The Sustainable Artist with Carolina Alduey

Çiğdem Öztabak is a journalist and media-communications consultant who's spent the last decade covering technology at the intersection of media, tech, and the human story — writing for outlets including CNN Türkiye and Aposto, the Istanbul-based digital media company known for its curated newsletters and journalism. Before this, she created and hosted a chart-topping children's science p...

Fabrizio Copano is one of the most celebrated comedians in Latin America — the first South American comic to shoot an original Netflix special — and tours globally, selling out across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. He's appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden , performed on CBS' The Talk , and is a proud paid regular at the world-famous Comedy Cellar. Fabrizio is currently...

Gala Magriñá started her career designing for major brands like Lacoste, Diesel, and Calvin Klein and orchestrating high-profile events for clients like Jimmy Choo, Harper’s Bazaar and Maison Martin Margiela. She started tapping into her spirituality and noticed something crucial was missing. In 2016, she embraced meditation and realized that the spaces we inhabit have a profound effect on our min...

In this episode, I sit down with Hasani Reyes, an Intuitive Guide and Shamanic Energy Healer who helps people reconnect with their soul after a lifetime of living up to everyone else's expectations. Hasani's story is powerful — at the peak of her corporate fashion career leading creative teams across the country, an unexpected health crisis forced her to completely reimagine her life. Th...

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Angelo Colina, a Venezuelan comedian who's carved out an entirely unique lane in stand-up — performing exclusively in Spanish. Starting in New York City, Angelo has sold out shows across 30+ states, Latin America, and Europe. We go deep in this conversation — talking about his journey from Venezuela to becoming one of the first Spanish-language...

Mercedes White knows something most people miss: a sustainable arts future doesn't start with adults — it starts with children. As Head of Theater at Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) and a SAG-AFTRA actress whose work spans HBO's Somebody Somewhere to her Off-Broadway play GENESIS: A Prequel to A Raisin in the Sun, Mercedes is on the front lines of transforming who gets to be an artist. S...

John Fullerton walked away from a 20-year Wall Street career with no plan, just questions. Then 9/11 happened. The questions crystallized into his life's work: proving that our current economic system isn't just flawed — it's fundamentally unsustainable. And it will never work until we stop treating nature as a resource to extract and start integrating life itself into how we value,...

Welcome to The Sustainable Artist Podcast!!  Looks like the world is on fire and we need to know how we got here to know what we must do to get out.  On our first episode we interview Maren Costa. Maren is a workers’ rights advocate, climate justice leader, tech organizer and keynote speaker known for challenging corporate power to drive systemic change.  She worked as Amazon’s first Principal Use...