Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with Leslie Howard who is an audiobook narrator, mother of 6, yoga teacher, and mystic, living on a small animal sanctuary in the hills of Pennsylvania with her husband. From Hare Krishna to homeschooling to rave culture  - she says, "Every day is an adventure of love." 

In this episode we talk about Leslie's "fairy tale" life and how she manifested many things...how she offers incense to the deities....her stumbled- upon/yet intentional path into audiobook narration...how she had to tame her Etsy shop to FOCUS...Leslie had visions of making something more reproducible and profitable which lead her to narration...she trained with Julie's same non-fiction audiobook coach Sean Pratt...Leslie bringing her authentic self to books...raising six kids (9-26 years old)...how she does yoga daily...how she keeps at it...how inner passion pushes her forward...her yearning for mystic things and the metaphysical world...meeting her husband and how he charged her even more...replacing drugs with yoga and other things...how the rave culture intrigues her...taking a night out without the kids for the first time in 20 years (??!!)...living in Buffalo, NY, Washington state,  why she never moved to California...her thoughts studying Hare Krishna...how a school band trip changed her life with Cupid's arrow...Books she narrated and discusses: ."Psychedelics for Everyone" and "Extraordinary Knowing"...her reiki treatment with her husband/her astrology reading on him...advice to others seeking more of a spiritual life...find things that inspire you/spend time in nature...

IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE: find out which big city Leslie would choose to live in, the one thing that is surprising about her from others...one thing that made her laugh with her kids...who would play her in the movie of her life...and what she hopes to leave behind in this world.

Leslie's audiobook voice is “gentle, smart, spiritual” - find her narration books here. Her website here. On instagram @lesliehowardnarrates

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Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday are back! It's been five weeks since they were on the pod solo (without guests). Which means they give you an update on their lives and their experiences with the past handful of guests...singer/songwriter William Fitzsimmons...podcast queen Gillian Pensavalle....Dean Sharp the House Whisperer...and going back to Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses...how listener Laurie Logan DOES listen to new music...the greatest venues in LA: the Greek Theatre and the Hollywood bowl...seeing Band of Horses live and Death Cab for cutie...how Julie's radio job is going at 88.5 the SoCal Sound (www.thesocalsound.org) and Julie's one year anniversary next week of doing Middays...how Julie is loving her gig - the music she plays and all the cool interviews....Jason and Julie are on the air every Friday on the SoCal Sound for FRIDAY ON A FRIDAY just after 1p PT....Julie is feeling super positive for 2023...how the podcast is getting more and more guests interested in being on...future guest Erika Christiansen...the shows J&J have been watching: Stranger Things, The Last of Us, Shrinking, the latest Chris Rock special on Netflix, the French series Call My Agent...Ted Lasso is coming back...going away each weekend: Carlsbad, Winchester, Marina Del Rey...HUGE NEWS: Julie and Jason may be playing a rock show together in June (stay tuned for details)....Jolene and music supervision, recording cover songs for film and tv...family wedding coming up - Jason is officiating....new music from the band the Active Set (Jason plays guitar)...Rival Tides gigs...people making up "being sick" in the post-pandemic world - a liar's dream...the best whiskey in the world - Seagrass...picking up our dog Rayla's ashes finally and getting a tattoo to remember her...the anniversary of Julie's Mom dying 7 years ago and what was going on in their lives back then...Julie losing a huge job, thyroid surgery...how everything leads you to where you are...going from commercial radio to public radio....the past 6 months (Jason's Mom dying and their dog Rayla dying)...looking at the lighter side of life...traveling...positive things happening...how important it is to ACT when you FEEL something...how you can sometimes talk yourself out of things...how if you don't do it, someone else will...BELIEVING IN YOUR GUT...don't listen to the naysayers...how Julie is an ack-tor!...former guest Jaime Andrews' film Division the movie is available for pre-order...Julie's voiceover is in it and the CUZ I HAVE TO theme!!...Jason's brother Sean Friday (from Dead Sarah) has songs in it, too, from his side project Bitchcamp...

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Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with singer/songwriter William Fitzsimons - the official singer of sadness. Songs you may know "Beautiful Girl," "The Tide Pulls from the Moon," "Fade and then Return," and more. He grew up in Pennsylvania with parents who were blind. We talk about what that was like growing up...We also chat about "Fitzy's" tremendous beard...the beard community....about being bullied as a kid - how music helped him get through life...his music... Pittsburgh...whiskey...divorces...stealing a Phoebe Bridgers song back (by doing a cover of it) because of a guy who slept with his wife...His new album " Covers, Vol. 1"....how touring has changed now that he's older and is remarried and has more kids...what he loves about Pennsylvania...his best advice for someone looking for happiness...and more.

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CUZ I HAVE TO PODCAST...when living your dreams is the only option...This week Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with the podcast queen Gillian Pensavalle. She is the creator/host of the Hamilcast podcast (all about the Broadway show Hamilton), co-host of True Crime Obsessed (with Patrick Hinds), and other pods My So Called Podcast, and Let the Women Do The Work. She also works with her husband Michael Paul Smith on the podcast Ted and Michael Read Sketches Into Microphones and is in the web series The Residuals - a comedic series about actors who do commercials.

