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    Consider This from NPR
    Epstein used an art camp to prey on girls. An NPR team learned how it worked.

    Consider This from NPR

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2026 10:18


    Reporters here at NPR noticed the name of a highly respected youth camp popping up repeatedly in the Epstein Files - Interlochen Center for the Arts.When intern Ava Berger and other reporters started combing through the documents, they learned how Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth to gain access to the campus and prey on girls.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Gabriel Sanchez. It was edited by Tinbete Ermyas and Adam Raney. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

    Never Shut Up: The Daily Tori Amos Show
    03092026 All the Girls Hate Her and Over It

    Never Shut Up: The Daily Tori Amos Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2026 10:29


    Yogi's Choice ~ Over It/Smells Like Teen Spirit (30 March 1994 - New York, NY)

    Tell Us Something
    Walk on the Wild Side – Part 1

    Tell Us Something

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2026 58:15


    Our first storyteller is Rad Wilkins, who as a wildlife biologist embraced the title of “poop ologist” and carried a pungent, fermented concoction called “the brew” into the backcountry to entice grizzly bears. When the love of his life came to visit his remote camp, he had to quickly learn the true rules of bear country before a romantic proposal turned into a terrifying, close encounter in a story that he calls “Wild Proposals”. Rad Watkins is a lifelong nature lover and conservationist based in Missoula, Montana. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Missoula Conservation District, where he helps lead efforts to protect local streams, wildlife, and working lands. His career has taken him from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest studying endangered seabirds, to Glacier National Park collecting grizzly bear DNA, to the Northwoods of Wisconsin tracking wolves and rehabbing bald eagles. Rad also loves personal development, and he's a certified life coach who does some leadership speaking and training. At home, he, his wife Gretchen, and their kids, Lena and Norris, enjoy doing what Montanans do best: floating rivers, skiing, hiking, and spending time outdoors with their dogs and horses. You can find Rad on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. In our next story, Bridget Feerick flies thousands of miles to Peru and connects with a mysterious, motorcycling solo traveler. With a language barrier, a gut feeling, and a wild invitation to ride with him to Canada, she must decide if taking a leap of faith is worth the risk of a true-life adventure. Bridget calls her story “My Gut Says WHAT!?…and it was Awesome!” Thanks for listening. Bridget Feerick started her journey on this planet being born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. She traveled the world before making her home in Missoula, Montana and has continued to explore this country and the world beyond. Her passion for the outdoors is matched by a deep commitment to community engagement and social justice. Bridget holds people in transitions using her intuitive powers as an organizer, cleaner, birth/postpartum/death doula, yoga instructor, herbalist, reiki and sound healing practitioner, and so on and so forth. Oh, and she likes to get weird whether it’s through her performance art pieces or just trying to be free in a world with too many boxes. She hopes to empower and inspire as many people as she can to tap into their own intuitive powers. Trying to escape the dark Missoula winter, a staycation house-sitting gig promises a hot tub and mountain views for Marc Moss, and instead, delivers freezing temperatures and the demanding care of a dog, a cat, and eleven chickens. What starts as a simple favor quickly turns into a crisis when a frantic call from Chile reveals an unfortunate fire and a scramble to rehouse the traumatized poultry. Marc calls his story “The Girls”. Marc Moss founded Tell Us Something in 2011 and lives with his life partner, Joyce, and their perpetual kitten, Ziggy on Missoula's historic Northside. While trekking deep into the Bob Marshall Wilderness to photograph the monumental Chinese Wall, Brian Christianson finally slows down to appreciate the remote mountain solitude with his partner. When a tiny movement catches their eye, they hold their breath for what could be the wildlife encounter of a lifetime. Brian calls his story “Ridge Lessons”. Brian Christianson's love for mountains began on the pages of books while growing up in Southern Minnesota. A family trip to Colorado at age 10 confirmed the future: mountains or bust. He proceeded to study photography and geography at the University of Colorado before moving to Montana in 2008. Brian works as a nature photographer with a curiosity for wilderness in Western Montana. He shares a life with his wife Linds and cat Roo.

    Mickey and the Mouse
    Episode 5: Girls' Takeover! Ranking Our Top 5 Favorite Movie Remakes

    Mickey and the Mouse

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2026 94:43


    Hey Everybody!Today join Gabby and Mel as they dive into Hollywood news, talk about their love for Michael B. Jordan, share their obsession with Moonstruck, and reveal their top five favorite Hollywood remakes.Do you agree with their picks? Let us know over on our Instagram!Happy Listening!

    Anime Fans Against Anime
    Anime Fans Against Anime, Wake Up, Girls! 1-6 | Anime is REAL

    Anime Fans Against Anime

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2026 58:19


    This week we finally get WOKE (up by the Wake Up, Girls!)

    The Island Digest - News from San Juan County, Washington

    Headlines from the week of March 4, 2026    - OIFR responds to fully involved structure fire    - Girls basketball caps memorable season with state tournament     - Housing and waste disposal costs spill into code enforcement     - Coming home to Decatur    - plus excerpts from the Sheriff's Log  

    The Weather Man Podcast... I talk about weather!
    From “Weather Girls” To Meteorologists: A Short History And A Sunny Forecast

    The Weather Man Podcast... I talk about weather!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2026 8:47 Transcription Available


    Girls Gone Bible
    Alcohol Sucks | Girls Gone Bible

    Girls Gone Bible

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 55:31


    Hiiii GGB!   This weeks episode is all about alcohol, drugs, smoking and SOBRIETY. Angela goes deeper into her miraculous story of Jesus getting her sober in a way she never has and we just have a really honest conversation on why laying down any and all substances is so important.   we love you so much. Jesus loves you more. -Ang & Ari   ORDER OUR NEW BOOK! You can order our new book "Out of the Wilderness— 31 Devotions to Walk with God Through Your Hardest Seasons" at girlsgonebible.com/book   JOIN US ON GGB+

    Shortcomings
    Girls - Full Disclosure

    Shortcomings

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 100:48


    Adam and Jessa's film is finished, Desi is back, Elijah is acting, and Hannah is going through it, but before any of that - we, of course, discuss our financial practices through the lens of streaming services and the new season of Beverly Hills with a side of Summer House. And then we simply, can't help but ask some serious questions. Should Hannah tell the father? What's going on in New Jersey? And is Jessa leading with her heart? Answers come and go!

    The Story Collider
    Tresses: Stories about the power of hair

    The Story Collider

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 23:59


    Hair might seem trivial, but for many of us it carries history, identity, and meaning far beyond keratin. In this week's episode, both of our storytellers explore the unexpected power their hair holds.Part 1: Being half Navajo and half white, Carissa Sherman turns to genetics to better understand her identity. As she questions where she belongs, her hair becomes a quiet but powerful marker of how she sees herself.Part 2: Growing up, Ria Spencer believed “good hair” meant long hair but when a medical condition forces her to shave it all off, she's challenged to rethink what that belief really means.Carissa Sherman is Diné (Navajo) and from Arizona. She's a rising 5th year PhD Candidate in the Human Medical Genetics and Genomics program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Carissa is a member of Dr. Katrina Claw's Lab. Her current work has involved community-based participatory research gathering perspectives of genetics research as well as examining population-level pharmacogenetic variation. Her research interests include examining ethical, legal, social and cultural implications of genetic research and learning potential ways to advance inclusivity and equity in public health medicine. She is interested in science policy and/or academia. Carissa and her husband like to craft, draw, go to renaissance fairs, and have two cats; she loves horror movies! Ria Spencer is an aspiring world traveler and wannabe foodie who's spent years belting classic rock and sweet soul music for marginally sober audiences with her band Girls on Top. She's also delighted to be a grown-ass woman who's lived long enough to have some stories to tell. Ria produced and hosted Where Are They Now: The GenX Years in the New York Frigid Festival and has also appeared in the No Name Comedy/Variety Show, RISK!, Better Said Than Done, Dead Rock Stars and The Volume Knob.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    MomAdvice Book Gang
    Where the Girls Were Brings a Mother's Haunting Story to Light

    MomAdvice Book Gang

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 55:00


    Kate Schatz joins the show to discuss Where the Girls Were, a novel inspired by the hidden history of maternity homes and the young women sent away during the 1960s. This week, Kate Schatz joins the Book Gang podcast to discuss her adult fiction debut, Where the Girls Were, a novel that explores a little-discussed chapter of American history: the maternity homes that housed more than a million young women during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing inspiration from her own family's haunting history and years of research, Schatz brings readers into the world of a teenage prodigy sent away to give birth in secret just weeks before graduating high school. In our conversation, we discuss how the story first took shape, the transition from writing nonfiction about activism and history to crafting a deeply researched novel, and the realities of maternity homes in the mid-twentieth century. Schatz also shares some of the surprising details uncovered during her research. In this fascinating conversation, we explore:

    Simon Marks Reporting
    March 6, 2026 - US facing growing accusations of culpability for missile attack on Iranian girls' school that killed 168

    Simon Marks Reporting

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 16:31


    Simon's live update for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC, at the end of the first week of President Trump's strategy-free war-of-choice against Iran. 

