Intolerance

Alan Lyons shares his unwavering support for his friend, Emily Pratt. 

Episode Resource List:

• A U Salon, Reno, NV
• The Glass Die
• Actors Killed Lincoln
• Icky Mack
• O’Death
• Devochka
• Die Antwoord
• Rose’s Pawn Shop
• Larry And His Flask
• The Deadly Gallows

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.

Emily Pratt shares her story of being a trans woman.

Episode Resource List:

• Emily's Instagram: @malty.tripe
• Her website: www.howlsroad.com
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 
• True Trans with Laure Jane Grace
• Northern Nevada HOPES
• PFLAG
• Transgender Law Center

Book recommendations 

• Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, by Laura Jane Grace
• Whipping Girl, by Julia Serano
• Redefining Realness, by Janet Mock 

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit 

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.

Valerie Moore is an executive coach and leadership development trainer with 20 years of experience. Her calling is to support people to become more confident leaders and powerful change-agents in the world. She ran her own learning and development company for over 15 years and recently joined a top Tech company to help their leaders cultivate the ability to transform their teams and the world. Valerie is also the creator of Women's Anger Release workshop, which allows women a supportive space to tap into the wisdom and power of this often-suppressed emotion.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. She enjoys traveling, tacos, painting, and swearing.

Episode Resource List:

• valeriemoore.com
• Book - Mating in Captivity, by Esther Perel 
• OnBeing Podcast episode with her is amazing
• Book - When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron
• Book - Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, by David Whyte
• Book - The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D
• Book - Check Your Privilege, by Myisha Hill

Other outlets for Anger Release:

• Rage Rooms
• Axe Throwing
• Femme! Experience dancing 

Valerie’s healing journey song list:

• Solange - Weary 
• Jill Scott - Golden 
• Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel 
• Niki Minaj - Feeling Myself
• The Internet - Ego Death (Whole Album) 

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.

Angela Root is a seasoned television producer with more than a decade of experience working to create original content for networks such as MTV, A&E, TLC, and Travel Channel, and she has been an outspoken ally to the BLM movement since 2015. 
2020 looked to Angela the way it did to many other freelance producers: bleak. But, after a summer of spotlight on the nationwide police brutality epidemic, she decided to channel her rage into more than just protesting. She went back to school to study psychology with the intention of aligning her next career with her passion for social justice. She currently lives in Sacramento, California, with her husband.

Episode Resource List:

• Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson 
• Make Change, by Shaun King 
• Letter From A Birmingham Jail - MLK Jr.
• Ferguson Report - USDOJ 
• Harry Potter, by JK Rowling 
• RBG 

Instagram Accounts to follow:

• @drniiquartelai
• @shaunking 
• @akilahh
• @whataday
• @rachel.cargle
• @glennondoyle
• @mrapinoe
• @scottwoodsrules
• @leemerrittesq
• @grassrootslaw
• @e.raymond_
• @the.daily.don
• @rw2productions

YouTube:

• Crash Course

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit 

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.

Shervin Talieh was born in Turkey to Iranian parents and raised in the USA. As a teenager who identified as American, his family moved back to Iran, where Shervin experienced intolerance from xenophobia and dealing with his own form of identity crisis. These early childhood traumas assisted in spiraling his adulthood into long-term dependancies with alcohol. Now sober, Shervin shares his journey with Athena and the resources and tools that have helped him along the way.

Episode Resource List:

• Shervin's company: PartnerHero
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Alderian Philosophy

Book Recommendations: 

• The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi
• The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
• Between the World and Me, by Ta—Nehisi Coates

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit 

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.

Aimee & Bryan Wingen are  owners of Wingen Bakery in Livermore, California. They started as a licensed cottage bakery as a way to make an income and stay close to their newborn daughter, Waylynn, who was born with a rare genetic disorder called Zellweger Syndrome.  Waylynn tragically passed away at only 8 months of life. They have continued on with the bakery, opening a brick and mortar space, giving back to the community who has lifted them up during this difficult time.

Episode Resource List:

• Wingen Bakery
• Wingen Bakery Instagram
• Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders
• Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall
• That’s Life by Frank Sinatra
• It’s A Beautiful Morning by the Rascals
• Good Hearted Woman by Waylon Jennings
• Truth Hurts by Lizzo
• Louie Louie by The Kingsmen

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit

Eman is a Palestinian, Canadian comic based in New York City. She talks openly with Athena about her life as an international stand-up comic and how her various identities have shaped who she is on stage and in real life.

Episode Resource List:

• Instagram: @Eman_El_Husseini
• Twitter: @emanifique
• Joint Instagram with Eman's wife, Jess: @TheElSalomons

Podcast: 

• Comedians Vs. The News, BBC World Service, hosted by Eman and Jess

Documentary: 

• Speed Sisters

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit 

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.

Mina Samuels is a writer, speaker, playwright, performer, and in a previous incarnation, a litigation lawyer and human rights advocate. She is trained in Non-Violent Communication and offers workshops and one-on-one facilitations on the transformative power of the body-mind connection and how it nourishes our whole self. She is also an athlete and meditation practitioner and has created and performed two award-winning solo shows and an ensemble play.

Episode Resource List:

• Mina's Website
• Mina's Playshops
• Rising — ImagiNation Playshops
• Mina’s Blog 
• I Chose Not to Have Children and I Belong Here, Too, by Mina Samuels
• 30 Minutes to Expand Your Emotional Intelligence, by Mina Samuels
• Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes, by Mina Samuels
• Run Like A Girl: How Strong Women Make Happy Lives, by Mina Samuels
• This is where Mina did her silent retreats, Insight Meditation Society (affiliated with Spirit Rock)
• Vision question group, The School of Lost Borders
• Center for Non Violent Communication
• This is the trainer in Vancouver she loves, Jenna Card, at Heartspring Consulting
• This is the place Mina is doing NVC training with in Montreal, Spiralis
• Non Violent Communication (A Language of Life), Marshall Rosenberg's main NVC book
• How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
• Zoë Keating
• TomKat Ranch

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other 

David Lewis is a mechanical engineer and husband and ally to previous guest, Dan Floyd. While he, too, had to leave the mormon church when he came out as gay, he shares his story of support and allyship for his husband and his community. 

Episode Resource List:

• It Gets Better, YouTube

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit 

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.

Dan Floyd is the owner and creator of Dan Good Cookies, a sweet confectionary of cookies and baked goods in San Francisco's East Bay. Dan shares his story of leaving the Mormon church when he came out as gay, and a very public display of homophobia at his local Farmer's Market.

Episode Resource List:

• Dan Good Cookies website
• Dan Good Cookies Instagram
• Dan Good Cookies Facebook
• East Bay Mercury News YouTube video showing the Farmer's Market incident that Dan refers to in his interview.

Host: Athena Casey
Producer: Debbie Casey
Underscoring: Mat Eisenstein
Cover artwork: Louise Laffaille
Sponsor: YouniquelyFit 

New episodes drop every Tuesday and every other Thursday.