Artist Care and Feeding

​Leah Lax is: A word person. A people person. One of those creative sorts who has to try to walk around as an ostensibly rational person. (The pandemic has eased that problem.) A secret cellist. And a collaborator, perhaps because she thinks in terms of music she isn’t very good at making herself. Leah is also a refugee from extreme religion, who has seven grown kids. Leah’s memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home is the only gay memoir ever to come out of the Hasidic world. It was on many “best of” lists, Susan Sarandon read it on NPR, and it is soon to be an opera by Grammy-nominated Lori Laitman.Leah’s next book is Not From Here, about how she rediscovered America through stories told her by immigrants and refugees, and why that matters. Leah has written four major projects based on interviews with interesting people: a touring photo exhibit, a large scale opera (Houston Grand Opera), a spoken word performance piece (the Houston Symphony), and her book Not From Here.Twitter: @LeahLaxFacebook: LeahLaxAuthorLeah's Website: LeahLaxAuthor.com

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett  and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Seth F Barker is an AEA Stage Manager, Certified Whole Person Coach, and a Certified Chopra Ayurvedic Lifestyle Educator. He works with Entertainment Industry Professionals to honor all aspects of their life "on and off" stage to help them create Personal Transformation and Healthy Sustainable Lifestyles. www.BehindTheScenesCoaching.comSustainability For The ArtsVenmo @seth-barker-coachDr. Angelica McCarthy, DAT, LAT, ATC (she/her/hers) is a Doctor of Athletic Training, specializing in performing arts medicine. Her purpose is to guide individuals in awareness and understanding of their bodies, through a holistic-based approach, to support longevity of health & well-being, movement, and life. Her philosophy is to treat the whole person - mind, body, and soul to get to the root of the problem and focus on the solution through health & well-being promotion and education, injury prevention, functional movement and performance enhancement.Social handles:IG @dr_amccarthyLinkedIn/Facebook @Angelica Davison McCarthyOther Website: www.mccarthyathletictraining.comVenmo: @Angelica-davison (name Angelica McCarthy)

Nikki Kimbrough is a TV personality, Broadway performer, producer, director, personal trainer, and entrepreneur. She’s the CEO and founder of Get Fit with Nik, Inc. She made her Broadway debut as Etta James in the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. She is the executive director and owner of the Harlem All-Stars Theater Group, where their mission is to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, encourage and inspire underserved youth. With her boyfriend Billy Davis, she co-created, a live Zoom podcast/talk show called The Amputee and His Girl: "chronicles of a couple living the entrepreneurial lifestyle while on the grind in NYC with only three legs.” During the COVID lockdown, Nikki also created The Ladies First Chit-Chat CrewTalk Show, “where we honor the voice of the everyday woman,” which airs at 11 a.m. EST every Saturday on Zoom and Facebook Live. Instagram: @getfitwithnik   Facebook: Nikki KimbroughFacebook: Get Fit with Nik  Website: GetFitWithNik.com  ​Instagram: @theladiesfirstchitchatcrew  Billy Davis is a musician, athlete, personal trainer, real estate agent, and entrepreneur. In May 2012, Billy survived a horrific motorcycle accident that took his left leg above the knee. He spent more than four months in rehab and endured nine surgeries, after which he returned to personal training just six months after his accident. Always up for a challenge, less than a year after that, Billy returned to cycling, joining the Wiggle Your Toes and Achilles Triathlon teams, which led to his first triathlon in the summer of 2015 and subsequently to an Iron Man competition. Billy has documented much of his training through social media and he’s been a daily source of inspiration for thousands of people around the world.  After living in the NYC area for the better part of 20 years, Billy became a licensed real estate salesperson and a member of The Signature Team at Compass Real Estate. During the COVID lockdown, with his girlfriend Nikki Kimbrough, he co-created the live Zoom podcast/talk show The Amputee and His Girl, "chronicles of a couple living the entrepreneurial lifestyle while on the grind in NYC with only three legs.”www.theamputeeandhisgirl.com Instagram: @theamputeeandhisgirl Facebook: The Amputee and His Girl Billy's Instagram: @realestatetriathlete The Black & White Cookies

