Arpana Rayamajhi is a Nepalese artist, jeweler + actor currently creating in New York. I was lucky enough to sit down with Arpana during a pivotal moment in not only her career, but her life. Arpana vulnerably shares the many lessons and hardships of this past year and how she’s working through it all. We chat about her upbringing, what it was like to be raised by artists while also growing up in a country where the arts are valued culturally but not seen as a viable means of income. We explore ...
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Tonya Papanikolov is the magical human behind my absolute favorite medicinal mushroom company Rainbo. Rainbo is inspired by a reverence for nature + its healing properties and a desire to reconnect people back to this innate wisdom. Tonya has been on a healing journey since she was 16 years old and has devoted her life’s work to helping people become healthier and more vibrant versions of themselves through functional nutrition, lifestyle and mycotherapy. Today Tonya opens up about her own heali...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Jenna Levine turned a childhood passion into a career when she started her line of non-toxic skincare, LINNE Botanicals. Today she shares how following her curiosity led to discovering her true calling. What makes Jenna’s approach to skincare stand out to me is her mindset about feeding your skin like you would feed your body. She focuses on promoting your skin’s health while also promoting the health of our planet. In our conversation We discuss the science behind the botanicals she uses, how t...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Laura Silverman is a creative director and the founding naturalist of The Outside Institute - a gem located in the Catskills that connects people to the healing and transformative powers of Nature through guided hikes, foraging, wildcrafting workshops and botanical mixology. Laura’s desire to share her deep love of Nature inspired this venture. By nurturing humanity’s innate affinity for the wild, she hopes to inspire joyful awareness and an essential reciprocity between all beings. The Outside ...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Alyssa Benjamin Is a writer, brand strategist and host of Our Nature. As Alyssa describes it….We have a biological need to connect with our environment. And yet, so many of us, have distanced ourselves from nature, favoring the comforts that technology and modern culture bring us. She began to notice the further we are from the natural world, the further we are from ourselves, and in turn, the less healthy, less happy we are in general. She created Our Nature to change that. Today Alyssa shares ...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Tara Thomas is a chef + consultant working to decolonize food systems. Tara is a true believer that food can be our greatest catalyst to combat social, environmental, and health issues. In this conversation Tara shares how investing in a culinary experiences at its core is investing in culture and helps clarify the difference between inspiration and appropriation. She speaks on the importance of food sustainability and how we can move as a society away from wealth to balance and equity. Though t...
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Nitsa Citrine is is an artist, alchemist, photographer, and host of the podcast Soundfood. She grew up at the Esalen Institute - a creative community near Big Sur. I was so curious about Nitsa’s childhood and how growing up surrounded in wellness and healing arts impacted the path her life took as an adult. We of course talk about adaptogens, herbs, and nourishment of all kinds, but I think my favorite part of our conversation is when Nitsa dives into what it means to really be “in tune” with ou...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 17 min
After starting out as a writer and editor, Verena von Pfetten was craving something new. With her co-founder, David, they started the print publication Gossamer. If you are unfamiliar with gossamer you are in for a real treat. Gossamer is a lifestyle brand + print publication that looks at the world through a green lens. They explore the world of travel, design, art, culture, and food through channeling the mindset of someone having their best high. Verena has been featured in the New York Times...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Kerrilynn Pamer is the co-founder of natural beauty store CAP Beauty and the co-author of the bestselling book “High Vibrational Beauty,” which combines mantras, meditation, natural skincare recipes, and practices with the aim of helping you achieve natural radiance. She’s inspired by a simple philosophy: “Beauty is Wellness. Wellness is Beauty.” In this conversation Kerrilynn speaks on our sensitivity to environment + why it’s essential to cultivate moments of beauty in our day to day lives. We...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Today we sit down with writer, creator and the Queen of Breakfast herself, Emily Elyse Miller. Emily is the founder of Off Limits - a cereal brand that is taking breakfast to a whole new level. After releasing a successful cookbook based around her series The Breakfast Club, Emily Set out to launch a new kind of brand that combined her love for breakfast food and art, while centering important topics like humanity, inclusivity and mental health. Emily shares how her travels around the world have...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 7 min
I sat down with Megan at a really interesting moment in time - both professionally and personally. She is located in Texas and our chat takes place just as the weather is calming down and her community is beginning to deal with the aftermath of the recent traumas. This brought out a really beautiful conversation on the hierarchy of our needs as humans. We also dive deep into the process of evolution - the evolution of friendships, the evolution of a business…and how Cultivating meaningful relati...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Amanda LaCount is a breathe of fresh air in the dance world. Having performed with Meghan Trainor, Rhianna, Lizzo, Katy Perry, and so many more, she is #BreakingTheStereoptype in an industry that desperately needs it. This conversation is a clear representation of what can happen when your purpose collides with your passion. Her fierce determination is not only inspiring but paving the way for others to do the same. Proving that if you’re a dancer, you have a dancer’s body.