    The Girls on Games Podcast
    Pokémon Day Presents 2026 Round-Up

    The Girls on Games Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 73:30


    Ibuprofen, I choose you! 30 years of Pokémon, can you believe it? Our knees sure can. The Pokemon Day Presents brought us our first look at Gen 10, Winds and Waves. We prepare for what will be Joelle's first foray into the series with Pokopia, and Leah gives her thoughts on Dredge. Plus, since we're in a birthday type of mood, we play a round of Guess That Game's Anniversary! What is Everyone Playing? (00:22:10) Dredge (00:32:12) Pokémon Leaf Green and Fire Red (00:39:10) Game On: Guess That Game's Anniversary! (00:39:13) This Week's News: Pokémon Day Presents (00:48:40) Pokémon Day Presents 2026 Round-Up Outro and Wrap-up (01:10:35) --- Thanks for listening! The GoGCast comes out weekly so make sure to subscribe and you won't miss an episode. For more about us, Girls on Games, check out girlsongames.ca. Buy us a Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/girlsongames

    These Unprecedented Gays
    2 Girls, 1 Couch

    These Unprecedented Gays

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 67:13


    Send a textSometimes you just have to catch up with the people you love.  This episode is one of those times.  No major topic, just a great time and a lot of laughs.   @tugayspodtugayspod@yahoo.com#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedy Gay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+@tugayspod tugayspod@yahoo.com#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #sandiego #gaysandiego #gaycommedyGay San Diego comedy LGBT LGBTQ LGBTQIA+Producers: Nick Stone & Andy Smith

    Voodoo Power
    Coaching With Precision: Periodization, Athlete Classification & Training Boys vs. Girls Ryan Banta

    Voodoo Power

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 82:52


    Send a textIn this episode, Ryan Banta shares his coaching philosophy shaped by years of success in high school track and field. He breaks down the critical differences in training boys and girls, explaining why coaching cannot be one-size-fits-all and how understanding physiological and psychological differences leads to better performance outcomes.The conversation dives into periodization models, athlete classification systems, and the importance of precise training prescription. Banta explains how to properly manage intensity, recovery, and adaptation while building resilient, high-performing athletes. He also discusses common coaching mistakes, the value of constructive criticism, and how he has evolved both personally and professionally throughout his career.This episode is a deep look into intelligent program design, long-term athlete development, and what it truly means to coach with purpose.If you need a shortened version for social or a keyword-optimized version for YouTube, I can tailor it precisely.https://youtube.com/@platesandpancakes4593https://instagram.com/voodoo4power?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://voodoo4ranch.com/To possibly be a guest or support the show email Voodoo4ranch@gmail.comhttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/voodoo4ranch

    Wake Up Call with Dan Tortora
    CNS Girls Flag Football at Willow Rock - INAUGURAL WakeUpCall CNS Show at Willow Rock

    Wake Up Call with Dan Tortora

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 77:52


    "Wake Up Call with Dan Tortora" is blessed & honored to bring you the INAUGURAL CNS Northstars' ON-SITE Broadcast from Willow Rock on 6200 S Bay Rd, Cicero, NY, with the CNS Girls Flag Football Team gracing the greenhouse w/ DT heading into the 2026 season...   Willow Rock Pizza Pub is the HOME for CNS Northstars' Specials hosted by DT on "Wake Up Call with Dan Tortora". Find out more about Willow Rock HERE!   Featured Guests: Nyrah Burton - Tailback Charlotte Raymond - Receiver Sophia Anderson - Cornerback Joe Marzullo - Asst Coach/Offensive Coordinator Ron Diego - Defensive Coordinator

    Raising Boys & Girls
    Episode 355: How to Help Kids Understand, Love and Engage with God's Word with Tara-Leigh Cobble

    Raising Boys & Girls

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 29:04


    In this conversation with Tara-Leigh Cobble, founder of D-Group and host of The Bible Recap, Tara shares how moving from “Bible exposure” to true “Bible engagement” transformed her faith and led to the creation of The Bible Recap for Kids and its companion podcast. She encourages parents to model a genuine love for Scripture, invite kids into conversations about who God is (not just behavior modification), and practice looking for God's character in daily Bible reading. With practical ideas like sharing a daily “God shot” and engaging Scripture together as a family, Tara offers hopeful, accessible ways to help kids not just read the Bible—but understand it and fall in love with God.  Resources mentioned: The Bible Recap by Tara-Leigh Cobble The Bible Recap for Kids by Tara-Leigh Cobble . . . . . .  Sign up to receive the⁠ bi-⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠monthly newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to keep up to date with where David and Sissy are speaking, where they are taco'ing, PLUS conversation starters for you and your family to share! Pre-order our new book, Capable and grab tickets for Capable - The Book Tour here! See our speaking dates, purchase books and check out our courses here.. . . . . .  If you would like to partner with Raising Boys and Girls as a podcast sponsor, fill out our⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Advertise With Us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ form. QUINCE: Go to ⁠Quince.com/rbg⁠ for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five day returns. BOLL & BRANCH: Get 15% off plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at Bollandbranch.com/rbg⁠. Exclusions apply. ATHLETIC GREENS: Go to DRINKAG1.com/RBG to get their best offer… For a limited time only, get a FREE AG1 duffel bag and FREE AG1 Welcome Kit with your first subscription order! Only while supplies last. COOK UNITY: Go to cookunity.com/RBG or enter code RBG before checkout to get 50% off your first order. SETH AND THE VERY SCARY STORM: Go to https://tinyurl.com/RBGSethStorm to check out this Lifeway book. YARA THE BRAVE: Go to https://tinyurl.com/RBGYara to check out this Lifeway book.ADVENTURE BIBLE: Get an Adventure Bible for your child and begin reading and exploring it together to build confidence and curiosity in God's Word https://tinyurl.com/RBGAdventureBible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The David Knight Show
    Thu Episode #2215: Iran War Leads To Crisis In The Strait Of Hormuz

    The David Knight Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 121:38 Transcription Available


    ────────────────────────────────────────00:01:15:08 — Strait of Hormuz Crisis Threatens Global Shipping and Oil SupplyRising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are described as placing global trade and energy flows in jeopardy, with shipping companies reconsidering routes and operations.────────────────────────────────────────00:02:15:23 — Maersk Halts Cargo Bookings Across the Persian GulfThe world's largest container shipper suspends bookings across much of the Gulf region due to security concerns, signaling a major disruption to global logistics.────────────────────────────────────────00:03:25:14 — Global Supply Chain Domino Effect From Gulf Shipping DisruptionShipping executives warn that even small disruptions in major routes can cascade through global logistics networks, causing widespread delays and cost increases.────────────────────────────────────────00:07:06:15 — Shipping Companies Reroute Around Africa at Massive CostMajor carriers begin diverting vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding up to two weeks to shipping times and roughly $1 million in additional fuel costs per voyage.────────────────────────────────────────00:13:42:21 — U.S. Navy Quietly Signals No Escort Ships AvailableShipping and insurance industry officials reportedly receive word that the U.S. Navy cannot provide the promised escorts for commercial vessels.────────────────────────────────────────00:14:33:14 — Potential Energy Shock Compared to OPEC Oil EmbargoThe disruption is compared to the 1970s oil embargo but described as potentially far larger because a full closure of Hormuz would remove about 20% of global oil supply.────────────────────────────────────────00:17:01:26 — New 15% Global Tariff Introduced After Supreme Court SetbackFollowing a court loss over tariff authority, Trump escalates global tariffs to 15% for 150 days, intensifying economic tensions.────────────────────────────────────────01:18:28:23 — American Casualties Framed as Sacrifice for IsraelCriticism emerges after comments suggesting U.S. soldiers killed in the war died in defense of Israel rather than American interests.────────────────────────────────────────01:21:08:08 — Iranian School Bombing Kills Over 160 Girls and TeachersReports describe a bombing of a girls' school that allegedly killed over 160 students and teachers, raising accusations that Western media is ignoring civilian casualties.────────────────────────────────────────01:27:24:29 — Senate Rejects War Powers Resolution to Limit Iran ConflictThe U.S. Senate votes down a War Powers resolution that would have forced Trump to end strikes on Iran or seek congressional authorization.────────────────────────────────────────01:30:00:23 — Thomas Massie Delivers Constitutional Argument Against WarRepresentative Thomas Massie argues that the Constitution gives Congress—not the president—the authority to initiate war and criticizes military escalation without a vote.────────────────────────────────────────01:53:23:23 — Jeffrey Sachs Claims Long-Running CIA–Mossad Plan Targeted IranEconomist Jeffrey Sachs argues that U.S. involvement in Middle East conflicts reflects a long-term strategy aimed at weakening Iran and maintaining regional dominance.──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

    The REAL David Knight Show
    Thu Episode #2215: Iran War Leads To Crisis In The Strait Of Hormuz

    The REAL David Knight Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 121:38 Transcription Available


    ────────────────────────────────────────00:01:15:08 — Strait of Hormuz Crisis Threatens Global Shipping and Oil SupplyRising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are described as placing global trade and energy flows in jeopardy, with shipping companies reconsidering routes and operations.────────────────────────────────────────00:02:15:23 — Maersk Halts Cargo Bookings Across the Persian GulfThe world's largest container shipper suspends bookings across much of the Gulf region due to security concerns, signaling a major disruption to global logistics.────────────────────────────────────────00:03:25:14 — Global Supply Chain Domino Effect From Gulf Shipping DisruptionShipping executives warn that even small disruptions in major routes can cascade through global logistics networks, causing widespread delays and cost increases.────────────────────────────────────────00:07:06:15 — Shipping Companies Reroute Around Africa at Massive CostMajor carriers begin diverting vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding up to two weeks to shipping times and roughly $1 million in additional fuel costs per voyage.────────────────────────────────────────00:13:42:21 — U.S. Navy Quietly Signals No Escort Ships AvailableShipping and insurance industry officials reportedly receive word that the U.S. Navy cannot provide the promised escorts for commercial vessels.────────────────────────────────────────00:14:33:14 — Potential Energy Shock Compared to OPEC Oil EmbargoThe disruption is compared to the 1970s oil embargo but described as potentially far larger because a full closure of Hormuz would remove about 20% of global oil supply.────────────────────────────────────────00:17:01:26 — New 15% Global Tariff Introduced After Supreme Court SetbackFollowing a court loss over tariff authority, Trump escalates global tariffs to 15% for 150 days, intensifying economic tensions.────────────────────────────────────────01:18:28:23 — American Casualties Framed as Sacrifice for IsraelCriticism emerges after comments suggesting U.S. soldiers killed in the war died in defense of Israel rather than American interests.────────────────────────────────────────01:21:08:08 — Iranian School Bombing Kills Over 160 Girls and TeachersReports describe a bombing of a girls' school that allegedly killed over 160 students and teachers, raising accusations that Western media is ignoring civilian casualties.────────────────────────────────────────01:27:24:29 — Senate Rejects War Powers Resolution to Limit Iran ConflictThe U.S. Senate votes down a War Powers resolution that would have forced Trump to end strikes on Iran or seek congressional authorization.────────────────────────────────────────01:30:00:23 — Thomas Massie Delivers Constitutional Argument Against WarRepresentative Thomas Massie argues that the Constitution gives Congress—not the president—the authority to initiate war and criticizes military escalation without a vote.────────────────────────────────────────01:53:23:23 — Jeffrey Sachs Claims Long-Running CIA–Mossad Plan Targeted IranEconomist Jeffrey Sachs argues that U.S. involvement in Middle East conflicts reflects a long-term strategy aimed at weakening Iran and maintaining regional dominance.──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

