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In this episode, we discuss the cultural taboo of going into a woman's purse. We explore the reasons behind this unspoken rule and the potential consequences of violating it. Nerdy shares his personal experiences and perspectives on the topic, and considers the broader implications for respect, trust, and privacy in relationships. Through a mix of humor and introspection, Nerdy offers practical tips and advice for navigating this aspect of social etiquette. Join us for a lively and engaging conversation about a topic that affects us all. Follow Me On Social Media  Facebook ➡ https://www.facebook.com/nerdy.gee  

We hand the reins to our boy Joey Perez to walk us through some examples that are far too often presented to men as healthy examples of manhood. Charles Spurgeon once said, "Discernment is not knowing the difference between what is right and what is wrong. Discernment is knowing the difference between what is right and what is 'almost' right".  Let's look at some "almost right" examples of manhood that plagues the minds of men today. Support the showPlease Rate & Comment!Hosts: Brandon and Daren SmithWebsite: www.blackandblurred.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/blackandblurredYouTube: Black and Blurred PodcastIG: @BlackandBlurredPodcastTwitter: @Blurred_Podcast

Kerri Sullivan is the founder of Jersey Collective, one of New Jersey's most popular Instagram accounts. The project has over 31,000 followers and has been featured by the Asbury Park Press, New Jersey Monthly, CBS Philly, and News 12 NJ. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney's, Catapult, Podcast Review, The Billfold, and elsewhere. She is from Monmouth County but now lives in Essex County. You can find her on Instagram @ksulphoto. Games:Over/Under Best Buy Either/Or -- Follow Meryl on Twitter @MerylWilliams and Instagram @merylkwilliams.   --- Theme song: "Sleeper Hold," by Saintseneca (@saintseneca) http://www.saintseneca.com/ Editing by Clawson Solutions Group LLC

This episode of Cabana Chats is a throwback to 2018, when Resort founder Catherine LaSota had a Skype conversation with writers Molly Caro May and Meaghan O'Connell to discuss the intersection of motherhood and writing. This conversation was recorded for a special episode of the LIC Reading Series podcast that never aired, and this is the first time it is reaching an audience! Molly Caro May is an author of two books, a teacher, and a holder of space. For 12+ years, she has facilitated personal story workshops for more than hundreds of people across the globe. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing and focuses on where language/voice and the animal body meet each other. Her mission is to democratize expression and explore, in good company, the healing alchemy between story and nervous system. In this conversation, we discuss her book Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood. Meaghan O'Connell is currently the features editor at Romper, where she works on stories about being, becoming, or wanting to be a parent (or not). Before that she was a freelance writer for publications such as New York Magazine's The Cut, as well as co-editor of the personal finance website The Billfold. In this conversation, we discuss her book And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready. Find out more about Molly here: https://www.mollycaromay.com Find out more about Meaghan here: http://www.meaghano.com Purchase Body Full of Stars here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9781640092075 Purchase And Now We Have Everything here: https://bookshop.org/a/83344/9780316393850 Join our free Resort community, full of resources and support for writers, here: https://community.theresortlic.com/ More information about The Resort can be found here: https://www.theresortlic.com/ You can find books for purchase by all of our Cabana Chats guests here: https://bookshop.org/lists/cabana-chats-podcast Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota. Our podcast editor is Jade Iseri-Ramos, and our music is by Pat Irwin. Special thanks to Resort assistant Nadine Santoro. FULL TRANSCRIPTS for Cabana Chats podcast episodes are available in the free Resort network: https://community.theresortlic.com/ Follow us on social media! @TheResortLIC

Interview with Burt White — 0:30 - 19:30This year's Focus meeting and pandemic lessons.Measuring LPL's growth.Transitioning from the 60/40 mindset.The role of chief investment officers and where their focus should be.LPL's new householding feature.Interview with Zach Teutsch — 19:45 - 46:45Focusing on a progressive niche.How tax planning fits for a more left-minded client base.Developing and finding the niche.The path not taken at Bear Stearns.Tips to finding one's niche.Related Article:  LPL cuts ties with adviser accused of racism in TikTok videoRelated Article:  A socialist adviser helps far-left clients accumulate wealth while fighting for financial fairnessGuest Bios:Burt White is the managing director of investor and investment solutions and chief investment officer at LPL Financial.Mr. White has served as managing director, investor and investment solutions and chief investment officer of LPL Financial since January 2017. He served as managing director, research, and chief investment officer from 2009 to December 2016. Mr. White is responsible for the strategic direction and continued growth of LPL Financial's research, marketing, products, and investment platforms.Zach Teutsch founded Values Added Financial to help clients live more fulfilling lives by making wise financial, career and other life decisions. Before he launched Values Added Financial, Zach developed the first national financial empowerment programs in the labor movement and reached several hundred thousand union members. After that, he joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he was a subject matter expert on financial education and empowerment. Zach has taught investment and financial planning topics to groups all around the country and has served individual clients for 15 years. His writing has appeared in Vox (link), The Billfold (link, link, link), and Greater Greater Washington (link). He has taught at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Brown Alumni Association, National Labor College, Congressional Hispanic Staff Association, DC Bar Association, Tzedek DC, Jews United for Justice, The DCJCC, 6th+I, the National Havurah Institute, and for dozens of unions and union locals. 

