy. Sorry, can't help myself sometimes. Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org. Our show music is from Shana Falana ! Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org ** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REV...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 316
Today I get to welcome back Dr. Amy Novatt a board certified ob-gyn who generously offered her time in the past for monthly conversations about women's reproductive healthcare. She is now the host of GynoCurious , a program that explores the experience of being an ob-gyn, the science that guides their practices and the stories women- cis, trans and nonbinary, have shared with her as they seek health and wellness. Investigating what it means to be a healer and to be healed. It's not a medical sho...
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 315
In the first half of today's show I welcome Kendra Nicole, the CEO of Kendra Nicole™️ & The Finance Femme®, and the creator of Scalable Firms™️ and Peace & Profits™️. After graduating from Clemson University (Corporate Finance and Accounting), Kendra quickly moved up the corporate ladder while working for corporations such as GE. This work led her to pursue her love for small business strategy by founding The Finance Femme®, an accounting and fractional CFO firm. Kendra also hosts an exc...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 314
Admiral Grey is a multidisciplinary artist and performer whose new work, The Human Dream Project, records people describing dreams they have had, and then illustrates the recordings using colorful, surreal puppetry and original music.A multimedia project that continues to expand, Admiral developed a hotline for the project so that people can call in their dreams 24 hours a day, and has plans to create dream phone booths around the world where people can call in from. She has also made stop motio...
Feb 20, 2024•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 313
This month's installment of Spirituality and Politics dives into the subject of political parties. Are they still useful or not? Do we actually need them? Are they causing more harm than good? These are the questions Marielena and I wander through on the show with a little help from this article by Katherine Ellison . She's pro political party with lots of reform, and I am feeling pessimistic and say they've got to go! What do you think??? Here are some more thoughts on the subject . Today’s sho...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 312
Today on the show... Khara Croswaite Brindle is a licensed mental health therapist in private practice in in Denver, Colorado. She holds various roles, including financial therapist, TEDx Speaker, burnout consultant, author, and professor. Her new book is Understanding Ruptured Mother-Daughter Relationships: Guiding the Adult Daughter’s Healing Journey through the Estrangement Energy Cycle (Rowman & Littlefield, July 1, 2023). You can learn more and access a wealth of tools at estrangementen...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 311
WOAH! Starting season 7!?!!!!! Today's show dives into the many benefits of handwriting. Hint: It clarifies thinking; improves understanding, memory, and application; and improves communication. https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/neuroscience-says-1-simple-habit-boosts-brain-connectivity-learning-memory.html https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/how-to-write-amazon-jeff-bezos-memos-meetings-clear-writing-clear-thinking-rule-of-writing.html Then we pivot to a Imbolc /Candlemas discussion. If you're lo...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 310
Nancy Furstinger is the author of nearly 100 books, including many on her favorite topic: animals! She started her writing career in third grade, when her class performed a play she wrote while recovering from chicken pox. Since then, Nancy has been a feature writer for a daily newspaper, a managing editor of trade and consumer magazines, and an editor at two children’s book publishing houses. She shares her home and heart with her partner, big dogs, house rabbits, and a chinchilla (all rescued)...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 309
Natalie Freihon is the founder of Strange Bird Hospitality which currently encompasses The Orchard Townhouse, Nat's on Bank, Nat's on Bleecker and soon Nat's Mountain House. Freihon comes to this role with a wealth of experience in the industry, including: General Manager at restaurants Double Crown, Freemans, Peels, and Mercat; Director of Food and Beverage at Ace Hotel New York, overseeing The Breslin and John Dory; and General Manager at Soho House and Ludlow House, where she led the social c...
Jan 16, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 308
Getting prepared spiritually, politically and mentally for 2024! Using a planner, scheduling life, color coding, scheduling emotions, the conscious bath, receiving, prioiritizing, consciously choosing what makes up your life. It's an election year, a year 8 and in the Major Arcana, the 8 is The Strength or The Justice, depending upon which structure you use. What does this mean for us? Also, Chinese Astrology - getting amped for the Power Crone phase, plus this week's New Moon ! Today’s show was...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 307
Happy New Year! Happy Birthday to my MOM! It's an 8 year... what does that mean for you ? Today we're casting some musical spells for 2024, imagining peace, love, community, togetherness and a dreamy year for everyone. You'll need to find them on the playlist to enjoy ! To inspire your thoughts and actions in 2024. Don't Mope, Have Hope from NPR. Ways to inspire JOY ! Hope you all are blessed with your best year yet! 2024, to not keeping score! Warren and I talk about resolutions before the show...
Jan 02, 2024•42 min•Ep. 306
Alana Connelly has been an intuitive her whole life, and studying the healing arts for over 25 years. She struggled to find her way after her husband passed in his early 40's. Watching someone you love more than life itself leave this world leaves an indescribable pain and loss. After allowing herself the time to feel the overwhelming sadness, she found herself in Bali in a yoga teacher training that didn't go as planned, but it allowed her to reconnect with herself and eventually pursue a path ...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 305
Today Marielena and I wander through various subjects related to Politics and Spirituality... Starting with Pablo Helguera’s Método de Discursos Sociales . How do you resolve conflict? Start with naming the problem to make sure you actually understand it. This meanders over to my curiosities about Marina Abromovic's Rhythm Series ('73-'74), and themes of the sword, and power over others... Here's the Article; Education: Why not a race to the top? - that inspires us to think about how to chance e...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 304
Today I follow up on the Archetype Cards we've seen the past few weeks (Sword and Flame) and fold their themes into an end of the year ritual to let go and align with your truth as guided by the Aletheia card. This includes a fun little exercise to cultivate internal love. Here's the playlist that we listened to. Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org. Our show music is from Shana Falana! Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org ** Please: SUBSCRIBE to th...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 303
Today on the show I get to chat with Francesca Hoffman , a multi-instrumentalist, singer, event producer and entrepreneur based in Kingston, who is currently in the process of opening her new queer-forward performance venue & bar called Unicorn Bar (formerly The Beverly Lounge). A classically trained flutist and self-taught guitarist, ukulele player and percussionist, she is also a co-founder of Hudson Valley-based brass band, Brasskill and the Hudson Valley Brassroots Festival , a member of...