    Tino Cochino Radio Podcast
    Girls Kissing Girls (3/5/26 - FULL SHOW)

    Tino Cochino Radio Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 30:06


    Tino chops it up with comedian Josh Blue, Nicasio doesn't want his girl to go on a girl's trip to Miami, Serina has NEVER told another man THIS except her husband, and Matt is down for some "hard-balling!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Find Your Voice, Change Your Life
    #180 When “You Can't” Becomes “Watch Me”

    Find Your Voice, Change Your Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 26:02 Transcription Available


    Today, I interview Mikki St. Germain who grew up being told to “keep your mouth shut” and made to feel like her voice didn't matter. At 14, her mother left, and she stepped into adult responsibility, working, caring for her siblings, and eventually becoming an emancipated minor at 16.When a guidance counselor told her, “Girls like you don't go to schools like this,” something inside her woke up. With $263 in her pocket, she drove to Florida after graduation and decided she would figure life out on her own.That decision marked a shift from living in desperation to choosing inspiration. She stopped allowing other people's opinions to become her reality and began building courage from the inside out.Today, Mikki is a high school football coach with 17 years of experience, one of the rare female head coaches to win a divisional league and championship. She also coaches people off the field, helping them move from setback to comeback. Her message is clear: only you can tell your story, and when you choose to step up and use your voice, it can change everything.__________________Coach Mikki St. Germain is an international speaker, published author, and one of the rare female football coaches leading in a male-dominated sport. With over 17 years of coaching experience from Pop Warner to high school head coach, she has won a divisional league and championship while building teams that succeed both on and off the field. As the founder of The 4th and 1 Mindset, Mikki helps individuals turn setbacks into comebacks by choosing inspiration over desperation and refusing to let other people's opinions define their reality.__________________Find Mikki here:Website: http://www.4thand1mindset.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HailMaryInHeelsSupport the showI'm Dr. Doreen Downing and I help people find their voice so they can speak without fear. Get the Free 7-Step Guide to Fearless Speaking https://www.doreen7steps.com​.

    Hope He's Not Listening
    Can Guys & Girls Be Just Friends?

    Hope He's Not Listening

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 76:18


    Ching is in town and joining Llary to host this week's episode! They chat a little F1 (since Llary has brought Ching into that fandom) and recap some of their thoughts on the new ANTM docuseries. Finally they debate the topic of guys and girls being friends, and whether or not that's truly possible.

    The By Words Show
    213. Can Girls Be Pastors? A Biblical Conversation About Women in Leadership (ft. Preston Sprinkle)

    The By Words Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 39:02


    Can women be pastors? That's the question we're talking about today,  not as a hot take, not as a debate, but as an honest, Scripture-rooted conversation.In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Preston Sprinkle to talk about his new book From Genesis to Junia and what the Bible really says about women in leadership. We talk about where he started personally, what surprised him in his research, and why this conversation feels so personal for so many women.We also gently step into topics like submission, headship, and how to hold biblical authority alongside compassion and context.If you've ever wondered about God's heart for women and their role in the Church, I can't wait for you to hear this conversation.To connect with Preston, head over to https://www.prestonsprinkle.com or @preston.sprinkle on IG!Get Preston's new book here: https://amzn.to/4r8U4nL Preston's podcast, Theology in the Raw: https://theologyintheraw.com/podcasts Submit a question for “Ask Han” here: https://forms.gle/qWGxyy9M5Q5N2tMz9 SUPPORT BY WORDS: https://buymeacoffee.com/bywordsMy favorite Bible studies + devotionals - HANNAHHUGHES10  for 10% off: https://thedailygraceco.com?dt_id=300773 CONNECT:hello@thehannahhughes.comhttps://www.instagram.com/thehannahhughes 

    ESO Network – The ESO Network
    Too Many Girls – Monkeeing Around – Episode 78

    ESO Network – The ESO Network

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 46:31


    This week we’re MONKEEING AROUND with a discussion of the Monkees episode “Too Many Girls” and reflecting on the life and legacy of Neil Sedaka. Monkeeing Around is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber. #monkees #toomanygirls #imabeliever #steppinstone #neilsedaka #mickydolenz #mikenesmith #davyjones #petertork The post Too Many Girls – Monkeeing Around – Episode 78 appeared first on The ESO Network.

    A Tall Girl's Podcast
    Why Does This Happen To Younger Tall Girls? | The Sexualization of Tall Teens and Preteens

    A Tall Girl's Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 17:04 Transcription Available


    On this podcast, we often talk about the fetishization/sexualization of tall women. Like when weird people show up in our social media DMs asking for videos or pictures of our feet or long limbs. Or when folks express their fascination with our stature and want to be dominated by us. Or when people comment “death by snu snu” under our videos. Some people are just…weird. Listen. You do you. If that's what you're into, then go for it. But let's be careful about what we say on the Internet and to strangers. Anyways, we often see this type of behavior happen to adult tall women, but what if I told you that younger tall girlies are also sexualized? Yup, we're talking teens or preteens. It's truly disheartening. So in today's episode, we're talking about the sexualization of young tall girls, how that affects their mental health and self-esteem into adulthood, and some important tips and reminders for parents of these tall girls. Tune in to the full episode for more! Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/atallgirlspodcast Subscribe to A Tall Girl's Newsletter: https://atallgirlspodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribeLet's stay connected: https://beacons.ai/atallgirlspodcast Leave a review and let me know how tall you are: https://atallgirlspodcast.com/reviews  

    New England Hockey Journal’s RinkWise
    NEPSAC girls quarterfinals: Initial reactions

    New England Hockey Journal’s RinkWise

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 13:59


    Patrick Donnelly joins Evan Marinofsky to discuss his reactions to the winners and losers in the quarterfinals of the girls NEPSAC hockey tournament on Wednesday, March 4.

    Real Talk
    epi 82: ASKING A GUY UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS GIRLS ARE AFRAID TO ASK

    Real Talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 16:24


    ASKING A GUY UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS GIRLS ARE AFRAID TO ASK

    The Pediatrician Next Door
    Why Autism in Girls Is Often Missed

    The Pediatrician Next Door

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 26:24


    Why do so many more boys get diagnosed with autism than girls? For decades, autism research focused mostly on boys, and the picture we learned to recognize was built around them. But what if girls have been there all along — just harder to spot?  Myah Gittelson, PsyD reveals how autism can look different in girls. Why are many girls labeled anxious or perfectionistic instead of autistic? We also talk about misdiagnosis and what to do when your school says everything is fine.  If you've ever wondered whether autism could be hiding in plain sight — in your daughter, your patient, or even yourself — this conversation may change how you see it.    Find Myah Gittelson, PsyD at Gittelson Psychology Services    Read Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum    Send your questions to hello@pediatriciannextdoorpodcast.com or message me online here.  Find products from the show on the shop page.   *As an Amazon Associate, I earn commission from qualifying purchases.    More from The Pediatrician Next Door:    Website: Pediatrician Next Door Podcast  Instagram: @the_pediatrician_next_door  Facebook: facebook.com/wendy.l.hunter.75  TikTok: @drwendyhunter  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drwendyhunter    This is a Redd Rock Music Podcast  IG: @reddrockmusic  www.reddrockmusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Drinks On Us
    S03 E09: Refreshed and Reset

    Drinks On Us

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 59:46


    Drinks On Us with @rosemcmahonn & @sincerely.ryleigh. S03 E09 of Drinks On Us is all about resetting for spring! The girls chat about things you can do in your home & lifestyle to feel lighter this season. Tune in for special segments including Sip & Spill, What's In Our Cart, & The Girls' Room. Sit back with your favorite beverage and relax, because the drinks are on us!WHAT'S IN OUR CART:Rose - https://liketk.it/5Xa4P Ryleigh - https://liketk.it/5XalI General Links - https://msha.ke/drinksonus/Join the After Party for more exclusive content! Patreon.com/DoucrewFollow Rose & Ry on Instagram & TikTok: @rosemcmahonn @sincerely.ryleighFollow @drinksonuspod on Instagram & TikTok to join the Happy Hour Club!For business inquiries: Roseandryleigh@gmail.comAudio and video podcasts edited by Penderville Films LLChttps://www.pendervillefilms.comHead over to wenatal.com/DOU to start your WeNatal routine today, and receive a free magnesium supplement ($30 value) with your first prenatal subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Region 1 Sports Report
    R1S 3/4/26 Girls First Round Reaction

    Region 1 Sports Report

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 15:57 Transcription Available


    Apples & Ginos Fantasy Hockey Podcast
    Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Pettersson Panic, Dynasty Debates & Buy-Low Goalies

    Apples & Ginos Fantasy Hockey Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 69:37


