The bulk of this conversation is devoted to a topic that Serena is known to be candid and open about on her social media: anxiety. She’s so articulate when she talks about her ups and downs with anxiety and in this conversation we get in there deep about she experiences it, what helps, and she gives me big sisterly advice in my on anxiety and emotional spirals.
Today, we’re airing the last round of LET [a podcast] OUT’s winning episode by Alex Hollander. Alex created LIMBO, a podcast about the spaces between. In this episode you’ll hear her conversation with her former colleague Berna. They covered creating a “healing team”, money shame, the transition from full time to freelance, travel loneliness, the idea of “relationship” privilege, and way more.
Illustrator Mari Andrew and I met serendipitously in January. I told her how much her work meant to me and she agreed to do the podcast. In this conversation, we covered “rejection as protection”, her creative routines, money in NYC, feeling vulnerable and raw during breakups, transitions, her specific way of practicing gratitude, and her useful body image advice.
Rachelle and I met in her cafe, Supernatural, last year. We covered her path to herbalism, her thoughts on kava, current wellness trends and dangers with that, her style (which I love), anxiety + herbs that help it, body image, heartbreak (and the herbs that can help), and at the end we talk about a productivity tip that’s been extremely useful to me in the past few weeks since the episode.
I read Sara’s first book The Way of the Happy Woman years ago and loved her approach of orienting your life with the seasons. I find her to be incredibly present, grounded, and wise so I was excited to connect with her. This conversation was nothing I expected. We talked about grief, change, and heartbreak in a deep way.
Hear all about how I literally stumbled upon Adam's show and realized we had a lot in common. This episode is a long one but a deep one. We cover indecision, feeling ugly, mental health, creativity, writing, love, psychedelics, and navigating how to live in the world as an anxious tender being.
Our society is obsessed with romantic love and rightfully so. This is an episode about romantic love. Relationships are hard, messy, beautiful, and I’m happy we have an entire episode talking about them.
I met Robyn when she read from her project Friends With Secrets at previous guest Marlee Grace‘s book signing last month. I fell in love with her raw vulnerability and her cool projects. We recorded this conversation in my bedroom and covered everything from writing to sobriety to film.
When I met Human Design reader Erin Claire Jones I was so taken by her approach I knew I wanted to have her on the podcast. She’s one of the most magnetic people I’ve ever met. It was clear I wasn’t alone since we recorded this episode live at The Assemblage in NYC.
This week I'm chatting with writer and improviser Marlee Grace. We discuss creativity, process, family, moving, routines, tattoos, friendship, and feeling feelings. Her new book How to Not Always Be Working had a profound impact on me.
We’re easing back in this season with a discussion about art that is meaningful to us. My friend Briana Bane had to make a podcast for one of her media classes at NYU last semester and she came up with the best concept – a show called The Art That’s Made You.
This week’s fresh bonus episode outlines my thoughts on the holidays. How I’m feeling about food, family, gifts, and more. I also talk about some articles I’ve recently read as well as my tips for feeling like yourself when traveling. Happy Holidays! Talk to you again in January 2019!
Katie reads an article written for the print edition of The Fullest magazine on addiction - how she experienced her first hangover at age 27 and learned about the different ways self care means to her.
Kelsey is eloquent, dynamic, and oh so articulate so I always love chatting with her and especially loved this conversation, which ranged from friendship to her writing strategies. It's a rarity to have a repeat guest on the podcast, when someone returns it means I especially love talking with them.
Seher grew up in Pakistani immigrant family in the Bay area, then attended business school. She attempted a traditional corporate job, but ultimately followed her passion to becoming a photographer. Now she views herself as an inter-disciplinarian; which we get into in this episode. We talk about leaving her corporate job, her transition to photography and her strict upbringing.
I had the most wonderful time chatting with human design reader Jenna Zoë. In this episode, I ask her everything I was curious about in terms of what human design is and how it can be useful, I use myself as an example, and talk about how it can be used in relationships and parenting for understanding the people in your life better.
Mama Medicine is a beautiful space in NYC owned by shaman and healer Deborah Hanekamp. It wasn’t until I experienced one of her medicine readings that I fully understood her magic. Deborah is yes a talented healer with a beautiful aesthetic, but also a funny, grounded, extremely smart business woman, mother, and friend. I loved getting to hear her full, long story in this episode.
