Podcasts about singleling

Today we talk about mental health, acceptance and self love… the road of happiness. We talk to writer Sara Radin (IG: @sararradin) about her struggles with anxiety, discovering balance and self acceptance. We also talk to Suzy Daren (www.suzydaren.com), a yoga psychotherapist based in Brooklyn, NY. She tells us how she found balance in her life and how she helps her clients to find it too. She gives us tips on how to treat ourselves, find happiness and self love. Vanessa Valerio is your host and producer. You can see her live in her monthly comedy show in New York, Party Of Two. Music is produced by Pavel Rivera.

In January 2019 Singleling turned 3 years old! And we celebrated it with a fun show in Denver, CO. This episode is the start of our season 3, and it is the Love Talk part of our live show on January 17th in Denver, Colorado. Vanessa reads emails from listeners and asks your dating questions to the Love Panel. This time the panel expert guests are Erika Ettin, founder of A Little Nudge, and storyteller Kevin Carlin.

Our last episode of 2018 is a portion of our live show at The Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles, CA this past September. We share stories from Josh Banday, an actor in LA; David Crabb, a storyteller and story coach in LA via NY and Texas; and Sandi Marx, a 7x Moth Slam winner based in New York. We also talk about or first show of 2019, live in Denver. January 17th at The Buntport Theater. Get your tickets now! Our show is produced by Vanessa Valerio, our music is by Pavel Rivera and our logo is by Kelvin Chiang. Thanks for listening and see you in 2019!

Singleling is celebrating the holiday season with fun stories from Dave, Robin and Sandi. Dave Hu is a storyteller and writer in New York City. He is a Moth Story Slam winner and performs stories all over the country. The story you will listen today was recorded at a live Moth StorySlam show in NYC on February 2018. Robing Gelfenbien is a comedian, writer and storyteller who has written jokes for Rosie O’Donnell, who has emceed The Matrix Awards with Martha Stewart, Rupert Murdoch and Hillary Clinton. Her original comedy songs have been featured on Sirius Satellite Radio, VH1 and AMC. She is the producer and host of Yums The Word, a podcast and live series storytelling show in New York City. Sandi Marx is a retired talent agent who is now a motivational speaker and spends most of her nights storytelling. She is a 7 times Moth StorySlam winner and has been featured on The Boston Comedy Festival, Cinderblock Festival and PBS’s storytelling show Stories from The Stage. The story you will listen today was recorded at a live show for Risk! Podcast in 2015. Your host and producer is Vanessa Valerio, a storyteller based in Denver, via Brooklyn. She also co-produces and hosts the monthly comedy show Party of Two in New York City. Singleling’s music is produced by Brooklyn based musician Pavel Rivera. Our illustration is by Chilean artist Maria Jose Figueroa.

In this episode, guests: musicologist, producer, Grammy winner Manuel García of Chaco World Music. Grupo Rimel, an all female band with classic, current Mexican norteño sounds. Vanessa Valerio creator of Singleling a comedy podcast on finding love in NY

This month’s episode is dedicated to showcase Latinos during the Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated in the United States during the month of September. We start by hearing to the love story of Gian and Nora, the hosts of Bumping Uglies, a podcast that serves as a platform for Latinos artists and athletes in The United States. Nora Cazares is an actor, writer and voice over actor from Craig, Colorado who was raised by Mexican parents. Gian Carlo is a comedian and actor from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, living in Denver.  We also hear from  Melissa Rocha, a Brooklyn based comic who is originally from Texas. She’s a proud Mexican-American. She performs all over NYC and was most recently at Let’s Fest in Indiana. Check out her instagram: @melsideponytail We also hear the love story of our host Vanessa's Tia Francis and her husband, Uncle Bryant. This story has appeared on the show before, but since their story is perfect for this theme, we wanted to share it again! This month we have a brand new theme song composed with love by Pavel Rivera, a beloved Dominican musician living in New York. Our illustration is by the talented Chilean artist Maria Jose Figueroa, you can follow her art at @figueilustraciones.