    We open the mailbag and answer your fantasy hockey questions.Is Elias Pettersson droppable if he isn't traded by the deadline? We break down the situation in Vancouver and what fantasy managers should do if the production doesn't rebound.We also tackle a number of listener questions including:• Who to drop in an ESPN points league: Norris, Nichushkin, Terry or Bennett• Is Frank Nazar worth holding in very deep leagues?• Which 40–50% rostered players should be cut for streaming now that the trade deadline has passed• Buy-low goalie targets in wins / SV% / GAA formats• How much draft capital to spend if you've already secured a playoff spot in dynasty leagues• Keeper debate: Fowler vs Wallstedt, Martone vs Hagens long termAll that and more in this week's fantasy hockey mailbag. Let's get to BIZ and get those CHIPS!***Supporting the Next Generation of Girls in HockeyWe're proud to support the Grindstone Award Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping young girls access the equipment they need to play hockey. The cost of gear should never be a barrier to opportunity.If you're in a position to give, please consider making a donation. Nate and Blake will personally match all contributions up to $1,000 to help maximize the impact.Donate here: https://grindstoneaward.com/donate/Together, we can help ensure more girls have the chance to step onto the ice and pursue the game they love. ***

    Get Canceled
    Horse Girls Are Weird

    Get Canceled

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 37:38


    This week on Get Canceled, Sheryl has a follow up email to the show's last confessions episode, Celeb Confession Time.  This listener did a solid and emailed the show, answering questions from Sheryl and her guest that were comical and possibly a bit insulting.  But before Sheryl and her guest can even dive into the follow up email, said guest discloses a close encounter with a horse girl which left him shocked, confused, and never the same.  Then they close the show with the class and sophistication expected from Get Canceled, as they discuss the power of a fantastic pair of tits and the surprising range of vaginas.  We have a new segment of the show, Get Canceled Confessions.  Please continue to send your confessions - the good, the bad, and definitely the dirty -  to getcanceledinfo@gmail.com and Sheryl will read them on the show!DISCLAIMER: This show is for entertainment purposes only.  The views expressed by the guests do not necessarily reflect the views of Get Canceled.  All guests remain anonymous.If you enjoy, please rate review subscribe and share!Have you or someone you love been canceled?  Sheryl wants to hear from you! Email: getcanceledinfo@gmail.comX: @GetCanceledPodwww.getcanceled.com      

    Interviews
    ‘We need peace': Women and girls in Ukraine suffer daily impact of war

    Interviews

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 10:34


    As Ukraine entered its fifth year of full-scale invasion, millions of people are struggling every day to keep the lights on, cook and heat their homes amid extreme winter conditions.This fourth winter has been particularly harsh with 65 per cent of Ukraine's energy generation capacity methodically destroyed.Women and children are bearing the brunt of energy blackouts, which undermine their safety, protection, and economic security, according to gender agency, UN Women.Halyna Skipalska who runs the Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health spoke to UN News's Nathalie Minard about the growing impact of war on women and children's mental health.

    Sheologians
    Grab Bag

    Sheologians

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 70:26


    This week we answer listener messages about household management routines, what to do when you feel like a failure, the weirdest things that happen to us, informal prayer versus formal prayer, more on international missions work, and more. Join us! The post Grab Bag appeared first on Sheologians.

    Raising Boys & Girls
    Episode 354: Helping Kids (And Grown-Ups) Grow in Friendship with Jesus with Sally Lloyd-Jones

    Raising Boys & Girls

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 39:27


    In this deeply moving conversation, Sissy and David sit down with beloved children's author Sally Lloyd-Jones to talk about her newest book, Jesus, Our True Friend. Sally shares how her own childhood—being sent to boarding school at eight and clinging to Jesus as her best friend—inspired her lifelong desire to help children know they are never alone. The conversation weaves through themes of perfectionism, grace, hope, and the tender story of Mary and Martha, reminding listeners that God is not disappointed in us—He is delighted in us. It's a rich, honest, joy-filled episode about getting out of the way so the beauty of the gospel can shine through. Resources mentioned: Jesus, Our True Friend by Sally Lloyd-Jones The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing by Sally Lloyd-Jones The Waiting Father by Helmut Thielicke . . . . . .  Sign up to receive the⁠ bi-⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠monthly newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to keep up to date with where David and Sissy are speaking, where they are taco'ing, PLUS conversation starters for you and your family to share! Pre-order our new book, Capable and grab tickets for Capable - The Book Tour here! See our speaking dates, purchase books and check out our courses here.. . . . . .  If you would like to partner with Raising Boys and Girls as a podcast sponsor, fill out our⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Advertise With Us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ form. QUINCE: Go to ⁠Quince.com/rbg⁠ for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five day returns. BOLL & BRANCH: Get 15% off plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at Bollandbranch.com/rbg⁠. Exclusions apply. ATHLETIC GREENS: Go to DRINKAG1.com/RBG to get their best offer… For a limited time only, get a FREE AG1 duffel bag and FREE AG1 Welcome Kit with your first subscription order! Only while supplies last. COOK UNITY: Go to cookunity.com/RBG or enter code RBG before checkout to get 50% off your first order. SETH AND THE VERY SCARY STORM: Go to https://tinyurl.com/RBGSethStorm to check out this Lifeway book. YARA THE BRAVE: Go to https://tinyurl.com/RBGYara to check out this Lifeway book. ADVENTURE BIBLE: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Dave Ryan Show
    7am Hour - Famous Girls' Boutique

    The Dave Ryan Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 40:28 Transcription Available


    Talkback Tuesday asks what you stole from work, Brian wants to win back an ex, and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    The Dave Ryan Show
    7am Hour - Famous Girls' Boutique

    The Dave Ryan Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 40:26


    Talkback Tuesday asks what you stole from work, Brian wants to win back an ex, and more!

    The Unf*ck Your Fitness Podcast
    231. 4 Mindset Shifts That Took Me to the Next Level with My Training and Macros

    The Unf*ck Your Fitness Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 28:36


    If you want different results than the majority of people who feel stuck, frustrated, and constantly starting over, you HAVE to think differently than they do.These four mindset shifts didn't happen overnight for me - they took TIME. I was imperfect at first (and still am), but over time, they've become a part of my identity. When something becomes who you are, consistency stops feeling like a constant fight that you're losing. You actually feel like you're winning, because you are!Whether it's changing your language (which totally impacts your identity), or believing you need to fuel and perform like an athlete, you've GOT to take ownership of your life.No more excuses, or getting stuck in the endless “I'll start again on Monday” cycle. I mean…how has that been working out for you so far?I'd love for you to pick at least ONE of these mindset shifts to implement this week, and let me know how much better you're feeling!!Episode recap:Why different results require different thinkingWhy you need to stop saying “I want to” or “I'm trying to”Creating space between the “urge” and the “action”Eating, training & thinking like an athleteRealizing that what doesn't get tracked, doesn't get changedWhy growth requires ownership (NOT excuses)Links/Resources:Grab your FREE Body Recomp Meal Prep and get the UFYF NewsletterListen to the Girls with Opinions PodcastJoin FIT CLUB, my monthly membership with workouts you can do at home or the gymPRIVATE COACHING is my 1:1 program (choose 3 or 6 month option)Connect with me on Instagram @kristycastillofit and @unfuckyourfitnesspodcast so we can keep this conversation going-be sure to tag me in your posts and stories!Join my FREE Facebook group, Unf*ck Your FitnessClick HERE for my favorite fitness & life things!Send me a text with episode ideas or just to say hi! Support the show

    There is More
    Glean. Stay. Plant - Thoughts from the National Widows Conference

    There is More

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 37:36


    “Recently I (Rachel) had the honor of speaking at the National Widows Conference where more than 550 expectant (and some reluctant) women showed up to experience what so many women in our community have experienced first hand. The room was tender and strong all at once. We took time to name what we're tired of carrying and made the decision to lay it down.My message, Glean. Stay. Plant., came from Genesis 26, and I didn't preach it from theory — I've lived the famine. I know the fear, the scrambling, the ache of wondering how you'll make it. But I also know this: God's economy still works, and the law of harvest is more trustworthy than the noise of scarcity. If you can stay. If you can plant. If you can abide in what He's already given you — there is provision there. And there is life in abundance.Learn more about There is More: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thereismorecollective.com/Check Out Our Resources, including the Father's House Study, Go to Girls, and the Spiritual Warfare Workshop: https://thereismorecollective.com/resourcesGet 10% discount on Father's House Study with code: FH10Follow There is More Podcast on Instagram: @thereismorepodcastPartner With Us: ⁠⁠https://neveralonewidows.kindful.com/?campaign=1284937⁠

    Food Friends Podcast
    Baking at Home: Ritual, Creativity, and Sweet Treats with Victoria Granof

    Food Friends Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 35:52


    What if baking isn't about perfection — but about paying attention?In this week's episode, we sit down with the brilliant Victoria Granof to talk about baking as ritual, instinct, creativity, and care. From working alongside Anthony Bourdain and Snoop Dogg to cooking for Ruth Reichl in her home, Victoria brings a lifetime of wisdom and experience as a culinary creative, legendary food stylist, mentor, and coach.A James Beard Award finalist and one of Cherry Bombe's 100 most inspiring women in food, Victoria shares how baking can be both grounding and transformative, whether you're baking as an act of service for those in need or making shortbread cookies in your home kitchen.In this episode, you'll discover:The influences and cookbooks that have shaped Victoria's culinary lifeHow ritual, full moons, and community come together in her monthly Substack gathering, Be KneadyWhat decades of food styling have taught her about risk and instinctIf you've ever wanted to bake with more confidence, more curiosity, and more meaning, this conversation will change the way you think about what happens in your oven.Press play now and rediscover the joy of baking at home!(Photo of Victoria Granof by Louise Hagger) ***Looking to connect with avid fellow home cooks? Join us on our live monthly calls by becoming a paid subscriber to our Substack here! Or sign up for free to receive recipes and roundups straight to your inbox. ***Links:Victoria Granof's Substack: Delicious Tangents, where she hosts her “Be Kneady” monthly gatherings, you can also follow her on Instagram, and find more about her here, or sign up to work with her 1:1. Check out Victoria's gorgeous book: Sicily, My Sweet – Love Notes to an Island, with Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Puddings, and Preserves.Cookbooks Victoria referenced: Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, The Joy of Cooking, Maida Heatter's cookbooks, Rose Levy Berenbaum's baking books, and Carol Field's The Italian Baker. Silver dollar pancake recipe from Betty Crocker (the recipe Victoria originally used was from The Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls.Victoria's grandmother's simple braided cookies with sesame seeds can be found in her book, Sicily My Sweet Some of Victoria's food styling: her Belgian food shoot with Kenji Toma, and the dripping ice cream cone for Bon Appetit MagazineLady M Crepe Cakes Pretzel shortbread cookie recipe from Host The Toast. In Victoria's words: “I discovered from the label of the Lost Bread pretzel shortbread that they use breadcrumbs (wheat, rye,barley), which I guessed were crumbs from their wheat, rye and barley sourdough bread, so I made dried breadcrumbs from that exact bread and whirred them in the food processor to the consistency of whole grain flour, and subbed them measure for measure for the pretzel crumbs and EUREKA!!! The pretzel flavor comes from the lye bath and pretzel salt.”The new Gourmet Magazine.***Got a cooking question? Leave us a message on our hotline at: 323-452-9084Order Sonya's cookbook Braids for more Food Friends recipes!We love hearing from you — follow us on Instagram @foodfriendspod, or drop us a line at foodfriendspod@gmail.com!

