Every year my dear friend Sacha Jones comes back on the podcast around my birthday for a conversation. She is one of the most creative, wise, and gentle people I know. Our annual catch-ups end up being time capsules of what we've learned the past year both from the podcast and from what's happened around us. We had a wild year personally and collectively so we unpack the ways we've changed.

Loré is one of my favorite writers. We originally connected when she reached out to interview me for The Creative Independent. She has written about intimacy, identity, and interconnection for The New York Times and Man Repeller. In this week’s episode, we talk about dating as hopeless romantics, social media, intention, writing, moving to New York, and dealing with life’s highs and lows.

This week I spoke with two guests, Becca Millstein and Caroline Goldfarb. Living with each other at the beginning of the pandemic and observing each other's eating eventually led them to a business idea: a tinned fish company called Fishwife. This week we talk about food stigma, transitioning careers, juggling multiple projects, and the habits and routines that help them with it all.

This week one of my favorite authors returns. Kayleen Schaefer is a journalist and author of Text Me When You Get Home. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Vogue. Her new book, But You’re Still So Young, is out now. In this episode we talk about how this generation is redefining what it's like to be in our 30s. We cover Kayleen's writing rituals and more.

This week's episode is part two of my conversation with Contemplative Educator, Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher and Writer, Mari Orkenyi. Her work lives in the space where Contemplative Practices, Buddhist Psychology and Western Psychotherapy intersect. In this week’s episode, we talk about presence, acceptance, Buddhism, social media, cooking, and Mari gives me some wonderful personal advice.

Mari Orkenyi and I became friends the moment we met. Mari is a Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher and Writer. Her work lives in the space where Contemplative Practices, Buddhist Psychology and Western Psychotherapy intersect. In this episode we talk about the connection between mindfulness and creativity, allowing yourself to take up space, boundaries, growing up in Brazil, and more.

This week I spoke with my friend Helen Phelan, a body neutral intuitive pilates instructor and founder of the mindful fitness platform, Helen Phelan Studio. As an ex-professional dancer and eating disorder survivor, Helen's approach to exercise is based on her lived experience. In this episode, we discuss communication, patience, bodies, eating disorder recovery, romantic relationships, and more.

This week I brought back friend, writer, and host of the One Part Podcast, Jessica Murnane. Jessica's second book Know Your Endo helps people with endometriosis feel less alone. During this conversation we chat about making it through hard moments, feeling things intensely, our complex relationship with social media, writing processes while homeschooling, and her HappyThankYouMorePlease prompts.

This week Naomi Powell, founder of The Lifestyle Edit, returns to the podcast. This week is the next episode in our HappyThankYouMorePlease series. We cover her advice for not letting challenging moments overtake us, separating our business from us, boundaries, shiny penny syndrome, connection, focusing, priorities and more.

This week is part 2 of my conversation with chef and author Julia Turshen, coauthor of numerous cookbooks and one of the great cooks and writers of our time. We discussed her creative process, coauthoring books, body image, diet culture and the food industry, the quiet power of cookbooks, how to avoid "co-dep cooking," cooking for others vs. cooking for one, and romantic relationships.

Julia has coauthored numerous cookbooks and has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Saveur, and more. I loved this conversation with her that spanned a wide range of topics, including her creative process, her new cookbook Simply Julia, body image, diet culture, perfectionism, and more.

This week I spoke with visual artist Camilla Engström. Our conversation flew by and we ended up talking for nearly 3 hours, so I decided to break this up into two parts. In this second half, you'll hear about where she gets ideas, fashion, what informs her style, her thoughts on dating and romantic relationships, her current favorite beauty product, her dance videos, and more.

This week I spoke with visual artist Camilla Engstrom. Our conversation flew by and we ended up talking for nearly 3 hours, so I decided to break this up into two parts. In this first half, you’ll hear about her her upbringing and her moves to Shanghai, NYC, and LA, as well as her creative process, habits, routines, meditation, journaling, spirituality, art influences, and more.

This week I spoke with the very creative filmmaker & ceramicist Madelynn De La Rosa. Madelynn is passionate about French cinema, sustainable fashion, and her dog Violet, and we spoke about all three in this conversation. We also cover her upbringing, starting her YouTube channel, moving to LA, what she’s learned from breakups, being a freelancer, style, film and her creative process.

This week I spoke to my close friend, chef, author, and writer Phoebe Lapine. Phoebe has a new book out now, and we catch up in this episode about what the pandemic has taught her, procrastination and creativity, having to wear multiple hats as an artist, intimacy in relationships, being adult only children, and of course she came with her HAPPY THANK YOU MORE PLEASE.

