No, I Know Podcast

EP#28: Ilyana & James. 12 years in to their Marriage and creating together. Let's Do it Again. A re-release of of EP#5, where to celebrate their wedding anniversary, Ilyana and James pop the hood on their marriage, sharing candid stories about their personal changes and how these changes evolved their marriage. Plus a few music performances; including the song they wrote the night they met, Champa...

Special Guest: Lisa Gossels is an Emmy Award winning social issue documentarian whose films "The Children of Chabannes" and "My So-Called Enemy" have garnered 20 honors and awards, and aired on HBO Signature and Public Television. A sought after speaker and educator, one of Lisa's greatest joys is sharing her films in educational, religious and multi-cultural settings, to build bridges of understa...

Special Guest: Scott Suvow, is National Board Certified in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology. In this episode, Ilyana and James chat with Scott about: The basics of the Eastern Medicine philosophy, what it really means to listen to your body, what happens during an acupuncture session, the power of flowers and his research on the ancient wisdom of IChing. Music Segment: Lythion performs "Carry Us"...

Special Guest: Emmy award winning Liz Scully is a Business Strategist who runs Masterminds for herself and some of the best coaches worldwide and trains people to run their own Mastermind Groups in her  new coaching school.  Bringing skills from the  film world, she creates supportive teams of brilliant minds which achieve more together than alone. Ilyana & James chat with her about: What is a Mas...

Special Guests: Audio Book Narrators, Tavia Gilbert and Michael Crouch join Ilyana & James to share the "behind the scenes" of what it takes to narrate audio books, how they entered the business and the origins of story in their lives. Music Segment: Performance of Lythion's Duel to the Death.

Special Guests: Mother and Daughter team, MARIA HARMONY GRATIA (painter & medical scientist) and DALAL (recording artist and composer at DALALMUSIC), both originally from Austria, chat with us about how their special mother & daughter bond has impacted their life and work. Music Segment: Lythion performs "When You're Smiling".

Special Guest: Adam Abel is a New York based artist working with Photography, Video and Film. We chat with him about his feature documentary Qalqilya, which tells the story of a Palestinian skater who dreams of building a club for his group of misfits who skate, do parkour and perform beatbox and hip-hop in Qalqilya, a city in the West Bank surrounded by a wall. In the process of making this film,...

Special Guests: Members of the original casting team of RENT on Broadway and National Tours, former Casting Director Heidi Marshall and Vocal Coach Matt Farnsworth, reunite on our show to talk "behind the scenes" about Broadway auditions and give vital tips to all the actors and singers out there. Hear what they reveal about creating an "authentic" audition. Musical Segment: We perform our cover o...

Special Guest: Finkle, is the alter ego of Kenny Finkle. He is a theater maker, writer, composer, performer and trickster. Finkle chats with us about his creative path and rituals, confronting darkness and the part that insomnia plays in his life. Audio Fantasy:The Powerless by Finkle and the song "Have you Ever" by Lythion Music. *This episode best listened to on headphones.

Lythion Music and Co-Hosts of No, I Know Podcast, Ilyana Kadushin and James Harrell, performed a live streamed music concert on Dec.20th 2016. Here is the audio replayed for your listening pleasure! Set List: Surrender (By Lythion Music), Call to Creation (By Lythion Music and Lyrics by Langston Hughes), Lift Every Voice (By Lythion Music and Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson- from soundtrack of film...

Special Guests: Boob Tube is a thoughtful critique of television and film by two women who care about stories and who like to focus on female creators and protagonists! Sometimes they agree, sometimes they disagree and sometimes they digress. Boob Tube is Shana Gold and Maria Cataldo. Lythion Music Segment: We perform our song "Cocky Prick".

Special Guest: Nancy Lee Hendley, an artist turned Dementia Care trainer and Connect to Culture Consultant at Caring Kind formerly Alzheimer's Association NYC Chapter. She joins us to chat about: the power of creative engagement and playfulness, to bring the good news to people with Dementia and their care givers, through her insight into the disease and living the life of a care giver. Music Segm...

