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My first guest today is Helene Richman, a mom, wife, artist and creative force behind @brandhelene ( Twitter , Facebook ) who’s been working with a group of girl entrepreneurs, the Start Up Squad , at the Hodge Center in Kingston, NY. She's been helping them learn about and build a business. I got to hang out with the girls a few weeks ago and talk about how to create their own radio show. After s...

Keeping it LOCAL! Look around you, support your friends and neighbors, buy local when you are able to! Joining me today live from Anderst on North Front Street, in Kingston, NY are a group of local ladies making things and doing things in the Hudson Valley. I did my best to edit out some of the technical hiccups we experienced with our remote broadcast so conversation does jump around a bit. Thank...

Sort of speechless about the body of work that these women have created. Enjoy! Sophi Kravitz is an artist and electronic engineer who's always been fascinated with people, people she already knows and strangers alike. She believes that incorporating public art into a shared experience can be a strong conduit to the acceptance of the human next to you. She often collaborates as part of a larger co...

Hey listeners! Thanks for tuning in for today's special show. I wanted to share that for the first 9-10 minutes I talk about a healing event that's happening on Nov. 23rd at the idea garden in Kingston, NY. It's something I've organized as a result of the women on the show today and the work that they do. If you aren't local or interested, you can skip ahead. For those of you interested, on Nov. 2...

So excited today that I got to welcome back G.T. Thomas ( https://www.instagram.com/gtthomasmusicandart/ ) who was Shana's special guest on show No.30 from August 15th, 2018 . Gwen is an Amsterdam-based simultstrumentalist (not sure if that's how you spell that fancy word) who's taken revelations from her journals and transformed them into catchy refrains for her latest Progressive Dream Pop album...

Calling all witches ✨ Today on the show we talk witches, witching, the unseen realm, ancestors, the akasha, intuition, herbs and altars. What a gift to me and to all of you who get to listen!!! Happy Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos, All Soul's Day, however you celebrate. Today on the show... Kat Hunt @thekathunt ✨ She was Shana and my very first guest 93 episodes ago talking about her fil...

Hey listeners! Today's first guest is Sadee Brathwaite , an Artist and Minister/Priestess of Maåt. She makes drawings and paintings, figurative and abstract, about archetypes, symbols, ancient cosmologies, beliefs and myths. As an ordained Minister/Priestess, She advises people in life, in creativity, and in spirituality. Her calling, either through art or advising, is to help people heal and grow...

Today I get to sit down with actor and director of a powerful play, On the Exhale. When a senseless act of violence changes her life forever, a liberal college professor finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime – and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands. Peering down the barrel of a uniquely American crisis...

Today, my first guest is Artist, Lynn Herring , who was born in Chicago but moved to New York in her 20’s to pursue a career as an advertising art director and to develop her studio practice. While in NY, she studied at the School of Visual Arts graduating with honors in 2008 with a BFA in Sculpture. Lynn eventually found her way upstate and recently completed her MFA studies in sculpture and prin...

You're gonna love the talent, conviction and compassion of my guests today. First up is Beth Aala, a three-time Emmy award-winning producer & recipient of a Peabody Award for her documentary work at HBO. Beth co-directed & produced feature documentary, RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN for Discovery, which premiered at Sundance in 2017. She also directed & produced, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon...

Woo hoo, I am back from my travels and happy to be chatting live with some ladies today. First up, Dr. Amy Novatt, Gynecologist and Women's Health Advocate is back with us answering questions about menopause and perimenopause today. She'll be back again in November taking your calls so stay tuned for more details on her next appearance. Joining me for my chat with the doctor and for a deep dive in...

And finally, my interview with Keiko and Claudia! Making my way into Morocco, but thanks to my guests for coming into the studio a few weeks ago to record these amazing conversations for you all to hear. Today's first interview is with Keiko Sono , an artist, turned permaculturist and universal basic income supporter. Keiko's work has "one fundamental goal: to connect us to the world—to other bein...

Writing from Espańa and after a little schedule mixup on my part, sharing the proper episode for today's show. Don't worry, Keiko and Claudia are next week, I promise!!! I am so excited to be sharing these interviews that I recorded with these two fabulous women who embody a big theme of this show, Women Helping Women! My first interview is with Jordan Scruggs , a past guest with an exciting new j...