    Girls with Grafts
    How to Decide if Reconstructive Scar Surgery Is Right for You with Dr. Cliff Sheckter

    Girls with Grafts

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 57:54 Transcription Available


    In this episode of Girls with Grafts, Rachel talks with burn surgeon and researcher Dr. Cliff Sheckter about how to give survivors better tools and information when they are thinking about reconstructive scar surgery.

    For The Girls with Becca Moore
    How To Date Girls For The First Time

    For The Girls with Becca Moore

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 44:49


    Today I give a step by step guide on dating women for the first time. Whether you just want to hook up or you want to find your first ever girlfriend, I go over everything in this one (including what to wear, how to act, how far you should go on your first date, etc). Becca's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becccamooore/Becca's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@becccamooore?lang=enFor the Girls TikTok: @forthegirlspodcastIf you would like me to answer an advice question you have, email forthegirlswithbeccamoore@gmail.comThank you guys for listening!! If you love me rate 5 stars on your streaming platform!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Ag's Most Okayest Farm Girls
    84. Farm Girls Respond to Your Confessions

    Ag's Most Okayest Farm Girls

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 45:59


    This week, we are back with unsolicited advice, unfiltered opinions, and a whole lot of family drama. From the best place on the farm for a quickie to navigating awkward holiday gatherings, we dive into listener-submitted confessions and questions. This episode has a lot of laughs but also leans into the tough stuff: retiring parents, messy verbal agreements, farm debt, and the emotional weight of trying to preserve a legacy while protecting your own family. We close it out with a What the Hell segment that swings from global headlines to an Ohio woman breaking into houses just to clean them. This one is equal parts spicy, serious, and wildly relatable. Connect with Annaliese & Courtney:Follow Annaliese on Instagram @modfarmchickFollow Courtney on Instagram @greenpasturescattleFollow Okayest Farm Girls on Instagram @okayestfarmgirls Make sure to hit subscribe/follow so you never miss an episode! Resources & Links:Episode 32: Farm Girls Talk About Farming With FamilyCowgirl Hustle - Lacie EvansFarmers Market Promotion ProgramPayPal Tip JarA Farm Chick's ClosetCheck out our MERCH!Have a farm girl question? Leave us a voicemail!Submit your Farm Girl Confessions and Questions!To shop beef, head mounts, art + more from Courtney

    HBO Girls Rewatch
    Comparing HBO's Girls to HBO's Women with Exploration: LIVE's Charlie Bardey & Natalie Rotter-Laitman

    HBO Girls Rewatch

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 65:02


    Charlie Bardey and Natalie Rotter-Laitman from Exploration: LIVE! join us to compare and contrast the ladies of Girls and Sex and the City. Whether earnest or satirical, showing great friendships or ones that you should run away from, these shows captured certain truths for ladies everywhere. Natalie can't believe the amount of good sex Samantha is having, Charlie reminds her to view the women as gay men, Evan argues Big is Adam, and everyone wishes Amelia good fortune on her inaugural SATC voyage. Our listeners get 15% off plus free shipping when they buy two or more pairs of prescription glasses at ⁠WarbyParker.com/GIRLSREWATCH⁠ — using our link helps support the show. #WarbyParker #ad Head to ⁠cozyearth.com and use out code GIRLSREWATCH for up to 20% off. And if you get a Post-Purchase Survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Raising Godly Girls
    Ep. 339 - What Does Humility REALLY Mean for Christian Girls?

    Raising Godly Girls

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 22:32


    In this Tuesday podcast episode, hosts Rachael and Natalie tackle the big question: is it possible for a girl to achieve humility? Through an insightful conversation anchored in Biblical wisdom, Raising Godly Girls aims for a multi-faceted approach to understand and cultivate this Christian virtue throughout a girl's journey without the pressure to live it perfectly.     Under the identity of Christ, a Christian girl's sense of pride and confidence will inherently look different. Host Rachael shares practical truths to help parents guide girls in a Biblical path apart from the need for a spotlight. Listeners will come away with a Biblically-backed sense of God's mercy on a girl's heart when she is given opportunities to grow through 'humble pie' moments. Finally, the hosts talk through humility-gone-wrong scenarios in culture—insecurity and self-deprecation.     This episode shares the solid foundation American Heritage Girls offers girls as they grow in a healthy notion of self through various resources and relationships within AHG Troops. You will leave this podcast conversation feeling both challenged and encouraged as a Christian parent.      Three Things to Consider:    Biblical Humility isn't vying for power, prestige, or position   Healthy Humility is fully aware of God's mercy and responds in gratitude   Biblical Humility doesn't involve a girl putting herself down       Scriptures Referenced in this Episode:    1 Peter 5:5-6  2 Samuel 2:28  James 4:10  Genesis 39-50  Colossians 3:12   Visit raisinggodlygirls.com for more encouragement and faith-based parenting tools. Learn how to find or start an American Heritage Girls Troop in your community at americanheritagegirls.org.     

    The Kirby on Sports Podcast
    Class 3 State Playoffs - Talking to Skyline Girls Coach Charles Hudnall

    The Kirby on Sports Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 12:47


    Skyline Girls have clinched a Home State game as they get set to take on Lake Taylor.Josh catches up with Hawks Head Coach Charles Hudnall about his team's most recent win over James Monroe, winning the Region 3B Title along with the opportunity to compete in the State Playoffs.

    Holmberg's Morning Sickness
    03-02-26 - Noticing News Crews Have No Problem Getting Into Restricted Countries - Loving Celsius Ads For Girls Surfing Fest - Seeing Ads For Jungle Law And We're Not Sure If They're Serious Or Not

    Holmberg's Morning Sickness

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2026 50:11


    Link Up w/The Morning Sickness Digitally All Over:Instagram: @hms_98_official, @bosskupd, @bretvesely, @dickToledoX/Twitter: @HMSon98, @DickToledo, @bretveselyFacebook: @HMSKUPDYouTube: @hmspodcast9320, @98kupdRequest/Call in/Wakeup Song line:(IN AZ) 585.9800More HMS: holmbergpodcast.com, 98kupd.comEmail: dtoledo@98kupd.com, bvesely@98kupd.com, bbogen@98kupd.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
    Creative Confidence, Portfolio Careers, And Making Without Permission with Alicia Jo Rabins

