Tierney Talks

Send us Fan Mail Live from L.A. Stories, a reading and fire relief fundraiser I presented at Murmurs Gallery on April 27th, 2025. Ticket sales benefited Altadena Girls . Featured readers included Wendy C. Ortiz , Anna Dorn , Jasmine Johnson , Alicia Novella Vasquez , Heather Jewett , Tasbeeh Herwees , Taleen Kali , Clement Goldberg , and Marcel Alcalá (you won't hear Alicia included here thou...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Andrea Ámez! Andrea reflects on her ten years in the beauty industry and talks about relaunching her Anti Pollutant Masque with Aliangé. She walks us through what you can expect from a facial at her West Hollywood studio and identifies what she considers the most special part of her treatments. We discuss tons of products, product formulators, tips, and techniques. We...

Send us Fan Mail Makeup artist & photographer LOFTJET joins me to discuss GLAM. He tells me about storytelling through makeup, honing your unique perspective, & having faith that your time will come! We talk about the pleasure of getting lost in routines and rituals (and why no makeup makeup is still a million steps...'cuz it's meditative, duh!). He also discusses disrupting the...

Send us Fan Mail Emma Specter just published their book More Please: Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough "! "More Please" is a beautifully reported journalistic memoir that interrogates and reframes Emma's own relationship with their body. They're also the culture writer at Vogue, where they write about film, TV, books, podcasts, news, body politics...

Send us Fan Mail My favorite heavily-perfumed party girls are in the studio discussing niche fragrances! Welcome Chloe Coover and Maddie Phinney! The noses behind the one and only Nose Candy podcast!  This episode is like smoking weed, getting an iced coffee, and going perfume shopping at the mall. Only with two passionate experts at hand! Chloe and Maddie share their approaches to collecting scen...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome Lara Marie Schoenhals ! Lara is a legendary podcaster, best-selling writer, and gorgeous funny girl. She created the world’s first Vanderpump Rules podcast and offers an unrivaled anthropological analysis of the cast. But first we delve into our friendship! From its sweetly erotic origins on a West Hollywood rooftop to our era working together at a media startup in Venice,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Katrina Kemp! Katrina is an actor, producer, activist, DJ, and intuitive from LA.  Katrina not only shares her own coming-of-age story as a person with pseudoachondroplasia but also speaks to the relatively new project of people with Dwarfism collecting their own history, free from the gaze of average-height people.  She explains how people with dwarfism were enslaved...

Send us Fan Mail Haewon Asfaw and Ale Lemus are friends, abolitionists, and pop culture enthusiasts. In this episode, they explain how practicing abolition together informs the way they watch their favorite Bravo shows together, especially The Real Housewives. Whether you’ve watched every episode of every franchise or have never seen the show, our conversation is for you.  Listen to hear Haewon an...

Send us Fan Mail Rachael Finley is the author of the new book “Nobody Ever Told Me Anything,” a memoir and survival guide detailing her highly isolated childhood in South Florida and unique coming-of-age experience online.  She tells me about exploring the duality of women through writing about her mother, surviving her 11-year-old year squatting alone in a vacation rental while her mom sought out...

Send us Fan Mail Hi! Michelle Badillo is back. Watch her as Winnie, the sardonic astrologist in the latest season of "Search Party," streaming now on HBO Max. Michelle has also written for beloved shows including "One Day at a Time," "The Bold Time,"  "The Great North" and more. Watch her new project, "A League of Their Own," this August.  We talk...

Send us Fan Mail I'm back from a prolonged hiatus with my very first solo ep! What a risk! Tell me how it goes! I talk about losing a friend, traveling for the first time since the pandemic began, turning 30, getting engaged, and more. I also discuss my love of Lindsay Lohan and Anthony Kiedis, the shameless way I engage with Bravolebrities, and my year of only reading memoirs.  Please subscr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Beth Pickens! My favorite art consultant, art counselor & lesbian-feminist  money coach (she's a Capricorn too!) We celebrate her new book “Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles” and discuss some of its core topics — money, time, fear, grief, isolation, education, and asking for what you want. Listen for a chance to win your own copy! ...