Jennifer McNeely has exhibited her sculpture extensively in her native Northwest and across the country for over 20 years in both solo and group exhibitions. She has a unique approach to materials and process that have earned her many accolades including: The Artist Trust GAP Grant, Portable Works Program, and inclusion in private collections and publications, including a documentary series on BBC. As a long-time member of the Seattle arts community, she has lectured on sculpture at University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, and University of Puget Sound. She holds both a B.F.A and a M.B.A.Resident of: Seattle, Washington, USA, the Universe.Venmo: @jennifer-mcneely-2

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Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett  and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Christopher Holt is a painter, water-colorist, and fresco artist. A native of Asheville, North Carolina, where he still lives and works among the mountains of Haywood County, its natural beauty continuing to inform and shape his artistry. Christopher grew up painting and drawing, ​eventually finding his way to the art department at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. There, his attention was captured by the Native American Artist Kimowan Metchewais and he learned much about the creative process as well as storytelling through art. After Chapel Hill, his wanderlust took him to Central and South America, where he was exposed to ancient sites including Copan in Honduras, Tikal in Guatemala, and Chichenitza in Mexico, where he discovered the fresco paintings of Diego Rivera.Upon returning to Asheville in 2003, Christopher’s path crossed with the legendary artist and fresco master Benjamin Franklin Long IV, who was founding a school in the mountains dedicated to the study of drawing and painting. Christopher quickly became a devoted student at the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas. Over time he became an integral part of the school as well as Long’s fresco work. After a decade of working with Long, Holt established his own studio in Asheville.Christopher has continued traveling, painting and finding inspiration abroad, always returning to NC to show his work and teach, often working with students in the Asheville City Schools. His recent travels have taken him to Cairo, Egypt, Tuscany and the Dominican Republic where he has facilitated the painting of many large murals in a small village where children of Haitian descent worked alongside Dominican children to complete pictures of peace and community in a country caught up in racial injustice.Christopher spent much of 2019 at Asheville's Haywood Street Church where he created a 10-by-27-foot Renaissance-style fresco on a wall in the main sanctuary of the small United Methodist church that encompasses and serves the needs of many unhoused or formerly-unhoused people. The church, where Holt had been spending time at its weekly services and famous Welcome Table on Wednesdays—a community meal open to anyone and everyone, served on linen tablecloths and with fine china, catered by some of Asheville's best chefs and cooks. Those who eat and worship together at Haywood Street are individuals carrying all their worldly possessions in ragged backpacks as well as privileged professionals, stay-at-home moms, students and the working poor.The Haywood Street Fresco, which pictures several dozen members of the church community from diverse backgrounds, is one of hope and unity, reflecting Jesus' Beatitudes. The creation of the fresco has been made into a documentary film, Theirs Is The Kingdom, which filmmakers hope to release widely this spring. Christopher's website: Kairos Fine ArtChristopher on Insta: @christopherholtfineartTheirs Is The Kingdom documentary: HEREHaywood Street Fresco on Insta: @haywoodstreetfresco​

Karen Walrond is an writer, a leadership and activism coach, speaker, attorney, and author of the forthcoming book, The Lightmakers Manifesto. A Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Karen trained in Brené Brown's work on vulnerability, courage, shame-resilience and worthiness as well as training in positive psychology coaching from the Wholebeing Institute, using the science of well-being and research-based assessments and interventions to bring about greater satisfaction, purpose and fulfillment in life.In addition, Karen is a bestselling author on the subjects of tapping into your superpowers and how to work for change in the world without losing your joy. I’ve also contributed both photographs and essays to books on faith and self-expression. You can read all about Karen’s books here.