    The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2026 55:35


    How do you build a creative life that spans music, writing, film, and spiritual practice? Alicia Jo Rabins talks about weaving multiple creative strands into a sustainable career and why the best advice for any creator might simply be: just make the thing. In the intro, backlist promotion strategy [Written Word Media]; Successful author business [Novel Marketing Podcast]; Alliance of Independent Authors Indie Author Bookstore; Bones of the Deep – J.F. Penn This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Alicia Jo Rabins is an award-winning writer, musician, performer, as well as a Torah teacher and ritualist. She's the creator of Girls In Trouble, a feminist indie-folk song cycle about biblical women, and the award-winning film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff. Her latest book is a memoir, When We Are Born We Forget Everything. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights, and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Building a sustainable multi-disciplinary creative career through teaching, performance, grants, and donations Trusting instinct in the early generative stages of creativity and separating generation from editing Adapting and reimagining religious and cultural source material through music, writing, and performance The challenges of transitioning from poetry to long-form prose memoir, including choosing a lens for your story Making an independent film on a shoestring budget without waiting for Hollywood's permission Finding your creative voice and building confidence by leaning into vulnerability and returning to the practice of making You can find Alicia at AliciaJo.com. Transcript of the interview with Alicia Jo Rabins Joanna: Alicia Jo Rabins is an award-winning writer, musician, performer, as well as a Torah teacher and ritualist. She's the creator of Girls In Trouble, a feminist indie-folk song cycle about biblical women, and the award-winning film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff. Her latest book is a memoir, When We Are Born We Forget Everything. So welcome to the show, Alicia. Alicia: Thank you so much. I'm delighted to be here. Joanna: There is so much we could talk about. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you've woven so many strands of creativity into your life and career. Alicia: Yes, well, I am a maximalist. What happened in terms of my early life is that I started writing on my own, just extremely young. I'm one of those people who always loved writing, always processed the world and managed my emotions and came to understand myself through writing. So from a very young age, I felt really committed to writing. Then I had the good fortune that my mother saw a talk show about the Suzuki method of learning violin—when you start really young and learn by ear, which is modelled after language learning. It's so much less intellectual and much more instinctual, learning by copying. She was like, that looks like a cool thing. I was three years old at the time and she found out that there was a little local branch of our music conservatory that had a Suzuki violin programme. So when I was three and a half, getting close to four, she took me down and I started playing an extremely tiny violin. Joanna: Oh, cute! Alicia: Yes, and because it was part of this conservatory that was downtown, and we were just starting at the suburban branch where we lived, there was this path that I was able to follow. As I got more and more interested in violin, I could continue basically up through the conservatory level during high school. So I had a really fantastic music education without any pressure, without any expectations or professional goals. I just kept taking these classes and one thing led to another. I grew up being very immersed in both creative writing and music, and I think just having the gift of those two parts of my brain trained and stimulated and delighted so young really changed my brain in some ways. I'll always see the world through this creative lens, which I think I'm also just set up to do personally. Then the last step of my multi-practice career is that in college I got very interested in Jewish spirituality. I'm Jewish, but I didn't grow up very religious. I didn't grow up in a Jewish community really. So I knew some basics, but not a ton. In college I started to study it and also informally learned from other people I met. I ended up going on a pretty intense spiritual quest, going to Jerusalem and immersing myself after college for two years in traditional Jewish study and practice. So that became the third strand of the braid that had already been started with music and writing. Torah study, spiritual study, and teaching became the third, and they all interweave. The last thing I'll say is that because I work in both words and music, and naturally performance because of music, it began to branch a little bit into plays, theatre, and film, just because that's where the intersection of words, performance, and music is. So that's really what brought me into that, as opposed to any specific desire to work in film. It all happened very organically. Joanna: I love this. This is so cool. We are going to circle back to a lot of this, but I have to ask you— What about work for money at any point? How did this turn into more than just hobbies and lifestyle? Alicia: Yes, absolutely. Well, I'm very fortunate that I did not graduate college with loans because my parents were able to pay for college. That was a big privilege that I just want to name, because in the States that's often not the case. So that allowed me to need to support myself, but not also pay loans, which was a real gift. What happened was I went straight from college to that school in Jerusalem, and there I was on loans and scholarship, so I didn't have to worry yet about supporting myself. Then when I came back to the States, I actually found on Craigslist a job teaching remedial Hebrew. It was essentially teaching kids at a Jewish elementary school who either had learning differences or had just entered the school late and needed to be in a different Hebrew class than the other kids in their grade. That was my first experience of really teaching, and I just absolutely fell in love with it. Although in the end, my passion is much more for teaching the text and rituals and the wrestling with the concepts, as opposed to teaching language. So all these years, while doing performance and writing and all these things, I have been teaching Jewish studies. That has essentially supported me, I would say, between 50 and 70 per cent. Then the rest has been paid gigs as a musician, whether as a front person leading a project or as what we call a sideman, playing in someone else's band. Sometimes doing theatre performances, sometimes teaching workshops. That's how I've cobbled it together. I have not had a full-time job all these years and I have supported myself through both earned income and also grants and donations. I've really tried to cultivate a little bit of a donor base, and I took some workshops early on about how to welcome donations. So I definitely try to always welcome that as well. Joanna: That is so interesting that you took a workshop on how to welcome donations. Way back in, I think 2013, I said on this show, I just don't know if I can accept people giving to support the show. Then someone on the podcast challenged me and said, but people want to support creatives. That's when I started Patreon in 2014. It was when The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer came out and— It was this realisation that people do want to support people. So I love that you said that. Alicia: It's not easy. It's still not easy for me, and I have to grit my teeth every time I even put in my end-of-year newsletter. I just say, just a reminder that part of what makes this possible is your generous donations, and I'm so grateful to you. It's not easy. I think some people enjoy fundraising. I certainly don't instinctively enjoy it, but I have learned to think of it exactly the way that you're saying. I mean, I love donating to support other people's projects. Sometimes it's the highlight of my day. If I'm having a bad day and someone asks for help, either to feed a family or to complete a creative project, I just feel like, okay, at least I can give $36 or $25 and feel like I did something positive in the last hour, even if my project is going terribly and I'm in a fight with my kid or something. So I have to keep in mind that it is actually a privilege to give as well as a privilege to receive. Joanna: Absolutely. So let's get back into your various creative projects. The first thing I wanted to ask you, because you do have so many different formats and forms of your creativity—how do you know when an idea that comes to you should be a song, or something you want to do as a performance, or written, or a film? Tell us a bit about your creative process. Because a lot of your projects are also longer-term. Alicia: Yes. It's funny, I love planning and in some ways I'm an extreme planner. I really drive people in my family bonkers with planning, like family vacations a year in advance. In terms of my creativity, I'm very planful towards goals, but in that early generative state, I am actually pure instinct. I don't think I ever sit down and say, “I have this idea, which genre would it match with?” It's more like I sit on my bed and pick up my guitar, which is where I love to do songwriting, just sitting on my bed cross-legged, and I pick up my guitar and something starts coming out. Then I just work with that kernel. So it's very nebulous at first, very innate, and I just follow that creative spirit. Often I don't even know what a project is, sometimes if it's a larger project, until a year or two in. Once things emerge and take shape, then my planning brain and my strategy brain can jump on it and say, “Okay, we need three more songs to fill out the album, and we need to plan the fundraising and the scheduling.” Then I might take more of an outside-in approach. At the beginning it's just all instinct. Joanna: So if you pick up your guitar, does that mean it always starts in music and then goes into writing? Or is that you only pick up a guitar if it's going to be musical? Alicia: I think I'm responding to what's inside me. It's almost like a need, as opposed to, “I'm going to sit down and work.” I mean, obviously I sit down and work a lot, but I think in that early stage of anything, it's more like my fingers are itching to play something, and so I sit down and pick up my guitar. Sometimes nothing comes out and sometimes the kernel of a song comes out. Or I'm at a café, and I often like to write when I'm feeling a little bit discombobulated, just to go into the complexity of things or use challenging emotions as fuel. I really do use it as a—I don't know if therapeutic is the word, but I think it maybe is. I write often, as I always have, as I said before, to understand what I'm thinking. Like Joan Didion said—to process difficult emotions, to let go of stuck places. So I think I create almost more out of a sense of just what I need in the moment. Sometimes it's just for fun. Sometimes picking up a guitar, I just have a moment so I sit down and mess around. Sometimes it's to help me struggle with something. It doesn't always start in music. That was a random example. I might sit down to write because I have an hour and I think, I haven't written in a while. Or I do have an informal daily writing thing where I'll try to generate one loose draft of something a day, even if it's only ten pages. I mean, sorry, ten words. Joanna: I was going to say! Alicia: No, no. Ten words. I'm sorry. It's often poetry, so it feels like a lot when it's ten words. I'll just sit down with no pressure, no goal, no intention to make anything specific. Just open the floodgates and see what comes out. That's where every single project of mine has started. Joanna: Yes, I do love that. Obviously, I'm a discovery writer and intuitive, same as you. I think very much this idea of, especially when you said you feel discombobulated, that's when you write. I almost feel like I need that. I'm not someone who writes every day. I don't do ten lines or whatever. It's that I'll feel that sense of pressure building up into “this is going to be something.” I will really only write or journal when that spills over into— “I now need to write and figure out what this is.” Alicia: Yes. It's almost a form of hunger. It feels to me similar to when you eat a great meal and then you're good for a while. You're not really thinking of it, and then it builds up, like you said, and then there's a need—at least the first half of creativity. I really separate my generation and my editing. So my generative practice is all openness, no critique, just this maybe therapeutic, maybe curious, wandering and seeing what happens. Then once I have a draft, my incisive editing mind is welcome back in, which has been shut out from that early process. So that's a really different experience. Those early stages of creativity are almost out of need more than obligation. Joanna: Well, just staying with that generative practice. Obviously you've mentioned your study of and practice of Jewish tradition and Jewish spirituality. Steven Pressfield in his books has talked about his prayer to the muse, and I've got on my wall here—I don't talk about this very often, actually — I have a muse picture, a painting of what I think of as a muse spirit in some form. So do you have any spiritual practices around your generative practice and that phase of coming up with ideas? Alicia: I love that question, and I wish I had a beautiful, intentional answer. My answer is no. I think I experience creativity as its own spiritual practice itself. I do love individual prayer and meditation and things like that, but for me those are more to address my specifically spiritual health and happiness and connectedness. I'm just a dive-in kind of person. As a musician, I have friends who have elaborate backstage rituals. I have to do certain things to take care of my voice, but even that, it's mostly vocal rest as opposed to actively doing things. There's a bit of an on/off switch for me. Joanna: That's interesting. Well, I do want to ask you about one of your projects, this collaboration with a high school on a musical performance, I Was a Desert: Songs of the Matriarchs, and also your Girls in Trouble songs about women in the Torah. On your website, I had a look at the school, the high school, and the musical performance. It was extraordinary. I was watching you in the school there and it's just such extraordinary work. It very much inspired me—not to do it myself, but it was just so wonderful. I do urge people to go to your website and just watch a few minutes of it. I'm inspired by elements of religion, Christian and Jewish, but I wondered if you've come up against any issues with adaptation—respecting your heritage but also reinventing it. How has this gone for you. Any advice for people who want to incorporate aspects of religion they love but are worried about responses? Alicia: Well, I have to say, coming from the Jewish tradition, that is a core practice of Judaism—reinterpreting our texts and traditions, wrestling with them, arguing with them, reimagining them. I don't know if you're familiar with Midrash, but just in case some of your listeners aren't sure I'll explain it. There's essentially an ancient form of fanfic called Midrash, which was the ancient rabbis, and we still do it today, taking a biblical story that seems to have some kind of gap or inconsistency or question in it and writing a story to fill that gap or recast the story in an interestingly different light. So we have this whole body of literature over thousands of years that are these alternate or added-on adventures, side quests of the biblical characters. What I'm doing from a Jewish perspective is very much in line with a traditional way of interacting with text. I've certainly never gotten any pushback, especially as I work in progressive Jewish communities. I think if I were in an extremely fundamentalist community, there would be a lot of different issues around gender and things like that. The interpretive process, even in those communities, is part of how we show respect for the text. When I was working with the high school—and I just want to call out the choir director, Ethan Chen, who has an incredible project where he brings in a different artist every two years to work with the choir, and they tend to have a different cultural focus each time. He invited me specifically to integrate my songwriting about biblical women with his amazing high school choir. I was really worried at first because most of them are not Jewish—very few of them, if any. I wanted to respect their spiritual paths and their religious heritages and not impose mine on them. So I spent a lot of time at the beginning saying, this project has religious source material, but essentially it is a creative reinterpretive project. I am not coming to you to bring the religious material to you. I'm coming to take the shared Hebrew Bible myths and then reinterpret those myths through a lens of how they might reflect our own personal struggles, because that's always my approach to these ancient stories. I wanted to really make that clear to the students. It was such a joy to work with them. Joanna: It's such an interesting project. Also, I find with musicians in general this idea of performance. You've written this thing—or this thing specifically with the school—and it doesn't exist again, right? You're not selling CDs of that, I presume. Whereas compared to a book, when we write a book, we can sell it forever. It doesn't exist as a performance generally for an author of a memoir or a novel. It carries on existing. So how does that feel, the performance idea versus the longer-lasting thing? I mean, I guess the video's there, but the performance itself happened. Alicia: I do know what you mean. Absolutely. We did, for that reason, record it professionally. We had the sound person record it and mix it, so it is available to stream. I'm not selling CDs, but it's out there on all the streaming services, if people want to listen. I do also have the scores, so if a choir wanted to sing it. The main point that you're making is so true. I think there's actually something very sacred about live performance—that we're all in the moment together and then the moment is over. I love the artefacts of the writing life. I love writing books. I love buying and reading books and having them around, and there's piles of them everywhere in this room I'm standing in. I feel like being on stage, or even teaching, is a very spiritual practice for me, because it's in some ways the most in-the-moment I ever am. The only thing that matters is what's happening right then in that room. It's fleeting as it goes. I'm working with the energy in the room while we're there. It's different every time because I'm different, the atmosphere is different, the people are different. There's no way to plan it. The kind of micro precision that we all try to bring to our editing—you can't do that. You can practice all you want and you should, but in the moment, who knows? A string breaks or there's loud sound coming from the other room. It is just one of those things. I love being reminded over and over again of the truth that we really don't control what happens. The best that we can do is ride it, surf it, be in it, appreciate