Tierney Talks

Send us a textLive 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 though–you'll have to wait for her publication for that!). I read something too! Thank you to Gabby Datau and Morgan Elder at Murmurs for hosting us!  Wendy's three books just got reissued! Buy them! Listen to Taleen's music–she's touring the west coast this summer. Read Heather's writing & listen to her podcast on Planet Heather.Make Anna's "Perfume and Pain" your first summer read.Tasbeeh has a fab new LA-centric Substack called NO BAD DAYS. See Marcel's painting "Anima" at Various Small Fires in Orange County through May 31st. Watch what Jasmine makes, always. Make Clement's "New Mistakes" your first summer read. Keep supporting Altadena Girls. Send me proof of your donation of $5 or more by the date specified in the episode to be entered into the raffle!Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode. Please rate and review the show wherever you listen! My IG. My Substack. Write me: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com Support the show

Send us a textWelcome 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 also answer a couple of listener questions. Finally, Andrea shares four non-negotiables everyone should keep in mind when it comes to caring for our skin in 2025.Subscribe to ÁMEZING NEWS here. Leave a question in the comment box on any of the posts and Andrea will answer it next month! Browse Andrea's ShopMyShelf here. Follow Andrea on IG here. This episode was recorded in December 2024. Our hearts go out to everyone in Los Angeles, particularly those of you directly impacted by the fires. Please continue sharing healing and repair resources with us.  For those of you able to offer financial support, please consider donating here to help the Thornton family rebuild. Read my Substack here. Follow me on IG here. Thank you Margot Padilla for recording, editing, supporting the show & more! Support the show

Send us a textMakeup 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 politics of “good taste” and embracing Salvadoran glamour. Listen to hear what it was like to do makeup on PAT McGRATH herself! Follow Loftjet on IG here. Oh, the beauty store he recommends for niche and Black and Brown-owned niche brands is Thirteen Lune on Larchmont!  Follow me on IG here. Access exclusive content on my Substack here. Please rate and review the show wherever you listen! Write me here tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode!Support the show

Send us a Text Message.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, and queer artists and issues.  From abortion access in California, Dakota Johnson's performance in "Am I OK?", and being fat during a global pandemic to ranking the best Mary Kate and Ashley movies of all time, Emma covers culture with smarts and style.  Listen to us discuss the book, our bodies, clothes, relationships, allyship and more. Buy More Please: Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" by Emma Specter today. Follow Emma on Instagram here. And on X here. Follow me on IG here. Access exclusive content on my Substack here. Please rate and review the show wherever you listen! And write me with questions and ideas: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode.Support the Show.

Send us a Text Message.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 scents. They discuss their fan-favorite friendship. And they recommend tons of fragrances!Nose Candy honors the art of perfumery with knowledge, intuition, and eroticism. They're smart and hot and listening to them will make you an insatiable frag-hag™. You will learn words like "gourmand" and "flanker." Your vocabulary and olfactory system will grow, deepen, ripen, and bloom. Curate your own collection! Cultivate your own personal taste! Open your nose!Join Nose Candy at their Scent Swamp on Saturday, July 6th! At Murmurs Gallery in LA. Tickets available here. Curate your own collection! Cultivate your own personal taste! Open your nose! [™ = Nose Candy] FRAGRANCES DISCUSSED: Orebella Salted Muse [Her perfumes are $100 not $56 like I say.]Orebella Blooming Fire Orebella Window2SoulLe Labo Santal 33 Theodoros KalotinisBeing Frenshe Lavendar CloudsTwo Eau de Toilette by KnizeByredo Bibliotheque Byredo La TulipeAkro Smoke Eau de ParfumJousset Gourmand-BakhoorJousset Gourmand-Bakhoor-OudMugler Angel Nova Hilde Soliani Hot Milk Eau de Parfum Xerjoff Mefisto Eau De ParfumXerjoff LiraVersace Dylan Turquoise Pour Femme Eau de ToiletteVilhelm Mango SkinDiesel LoverdoseEtat Libre D'Orange The Ghost in the ShellPhilosophy Amazing GraceHeeley Menthe Fraîche Courrèges Hyper MuscTom Ford Black Orchid Mugler Angel Mugler AlienViktor&Rolf FlowerbombViktor&Rolf Spicebomb Night VisionEtat Libre D'Orange You or Someone Like YouAlguien 2Kyse Cocoa VanilleOne more time! Join Nose Candy at their Scent Swamp on Saturday, July 6th! At Murmurs Gallery in LA. Tickets available here. Subscribe to Nose Candy today wherever you listen to podcasts! And check out episode #44 The E! True Hollywood Story w/ me! Perfume is having a moment. Each week, Nose Candy co-hosts and perfume evangelists Maddie and Chloe preach the fraghead gospel.  Support Tierney Talks by becoming a paid Substack subscriber today! On Substack, you'll also find my new series OUTRAGEOUS, chronicling the life of Anna Nicole Smith. New chapters drop every Monday. Tierney Talks is hosted and produced by Tierney Finster. Follow me on IG @TSTAR7. Engineered and edited by Margot Padilla. Original music by Margot Padilla.  Follow Margot on IG @margotpaulinepadilla. Have a question, comment, or special request? Write to us: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.comSupport the Show.