Episode description: Emily Layden is a writer and former high school English teacher from upstate New York. A graduate of Stanford University, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, The Billfold, and Runner's World. She joins us in this episode of Peace Meal to discuss her debut novel All Girls. We explore the depiction of disordered eating and anxiety in the book and society more generally, using Emily's experience with the co-occurring concerns as context along the way.  We center our conversation on one of the characters of All Girls, Macy, who struggles with clinical anxiety and an eating disorder resembling ARFID. Emily tells us about her decision to write Macy as she did, eschewing graphic descriptions of behaviors to highlight Macy's anxious thoughts instead. She describes what she hopes All Girls adds to the larger conversation about eating disorders and the adolescent females among whom eating disorders are particularly prevalent. Emphasizing the importance of taking both eating disorders and young women more seriously, we explore how society tends to think similarly of both. We cover: The relationship between anxiety, obsessive thoughts, and disordered eating/eating disorders  How exercising compassion with her students became a way for Emily to exercise compassion for herself How our culture routinely dismisses or trivializes eating disorder stories and other experiences prevalent among young women How one character in All Girls, Macy, can widen our cultural understanding of eating disorders What the reader response to Macy says about changing attitudes toward eating disorders and mental illness In Emily's words: On the connection between anxiety and disordered eating: “Macy is anxious, you see in her chapter, about so many things entirely unrelated to her body or to food. But she copes with that anxiety through avoidant and restrictive behaviors.”   On typical eating disorder depictions: “So often when we have a depiction of an eating disorder on TV or in literature, it tends to be this very narrow reflection of the experience.” On the parallel between society's understanding of young women and of eating disorders: “I think that there's this whole culture that says that girls are not really whole people and thinks that they are trivial or overly emotional… and I think we see a lot of that same flattening with our cultural thinking about eating disorders.” Find Emily on Instagram @emilylayden and at emilylayden.com. Learn more about The Emily Program online or by calling 1-888-364-5977. — About the podcast: Peace Meal is an Emily Program podcast that discusses topics related to eating disorders, body image issues, and how society may contribute to distorted thinking. You can find Peace Meal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts. If you enjoy our show, please rate, review, subscribe, and tell your friends! Are you interested in being a guest on Peace Meal? Email podcast@emilyprogram.com for more information.

How do you define manhood? The world defines manhood with the three Bs. 1. Ballfield, 2. Bedroom and 3. Billfold? We have been bamboozled. How does God define manhood? Voddie Baucham is a husband, father, pastor, author, professor, conference speaker, and church planter. He currently serves as Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Zambia.Voddie makes the Bible clear and demonstrates the relevance of God’s word to everyday life. However, he does so without compromising the centrality of Christ and the gospel. Those who hear him preach find themselves both challenged and encouraged.

Is posting about our children on social media causing pressure, arrogance, and division? CEO Heath Eslinger tackles this controversial topic in today's episode of Leading in Athletics. We encourage to you to give it a listen and let us know what you think! Our vision is to Restore the Joy of Sport for parents, coaches, and athletes. Keep Making a Difference! If you enjoy the Leading in Athletics Podcast, please consider doing a few things: Subscribe and then give it a 5-star rating on iTunes. Write a review of what you love about the show. Please share the episode on your social media pages! Be sure to connect with A Better Way Athletics and Heath Eslinger on Social Media for more inspirational messages and coaching:  Instagram (Heath):  https://www.instagram.com/eslingerheath/ Instagram (A Better Way): https://www.instagram.com/abetterwayathletics/ Facebook (Heath): https://www.facebook.com/heath.eslinger.7 Facebook (A Better Way): https://www.facebook.com/abetterwayathletics/ Twitter (Heath): https://twitter.com/HeathEslinger Twitter (A Better Way): https://twitter.com/ABW_Athletics Tik Tok (A Better Way): @abetterwayathletics Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please email Heath Eslinger at heath@abetterwayathletics.com

