Le vital corps Salon
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#0050: Zuzu Perkal on getting your mind right, leveling up + talking about money as a working artist
Welcome to milestone episode number 50! Yes, the big 5-0. There have been so many moments along my podcasting journey when I thought this whole podcast would fall apart or I wouldn't be able to deliver the next episode on schedule. Because you all...
#0049: Barbara Oakley on learning, changing professional gears + mitigating workaholic tendencies
This week’s guest, Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., is the female Indiana Jones - a truly innovative and independent spirit. Professionally, she’s an award-winning professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and the Ramón y Cajal...
#0048: Nicole Stott on painting in space, experiencing transcendence + accepting our status as Earthlings
Today’s guest is Nicole Stott, a veteran NASA astronaut. When the idea for Le vital corps Salon was only a scribble in a notebook, I scrawled a list of roles in which women likely had to navigate BS and mitigate burnout. (Y’all know how much I...
#0047: Theresa Wiggins on achievement-contingent happiness, obsessive thoughts + courageous communication
Theresa Wiggins drops by Le vital corps Salon this week. Since 2014, she has been combining her passion for kids, families, and education through her business, Village Parenting. Theresa teaches mindfulness and offers in-home behavior management...
#0046: Aimee Gardner on exchanging the art of medicine for the medicine of art + slaying the star-farting cat
This week on the podcast, I want you to meet the smart, creative, and organized Aimee Gardner. Aimee is doing some socially impactful work in our shared neck of the woods here in the Hudson Valley/the Catskills. Aimee is the Operations Director for O+...
#0045: Debra Cleaver on being abrasive, getting fired + bolstering democracy
Today may be the first time you've heard Debra Cleaver's name, but I have no doubt whatsoever that you will hear it again...and a lot. After today’s episode, you will know why I now associate her name with wicked smarts, a no bullshit attitude, and...
#0044: Miranda Mims on knowing what to hold + when to let go as a steward of cultural heritage
I had the great fortune of meeting this week’s guest, Miranda Mims, at a roundtable discussion hosted by Minda Harts at SXSW. (Yes, SXSW again!). After the roundtable, I organized an impromptu dinner at the Elizabeth Street Cafe, which is one of my...
#0043: Ruby Silvious on making it all up as you go + testing your discipline
The amazing Ruby Silvious, author of 363 Days of Tea: a Visual Journal on Used Tea Bags, joins me on the podcast this week. As I record this podcast, I’m slowly working on and growing the 33K Task List Project. After facilitating a craftworking...
#0042: Chelsea Collier on smart communities + boldly creating a career for yourself that doesn't exist yet
Have you ever been frazzled, afraid, or felt like you were not enough? If that is the case, you are in the right place, my friend, to receive some inspired and totally doable action steps. Joining me this week is one of my mentors, Chelsea Collier....
#0041: Sara Cantor Aye on human centered design, social innovation + equal parenting
Welcome back to le salon, friends! This week, I want you to meet Sara Cantor Aye. One thing first, remember Patti Wilson from episode 31. I got to meet her IRL during the Professional Women Controllers 40th(!) conference. It was a beyond amazing...