Raging Gracefully

Sarah Chadwick discusses the history of clitoral representation in art with Nina Collins

Sarah is a writer and educator interested in the history of female sexuality, challenging the status quo, and humor. 

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Tulani Bridgewater-Kowalski is in conversation with Christine Pride and Jo Piazza about their new book, We Are Not Like Them, which is also our October Book Club pick!

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Nina Collins in conversation with Natalie Nixon about her new book, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work.

About Natalie:

Natalie Nixon, PhD changes lives through ideas so that people build their creative confidence for years to come, make an impact and get paid their worth.

She is a creativity strategist, global keynote speaker and author of the award winning The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work, which has been recognized as a game-changing innovation book by Fast Company, Porchlight and Soundview. As president of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC she advises leaders on transformation- by applying wonder and rigor to amplify growth and business value. Clients have included Comcast, Citrix, Living Cities, VaynerMedia and Bloomberg.

About the Book:

Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it's the key to developing breakthrough products and services. Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist with a background in cultural anthropology, fashion, and service design, says that in the fourth industrial revolution a creativity leap is needed to bridge the gap that exists between the churn of work and the highly sought-after prize called innovation.

Nixon says that since humans are hardwired to be creative, it is a competency anyone can develop. She shows that it balances wonder (awe, audacity, and curiosity) with rigor (discipline, skill-building, and attention to detail), and that inquiry, improvisation, and intuition are the key practices that increase those capacities. Drawing on interviews with fifty-six people from diverse backgrounds--farming, law, plumbing, architecture, perfumery, medicine, education, technology, and more--she offers illuminating examples of how creativity manifests in every kind of work.

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Nina Collins hosts a conversation all about perimenopause with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz.

About Dr. Suzanne: Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz is a nationally renowned doctor, expert, speaker and advocate for integrative women’s health. As a partner at Women’s Care of Beverly Hills, she’s performed thousands of deliveries and continues to help women transition through important phases of their lives -from adolescence to post menopause. Her expertise covers all aspects of gynecology including sexual health, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and the science of self care.

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Nina Collins is in conversation with Dr. Debbie to learn more about childhood triggers and how they are showing up in our present-day lives – mostly where they don’t belong!

Dr. Debbie Magids is a counseling psychologist with a thriving private practice in New York City. “Dr. Debbie” -- as she has come to be known to both her clients and national TV audience -- also runs corporate Wellness Workshops/webinars focused on topics including communicating effectively, managing stress, increasing productivity, and decreasing anxiety.

Nina Collins hosts a conversation with Sarah Greaves Gabbadon (AKA Jet Set Sarah) all about Caribbean Travel!

From Sarah: I’m a Miami-based Caribbean travel expert, award-winning travel journalist, TV host and self-described “Carivangelist,” who ventures to the beach and beyond to share the diverse culture, lifestyle and people of the world’s favorite warm-weather destination with brands such as Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Islands.com, the U.K’s Telegraph and Canada’s Globe and Mail newspapers. Formerly executive editor of U.S. newsstand magazine Caribbean Travel + Life, I'm now jetsetter-in-chief here at JetSetSarah.com, where my passions — the Caribbean, style and fitness — meet. My not-so-hidden talent? The ability to sniff out a “shopportunity,” wherever in the world I may be. Follow my adventures on Twitter and Instagram, and on Facebook.

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Nina Collins interviews Dana Spiotta about her new book Wayward, which we'll also be discussing at September's Book Club.

Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels: Wayward (forthcoming in 2021), Innocents and Others (2016), winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia (2011), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Eat the Document (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the American Academy's Rosenthal Foundation Award; and Lightning Field(2001), a New York Times Notable Book. Other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, the Premio Pivano, a Creative Capital Award, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. About Wayward: On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into the Mids--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation.When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life--and her family--as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female difficulty--female complexity--in the age of Trump. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird, off-kilter America, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins. Tremendous new work from one of the most gifted writers of her generation.

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Nina Collins hosts a conversation with entrepreneur and author Mei Xu. They will discuss Xu's professional ventures as well as her new memoir Burn.

Mei Xu is a Chinese American entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of three global companies, Yes She May, BlissLiving Home® and Chesapeake Bay Candle®. Xu successfully negotiated the sale of Chesapeake Bay Candle to Newell Brands in 2017, a conglomerate with a $14 billion portfolio of consumer goods. Mei is now focused on helping women-owned consumer product companies grow and prosper with the Yes She May product platform.

Nina talks with the Revel Co-Founders Alexa Wahr and Lisa Marrone! You'll learn more about Lisa and Alexa and about the Woolfer's recent merger with Revel.