Cliterally Speaking the Podcast

*Originally released Nov 16, 2018*Unfortunately, this week Michelle came down with a cold. Don’t worry, Just a regular cold, not COVID, thankfully. In addition their guest wasn’t feeling well. So, out of an abundance of caution, they rescheduled and decided to focus on getting healthy and forgo recording a new episode this week.However, Emily’s birthday is October 24th. And they wanted to celebrate it on an episode, but with 2 of the 3 people being sick, they couldn't. So, instead, they're re-releasing Emily’s birthday episode from 2018! (I guess this means Emily is also now two years younger!) There’s no pandemic talk, great wine; they laugh and get serious. They celebrate the podcast and you their listeners. It feels as if it’s from another dimension. Hopefully, it’s a welcome break and a warm memory for you, too.They'd love to have your help in celebrating Emily’s birthday, Feel free to post a note on the Facebook page or instagram. Send her an email at [email protected] or send her a birthday voicemail at 812-727-0794. She’ll love hearing from you!A reminder that their October Time of the Month show is on Wednesday October 28 live on Facebook from 8-9 pm central time. Hope you can join them!And one final note before the episode begins…As everyone knows we’re in the homestretch leading up to the November 3rd presidential election. Please vote. Make your plan to vote. If you can, vote early or vote absentee. It’s so important to have your voice heard. Vote like our lives depend on it.Thank you for your friendship and for listening.Originally released on November 16, 2018We celebrate Emily’s "??" Birthday while splurging on 3 Cellier, Chateauneuf du Pape. After cheerful celebrations, Michelle and Emily have an honest conversation about the gray areas of consent. They invite their audio engineer, Sam Maul, to join the conversation and share his perspective about 'consent' and what it means to his generation of men. Emily and Michelle invite their listeners to participate in the discussion by first listening to Radio Lab's podcast three related episodes called "in the No" and then calling the listener comment line - 812-727-0794 or emailing [email protected] with their reactions for discussion in a future episode.Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Michelle & Emily welcome artist Karen Ann Jones to the podcast. They crack open two bottles of a 2012 Balverne Cabernet from Chalk Hill which explains why this is one of their longer episodes. There was so much to talk about one bottle wasn't enough. Sound familiar? From KarenAnnJones.com:"Karen Ann Jones is a painter and clothing designer. She and her husband have a five story warehouse in downtown St. Louis, Missouri in the USA where they live with their little dog Gisele. Her painting studio, gallery and design company are all their building making her love where she lives. She is an oil painter, painting mostly figurative works and commissioned portraits. Through her art she empowers people to celebrate their uniqueness to feel strong and beautiful. She has also designed a clothing line featuring her artwork that she sells online and in different boutiques nation wide.My goal in my work is to express my optimistic, happy, in love with life, quirky, deep, intimate and passionate perspective of life.I choose my painting by recreating a visual of the feelings I am having at that moment. I get to spend personal time with that passionate feeling that I long to experience. This is probably why I don’t paint a painting in one day. I want to linger in that relationship."The conversation "wines" its way through a myriad of topics: how Karen views her calling to paint as being a "Life Cheerleader" even during these COVID times; how it's affecting her desire to create and what she's drawn to painting; to how the law of attraction works; to a fun conversation about orgasms and how if everyone in the world had more orgasms it would put more positive energy out into the universe and the world would be happier!! (Finally, homework you'll LOVE!)Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Emily and Michelle are celebrating! Cliterally Speaking the Podcast is TWO years old! They have a "sparkling" conversation that "wines" its way through reflections on the past two years to their hopes and dreams for the future.They discuss American exceptionalism, the American Dream, and how the world views the United States. They take a deep dive into the concept of empathy and why all humans should be treated with dignity.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#/media/File:The_universal_declaration_of_human_rights_10_December_1948.jpgThey talk about the episode IN PRAISE OF SHAME from MADNESS: THE PODCAST and soooo much more!Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Michelle and Emily are joined by three members of Touchy Topics Tuesday: Tiffany Robertson (founder), Laurie Shannon, and Elizabeth Joseph.This episode's recording was a little different with Emily in the studio and Michelle and guests "zooming" in. Michelle's son had been diagnosed with COVID and they were following the CDC guidelines. (He's fine now, thankfully.)Michelle was drinking Inopia, a delightful Cotes du Rhone. And Emily drank a white burgundy, Macon-Villages Chenin Blanc. Can they finish the bottles on their own??Tiffany shares how she created the organization Touchy Topics Tuesday in response to her teenage daughter's depth of despair and her questions regarding the lack of justice after the grand jury did not indict the officer to the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.From Touchy Topics Tuesday website https://www.touchytopicstuesday.com "Touchy Topics Tuesday™ is an ongoing cross racialintentional integration model that serves as an “implicitbias bootcamp” for those seeking to