Chanel Dubofsky is a freelance writer with regular contributions to major feminist and cultural websites. Her writing on gender, sexuality, religion, popular culture and reproductive justice has been published i n Cosmopolitan, Rewire, Lilith, Extra Crispy, Ravishly, The Toast, The Frisky, Previously TV, The Billfold, The Forward, and others.  Chanel is also the creator of the Marriage Project, an interview series about marriage in the media, experience and imagination. She has an MFA i n Fiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Chanel i s here to talk to us about women who are child-free by choice, and her participation in My So Called Selfish Life, an upcoming documentary film about the same topic. Find Chanel on: LinkedIn; Instagram, @cdubofsky; and Twitter, @chaneldubofsky

Welcome to season 2 episode 8! Everyone, meet Tony, the newest member of the clone crew. Hopefully Cosima lives to meet our new friend. Leekie sure didn't....thanks for listening!

Stas Chijik is the CEO and co-founder of Billfold POS, a Brooklyn-based cashless payment technology company who revolutionized event-based payment processing, by engineering cashless, RFID bracelets that sync directly with a customer's credit card. Billfolds payment technology helps decrease wait times for customers, while simultaneously increasing the average revenue spent per person at events and venues.

Please join us for a fun and informal talk by author and professor Susan Harlan, who has the rare gift of making the ordinary extraordinary for her readers and audiences. Susan will share with us a personal essay about the tote bags she's acquired on her travels and throughout her life, touching on themes that are at the forefront of our minds right now: travel, home, souvenirs, including unused bags and luggage. In her words, “I keep looking at my purses on my coat rack and thinking how strange it is to not carry a purse anymore. They just hang there, and then every eight days or so I go to the store. Beyond the present circumstances, the tote bags make up a kind of autobiography, and they tell stories about where they are from and what they have toted around.” Susan Harlan's essays have appeared in venues including The Guardian US, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Roads & Kingdoms, Literary Hub, The Common, Racked, The Brooklyn Quarterly, The Bitter Southerner, and Public Books. Her book Luggage (Bloomsbury, 2018) takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. She also writes satire for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Billfold, Avidly, Queen Mob's Tea House, The Hairpin, The Belladonna, Janice, and The Establishment, and her humor book Decorating a Room of One's Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables was published by Abrams last October. She teaches English literature at Wake Forest University. *Covid-19 Update: Although our physical space has temporarily closed, the Library will continue with its Evening with an Author programming during the period of confinement. Our events will continue to be free and open to the public, via Zoom (please RSVP here to receive meeting details and password). We have moved the events up, to begin at 17h00 (Central European Time). Please check eLibris or our programs calendar for updates and line-up. Recorded 28 April 2020

What would Paris be without its souvenirs? Snow globes, keychains, and fridge magnets seem to be everywhere. We often think of souvenirs as worthless junk, but they can be powerful material memories. Join us for Susan's talk about her own Parisian souvenir collection and about what souvenirs tell us about the city, travel, and ourselves. (With photography by Sarah Torretta Klock.) Susan Harlan's essays have appeared in venues including The Guardian US, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Roads & Kingdoms, Literary Hub, The Common, Racked, The Brooklyn Quarterly, The Bitter Southerner, and Public Books. Her book Luggage (Bloomsbury, 2018) takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. She also writes satire for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Billfold, Avidly, Queen Mob's Tea House, The Hairpin, The Belladonna, Janice, and The Establishment, and her humor book Decorating a Room of One's Own: Conversations on Interior Design with Miss Havisham, Jane Eyre, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Bennet, Ishmael, and Other Literary Notables was published by Abrams last October. She teaches English literature at Wake Forest University. Recorded 26 November 2019

Bill ruins the illusion about our recording time. Napping habits. Bad plastic packaging of the week. Recycling. Mary’s Costco story. The softer side of Sears campaign. Mary’s trying to pretend she’s not high. Mary lays down some ranching rules and guidelines. We read a good Seattle Times comment. Kelley passes on a very gross story. Horror movies. Bill loves CHiPs, Kelley loves Banacek, and Mary thinks she loves Miami Vice. Chaperoning the Ski Bus. Kelley’s Hint List! Make your own cleaner for painted furniture. Up your sachet game. Using empty lipstick tubes, and refrigerating nail polish. Umpire Pants Out!

After taking a little breather, the boys are back and ready to spill the tea about their workplaces. Plus, Daniel and Trevor relive the Cody Johnson concert in Dallas, Texas.