Special Guest: Sasha Hynes- a lawyer and mother who immigrated from Russia to America in the late 1970's. She visits the podcast and tells an immigrant story, a coming of age reflection on racism, political correctness, a good old fashioned American tale. Music Segment: Ilyana and James perform their song "The Reason".

Special Guest: Russell G. Jones, award winning actor and creator of Blind Spot. Created after hearing the term "Post Racial America", Blind Spot is a multi-platform campaign that facilitates cross cultural dialogue and critical thinking, so more of us can recognize and resist internalized and systematic oppression. Music segment: Ilyana and James perform their song "Good Guise".  

Special Guests: The Adams Family. A genuine family of film makers that sets out into America and makes awesome films together. And now their current film, Halfway to Zen is premiering at The Woodstock Film Festival. Toby Poser, John Adams and their daughters, Lulu and Zelda. You get a "behind the scenes" listen about their journey and find out what it's like for these kids to grow up making films...

Special Guest: Journalist and Filmmaker Michelle Memran, who we interview about her documentary film about Cuban American Playwright Maria Irene Fornes. This film captures Irene's life and creative spirit as her dementia advances. We are magnetized by Irene's identity and passion and her relationship with the film maker. This film her final play, written through the camera's lens. Plus a live perf...

Special Guest: DJ Qool Marv. We chat with one of our favorite New York DJ's about his journey to become one of the most popular DJ's of NYC party scene from the 90's through today. He has opened for bands like: P.Funk, Roots, Fugees, Tribe Called Quest, The NBA, as well as television premieres for Showtime and HBO. His mixes are always thoughtful. He brings love and positivity where ever he spins,...

Special Guest: Liza Zapol, an artist and oral historian who creates sound, multi media works and performance on the themes of memory and place using documentary methods. We chat with her about the differences between oral history and modern story telling. From the every day life stories to the preservation of major historic events like The Great Depression and September 11th. We look at how we ask...

Special Guest: Jonny Dubowsky, a bonafide rock 'n roll scientist, whose thought leadership in music marketing as well as corporate social responsibility, helps communities to improve resources and communication systems that enrich life. We chat about making art, coding and composting and teaching kids about sustainable living; and his Rock N Renew Social Innovation Lab, where complex social proble...

Special Guest: Jenna Spevak, an artist, designer and educator. She chats with us about making more resilient and sustainable environmental connections in an urban system. Her art projects are about hearing nature and finding well being. As a modern day pioneer woman, she built a cabin modeling Thoreau's, that is off the grid. City life or country life we realize nature is available, if we take the...

In Episode Six: Co-hosts, Ilyana and James speak with Special Guest:                     Jason Schuler, an Interdisciplinary Performance Artist. You will learn about: Immersive Theater- What is it? Can you hypnotize an audience? Transhumanism- Humans and their relationship with technology, can you go into a spiritual altered state with it? Can you cultivate a "Hallucinogenic" mind that brings enli...

To celebrate their 11th anniversary, Ilyana and James pop the hood on their marriage, sharing candid stories  and music performances; including the song they wrote the night they met. Recorded June 11th, 2016.

Special Guest: Brigitte Viellieu- Davis- Actor, Director, Writer and Activist. She chats with us about Bee Keeping, creating Wild Habitats in your own backyard and Gender Parity in Entertainment. Women's roles in the hive and in creating art, how are they connected? The connections are keeping the colony from collapsing and being in service of the hive. Plus a live music performance of our song ab...

Special Guest: Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR- Social Media Publicist, Speaker, Author and friend. We talk about how we share our stories and feel camaraderie, in both real life groups or in social media sharing. She shares her insights on how to tell your story in this world and how women over time have evolved their business acumen, by circling up with other women. We perform our song Traveling live.

Special Guest: Shawn Wilson- Documentary Film Maker and friend, chats with Ilyana and James about Hollywood and Social Media's influence on Race and impact on our own self worth in the world. They share stories about collaborating on the film "Separate, But Equal" together and a song from the score is performed live. *Recorded January 27th 2016.