Ladyland

Just wanted to drop everyone a quick note to let you know that we’re hard at work on Season 4 of Ladyland and plan to start releasing episodes this summer. In the meantime, we’ve got some exciting bonus news for you… we made VIDEOS! We invited some Ladyland guests to find out what a day in their life is all about.

You’ll find the videos on our official site at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Patreon.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Natalie Lima, a Cuban-Puerto Rican writer, raised in Las Vegas, NV and Hialeah, FL. She is a first-generation college graduate of Northwestern University and a graduate of the MFA program in creative nonfiction writing at the University of Arizona. Her essays and fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Longreads, Guernica, Brevity, The Offing, Catapult, Sex and the Single Girl (Harper Perennial, 2022), Body Language (Catapult, 2022), and elsewhere. Her writing has been honored in Best Small Fictions (2020), and noted twice in Best American Essays (2019 and 2020). Natalie has received fellowships from PEN America Emerging Voices, Bread Loaf, Tin House, the VONA/Voices Workshop, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and a residency from Hedgebrook. She is currently working on a collection of essays and a novel.

Join us for a conversation about writing embarrassing crap about your life, the pros and cons of getting an MFA, and building a literary community online.

Find Natalie on Twitter, Instagram, and at natalielima.com. Read Natalieâ€s work here. Take a class with Natalie here.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Gena Johnson, a Nashville-based producer, recording engineer, and mixing engineer. Gena is nominated for 2021 Audio Engineer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music. She is the first woman nominated for this award. Gena’s credits include Ashley Monroe’s 2021 album, Rosegold; Jason Isbell’s 2020 album, Reunions; Chris Stapleton’s 2020 album, Starting Over; John Prine’s last recorded song, “I Remember Everything,” which won two Grammy awards in 2021; the Oscar-winning soundtrack for A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga); and GRAMMY-winner Brandi Carlile’s 2018 record, By the Way, I Forgive You. Gena is Governor for the Recording Academy’s Nashville Chapter Board and Chair of the MusicCares Fundraising Committee within the Recording Academy. She also mentors aspiring female engineers, both in college and as assistant engineers.

Join us for a conversation about the hustle of freelance recording in Nashville, working with John Prine, and being the first woman nominated for ACM’s Audio Engineer of the Year award.

Find Gena on Instagram and read more about her ACM nomination here.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Ciona Rouse, poet and author of the chapbook Vantablack (Third Man Books, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in Oxford American, NPR Music, The Account, Talking River, Gabby Journal, and other publications. She is poetry editor of Wordpeace. Along with poet Kendra DeColo, she hosts the literary podcast Re\VERB. Ciona is co-curating Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick at the Frist Art Museum July 23 – October 10, 2021. In addition to her curatorial responsibilities, she will compose original poems inspired by Walkerâ€s works.

Join us for a conversation about why we should all be buying more chapbooks, learning how to say no, and watching tiny dinosaurs roam in our yards.

Find Ciona on Twitter, Instagram and at cionarousepoetry.com. Take a class with Ciona here. Learn more about The Porch writing classes here. Find out more about Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick here.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin is joined by Joy the Baker, Sheena Steward, Sarah Hays Coomer, and Freya West to give advice about life, love, work, and weirdness. While this episode is purely for entertainment purposes, there is a refreshing honesty and vulnerability that will have you reaching for your journal.

Join us for a conversation about post-pandemic dating, work-life balance, supporting your partner through a midlife crisis, and embracing your weirdness.

Find Joy the Baker on Instagram, joythebaker.com, and shop her baking mixes at Williams Sonoma.

Find Sheena Steward on Instagram and loveatanystage.com.

Find Sarah Hays Coomer on Instagram, sarahhayscoomer.com, and buy The Habit Trip here.

Find Freya West on Instagram and Twitter.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Betsy Phillips, author of Jesus Crawdad Death, a book of short stories published by Third Man Books. She also has a forthcoming book on Nashvilleâ€s mid-20th-century white supremacist bombings, titled Dynamite Nashville: The FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control. Betsy is the Marketing and Sales Manager for Vanderbilt University Press. Her writing about history and politics has appeared in the Nashville Scene and Washington Post. We would be remiss not to mention that her hand was recently in the NY Times.

Join us for a conversation about what Betsy wishes she could tell every new Nashvillian, how anyone can be a historian, cemeteries, and being held hostage by the National Archives.

Find Betsy on Twitter, Instagram, and at The Nashville Scene.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Destiny O. Birdsong, a Louisiana-born poet, fiction writer, and essayist. She is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, Jack Jones Literary Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, and MacDowell. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published by Tin House Books in October 2020, and was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Grand Central in 2022.

Join us for a conversation about rejections and what they make room for, rudeness disguised as rigor, and navigating the medical system as a Black woman.

Find Destiny on Twitter, Instagram, and at destinybirdsong.com. Copies of Negotiations are available at Parnassus Books, The Bookshop, and at bookshop.org.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In the first episode of Season Three, Kim Baldwin chats with Odessa Kelly, co-founder and Executive Director of Stand Up Nashville, a non-profit community organization that fights for working families. A Nashville native, Odessa is a graduate of Stratford High School, Tennessee State University (BA) and Cumberland University (MPS). Prior to co-founding Stand Up Nashville, she worked as a civil servant for Metro Parks & Recreation for 14 years, leading at Napier Community Center. Most recently, Odessa is the first person recruited by Justice Democrats for the 2022 Congressional election cycle.

Join us for a conversation about the “stranger danger” of Amazon, fighting to ensure Metro government looks like the people it represents, and the pivotal moment Nashville began to lose its soul.

Find Odessa on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and at odessaforcongress.com. Find Stand Up Nashville on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and at standupnashville.org. Sign up for their newsletter at standupnashville.org/mailer-signup.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Sheena Steward, a lifestyle and relationship blogger who appeals to her readers by courageously sharing her truths about life, love, and overcoming adversity. Sheena is widely celebrated for her humanity. She creates philanthropic campaigns to better her community and influence change through acts of kindness. She lends her voice, experience, and distinct superpower of vulnerability to help others navigate their lives and relationships.

Join us for a conversation about turning your birthday into a community service project, being a teenage activist in rural Tennessee, and not losing your sense of self after becoming a mother.

Find Sheena on Instagram, Facebook, and at loveatanystage.com.

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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In this episode, Kim Baldwin sits down with Dawn Little, General Education and Special Education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Dawn specializes in Project Based Learning, STEAM, Learning Technologies, and Inclusion instruction. She has a MA in Elementary Education, M.Ed in English Language Acquisition, and MA in Learning Technologies. Dawn is working on National Board Certification and is a member of ISTE and CUE. She also lived in Japan for seven years working as an ESL teacher and has a strong grasp of conversational Japanese. Kim and Dawn met in middle school and went on to become best friends, roommates, and a constant in each otherâ€s lives for going on 32 years now.

Join us for a serious conversation about misconceptions about teachers and why they strike, and a less serious conversation about dog-stalking as a midlife crisis.

Are you interested in learning more about the students Dawn teaches? Here are some nonprofits that sheâ€d like to highlight:

To get full show notes and learn more about Ladyland, visit us at ladyland.show and follow us on Instagram at @ladyland_podcast.

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