it, and then let it go. Joanna: I think maybe I get a glimpse of that when I speak professionally, but I'm far more in control in that situation than I guess you were with—I don't know how many—was it a hundred kids in that choir? It looked pretty big. Alicia: It was amazing. It was 130 kids. Yes. Joanna: 130 kids! I mean, it was magic listening to it. And yes, of course, showing my age there with buying a CD, aren't I? Alicia: Well, I do still sell some CDs of Girls in Trouble on tour, because I have a bunch of them and people still buy them. I'm always so grateful because it was an easier life for touring musicians when we could just bring CDs. Now we have to be very creative about our merch. Joanna: Yes, that's a good point because people are like, “Oh yes, I'll scan your QR code and stream it,” but you might not get the money for that for ages, and it might just be five cents or whatever. Alicia: Streaming is terrible for live musicians. I mean, I don't know if you know the site Bandcamp, but it's essentially self-publishing for musicians. Bandcamp is a great way around that, and a lot of independent musicians use it because that's a place you can upload your music and people can pay $8 for an album. They can stream it on there if they want, or they can download it and have it. But, yes, it's hard out there for touring musicians. Joanna: Yes, for sure. Well, let's come to the book then. Your memoir, When We Are Born We Forget Everything. Tell us about some of the challenges of a book as opposed to these other types of performances. Alicia: Well, I come out of poetry, so that was my first love. That's what I majored in in college. That's what my MFA is in. Poetry is famously short, and I'm not one of those long-form poets. I have been trained for many years to think in terms of a one-page arc, if at all. Arc isn't even really a word that we use in poetry. So to write a full-length prose book was really an incredible education. Writing it basically took ten years from writing to publication, so probably seven years of writing and editing. I felt like there was an MFA-equivalent process in the number of classes I took, books I read, and work that went into it. So that was one of my main joys and challenges, really learning on the job to write long-form prose coming out of poetry. How to keep the engine going, how to think about ending one chapter in a way that leaves you with some torque or momentum so that you want to go into the next chapter. How many characters is too many? Who gets names and who doesn't? Some of these things that are probably pretty basic for fiction writers were all very new to me. That was a big part of my process. Then, of course, poets don't usually have agents. So once it was done, I began to query agents. It was the normal sort of 39 rejections and then one agent who really understood what I was trying to do. She's incredible, and she was able to sell the book. The longevity of just working on something for that long—I have a lot of joy in that longevity—but it does sometimes feel like, is this ever going to happen, or am I on a fool's errand? Joanna: I guess, again, the difference with performance is you have a date for the performance and it's done then. I suppose once you get a contract, then for sure it has to be done. But memoir in particular, you do have to set boundaries, because of course your life continues, doesn't it? So what were the challenges in curating what went into the book? Because many people listening know memoir is very challenging in terms of how personal it can be. Alicia: Yes, and one thing I think is so fascinating about memoir is choosing which lens to put on your story, on your own story. I heard early on that the difference between autobiography and memoir is that autobiography tries to give a really comprehensive view of a life, and memoir is choosing one lens and telling the story of a life through that lens, which is such a beautiful creative concept. I knew early on that I wanted this to be primarily a spiritual memoir, and also somewhat of an artistic memoir, because my creativity and my spirituality are so intertwined. It started off being spiritual, and also about my musical life, and also about my writing life. In the end, I edited out the part about my writing life, because writing about writing was just too navel-gazing. So there's nothing in there about me coming of age as a writer, which used to be in there, but that whole thing got taken out. Now it's spiritual and musical. For me, it really helped to start with those focuses, because I knew there may be things that were hugely important in my life, absolutely foundational, that were not really going to be either mentioned or gone deeply into in the book. For example, my husband teases me a lot about how few pages and words he gets. He's very important in my life, but I actually met him when I was 29, and this book really mainly takes place in the years leading up to that. There's a little bit of winding down in the first few years of my thirties, but this is not a book about my life with him. He is mentioned in it. That story is in there. Having those kinds of limitations around the canvas—there's a quote, I forget if it was Miranda July, but somebody said something like, basically when you put a limitation on your project, that's when it starts to be a work of art. Whatever it is, if you say, “I'm taking this canvas and I'm using these colours,” that's when it really begins, that initial limitation. That was very helpful. Joanna: It's also the beauty of memoir, because of course you can write different memoirs at different times. You can write something about your writing life. You can write something else about your marriage and your family later on. That doesn't all have to be in one book. I think that's actually something I found interesting. And I would also say in my memoir, Pilgrimage, my husband is barely mentioned either. Alicia: Does he tease you too? Joanna: No, I think he's grateful. He is grateful for the privacy. Alicia: That's why I keep saying, you should be grateful! Joanna: Yes. You really should. Like, maybe stop talking now. Alicia: Yes, exactly. I know. Marriage, memoir—those words should strike fear into his heart. Joanna: They definitely should. But let's just come back. When I look at your career— You just seem such an independent creative, and so I wondered why you decided to work with a traditional publisher instead of being an independent. How are you finding it as someone who's not in charge of everything? Alicia: It's a great question. The origin story for this memoir is that I was actually reading poetry at a writing conference called Bread Loaf in the States. This was 16 years ago or something. I was giving a poetry reading and afterwards an agent, not my agent, came up to me and said, you know, you have a voice. You should try writing nonfiction because you could probably sell it. Back to your question about how I support myself, I am always really hustling to make a living. It's not like I have some separate well-paying job and the writing has no pressure on it. So my ears kind of perked up. I thought, wait, getting paid for writing? Because poetry is literally not in the world. It's just not a concept for poets. That's not why we write and it's not a possibility. So a little light turned on in my brain. I thought, wow, that could be a really interesting element to add to my income stream, and it would be flexible and it would be meaningful. For a few years I thought, what nonfiction could I write? And I came up with the idea of writing a book about biblical women from a more scholarly perspective, because I teach that material and I've studied it. I went to speak to another agent and she said, well, you could do that, but if you actually want to sell a book, it's going to have to be more of a trade book. So if you don't want an academic press, which wouldn't pay very much, you would have to have some kind of memoir-like stories in there to just sweeten it so it doesn't feel academic. So then I began writing a little bit of spiritual memoir. I thought, okay, well, I'll write about a few moments. Then once I started writing, I couldn't stop. The floodgates really opened. That's how it ended up being a spiritual memoir with interwoven stories of biblical women. It became a hybrid in that sense. I knew from the beginning that this project—for all my saying earlier that I never plan anything and only work on instinct, I was thinking as I said that, that cannot be true. This time, I actually thought, what if, instead of coming from this pure, heart-focused place of poetry, I began writing with the intention of potentially selling a book? The way my fiction writer friends talked about selling their books. So that was always in my mind. I knew I would continue writing poetry, continue publishing with small presses, continue putting my own music out there independently, but this was a bit of an experiment. What if I try to interface with the publishing world, in part for financial sustainability? And because I had a full draft before I queried, I never felt like anyone was telling me what to write. I can't imagine personally selling a book on proposal, because I do need that full capacity to just swerve, change directions, be responsive to what the project is teaching me. I can't imagine promising that I'll write something, because I never know what I'll write. But writing at least a very solid draft first, I'm always delighted to get notes and make polish and rewrite and make things better. I took care of that freedom in the first seven years of writing and then I interfaced with the agent and publisher. Joanna: I was going to say, given that it's taken you seven to ten years to do this and I can't imagine that you're suddenly a multimillionaire from this book. It probably hasn't fulfilled the hourly rate that perhaps you were thinking of in terms of being paid for your work. I think some people think that everyone's going to end up with the massive book deal that pays for the rest of their life. I guess this book does just fit into the rest of your portfolio career. Alicia: Yes. One of the benefits of these long arcs that I like to work on is, one of them—and probably the primary one—is that the project gets to unfold on its own time. I don't think I could have rushed it if I wanted. The other is that it never really stopped me from doing any of my other work. Joanna: Mm-hmm. Alicia: So it's not like, oh, I gave up months of my life and all I got was this advance or something. It's like, I was living my life and then when I had a little bit of writing time—and I will say, it impacted my poetry. I haven't written as much poetry because I was working on this. So it wasn't like I just added it on top of everything I was already doing, but it was a pleasure to just switch to prose for a while. It was just woven into my life. I appreciated having this side project where no one was waiting for it. There were no deadlines, there was no stress around it, because I always have performances to promote and due dates for all kinds of work. It was just this really lovely arena of slow growth and play. When I wanted a reader, I could do a swap with a writer friend, but no one was ever waiting for it on deadline. So there's actually a lot of pleasure in that. Then I will say, I think I've made more from selling this than my poetry. Probably close to ten times more than I've ever made from any of my poetry. So on a poetry scale, it's certainly not going to pay for my life, but it actually does make a true financial difference in a way that much of my other work is a little more bit by bit by bit. It's actually a different scale. Joanna: Well, that's really good. I'm glad to hear that. I also want to ask you, because you've done so many things, and— I'm fascinated by your independent film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff. I have only watched the trailer. You are in it, you wrote it, directed it, and it's also obviously got other people in, and it's fascinating. It's about this particular point in history. I've written quite a lot of screenplay adaptations of my novels, and I've had some various amounts of interest, but the whole film industry to me is just a complete nightmare, far bigger nightmare than the book industry. So I wonder if you could maybe talk about this, because it just seems like you made a film, which is so cool. Alicia: Oh yes, thank you. Joanna: And it won awards, yes, we should say. Alicia: Did we win awards? Yes. It really, for an extremely low-budget indie film, went far further than my team and I could ever have imagined. I will say I never intended to make a film. Like most of the best things in my life, it really happened by accident. When I was living in New York— I lived there for many years—the 2008 financial collapse happened and I happened to have an arts grant that gave a bunch of artists workspace, studio space, in essentially an abandoned building in the financial district. It was an empty floor of a building. The floor had been left by the previous tenant, and there's a nonprofit that takes unused real estate in the financial district and lets artists work in it for a while. So I was on Wall Street, which was very rare for me, but for this year I was working on Wall Street. Even though I was working on poems, the financial collapse happened around me, and I did get inspired by that to create a one-woman show, which was more of a theatre show. That was already a huge leap for me because I had no real theatre experience, but it was experimental and growing out of my poetry practice and my music. It was a musical one-woman show about the financial collapse from a spiritual perspective, apparently. So I performed that. I documented it, and then a friend who lives in Portland, Oregon, where I now live, said, “I'm a theatre producer, I'd like to produce it here.” So then I rewrote it and did a run here in Portland of that show. Essentially, I started to tour it a little bit, but I got tired of it. It was too much work and it never really paid very much, and I thought, this is impacting my life negatively. I just want to do a really good documentation of the show. So I wanted to hire a theatre documentarian to just document the show so that it didn't disappear, like you were saying before about live performance. But one of the people I talked to actually ended up being an artistic filmmaker, as opposed to a documentarian. She watched the archival footage, just a single camera of the show, and said, “I don't think you should do this again and film it with three cameras. I think you should make it into a feature film. And in fact, I think maybe I should direct it, because there's all this music in it and I also direct music videos.” We had this kind of mind meld. Joanna: Mm. Alicia: I never intended to make a film, but she is a visionary director and I had this piece of IP essentially, and all the music and the writing. We adapted it together. We did it here in Portland. We did all the fundraising ourselves. We did not interface with Hollywood really. I think that would be, I just can't imagine. I love Hollywood, but I'm not really connected, and I can't imagine waiting for someone to give us permission or a green light to make this. It was experimental and indie, so we just really did it on the cheap. We had an amazing producer who helped us figure out how to do it with the budget that we had. We worked really hard fundraising, crowdfunding, asking for donations, having parties to raise money, and then we just did it and put it out there. I think my main advice—and I hear this a lot on screenwriting podcasts—is just make the thing. Make something, as opposed to trying to get permission to make something. Because unless you're already in that system, it's going to be really hard to get permission to make it. Once you make something, that leads to something else, which leads to something else. So even if it's a very short thing, or even if it's filmed on your phone, just actually make the thing. That turned out to be the right thing for us. Joanna: Yes, I mean, I feel like that is what underpins us as independent creatives in general. As an independent author, I feel the same way. I'm never asking permission to put a book in the world. No, thank you. Alicia: Exactly. We have a vision and we do it. It's harder in some ways, but that liberation of being able to really fully create our vision without having to compromise it or wait for permission, I think it's such a beautiful thing. Joanna: Well, we're almost out of time, but I do want to ask you about creative confidence. Alicia: Hmm. Joanna: I feel I'm getting a lot of sense about this at the moment, with all the AI stuff that's happening. When you've been creating a long time, like you and I have, we know our voice and we can lean into our voice. We are creatively confident. We'll fail a lot, but we'll just push on and try things and see what happens. Newer creators are struggling with this kind of confidence. How do I know what is my voice? How do I know what I like? How do I lean into this? So give us some thoughts about how to find your voice and how to find that creative confidence if you don't feel you have it. Alicia: I love that. One thing I will say is that I always think whatever is arising is powerful material to create from. So if a lack of confidence is arising, that's a really powerful feeling to directly explore and not just try to ignore. Although sometimes one has to just ignore those feelings. But to actually explore that feeling, because AI can't have that, right? AI can't really feel a crisis of confidence, and humans can. So that's a gift that we have, those kinds of sensitivities. I think to go really deep into whatever is arising, including the sense that we don't have the right to be creating, or we're not good enough, or whatever it is. Then I always do come back to a quote. I think it might have been John Berryman, but I'm forgetting which poet said it. A younger poet said, “How will I ever know if I'm any good?” And this famous poet said something like—I'm paraphrasing—”You'll never know if you're any good. If you have to know, don't write.” That has been really liberating to me, actually. It sounds a little harsh, but it's been really liberating to just let go of a sense of “good enough.” There is no good enough. The great writers never know if they're good enough. Coming back to this idea of just making without permission—the practice of doing the thing is being a writer. Caring and trying to improve our craft, that's the best that we can have. There's never going to be a moment where we're like, yes, I've nailed this. I am truly a hundred per cent a writer and I have found my voice. Everything's always changing anyway. I would say, either go into those feelings or let those feelings be there. Give them a little tea. Tell them, okay, you're welcome to be here, but you don't get to drive the boat. And then return to the practice of making. Joanna: Absolutely. Great. So where can people find you and your books and everything you do online? Alicia: Everything is on my website, which is AliciaJo.com, and also on Instagram at @ohaliciajo. I'd love to say hello to anyone who's interested in similar topics. Joanna: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, Alicia. That was great. Alicia: Thank you. I love your podcast. I'm so grateful for all that you've given the writing world, Jo.The post Creative Confidence, Portfolio Careers, And Making Without Permission with Alicia Jo Rabins first appeared on The Creative Penn.