respond to racismby exploring and confronting their biases towardsindividuals with different lived experiences andcultivate relationships."Emily and Michelle along with Tiffany, Laurie, and Elizabeth have an intimate, frank conversation about racial biases, ignorance, uncomfortable spaces, how you play into other people's experiences and your responsibility with that.They talk personal responsibility, institutional responsibility, cultural responsibility and how to personally grow and use that growth to make change institutionally and culturally.To donate to TTT to keep these conversations going and to bring about change, visit http://www.PayPal.Me/TouchyTopicsTuesday or Cash App $Mrsteerobto learn more about TTT visit https://www.touchytopicstuesday.comThank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Emily and Michelle welcome Frankie Ruprecht to the show. While Emily and Michelle share a bottle of Dolcetto D'Alba while Frankie sips on a Rye Bourbon from Switchgrass Spirits.They have a beautiful conversation about cultural expectations, corporate life, how does the pie grow, loss and love. Frankie shares her personal story of becoming a widow at a young age. This lead to a deep conversation about grief, grieving, expectations, and how we hold on to ideas of what life is supposed to be like. Frankie reminds us that human life is extremely fragile and that fragility is even more magnified in these COVID times.Frankie shares tips on how people can eliminate societal expectations of how someone who is grieving should feel and behave.She shares how wonderful it is to talk about the loved one who has passed and to hold that space open for the grieving person. We wish we could've met her husband, Armen, to have been blessed to experience the love he shared with the world.Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Emily and Michelle welcome Katie Moon to the podcast. Katie is the Exhibits Manager at the Missouri History Museum and the curator of the Beyond the Ballot exhibit at the museum. After Michelle and Emily visited the exhibit, they knew they had to have Katie on the podcast. In addition, Katie is the author of the upcoming book "Groundbreakers, Rule Breakers, and Rebels" to be released in November 2020.They share a 2016 bottle of La Petite Lune from Domaine de Chevalier. While sipping and trying to describe the panties, they realize they don't know enough about Star Wars to talk about it on the podcast.They have a great conversation about the history of Women's suffrage, how the exhibit came about, women's history in St. Louis, and women's history in general. They answer the questions about whether or not to celebrate or commemorate the anniversary of women's suffrage? Katie shares some of the surprising facts she learned about St. Louis Women's history while pulling the exhibit together. For instance, how the Louisiana Purchase negatively impacted the economic, legal, and social status of women in St. Louis. The conversation flows from discussing how Katie selected the artifacts on display to the importance of inclusivity in the women's suffrage movement then and now, and to St. Louis's complex social and economic history.Visit https://mohistory.org/exhibits/beyond-the-ballot to learn more!Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Michelle and Emily have huge #fangirl moments when welcoming Tonina to the podcast.From IAMTONINA.comTonina is a singer/songwriter, bassist, music journalist and poet from St. Louis, Missouri who performs her original music along with her arrangements of covers in both Spanish and English. Tonina comes from a family of music lovers that exposed her to many music styles, from funk, soul, and jazz to classical music. She was born in San Diego, California but raised in St. Louis, Missouri from black and Sicilian backgrounds. All these components have given her an unparalleled musical scope playing many different genres yet making each her own. Her sense of rhythm, melody, and her extraordinary voice and song interpretation, make her performances a thrilling experience for all listeners.Tonina began her musical journey when she was nine years old and was trained classically for 11 years, studying with multiple bassists from the St. Louis Symphony and attending various master classes with Grammy Award-winning bassist, John Clayton. She grew up participating in multiple music programs in the St. Louis area, eventually leading the bass sections of both the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra and The Missouri All State Orchestra. Tonina performed at Carnegie Hall in 2009 and Lincoln Center in 2012 as a member of her high school Symphonic Orchestra. At the age of 17, she was admitted to Berklee College of Music and went on to study bass performance, songwriting, and Africana Studies. In 2014, she was accepted to study bass performance at the Berklee Valencia campus in Spain, where she met and worked with Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter, Javier Limon.In October of 2016, Tonina travelled to Spain to perform at the National Auditorium of Madrid. She also performed her first showcase in March, 2017 at the Ellas Crean music festival in Madrid and shortly graduated from Berklee College of Music earning two degrees. Tonina had a big year in 2018. She opened for Grammy-Award winning artist, Lalah Hathaway in St. Louis, travelled to perform at the Catania Jazz Festival in Sicily, and was named one of NPR’s favorite new artists of 2018 and then listed as one of NPR’s top 10 artists of 2018. Her interpretation of “Historia de un Amor” was placed on former president Barack Obama’s top songs list of 2018. In 2019, she signed to American record label, Empire. She performs with her band in St. Louis and around the world.They talk touring, family, relationships, song-writing, inspiration and so much more. Tonina graces the podcast by performing three of her songs live in the studio. They know this episode runs on the long side but every second is so worth it.Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Michelle and Emily welcome THE Don Reed to the podcast from his home in LA. If you're a fan of the podcast, Snap Judgment, then you're familiar with Don Reed. He was Snap Judgment's Performer of the Year in 2016. Don is currently Co-Producing Robert Townsend's one man show "Living the Shuffle." He's a series regular on Amazon Prime's "BARTLETT" co-financed by and recurring role starring Hamilton creator Lin Manuel Miranda. 2016 NPR/WNYC Snap Judgment Performance of the Year, 2016 TBA: Theater Bay Area Outstanding Solo Production - (HBO, Showtime, Tonight Show with Jay Leno) A comedian/producer/writer with 6 acclaimed solos shows - critically lauded by The New Yorker, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, Harlem News and more. Additionally, written & directed HBO Shorts, creative consulted on half-hour comedies and consistently delivered entertainment advertising to network and studio clients (NBC, FX, HBO, TBS, more).Don shares what inspired him to become a writer and a performer. How being forced to be a Jehovah's Witness by his stepfather up until the age of 16 impacted the trajectory of his life. They talk about fear, facing the truth, family, importance of education, being vulnerable and authenticity. Emily and Don share stories of poltergeist activity they've experienced in their lives. Michelle, not surprisingly, does not have any stories of poltergeists.Don tells a hilarious story about when he auditioned to be a stripper and shares a never before shared story about personal lap dances.Be prepared to laugh til your sides hurt, your eyes cry, and your corduroy panties spark!Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Michelle and Emily welcome Dawn Chapman and Karen Nickel founders of JustMomsSTL to the podcast. JustMomsSTL have been working tirelessly to bring awareness about the environmental radioactive crisis sitting on the surface of a landfill located 1000 feet from residential communities.Backstory - In 2012, Just Moms STL founders became alarmed by the intense odor emitted from the West Lake Landfill and called authorities. That is when they found out in discussions with the authorities about not only the toxic odors emitting from the landfill but that 2 sections had radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project; soon came the revelation that the dump housed toxic waste in an unprotected site residing in a floodplain near the Missouri River.There is currently a subsurface smoldering fire in the adjacent Bridgeton Landfill approximately 1000 feet away from the radioactive waste. The EPA and other agencies have yet to come up with a solution to ward off a potential nuclear disaster. St. Louis County has gone as far as preparing a West Lake Landfill Shelter in Place/Evacuation Plan in 2014 that was accidentally leaked to a news station. No one knows exactly what will take place if the fire were to reach the nuclear waste.http://www.stlradwastelegacy.comDawn & Karen are featured in the documentary "Atomic Homefront" available on HBO. Michelle also recommends everyone watch the Chernobyl miniseries on HBO to get an idea of the potential devastation awaiting the St. Louis region if this landfill and radioactive waste is not removed before the fire reaches it.Amazingly, we learned today (8-28-2020) that the EPA has finally started the cleanup of the SUPERFUND landfill this week. We're glad to bring you this important conversation not only for residents in the St. Louis region but for all our listeners because nuclear waste/environmental disasters are not limited to just our backyard.Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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Michelle and Emily welcome back to the podcast their favorite cultural anthropologist Dr. Donna Marshaye-White.Dr. Donna previously joined them in Season 1 (#2, Bumping Barbies) and Season 3 (#52, Ignite Your Sexual Spirit)where she shared her extensive expertise in understanding human behavior.They discuss how people have behaved during the Corona times - from kindness towards each other to fear to chaos. How people have shifted to a more intentional way of living out of necessity; how every day is different yet the same; how to find gratitude; remember the skills you learned in kindergarten to survive the covid times.They discuss navigating and growing intimate relationships during the COVID times. They explore the concept of Good Sex and what does that mean to each person. They talk about the importance of connection in intimate relationships and the effects of DIS-connection.Emily challenges Michelle, Donna, and all listeners to reclaim words relating to female anatomy and recognize the strength and power in them. This leads to a great discussion on language, feminine and masculine words, and how to shift personal and societal attachments to words.The episode culminates with a great discussion (yes, ANOTHER great discussion) about desire, intimacy, healthy decisions, relationships and the benefits of a good country breakfast.Thank you for listening and subscribing to Cliterally Speaking the Podcast. Visit our website: www.cliterallyspeakingpodcast.comFacebook: @cspeakpodcastInstagram: @cliterallyspeakingthepodcastTwitter: @cliterallyspea1Please call our comment line: 812-727-0794Watch our youtube channel (Cliterally Speaking the Podcast) for all the behind the scenes discussions during our recording sessions.Be on the lookout for the launch of our live-streaming channel on Twitch, CliterallySpeakingPodTV. Our patreon site is up - visit it here - http://bit.ly/32uOnVT

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