Pull It Together

Today we sit down with Emmy Award Winning actress, singer, teacher, music therapist, philanthropist, and author - Patrice Covington. Before you ask, yes, girlfriend does all the things and does them all well. 

Patrice just wrapped up filming National Geographic’s anthology series, Genius: Aretha. Where she brings to life the late Erma Franklin, an American Gospel singer, activist, and elder sister to Aretha Franklin played by Academy Award Nominated Cynthia Erivo. Patrice has toured the world with Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, and Stevie Wonder. She serves as a celebrity ambassador for Kids in the Spotlight, an organization empowering foster kids through filmmaking, and is the creator of The Galaxy Method, an aspiring artist teaching series using music as a healing agent.

In this candid conversation, Patrice shares the one thing she wished she learned earlier in her career as an artist. We talk about finding your light and using it to empower others. And why it's so important for artists to get out of their lane. She is a magical human with words of wisdom for any creative.

We also chat about...

• Competition
• Empathy
• Gratitude
• Using the arts to heal our nation

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Today we chat with  James Beard Award-nominated writer, Julia Bainbridge. Julia was formerly an editor at Bon Appétit, Yahoo, and Atlanta magazine, she has also worked at Condé Nast Traveler and Food & Wine. Her new book Good Drinks, about nonalcoholic cocktails, was released this fall, and it could not come to us at a more perfect time. 

After building a career around why and how people gather, Bainbridge pivoted into why people don't, launching The Lonely Hour podcast to explore social disconnection and other forms of loneliness.

This conversation felt serendipitous in so many ways. After decades as freelance artists (her as a journalist, me as an actor) we sat down during a time of transition for us both. We talk about the importance of diversifying the portfolio of life and finding identity through the taboo. 

As a professional dancer, Katie Webber grew up with a complicated relationship around food. After a lifetime of struggling with disordered eating ranging from binge eating, to withholding food, she finally found freedom when she let go of dieting and focused on pure, clean food. This practice of clean eating ignited her creativity in the kitchen. 

When Broadway went dark, like so many artists, Katie recognized how much creative energy she had stuck inside her. After years of blogging her recipes, she knew a cookbook was the next logical step. In this conversation we learn how important it is to allow your creativity and passions to evolve, and the importance of giving yourself permission to explore. 

We also chat about...

• The escape of theatre
• Her journey to Broadway
• Navigating the transitory nature of the arts as a mother
• Finding your flow when feeling overwhelmed
• Intuitive Eating

Amanda Faye is the founder of grlpwrprojects -  an intentional space for women seeking growth + adventure. The community is home to over 10 city collectives, a virtual program centered around growth + wellness during uncertain times, and outdoor collective packed with camping, hiking, biking + rafting trips. 

Amanda opens up about the challenges she faced as a post-grad, new mama, trying to make friends as an adult. She shares how Covid forced her outside of her comfort zone + allowed grl pwr projects to grow into a company that reflects who she is, and not who she should be.  Amanda shares vulnerably about struggling with anxiety and the dangers of glorifying the hustle. 

We also chat about...

• Privilege of Exposure
• How to compassionately disagree
• Finding what makes your tick
• Boundaries as self care
• Life as a recovering People Pleaser

Show Notes | www.pullittogetherpod.com/shownotes/grlpwrprojects |
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Today I am joined by Laticia Rolle, the podcast host extraordinaire of Girl, We Got This.  She’s a model, actor + entrepreneur. Growing up in a large family and as an athlete for most of her life, Laticia understood the power of sisterhood from an early age.  After a life changing injury, she realized her true purpose - to empower women  and provide a platform for every woman to share their truths, to harness her story.

Laticia vulnerably shares her experience recovering from toxic relationships . We chat about vulnerability as an act of self love, and what true accountability looks like. We explore this idea of attracting mirrors  and why we make ourselves smaller to fit in.  She expresses the importance of support, especially when making big moves.

We also chat about...

