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This week I spoke with singer-songwriter Leona Naess who recently released an album titled Brood X after a family of periodic cicadas that, like her, reemerged in 2022 after 17 years underground. In the years since she released her last album in 2004, Naess had lived her own life “underground”— nesting, becoming a mom, and moving through the grief of losing both parents. Released in 2021, Brood X has themes of reemergence and rediscovery. In this conversation we talk about how she got into the music industry young with her hit song Charm Attack, the music industry in the 90s, processing grief, being cool vs. warm, and more.

Show notes:

-It's not to late to join IN PROCESS -- find out more and sign up here!

-Find Leona on the Web | Instagram

-Read this Harper's Bazaar article on Leona

-Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

-Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

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Episode 404: Musician Courtney Marie Andrews on Chunk Writing & Loose Futures

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This week, I have a conversation with actress, director, and filmmaker Lynn Chen. You may know her from Grey's Anatomy or her breakout role in Saving Face. We talk about everything from rejection to eating disorder recovery to Felicity. Let me know if you listen.

Show Notes:

-It's not to late to join IN PROCESS -- find out more and sign up here!

-Find Lynn on the Web | Instagram

-Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter

-Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

-Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

-Photo Credit: Eric Yang

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Episodes 396 & 397: Slow Like Snails: Virgie Tovar Returns (Parts I & II)

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This week I spoke to writer Nada Alic. She’s the author of Bad Thoughts and working on a forthcoming novel. We recorded in the height of a heatwave here in LA. I came over in the morning, left in the late afternoon. We hung out for an hour or two then recorded for nearly three more. I found listening to her comforting, so I’m breaking it into two parts. As you'll hear, she's incredibly intelligent and clearly creative, yet humble and so funny. She's one of those rare people who are as cool as they seem online, yet also so warm, inviting, and genuinely kind. 

In this second part, we take questions from some mutual friends, and she talks about her somewhat secret 3:00 ritual, her thoughts on comparisons to other artists, romantic relationships, meeting her husband, friendship, novel research wormholes, and more. In part one last week, we covered everything from our first communions and lingering Catholic guilt to shadow integration, how she ended up in LA, disembodiment, body image, and cancel culture. Be sure to tune in if you missed it!

Show Notes:

-IN PROCESS starts next week, October 27th--learn more & sign up here

-Find Nada on the Web | Instagram

-Read Nada's article in Harper's Bazaar, "Eternal Girl Summer"

-Buy Nada's book, Bad Thoughts

-Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

-Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

-Photo credit: Phoenix LoSavio

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Episode 303: Food, Sex & Creativity with Stephanie Danler

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This week I spoke to writer Nada Alic. She’s the author of Bad Thoughts and working on a forthcoming novel. We recorded in the height of a heatwave here in LA and it all felt like a fever dream. I came over in the morning, left in the late afternoon. We hung out for an hour or two then recorded for nearly three more. I found listening to her comforting, so I’m breaking it into two parts. As you'll hear, she's incredibly intelligent and clearly creative, yet so humble and funny. She's one of those rare people who are as cool as they seem online, yet also so warm, inviting, and genuinely kind. 

In part one, we cover everything from our first communions and lingering Catholic guilt to thresholds and an archetype, called a “Puella” to how she ended up in LA to how she started writing and routines that help her continue to. We got into cancel culture, her creative approach to marketing her book, disembodiment, and much more. And in part two, we take questions from some mutual friends, her thoughts on comparisons to other artists, romantic relationships, friendship, novel research wormholes, and more.⁠

Show Notes:

-Find Nada on the Web | Instagram

-Read Nada's article in Harper's Bazaar, "Eternal Girl Summer"

-Buy Nada's book, Bad Thoughts

-IN PROCESS Semester 4  learn what this is and sign up here

-Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

-Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

-Photo credit: @allister_ann

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Episode 303: Food, Sex & Creativity with Stephanie Danler

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This week is a conversation with style expert Stacy London. You might know her as the co-host of TLC’s iconic show, “What Not to Wear." Following that success, she’s gone on to host and executive produce, write books, and create a podcast. 

Last year, Stacy founded State of Menopause, a holistic line addressing the symptoms associated with menopause. And while it might seem like a twist, she’s doing what she has done her entire career as a stylist: helping people who are struggling feel better.

 She’s honestly so cool—we explored the connection between style, eating disorder recovery, and negative body image and also talked about career transitions. She gave me style advice and I loved speaking with her and I’m curious to know what you think, so let me know if you listen.

Show Notes:

-IN PROCESS Semester 4 starts October 20th--learn more & sign up here

-Follow Stacy on Instagram

-Check out State of Menopause

-Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

-Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

-Photo credit: State of Menopause

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Episode 389: Norma Kamali on Dating, Aging, London in the 60s, Her Iconic Fashion Career & "The More You Do, The More You Can Do"

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This week: musician Courtney Marie Andrews on songwriting, relationships, vulnerability, touring, making music videos, collaboration, and more. She started her career performing and busking up and down the West Coast; now, she’s toured all over and released several records, including 2020's GRAMMY-nominated Old Flowers. Her newest record, Loose Future, comes out in October. She also wrote a book of poems called Old Monarch. We talk about her writing process and the method she calls “chunk writing”.