Large concert venues and sporting arenas have the problem of trying to serve 14,000 people during an interval. But is there a solution to the long lines of people wanting food, drink, and merchandise? Billfold prides itself on being cashless POS for the event industry that actually works. The simple checkout process increases onsite sales from 20-40%. Fast and easy implementation - Staff love it: easy to use, no cash, no change, and no bank cards. They do it by streamlining event operations and changing guests' spending behaviors. Billfold is a wireless point-of-sale system that delivers RFID technology to on-premise payments at large-scale events and venues and helps boost customer spending. Patrons use Billfold's self-serve kiosks to activate RFID wristbands onsite and create a secure connection to their credit cards in less than 30 seconds. Alternatively, if the wristbands are mailed out prior to the event, guests can activate them on their computer or phone directly through the event website. Once the wristband has been activated, patrons don't need to return to the kiosks to add more credit. Instead, they enjoy easy and secure transactions in fast-moving lines to purchase beverages, food, merch, and instant ticket upgrades. Event operators receive real-time sales data sorted by individual staff, bar or vendor, helping them respond better to the needs and preferences of their customers. In addition to the extensive reporting features, event organizers can use Customer Journey Reports to engage with attendees based on their purchase history. Billfold POS is a collaborative project built by event operators Stas Chijik and Benjamin Roshia, and a highly qualified development and design team under Albert Akbashev's direction. Chijik and Roshia have years of experience in large-scale event operations and live music productions in addition to their owner-operator history with The Brooklyn Mirage/Avant Gardner. Stas Chijik joins me on my daily tech podcast to share how Billfold provides full deployment support and consumer insights so that their partners can focus on producing great events and experiences for their guests. But most importantly of all make it easier for attendees to grab food and drink without waiting in line.

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This week’s show is part 1 of a 2-part series on the wellness industrial complex, and all the ways it manipulates women and makes us poorer. First up, we’re tackling yoga culture in particular, because of how ubiquitous it has become in western society, and just how problematic that is. We talk with Tejal Patel and Jesal Parikh of the Yoga Is Dead podcast about how yoga has been culturally appropriated from its roots in India and from Desi people today, and Tanja draws on her long career teaching yoga to delve into yoga’s problems with economics and inclusivity. Big thanks to Freshbooks for sponsoring season 4 of The Fairer Cents. If you’d like to try their cloud accounting software for free, go to freshbooks.com/tfc and enter “the fairer cents” in the How did you hear about us?   Links from the episode: Yoga Is Dead podcast Yoga Is Dead on Instagram Tanja’s piece on Our Next Life, “How Teaching Yoga Is Like Multilevel Marketing” Yoga Alliance and Ipsos 2014 survey International Association of Yoga Therapists 2004 study The Billfold piece by Jessica Pishko, “Spiritually Bankrupt: How I Went Broke Trying to Teach Yoga” PayScale data on yoga instructor hourly pay Atlantic piece by Rosalie Murphy, “Why Your Yoga Class Is So White” Yoga Journal piece by Rina Deshpande, “What’s the Difference Between Cultural Appropriation and Cultural Appreciation?” “(More) Reasons Why Your Yoga Class Is So White” by Chanelle John on Decolonizing Yoga “The cover shoot that brought me face to face with racism in the wellness industry,” by Nicole Cardoza in Quartz “Jessamyn Stanley and the Yoga Journal Debacle” on Yoga for All Training blog

Stas Chijik, Co-Founder & CEO at BillfoldPOS is interviewed in this episode. Billfold focuses on creating the fastest solution for high volume sales through RFID payments. Follow Adam on Instagram at Ask Adam Torres for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule. Apply to be interviewed by Adam on our podcast: https://www.moneymatterstoptips.com/podcastguest --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneymatters/support

In today’s episode, we bring back one of our very first guests, Alicia de los Reyes! Alicia is a writer based in Maine, where she lives with her family and cat. She has her MFA from University of New Hampshire. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Archipelago, The Billfold, and others, and her fiction has been published in Best New Writing 2015.  She’s also the author of the writing guides DIY Writing Retreat and DIY Chick Lit, and the creator of the Writer’s Process Planner, and we have her on today to talk about goal setting and planning — take it from me, even if you’re allergic to Virgo season and planning and goals, you’ll want to listen to this one. You can find out more about Alicia at aliciadelosreyes.com, and as @likesoatmeal on Instagram and Twitter. Listen to her podcast Scratch Paper on iTunes or on Stitcher, or at her website. As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.  Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch. Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's occasionally on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia

Today on Obsessed with Design I'm chatting with Hrag Nassanian. Hrag Nassanian is a Portland, Oregon based product designer / design director of performance-based soft goods (bags) and accessories. Hrag cut his teeth with a little brand called Nike, and just weeks ago launched his own brand called Wayfinder. We were connected on Instagram... I was intrigued by the story of his brand launch, and reached out to have him on the show.   So without further ado, please enjoy this conversation with Hrag Nassanian.