Ooooh, what amazing ladies were on the show today! First, I welcome three of the Mid-Hudson Misfits Roller Derby team, Farrell Brenner aka Eleanor Bruisevelt, Laura Palermo aka Madame Manatease, and Samantha Willenbucher, still perfecting her roller derby name. We talk about the nuts and bolts of roller derby, why they started skating, how to become a misfit, how it's changed their lives, and some...

Today I have a special guest host, MY MOM! In town for my big nuptials happening this weekend. We're talking commons and cooperatives, economic democracy and sustainability with special guests Evelyn Wright founder of Commonwealth Hudson Valley and Julia Farr, Executive Director of the Kingston Land Trust . The website of Commonwealth HV perfectly sums up the importance of the work these women do,...

Today I get to have a lively conversation with two friends about art and life and how the two intersect. Sita Gomez de Kanelba is a distinguished Cuban American visual artist born in Paris 1932. She is daughter of the doctor  Domingo Mauricio Gómez-Gimeranez  and Else-Marie (Formo) Gómez. Her family fled the Nazi’s after Hitler’s request for her father to work for him. They were later exiled from...

On today's show I get to speak with Emily Flynn, Director of Health and Wellness for the City of Kingston, Live Well Kingston , and President of Bike-Friendly Kingston , and Annie Bond , clairvoyant, healer, founder of the Divine Mother Center and HeartMind Healer School , toxic-free living expert and award winning author. Emily and I get to talk about the projects she's involved with to make King...

The Summer Hoot is coming up y'all! Today I get to sit down with a few of the women who make it happen. Ruth Ungar Merenda, is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who plays fiddle, ukulele and guitar with the Mammals , Mom, AND  HOOT  festival founder and organizer.  Veronica Fannin , illustrator, botanical drawing instructor, children's book author/illustrator AND official Hoot visual arti...

Today I get to go deep with an amazing woman who's got a lot of story to share! Lila (lee-laa) Lolling is an experienced Hatha Yoga, meditation, and classical yoga philosophy teacher for nearly 20 years but that's just the beginning. At the age of 15 she had a sudden onset of epilepsy. Around the same time she began to form a deep connection to the deaf community through a serendipitous baby-sitti...

Today I get to speak with 4 fine ladies from  Health Care is a Human Right (HCHR), a 501(c)3 not for profit charitable corporation, founded in 2003 by Susan Weeks, Physician Assistant, Vicky O’Dougherty, Homeopath, Susan Bissonnett, RN, and Jill Elliot, DVM. Since its inception, Health Care is a Human Right has offered free clinics in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. NOTE: they are in the proces...

Wow, today was a powerful show of Mel Toth sharing her journey with Endometriosis. We start the conversation with Dr. Amy Novatt , Gynecologist and women's health advocate, explaining what Endometriosis is, how to recognize the symptoms of the disease, why it's hard to diagnose and treat, and how to manage the symptoms. Whether or not you suffer from this disease or are experiencing some other hea...

Hey, hey, I am in Wisconsin this week so playing some very special recorded interviews. First up, I speak with a group of powerhouse women who are all panelists at the upcoming, 3 Hours of Peace, Love and Women's Small Business , happening at Provisions in Woodstock on July 19th from 4-7pm. Our talk is just a small sample of the wisdom that will be shared by these ladies during the event that I am...

Today’s guest is Gisela Stromeyer https://www.stromeyerhealing.com/ an internationally well-known artist http://www.stromeyerdesign.com/about.html who loves moving expression of her inner world and making the unseen world visible. Trained as a dancer, architect, healer, and teacher, she’s the President of the non-profit Heart Pulse Partnership https://www.open-heartpulsepartnership.com/ which rece...

Today's first guest is the unstoppable Callie Jayne, Founder and Executive Director of Rise Up Kingston, https://riseupkingston.org/, a grassroots organization led by those experiencing racism, classism, and gender oppression on a daily basis, building a Kingston economy that meets all of our social and environmental needs. Because Callie is such an informed activist, we dove into many deep subjec...

Today, I am joined by two amazing women... Shaniqua Bowden (SB) is the founder and host of the Nubian Café on Radio Kingston, a discussion series which expresses the perspectives of women of color. By way of character, she is a teacher and creative being who loves to troubleshoot solutions for the impossible. Her purpose in life is helping others to conquer fear through creative thought and encour...