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Rives is a poet, storyteller, author, speaker, event host, paper engineer, night owl activist, and since 2013 has been curator of the Museum of Four O'Clock in the Morning. He is a frequent speaker at the TED conference (in fact he is one of a rare few presenters who have six talks on TED.com) and he has been a regular host of TEDActive and TEDYouth. Rives appeared on Seasons 3–6 of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and was a member of Team Hollywood, which won the 2004 National Poetry Slam. He also starred alongside model Bar Refaeli in the 2008 Bravo special Ironic Iconic America, touring the United States on a “roller coaster ride through the eye-popping panorama of American pop culture.” Rives also appeared as the “first 2.0 poet” in a series of ads for telecom company Orange S.A., and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and appeared on NPR's All Things Considered. As a poet, Rives' way with words has been called a “demonstration of what the English language is capable of.” He is known for humorously layered and heartwarming pieces such as “Kite” and “Mockingbird," as well as for his use of multimedia in his performances, seamlessly intertwining images, video, and often the audience members themselves with his poems. Rives has written and paper engineered several pop-up books for children and adults. Flat pages can't contain his storytelling, even when paper is his medium. The pop-up books he creates for children unfold with surprise: The Christmas Pop-Up Present expands to reveal moving parts, hidden areas and miniature booklets inside. Early in his career, Rives worked at Intervisual Books, under the leadership of Waldo Hunt. Two pop-up books, with paper engineering by Rives—The Consummate Cigar Book and If I Were A Polar Bear—were finalists for the Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineering. Recently, with our Cathleen, Rives began hosting Nighthawks Hangouts, invitation-only online gatherings for night owls, nighthawks, dawn-treaders, night shifters, midnight ramblers, lifelong and situational insomniacs, apprentice vampires, and those who are more likely to stay up until than to wake up at dawn, and who often find themselves awake when much of the rest of the world is asleep. Rives' website: ShopliftWindchimes.comThe Museum of Four in the Morning website: fourinthemorning.comThe Museum of Four in the Morning on Twitter: @mofitmThe Museum of Four in the Morning on Instagram: @mofitmNighthawks Hangout on Twitter: @nighthawkshangNighthawks Hangout on Instagram: @nighthawkshangRives on TED.com

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen Latest: Look for the LightMark Insta:@markrivet

Rives is a poet, storyteller, author, speaker, event host, paper engineer, night owl activist, and since 2013 has been curator of the Museum of Four O'Clock in the Morning. He is a frequent speaker at the TED conference (in fact he is one of a rare few presenters who have six talks on TED.com) and he has been a regular host of TEDActive and TEDYouth. Rives appeared on Seasons 3–6 of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and was a member of Team Hollywood, which won the 2004 National Poetry Slam. He also starred alongside model Bar Refaeli in the 2008 Bravo special Ironic Iconic America, touring the United States on a “roller coaster ride through the eye-popping panorama of American pop culture.” Rives also appeared as the “first 2.0 poet” in a series of ads for telecom company Orange S.A., and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and appeared on NPR's All Things Considered. As a poet, Rives' way with words has been called a “demonstration of what the English language is capable of.” He is known for humorously layered and heartwarming pieces such as “Kite” and “Mockingbird," as well as for his use of multimedia in his performances, seamlessly intertwining images, video, and often the audience members themselves with his poems. Rives has written and paper engineered several pop-up books for children and adults. Flat pages can't contain his storytelling, even when paper is his medium. The pop-up books he creates for children unfold with surprise: The Christmas Pop-Up Present expands to reveal moving parts, hidden areas and miniature booklets inside. Early in his career, Rives worked at Intervisual Books, under the leadership of Waldo Hunt. Two pop-up books, with paper engineering by Rives—The Consummate Cigar Book and If I Were A Polar Bear—were finalists for the Movable Book Society Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineering. Recently, with our Cathleen, Rives began hosting Nighthawks Hangouts, invitation-only online gatherings for night owls, nighthawks, dawn-treaders, night shifters, midnight ramblers, lifelong and situational insomniacs, apprentice vampires, and those who are more likely to stay up until than to wake up at dawn, and who often find themselves awake when much of the rest of the world is asleep. Rives' website: ShopliftWindchimes.comThe Museum of Four in the Morning website: fourinthemorning.comThe Museum of Four in the Morning on Twitter: @mofitmThe Museum of Four in the Morning on Instagram: @mofitmNighthawks Hangout on Twitter: @nighthawkshangNighthawks Hangout on Instagram: @nighthawkshangRives on TED.com

Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen's Latest: Look for the LightMark's Insta:@markrivetBen's Links:Instagram: @thisBenDavis​Twitter: @BJDavis​Website: Benjamin Jay Davis ​Soundcloud: BJ Davis

Cherie B Tay (she/they) is a queer, BIPOC, gender non-conforming voice actor and multimedia creative artist. Cherie's working voice over genres include animation, commercial, e-learning, IVR, narration, podcasts, and trailers. In addition to being a voiceover artist, they are also a Broadway stage manager, professional photographer, videographer, and ukulele teacher.​Broadway and tour credits include: Hadestown, Amélie, Gettin' The Band Back Together, War Horse, In the Heights. Cherie's photography work has been featured in The New York Times, Vulture, Time Out, Forbes, and numerous other publications.​Cherie's TikTok: @cherieb.tayCherie's Website: cheriebtay.comCherie's YouTube channel: CherieBTay