Send us a Text Message.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, we giggle our way through memories of pranks, parties, puking, and piercings. If you love listening to Lara, you'll adore this cute and candid conversation! Tune into Sexy Unique Podcast and get tickets for the Midsummer Night's SUP tour today! You should also check out Once Upon A Time in Nashville, the new true crime podcast Lara executive produced. Support SUP on Patreon for exclusive access to Lara's archival interviews with VPR cast members, like the one with Kristen Doute she describes in this ep. Support Tierney Talks by becoming a paid Substack subscriber today! On Substack, you'll also find my new series OUTRAGEOUS, chronicling the life of Anna Nicole Smith. New chapters drop every Monday. Tierney Talks is hosted and produced by Tierney Finster. Follow me on IG @TSTAR7. Engineered and edited by Margot Padilla. Original music by Margot Padilla.  Follow Margot on IG @margotpaulinepadilla. Have a question, comment, or special request? Write to us: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.comSupport the Show.

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 for centuries and how being forced to labor as circus performers still inform how they're treated in the modern movie industry (and the world at large) today. Katrina traces the relationship between erasure and exploitation in media and reflects on how vital it was for her to find representation and community online growing up. “We find each other deep, deep in the internet. But other people are finding us too,” Katrina says. This sets the stage for our discussion of “Dear Average Height People,” a film Katrina is producing by director Aubrey Smalls. As far as Aubrey and Katrina know, this is the very first documentary comedy special to be directed and produced by people with Dwarfism. In fact, they haven't been able to find ANY films, shows, or specials created by people with Dwarfism and urgently want that to change. The film is about dwarfism, disability hate groups, agency, and freedom. It portrays a global network of people with dwarfism who may live far away from each other, but who live in deep solidarity. It illustrates the way obsessive hate groups target and harass people with Dwarfism online, as well as how platforms like Youtube encourage violence and monetize torment.  It also depicts how talented, beautiful, funny, and diverse the Dwarfism community is around the world. Listen to hear Katrina's many insights about beauty, bodies, surveillance, her bone to pick with Stephen Spielberg, Britney Spears, L'Express, Diane Arbus, inhalants, and more… “People experience epiphanies with me every day… every hour if I allowed it,” Katrina says. Follow Katrina on IG, Twitter, Twitch, and Youtube. Please consider contributing what you can to “Dear Average Height People.” Pledge your support on Indiegogo here.  Production crew volunteers, exhibition and performance spaces, and community partners are also welcome to donate resources. + For more Katrina on the pod, listen to our Britney Spears episode from 2021. Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Follow me on IG: @TSTAR7. Recorded 10/3 at Pirate Studios Silverlake. Pirate is open 24/7 in Silverlake and West Adams, as well as all over the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland. They have DJ, rehearsal, and podcast studios for everyone to use. Book online and let yourself inside. Click here and use the code TIERNEY for $10 off your first booking. Write me: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.comSupport the show

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 and Ale use real relationships from The Real Housewives to articulate ideas about conflict, punishment, and revenge. Using memorable moments from the Bravo canon, they also dissect capitalism, individualism and white dominant culture.  Haewon offers a working definition of abolition and advocates for the need to study whiteness as a mental health issue. Ale discusses intergenerational healing in the Bravoverse and makes me cackle with comments like, “Big Kathy is a figure that looms large in Beverly Hills.”Plus, they tell me about valuing your relationships as your currency and finding your resources within them. Listen for a fun meditation on celebrity culture and the cult of Bravo.  Follow Haewon and Ale! Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode. Recorded 10/3 at Pirate Studios Silverlake. Pirate is open 24/7 in Silverlake and West Adams, as well as all over the US, UK, Germany and Ireland. They have DJ, rehearsal and podcast studios for everyone to use. Book online and let yourself inside. Click here and use the code TIERNEY for $10 off your first booking. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Follow me on IG: @TSTAR7. Write me: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com. Support the show

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 mental health treatment, and broadening her horizons by hanging out at the mall. At the mall, she met strangers for the first time and began experimenting with the parts of herself she thought the world should know and the parts they shouldn't… tailor-fitting parts of herself for an audience… a lifelong experiment that led her to write this unfiltered book.Follow Rachael on IG @instasteak and buy her book on Shop Hot Lava here. Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode.  Recorded 10/3 at Pirate Studios Silverlake. Pirate is open 24/7 in Silverlake and West Adams, as well as all over the US, UK, Germany and Ireland. They have DJ, rehearsal and podcast studios for everyone to use. Book online and let yourself inside. Click here and use the code TIERNEY for $10 off your first booking. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Follow me on IG: @TSTAR7. Write me: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com. Support the show