Lindsay and my conversation spanned across so many topics including losing a parent at a young age, her eating disorder, her relationship to wellness, her robust career in digital media, her sage wisdom about romantic relationships (she’s been with her husband since college), and her new book Spirit Almanac. It’s a modern guide to ancient self-care which I love so much.
Today's guests are power couple Kathryn Budig & Kate Fagan. I love their podcast, Free Cookies. I love their dynamic, their humor, and their relationship advice or as they call it, cookies. My love of them as a couple led me to get to know & love Kate and her work as well. We talk about the important book she wrote last year, What Made Maddy Run & her own impressive career as a sports journalist.
Stephanie is the winner of the contest for my podcast course: Let [a podcast] Out. This is the first episode of her new podcast: Rethinking It. We talk to Stephanie about her process in starting a podcast. Then, we'll hear Stephanie & Simi discuss becoming a less rigid, intuitive eating and living, vulnerability, social media boundaries, body image, how Simi dealt with the loss of a parent.
Today is a solo episode! I'm popping in to tell you about the burnout I experienced this year, how I’ve been selfish on this podcast, & the new changes I’m making to Let It Out. I look back over the past 6 years of this podcast and talk about some mistakes I’ve made. I run some new ideas by you, catch you up on how I’ve been feeling, & tell you a few things I’ve been liking & learning lately.
I'm so happy to have dancer and musician Tasha Blank on the podcast this week. In this epsiode, Tasha and I cover everything from eating disorders to psychedelics to music, dance, and creativity. I learned so much in this conversation I’ll probably listen to it for a third time.
An update from your host, me Katie Dalebout. + all of the things that are bringing me joy right now. From my favorite TV show (dawson's creek), to my current favorite podcasts, to what I've been reading lately.
Emily was such a delightful, down-to-earth person with so much self-awareness creative spark. We talked about her experience moving away from her small town in the midwest to pursue her dream of acting and singing. Beyond her story and career we talked about her experience with therapy, body image, family, romantic relationships and breakups as well as her song writing and creative process.
Dr. Robin Berzin is changing modern medicine with her practice Parsley Health. Her company is a new kind of medical practice, that integrates lifestyle, nutrition, and wellness into mainstream primary care. Dr. Robin is a down-to-earth delight, she's a stylish busy mom, and in this episode she shares what she's learned about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and romantic relationships.
We talked about embracing natural hair, Cat's Afro-Latina culture and identity, and our millennial generation’s best and worst tendencies. We got into her great tips for finding balance between creating and consuming social media, how to find time to for personal creative projects with a full time job and still maintaining relationships, self-care, and a life along side all the busy that brings.
In this week’s episode we tell Laura McLaws Helms' full story of how she moved to New York from London to study photography and how she ended up in the career she’s in now. We talk about fashion trends, vintage shopping and personal style tips. We got into becoming a personal brand, podcasting vs. writing, authenticity in the age of social media, body image, and much more.
Candice Kumai and I sat down a couple weeks ago and discussed cooking as a career, her time on a reality TV show, her family's immigrant roots and how our individual ancestry impacts our food. We got into the lack of diversity in wellness, social media influencers, her complicated relationship with technology, her major breakup and how she got through that time, her new book, and more.
I’ve known Jess Lively for years and our paths overlapped a few years ago. Most recently she's taken all of her work and created C-School, a live school in Australia where she now lives but is launching online this week. In this episode we talked about Death, loneliness, fear of not having enough time, body image and food, the law of attraction, time scarcity and time abundance.
I met Mastin Kipp in 2014 at his book signing. He told me to stop consuming his work & the work of other self-help personalities & start focusing on my own creative work. Since then, I've spent less time developing myself and more time being myself. It was great to reconnect with Mastin & talk about the new direction of his work, focusing on helping people go deeper into their emotional trauma.
Laura is a host through and through. I loved learning about the hospitality industry, how she navigated a having rare cancer in the prime of her career, her experience with the medical industry, and how she used her cancer as a learning opportunity to discovering food as medicine, shifting her perspective on death, intuition, and listening to her body.
When I met Dr. Lipman for this interview, we didn’t focus our time talking about what foods to avoid. We talked about how the healthiest thing we can do for ourselves doesn’t have to do with food at all. With 30+ years of experience as a doctor, he’s discovered that having meaning in our lives helps us to be healthier.
In this episode I not only share what I’ve been listening to, reading, watching, eating, and products I’ve been using–but I also got to reflect on what has been working in my life (long road-trips with my boyfriend) & what really has not been (making decisions). It was nice recording this because it gave me the opportunity to thinking through to what I’ve been loving and grateful for this season.
