LET IT OUT

I found today's guest Jessica Ciencin Henriquez through previous guest writer Kayleen Schafer. I took one of her writing classes this past winter and got to know her while I was her student. I really admire the way she moved through the world and knew I wanted to invite her on the podcast. She has a very creative, confident, and nurturing quality about her and is a very magnetic person. Her calm confidence is contagious and it makes me want to be around her.Jessica's personal essays and narrative journalism have appeared in the New York Times’ Modern Love column, Self Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue and Time Magazine among many others. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir: If You Loved Me You Would Know.In this conversation, I try to squeeze out every last ounce of wisdom and creative inspiration I could from her. We talked about where she got her confidence (she was homeschooled), the nurturing habits and boundaries she lives by, how motherhood changed her into a more productive writer, her experience with heartbreak and change, including co-parenting and divorce, her year of celibacy, how mediation helped decrease her anxiety, her writing and editing tips, practicing patience and non-attachment, and how to find your value within yourself rather than externally. She's been such an impactful person in my life these past 6 months and I'm excited to share some of the insights I've gained from her with you too!

This week we have part two of my chat with modern dating and relationships coach, Clara Artschwager. If you haven't listened to part one yet, you can find that here. Clara is a writer for The Cut, as well as a registered life coach and nutritionist. I spent the weekend with her at her home in the Hudson Valley where we recorded this conversation. Last week we chatted about her tips on meeting people IRL and how she became a dating coach. This week, we talk about ghosting, jealousy, and unrequited love.I love Clara's refreshing take on the often complicated topic of relationships. Hearing about how she helps career driven women take a more empowered and nourishing approach to dating and partnership is such a breath of fresh air! I hope you love this episode as much as I loved recording it.

As I say in the podcast, about a million people sent this article today’s guest Clara Artschwager wrote for the Cut. I related, loved it and instantly reached out to have her on the podcast. Turns out she’d already been an Internet friend of mine and had listened to the podcast since back in the Wellness Wonderland days. She is one of the kindest, most nurturing, talented, and wisest women I know. She had me over to her house upstate to record this episode. Our conversation was so robust I’m doing something I rarely do - splitting this episode into two. You’ll hear half this week were we discuss dating, chivalry in the Me Too era and meeting online vs meeting in person. Next week in part two, we'll discuss ghosting, jealousy, and unrequited love (oof!).She’s the best enjoy this episode then read her work and follow all she does. This is the first of many collaborations from us too.

I felt better after recording this conversation with my two talented guests and I hope you feel better listening. Today's guests are director Kristin Hanggi and writer and actress Maddie Corman. Not only has their work has be meaningful to me, but I just really like them both so much as people. I’m very grateful to this podcast for giving me an opportunity to get to meet them and speak to them. We cover the current project Kristin and Maddie collaborated for the majority of this episode, which is a beautiful one person show called Accidentally Brave. The show is about an extremely hard thing Maddie went through and is going through, and how her and Kristin worked together while she was still IN IT to make a piece of art. Accidentally Brave is so genuine, vulnerable, and captures the emotion of pain with joy and humor. I saw the show it’s first week with my mom and we both laughed and cried very hard. The show is running until the end of June so if you’re in NYC go see it. Maybe plan a trip! In this episode we cover going through hard things, going where it’s warm, the best relationship advice ever on the podcast, making art out of hard things, and more!

Simi has done my podcast a bunch of times and if I'm lucky she'll do it a bunch more. She's talked about transitioning careers from attorney to intuitive eating coach, her pregnancy experience, and her advice on relationships. In this episode we're talking about friendship. She's articulate, smart, and has the best laugh. She also happens to be my best friend. Simi is such a wonderful friend and person and knows everything about 90s pop culture. You'll get a taste of how wonderful she is in this week's episode.

It's rare I have a guest on twice, but every conversation I have with Claire ends up being so insightful I wish it was recorded. She's a yoga teacher, model, writer, and currently in grad school studying to become a therapist. We cover a wide variety of topics in this week's episode including: redefining wellness, inclusivity in the wellness industry, importance of touch therapy, sustainable self-love, social media and mental health, routines and habits during transitional times. This week's episode was recorded live at The Assemblage and includes audience questions.

I’ve been meditating since 2015 after having Bob Roth on this podcast. When I moved to New York, I met my friend Arden who owns a mediation studio called The Spring. We bonded over meditation and she raved about her teacher Thom. He’s an insightful and wise and I love the way he talks about meditation. This was a wide ranging conversation that touched on meditation but also covered relationships, intuition, creativity, charm, and way more.

Today’s guest is a ray of sunshine. Jon is one of those people everyone loves being around. He’s loyal, cozy, and so creative and wise. He’s a writer and illustrator who has worked with artists including Jason Mraz, Madonna, and Maroon 5 on album art and mech. In the episode we talk about the power of words, feeling feelings, surrender, creativity, curiosity, and more.

Every so often I get into the conversation I actually really do forget about the fact we're recording and let it just meander. Today's episode with Serena is an example where I felt so fed by the conversation I didn't want it to end. I barely looked at my notes or the questions I prepared and just asked what I was curious about. We get intro the great volley covering everything from family, to therapy, to school, to social media. But the bulk of this conversation is devoted to a topic that Serena is known to be candid and open about on her social media: anxiety. She's so articulate when she talks about her ups and downs with anxiety and in this conversation we get in there deep about she experiences it, what helps, and she gives me big sisterly advice in my on anxiety and emotional spirals. It's one of my favorite episodes I've recorded because it's so vulnerable and you can really hear us bonding and laying the ground work for a friendship. Even though we talk about heavy things there's a lot of lightness to this conversation because Serena is one of the funniest people I know.  

Podcasting has become the best outlet for my creativity in my career. Through listening to podcasts, talking about podcasts, and producing a podcast myself I’ve been introduced to ideas, art, people, and places I never would have otherwise. Since I’ve been podcasting before the so-called podcast boom, I received a lot of questions on how I got started podcasting and asking for tips on how they could start a podcast too. Eventually I made LET [a podcast] OUT: an online workshop to learn everything you need to know about starting and growing a podcast. Plus, students have the chance to submit an episode of the podcast they create for a chance to be featured on the LET IT OUT podcast feed! Today, we’re airing the last round of LET [a podcast] OUT’s winning episode by Alex Hollander. Alex created LIMBO, a podcast about the spaces between. She used to work at Instagram before becoming a creative consultant full time. In this episode you’ll hear her conversation with her former colleague Berna, who is now a freelance, financial literacy teacher and has traveled the world. I learned so much their conversation. They covered creating a “healing team”, money shame, the transition from full time to freelance, travel loneliness, the importance of community outside your romantic partner, the idea of “relationship” privilege, race and traveling, and way more. It’s a really good one. Congrats to Alex – I’m so glad my workshop played a part in creating this amazing new podcast!

We covered “rejection as protection”, her creative routines, money in NYC, feeling vulnerable & raw during breakups, transitions, growth,  her specific way to do gratitude, and she gives the best body image advice.

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Sara Avant Stover and Katie Dalebout chat about working through grief and Sara's experience using her spirituality and self care practices to help her through difficult times.

Adam Strauss discusses his career in comedy and how working with psychedelics helped him overcome his mental health struggles

Lacy Phillips on Valentine's Day and everything you want to know about love - including working through stagnant relationships, dating, breakups and more.