The Gramma Esther Pod with Britt Warner

Toya Coleman aka Toya From Harlem is a podcaster, writer, speaker, plant mom, tattoo enthusiast, and historian. Her biweekly podcast That Wasn't In My Textbook explores everything you wish you'd learned in school minus the white-washed lens. We talked paying it forward, remembering the "why," throwing age milestones out the window, what makes a relationship healthy, and reimagining history in order to change the future.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "Nameless" - October's Child

Brit Woodward aka Brit Brand is an artist of many hats, painting up a storm of vulnerability from L.A. to the O.C. and beyond. As a private jet-setting chef and cabin host, she's navigating the friendly skies during the pandemic while pregnant with Baby #2. We talk Great Expectations, living to work versus working to live, the dummy's guide to just "being" amidst sensory overload, loving what is instead of what if, and how the easiest day was yesterday.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "In This Moment" - Britt Warner

Marielle Jade Te is a music supervisor and coordinator who's placed songs on TV shows like Gotham, Cloak & Dagger, CSI, Silicon Valley, and many more. We talked about nihilistic tendencies, killing the Ego, fulfilling family expectations while defying them, and creating the life you want instead of waiting around for someone else to do it for you.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "Signals" - October's Child

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Angel Deradoorian is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer whose new album, "Find The Sun," just came out on ANTI- Records. Beyond her musical journey, we talked free will versus pre-destiny, going back to school in your thirties, forgiveness and redemption, and the cancer of cancel culture in a society that needs comedy to keep it in check.

Find Angel on Instagram and schedule a vedic astrology reading: https://www.instagram.com/deradoom/.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "Wooden Wings" - Gramma Esther (with Angel on piano)

Carol Chavana is an artist, fashion designer, and the creative director of Ragdoll Pink Palace, a life-sized dollhouse she dreamed up in the middle of Los Angeles. We spoke about building worlds around the characters in our imaginations, taking frustrations out on walls, having zero desire to cook after painting ceilings all day, and embracing brains that work from coordinates all their own.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "Meltdown" - Saffarex & Britt Warner (unreleased)

Phoenix-based fashion designer Leonor Aispuro has been sewing since she was a little girl in Baja California, influenced by family tradition and communicating nonverbally through visual creativity. Now the self-proclaimed jokester's hand-making wearable art that's environmentally sustainable, playfully rebellious, and speaks to every body. We talk growing up between two countries, immigration and assimilation, fast fashion versus ethically-sound seams, White Jesus, and trying to find the balance in a topsy-turvy world.

Learn more about Leonor Aispuro at https://www.leonoraispuro.com/ and follow her on Instagram.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "Sunburst" - Gramma Esther, also

Sharmila Sahni is a producer, writer, and actor currently finding and developing stories for Isaiah Thomas's SlowGrind Media. We spoke about our obsession with epigenetics, keeping our fathers alive, creating the roles you want to embody, finding what makes your heart sing, and how a little mystery goes a long way.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "Papa Says" - Britt Warner

Jessie Douglass-Smith McGraw is a professional dancer-turned-transformative coach based in Los Angeles by way of Roseville, CA. We talk universal intelligence, the amalgamation of alchemy, getting out of your own way, and how it really truly is “just a thought.”

Theme Song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured Song: "We're All Fucked Up" - Gramma Esther (coming soon)

For over a decade, Caitlyn Razo has been a food stylist for commercials that present brands like Taco Bell and Panera Bread in their most mouth-watering light. She's also a mother and wife and describes life on Magic Mountain during the pandemic in all of its rollercoaster glory. We talk horses, attachment theory, teenage rebellion, and how it does, indeed, take a village.

Theme song: There's Still Time - Gramma Esther

Aneesah Williams is a marketing maven and lifelong musical artist who flew under the radar until recently. Ready to spread her wings, we talk confidence, music for the movement, representation at all levels, and embracing Plan A without the safety nets of B & C. Find her at http://aneesahwilliams.com.

Theme song: "There's Still Time" - Gramma Esther

Featured song: "Keeping You" - Aneesah Williams