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Erin Allweiss co-founded No. 29 over 6 years ago before sustainability and impact were the buzzwords they are now. A media agency focusing on sustainability, she represents fashion brands, artists, organizations, and products from creators working to better the world. Erin also co-founded a new platform called Enough, which is highlights changemakers across industries who have had enough, but aren't giving up. She shares stories that challenge our understanding of business and brings in voices l...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Colleen Herman is a painter living and working in New York City. After years in, what I like to call, the “corporate creative world” Colleen found herself stuck in this cycle of productivity and began craving autonomy over her own creative practice. In this conversation colleen shares how she uses movement as a salve for creativity. We explore why art has the power to change the way we move throughout the world, and have a heart opening conversation on the importance of incorporating community i...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Anna Lauren Tufekci is an award-winning producer and director. She has creatively driven and executed the production of feature film, television, branded and commercial content. She is also the Co-Executive Producer of KAL Media, an award-winning female development and production studio. AL became a mom during covid so one of my favorite things we discuss today is how motherhood has altered her relationship with creativity, and how that experience further instilled this deep desire for more fema...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 13 min
This week we chat with one of my favorite humans on the planet, Kelly Martin. Kelly and I met at one of the top musical theatre programs in the country. After graduating she was signed by the premier agent in NYC, but shortly after had a realization….this was not the life she wanted. So she packed her bags, and moved across the country to start fresh and break into the design industry. I was super excited to get Kelly on here. She opens up about what it was like to break from the norm and forge ...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Attia Taylor is a writer, musician + founder of Womanly. Back in June when I decided I needed to be more intentional about my anti racism work, I began intentionally decolonizing the media I was taking in. This is how I came to find Womanly. Womanly is lifting up narratives that are often neglected by the typical women’s magazine. Their subjects include discrimination in the health care system, intergenerational concerns, and physical + sexual health and expression. Attia is a true champion of h...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 8 min
One of the beautiful things about this past year has been seeing so many of my fellow performers really step into their power and explore their creativity in new and impactful ways. One of my friends who did this so effortlessly, was my girl Emma Degerstedt and her business partner Hannah Jewel Kohn. Prior to the shutdown Emma was in the Broadway bound production of Muriel’s Wedding and Hannah was in the National Tour of Frozen….maybe you’ve heard of it? With Broadway (and nearly all forms of th...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Ayesha Ophelia is the creator behind The Girlfriend Manifesto , a women's space for inspired living. Her personal manifesto consists of a strong sisterhood, spirituality, a radical self-love practice, and adventure. She is a passionate creator, writer, and visual artist who places an importance on dreaming. I was struck by so much of the wisdom Ayesha shared. We chat about giving yourself the gift of being in community, using your creativity find deeper meaning in the world and death. Not just d...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Today we sit down with NYC-based pastry chef, writer, and activist Natasha Pickowicz. Natasha has ran the pastry programs at some of my most favorite NYC restaurants including Altro Paradiso and Flora Bar. Earlier this spring, she was announced as a Finalist for the 2020 James Beard Foundation Awards for Outstanding Pastry Chef, her third year being nominated in that category. What really drew me to Natasha was her activism. Much of Natasha’s pastry work explores the relationship with baking and...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Today we sit down with Emmy Award Winning actress, singer, teacher, music therapist, philanthropist, and author - Patrice Covington. Before you ask, yes, girlfriend does all the things and does them all well. Patrice just wrapped up filming National Geographic’s anthology series, Genius: Aretha. Where she brings to life the late Erma Franklin, an American Gospel singer, activist, and elder sister to Aretha Franklin played by Academy Award Nominated Cynthia Erivo. Patrice has toured the world wit...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Today we chat with James Beard Award-nominated writer, Julia Bainbridge. Julia was formerly an editor at Bon Appétit , Yahoo, and Atlanta magazine, she has also worked at Condé Nast Traveler and Food & Wine. Her new book Good Drinks, about nonalcoholic cocktails, was released this fall, and it could not come to us at a more perfect time. After building a career around why and how people gather, Bainbridge pivoted into why people don't, launching The Lonely Hour podcast to explore social disc...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 5 min
