Sagittarian Matters

We are over the moon to have honored Libra guest KATY DAVIDSON (Dear Nora) join us this week on the occasion of 

the reissue of their rarities compilation (called Three States). It will be released  as a triple vinyl box set on September 18 on Orindal Records. 

Katy joined me from Joshua tree via zoom

To give advice about aging gracefully, heartbreak, making boundaries, our biggest quarantine food fails and MORE. 

Plus! We acknowledge that the West Coast is on fire. 

This week, we were delighted to be joined by Highly Favored Frequent Contributor MORGAN to answer your questions about recipes, tofu, beans & greens and more. We also taste tested a Honey Mama's Tahini Tangerine Cacao Nectar bar,  and a very special travel cake from the New Farm Cookbook. 

In this episode, we ALSO give verbal recipes for sesame tempeh, ye olden tofu scramble, preserved lemons, salad dressing for bitter greens & MORE. 

We are over the moon to welcome back Honored Capricorn and MVP BETH PICKENS!!! 

Beth Pickens is the author of the book Your Art Will Save Your Life. Her forthcoming survival book for artists will be out with Chronicle Books in Spring of 2021. 

Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show. 

Beth joined Producer Ponyo and I via zoom to  answer YOUR advice questions on judgment, corona-kosher, writing & racism, other people’s vibes, plastic surgery, money and MORE. 

Sagittarian Matters FINANCIAL CHALLENGE:

Identify ONE financial goal you would like to achieve between now and the end of the calendar year. 

Ex: Paying off something, saving a certain amount. 

Pick one goal and make a plan of how you’re going to get to it. 

Make it manageable, small & possible. 

Share it with us on Social Media! 

When you achieve your goal, send us a photo of you with your homemade sign!

We are over the moon to welcome Call Your Girlfriend's Aminatou Sou and Ann Friedman to the studio to talk about their new book, BIG FRIENDSHIP. 

Resident Capricorn and highly favored contributor Beth Pickens joined NJG for this very special occasion. 

 Big Friendship is a book about friendship & feminism. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.

We talked about Shine Theory, couples counseling, Metallica navigating interracial friendships, the queerness of chosen family and MORE. 

“Here, friendship gets the emotional and intellectual respect it deserves; and like any truly great love story, Ann’s and Aminatou’s is a page turner. I love this book. “

—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad

Aminatou Sow is a writer, interviewer, and cultural commentator. She is a frequent public speaker whose talks and interviews lead to candid conversations about ambition, money, and power. Aminatou lives in Brooklyn.

Ann Friedman is a journalist, essayist, and media entrepreneur. She is a contributing editor to The Gentlewoman. Every Friday, she sends a popular email newsletter.

Together, Aminatou and Ann host the long-running podcast  Call Your Girlfriend.

Beth Pickens is the author of the book Your Art Will Save Your Life. She is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show.

More praise for Big Friendship: 

"A wonderful and intimate portrayal. A story as universal as it is revolutionary."

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“In this openhearted book, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman show us how a friendship can be as rewarding and enduring as a marriage, and they urge us to value it accordingly—as they clearly do. An inspiration."

—Ariel Levy, New York Times bestselling author of The Rules Do Not Apply

Today we welcome back VERY special guest and resident Esteemed Capricorn BETH PICKENS (Your Art Will Save Your Life) to answer your advice questions about coffee, advanced degrees, the pandemic, unsolicited advice, activism, Today's Special & MORE. Also! Nicole starts the show by telling you about Carrie Bradshaw's worst boyfriends!

Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. She is a triple capricorn, she has a wonderful podcast called Ghost of a Podcast, and

Her NEW book, Astrology for Real Relationships, which is available RIGHT NOW!!!

Find it at lovelanyadoo.com, or anywhere books are sold.