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 about our relationship and individual writing practices. Lots of chit-chat and tabloid musings. I drink a Coca-Cola and say Lacan when I mean Kristeva. I sound square despite my desire for narcotic freedom for all...fentanyl crisis much? Recorded on 5/27/22 at Pirate Studios Silverlake.Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing.  Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy.Follow me on IG: @TSTAR7 Write me: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.comSupport the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)Support the show

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 subscribe to the show wherever you're listening. New interviews coming soon! Follow me on IG @TSTAR7 and write me with questions and comments at tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com. Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing. Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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! Beth shares tons of tips to enhance your experience of both your art and your life. Investing time and money into yourself, distinguishing isolation from solitude, and warming up for your own creative practice are all talked about. We also explore staying connected to stillness while an abundance of ways to spend time become available to us. Beth gives advice to artists with common fears like experiencing disappointment while pitching and avoiding promoting your completed projects. Beth says, “For artists, the hard thing is not attaining goals, getting the grant or getting the opportunity or the show or whatever, the hard thing is being present for it and actually enjoying it.”She reminds us all, "We can't solve interior situations with exterior things!" Follow Beth, buy her book & listen to her podcast. (Some LA libraries also have the book!)  Tierney Talks is engineered & edited by Margot Padilla + hosted & produced by Tierney Finster.  Subscribe to the show wherever you're listening.  Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Listen to their new track "I Want You" on Bandcamp now. Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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 properties. We pour ourselves into the topic of perfume and luxuriate in memories of the defining scents of our pasts. We touch on hair brushing and hair serums, meditating and resourcing inner power.  Andrea talks about treating kilaris pilaris, identifying melasma, using microcurrent facial devices at home, double cleansing sensitive skin and more. She explains choosing mineral vs chemical sunscreen, protecting your skin from the sun while driving and incorporating smaller lines into your wellness rituals. There are tons of ÁMEZING tips! All rooted in Andrea’s interdisciplinary knowledge of holistic wellness, health, beauty and experiential personal care.Listen to learn how to win your own ÁMEZ x ALIANGÉ ANTI-POLLUTANT MASQUE, courtesy of the ÁMEZ MARKETPLACE :) Visit AMEZSKIN.COM to shop the marketplace or to book a service with Andrea in LA. Follow Andrea on IG @amez_pro and @amez_marketplace.  For the full list of every product we discuss in this ep and more, check the show notes and IG. Want more? Listen to Quarantine Glam with a Holistic Esthetician or Unpretentious Glam Subscribe to Tierney Talks wherever you're listening now.  Rate and review too! Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Listen to their new track "I Want You" on Bandcamp now. Tierney Talks is engineered & edited by Margot Padilla & hosted  & produced by Tierney Finster. Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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 Pizza at Taco Bell. Toward the end, I endorse a new drugstore lip product, share the perfect spring coffee order, gush about the documentary "Naughty Books" and more. Watch Alissa's new TV series "Made For Love" on HBO Max. Buy her books "Made For Love," "Tampa" & "Unclean Jobs For Women and Girls: Stories" on Bookshop. Subscribe to Tierney Talks wherever you're listening now. If you liked this episode, revisit my conversation with Michelle Badillo here. Follow Alissa on IG @nutting_alissa  & Twitter @alissanutting.Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Listen to their new track "I Want You" on Bandcamp now.Tierney Talks is engineered & edited by Margot Padilla & hosted, written & produced by Tierney Finster. Follow @TSTAR7 on IG & write to me -- tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com Links: Alissa's Grub Street Diet Revlon ColorStay Satin Ink Liquid LipstickNaughty Books on HuluBurgers at chi SPACCA Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Dr. Carl Hart Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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 about the role of the rose imagery in Britney's quest for autonomy. We discuss our emotional responses to the doc, explore what else we wish it would have touched on and tell precious Britney stories (including an epic dance battle). Also: the sick connection between Amanda Bynes and Jamie Lynn Spears (trigger warning!), the way Britney's torturous predicament led to the creation of a personal space bubble law in LA and the Felicia Culotta of it all. Katrina pulls an oracle card for the #FreeBritney movement. "Look at what white men do to their daughters," Saturn says, summarizing it all. Recorded on the anniversary of Anna Nicole Smith's death, we love you Anna! Write to Tierney -- tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla. Hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster.Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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 discusses favorite parts of her own astrological makeup. Saturn Return, synastry and generational forecasting based on Pluto are also hot topics. “No one owns astrology,” Taj says, “It’s embedded in us to be curious.” Write to Tierney -- tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla. Hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster. Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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 “lesbian feminist diagnosis” of heterosexuality that exposes the realities of heterosexual culture while encouraging its development into something deeper, more loving and less violent. Jane declares herself an ally to straight people as “they work to liberate heterosexuality from misogyny.” She’s an expert at revealing how weird most “normative” cultures and social identities tend to be. In this book, Jane contextualizes heterosexuality as the romantic arm of patriarchy and details how the heterosexual advice industry has been trying to help men and women in this country survive their marriages for the last 100+ years (not all that successfully, either). Do you want a chance to acknowledge queer people as allies to straight people, especially straight women experiencing romantic discontent, instead of vice versa? How about a celebration of the immeasurable contributions lesbians have made to the mainstream feminist movement? Listen to this and more importantly, read the book! Ward quotes Edit Massey as Aunt Ida in John Waters’ “Female Trouble” several times: “The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.” No matter who you are or who you’re attracted to, Ward’s work has tons to offer you! “As with the often nebulous racial category of whiteness, one of the ways that we avoid looking critically at straightness is to keep it indefinable, to imagine that it is so vast and irreducible to any one way of being,” Ward writes in the book. Buy “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality” from NYU Press today - https://nyupress.org/9781479851553/the-tragedy-of-heterosexuality/Follow Jane Ward on Twitter @thequeerjane and check out https://www.janewardphd.com/.To enter to win a copy of “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” please follow these instructions: Listen to this conversation with Jane Ward in full ASAPSelect a quote, topic, theme or question from our conversation that inspires, arouses or interests you the most and jot it down. Subscribe to or follow the podcast!Email your selection/reflection and a screenshot of your subscription to tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com before 10/24/20TWO winners will be selected via a completely random name picker and notified via email Tuesday, 10/27/20. Note: There is no minimum or maximum word count for your reflections, and your entry won’t be judged based on the content or “quality” of your share. Feel free. Feel safe. Have fun. Your responses won’t be shared elsewhere without your explicit permission! Subscribe to Tierney Talks today and follow Tierney on IG @TSTAR7. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla. Hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster. Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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 a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON ForYourArt. Today’s guests include: Saturn (Listen to their new single "Ready" on Bandcamp) Cyrus Dunham (Read his book "A Year Without A Name")Martine Syms (Subscribe to Scene Report) Jonny Makeup & Christopher Schwartz (View The Gallery @'s exhibition "Chips") Casey Jane Ellison (Watch this tbt of her talkshow) Lili Lakich (Take the Van Nuys Flyaway to see one of her public sculptures) Jason Correa (Visit his project space and gallery for some the best contemporary art, music, and performance in Van Nuys) Willy Boston (Remember this tweet?) Samantha Blake Goodman (Look at stunning documentation of her choreography). Amelian Kashiro Hamilton (founder of Sisters With Invoices) Follow Tierney on IG and Twitter @TSTAR7 and subscribe if you haven’t already. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere!) Today’s show was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla and hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster.Tierney Talks is pleased to partner with For Your Art to present this series of talks. ForYourArt is a source of free information about art in LA and ForYourArt’s mission is to inspire more people to make art a part of their daily lives. Follow ForYourArt on IG @foryourart and check out http://foryourart.com/. Special thanks to Jess Calleiro, Niko Karamyan, Bryan Johnson, Ali Madigan, Bettina Korek, Cobi Krieger, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Kevin McGary and Pretend Plants and Flowers. Support the show (https://cash.app/$TierneyFinster)