This week I spoke with Meena Harris, a Harvard-educated lawyer, best-selling children's book author, founder and CEO of Phenomenal, and mom. We talk about the inspiration and process behind both books, the need for inclusion within children's literature, community building, organizing, writing, motherhood, friendship, being an only child raised by successful powerful women, and more.

Today’s guest is Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine physician with an active medical practice near Birmingham, Alabama. She is also an author and an international media resource who has been featured in Prevention, MSNBC, Women's Day, Redbook, self, and numerous other media outlets. We talk about different types of rest, friendship, love, boundaries, and more.

As our last episode of the year, I thought it would be fun to do a year in review of the music of 2020 with my friend James McCrae. We talked about albums and songs we loved, and how art is always best when you "go with yourself," as Fiona Apple said. We end the show with a conversation with Dr. Sophia Kogan about body image, vanity, how our hair defines us, and standards of beauty.

This is the fourth episode of the HappyThankYouMorePlease series we started this year, and this week the guest is my close friend Christine. We talked about: skill & personality in work, creativity and productivity, the uncertainty of being a freelancer, becoming more financially responsible, relationships, learning new skills, change, not staying stagnant, friendship, and more.

This week I spoke with Whitney Kent Chamberlin. In this conversation we talk about how he was shaped by his tumultuous childhood, and his career that ranged from marketing to photography to starting a bunch of businesses. We talk about navigating unexpected twists this year with covid, meditation, parenthood, relationships, slowing down, self-awareness, identities, creativity, and friendship.

This week's episode is the next installment in the series called HappyThankYouMorePlease, where we have guests talk about three things: something they're happy about, something they're craving more of, and something they are grateful for. This week I spoke with herbalist, author, and past podcast guest Erin Lovell Verinder and her husband Noah Checkle.

In this week's episode, I spoke with my pal Kelsey about where we are and where we've been in terms of meditation. We cover everything from how to start meditation, our full history with meditation, types of meditation we've tried, getting too dogmatic, how meditation and journaling go together, and more.

This week I spoke with Aycee Brown, founder of @goodnightdarlingco and spiritual thought leader. In our conversation, she gives advice for sleep, romantic relationships, friendships, entrepreneurship, and more. She spoke about human design and how it fits with astrology, her trajectory to sharing the work she does now, and much more.

In this episode I spoke with Marlee Grace, a dancer, radio show host, and writer. She's the author of the books How to Not Always Be Working and the new book GETTING TO CENTER. We discuss crushes and big feelings, creativity and routines, catastrophic thinking, newness and moving, a lot about codependency, Instagram addiction, productivity, friendship, and of course, getting to center.  

this week i got to talk to my good friend Anjie Cho. Anjie has helped me with the feng shui of all of my apartments, and in this episode I spoke with her about my new space in LA. it's a real session where you'll hear about where I am and what i'm hoping for. we also talk about the connection between space and creativity, letting go of things, eating disorders and space, generosity, and more.

You may have noticed there was no podcast the last two weeks...we took an impromptu break because I moved! I met today's guest Naomi through my friend Simi, and I'm so glad I did because this was one of my favorite conversations I've had. We talk about change, growth, our thoughts and beliefs, shifting low self worth, and so much more.

This week I'm talking to dancer, actress, model, interior designer, and podcast host Hannah Faust. Hannah bursts with confidence in a way I admire, and I loved this conversation with her. We talk about creating spaces and decorating, organization, becoming an organized person, recovery, becoming better at being yourself, confidence, dating during the pandemic, and more.

This week I’m airing a recent interview where I was a guest on the new podcast Back To You with Emily Schultz. In this episode we have a candid catch up about change during a year of uncertainty and how the pandemic has impacted us. We get into how the last several months have been, podcasting, creativity, and change. Emily is an amazing host and I loved seeing where she took the conversation.

This summer we decided to do our first book club and we chose The House of Deep Water by today's guest Jeni McFarland. This conversation covers trauma, therapy, mental health, Jeni's writing rituals, and how’s she taking care of herself in the pandemic. It’s a shorter conversation so I’m going to get back into the habit of something I used to do years ago which is sharing some of my "favorites."

Welcome back to a new season of the podcast. This week I spoke with my friend Shanthony Exum who is a true life artist. She is a writer, musician, and comedian. We talk about: moving and change, being a performer during Covid, what happens after a big success, body image, DIY culture, defying traditional institutions, intersectionality, improv, and what she's loving lately.