This is a bonus episode! On our show in Washington DC this April 2018 we had a blast talking love with dating expert Erika Ettin, Other Men Need Help Podcast producer Mark Pagan and comedian Gastor Almonte. It was so much fun that we HAD to share it with you, hope you enjoy it! This show was hosted by Singleling’s Vanessa Valerio and Singleling’s dear friend the hilarious Cara Foran, producer of The Perfect Liars Club DC.   Music by Twintapes. Illustration by Maria Jose Figueroa  Special thanks to: The Black Cat DC Oyamel Cocina Mexicana

This week we continue to bring you long distance relationships stories… I sat down for a coffee in Brooklyn with Adrien Behn, the producer of Strangers Abroad Podcast.  We talked about her podcast, her trips around the world and love. The stories come from: Keith Mellnick, a photographer and storyteller based in Washington DC. The story he shares with us was performed at the live show Sucker for Love 2016 produced by Story District in DC. Jude Treder-Wolff is the host and creator of (mostly) True Things, a monthly game and storytelling show in Long Island, NY. She has been featured on Mortified, Risk! and The Armando Diaz Experiment, to name a few. She is now performing her solo show This Isn’t Helping. And me, Vanessa Valerio… On this episode I tell the love story that changed my life. I hope you like this one!.. Happy Spring and keep loving! Vanessa Ps. If you have a story that you want to share or a question you want to ask our dating experts, send us an email! Vanessa@wearesingleling.com   Music: Painting Ocean Dreams by Twintapes.   Special thanks to: Story District 

Love happens in different ways, and sometimes we end up in long distance relationships... not ideal situations, but what can we tell the heart?... the heart always wants what it wants.    Tami Gatta is an experienced creative arts therapist in the New York, and today she tells us her point of view of long distance relationships and gives us a few tips on how to keep them alive.   Joe Charnitsky tells us about what is like dating in New York... distance might be a make it or break thing.   Meghann Perry is a certified addiction recovery coach, actor, storyteller and teaching artist. She works with adolescents and adults seeking recovery from addiction, and loves to combine her background in the performing arts and her work with this population in her many projects like Improbable Players, Recovery Storytelling, and the Moving Stories Foundation. Johnathan Appel started performing comedy while living in Taiwan and has performed most venues in New York City. He also works as an education fellow and teaching artist for “Story Pirates!”.   Vanessa Valerio is the producer of Singleling, and is always looking for love stories, so if you have one contact us Vanessa@wearesingleling.com   Music by Twintapes.   Special thanks to: Happy Hour Story Hour show in New York City for letting us record Johnathan's story.

Love stories… Everyone has one, or will have one. Elena and Juani, a Venezuelan and an Argentinean whose strong attraction followed them forever. This story is part of Liebes Gluck, a book of love stories around the world written by German journalist Kathrin Werner. This story was recorded through a telephone call, sorry if audio is not great!   Michele Carlo tells us about being hopeful and never stop, no matter what, because every obstacle can be a great opportunity.   David Crabb is a storyteller that after many years living in New York moved to Los Angeles with his husband.   Natasha Price tells us how love sometimes ends up differently of what we expect… and her story is an introduction of what our next episode will be like.   Vanessa Valerio is the producer of Singleling, and is always looking for love stories so if you have one contact us Vanessa@wearesingleling.com   Music by Twintapes.   Special thanks to: Storytelling at Big Irvs Speak Up Rise Up Festival

Two years ago we started Singleling, and this January 23rd we celebrated it with a show and party at LPR in New York City. This show features stories by: Sydnee Washington and Calvin Cato, stand up comedians in New York and performing for the first time on Singleling. Sandi Marx, a resident on Singleling, has been on tour with us and has appeared in several of our episodes. Gianmarco Soresi, storyteller and comedian, returning back to our show with one of the most heartful stories on our entire 2 year series. This show we wanted to make it different, for this reason we invited Pavel Rivera, the producer of our theme song, and a great musician. And, as always, the show was produced and hosted by Vanessa Valerio. A dating expert, only because of too much practice. Special thanks to Alex Tabar and Ramon Cabrera who recorded this show. Our show was sponsored by PUERTO VIEJO, Dominican restaurant in Brooklyn, LA LOTERIA, Mexican restaurant in New York City and Pleasure Chest, luxury sex shop in New York City, LA and Chicago. Thank you so much to them for the amazing and generous gifts provided to our audience. And big thanks to you, for keeping us on air for two years!! Happy birthday to us!

