Legacy of Loud

Maria Cutrona was going to be a dancer. Then Reagan gutted arts funding, the floor dropped out, and she spent 25 years as a fashion rep before yoga finally claimed her for good. In this conversation, the Brooklyn yogi gets into what "yoking" actually means, why trauma is your response to the event and not the event itself, and where somatic work picks up after talk therapy starts looping. She and...

This week we talk to documentary filmmaker Daniel Everitt-Lock, who spent four years chasing a story most of us have never heard: the people still living with the fallout of nuclear weapons testing. Over 2,000 bombs. Five governments. Millions of people affected — atomic veterans who saw the flash through their own closed hands, Indigenous communities living on the uranium, families from islands t...

"Systems That Weren't Designed For Us" is a four-part conversation series from Legacy of Loud, and this episode is where it starts — by naming the thing out loud. Women move through work, healthcare, motherhood, and partnership systems that were never built around their lives, bodies, or realities, and are still expected to perform inside them as if they were. Recorded live at the Museum in Spite...

 "Working and middle class Black people often subjugate a lot of their creative ability and magic just to exist, to get jobs." Ruganzu Howard @rggz spent  a decade as a Baltimore PD detective and hostage negotiator. Now he directs commercials. Youngest of 11 kids. Raised by a father born in 1920s Mississippi. We got into the friend whose one question redirected his life, why he thinks community is...

Biet Simkin is a contemporary artist, bestselling author, and founder of Guided by Biet — sometimes called the David Bowie of meditation. Tara prefers spiritual assassin. In this episode, we get into wanting more, hating yourself less, and why God might need better PR. The 50% light / 50% asshole problem. The $40 million question. Why your body and mind are designed to fuck with you — and how to m...

We got the chance to talk with Jody and Georgia, a baller mother daughter duo. We dove into politics, dating, and generational differences  with honesty, humor, and zero fear of disagreement.  Follow Legacy of Loud: https://linktr.ee/legacyofloud Chapters: 00:00 Introduction   00:10 Mother-Daughter Dynamics and Podcast Genesis 03:26 Political Conversations and Perspectives 08:35 Navigating Politic...

Jeff Sheehan is an acupuncturist, death doula, and Taoist death medicine practitioner. He's also the most alive person in any room. In this episode, we get into what it actually means to prepare for death — and why that's really just another way of saying: stop sleepwalking through your life. We talk about competency addiction, the illusion of control, why we medicate the dying for our comfort, an...

Kassi Underwood is a spiritual teacher, author, Harvard Innovation Labs’ first (sequins-clad) meditation advisor. In this episode, Tara and Fiona sit down with Kassi for a conversation about feminine and masculine energy that is neither a return to the 1950s nor a rejection of feminism. It's more complicated than that. And more interesting. They get into why modern motherhood has become a masculin...

Nancy Whang spent the first decade of LCD Soundsystem looking like the coolest girl in the world. cool on stage. She was actually terrified. In this conversation, the musician and artist talks about leaving a small town in Oregon for New York with no plan, navigating life as the only woman in a band full of guys, what she learned about taking up space, and how LCD accidentally created one of the l...

This week we’re joined by a documentary filmmaker whose path to directing was anything but linear. Before making her first feature, she worked in experimental theater, nonprofit fundraising, fashion, and producing — all while quietly wanting to tell her own stories. At 26 she thought it was too late to pivot. At 40, she made her first feature film. We talk about fear, perfectionism, starting over...

When David Sokolow noticed a vacant building across from his Bed-Stuy apartment attracting crime and becoming a neighborhood eyesore, he didn't just call 311 and hope for the best. He organized. As founder of the Better Block Project, he's mobilized 110+ neighbors in Bed-Stuy to solve problems the city won't fix: vacant buildings attracting crime, illegal dumping, broken bus stops, and negligent l...

Over half of kids are exposed to porn by age eight. That’s the statistic that stopped us in our tracks when Rebecca Alvarez—founder of Bloomi and trained sexologist—shared it in this conversation. Rebecca Alvarez, founder of Bloomi and trained sexologist, shares the research that shocked us: over 50% of kids see porn by age eight. She explains why “eight is too late,” how she convinced Target to c...

What happens when the fourth largest bank in the world collapses, your father's picture is on the front page as a 'ringleader,' and decades later you realize the Western banking crisis of 2008 proved everything you'd been told was a lie? Filmmaker Samia Khan joins Tara and Fiona to talk about investigating her documentary, navigating ancestral trauma, her personal experiences with plant medicine,...

Today on Legacy of Loud we have Karla Stewart on to discuss the dark side of period Trackers, How apps sold your ovulation data to employers who wanted to know when you were trying to get pregnant, The science behind why you can't "work like a man" The Nuclear Codes Question.  Karla is a partner at Tangerine, connecting exceptional talent with companies like A24, Spotify, OpenAI, and The New York...

Full Episode Legacy of Loud Coming Soon, January 2026