Podcast

This week’s Girl Talk digs into helping people be better and the amazing work being done at Radio Kingston. Our first guest Aja Hudson, Executive Director and landscape designer, talks about how she learned to prioritize life after cancer with a young daughter by building a worker cooperative and why it’s important for us to start moving towards the cooperative model of living and working. Emily Vail, Estuary Watershed Outreach Specialist at New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and swing dancer and teacher at [Uptown Swing][2], talks about her work studying streams and how this work helps connect the dots across many facets of where we live as she learned when studying the Tannery Brook in Kingston, NY. Until next week, love yourself and uplift one another!

During this week’s Girl Talk Shana drops some links to some fab feminist podcasts and Theresa vents about a leering police officer and her failure to respond more strongly to his inappropriateness. Our first guest Susan Barnett, writer and former host of 51%, The Women’s Perspective, joins us to talk about her life as a journalist and reporter and how she eventually gave it all up to work on her fiction. Our second guest, Lindsey Mills, touring musician, record label owner and community builder talks about growing up in Florida with parents who nurtured and supported her creative endeavors, what it’s like touring and how she keeps community back home. Self care takes you to the Moon!

This week’s Girl Talk gets into Shana being in the recording studio and Theresa exercising her creativity through painting. Our first guest Sarah Carlson, Filmmaker, editor, producer, and artist talks about her childhood, being adopted and her various creative projects. Our second guest, Brooke Baxter Bailey, shares about how she started Glasslands, a music venue and collaborative artist space in Brooklyn, NY. Brooke shares a bit about her personal life and the challenges of her first pregnancy, selling her restaurant and moving her life to the Hudson Valley to open The Glass Mountain Inn. And yes, more self care talk!!!

Shana’s BACK! And her song “Cool Kids” is on all the iPhone’s in all the Apple stores in all the land! Sarah Perrotta, vocalist and musician, talks about her music career, the joy she experiences when writing and making music, the challenges she’s faced along the way, and her recording process around her next album coming out before the end of the year. Second guest B.A. Miale, music video editor, director and projection artist, shares about how she got into her unique career, her creative process and the challenges she’s faced along the way. Self care is all about slowing down!