***Spoiler Alert!*** ***Spoiler Alert!*** ***Spoiler Alert!*** ***Spoiler Alert!*** DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS UNLESS YOU'VE ALREADY WATCHED THE MOVIE!!!!REALLY. WE MEAN IT. GO WATCH IN & OF ITSELF AND THEN COME BACK TO LISTEN.SERIOUSLY. SO. MANY SPOILERS. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.***Spoiler Alert!*** ***Spoiler Alert!*** ***Spoiler Alert!*** ***Spoiler Alert!*** Derek DelGuadio's In & Of Itself is streaming on Hulu now!Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen's Latest: Look for the LightMark's Insta:@markrivetKelley's Insta: @kells_shwelland @a_spiral_spaceKelley's website: www.aspiral.space Kelley's Substack: A Spiral Space

​Leah Lax is: A word person. A people person. One of those creative sorts who has to try to walk around as an ostensibly rational person. (The pandemic has eased that problem.) A secret cellist. And a collaborator, perhaps because she thinks in terms of music she isn’t very good at making herself. Leah is also a refugee from extreme religion, who has seven grown kids. Leah’s memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home is the only gay memoir ever to come out of the Hasidic world. It was on many “best of” lists, Susan Sarandon read it on NPR, and it is soon to be an opera by Grammy-nominated Lori Laitman.Leah’s next book is Not From Here, about how she rediscovered America through stories told her by immigrants and refugees, and why that matters. Leah has written four major projects based on interviews with interesting people: a touring photo exhibit, a large scale opera (Houston Grand Opera), a spoken word performance piece (the Houston Symphony), and her book Not From Here.Twitter: @LeahLaxFacebook: LeahLaxAuthorLeah's Website: LeahLaxAuthor.com

Google it first, then weigh in with us.Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.ACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedKaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen's Latest: Look for the LightMark's Insta:@markrivet

Gaelynn Lea is an American folk singer, violinist, public speaker, and disability activist from Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016, she won NPR's influential Tiny Desk Contest when her song and performance for "Someday We'll Linger in the Sun" was selected more than 6,000 other submissions. Since then, with her husband, Paul, who is her tour manager, Gaelynn has been on the road practically nonstop, performing in 45 states and nine countries, before the COVID-19 pandemic made concerts and live performances all but impossible. Gaelynn has performed at numerous festivals including SXSW, the Winnipeg Folk Festival in Canada, and the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland. She also has opened for and collaborated with bands including Wilco, The Decemberists, LOW, The Jay Hawks, and the industrial rock supergroup Pigface. On Sundays, she performs live on her YouTube channel where she is joined by a variety of musical guests, most recently Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. In addition to performing and recording, Gaelynn, who has brittle bone disease, also does speaking engagements about Disability Rights, finding inner freedom, and accessibility in the arts. She uses her music as a platform to advocate for people with disabilities and to promote positive social change. So far she's been able to share her perspective on PBS NewsHour, The Moth Radio Hour, The Science of Happiness Podcast, and through two popular TEDx Talks.Gaelynn's website: Violin Scratches Gaelynn's Patreon: GaelynnLea Gaelynn's Bandcamp: GaelynnLeaGaelynn's YouTube Channel: GaelynnLeaTwitter: @GaelynnLeaGaelynn's Newsletter: SUBSCRIBE

Well if it isn't the consequences of our actions...Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.Kaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen's Latest: Look for the Light

Caitlin is a classically trained soprano from Spring, Texas and Calgary, Alberta. After attending Northwestern University for a Bachelor of Music, she appeared in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s presentation of The King and I. She then moved to New York City and, shortly after, went on tour with Les Miserables as an ensemble member and Cosette understudy. She is currently on The Phantom of the Opera World Tour as the alternate Christine Daae.Venmo: @Caitlin-Finnie