As a professional dancer, Katie Webber grew up with a complicated relationship around food. After a lifetime of struggling with disordered eating ranging from binge eating, to withholding food, she finally found freedom when she let go of dieting and focused on pure, clean food. This practice of clean eating ignited her creativity in the kitchen. When Broadway went dark, like so many artists, Katie recognized how much creative energy she had stuck inside her. After years of blogging her recipes,...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Amanda Faye is the founder of grlpwrprojects - an intentional space for women seeking growth + adventure. The community is home to over 10 city collectives, a virtual program centered around growth + wellness during uncertain times, and outdoor collective packed with camping, hiking, biking + rafting trips. Amanda opens up about the challenges she faced as a post-grad, new mama, trying to make friends as an adult. She shares how Covid forced her outside of her comfort zone + allowed grl pwr proj...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Today I am joined by Laticia Rolle, the podcast host extraordinaire of Girl, We Got This . She’s a model, actor + entrepreneur. Growing up in a large family and as an athlete for most of her life, Laticia understood the power of sisterhood from an early age. After a life changing injury, she realized her true purpose - to empower women and provide a platform for every woman to share their truths, to harness her story. Laticia vulnerably shares her experience recovering from toxic relationships ....
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Soshy Adelstein is a wellness coach for women that want to make peace with food and their bodies. Through real talk and compassionate listening, she teaches you how to let go of old beliefs around dieting, eating, exercise and weight so that you can step into new practices to support your best self now. She is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and uses Intuitive Eating and the Health at Every Size approach in her coaching. She is on a mission to make sure that all women feel ...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Keiko Lynn is a tatted up goody shoes with a liberal heart + mind living in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and 3 cats. She is one of my favorite creators on the internet, and while she is known for her lifestyle blog KeikoLynn.com I am the MOST obsessed with her whimsical photo stories. From her haunted mansion series to a Singing in the Rain inspired moment…her portraits are creativity in its truest most delightful form. In this conversation Keiko shares how giving herself space to figure things o...
Oct 27, 2020•56 min
Maria Failla is a "Plant Killer Turned Plant Lady" with a mission to help every person successfully care for a houseplant. After years of killing plants, Maria gave plantcare one last try when she moved in with her boyfriend in NYC. She started with a balcony herb garden, and once that thrived, slowly filled their 500 sq foot apartment with 120 houseplants and was forever changed. Maria is a fellow Broadway baby and in, probably my favorite conversation to date, we discuss how sometimes we don’t...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 24 min
This week we sit down with professional athletes, musicians and influencers Dylan and Dakota Gonzalez to chat about their experience leaving the NCAA to pursue a career in music. It takes a special kind of courage to walk away from from a career that you trained your whole life for, and with over a million followers each, the Gonzalez twins navigated that shift on a very public stage. We sit down for a raw, unfiltered conversation on being a woman in sports, moving through victim mentality and n...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 12 min
As part of Mental Illness Awareness week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with creativepreneur, self care advocate and leading voice in the mental health community - Kayley Reed. Kayley is also the host of Self-Care Sunday - a podcast + creative outlet where she explores the relationship between mental health, entrepreneurship, social media, and self-care. In this conversation we learn how to reconnect with our creativity and to use that flow to combat anxiety and burnout. We also chat about....
Oct 06, 2020•59 min
