Nehemiah Cisneros earned his BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2021 and was awarded a New Opportunities Fellowship at UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, where he will complete his MFA in 2024. He has work on view at the Rubell Museum in Miami until Nov 2024.

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Matt Meyerson has been working in talent management & public relations for years, largely in the action sports space. We talk about his career, what makes someone good at his job, and so much more in this episode of #BTSPodcast. This was recorded in summer of 2023.

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Sua Hernandez is the Director of Housing Resilience & Executive Administrator at El Sereno Community Land Trust. She’s been working in affordable housing since the late 90s and is an alumni of Occidental College, with a BA in urban and environmental policy. We talk about differences between co-ops, land trusts, and a community development corporation. Sua shares some of the questions ESCLT staff asks themselves to establish and maintain a culture of dignity and autonomy, and why that's important.

Learn more about Community Land Trusts: 

https://www.shareable.net/infographic-the-why-how-of-community-land-trusts/

https://groundedsolutions.org/strengthening-neighborhoods/community-land-trusts 

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Howards End: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9780141182131

Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9781477314470 

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Cerise Castle is a multi-award winning journalist best known for her research & reporting around LASD Gangs. She’s been published by VICE, LA Times, LA Mag, HBO, NPR, & Wondery Media. In this episode she talks about what being a freelance journalist means, pitching work, juggling stories, therapy, self-care, & so much more. Be sure to listen to her podcast A Tradition of Violence & follow her across social platforms.

Hear Cerise discuss A Tradition of Violence & her the details of her reporting on Locatora Radio talking more about her work here for condensed context to better understand what A Tradition of Violence is about

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Jay Washington is a comedian, actor, & former wrestler. You may have seen him in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq or American Gigolo. We talk about parenting as an entertainer, leaving wrestling, finding the right representation, his career in comedy & how comedians get paid, & mental health. Please follow Jay across social (links below) you can watch a YouTube recording of this convo on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/mk15Hed3G-E

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Culturalist, journalist, creative coach, grief coach, and multi-media artist Laura Sullivan Cassidy discusses her work around grief, death, & dying, as well as what Recompose does and how states are slowly but surely getting on board with this eco-friendly burial option. 

Check out Inelda, which is mentioned as the organization Laura did her training at here: https://inelda.org/learn/end-of-life-doula-training/

A Sacred Passing (end of life care community in Seattle): https://asacredpassing.org/ 

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Annie Cruz is a streamer, horror fanatic, and host. We talk about wrestling, her life after the adult entertainment industry, streaming, and a ton more. 

Brittinae has a Masters Degree in Health Science and works building sex ed curriculums. In this conversations she dispels common misconceptions about Plan B & birth control, explains why she decided to focus on sex ed in Black communities, elaborates on what the health department does, & the importance of talking about sex, acknowledging the history of birth control.

Resources she mentions here:

https://www.instagram.com/sexpositive_families/

https://www.instagram.com/incaseyourecurious/ 

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Molly Lambert is an incredible writer. She’s the writer & host of Heidi World: The Heidi Fleiss Story & talks about navigating freelance writing while trying to break into TV writing. I super appreciate how candid she is about juggling jobs, the abyss of pitching & the instability of freelance creative careers. If you haven’t listened to Heidi World, please stop what you’re doing & listen ASAP. Be sure to follow her for updates on her upcoming projects which I am thrilled to hear. 

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This episode was recorded at the end of 2020. As of now, Sierra Reed is at Whalar as their Social Platform Partnerships Director. She was previously at Mozilla as their Marketing & Social Media Relations manager where she worked on both Firefox & Pocket & shares what she's learned about working across organizations and managing up. Books Sierra recommends:

One Minute Manger: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9780062367549

Executive Presence: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9780062246899

Emotional Intelligence 2.0: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9780974320625

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