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 302
Alicia Mikles is an artist, performer, creator, vocalist and yogini who creates sewn three-dimensional fiber works, acrylic paintings, digital drawings, and collage. She is a part of The Goddess Party , a vender at the Red Owl Collective , and is performing with Shana Falana and the Acana at the Local Saugertise on Dec. 1. opening for Sandy Bell. Today, Alicia shares her story... of growing up in Syracuse, performing with the Rainbow Connection, making art, studying art, moving to NYC, life's le...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 301
It's Politics and Spirituality with Theresa and Marielena Ferrer. This month we're talking about open mindedness inspired by this NPR article on the same subject. Here's the Implicit Association Test that was mentioned during our conversation. Prior to jumping into this subject we do revisit the subject of money following up from my conversation with Beth Bengtson from Working for Women about their screening of the film $AVVY . Happy New Moon! Here's the report I read from that was very much ali...
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 300
Today I am joined by Tracy Sayre, co-founder of Moonshot Initiative (formerly Women's Weekend Film Challenge ) who helps thousands of women build networks and break down barriers in the film and television industries. Through Moonshot , Tracy has produced nearly 40 short films. She is an award-winning screenwriter and wrote and produced “Lily + Mara” with her writing partner, Caroline Roberts (AP of “The Little Mermaid”), which screened on PBS and had its world premiere at the Rhode Island Inter...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 299
Today I welcome Beth Bengtson from Working for Women back to the show. She catches us up on what they've been up to in supporting their mission to invest capital (dollars and skills) from businesses into nonprofits supporting women who want to enter and stay in the workforce to become financially independent. They are co-hosting a screening of the film $AVVY . The film dives deep into the complexities surrounding women and money, uncovering the hidden narratives that have influenced our percepti...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 298
Last week I put out a call, and these women answered. Struck by a recent conversation I had about war vs. peace, I realized the misogyny in the idea of peace - as something naive, weak, emotional and decidedly feminine. So I wanted to double down on my wish for peace and 5 women showed up to help do just that, offering words, sound, meditation, breath, prayer, and love. First is a meditative guided visualization from the wonderful Seaira O'Brien , multidimensional healer and word alchemist. She ...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 297
This week's show welcomes back Phyllis Hjorth, artist and bodyworker, who shares about her current exhibit, "A year in my Mother's Life" 1924 currently on exhibit at Taste Buds Cafe in Red Hook with an opening reception this Friday, October 20th from 4-6pm. We get a glimpse into Phyllis' mom, and more specifically, the side of her that was often forgotten after having her children. Phyllis shows and shares about a few paintings inspired by her mom's college "yearbook," and then we get a glimpse ...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 296
This month during our monthly conversation about Spirituality and Politics, Marielena Ferrer and I delve into the idea of the Sabbath, a day of rest. Inspired by this New Yorker article , we talk about the history of the Sabbath, what it would mean if we all could enjoy a day of rest, the complexity and inequity in the concept of rest, how we relate to it personally, and what a universally accepted day of rest might do for community and global relations. Let us know what you think! Here's your M...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 295
This week I have the pleasure of sitting down with Sue Silverstream, a Visual Artist, Singer, Musician, Dancer and Yogi/ni who has been practicing and teaching Yoga and the Sound Healing Arts for over 4 decades. She's been a friend and friendly face who I admire and look up to, and she's and I will be collaborating in sound this weekend for the O+ Festival . Sue share stories from her life, how she found yoga and sound healing and little nuggets of wisdom about life and how she lives it. I hope ...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 294
Today I share my conversation with Kingston High School Art Teachers Amy Purdy, Jenn Brannigan-Tyler and Jessica Price about their students' participation in the O+ Festival . Amy Purdy is the Lead Art Teacher at the High School and works with the National Art Honor Society and teaches ceramics and jewelry. Jenn Brannigan-Tyler teaches the Advanced Painting art students, and Jessica Price teaches the Digital Photo students. Our conversation touches on their students' experience in interpreting t...
Sep 26, 2023•55 min•Ep. 293
In the first half of this week's show I get to sit down with Nandini Austin , a Certified Ayurvedic Movement Coach. We hear about Nandini's journey to wellness, how Ayurveda impacts her life, what to consider from an Ayurvedic perspective in our transition to Autumn, how she developed Global Dance Fusion and where you can find her leading others in dance. She's leading a class during the O+ Festival on Saturday, October 7th at 2pm on Wall Street to kick of the ExpO+. You can sign up for her blog...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 292
This week on the show, Marielena and I discuss the "Ideal Mother" inspired by this NPR programming . There are three myths discussed that we explore together and then some: the maternal instinct, the doting housewife, and the welfare queen. Here's the New Moon Report ! Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org. Our show music is from Shana Falana! Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org ** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are lis...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 291