Something we always say on this show is that money is highly personal. Well, one thing I’ve learned is there’s no specific “accomplishment” moment for when you are in control of your money. For some people it’s being able to buy whatever kind of cheese they want at the grocery store, for others it's the feeling of not worrying about the next paycheck. Today is the first episode of our new regular listener stories series, with The Billfold editor Nicole Dieker, where we feature listener's creative reflections on different financial topics. Our Next Topic The next prompt for our listener stories series is "Ramen" - do what that with you will. If you have stories to submit, send them in to stories@ohmydollar.com or tweet them 240-characters at a time to @ohmydollar. About The Billfold The Billfold is one of our favorite personal finance websites creating an honest conversation about money, with one of the most active commenter communities on the internet. About Nicole Dieker Nicole is the editor of The Billfold, and has also written for The Write Life, Lifehacker, Bankrate, and numerous other sites. She teaches writing, freelancing, and publishing classes (including online classes), and work one-on-one with authors as a developmental editor and copyeditor. Ask us a question! We love hearing from you! Email us your financial worries or receipt victories at questions@ohmydollar.com or tweet us at @anomalily or @ohmydollar This show is made paw-sible by listeners like you We absolutely love our Purrsonal Finance Society Members, the folks that generously support Oh My Dollar with $1 or more a month on Patreon – and have made is so we have free, full transcripts for every show on ohmydollar.comThis episode was underwritten by patron Tamsen G Association and Warrior Queen. To learn more about being part of the Purrsonal Finance Society and get cool perks like exclusive livestreams and cat stickers, you can visit ohmydollar.com/support Stories Featured - The First (and Second, and Third) Time I Felt in Control of My Money on The Billfold - How Two Budgeting Choices Gave Me Control Over My Money on The Billfold Other Episodes You Might Find interesting - Meal Planning (the secret weapon) ft. Nicole Dieker - What if your life decisions were made by the stock market? ft. KmikeyM - Creativity vs. Financial Security Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a chat with Meaghan O'Connell about her new memoir And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready. Meaghan discusses the romanticized expectations surrounding birth and early motherhood, the process of she coming to terms with the reality of her own birth experience, and how her feminism interacts with her new life as a mom. And Now We Have Everything is out now from Little, Brown! Buy a copy using the link below or wherever books are sold! Books Mentioned And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell Author Bio Meaghan O'Connell's writing has appeared in New YorkMagazine, Longreads, and The Billfold, where she was an editor. She lives in Portland, OR, with her husband and young son.  Website| Twitter | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website   Music “Reading Women” Composed and Recorded by Isaac and Sarah Greene   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Today, we have the pleasure of talking to writer Alicia de los Reyes about making time to write no matter what your circumstances are, and how she was able to take the rejection of her first novel and use it to grow as a writer. Alicia is a writer based in Seattle, WA, where she lives with her husband, son, and cat. She has her MFA from University of New Hampshire. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Archipelago, The Billfold, and others, and her fiction has been published in Best New Writing 2015. She is represented by DGLM and at work on a novel. You can find out more about Alicia at aliciadelosreyes.com, and as @likesoatmeal on Instagram. Listen to her podcast Scratch Paper on iTunes or on Stitcher, or at her website. Find us at marginallypodcast.com or on Instagram @marginallypodcast. If you enjoy this podcast, please rate and review. Don't miss an episode -- subscribe!

Calls calls calls! Plus... love for New York... Apple's bra obsession and hockey helmets.

Writer Laura Chanoux talks about the hilariously entertaining BBC radio drama Benedict Cumberbatch did *before* he became famous as Sherlock Holmes. She also shares who would be at her best-ever dinner party, and who her #1 celebrity crush is. Follow Laura on Twitter @LauraChanoux and read her stuff on The Billfold and The Belladonna Comedy! Theme song: "Sleeper Hold," by Saintseneca (@saintseneca) http://www.saintseneca.com/ 

Courtney Guerra writes her “Dear Business lady” column for The Toast and The Billfold helping women navigate life and career.