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 a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON ForYourart. Use the chapter markers to skip around to specific guests, or just listen to the full episode :) Today’s guests include: Jennifer MoonJessica YellinEmily SegalKandis WilliamsAndrew MaxwellPretend Plants & FlowersGabriella Sanchez Jori Finkel Mandy Harris WilliamsTierney Talks is pleased to partner with For Your Art to present this series of talks. ForYourArt is a source of free information about L.A.'s art scene and ForYourArt’s mission is to inspire more people to make art a part of their daily lives. Follow FYA on IG @foryourart and check out http://foryourart.com/. Follow Tierney on IG and Twitter @TSTAR7 and subscribe if you haven’t already. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere!) Special thanks to Jess Calleiro, Niko Karamyan, Bryan Johnson, Ali Madigan, Cobi Krieger, Bettina Korek, Kevin McGarry, Peter Shire, Kayne Griffin Corcoran and Pretend Plants and Flowers. Today’s show was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla and hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster.

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 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 fun! This is the first in a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON ForYourart. Today’s guests include: Alexa DemieHans Ulrich ObristPatrisse CullorsLiz GoldwynSanam SindhiPeter ShireJanicza BravoRachel LordSeth BogartSam BuckJustice Singleton + Blaine O’NeillTierney Talks is pleased to partner with For Your Art to present this series of conversations. ForYourArt is a source of free information about L.A.'s art scene and ForYourArt’s mission is to inspire more people to make art a part of our daily lives. Follow FYA on IG @foryourart and check out http://foryourart.com/. I especially love their curation of online exhibitions.Follow Tierney on IG and Twitter @TSTAR7 and subscribe if you haven’t already. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere!) Today’s show was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla and hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster. Special thanks to Jess Calleiro, Niko Karamyan, Bryan Johnson, Ali Madigan, Bettina Korek, Kevin McGarry, Cobi Krieger, Peter Shire, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Pretend Plants and Flowers and Universal Standard.

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 a way that I thought was long gone,” Niko tells me. Niko motivates me to clean. We trip out on our relationship to time and space and reflect on sitting at home, spending time alone and how not being a fake bitch is a superpower. We meditate on the wealth of what we’ve shared together as long-time friends and get into cybersex, physical touch and healing our heart chakras. We talk about trusting ourselves, trusting our friends and how the shifting culture around mental health has impacted our relationship. Increasing our permission to be emotionally honest as we go. We encourage every actor to hold tight to their dream and laugh about auditioning within the limited casting lanes of mainstream media. Niko asks: “Why is it so often that we’re not allowed to be ourselves?”We recorded this on the 105th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (April 24) and reflect on the strength of the Armenian diaspora. “Oppression always backfires,” Niko tells me. “The more we deny these things, the easier we make it for the atrocious to be repeated; what a century of denial says is, ‘You can get away with this.’” This episode is best enjoyed alongside cannabis (tea, aromatherapy, sunshine, and long-form bathing rituals are great too!) Follow Niko on IG @nikotheikon + Tierney @TSTAR7 and subscribe to the show to get the next episode early. Music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere). This episode was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla.

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 inflammation and keeping centered as a self-employed person and small business owner amid economic uncertainty. Together they discuss beauty acquisitions and brands that plummet in quality after being acquired, the legend of Olaplex, and the mass beauty culture shift currently happening as people can’t maintain their fillers, extensions and other aesthetic treatments. They also talk about trying cannabis sheet masks and skincare and using CBD tinctures meant for consumption as a topical face treatment. Tierney reveals the beauty products she’s bought online while staying at home, including a certain cult-favorite hair supplement whose infomercial she loves, reflects on beauty rituals as “prayer” instead of “proof,” and shares a short beauty-inspired reading list. Andrea explains avoiding talc in makeup and body products, paying attention to product expiration dates and vetting the use of supplements to increase immunity. She also dishes about meeting her fiance at the Aesop store, bonding over Carol's Daughter hair products and proposing to him in Japan.Andrea answers listener questions like: How can I reduce my redness and inflammation? What are the best foods for detoxifying your skin? What drug-store products will make for the best impromptu at-home facial? What is the best way to treat a breakout without picking it? What kind of masks and treatments can I whip up at home? How and why should I make my health and beauty routines more “experiential?” Does using a silk pillowcase really make a difference on hair and skin? What can hospital workers use to prevent skin friction from constant mask-wearing? How do I use a gua-sha tool? There’s also a celebration of Earth Day and the New Moon :) Follow Andrea @amez_pro and check out http://www.amezskin.com/ and follow Tierney @tstar7. Tierney Talks proposes you consider matching any money you spend on beauty non-essentials with donations to individuals and organizations. Tierney and Andrea donated to The Okra Project, a collective that brings healthy meals to black trans and gender non-conforming people. You can do the same by PayPal-ing the Black Trans Solidarity Fund – https://www.paypal.me/btsf – and encourage friends to do the same (or go in together!) Special thanks to our audio producer Margot Padilla. She produced our opening track too! Stream “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy everywhere

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 Didion, Susan Sontag and “The Murder of Laci Peterson.” We also talk about interviewing celebrities for magazines, clearing our heads at LA malls and pining for clothes at the old Betsey Johnson store in Sherman Oaks. Molly tells us about organizing Angelenos around housing inequality and describes how hosting the Olympics causes cities to fast track gentrification, escalate policing and further criminalize homelessness. She also shares the history of her grandmother’s own experiences as a Jewish-German Olympic athlete in pre-WWII Germany. Follow @NOlympics LA for more on that and @mollylambert on IG and Twitter