In Part Two of Two, we chat about how Gillian went from one hugely successful podcast (Hamilcast) to yet ANOTHER hugely successful pod (TCO: TRUE CRIME OBSESSED)...the tireless work of podcasting....finding that work/life balance only recently...how TCO is a business/Hamilcast is a pure passion project...the crazy amount of patreons TCO has...how they supply extra content to patreons ad-free....Gillian's Let the Women do the Work pod...letting women in crime tell their stories....THEN it's 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE...(1) Gillian has to choose between Taylor Swift, podcasting, or dogs...(2) her favorite NYC food....(3) fav serial killer/true crime doc...(4) what she would bring back from the 90s...(5) what she hopes to impact on the world

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CUZ I HAVE TO PODCAST...when living your dreams is the only option...This week Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with the podcast queen Gillian Pensavalle. She is the creator/host of the Hamilcast podcast (all about the Broadway show Hamilton), co-host of True Crime Obsessed (with Patrick Hinds), and other pods My So Called Podcast, and Let the Women Do The Work. She also works with her husband Michael Paul Smith on the podcast Ted and Michael Read Sketches Into Microphones and is in the web series The Residuals - a comedic series about actors who do commercials. 

In Part One of Two, we chat about Gillian and Julie's connection back in the day, both worked at 92.3 K-Rock NYC (the Howard Stern flagship station)...how Julie was "nice"...Gillian's work on the Residuals...Gillian's choice to leave acting for podcasting...how her mind made it harder than it needed to be...hearing the music of Hamilton for the first time and being blown away, deciding to do a podcast on Hamilton even though she hadn't seen the musical yet...knowing if she didn't do it, someone else would...the moment she knew Hamilcast took off worldwide...Lin Manual Miranda COMING OVER and BEING ON THE POD....Gillian manifesting Lin on the pod...going solo with Hamilcast as the show starting evolving....her desire to make Broadway more accessible...how she got into true crime...meeting her future cohost Patrick Hinds...the first True Crime Obsessed demo...wanting to solve the Zodiac killings...their decision to add comedy to a true crime pod....how you either LOOOVE the podcast or you HAAAATE it...being annoyed with documentaries that don't say the victim's name (giving them a voice)...how murder documentaries become about the murderer and sensationalized....Gillian's feelings on the Jeffrey Dahmer series...and Gillian's friendship with Damien Echols and the Memphis 3...

Stay tuned for Part Two next week!

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Hosts Julie Slater & Jason Friday chat with artist & radio host Dean Sharp (aka The House Whisperer - "Home with Dean Sharp"). Dean hosts a show on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles (where Julie used to work as a news anchor). He's a custom home builder, custom home designer. Dean works on luxury estates in LA and beyond…He’s your guide to turning your house into something truly extraordinary…His bold creativity transports you out of the box and beyond your comfort zone to “build yourself a beautiful life.” We chat about Dean's beard...how Julie and Dean used to work together at KFI...Dean's upbringing...the joys of delicious whiskeys...the meaning behind Dean's tattoos...his love of the 1970's show Kung Fu...his upbringing from Newport Beach to Montrose to Scholl, CA...being different from his farmer parents...encyclopedias...his love of art...how wonder has served him in life - being curious...forgoing college to work and help his mom...finding his first apartment at 16 1/2...how a high school diploma doesn't keep you from being a student...how he fell into luxury home work - working on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's estate...how old world design remains in luxury homes...his love of American Craftsman style homes...changing people's lives in suburban tract homes...the love of his life Tina who is also his producer and partner in work and life...how love is easy, LIKE is the hard part...how Tina and Dean met in an AOL chat room...how KFI Program Director Robin Bertolucci saw something in Dean to get him on the air in radio...a potential future in TV...the worst architecture out there...and Dean's best advice for you to build a beautiful life...and more. Find Dean here: http://www.housewhisperer.design/

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Hosts Julie Slater & Jason Friday are back! Chatting about their recent interview with Chris Martin & Johnny Buckland from Coldplay (watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/rMLoRvnnuCE)...their recent rad as hell guest Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses...Julie wrapping up her first audiobook of 2023...our first listener voicemail of 2023 (yippee!)...and future guests and more...

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Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday continue (Part Two) their conversation with Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses...His new lady in his life after a painful divorce...a Civil Wars reenactment...the pains of showering for the pod (lol)...our mutual friend Eric Gorfain (from The Section Quartet)...Ben busting Julie and Jason for looking like they aren't in the same room...Josh Tillman...live shows that rock our worlds...how difficult divorce is in South Carolina...and we dig into IT'S 5 O'CLOCK somewhere - where we ask Ben five quick unusual questions to get to know him better.

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Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses. It's not an interview, it's a sit down fireside chat...sans the fire...from Ben taking over the hosting duties by asking Julie and Jason questions...to how Ben got his start in music in Seattle...a painful divorce...raising four little ladies (and a lady dog)...coming off of tour to make his new rental his real home...finding his voice with his kids...his truest passions...South Carolina...having the courage to take a real break from the band to be there for his kids...and more. 

Follow @cuzihavetopodcast on Instagram for all the latest news.  We'd love to hear from you - email us at [email protected].  Find other episodes or leave us a voice message for the show on the anchor website. Thanks for tuning in! Keep on living those dreams, friends, CUZ YOU HAVE TO!! - jULIE AND jASON

Hosts Julie Slater & Jason Friday bring back guest Melina (Frenzel) Lindsey (previously on Episode 072). She moved to Denver with her then fiance Matt four years ago...founded Hummingbird Roots - an indoor plant installation & retail company...kicked ass with her business...got married...and then decided to blow it all up and move back home to the Portland area...She moves this Sunday. We talk about what she's learned in Denver...what it feels like to make another big move...and how married life is going. 

Follow @cuzihavetopodcast on Instagram for all the latest news.  We'd love to hear from you - email us at [email protected].  Find other episodes or leave us a voice message for the show on the anchor website. Thanks for tuning in! Keep on living those dreams, friends, CUZ YOU HAVE TO!! - jULIE AND jASON