Send us Fan Mail Holistic esthetician ANDREA ÁMEZ returns to the show for the first time since launching the ÁMEZ Marketplace and developing her ANTI-POLLUTANT MASQUE w/ ALIANGÉ. We discuss building an independent skincare brand during the peak of the celebrity skincare boom, hand-picking products for her own retail platform and formulating her first masque with protective and reparative propertie...

Send us Fan Mail Alissa Nutting talks about adapting her novel "Made For Love" into a TV series and reflects on writing her singular first novel "Tampa" almost nine years after its release. She tells me about creating a character that engages with being loathsome and going over the top to make your point. We discuss eating breakfast at McDonald's and eulogize the Mexican P...

Send us Fan Mail Niko Karamyan (@nikotheikon), Saturn (@saturnrisin9) and Katrina Kemp (@kueenkatrina) join us after watching "Framing Britney," the new New York Times documentary about Britney Spears. Saturn decodes Britney's ability to use performance as protest, Katrina recounts spending time with Britney and paparazzi in the Valley as a high-school stan and Niko raises questions...

Send us Fan Mail Erin Taj joins us to share astrological knowledge juicy enough for beginners and devotees alike. Taj breaks down fixed, mutable and cardinal signals, explains astrology as geometry and defines what houses mean in the context of your natal chart. She teaches what having planets “conjunct” and “square” one another means, expands on popular misconceptions of rising signs and discusse...

Send us Fan Mail Jane Ward is a feminist scholar and author of the books “Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men” and “Respectably Queer.” She teaches gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, specializing in feminist, queer and heterosexuality studies and creating “scholarship for the feminist revolution.” Jane joins Tierney to discuss her new book “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” a “lesbia...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guests are Erin Christovale, Asuka Hisa, Suzanne Isken, Sarah Williams, Morgan Elder, Allison Littrell, Vanessa Zenedjas, Rudeness, Tatiana Vahan, Abby Kavanaugh, Katrina Carl, Laura Mart, Katherine Ross, Angelique Soave & Klaus Biesenbach.  Tierney Talks hosted the first TELETHON For Your Art at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s guests include: Tini Stormberg , Trevor McFedries , Janet Taylor Pickett , Samantha Taylor Pickett , Chloe Coover , Zoé Blue M. , Jiro Maestu , Jasmine Nyende , Irina Karamyan , Han Donovan , Toryn Seabrooks , Emily Barker & Peggy Noland . Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair...

Send us Fan Mail Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all Frieze long. The result is a collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much much!    This is the third in...

Send us Fan Mail Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all Frieze long. The result is a collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much much!    This is the second in...

Send us Fan Mail Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought our talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth all Frieze long. The result is a collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much fun!  This is the first in a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes...

Send us Fan Mail Niko the Ikon is an artist and actor in L.A. Join us for a moody quarantine phone call. We invite you to eavesdrop.  We discuss creating harmony between you and your living space and bringing intentionality to your interiors. We also alk about bringing love into day-to-day-life and how this time at home feels like a return to our pre-teen lives and friendship. “I’ve been living in...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea Amez is a holistic esthetician, transformational glow-up practitioner and product concierge. Tierney talks to Andrea about taking care of herself while quarantining at home, opening her own skin studio in LA and infusing some expert know-how into your daily skin and beauty rituals. Andrea talks about avoiding obsessive self-grooming, reading your body by paying attention to...

Send us Fan Mail Molly is a writer and iconic Valley Girl. You can read her in tons of magazines like Elle, InStyle, the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. She also wrote the introduction to the newest collection of Eve Babitz essays, “I Used To Be Charming: The Rest Of Eve Babitz.” We talk about Comrade Britney, Mimi Zhu, Lana Del Rey, Rihanna, Grace Jones, Madonna, Eve Babitz, Joan Didi...