Tierney Talks celebrated one year of podcasting with a live show at Murmurs, a favorite art gallery, cafe, shop and community space in LA. The variety-show-esque program consists of readings, musical performances, conversations and a DJ set. Here’s the timing of everything, just in case you want to listen out of order: 2:15 - A karaoke-centric reading & performance by writer, sartorialist and Sisters With Invoices founder Amelian Kashiro Hamilton. 18:04 - PLUR poetry and pop music by artist, organizer and co-founder of Cosmo Visiones Ancestrales La Pachamami. 33:09 - A one-on-one conversation with State Assembly Candidate Fatima Iqbal-Zubair about how representatives outside of your own district can transform state-wide legislation, repelling corporate funding, running an independent campaign and housing and education inequality in LA. 57:06 - A one-on-one conversation with artist, activist, model and writer Emily Barker about the history of standardized and invisible norms in architecture, ableist design as structural violence and what inspired their most recent exhibition “Built To Scale.” 1:31:00 - Amelian's DJ set begins! Featuring incredible adlibs by NikoTheIkon. Recorded live and sound mixed by audio engineer extraordinaire Margot Padilla. Follow me on IG @TSTAR7 and tell me who to talk to next. Thank you Morgan Elder and Allison Littrell for welcoming us at Murmurs. Thank you Camila Creates for your wonderful catering and Andrea Ámez for your Ámezing facials.

Beth Pickens helps artists. She invented her own job, combining counseling and arts management, and now works as a consultant for artists and arts organizations in L.A. She is also the author of "Your Art Will Save Your Life" and the host of Getting Real About Money workshops. Beth is a Capricorn, like me, and we meet on the first day of Capricorn season for a powerful conversation about working from home, working with other people and working on our relationship to money. LISTEN TO HEAR HOW YOU CAN MAKE MORE MONEY IN 2020. Beth describes how family is the foundation of group psychology and the way workplaces often mirror the family dynamics of each employee. We also discuss coming from families who didn’t self-describe as artistic or feminist and who weren’t highly educated or rich. We talk about Beth’s childhood in the deep Rust Belt, the way attending the opening of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh impacted her adolescence and growing up adoring Andy Warhol before the mass commercialization of his imagery. I realize I grew up in the aftermath of a “boom and bust” generation and about different kinds of money damage (and getting over the idea that nothing about money can be positive). Beth says rich people have crazy money damage too! We talk about growing up in financially homogeneous neighborhoods (like Beth’s, where the richest family around was comprised of two teachers) and financially dissimilar hometowns (like mine in LA, where heiresses and low-income people could all end up in the backseat together). Beth shares one of her own most transformational financial habits and reflects on gauging whether your romantic partner is making you a better artist or not. We also touch on blue ocean strategy and The Babysitter’s Club! Follow Beth - http://www.bethpickens.com/, read her book and consider attending one of her Getting Real with Money workshops later this year!

New episode of Tierney Talks with @paulakahn2020. Paula Graciela Kahn is a congressional candidate currently running to represent California’s 30th District – the San Fernando Valley. Celebrate this “holiday” by listening to a femme against fascism. We talk about the just transition - as in a shift “from an exploitative, extractive, global war economy to a cooperative, regenerative network for local peace economies.” Paula tells me about how volunteering in Tijuana & observing atrocities at the border & in detention centers inspired her to run for office. She calls to shut down the Adelanto Detention Center in San Bernardino & describes her experiences advocating for detained friends in ICE centers. Paula wonders why ICE budgets are increasing when people are dying in ICE facilities, explains the immigration detention & deportation industry & shares how 9/11 & the Iraq War activated ICE. We explore her non-profit Cosmovisiones Ancestrales & the notion of using drugs to support people who are victims of state violence through demobilization, disarmament & reintegration. We discuss the first scholarly article about “cult mushroom” ceremonies, how it fueled psychedelic tourism & the present need to create ecological preserves to protect plant medicine. Paula also imagines the recodification of psychedelics & other indigenous plant medicine by white venture capitalists & Western companies patenting indigenous medicine (a la the legal marijuana industry). We also discuss the deficit of Latinx femmes in Congress & healing as nonlinear. We talk about the housing crisis in the San Fernando Valley & inclusionary zoning. The incumbent candidate, Congressman Brad Sherman, hasn’t done enough in regards to these issues. He’s been in office since 2013 :( She’s sick of trusting strangers to protect her community – please support Paula at the ballot in March! Raise your expectations for who your local rep could be! Send this to someone who votes in the Valley & donate to her campaign via the link in the bio. $5 helps!! More if you’re rich!!! Paula is the most PLUR congressional candidate of all time, promise. Follow her too