Nicole Dieker from the wonderful website The Billfold joins us to talk about the most awesome way to reduce your stress and lower your grocery budget at the same time- meal planning! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SCRATCH: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster) Based on the online magazine of the same name, SCRATCH: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living is a collection of honest and informative essays and interviews, addressing the relationships between writing and money, work and life, literature and commerce. In the literary world, we romanticize the image of the struggling artist, but pursuing a career as a creative also stirs a complicated discourse: either writers should be paid for everything they do or they should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. They are told by more-successful writers to “do it for the love,” but the advice gets quiet when it comes to how to make a living out of writing. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it- all culture, still remains taboo. For SCRATCH, editor Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money? For the first time, these authors get down to the nitty gritty of money, MFA programs, freelancing, teaching fellowships, finally getting published, the bestseller list, and how they define “success”. They also tackle the penetrating questions on what living in the literary world is really like, including issues of diversity, female likeability, debt and credit, and having a family while managing an artists’ career. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps readers and writers understand what it’s really like to make art in a world that runs on money—and why it matters. Essential reading for aspiring and experienced writers, and for anyone interested in the future of literature, SCRATCH is the go-to guide to doing the impossible: making a living by doing what you love. Praise for SCRATCH "Well-organized, fascinating anthology...highly recommended"-Kirkus Reviews "Solid counseling for aspirants on what it means to offer the labors of their heart for sale in the marketplace."-Publishers Weekly "Meaningful for those working in any discipline."-Booklist, Starred Review Manjula Martin created the blog Who Pays Writers? and was the founder and editor of Scratch magazine, an online periodical focused on the business of being a writer. Her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Pacific Standard, SF Weekly, The Billfold, The Toast, and other publications. She is the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story. Scratch is her first book. Manjula Martin by Ted Weinsten Julia Fierro is the author of the novels Cutting Teeth and the forthcoming The Gypsy Moth Summer. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Julia’s work has been published in The Millions, Poets & Writers, Flavorwire, Buzzfeed, Glamour, TimeOut New York, Psychology Today, and other publications. She founded The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop in 2002, and it has since become a creative home to over three thousand writers. Sackett Street was named a “Best NYC Writing Workshop” by the Village Voice, TimeOut New York, and Brooklyn magazine, and a “Best MFA-Alternative” by Poets & Writers. She lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles with her husband and their two children. Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in Los Angeles and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and Twitter.com/SusanOrlean. Susan Orlean photo by Gaspar Tringale  Kima Jones has received fellowships from PEN Center USA Emerging Voices, Kimbilio Fiction, Yaddo's 2016 Howard Moss Residency in poetry and was named the 2014-2015 Gerald Freund Fellow at The MacDowell Colony. She has been published at GQ, Guernica, NPR, PANK, Scratch Magazine and The Rumpus among others and in the anthologies Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community and The New York Times Best Seller, The Fire this Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward. Her short story "Nine" received notable mention in Best American Science Fiction 2015. Kima is an MFA candidate in fiction and Rodney Jack Scholar in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is a founding board member of Makara Center for the Arts. Kima lives in Los Angeles where she operates Jack Jones Literary Arts, a book publicity company.  Harmony Holiday, poet and choreographer, is the author of Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, 2011), winner of the Motherwell Poetry Prize; Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet, 2015), and Hollywood Forever (FenceBooks, 2016). Holiday curates the Afrosonics archive of Jazz Poetics and audio culture as well as a fantastic blog,nonstophome. She teaches at Otis College in Los Angeles and has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA from Columbia University. She runs a boutique production house devoted to the crossing between archiving, improvisation, myth, and black music.

Hey there word nerds! Today I’m thrilled to welcome Manjula Martin on the show. Manjula is editor of Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living from Simon & Schuster. She’s the creator of the blog Who Pays Writers? And was the founder and editor of Scratch magazine, an online periodical focused on the business of being a writer. Her work has appeared in various publications like the Virginia Quarterly Review, Pacific Standard, SF Weekly, The Billfold, and The Toast, plus, she is the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story. Today, Manjula and I will be talking about writers and money, how to make ends meet, and generate revenue from your writing. In this episode we discuss: Why it’s so difficult—but so important—for writers to talk about money. Also why it doesn’t have to be difficult. Different options and strategies for how writers can make a living beyond a book deal. The pros and cons of working for free, and the broader implications this has on the publishing landscape. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses and leveraging them to help you make a living. Plus, her #1 tip for writers. About the Author Manjula Martin is editor of Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster, January 2017). She created the blog Who Pays Writers? and was the founder and editor of Scratch magazine, an online periodical that focused on the business of being a writer. Her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Pacific Standard, SF Weekly, The Billfold, The Toast, and other publications. She is the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story and lives in San Francisco. You can learn more about Manjula Martin at her website: https://manjulamartin.com/. Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living A collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors—from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen—on the realities of making a living in the writing world. In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money? For more info and show notes: DIYMFA.com/129

Nicole Dieker (writer for The Billfold, Spark Notes, and more; singer/songwriter) truly, deeply enjoys the animated TV show, Steven Universe. Thanks, as always, to Molly Lewis for our theme music.