I met today’s guest therapist and co-founder of Soho Parenting Lisa Spiegel at an event she led The Wing. It was the day before I was leaving for a work trip and I felt overwhelmed and incredibly anxious when I noticed a room full of overwhelmed women just like me packed into the space to listen to Lisa speak about anxiety, tools to help manage it, and ways to prevent it.
Rarely have I rationed a book—savoring every last chapter and not wanting it end. With today’s guest Kayleen Schaefer’s book Text Me When You Get Home I clung to every last line, not wanting it to end much like a good conversation with a best friend. I loved every ounce, from Kayleen’s vulnerability telling her experience, to her thorough historical research, to her pop culture analysis.
As editor in chief of Food & Wine Magazine for 21 years, a judge on Top Chef, a cookbook author, the host of the podcast Speaking Broadly, a chief creative officer at Dig Inn, just to name a few–on paper she’s clearly extremely accomplished. In person, she far exceeded her impressive resume she was present, welcoming, inspirational, wise, & warm when I visited her Manhattan apartment to record.
Trevor's career in the music industry had a rocky start which included getting dropped from his label, living in a monastery, and making a hit album. We talked about music as a tool, meditation, surrender, learning vs. applying practices, saturn returns, using astrology for self-awareness, traveling, staying grounded, relationships as mirrors, culture, connection, indecisiveness, and more.
In this episode, we talk about risks of entrepreneurship, following your dreams…while also being realistic, criticism and how to use it beneficially, parenting, and of course podcasting, since she’s one of the greatest audio producers and storytellers of our time. Her company has produced podcasts with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the New York Times.
Camilla inspires me in so many ways from her aesthetic and taste to her philosophy of entrepreneurship and community to investing, and of course in food. We talk about her education & career path, food as an experience, modern philanthropy models, how the restaurant industry can open doors for anyone, opening a restaurant, work/life balance. and angel investing.
I started this podcast when I was 22. Last Monday I turned 28. I’ve changed so much over the last 6 years and most of that has been documented in the last 200 episodes. At 22 I thought I knew everything. At 28 I’m pretty sure I know nothing. Since I began this podcast my body, relationships, career, & even location has changed many times. The constant through all of this has been this podcast.
Claire is known for yoga yet we barely touched on yoga, instead focusing on her winding path to where she is now including an eating disorder in her teens, how she stumbled into the career she’s in now, and her decision to go to grad school for psychology. We talked about food psychology, therapy, the complexities body positivity, being an influencer and what that even means, self-love & more.
Kathleen is one of the most supportive, vulnerable, and interesting people I’ve connected with. The podcast she co-hosts, Being Boss, has taught me so much. She recently moved to Michigan, so we started off chatting about moving. We talked about having ‘stuff’, partnerships (from husbands to business partners), motherhood, & productivity, and money.
I met Jnna on her visit to NYC last year and loved speaking with her about everything from pilates to motherhood, her struggle with infertility as well as navigating career transitions and finding spirituality that works for you. We talked about education empowerment, owning a business, the importance of white space, non-attachment vs. detachment, body image, fitness vs. wellness, and more.
Adam's work is is honest, useful, & unique but relatable. When I met him to record this episode at his Brooklyn apartment, I was delighted to find out he was as great IRL as he seems on the internet. In this conversation we spoke about social media, moving to NYC, his career of both full time & freelance work, community, art, being yourself in your work, marriage, success, self-help, & more.
I’ve been following their food blog since 2012 so it was the best getting to meet, interview, and taste something they made. We talk about cooking, design, blogging, essential oils, creativity in the kitchen, being a mother/daughter team, moving to America, and so much more.
I met Kimberly Johnson,founder of Magamama, at an event she spoke at. Her talk was so inspiring & it really stuck with me. I had an eye-opening session with her when she was in NYC. After our session, we recorded this episode. We spoke about how she became a “Vagina proctor,” the Me-Too Movement, slowing down sex, painful sex, communication, pregnancy, birth healing, & her new book.
Lacy’s work is anti-self help while being the most helpful content I’ve stumbled upon. From her style & aesthetic to her message, her work is very meaningful to me. We sipped a tea infusion she made us (She's also an herbalist)& chatted about everything from food to style & design to relationships and finding partnership to authenticity, & of course debunking myths about manifestation.