The world of ballet is one of sophistication, beauty and high class culture. This is all true but it’s also complicated and the same social issues and inequities that exist in the “everyday” also lives in this elite world. Georgina Pazcoguin is the FIRST Asian-American female soloist at New York City Ballet (her father is Filipino and her mother is Italian). She’s also the author of Swan Dive: The Making Of A Rogue Ballerina where she takes you beyond the stage. Her memoir where she openly share...
Oct 11, 2021•45 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Nancy Lee Grahn is an Emmy winning actress and fan favorite. Known for her portrayals as the headstrong Julia Wainwright Capwell from Santa Barbara and now, Alexis Davis on General Hospital. Over the years, Nancy has garnered a huge fan base and is most recently celebrating her 25th year on General Hospital. Nancy is known for delivering powerful performances on screen. Off screen, Nancy is also a powerhouse. She’s an unapologetic, passionate, outspoken woman who is using her platform to advocat...
Oct 04, 2021•43 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Patrick Sabongui is a talented actor with a long list of impressive credits. He’s been in Netflix’s wildly popular shows Virgin River and Firefly Lane. You’ve also seen him CW’s The Flash and Showtime’s Homeland and Shameless. He has a great body of work but throughout his career he has faced the challenges of being labeled and he’s struggled with playing and perpetuating stereotypes on screen. Because of that, Patrick is a fierce advocate for anti-racism and representation in the arts, Patrick ...
Sep 20, 2021•39 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Dr. Samantha Yammine is a Neuroscientist and popular Science Communicator better known as Science Sam. Throughout her life and career, she’s faced challenges and understands what it’s like to be overlooked. Because of this, she is passionate about empowering people to explore science by making it more familiar, accessible, and inclusive. She’s harnassing the power of social media like instagram, Tik Tok to make science more accessible, and garnering millions of views every month to better help p...
Sep 06, 2021•41 min•Season 4Ep. 7
As the world continues to be gripped by the pandemic, it’s the hundreds of thousands of front line heroes that continue to pull us through. One of those first responders is Dr. Cornelia Griggs. She’s a Pediatric Surgeon & Critical Care Specialist and mother. She came to national attention when her tweet went viral. “My babies are too young to read this now. And they’d barely recognize me in my gear. But if they lose me to COVID I want them to know Mommy tried really hard to do her job.” Hear...
Aug 16, 2021•49 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Dr. Chen Fu is a front line hero. He’s been battling to save lives as hospitals were busting at the seams as patients poured into all desperately sick with Covid-19. Working exhaustively for days that bled into nights and back again, he fought to help as many as possible. Witnessing staggering numbers of devastating loss and gutting goodbyes, often multiple times a day was punishing. Proving time and again, despite his best efforts —they were futile. While he struggled to help the sick, as a fro...
Jul 26, 2021•45 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Yvonne Chapman is a talented Chinese Canadian actress. She’s currently on CW’s hit Kung Fu as the complicated, alluring, sometimes heartbreaking but always lethal villain Zhilan. Her other credits have also included CBC’s Street Legal, CW’s “The 100”, ABC’s “The Crossing.” Before she was kicking ass on screen, she was doing well in the world of corporate finance! On Reppin, Yvonne shares how she had to overcome her fears, break away from her family’s expectations, all sense of stability to take ...
Jul 05, 2021•47 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Kimberly McCullough is an incredible talent. She started working at 5 years old appearing in movies like Breakin’2: Electric Boogaloo to Bugsy with Warren Beatty, and has an impressive list of television credits that include The Shield, Firefly, Joan Of Arcadia, All My Children. She’s best known as Robin Scorpio the daughter of super spies Robert Scorpio played by Tristan Rogers and Anna Devane played by Finola Hughes on General Hospital. She originated this role at 7 years old and playing this ...
Jun 14, 2021•52 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Brandon Victor Dixon has an expansive list of credits that range from Broadway’s Hamilton, The Color Purple to television’s Rent Live, Jesus Christ Superstar to STARZ’s Power. Brandon has also appeared in concert with various artists such as Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, Jennifer Hudson, Nathan Lane, Wynton Marsalis, Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, David Hyde Pierce, and Tony winners Levi Kries, Kelli O'hara, and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Other Credits include: ABC's One Life To Live, Law & O...
