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By Emma Glenn Baker
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The podcast currently has 56 episodes available.
This week, I chat with Kristen Lynch, a business and mindset coach (and my former yoga teacher!) who helped me take STARGIRL to the next level. Through mindset and marketing support, Kristen helps her clients turn their “passion project” into a real deal business — we discuss the importance of investing in yourself and why you have to legitimize yourself to yourself first. For Kristen (and now for me), this all ties into larger self-concept work: how you treat and relate to your body, move through the world, and co-create with the universe to step into your gifts and provide real service to the people who need your work.
Kristen is a business coach for early-stage, soulful women entrepreneurs. She’s had dozens of raving testimonials, been featured on global brands, & become internationally-charted as the host of the Lead Her podcast.
Follow Kristen on Instagram
Subscribe to her podcast, Lead Her
Sign up for her free Legiz Biz email series
Lean more about 1:1 coaching
To those who make contact. . . This week we tackle the original New Age spiritual guru, our beloved Marianne Williamson. We delve into her decades-long search for Maximum Aliveness, and discuss the principles that have most profoundly affected me in her work: personal responsibility, surrender, inner peace, and a belief in the miraculous.
Discussed:
The Money Game
“The Body Is Art” FKA Twigs x On Running at London Fashion Week
A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson (1992)
A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever, Marianne Williamson (2010)
“Marianne’s Faithful,” Leslie Bennetts in Vanity Fair, 1991
“The Divine Miss W,” Susan Schindehette in People Magazine (1992)
“Marianne Williamson Is Campaigning for a Miracle,” Amanda Fortini in ELLE (2014)
“Emotional Self-Sufficiency” lecture by Marianne given in 1988
*Full episode on Patreon*
Felt called to share how I’m thinking about the election and, more existentially, about the value of “patriotism” and how I show up in my tiny corner of the Garden.
Discussed:
*Full episode on Patreon*
*Announcement*
Sign-ups are live for STARGIRL in-person events in September!
STARGIRL Yoga 2.0
Sunday, September 8 at 10am in Fort Greene. Meetup + 60-minute, all-levels, by-donation yoga class.
Reserve your spot here!
2. Intro to Strength Training Series
Every Tuesday in September, 6-7pm at RS Strength in Brooklyn. This is a 4-week, progressive program introducing you to the foundational movement patterns (deadlift, squat, kettlebell swing, strict press, etc.) using kettlebells. Jump in at any point!
Sign up on ClassPass here!
Show notes:
Welcome back to the next episode of The Body Series! Today we have Dr. Julia Morgan, a sports chiropractor and fitness coach, and a huge inspiration for me as I’ve stepped into a new career as a personal trainer. Julia talks about her path from chiropractic work to strength training, and offers some expertise about the unique value of training with kettlebells. She also shares her experience as a fitness influencer, joining business forces with her husband, and building confidence through movement.
Follow @drjuliamorgan on Instagram
Check out Kettlebell Coach University (signups for their next Level 1 certification open 9/9!)
Download Julia’s 6-week Bridal Bootcamp program
*Announcement*
Sign-ups are live for STARGIRL in-person events in September!
STARGIRL Yoga 2.0
Sunday, September 8 at 10am in Fort Greene. Meetup + 60-minute, all-levels, by-donation yoga class.
Reserve your spot here
2.Intro to Strength Training Series
Every Tuesday in September, 6-7pm at RS Strength in Brooklyn. This is a 4-week, progressive program introducing you to the foundational movement patterns (deadlift, squat, kettlebell swing, strict press, etc.) using kettlebells. Jump in at any point!
Sign up on ClassPass here
Show notes:
Happy 50th episode! This week we tackle Livvy Dunne, the LSU gymnast and social media star. Dunne is currently the highest-earning female college athlete (valued at $3.9M in NIL sponsorships alone) and has a chokehold on young men in America. We unpack the skepticism about her athletic abilities vs. sex appeal, fit her into a lineage of Buoyant Blondes (Kate Upton let’s go!), and feel out a new spectrum: fashion intellectualism vs. Feeling Good Naked. Omg!
Discussed:
“Diet Pepsi” Addison’s new music video
Lexee Smith “When Kitty Met Kat” video
“The Money Game” new show on Amazon Prime about LSU and NIL
On3 NIL rankings rankings
“It’s Livvy Dunne’s World” profile in Elle by Kayla Webley Adler (2023)
Sports Illustrated cover story on Livvy and Angel Reese (2023)
Livvy in SI Swim (2024)
Olga Korbut’s “Dead Loop” uneven bar routine (1972 Olympics)
*Full episode on Patreon*
This month, we rehash the recently upwelled Ballerina Farm discourse, and I talk about what she represents to me: not a “trad wife” (outdated, meaningless term), not a hard-headed business woman, but a secret third thing.