    unDivided with Brandi Kruse
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    No matter how atrocious the enemy, leftists will always stand against America. Conservatives split on actions in Iran. Washington man charged with threatening to kill Trump and wear his skin. Democrats press forward with economic suicide. Girls charged in middle school attack. 

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    Hoop Heads

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2026 100:25 Transcription Available


    Nick Haber is in his second season as the Girls' Junior Varsity Basketball Coach at Strongsville High School in the state of Ohio. He has led the Mustang JV team to back to back winning seasons. As a young coach Nick has been focused on learning the fundamentals of coaching while teaching his players the importance of accountability and teamwork.On this episode Mike & Nick discuss the importance of being a coachable young coach and how he tries to create a supportive team environment for both players and coaches alike. Nick shares his commitment to nurturing accountability and teamwork among his players, which he believes are foundational elements of a successful basketball program. The conversation dives into the significance of effective communication, both in managing relationships with players and in addressing the often challenging dynamics that arise in high school basketball. Nick shares how the experiences of coaching extend far beyond the confines of the court, serving as vital life lessons for young athletes as they navigate the complexities of personal and team challenges.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @hoopheadspod for the latest updates on episodes, guests, and events from the Hoop Heads Pod.Make sure you're subscribed to the Hoop Heads Pod on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts and while you're there please leave us a 5 star rating and review. Your ratings help your friends and coaching colleagues find the show. If you really love what you're hearing recommend the Hoop Heads Pod to someone and get them to join you as a part of Hoop Heads Nation.Grab your pen and some paper before you listen to this episode with Nick Haber, Girls' Junior Varsity Basketball Coach at Strongsville High School in the state of Ohio.Website - https://www.strongsvillemustangs.org/sport/basketball/girls/Email - nhaber18@outlook.comTwitter/X - @habes1811Visit our Sponsors!Give With HoopsGive With Hoops is a groundbreaking initiative that fuses basketball analytics with modern sponsorship. Built for teams who see data as opportunity, from AAU programs to college powerhouses. By tying on-court performance directly to community and sponsor engagement, Give With Hoops help programs raise more while deepening support from those who believe in the game.D3 Direct Recruiting PlaybookYour step-by-step guide to getting recruited as a college athlete at the NCAA Division 3 level. This course is designed by former D3 Athletes to take you from zero interest from college coaches to securing your first offer and putting you on the path to committing.The Coaching PortfolioYour first impression is everything when applying for a new coaching job. A professional coaching portfolio is the tool that highlights your coaching achievements and philosophies and, most of all, helps separate you and your abilities from the other applicants. Special Price of just $25 for all Hoop Heads Listeners.Wealth4CoachesEmpowering athletic coaches with financial education, strategic planning, and practical tools to build lasting wealth—on and off the court.If you listen to and love the Hoop Heads Podcast, please consider giving us a small tip that will help in our quest to become the #1 basketball coaching podcast. https://hoop-heads.captivate.fm/supportTwitter/X Podcast - @hoopheadspodMike - @hdstarthoopsJason - @jsunkleInstagram@hoopheadspodFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hoopheadspod/YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDoVTtvpgwwOVL4QVswqMLQ