This week on Ghosted Stories, Chelsea (@thechelseawhite) and Erin (@erinleafe) chat with storyteller, comedian and host of the Singleling podcast Vanessa Valerio (@thevavaspot / @wearesingleling) about a ghost who won’t stop haunting. Plus, Topical Sh**: A listener sends us a ghosting in the news story about a couple winning the lottery. We would love you for subscribing, rating, and reviewing and telling a friend about us if you love this podcast! Email us your ghosted stories, dating questions and concerns to ghostedstoriespodcast@gmail.com and we may feature them in a future episode! Follow us on Twitter @GhostedStories and Instagram @GhostedStoriesPodcast. Boo!

Its crazy that 2017 is over! This year has been great for Singleling, we went on tour around the East Coast and had sold out shows with some of the best storytellers and comedians of the country. It was a blast! And this episode compiles some of the stories told at these shows: StoryFest, Live Show in Philadelphia and Speak Up Rise Up Festival. Stories by: Tarik Daniels Adam Selbst Mark Pagan Anita Flores Your host is Vanessa Valerio and the music is by Twintapes.   p.s. We hope that this New Year comes with lots of new love stories and happiness. Happy 2018!!

This week, we present two stories about the things that make up our sense of self, from our appearance to our memories. Part 1: On the verge of losing her teeth, Jean Le Bec travels abroad to find a solution. Part 2: Science writer Michael Lemonick interviews an old friend who lost the ability to form memories after an injury. Born and bred in Brooklyn New York, Jean Le Bec is a Moth StorySlam champion who has been featured on Risk, Yum's The Word, Surprise Stories, Take Two, NY Story Exchange, Two Truths And A Lie, Tell It Brooklyn, City Stories, Word Up, Look Who's Talking, and City Stories, as well as podcasts Risk, Singleling, Unhireable, and Tall Tales In The Big City and a week-long artist residency on Governor's Island 2016. She's presently working on a Solo Show. Michael D. Lemonick is chief opinion editor at Scientific American; previously, he was a senior science writer at Time magazine. He is also the author of seven books, including, most recently, “The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love.” He also teaches at Princeton University, and lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where he grew up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes our imagination takes over our mind and creates the story of a person the way we want it. Today on Singleling we talk about imagination versus reality. Stories of when our imagination owns our judgement, which in love happens very often! Stories by: Stan Sinberg, an award winning humor writer, satiric radio comedy revue and a regular contributor to blogs and humor publications including MAD and the Weekly World News. Sandi Marx is a retired talent agent who is now a motivational speaker and spends most of her nights storytelling. She is a 7 times Moth StorySlam winner and her one woman show, You’ll Be Sorry debuted in the Dead Parents Club Festival in 2016. Greg DeLucia is a writer and storyteller in New York. He is the host and producer of Family Dinner, a storytelling show where people eat Greg’s family famous meatballs while listening to funny stories. Alia Janine is a comedian and retired adult entertainer living in New York. She is the host and producer of the podcast The Whromones Podcast. Your host, Vanessa Valerio, is a storyteller in New York. Her solo show Where in The World is Vanessa Valerio is part of the Gotham Storytelling Festival this fall (nov. 4). Music by Twintapes.com Follow us: Wearesingleling.com @wearesingleling