Discussed:
“Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children)” Megan Agnew in the Times
“My day with the trad wife queen and what it taught me” Follow-up article by Megan Agnew
Inspired / ridiculous TikTok edits of Hannah dancing on the prairie: here, here, here
Egg apron video
Hannah’s response: IG Reel and full statement
Christian influencers we been watching: Cecily Bachmann, Josie Conely, Lunden & Olivia on TikTok
*Full episode on Patreon*
Eloise Skinner is a psychotherapist, author, and fitness instructor whose work focuses on existential themes, embodiment, and wellbeing. In this episode of The Body Series, Eloise explains the principles of existential therapy, how she’s built a life that combines her many varied interests (law, spirituality, therapy, fitness, dance, modeling, etc.), how our fundamental sense of trust in the world reflects our sense of safety in our bodies, and what Eloise calls "the pursuit of aliveness."
Follow Eloise on Instagram and TikTok!
Discussed:
Eloise’s TEDTalk
But Are You Alive?Eloise’s most-recent book
*Subscribe to the STARGIRL Patreon!*
Announcements:
1. STARGIRL in-person event is happening!
Sunday, July 28 at 10am in Williamsburg (exact location details will be emailed out), a meetup and all-levels yoga class in NYC!
Fill out this Google Form to RSVP Space is limited, so serious responses only please
2. Submit your Rants and Raves! Record a 0:30 - 2:00 hot take on a Stargirl of your choice, and email it to me at [email protected]. I’ll play my favorites in forthcoming episodes!
Show notes:
This week, I’m joined by Holly Friend, a writer and trend forecaster based in London. We delve into the perverted world of Ottessa Moshfegh, one of the most commercially successful fiction writers of the last 10 years. We discuss how she unwittingly predicted / defined a cultural moment with My Year of Rest and Relaxation, her apparent obsession with self-mastery and anti-victimhood, unique sobriety narrative, and how her gross, sensory world compares to Sally Rooney’s romantic, cerebral one.
Holly Friend is a writer and futurist based in London. She makes sense of the world through identifying trends and narratives, which does as a freeland cultural strategist for brands, and as a fiction writer. Follow Holly on Instagram!
Discussed:
Diva Discourse, a Beyoncé podcast by my friends Shaan and Enzo
Kim is producing and featuring in an upcoming docuseries on Liz Taylor
“#TurnOutForWhat” Rock the Vote campaign video (2014)
Books by Ottessa: Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Lapvona, Homesick for Another World
“Ottessa Moshfegh Is Praying for You” Andrea Long Chu in Vulture
Ottessa on the Bret Easton Ellis podcast
Interview with Ottessa in the Guardian
“Jailbait” essay by Ottessa in Granta
*Announcements!
The first STARGIRL in-person event is happening! Details will be announced on my Instagram first @emmaglennbaker — can’t wait to share more and see you there!*
In this week’s episode, I introduce a brand new segment to the public: STARGIRL Rants and Raves! I welcome all listeners to send in a Rant or Rave on a Stargirl, person/persona you fixate on, or cultural event/moment that you love or hate. This first round was open to Patrons only, and we listen to my favorite three submissions here today!
Here’s how it works:
Record a 0:30 - 2:00 minute-long voice note
Email the audio file to me at [email protected]
Subject line should read “Rant / Rave” on [your subject]”
In the email, please not e how you’d like to be attributed (full name, first name only, IG handle, etc.)
Show notes:
This week we tackle a classic Stargirl: Dame Elizabeth Taylor. I talk about the many elements of her myth that I somehow inherited—her violet eyes, “married eight times to seven men,” her health issues, etc. I decide that although Liz Taylor is indeed beautiful, prolific, and messy, her real singularity lies in her Sturdiness: She is womanly, down-to-earth, and robust. We also discuss Camille Paglia’s incredible fixation on Liz, and leaf through Liz’s memoir/self-help/recipe book about her own weight gain and loss, Elizabeth Takes Off.
Plus, I finally acknowledge the Chappell Roan phenomenon, praise Addison for her underwater Dhanurasana, and challenge myself to discuss the election head-on, rather than roll my eyes and look away. We got this y’all!
Discussed:
“Sabrina, Chappell, and Charli are suddenly stars. Why now?” Mikael Wood in the LA times
Azaelia Banks on Chappell Roan
Addison’s underwater amazingness
“Love of Country and Aloha Spirit with Tulsi Gabbard,” Jocko Podcast
Excerpt from “Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood’s Pagan Queen,” Camille Paglia, originally published in Penthouse magazine (1992)
Interview with Paglia on Liz Taylor, Salon (2011)
Elizabeth Takes Off: On Weight Gain, Weight Loss, Self-Image, and Self-Esteem, Elizabeth Taylor (1987)
*Full episode on Patreon!*
Happy July! In this month's letter, available to Dream / Threat-tier subscribers on Patreon, I give my final thoughts on "Brat Summer," dive into Azaelia Banks' recent Twitter run on today's poised-for-greatness pop stars, and ground down to the principles of manifestation/Law of Attraction that will get us all where we want to go.
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