Happy Totally Normal Day In December, everybody! It's our HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGOON, and instead of revisiting the animated A Charlie Brown Christmas like we originally intended, we saw a stage adaptation of the same, at the Taproot Theater in Seattle. In our first segment Nicole Dieker joins us for a roundtable about the merits of adapting a Peanuts animated special to live theater, and what a difference it makes to have real actors instead of children imitating Bill Melendez one word at a time. In our second segment we interview Andy Cownden, BC's go-to Charlie Brown, about what it's like to assume the role of Charlie Brown, and to be faithful to the original text while also finding room to make the role your own. Topics of discussion include: The unexpected treat of having real stage actors read Schulz; Charlie Brown maybe meant to say "material" when he said "commercial"; an extra-canon epilogue! (feat. the Christmas queen); there's no such thing as a non-creepy nativity; A Charlie Brown Xmas as a quiet, melancholy Rocky Horror; A Charlie Brown Xmas as a boggart; performative feelings about Christmas; dancing about architecture; the existential table work that goes into a Charlie Brown Christmas production; at least three kinds of Snoopy puppet; Charlie Brown's emotional arc is not unlike the stripe on his shirt. The animated A Charlie Brown Christmas is available on streaming, DVD, network television... You could holler "Isn't there anyone who has a copy of A Charlie Brown Christmas?!" out a car window and someone would be like "YES." To find a production of the A Charlie Brown Christmas stage adaptation that we discuss in this episode, Google "[your city name] Eric Schaeffer Charlie Brown". Odds are there's a production very near you! Our first guest Nicole Dieker is a freelance writer and a senior editor at The Billfold. She can be found at @hellothefuture or NicoleDieker.com. She is our first return guest, and first joined us to discuss It Was A Short Summer, CB. Our second guest Andy Cownden is a talented actor and writer, who is currently playing Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Carousel Theater in Granville Island. Questions? Comments? Tweet them to @PeanutsPodcast. Josh and Molly wrote a holiday musical a couple years ago, inspired in no small part by the Peanuts holiday specials. It's available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp. Thank you for listening to & tweeting at this pair of blockheads! We really appreciate it. Audio blandishment by Ken Plume.

Shannon McLeod is a soft-spoken writer from Michigan who writers stories where characters almost, but not quite. Much like like. Currently, she's a teacher and writer (although never the two shall meet, as you'll soon find out). Her work has has appeared in Hobart, NEAT, Word Riot, Cheap Pop, TXTOBJX, Moonsick Magazine, The Billfold, and (R.I.P.)Gawker Her chapbook Pathetic is available from Etchings Press, the student-run publisher of the University of Indianapolis Department of English, and Metonymy Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is It Too Easy to Spend Money These Days? Ft. Ester Bloom, Senior Editor at TheBillfold.com Enjoy today's episode? Support the BLC Podcast and become a contributor: www.businesslifeandcoffee.com/support About This Episode: With wages stagnant, school debt piling up and costs rising millennials have it tough. Technology can be a key to saving or a curse. In this episode, Ester Bloom, Senior Editor of The Billfold will share her tips including: Spending Tracking Apps Referral Marketing Apps that raise your food bill and ones that lower it Technology to track your driving skills (and lower your auto insurance) According to the Association for Psychological Science, when it comes to driving most people think their skills are above average.  Other studies have found nearly two thirds of drivers rate themselves as excellent or very good. Now your anchors, reporters, producers, hosts and audience can put themselves up to the challenge for free by using technology to measure how they actually drive. If they do well, they might be able to save significant money on their car insurance. Here’s how the program works. After signing up for a 30 Day free trial (here), you’ll receive a Snapshot device which plugs into your car. It measures how fast, how far and when you drive. It also measures your rates of acceleration and how hard you brake. If you do well, new customers can be offered a reduced Snapshot rates and existing customers can see their rates go down—good news also for parents who have younger millennials on their insurance plan. About Ester: Ester Bloom is an award-winning non-fiction writer and Senior Editor at The Billfold which covers everything you wanted to know about money. Her specialty areas are millennials and women. She has appeared on MSNBC, MTV, HuffPost Live and the Geraldo Rivera Show among many programs.