What's your guiltiest guilty TV pleasure? The trashiest, garbage-y-est, perhaps truly-embarrassing-to-admit show you watch or have watched? RHWOWherever? Jersey Shore? The Bachelor? Big Brother? (If you say The Apprentice, you need to leave. Now. ) Are you old enough to remember the first season of Real World? Survivor? How about Laguna Beach--the 'reality' show that launched a thousand (or a dozen) terrible C-list careers? We admit a few terrible truths—how many times has Cath watched every episode of Golden Girl and Grace and Frankie, exactly?—Mark uses "Jared Leto" as a verb, Kait says "ratch-ED," tells us what it was like to hate-watch Love Is Blind in lockdown, and actually read the entire Game of Thrones series. Why Letterkenny is brilliant. Full stop. Mark and Kaitlyn explain the RHWOTOC cat meme and the plot of Dexter to Cath, who can't remember the name of the actor who plays the hot son on Weeds (which was really good and then really bad) and was also in the revival of Godspell. (It's Hunter Parrish.) Mark tells a super gross story, and yes, Kait still loves Nickleback. (We know.) Welcome to the dark corners of our pop-culture minds.Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.Kaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen's Latest: Look for the Light

Bhushan Thakkar is a filmmaker, photographer, cinematographer, director, editor, producer and co-founder of the digital media company 20EVO based in Southern California. Bhushan’s love of visual art and storytelling drew him to filmmaking early in life. In the last 20 years, he has produced, directed and shot for commercial corporate media, nature-based content, as well as films for U.S. and international audiences.In more than two decades of experience, Bhushan's photography and filmmaking have brought him through Brazil, India, Europe, and North America. Whenever he travels, Bhushan the natural beauty of every region he visits, and he often books extra time to shoot photos and video time-lapses for his own enjoyment.In 2011, Bhushan co-produced and was second unit director for the award-winning romantic comedy When Harry Tries to Marry; in 2014, he directed Glass, a short film about two glass blowers from Kansas now living in Kauai, and the unlikely story that brought them there. Bhushan also shot for Linda Midgett's award-winning documentary Same God and was the cinematographer for Caipira, a documentary about a Brazilian guitar maker (in post production.)Bhushan's photography has been published widely in numerous magazines, newspapers, catalogs, social media sites, and many brand websites. His most recent project is the short film Returning Home, featuring pro mountain biker Richie Schley created entirely during the 2020 COVID lockdown.​Instagram: ​@BhooShootsWebsite: 20EVOIMBD: Returning HomeAwaken Om app: DiscoverOm.com

Barbara Mahany spent nearly three decades as a reporter and writer at the Chicago Tribune. She is now a freelance journalist and author of four collections of essays. Her first, Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door, has been called “balm for the hurried heart,” and “a field guide into your holiest hours.” Her second book, Motherprayer: Lessons in Loving, explores the sacred mysteries of mothering—its sorrows, joys, trembles, hallelujahs, and the tumble of questions without answers.Her latest, which debuted earlier this autumn, The Stillness of Winter: Sacred Blessings of the Season, is a "gift book," which basically means a pretty little book you might delight in holding in your hand, or tucking in your pocket, or slipping onto your bedside table. It's a lovely, fetchingly-compact tome and we have done just that with it in Bellingham and Laguna Beach, respectively. A pediatric oncology nurse before taking up journalism, Barb ever is been drawn to deeply human stories, where she has displayed a nurse’s knack for tapping into the hearts of those whose story she is telling. She counts among her life’s treasures the hundreds of letters she’s received from readers who tell her they’ve clipped one of her stories and tucked it in a wallet, a bedroom drawer, or slipped it in a plastic sleeve and carried it wherever they’ve gone. One such fellow, the Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square, who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver one cold December’s eve, died clutching a laminated copy of the story she had written about him three years earlier. Barb still writes regularly on her longtime blog, Pull Up A Chair. We suggest you do.Website: BarbaraMahany.comInstagram: @barbara.ann.mahanyTwitter: @BarbaraMahany

Terri Hemmert is an absolute legend in the world of rock 'n' roll radio. She's spent 47 years on the air at Chicago's WXRT (93.1 FM) radio station, where she still hosts its "Breakfast with the Beatles" show every Sunday morning despite having officially retired in 2019. A musicologist who has taught the history of rock and soul at Chicago's Columbia College for decades, Terri was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2010 and her work has been featured at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Terri's Very Active Facebook PageTerri Hemmert explores the history of rock and soulRadio Hall of FameTerri Hemmert Day!