May 24, 2021•48 min•Season 4Ep. 2
David Harewood is an incredible actor, producer and director. You’ve seen him starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connolly in the film Blood Diamond, in Showtimes’s hit Homeland with with Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, he’s also been in The Night Manager, Man In The High Castle and most recently, he is the martian manhunter, Hank Henshaw, J'onn J'onzz in the CW fan favorite Supergirl. He may seem like he’s lived a charmed life--but his personal journey has been filled with tremendo...
May 03, 2021•51 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Angela Yee is best known as one of the hosts of the nationally syndicated show The Breakfast Club. She is the only female voice on the show which has been the number one radio program in “The Source” Power 30 issue for 5 years in a row. The NYS Broadcasters Association awarded “The Breakfast Club” the 2014 OUTSTANDING ON-AIR BROADCAST PERSONALITY OR TEAM award, and in 2017 the Breakfast Club was awarded the iHeartRadio Urban Personality of the Year Award. Listeners can hear “Angela Yee’s Rumor R...
Apr 12, 2021•52 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Doug Elmets Meet Doug Elmets, president of Elmets Communication. He is a high-profile media and crisis strategist known for his ability to defend and promote his clients through integrated communications. He’s also lifelong Republican who worked with Ronald Reagan during his Administration. Over the decades, he’s appeared on national programs speaking to promote the Republican agenda. But 2016, he was the FIRST Republican to step out onto the DNC stage to openly endorsed his political party’s op...
Mar 22, 2021•47 min•Season 3Ep. 11
My next guest has proven you should never underestimate the power of determination and hope. Meet Candace Wohl, she is a writer, public speaker and women’s health advocate. Her evolution towards becoming that advocate began when she and her husband Chris, who were in their late 20s then, were thrown onto the private and painful roller coaster of infertility. After 6 years of enduring an assault of medical procedures and investing their entire life savings, they were still unable to conceive. As ...
Mar 01, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Kyle Maynard Kyle Maynard was born with a rare condition known as congenital amputation, that left him with arms that end at the elbows and legs that end near his knees-but don’t tell him he can’t do something. Kyle was the first man to bear crawl to the top of the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro (19,340 feet), and the summit of Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua (22,838 feet), the highest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres. He’s an entrepreneur, speaker, best selling autho...
Feb 08, 2021•27 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Benjamin Von Wong Benjamin Von Wong is a talented innovative, creative, artist, photographer and activist. His work has been described as a mix of fantasy and photography and combines everyday objects with shocking statistics. It has attracted the attention of corporations, like Starbucks, Dell, and Nike and has generated over 100 million views for causes like ocean plastics, electronic waste, and fashion pollution. Most recently, he was named one of Adweek’s 11 content branded masterminds. He i...
Jan 18, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 8
AJ Mendez Photo Courtesy: Cathy and David Photography AJ Mendez is a former professional wrestling champion with the WWE under the ring name AJ Lee. Don’t let her diminutive stature fool you, she was a formidable opponent. She threw people around like a short order cook threw pancakes onto a plate. With her trademark black widow submission move, she easily took out her competitors. But in real life--nothing came easily for her. In her autobiography, which was a New York Times best seller, Crazy ...
Jan 04, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Josh Lord is an artist— a tattoo artist based in NYC. He has an impressive celebrity clientele that includes Oscar winner, Cate Blanchett, Marvel’s Avengers cast Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner to Joe Perry from Aerosmith. His film credits include Private Lives of Pippa Lee with Keanu Reeves, Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to shows like Blindspot and True Detective where Josh won an Emmy for his work on the show. Josh is known for his imp...
Dec 21, 2020•44 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Aydian Dowling Aydian Dowling is most known for being the First Transgender Man on the cover of Mens Health Magazine, and appearing on the Ellen Degeneres show, twice! Using his own personal struggles he has given voice to the trans community, documenting his personal transition and sharing it on line. Since then, Aydian has been creating content answering questions and offering insight to those who may still be struggling. In 2016, Aydian launched PointofPride.org a non profit which helps Trans...
Dec 07, 2020•44 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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Nov 16, 2020•46 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Tara Setmayer Tara Setmayer is a CNN Political Commentator, ABC News Political Contributor and former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill. Setmayer is a 2020 Harvard Institute of Politics Resident Fellow and Senior Advisor for The Lincoln Project. She is currently the host of "Honestly Speaking with Tara," podcast. She often appears on CNN's prime time programs and contributes to ABC's Good Morning America, Nightline and guest hosts The View. She's also made numerous appearances on HBO's...