• Women's intuition
• The strength of the human spirit
• The safety of women
• Myth of Selflessness
• How Laticia discovered the power of her voice
• The fear of failure

Soshy Adelstein is a wellness coach for women that want to make peace with food and their bodies. Through real talk and compassionate listening, she teaches you how to let go of old beliefs around dieting, eating, exercise and weight so that you can step into new practices to support your best self now. She is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and uses Intuitive Eating and the Health at Every Size approach in her coaching. She is on a mission to make sure that all women feel healthy and beautiful no matter their size, shape or weight.

Soshy and I dive deep into her very personal story with diet culture and body image. We talk about her experience growing up separated from the outside world, the markers of trauma that live in each and every one of our  bodies, and being excommunicated by her family at the age of 17.

We also chat about...

• Being raised separated from the outside world
• Binge eating
• Her rock bottom
• Taking on other's shame
• Male/Female dynamics
• How parent dynamics play into relationship boundaries
• Intuitive Eating
• Body acceptance vs Body Confidence

Show Notes | www.pullittogetherpod.com/shownotes/soshy-adelstein

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Keiko Lynn is a tatted up goody shoes with a liberal heart + mind living in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and 3 cats. She is one of my favorite creators on the internet, and while she is known for her lifestyle blog KeikoLynn.com I am the MOST obsessed with her whimsical photo stories. From her haunted mansion series to a Singing in the Rain inspired moment…her portraits are creativity in its truest most delightful form. In this conversation Keiko shares how giving herself space to figure things out allowed her career to organically unfold, and gives us a behind the scenes look at what goes into her shoots.

We also chat about…

• Fashion as an extension of self expression
• Self evolution on a public platform
• Breaking into photography
• The chain of creativity
• Leaning into being niche

Show Notes | https://www.pullittogetherpod.com/shownotes/keikolynn

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Maria Failla is a "Plant Killer Turned Plant Lady" with a mission to help every person successfully care for a houseplant. After years of killing plants, Maria gave plantcare one last try when she moved in with her boyfriend in NYC. She started with a balcony herb garden, and once that thrived, slowly filled their 500 sq foot apartment with 120 houseplants and was forever changed. Maria is a fellow Broadway baby and in, probably my favorite conversation to date, we discuss how sometimes we don’t actually experience a lot of creativity in our creative passion pursuit. She shares openly how caring for plants led her to find her authentic voice, and allowed space for her creativity to evolve.

We also chat about...

• The value society places on creativity
• Balancing the strong + soft sides of being an artist
• The "sacred pause"
• Using plants to connect
• Inuitive whispers
• Forest bathing
• How to create happiness in your home

SHOW NOTES | https://www.pullittogetherpod.com/shownotes/maria-failla

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This week we sit down with professional athletes, musicians and influencers Dylan and Dakota Gonzalez to chat about their experience leaving the NCAA to pursue a career in music. It takes a special kind of courage to walk away from from a career that you trained your whole life for, and with over a million followers each, the Gonzalez twins navigated that shift on a very public stage. We sit down for a raw, unfiltered conversation on being a woman in sports, moving through victim mentality and navigating life as twins while constantly being in the spotlight.

We also chat about...

• Embracing your inner child
• Dealing with mental health issues as a student athlete
• Being a woman in sports
• The freedom creativity offered
• Resenting the person you love most in the world

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As part of Mental Illness Awareness week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with creativepreneur, self care advocate and leading voice in the mental health community - Kayley Reed. Kayley is also the host of Self-Care Sunday - a podcast + creative outlet where she explores the relationship between mental health, entrepreneurship, social media, and self-care. In this conversation we learn how to reconnect with our creativity and to use that flow to combat anxiety and burnout.

We also chat about...

• Censoring joy
• Struggling with an eating disorder
• Separating your identity from work
• The balance between a creative + analytical brain
• Navigating creative ruts
• Consuming vs. Creating

SHOWNOTES | www.pullittogetherpod.com/shownotes/kayley-reed

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