Greta Chapin-McGill is a Black feminist artist who believes the narrative of her art is a living document, evolving in phases. The most important lesson she says she has learned has been "to get out of my own way and let the art lead me.” She is drawn to artists, male and female, whose sensibilities are able to look intimately at the feminine mystic. “Women express openly among themselves and in every venue they inhabit emotion and spirituality," Greta says. To her, feminism means having the unparalleled physical strength literally to push humanity forward. "Feminism silently and most profoundly influences my work, she says. "Women are the species I know best.” Reared in Washington, D.C., Greta has lived in New York, New Mexico, and Firenze, Italy. “My work is abstractly real. The techniques are driven by classical art 'isms,' indigenous tribal art, and my own unique ancestral DNA. I spend time reading, studying, and collecting mentors to further my art," she says. Her great influences include Wilfredo Lam, Picasso, Matisse, Leon Berkowitz, Alma Thomas, and contemporary artists with whom she converses with about art, politics, and concepts of life, such as Lillian Burwell, the late Jack Whitten, Oliver Lee Jackson, Akili Anderson, Alonzo Davis, and Indigenous artist Patricia Michaels.“I am driven to tell the story of my time through the eyes of a Black American woman, a feminist and global citizen,” Greta says. Instagram: ChapinMcGill (where many of her works pictured are for sale—DM her!)Facebook: Greta Chapin-McGill

Kelley Weber is an actor, teacher, spiritual director and knitter. Originally from Connecticut, she has been teaching theater and acting professionally in St. Louis for the last 25 years. She was a founding member of St. Louis' Mustard Seed Theater, which explored our relationship with God and our ethical responsibility to the world.​Most recently she won the St. Louis Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her role as Bodie in Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur for The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis. As kids grow and move off to college and beyond, Kelley is looking toward second-half-of-life work outside the theater, helping bring to life people's sacred stories as a spiritual director. She recently graduated from Aquinas Institute of Theology. Instagram: @kells_shwelland @a_spiral_spaceKelley's website: www.aspiral.space Kelley's Substack: A Spiral SpacePoe in the Park​

What are they? Why are they? Who's making them? Which are copycats? What is their purpose? Is it a big marketing ploy? An inside joke? A massive, long-game performance artscapade? We answer all these questions and more in this far-ranging, you might even say polylithic minisode!!!Kaitlyn Barrett and Cathleen Falsani are co-hosts of the Artist Care and Feeding Podcast.Kaitlyn Insta: @kaitlynfaebarrettKaitlyn LinkedIn: Kaitlyn BarrettACAF Twitter: @ArtistCareNFeedACAF Insta: @ArtistCareFeedCathleen Twitter: @godgrrlCathleen Insta: @godgrrl​Cathleen's LinkTree: @GodGrrlCathleen's Latest: Look for the Lightartistcareandfeeding@gmail.com

Teri Hansen is an actress, singer and writer. Her film and TV credits include Into the Water, Street Scene, FBI: Most Wanted, The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, and Orange is the New Black. On stage, she’s performed in An American in Paris, The Sound Of Music, Camelot (opposite Robert Goulet), The Music Man, Boys From Syracuse, and Show Boat, as well as in concert as a soloist with Marvin Hamlisch, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony, and multiple operatic roles throughout North America and Europe.Her writing credits include Into the Water (screenplay) and CHÉRI (music & book, adaptation of Colette’s CHÉRI). Teri also holds an honorary PdD (doctor of fine arts) from Central Michigan University. Teri's website: TeriDaleHansen.comTeri on Facebook: TeriDHansenInto the Water on FacebookIndieGogo for Into the Water

