Band Wives

Back to basics with a Q & A minisode this week as Misha and Chondra gear up for the holidays and battle the flu. Today's episode keeps it short and sweet as the Wives answer a question about their favorite things to do with a significant other when they are home. Get your minds out of the gutter and get ready to quiet quit Christmas!

In the last episode of our December #CrewWives spotlight, Chondra and Misha welcome gifted photographer and entrepreneur Brandi Falconer of Wander & Dusk to the show to talk about weddings, ambitious travel, the importance of routines and her latest venture--The Dark Room--a women-owned Las Vegas photo studio and event space. Also hacking packing, The White Lotus, and anarchist spice rack organization.

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Wander and Dusk

The Dark Room

In a bonus full-length episode continuing to spotlight #crewlife, the Wives welcome delightfully funny guest Anne Sprague to talk about extra long friendships that turn into love, quick engagements, finding a career path later in life, Love is Blind and why rabbit ownership is not for the faint of heart. Also, Misha's quest to make grammar fun and the foster dog fail everyone saw coming (except Chondra.)

In a special full episode, Chondra and Misha are joined by Courtney Klimson, founder of The Roadie Clinic, an advocacy network created to help support the physical, mental and emotional well-being of crew members and their families. Courtney shares her deep insight into the unique challenges of roadie life, including the deficits in available resources that she noticed throughout her journey as a touring crew wife and some incredible suggestions and tips to keeping the show on the road in a healthy way.

Also very late Halloween costume planning, Jimmy Fallon, potentially living in pajamas and why cleavage is truly nature's pocket.

THE ROADIE CLINIC RESOURCES

The Roadie Clinic is an advocacy group committed to providing a safe space for roadies and their families to heal while off the road, and to advocate for - and empower them to obtain - a healthy work environment while on the road. Their three-story, multi-faceted facility will offer mental health services, career coaching, education, advocacy, financial guidance, family services, recovery resources and temporary housing when available. Operating as a 501(c)(3), TRC will offer its facility (and currently offers its services) both in person and online, for little to no charge to touring professionals and their families.

To DONATE: Text “ROADIES” to 707070, and a donation link will pop up within a few seconds.

MusiCares

Music Health Alliance

Backline.care

SIMS Foundation

Hope for the Day

TEMPO

Behind the Scenes

SAFETour

Entertainment Community Fund: Emergency financial assistance, affordable housing, health care and insurance coaching, secondary career development, senior care and more.

In this week's Minisode, Chondra and Misha talk gratitude for the most important things in life like family, new beginnings, good books...and public restrooms. Also, some VERY important news from the Band Wives camp that we can't (and likely won't) stop talking about.

No matter how you celebrate (or if at all) finding things to be thankful for helps make the week a little brighter.

Chondra and Misha are back this week with startlingly talented and hilarious guest, Marie Trohman. From her journey through the NYC art world to co-founding Los Angeles-based interior design firm PROEM in the midst of a global pandemic...and helping bring to life the stunning green kitchen that broke the internet this year (Seriously, Emma Chamberlain, can we come over for dinner?)

Marie talks self-care by way of 6AM workouts, the challenges of staying sane with a partner whose schedule is equally erratic, keeping a level-head in the midst of career highs and lows...and intentionally sabotaging Christmas by going too hard.

Also, giant spiders and a small development in Poe news!

www.proem.studio/

In this week's Minisode Q + A, the Wives talk about how they deal with online negativity about their spouses without fighting back or flying off the handle. Spoiler: It's not easy. As usual, the conversation takes a lot of turns, from the value of creative content and opinions of artists to internalizing constructive criticism and tuning out when necessary.

This week Chondra and Misha sit down with the luminous and multi-faceted Julia Marie Arnold to chat about pulling double duty as both band wife AND pastor's wife to Stephen Christian of Anberlin. From working in real estate and parenting three daughters, to keeping angry texting in check and building a community in your own backyard, the gang commiserates on the ultra-high expectations for mamas in 2022, tour life and why goat yoga doesn't sound like a great idea.

In this week's Minisode Q + A, Chondra and Misha tackle a listener's question about finding common ground with parenting styles between partners. The Wives talk in figure eights about raising children, breaking cycles, childhood and nature versus nurture. Also Misha's upcoming Vegas trip and Chonny's desperate attempts to meet Brendan Fraser at New York Comic Con. Special appearances from a rainbow on Misha's face and Chonny's flannel shirt of shame.

In this week's episode, Chondra and Misha are talking with the lovely Husna O'Connell about coordinating life for a family of four, her move from the midwest to the East Coast, pivoting plans and kicking mean kids out of the playground. Also Basquiat, long days and whether art has changed for the better (if that's even a thing.)