New episode of the podcast featuring @theaprilflores out now! April is a porn performer, model and artist from Los Angeles. She’s the star of Fat Girl, a fine art book that documents 12 years of her erotic art practice with the photographer Carlos Batts. In 2005, she got her start performing in porn with Belladonna and in 2014, she became the first performer to win the AVN Award for BBW Performer of the Year. She’s won a Feminist Porn Award for her work in “Lesbian Curves 3: Soft Girls and Strap Ons” and wrote about beauty and embodiment in Tristan Taormino’s The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. We talk about learning the term “zaftig” and she clears up my misunderstanding of what a FUPA actually is. She’s the first Tierney Talks guest to have her own masturbator toy and tells us all about the molding process (she’s the first BBW to be molded for such a toy & the Amazon reviews are worth reading!) We talk about entering the porn industry as a hobbyist, weed and body dysmorphia and the plus-size amount of work left to do in the fat acceptance movement! We also talk about fat representation in porn vs mainstream fashion and entertainment, enjoying her exhibitionism and her female fan base. April describes the way making porn fulfills her interests in filmmaking and says her main career motivation is to be visibly naked, fat, fucking, having fun and getting paid for it. And we’re smoking weed and wearing lingerie the whole time! Available on Apple, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, etc Credit and thanks to our engineer and audio producer Margot Padilla, whose band Dis Fantasy made the music you hear at the beginning and end of this episode ("Let Me Love You" and "She Magical." Check out Dis Fantasy's LP, streaming now!

Andrea Amez is one of my favorite people to speak to in general, but especially about everything to do with skincare, beauty and wellness. Oddly enough, we didn't discuss any products her first time on the podcast, but today she's back with her favorite hair conditioner, lip balm, body wash, deodorant, body exfoliants, facial peels and more in tow.Find the full list of products discussed here: http://bit.ly/TierneyAmezSummerProductsAmez explains what my “acid mantle” is, how it differs from my skin's “microbiome” and how probiotic skincare impacts them both. She illuminates the thinking behind "vibrational" and "energy-based" products intended for emotional and spiritual results. She shouts out some of her favorite product lines (@aliangeskincare, @agentnateur, @oseamalibu + dozens more), calls herself a “body wash slut" and answers all my questions. Such as: - Should I buy the big bottle of rosewater with glycerin or without? - What's the difference between $6 hyaluronic acid serum and $300 hyaluronic acid serum? - Are these vegan gummies really going to hydrate my skin? - How should I use my new Rose Quartz roller from @chakrubs? - Why are my freckles more visible directly after sun exposure? - Is it bad to love products? Fresh off a trip to Mendocino, I discuss the cannabis tourism industry and wonder about what the next big cannabinoid will be (THC and CBD are 2 / 113). I also talk about William Randolph Hearst printing racist lies about weed in his newspapers because he owned huge timber holdings and paper mills and felt threatened by hemp paper. I hit my @leunebrand vapes and sip @kikoko_hq weed tea until I begin to wonder if I'm saying half the names of these beauty brands right. I describe being in the operating room during a stranger’s Brazilian Butt Lift and the psychological reasons people love picking at their partner's skin too, both based on @wearemel stories. Find the full list of products discussed here: http://bit.ly/TierneyAmezSummerProductsCredit and thanks to Margot Padilla, the best sound engineer.

Tierney invites screenwriter Michelle Badillo and comedian Heather Jewett into the Montez Press Radio RV outside the 2019 Los Angeles Book Fair. While book collectors stroll MOCA and the radio staff cracks beers on lawn chairs outside, Michelle, Heather and Tierney crouch around the motor home's dining room table and discuss their mothers. The segment is called "Maternal Adoration and Agitation" because that bond is crazy AF. Heather reads a piece called "Meal Time With Mommy," Michelle reads a diary entry from high school and I read an excerpt from my short story "Reseda," which originally appears in Dazed and Confused A/W 2019. Heather and Michelle's stories are sooooooo funny and beautiful, you'll squeal and squirm and smile. Follow Michelle @_mistermichelle and Heather @hurrrjurrrThank you Montez Press.

Michelle Badillo is a screenwriter and actor from Queens, New York. We are globally renown best friends. Michelle is a sexy television writer and humorist, best known for her work on One Day At A Time, the Netflix reboot of the original Norman Lear sitcom, and The Bold Type, a show about young journalists for which she probably drew great inspiration from my life. You also might recognize Michelle from the steamy, non-binary facesitting scene in season one, episode three of the Starz show Vida. She's appeared in Vogue because modeling is very easy for her. Michelle is so funny, so smart, so silly, so naughty, so sweet, etc. We talk about The Hills: New Beginnings, especially how emotional Michelle became when Mischa Barton appeared on screen and how much we love Brandon Thomas Lee. We tell the story of how we met and our first impressions of one another – including lip rings, crowns, bodycon dresses, cigarettes, screenwriting, Facebook and early bedtimes. We also reflect on trusting our intuition, coming out after a GSA meeting and noticing childhood class dynamics. We mock the trust fund kids we went to school with, including their helicopters home to La Jolla, self-driving sports cars and wack-job parents. Michelle has the nerve to disclose where we attended school and I covertly assert that I was too smart to go there. I finally admit that I was famous but bullied on campus. We talk about the unique way moms talk about their daughters' bodies and Michelle teaches me how to become a successful screenwriter. I qualify multiple comments with "not to stigmatize" because I don't want to stigmatize. Michelle sings a couple of showtunes, lusts after Megan Fox and reflects on the more challenging aspects of lending her own teenage experiences as a queer woman of color to a character on TV. Finally, we play "Tierney Answers," an incredible new segment where my guest interviews me about my many attributes and preferences. Follow Michelle on Instagram and Twitter - @mistermichelle_ Follow me too - @tstar7Like and subscribe Like and subscribe Like and subscribe Like and subscribeCredit and thanks to Margot Padilla, the best sound engineer