We both happen to be only children and latchkey kids who lived with our single mothers so we talk about that as well as our shared love of walking. Let us know if you listened and go see her on tour.

Show Notes:

-Find Courtney on the Web | Instagram

-Pre-order her new album, Loose Future

-IN PROCESS launches this October--learn more & sign up here

-Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

-Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

-Photo credit: Brett Warren

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Episode 358: Two Saviors, Writing, Touring & Surfing with Musician Buck Meek of Big Thief

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Instead of the usual interview, this is a casual conversation I have with writer Maggie Harrison and Brian Stoothoff, co-founder and owner of the Brooklyn coffee shop Daughter. They each introduce themselves and explain how we met, cover creative process (including how crucial focus is to creativity), loving and leaving where you grew up, seasons and lacking them, and more. They are both founding members of the workshop I started in the fall of 2020--then called Creative Underdogs. It’s a place that encourages connection while making projects. They talk about what happened to them as a result of the group and I tell why I stopped hosting it so abruptly. 

For the three of us talking about foods we’ve eaten lately morphs into a deep dive into the minutiae of our palates and flavor preferences—from our love of smoked flavor to oatmeal. If you want learn more about any of what we talk about, it’s in the shownotes … or just email me: [email protected]

Show Notes:

- Learn more about Creative Underdogs/In Process here | sign up for the waitlist

- Email me at [email protected] if you have any questions about it 

- Find Maggie on Instagram

- Follow Brian on Instagram | check out Daughter

- Learn more about our Podcast Kit

- Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

- Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

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This week I have a conversation with award-winning storyteller and audio producer Megan Tan. You may know Megan (like I do) from her first audio series from 2014—a wildly successful documentary/memoir show with Radiotopia called Millennial. I’ve always admired her unique style of storytelling, and since Millennial she has gone on to produce shows and episodes for Gimlet Media’s The Habitat, TED, WNYC’s Radiolab,All Things Considered, Pineapple Street Media, and more. In 2020, Megan was named Producer of the Year by Adweek. An episode she made of the podcast WILD (which featured Megan’s personal story about love during the pandemic) is my favorite of her recent work, so we began this conversation talking about love and dating in the pandemic.  

Then, we get into how her career has transitioned and talk about her most recent podcast, Snooze, a documentary-style show about tackling the things people put off – including something big that Megan’s been snoozing on herself. I love it—I listened to it all in one day getting ready for this conversation with Megan. I felt particularly inspired after our conversation and learned a lot from Megan’s bits of wisdom from her experience and her Buddhist faith. I hope it has that uplifting quality for you, too, whenever you listen.

Show Notes:

- Find Megan on the Web | Instagram

- Listen to Snooze podcast | Milennial podcast

- Listen to Megan's award-winning episode about dating in the pandemic, WILD: How Do I Love Someone

- Creative Underdogs/In Process is starting up again! Learn more about it here | sign up for the waitlist

- Email me at [email protected] if you have any questions about it 

- Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

- Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

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Episode 395: Lost & Found: Brendan Francis Newnam on 'Not Lost', Travel, Intimacy, Connection & More

This week I spoke to my friend Carolina Mesarina. An artist with a background in production, she's currently in the midst of a career pivot, which we unpacked in this episode. After studying acting at NYU and attending grad school, she found herself on what she calls, "the other side of the call sheet": producing. We talk about her transitioning to a more creative role through the lens of Julia Cameron's term (from The Artist's Way): “Shadow Artist”. As a Creative Producer, Carolina now makes videos and visuals for brands and individuals to help them stand out. We met in New York and have collaborated creatively over the years. She’s so genuine, smart, and creative—and one of my close friends—making the episode unique. We've had many conversations about creativity, identity, money, support, feeling on the outside, procrastination, and career transitions—only this time we recorded our conversation.

Show notes

-Find Carolina on the Web | Instagram

- Carolina was a guest on Creative Underdogs/In Process--here's a video she made for it

- Learn more about Creative Underdogs/In Process here

- Sign up for the waitlist

- Email me at [email protected] if you have any questions about it 

- Some of Carolina's favorite movies: Earth Girls Are Easy, Species, The Burbs, any films by Pedro Almodovar

- Subscribe to our newsletter to get show notes + essays, etc. sent to your inbox

- Follow @letitouttt on Instagram. I'm @katiedalebout

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Episodes 393 & 394: Kismet Color & Intentional Chaos with Artist Kimmy Quillin

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When Emily Gellis hears rumors of people suffering horrible side effects from a trendy diet she springs into action. Armed with over a hundred thousand Instagram followers, Emily launches a social media crusade to expose F-Factor and its founder, Tanya Zuckerbrot. It’s the start of a feud that will attract trolls, lawyers, and, eventually, national media all because of fiber. From Wondery, this is a story about wealth, wellness, and influence hosted by Casey Wilson. 

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