  This episode of Singleling showcases stories about young loves. The first love that drove us crazy in many different ways. On this episode: Courtney Weber is a Wiccan Priestess, writer, Tarot Adviser, and metaphysical teacher living in McMinnville, OR. She is the author of Brigid: History, Mystery, and Magick of the Celtic Goddess and the forthcoming Tarot for One: The Art of Reading for Yourself. She is also the producer and designer of Tarot of the Boroughs, a contemporary photographic Tarot deck set in New York City. Becca Beberaggi is a NYC based writer, comedian and performer. She has written for Elite Daily, XOJan, Paste Magazine and others, her sketch can be seen on Funny or Die. She has appeared at the Brooklyn Comedy Festival. Boo Trundle is a novelist and short story writer, a blogger, and a recording artist. Also a seeker of solace through high art, low art, and Eastern philosophy. Gullible, random, exposed, and weighty, as needed.  Vanessa Golembewski is a TV writer and producer. She hosts a monthly comedy storytelling show called "Before The Internet." You can see her work in The Onion, Above Average, and a bunch of lady magazines.  Bobby Hankinson is a Brooklyn-based writer, performer and creative.  You can see him hosting the  LGBTQ comedy and storytelling show Kweendom, a TimeOut NY and New York Times Critics’ Pick. Your host, Vanessa Valerio is a Moth storySlam winner, native from the Dominican Republic living in Brooklyn. She performs stories about her time living in Europe, her childhood in the Caribbean, and her crazy life as a 30-something single woman in NYC. Music by Twintapes.com

To end the month of June we wanted to celebrate love with our beloved LGTBQ community, showcasing some coming out stories by good friends of Singleling. On this episode: Danny Artese - In addition to co-hosting A Very Special Episode, Danny Artese has won a Moth StorySlam and performed at Nights of Our Lives and Talk Therapy Stories. He is currently re-reading the entire Sweet Valley High series and chronicling it on sweetvalleyhighagain.tumblr.com Jamie Brickhouse (three-time Moth SLAM champion) debuted his solo show, Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother at the 2017 FRIGID Festival off-off-Broadway in New York City. Ripped from the pages of his critically acclaimed memoir that Interview magazine called “as funny as an evening with Carrie Fisher,” and Paul Rudnick praised as “witty, blisteringly honest, and wickedly intoxicating,” it sparkled under the direction of Obie Award-winning David Drake. It won the "Audience Choice Award," was featured on "Page Six" of the New York Post, was a Theater is Easy "Best Bet," and received rave reviews from NY Theater Guide, Theater is Easy, and Hi! Drama..  Tami Gatta is a therapist in New York City. She uses art, drama and storytelling to treat patients whom have suffer from severe trauma.   Music borrowed from Robyn. Hosted and produced by Vanessa Valerio.

Today we hear stories of first kisses because for me a first kiss can be the reflection of the chemistry that the two people have with each other… A kiss is powerful and the first kiss is very important and the first turning point of a potential relationship. Stories by: Natalie Wall is the creator/producer of “Awkward Sex… and the City”, which showcases comedians with hilarious awkward sexual tales. She writes for Redbook Magazine and Brokelyn.com specifically for Sex and Relationships. In 2015 she co-founded “Bad Assery: The Woman and Comedy Conference”. She performs stand-up all around New York City and hosts her brand new show “Sex! With your Mom”, the adult sex-ed game show. Jean LeBec  is a storyteller in New York City, she is a Moth StorySlam champion and performs in shows like Risk, where she will be this June 28th at The Bell House. Caitlin Brodnick is a performer on Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre's Maude Night. She performs sketch, standup, and storytelling regularly in New York City and Los Angeles. She is a writer for Glamour.com, and a blogger for Huffington Post. Her stories have been featured on the MOTH podcast, and quoted by the AV Club Music by Twintapes (www.twintapes.com) Your Host Vanessa Valerio is a native from Dominican Republic and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She was trained at the People’s Improv Theater in NYC and has performed all over the East coast. She is a Moth StorySlam Champ and the creator of Singleling. She also co-produces and co-hosts Party of Two, a monthly live comedy show in New York. www.wearesingleling.com Follow us! @wearesingleling  