Peggy Noland is an American fashion designer and artist known for her eccentric clothes and cheeky critiques of consumer culture. In this episode, Peggy discusses being a lifelong “texture queen,” the biological underpinnings of our slime obsession and the thrill of crushing Tide Pods between her fingers. We get into her experiences teaching high school students, closing her iconic store in Kansas City and changing the vehicular aesthetic of Los Angeles one hand-painted car at a time. We also talk about why she is so impacted by JOANN Fabric and how an early exposure to fast fashion factories in India changed her career trajectory. Peggy counsels my imposter syndrome, describes the emotional experience of making projects alone and addresses learning from creative misses. Peggy is a silly, supportive friend. Follow her on Instagram @peggynoland. “Peggy’s Cartoon-Up” is an original song by Shannon Shaw and Seth Bogart. Watch Peggy’s car-painting webseries here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqGa6p1BINg&t=1s“That’s So” is an original song by @disfantasy (a new bubbly hip hop group featuring our audio producer Margot Padilla). Follow me @TSTAR7 and share this podcast with someone who likes slime, clothes or the sound of my voice. Credit and thanks to Margot Padilla, the best sound engineer.

Jiz Lee is an award winning porn performer, queer porn superstar and author of the anthology “Coming Out Like A Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy.” This episode begins with two readings from the book, followed by a conversation with Jiz about the origins of their porn career, the importance of teaching porn literacy rather than arguing about “good porn” versus “bad porn,” not shaming someone’s sexual fantasies and dispelling myths about porn production. Then, we move into a panel discussion with Lotus Lain and Miss Mimosa. Lotus Lain is an independent porn performer, writer and activist who works with the Free Speech Coalition, the adult industry's trade association. Mimosa is an artist and sex worker with experience as a professional dominatrix, BBW porn performer and fetish content creator who spends most of her time in San Francisco in LA. She also works behind the camera in both adult and mainstream film, doing both casting and performer advocacy. The group discusses diversifying who gets to feel sexy, their experiences disclosing their work to both friends and family and new acquaintances and the hypocrisy of the way Hollywood treats sex workers. Lotus speaks about being outed as a porn performer without her consent, the stigma of having sex for fun and how porn can be one of the safest settings to explore kink. Mimosa remembers asking her mother about how she would react if she became a porn star at the age of ten and reflects on body positivity within porn. “Having a body that’s different, for me, was always a source of power,” Mimosa says. “When you’re your own home, other people will want to be there.”This episode was recorded live during Pillow Talk in the penthouse at the Standard Hotel in Los Angeles. Follow @jizlee and buy their book here: bigcartel.com/product/coming-out-like-a-porn-starCredit and thanks to Margot Padilla, the best sound engineer.

Andrea Amez is a gifted esthetician, discerning product concierge and educated cosmetic chemist. She is best known for the "transformational facials" she gives at Skin Worship, one of the most influential, holistic beauty collectives in Los Angeles, and for her own fabulously luminescent skin. Our friendship alone changed my skin way before she gave me my first facial. Andrea convinced me to stop relishing in the sick pleasure of extracting my own blackheads, educated me about the benefits and tricky politics of the "green beauty" industry and actually got me to use toner and sunscreen daily (after years of knowing I should). Andrea is also a cranial sacral therapist, meaning she performs subtle bodywork on the bones of the head and spinal column to release energetic blockages from the body. She may see celebrity clients in Beverly Hills and have her signature style of natural glam featured in L’uomo Vogue, but her philosophy as a healer is inclusive and compassionate. Listen to our conversation to hear how a run-in with a Hollywood superstar in the early 2000s fueled her passion for skincare, how she's attempting to correct gaps in the availability of quality skin services for women of color and how spirituality factors into her practice as an esthetician. Andrea also answers questions about types of retinol, under-eye discoloration, under-boob acne, the various dermatological issues plaguing our inner thighs and genitals, whether or not smoking weed is bad for your skin and how so many influencers go about achieving skin as smooth as a dolphin's. Andrea is brilliant, hilarious and delightfully down-to-earth. Follow her on Instagram @amez_skinworship. While you're at it, follow me @TSTAR7 and share this podcast with someone you would discuss your ingrown hairs with