Nikki Kimbrough is a TV personality, Broadway performer, producer, director, personal trainer and entrepreneur. She’s the CEO and founder of Get Fit with Nik, Inc. Nikki has appeared on such programs as The Steve Harvey Show (NBC) Headline News (CNN), The Today Show (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC), The Early Show (CBS), Better TV, The Get Fit w/Nik Web Series (CentricTV.com) and Makeover Manor (TV-One). Nikki has been a fitness contributor for Time Inc., Business Insider, Essence, Fitness and Shape magazines. She was a national spokesperson for Bally Total Fitness for over six years and a consultant and member of The Gold’s Gym Fitness Institute. ​Nikki made her Broadway debut as Etta James in the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. She is the executive director and owner of the Harlem All-Stars Theater Group, where their mission is to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, encourage and inspire underserved youth. During the world-wide quarantine, Nikki created The Ladies First Chit-Chat Crew Talk Show, “Where We Honor The Voice of The Everyday Woman,” every Saturday at 11am on Zoom and Facebook Live. www.theladiesfirstchitchatcrew.comInstagram: @theladiesfirstchitchatcrewWith her boyfriend Billy Davis she also co-created, a live Zoom podcast/talk show called The Amputee and His Girl, “Chronicles of a Couple Living the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle While on the Grind in NYC with only 3 Legs.” www.theamputeeandhisgirl.comInstagram: @theamputeeandhisgirlFacebook: @theamputeeandhisgirl You can find Nikki on: Instagram: @getfitwithnik Facebook: Nikki Kimbrough & Get Fit with Nik Website: getfitwithnik.com. VENMO: @Nikki-Kimbrough Billy Davis is a musician, an athlete, a personal trainer, a real estate agent and an entrepreneur. He spent his childhood in Kansas playing football, wrestling, and running track, ultimately winning a track and field state title in the 400 meters that took him to the University of Kansas on a scholarship. Billy went on to win a North American Grappling Association title and then participated in the TD Five Borough Bike Tour and completed the Montauk Century multiple times after which he began a career in personal training. In May 2012, Billy survived a horrific motorcycle accident that took his left leg above the knee. Billy spent over four months in rehab and endured nine surgeries after which he returned to personal training, only six months after his accident. Always up for a challenge, Billy returned to cycling less than a year later. He joined the Wiggle Your Toes and Achilles Triathlon teams, which led him to his first triathlon in summer 2015 and subsequently an Iron Man competition. Billy has documented much of his training through social media and he’s been a daily source of inspiration for thousands of people around the world. After living in the NYC area for the better part of 20 years, Billy became a licensed real estate salesperson and a member of The Signature Team at Compass Real Estate. During the world-wide quarantine, Billy and his girlfriend Nikki Kimbrough co-created a live Zoom podcast/talk show called The Amputee and His Girl, “Chronicles of a Couple Living the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle While on the Grind in NYC with only 3 Legs.” www.theamputeeandhisgirl.comInstagram: @theamputeeandhisgirlFacebook: @theamputeeandhisgirl You can find Billy on: Instagram: @realestatetri

Originally from Minnesota, Rob Laqui is a New York City-based creative producer and first generation Filipino-American. Presently, he is the production coordinator for NT America, the North American producing office for the National Theatre of Great Britain, and an associate producer with Octopus Theatricals (founded by Tony and Grammy Award-winning producer Mara Isaacs). Rob also is a co-founder of The Industry Standard Group LLC, which addresses the lack of representation and diversity in commercial arts and entertainment investing and producing. Before his producing career, Rob performed as an actor, dancer, and puppeteer, in New York City (including Here Lies Love at the Public Theater), as a member of various companies including LaMama, and in tours nationally and internationally, including War Horse and Cirque du Soleil's Toruk. Additionally, over the years Rob has served as a choreographer, director, production spokesperson, press representative for various productions, ​puppet captain, and puppet builder. The Industry Standard Group Rob's Website: RobLaqui.comInstagram: @roblaqui Twitter: @rmlaqui ​

Ben Davis is a singer/actor originally from Indianapolis. He has lived in New York City for the last 19 years. Ben enjoys an international concert career and has been seen on TV and in films around the world.​Instagram: @thisBenDavis​Twitter: @BJDavis​Website: Benjamin Jay Davis ​Soundcloud: BJ Davis

David Patrick Wilcox is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter guitarist. He has been active in the music business since the late 1980s.

Cranberry sauce: Made fresh a la Martha Stewart or out of a can, in its gelatinous form, and cut into neat disks? Do you eat cranberries when it's not Thanksgiving? Would you ever put cranberries in tuna salad? OK, then what would you put in tuna salad? And should it ever, under any circumstances, be served hot? We have strong feelings. Again. Come for the cranberries, stay for the tuna.

Terri Hemmert is an absolute legend in the world of rock 'n' roll radio. She's spent 47 years on the air at Chicago's WXRT (93.1 FM) radio station, where she still hosts its "Breakfast with the Beatles" show every Sunday morning despite having officially retired in 2019. A musicologist who has taught the history of rock and soul at Chicago's Columbia College for decades, Terri was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2010 and her work has been featured at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Terri's Very Active Facebook PageTerri Hemmert explores the history of rock and soulRadio Hall of FameTerri Hemmert Day!

Julian is an experience designer, museum professional, aspiring storyteller, and human Swiss Army knife.ninjackson.comFacebookTwitterInstagram

What do Les Mis, Hamilton, Smashing Pumpkins, and Charles Dickens have in common? Listen to another minisode where the gang tell you what to like, whether you like it or not.

