Meet Them Mondays

April 20th aka 4/20 is known in cannabis culture as National Marijuana Day. For this episode of Meet Them Mondays I'll be interviewing Mari and Biz of Stoner Girl Diary. Two dope queens from Miami who are changing the narrative of what it means to be a stoner girl with their YouTube series SGD where they educate, smoke, and dive into the world of weed.

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Amor Sierra and Antonella Cerasuolo are female tattoo artists. They'll be talking about their careers, stigmas, slaying in a male-dominated trade and their experiences.

Sierra is the owner of @MiamiTattooCo and focuses on “branding” cover-ups of victims of sex trafficking and ex-gang members and @antonella_tattoos an artist and one of the few women of @junkyardstudios who worked her way up the ranks in the industry .

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Amor Sierra and Antonella Cerasuolo are female tattoo artists. They'll be talking about their careers, stigmas, slaying in a male-dominated trade and their experiences.

Sierra is the owner of @MiamiTattooCo and focuses on “branding” cover-ups of victims of sex trafficking and ex-gang members and @antonella_tattoos an artist and one of the few women of @junkyardstudios who worked her way up the ranks in the industry .

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For today's show you’ll be meeting Gaby Guzman of @TheJupiterCircle & Jessica Wade of JWI PR @pepper_pr two beautiful souls and hardworking women who are going to share their human experience stories with us. We're talking the fine balance between motherhood, career, family time and the feminine energy.

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For today's show you’ll be meeting Gaby Guzman of @TheJupiterCircle & Jessica Wade of JWI PR @pepper_pr two beautiful souls and hardworking women who are going to share their human experience stories with us. We're talking the fine balance between motherhood, career, family time and the feminine energy.

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Nicholas Garnett and Esther Martinez are a phenomenal storytelling duo and the editors and producers of Lip Service: True Stories Out Loud. Lip Service is a storytelling theatrical performance where people submit real life stories and get to read them in front of an audience.

The Miami Book Fair adopted the program back in 2012 and since then Lip Service has gone on to partner with local organizations and put together events like Storypalooza - informal storytelling events where readers get feedback from a panel, and official Lip Service events with eight readers, each with eight minute stories.

You'll hear us speak about the art of storytelling and the "high" readers experience after telling their stories. The topics always vary, but most times readers find themselves sharing secrets and life events that they've never been able to say out loud.

Both Esther and Nic agree on the healing properties that sharing a story for others to hear can do for the heart and soul.

Toward the end of this episode you'll hear a reading from Nic and Esther - please note these stories contain sensitive topics.

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Nicholas Garnett and Esther Martinez are a phenomenal storytelling duo and the editors and producers of Lip Service: True Stories Out Loud. Lip Service is a storytelling theatrical performance where people submit real life stories and get to read them in front of an audience.

The Miami Book Fair adopted the program back in 2012 and since then Lip Service has gone on to partner with local organizations and put together events like Storypalooza - informal storytelling events where readers get feedback from a panel, and official Lip Service events with eight readers, each with eight minute stories.

You'll hear us speak about the art of storytelling and the "high" readers experience after telling their stories. The topics always vary, but most times readers find themselves sharing secrets and life events that they've never been able to say out loud.

Both Esther and Nic agree on the healing properties that sharing a story for others to hear can do for the heart and soul.

Toward the end of this episode you'll hear a reading from Nic and Esther - please note these stories contain sensitive topics.

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@MeetThemMondays

www.roamfreewrites.com

I’m your host Christian Portilla and for this show I was accompanied by my lovely co-host and wife Melani aka @MeloMelz.

For those of you that follow my work and my socials you may see my wife behind the scenes and forever my plus one at the events I cover. I asked her to come on the last show of the year because she’s been through this crazy ride with me from the jump and I wanted you all to meet her and give her some air time. She basically lives this journalism career with me but on the silent end.

At the start of the new year I am going to add more to this site and to the Meet Them Mondays platform.

For starters I'm going to bring more of the human element and focus more on telling every day stories of life.

I have been focusing a lot on community, but I also cover culture and lifestyle and I want to bring more of those experiences to this show. With that being said I’d like to have more of you submit your story ideas via email to:

[email protected]

with the subject line Meet Them Mondays.

Themes should be about your life experiences and things you’ve gone through * nothing is off topic * but I want people to hear more human elements to unite us more to each other and really expose the common thread we share in this life journey.

We are also changing Meet Them Mondays to every other Monday meaning you'll hear us live on joltradio.org the second and last Monday of the month. Right now we go live on the second and third Monday but our new schedule begins February since I am taking January off to focus on the one year anniversary celebration for Meet them Mondays.

Thank you for supporting my journalism work and my career. I love you!

@RoamFreeWrites

@MeetThemMondays

www.roamfreewrites.com

I’m your host Christian Portilla and for this show I was accompanied by my lovely co-host and wife Melani aka @MeloMelz.

For those of you that follow my work and my socials you may see my wife behind the scenes and forever my plus one at the events I cover. I asked her to come on the last show of the year because she’s been through this crazy ride with me from the jump and I wanted you all to meet her and give her some air time. She basically lives this journalism career with me but on the silent end.

At the start of the new year I am going to add more to this site and to the Meet Them Mondays platform.

For starters I'm going to bring more of the human element and focus more on telling every day stories of life.

I have been focusing a lot on community, but I also cover culture and lifestyle and I want to bring more of those experiences to this show. With that being said I’d like to have more of you submit your story ideas via email to:

[email protected]

with the subject line Meet Them Mondays.

Themes should be about your life experiences and things you’ve gone through * nothing is off topic * but I want people to hear more human elements to unite us more to each other and really expose the common thread we share in this life journey.

We are also changing Meet Them Mondays to every other Monday meaning you'll hear us live on joltradio.org the second and last Monday of the month. Right now we go live on the second and third Monday but our new schedule begins February since I am taking January off to focus on the one year anniversary celebration for Meet them Mondays.

Thank you for supporting my journalism work and my career. I love you!

@RoamFreeWrites

@MeetThemMondays

www.roamfreewrites.com

The internet has such a strange way of connecting people sometimes, but it's really cool when those connections come full circle. This past week was Miami Art Week also known as Art Basel and I met some inspiring women. On the fly I invited one of them to meet me on Meet Them Mondays to speak with me and the listeners about her project.

Veronica Urrea, also known as V is behind Visionnaire Collective recently starting her business to represent artists and has found a way to curate a squad of badass creative ladies on her team.

V along with 30 Voices will be spearheading an event celebrating Intentional Women's Day in San Francisco for 2018.

I also had Alessandra Mondolfi and Melanie Oliva also known as art activists who participated in the March Against The Patriarchy during Basel drawing attention to the political statements they represent with props and signs and other visuals they've come to get recognition for.

For this episode you'll meet all three women who although have many differences all seem to merge together creatively and in expression.

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