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Join musician and disability rights advocate Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation about creativity and resilience with a different guest artist every episode! What started as a response to the pandemic has morphed into a veritable talk show that features different musicians, poets, and writers from all over the country (and sometimes other countries). You can watch these conversations in full on YouTube and support Gaelynn Lea on Patreon.
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Sometimes, the best beginnings start with an ending. Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine bring you this warm and funny show - My Best Break-Up - hosted by the charming Maeve Higgins and featuring a different break-up story each week. You will fall in love with our guests, as they describe how their break-ups transformed their lives. Leaving a relationship, dumping your dentist,suddenly becoming an empty nester or even stepping back from your religion, we want to know where that break-up too ...
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's holiday-themed episode features a special guest storyteller and playwright, Kevin Kling! We'll talk about how he got started telling his autobiographical stories in front of audiences, how he uses his art to address disabi…
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest is the singer-songwriter Ann Kathryn from Duluth, Minnesota! She'll play some of her piano-driven folk tunes, and then they'll discuss her latest album release and the evolution of the music scene in Gaelynn a…
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest artist is Namel "Tap Waterz" Norris from the hip-hop duo 4 Wheel City! He'll perform one of his songs and then share about his life's journey and his mission to use hip-hop music and culture to create more opp…
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest artist is Angela Soffe from Yakima, Washington! She'll play some of her poignant Americana songs and discuss the intersection of her musical and spiritual journeys, her forthcoming album & her newest project c…
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest is the musicologist Elizabeth McLain! She'll discuss disability justice in the performing arts: examples of artists doing the work, what inclusive pedagogy means for music education, and why disabled scholars …
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week's guest artist is the Disability Rights activist and media maker Raul Krauthausen from Berlin, Germany! They'll discuss his many creative endeavors like his blog and podcast, as well as the work he's doing around disa…
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode! This week her special guest is Matt Wheeler from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They'll discuss Matt's love of storytelling, the process behind his lyrical songwriting, as well as his plans for the rest of 2021. This conversation ori…
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Join Gaelynn Lea for a weekly conversation on creativity and resilience featuring a different special guest every episode. This week her guest artist is the fiction writer J. Mackenzie from Duluth, Minnesota! They discuss J. Mackenzie's daily writing practice, her literary influences, her plot and character inspirations, and the creation of her you…
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In this special episode recorded live at The Greene Space in New York City, writer Ashley C. Ford explains how she broke up with her college boyfriend, Kelly, so they could figure themselves out and grow as individuals. After two years of being just friends, Kelly appeared at her doorstep to announce that he had things figured out—and he wanted Ash…
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We’ve all fantasized about reconnecting with a high school crush, but sometimes reality isn’t so dreamy. As an awkward teen in Toronto, Shan Boodram was one of many girls who pined for a popular basketball player. A decade later, he finally asked her out—and despite several red flags, she began dating him. But all those years of unrequited feelings…
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We asked Courtney Perkins, creator of the hilariously accurate @NotAllGeminis Instagram account, to answer our questions about astrology and relationships. Which signs are most compatible? Which pairings will have the worst breakups? What’s the difference between sun, moon, Mars, and Venus signs, and how do they influence the way we date? All this,…
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Folk singer and violinist Gaelynn Lea didn’t just grow up in Duluth, Minnesota—she was rooted in it, from the icy landscape to the thriving local music scene. But in 2016 she won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest, which opened up a world of touring opportunities and helped her find fans and community in places she’d never been. For the first time, Gaelynn re…
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“Criminal” host Phoebe Judge’s latest podcast, “This Is Love,” explores love stories that don’t always seem like love stories—from an episode about a whale to one about the color blue. Phoebe explains how she’s gained a sense of certainty about love, and why a show about love is actually a lot like a show about crime. Hosted by Maeve Higgins. Broug…
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Behind author Jenny Han’s smile is the story of a breakup. Eight years ago, she met a dream dentist—gentle, caring, warm—and fell into a routine of blissful cleanings. Then, her dentist dropped a bombshell: She thought Jenny should get braces and jaw surgery to correct a misalignment. Other specialists disagreed, but Jenny found herself strangely c…
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Comedian Kelli Dunham was raised Evangelical, not Catholic, but she always knew she loved Jesus. So, at age 19, she decided become a nun, offering herself up in service to God and the Church. She tried to be obedient, following her strict order’s rules, but finally she realized that the Jesus she loved wasn’t the Jesus of the convent—and that her i…
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We asked you to share your best break-up stories, and wow, did you deliver. We’ll hear about a woman who discovered she’d been shopping for her boyfriend’s other girlfriends, a man who took a bribe to dump his fiancée, a fool who thought he could lie to three women at once, and a woman who lost her relationship and her job in the span of two days. …
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Connie Lim (aka MILCK) had a long love affair with cigarettes, even though she knew it was unhealthy—and a serious risk to her career as a singer. And like so many bad relationships, when it came time to break up, she found she couldn’t do it cleanly. It took a few tries, a few rebounds, and a whole lot of frustration. Once she made it to the other…
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Lots of comedians poke fun at themselves for laughs. And as Hannah Gadsby explains, her deep unease with success, coupled with the invisibility she often felt as a queer, autistic woman, turned self-deprecation into an automatic response on stage and off. But now Hannah has made a conscious decision to view the world in a new way—without a filter o…
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Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney knows what it’s like to strive for someone else’s idea of perfection. For a long time she tried to be the person she felt the niche design blog world wanted her to be: thin, straight, flawless — basically, an Anthropologie rack come to life. Then she turned 30 and realized that, in fact, she needed to be herself. …
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For a long time, comedian Karolena Theresa thought a perfect body was something she should strive for. But eventually that mindset started interfering with all the other things she cared about, like performing, napping, and rocking bikinis. So she had to call it quits with bad body image. Hosted by Maeve Higgins. Brought to you by Reese Witherspoon…
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Relationship expert Tracy McMillan faced the toughest break-up of her life when her son turned 18 and went away to college. She’d overcome her own difficult childhood and vowed to be the best parent she could be—and that, she realized, meant sending her son off to college to start is own life's journey. Hosted by Maeve Higgins. Brought to you by Re…
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Arianna Margulis got dumped in the middle of Central Park. By a guy who claimed she “interfered with his meditation schedule.” (Really? Really.) Luckily for all of us, Arianna channeled her hurt into the hilariously relatable Instagram cartoon @butlikemaybe and lived to tell the tale. Hosted by Maeve Higgins. Brought to you by Reese Witherspoon and…
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Sometimes, the best beginnings start with an ending. Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine bring you this warm and funny show - My Best Break-Up - hosted by the charming Maeve Higgins and featuring a different break-up story each week. You will fall in love with our guests, as they describe how their break-ups transformed their lives. Leaving a rela…
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