An essay went viral earlier this year: a moving story about a woman and the money she may need at any given moment to escape from a job, a sleazy colleague or an abusive partner - it was called A Story Of The Fuck Off Fund. Did you read it? You probably did. It was published on the Billfold, it got retweeted and picked up by Jezebel, Stylist, Refinery 29, the Observer and Salon - some publications even wrote Think Pieces in response, questioning it, praising it, you name it. You know something has really gone viral when old friends from school start posting it on Facebook. I’m here today with the author of this piece Paulette Perhach, a wonderful writer and thinker from Seattle. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We wrist-wrestle with 1969's IT WAS A SHORT SUMMER, CHARLIE BROWN, in which the boys take on the girls in a summertime battle of the sexes, and get their dumb, uncoordinated butts handed to them for the better part of a half-hour. Special guest Nicole Dieker joins us in an episode recorded in the middle of the damn ocean during this year's JoCo Cruise. Pour yourself a tall glass of Electrolyte Solution and watch it on DailyMotion. Topics of discussion include: adults vs. children vs. tall children; a stone soup / Wizard of Oz mashup (not in Latin); the proper rules of "hangman", and Nicole coining the phrase "hangdoodle"; Garbage Snoopy Land, with alternate Snoopy creatures; You can hug a meatlump, but can a meatlump hug you back?; Asshole Blanket Gymnastics; the migratory habits of Brazilian potato chips; the rise of the Matriarchy. Our guest Nicole Dieker is a freelance writer and a senior editor at The Billfold. She can be found at @hellothefuture or NicoleDieker.com. Questions? Comments? Dump them into our asking box. Follow us on Twitter at @PeanutsPodcast. We wrote a holiday musical a couple years ago, inspired in no small part by the Peanuts holiday specials. It's available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp. Audio blandishment by Ken Plume.

Laura Leigh Abby & Crystal-Lee Quibell discuss Writing Out Of the Closet, how to write with authenticity and handle rejection. Laura Leigh’s work has appeared in such publications as Cosmopolitan, Vice, Salon, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, Dame Magazine, The Huffington post, The Billfold, Xo Jane, Modern Loss and others. She is the creator of 2Brides2Be, an online wedding resource providing planning tools and inspiration for the modern lesbian bride. Her book of the same name is forthcoming with Rarebird and Archer Lit in early 2017. Laura Leigh and her wife Samantha appeared on the second season of Bravo TV’s Newlyweds: The First Year and are both active in the LGBT community, most recently teaming up with the Family Equality Council, The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps, and the NYC LGBT Community Center.  Crystal-Lee Quibell is the host of Literary Speaking, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping writers learn from best-selling authors, literary agents, and publishers. Founder of The Magical Writers Group, a private teaching forum for writers specifically focused on memoir. She is a champion for the written word, student of publishing and an obsessive book collector with a serious case of wanderlust. A self-described mermaid and witchy woman for life, she believes that life is better with books, chocolate, and the occasional cheese board. Her upcoming essay is to be featured in the forthcoming book, The Magic Of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writer's Journey.   

Today we've got two nonfiction pieces that show the power of sharing experience through writing and reading. Meaghan O'Connell (Longreads, The Billfold) reads from her honest, funny, and generous recounting of her son's birth, and Miranda K. Pennington (The Toast, The American Scholar) shares a glimpse of how her life has been changed by decades of reading and re-reading the Brontës. CatapultReads.com // @CatapultReads

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MIKE SACKS and I discuss everything from career suicide, imaginary friends, submitting to The New Yorker, growing up in DC, figuring out when you're funny, and the secrets of success. In addition to being an editor at Vanity Fair, MIKE SACKS has written for Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Radar, MAD, and Salon. He is the author of And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers About Their Craft, co-wrote Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk, with the Pleasure Syndicate, and the author of Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason. www.mikesacks.com Alongside hosting Employee of the Month, CATIE LAZARUS writes for children and adult children. ECNY awarded her “Best Comedy Writer” and she has contributed drivel to, amongst others, Slate, The Daily Beast, Bust, Cosmo, Gawker, and currently writes a monthly column for The Billfold. www.lazarusrising.com

LESLEY STAHL got her street cred covering the Watergate scandal and went onto become the second anchorwoman in history at CBS News. Since then, she's been breaking news and investigating cultural phenomenons at 60 Minutes. We spoke candidly about finances, sexism, and her pithy interviews with, amongst others, Ariel Sharon, Nicholas Sarkozy, Jerry Falwell, and, of course, Boy George. EMPLOYEE of the MONTH is a talk show about jobs, work and culture. In addition to hosting EOTM, Catie Lazarus writes a column for the BILLFOLD.com. www.employeeofthemonthshow.com

DICK CAVETT is one of the greatest talk show hosts in history and my personal favorite. He's won a numerous Emmy Awards for his talk show(s), that were on the air for five decades (and, technically two centuries, since you can buy the DVDs for The Dick Cavett Show). These I've never witnessed the type of candid, genuine conversations Cavett had with folks like John Kerry, although both have maintained their lustrous locks. Today, Cavett writes a column for The New York Times and his most recent book is TALK SHOW. CATIE LAZARUS is the host of the critically acclaimed EMPLOYEE of the MONTH SHOW and writes a monthly column for The BillFold. www.employeeofthemonthshow.com