This week, we are excited to welcome Marlyn Ortiz to the podcast!

A New York native, Marlyn is a dancer, choreographer, and aerialist for the stage and screen as well as functioning as Madonna's personal fitness trainer for several years.

We talk about her career-defining roles in De La Guarda, Fuerza Bruta, plus Disney's Tarzan on Broadway, creating fitness regimens for Hard Candy Fitness and what it's like to have danced with Madonna on two of her most enduring tours- Drowned World and Reinvention.

You can visit Marlyn's website: marlynortiz.com and you can work up a sweat with her weekly on her Instagram Live work out sessions- @marlynortiz

Prepare yourself for an impressive instant this week, when poet Ben Kline joins us on the podcast.

We discuss Ben's Madonna Journey, how he got into writing poetry and he graces us with a very special Madonna-centric poem titled "Waiting for a Drowned World I Find (a Cento)."

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Ben, a lifelong Madonna fan, took up yoga before M made it cool and will fight you over the artistic merit of American Life.

His chapbook SAGITTARIUS A* will be published in fall 2020 by Sibling Rivalry Press. 

Read more at https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/ and follow him on Instagram @bentheauthor. 

This week we sit down with Jess Rothschild, host of "Hot Takes & Deep Dives," a podcast dedicated to quick hits & deep cuts on Real Housewives, Bravolebrities & other pop culture icons. We talk about Jess' Madonna journey, about life as a podcaster and hear the story of that time she offered Madonna a breath mint.

Edward is the host of the Inside the Groove podcast, which deconstructs Madonna songs, discussing how each track was written and recorded, using interviews with the people involved, playing demos and also isolated tracks from the recording sessions. 

Follow Edward on Instagram @insidethegroove1 plus @insidethegroove on twitter and listen to "Inside the Groove" wherever you find your podcasts!

In this episode, we welcome actor, writer and director Bayne Gibby to the podcast, for a special super-sized episode. We discuss her life in Hollywood and do a bit of Madonna improv!

Best known for her role as Gigi on the HBO series The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow, Bayne has a long list of film and TV credits. She's appeared in the Oscar Nominated film Lady Bird, the HBO series Enlightened, as well as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Hot in Cleveland opposite Betty White, and Mad Men to name a few. Prior to the pandemic, Bayne could be seen regularly at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater LA in the musical improv show Magic to Do. And recently, her first children's book, You Mean the World to Me, was published by Scholastic.

Find Bayne online at baynegibby.com, on Twitter & Instagram @baynegibby