Oct 19, 2020•50 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Keala Settle From stage to screen, Keala Settle is a powerhouse talent. She made her Broadway debut in 2011 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, then originated the role of Norma Valverde in Hands On A Hardbody on Broadway in 2013 and was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Her other credits include Hairspray, Les Miserables and Waitress. In 2017, she portrayed Lettie Lutz in the film The Greatest Showman with Hugh Jack...
Oct 05, 2020•38 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Nathalie Kelley Nathalie Kelley, a Peruvian born actress known for her leading roles from the mega movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Vampire Diaries, Dynasty, UnREAL, Body Of Proof and Baker And The Beauty has a powerful discussion on REPPIN! She shares what devastated her, the awakening she had experienced, what she’s learned, how it’s changed her life and all the ways she’s giving back. Nathalie breaks down her project Ritual Community-how it’s set up to represent and serve underrepresented...
Sep 21, 2020•51 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Nicola Correia-Damude Nicola Correia-Damude is an award winning actor and singer. You’ve seen her on Shadowhunters, Burden Of Truth, October Faction, The Strain, Coroner and My Spy. Nicola has also been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for her Guest Starring performance on Remedy and received the Best Actress in a feature film award at the San Diego FilmOut Festival for her work in Margarita. Nicola comes to REPPIN and shares her personal challenges of being mixed race, self identification,...
Sep 07, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Aarti Sequeira Aarti Sequeira is a popular mainstay on Food Network after winning season six of Food Network Star with her trademark combination of an infectious giggle and a unique food signature: American favorites with an Indian soul. She steps out of the kitchen to hang out on Reppin. She talks about her upbringing and how those experiences have helped her move through the world. She reveals her first choice for a career, hardships she faced and her path to being one of the most popular and ...
Aug 24, 2020•47 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Beth Sullivan Beth Sullivan trail blazed for women when she created, wrote and served as the sole executive producer of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman-one of the most popular and beloved series of the 90s. The series starred Jane Seymour who plays Dr. Michaela “Mike” Quinn a doctor who leaves a privileged life in Boston to carve a career out in the old West. The series ran on CBS for six seasons and aired in over 100 countries! Beth shares how fought to create a series that was western, a genre that h...
Aug 10, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Rebecca Love A pandemic is raging around the world, as front line heroes, like doctors and nurses are desperately fighting to save lives. But who is fighting for them? Meet Rebecca Love. She is a nurse entrepreneur, author, TedX Speaker and the first nurse featured on Ted.com, and part of the inaugural nursing panel featured at SXSW 2018. In 2019, Rebecca, along with a group of leading nurses in the world, founded and is President of SONSIEL: The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepre...
Jul 27, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Osric Chau Osric Chau is a Canadian actor and martial artist who starred as Kevin Tran on the CW’s mega hit Supernatural! Some of his other credits include Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Blood and Water, Demon X, Arrow and The Flash. Osric shares some personal stories about self identity and discovery, you’ll find out what risks he’s taken, if they have paid off, what he’s learned and what he’s doing be the change he wants to see. This is an incredibly insightful conversation with this...
Jul 13, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Sierra Boggess Sierra’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sierraboggess Sierra’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialsierraboggess/ Sierra’s Website: https://sierraboggess.com/ Sierra Bogess is best known world-wide for the iconic role of ‘Christine Daae’ in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, but the creator and composer, Lord Webber has said “she’s the best, the best Christine certainly.” Sierra made her Broadway debut as Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, where she rec...
Jun 29, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Liris Crosse Liris Crosse, dubbed “The “Body” and “The Naomi Campbell of Plus” is a model/actress and trailblazer in the fashion industry for full-figured and African American women pushing curvy women into mainstream fashion! In 2015, Liris was one of a few models selected to walk the runway for reality TV competition, Project Runway’s, first ever plus size collection at New York Fashion Week. That honor was followed by being chosen as one of the models for the show’s first season to include pl...
Jun 15, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Shannon Watts She went from being a stay at home mom with 70 something friends on Facebook and wanting to have an online conversation about gun safety to founding a movement called Moms Demand Action- Americans fighting for public safety measures that protect people from gun violence. Now, Moms Demand Action has established a chapter in every state of the country and is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the country, with nearly 6 million suppor...
Jun 01, 2020•54 min•Season 2Ep. 5