Sam is a costume designer who has designed for theatre productions all over the country and also has worked with The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, on tour, and all over the world.About SamFacebook: Sam FlemingIn Vogue

Robyn Henderson-Espinoza is an author, writer, speaker, Transqueer activist, Latinx scholar, and public theologian. They are the author of Activist Theology, published in 2019 by Fortress Press, and are presently busy writing their next book Becoming (Em)bodied, forthcoming from Broadleaf Books in late 2021. They live in Nashville, Tenn., with their partner, and two cats, Frida and Diego.Website: iRobyn.comTwitter: @irobynInsta: @irobynSoundcloud: iRobynVimeo: Activist Theology

In 2020, the weirdest of years, is it OK to deck the halls now or should you wait until after Thanksgiving or even the (official) beginning of Advent, on Nov. 29? Kait, Cath, and Mark weigh in on the tough topics so you don't have to.Have a strong opinion one way or the other? Let us know by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, here at Buzzsprout, wherever you get your podcasts, on Artistcareandfeeding.com or drop us a line: artistcareandfeeding@gmail.com.

James YaegashiJames is an actor/director/writer based in Brooklyn, NY.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944853/https://www.instagram.com/jamesyaegashi/?hl=enTami Schuch YaegashiTami is a singer, teacher, maker and collaborator.https://www.tamischuch.com

Getting to know your hosts part 2!Is cilantro a guacamole staple or a trash weed from Hell?Have an opinion? Let us know by leaving a review or dropping us a line at Artistcareandfeeding.com

Martin Hanlin is Scottish musician, radio DJ, music manager, and film producer who has worked in all sides of the music industry since the early 1980s. A native of Glasgow, he is the former drummer and founding member of the band The Silencers, who toured as opening act for U2, David Bowie, Simple Minds, Squeeze, The Alarm, The Pretenders, and Warren Zevon. Martin is a frequent collaborator with his childhood friend, Simple Minds' lead singer, Jim Kerr. He lives, works, and creates in Southern California.​Twitter: @MSH59Instagram: @MartinHanlinRadio Show: The Real McCoy on KXFMRadioSoundcloud: Martin Hanlin

Luci Shaw was born in London, England, in 1928. A poet and essayist, since 1986 she has been Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. She is the author of more than 39 books of poetry and creative non-fiction, including her 13th poetry collection The Generosity, published this autumn.Luci lives with her husband, John Hoyte, in Bellingham, Washington.Twitter: @Luci_ShawFacebook: Luci N. ShawWebsite: LuciShaw.comLuci's books on IndieboundLuci's Author Page on Amazon

Micki is a dancer, voice actor, and budding entrepreneur who loves travel and street art. Her line of sustainable, compostable, naturally-dyed lingerie PETAL+ASH launches in 2021.Facebook: Micki WeinerInstagram: Micki at the MicBusiness: PETAL+ASHPetal + Ash on Instagram: @PetalAndAsh

Getting to know your pod hosts, part 1 of many. Are you a bigger fan of fallen trees (books) or hot sand (eBooks)? Kaitlyn and Cathleen weigh in on which is superior: eBooks or Real Books?

Linda Midgett is an Emmy-award winning writer, director, and filmmaker whose most recent documentary, Same God, aired on PBS affiliates nationwide and is available to stream on Amazon Prime.Twitter: @midgettprodInstagram: @midgettotzWebsite: Midgett Productions​Film Website: Same God film

Rachel Mac is a comedian and writer in Los Angeles who is a paid regular at The Comedy Store, made her TV debut last year on Lights Out with David Spade on Comedy Central, and wrote for the forthcoming sketch comedy The Movie Show on SyFy.Website: Comedian Rachel MacInstagram: @YourRachelMacFacebook: Rachel Mac Tells It Like It IsVideo: Rachel on Lights Out with David Spade

Martin Hanlin is Scottish musician, radio DJ, music manager, and film producer who has worked in all sides of the music industry since the early 1980s. A native of Glasgow, he is the former drummer and founding member of the band The Silencers, who toured as opening act for U2, David Bowie, Simple Minds, Squeeze, The Alarm, The Pretenders, and Warren Zevon. Martin is a frequent collaborator with his childhood friend, Simple Minds' lead singer, Jim Kerr. He lives, works, and creates in Southern California.​Twitter: @MSH59Instagram: @MartinHanlinRadio Show: The Real McCoy on KXFMRadioSoundcloud: Martin Hanlin