This year Singleling is on tour recording live stories in some of the best venues in the country. This past April 1st we had the first one at the Black Cat in Washington DC. With performances by: CHELSEA SHORTE is a stand-up/writer/actor/storyteller living in DC. KEITH MELLNICK is a freelance photographer who splits his time between expat and DC living. In between his trips he performs at SpeakeasyDC, Perfect Liars Club and The Moth. His solo show “I’m not Crazy” tells the story about his Peace Corps experience in Kazakhstan. Dating Expert ERIKA ETTIN will give us a few tips on how to navigate the world of online dating in these crazy modern dating era. She is the founder of A Little Nudge, one of the country’s preeminent online dating coach. She has been profiled on NPR, The Washington Posts, WUSA9 and AskMen.com. JEFF SIMMERMON is a several times Moth StorySlam and GrandSlam winner, a comedian, teacher and storyteller that has appear on This American Life and The Moth’s Podcast. He is the host and producer of “And I am Not Lying”, a variety show in New York City. VIJAI NATHAN is a comedian that has been featured at the Montreal International Comedy Festival, has performed at the Smithsonian Museum, Kennedy Center, Constitution Hall, Library of Congress and won the Artistic Excellence award from SpeakeasyDC. Her solo shows “Woman on Top: Tips from Mom, Dad and Cosmo” and “Good Girls Don’t, But Indian Girls Do” have gained attention from critics all over.   The Hosts: CARA FORAN is a Moth StorySlam and Grandslam winner, writer, storyteller and improviser in Washington, DC. She is the producer and cohost of The Perfect Liars Club, one of DC’s most popular storytelling shows, as well as a regular host of The Moth in DC. Her solo show about the perils of dating, “District of Cara”, debuted at the 2015 Capital Fringe Festival in DC. VANESSA VALERIO is a Moth StorySlam winner that performs stories about her time living in Europe, her childhood in the Caribbean, and her crazy life as a 30-something single woman in NYC. She is the host and producer of ‘Singleling’, she also co-hosts Party of Two, a live monthly comedy show. She is also a dating columnist for Camara Flash and the Singles Warehouse.

Everyone needs love and sex and sometimes we compromise with just sex and get in a friends with benefits relationship, however this situation is not for everyone… Today on Singleling we see different friends with benefits scenarios.   I. I don’t want a Friend with benefits Not everyone wants a friends with benefit relationship, storyteller David Arroyo tells us about a time a girl misunderstood his interest in being just friends.   II. Why is sex so important? Sexologist Randi Levinson explains why we need sex and how is it that sometimes some of us cant separate sex and emotions. www.randilevinson.com   III. Friends with benefits… not that great after all Comedian, storyteller and storytelling instructor for The Story Studio, Gail Thomas tells us that sometimes Mr. Maybe is not   IV. A rare case of love Isabel’s happy ending.   www.wearesingleling.com @wearesingleling

At least once in our lives we have had a big crush on a friend, and chances are that we ended up being heartbroken because our love is not reciprocated. Today on Singleling we talk about the infamous friend zone that we want to avoid so bad. I Being a teenager in love of that perfect girl that is everything, but in reality… is not. Sam Dingman, a storyteller, podcaster, improviser and Moth GrandSlam winner, tells us a story about his teenage love, which basically is an episode of Dawson’s Creek. II How can we get out of that pink color area that is the friend zone?... Rupert Eyles, a storyteller from the UK, tells us how he went from being the principal friend to a married man. III I get a free and fun therapy session from Tami Gatta, a therapist in Brooklyn that uses creative outlets as part of her therapy healing treatments. IV The friend zone from the eyes of Tarik Daniels, a fabulous guy comedian in NYC. V After the storm, there comes the calm. Angela, a fashion designer in Miami tells us how she fell in love.   www.wearesingleling.com @wearesingleling

Singleling features stories of single people in their path towards finding love. This episode theme is Valentine's day and features stories from different perspectives from normal people on the streets and points of view from professional storytellers Asher Novek and Julie Polk.

Singleling is a podcast that features stories of single people in their path towards finding love. This episode's theme is First Dates, the host Vanessa Valerio tells a story about a first date with an actor-looking men and a Edo, a Brooklyn resident, tells a story of a first date gone wrong.