Duende Discussions

Happy spring, almost summer, Duende Duders! Hope you’ve been feeling the recharging and renewing energies that this rebirthing season brings! You know what recharged and renewed my creativity and soul vibrance lately? Discussing duende with my guest for this latest episode, the OG Duende Discusser - playwright, poet, librettist and professor Oliver Mayer! Oliver is a master word conjurer/architect...

Happy Valentine’s Day, Duende Duders! I’ve missed you, I love you and I hope you’ve been hanging in there amidst these rough times. This latest Duende Discussion is my Valentine to you - my beloved sweetest, most compassionate and insightful creative twin spirits Shane and Nathan are my first-ever repeat guests for a very special Love & Duende sequel episode! Last year I did a Love & Duend...

Happy Thanksgiving, Duende Duders! But more specifically, Happy Thanksgiving dinner! 😋 Along with your fave mains and sides, what’s been on your duende plate this fall-flavored month of gratitude and reflection? I love my mashed apple cider sweet potatoes served with an even more delectable dish - fresh self revelations and a more bonded sense of community born from honest internal work; aka, a d...

Happy Halloween, Duende Demons! I mean, Duende Duders 😈 Hope your spooky season has been super(naturally) fun and soul-igniting. I love that the liminal space between realms is so palpably dynamic during this time of year, it makes the ethereal nature of otherworldliness a bit more visceral, which is absolutely thrilling to me, and which is why I’m *beyond* excited to share this special Spooky Se...

Hi Duende Duders!! Happy September! Hope your summer-to-September transitions have been going smoothly, and that you’re staying cool out there. My guest for this 8th episode is absolutely perfect for this seasonally liminal time - it’s sharpest of the sharp emotional intellects and provocative writer/director/prolific podcaster, New Orleans’ freshest book apothecarist and Piscean world-building qu...

Hey Duende Duders! Hope your summers have been fun and full of whatever form of sunshine warms your soul up 🙂☀️ I’ve missed you! It’s been awhile since the last Duende Discussion, but this one is so worth the wait because it’s with my first ever musician guest - my fave rockstar of both visceral and soulful confrontations and divinations, the colossal-hearted, fearless digger of artistic and pers...

My dearest, duende-iest duders! Happy spring! Happy flirty flowers, happy April showers, happy devouring of more sweet than sour during these stressful times <3 I’m rhyming (badly) because it’s the last day of National Poetry Month and my stunning-soul’d guest for this sixth episode is ingenious provocateur/ conjurer of the lyrical for the visceral - poet and writer KD Sims! KD not only inspire...

Happy Love Month my Valentine duders! I know this February has been *the most* intense/tense month  - sending so much affection and peace your way ❤️‍🩹 - but I can’t contain how stoked I am to share this very special heart-full convo with you. Because while there’s so much divisiveness right now, I hope this love-themed episode with my super sweet and generous twin friend - a consummate creative...

Holiday greetings, my spirited duende duders! Hope your December so far has been full of magic and merrymaking. It’s hard to cut through all the seasonal chaos, but I think this wondrously stimulating and partially holiday-themed episode with my beloved storytelling goddess and epically fun, soulful partner in loving and conjuring the moony and mythic - award-winning actress, theatre educator and...

Hi Duende Duders! Hope your spooky season has been spooking along spectacularly! I'm absolutely thrilled to bring you Episode 3 - my duende-of-Halloween episode - a horrortastic convo with my favorite art anarchist -  playwright, screenwriter and novelist Alexis Roblan! Ali is a masterful adventurer of the mystical and mind-bending, so it's no wonder our talk of duende is full of spiritu...

Hi Duende Duders! Happy start to spooky season! For Episode 2 I discuss all things duende with my most hilarious genius friend from theatre school in Chicago - fearless visionary director and experimenter/embracer of the taboo/curator of incredible design teams, chef of duende delicious culinary art, and Pat Benatar's most devoted fan - Chris Garcia Peak! We drink our blood duende drinks and...

For my very first episode I got to talk with brilliant comedic writer and spiritual giver of insight and care, my kind and funny twin friend, Hong Kong's karaoke king - Shane Sakhrani! We break down our personal definitions of duende, Shane opens up about how he alchemizes the chaos of confronting his duende into a different type of dramedy, and we discuss his choice of Nathan Fielder's...

Hi and welcome! I'm obsessed with duende - in this intro I talk about what duende is and why I'm doing a whole podcast on it :)  Have a great duend-ay! 🙂 Follow @duendediscussions on IG for episode updates and fun, interactive duende discussing!