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Arionne Nettles is a journalist and the Director of Audio Journalism Programming at Northwestern University. She's also getting her PhD in Educational Leadership from DePaul University. She joins Emily to discuss engaging with her audience, her holistic approach to teaching, and her bout of depression during the height of her career (and how she got through it).

Dr. Corrie Moreau is a myrmecologist with a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University. She's the CALS Senior Associate Dean of DE&I at Cornell University and the Founder & Co-Chair of The Field Museum's Women in Science. She joins Emily to discuss being a first generation college student, empowering women to pursue a career in science, and of course: her love of ants and bugs!

Sophie Evanoff is a pastry chef and owner of Vanille Patisserie in Chicago. She joins Emily to discuss self-compassion, how she relates to her inner critic, and what we get wrong (and right!) with our romanticization of owning a bakery.

Ashley January is an oil painter. After going through a traumatic delivery of her son, she decided to channel it into her art. Her oil portraits depict fellow survivors and aim to raise awareness of the growing crisis of black maternal and morbidity rate in the United States. She joins Emily to discuss this issue, her own experience with preeclampsia, and how she uses art to create positive change around birth equity.

Simba Gandari, a Zimbabwean immigrant, is a student at Harvard getting his Masters in Education Leadership, Organizations and Entrepreneurship. He joins Emily to discuss how mentorship has shaped his life, the power of underestimation, and navigating what it means to be a man in today's world.

Sarah Littlefield is a dairy farmer and the Executive Director of the Maine Dairy & Nutrition Council. She joins Emily to discuss life on a farm, her decades-long love of cows, and how there's no such thing as a "half-hearted farmer."

Pamay Bassey is the Chief Learning and Diversity Officer at the Kraft Heinz Company, and author of My 52 Weeks of Worship. She's a first generation Nigerian-American, and she has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in AI from Stanford. Pamay joins Emily to discuss the power of being a lifelong learner, and inserting joy into your day to make it "delicious."

Emily Blum is the Executive Director of Disability Lead. One in five people live with a disability, and many of those disabilities are invisible. Emily Blum joins Emily Drake to discuss her journey with dystonia, misconceptions about people with disabilities, and shifting the conversation around it.

To kick off Season 2, we have the wonderful Tess Gunty: An award-winning author whose first published novel, The Rabbit Hutch, received the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. She holds a BA in English with Honors in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame, and an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. Tess joins Emily to discuss intentionality behind focus and attention, the journey behind writing her first published novel, and the experience of living an external life as an introvert.

In this bonus episode, Emily is interviewed by her boyfriend, Arnie Niekamp (Writer / Director at Jackbox Games & Host of Hello From the Magic Tavern). Arnie joins Emily to discuss how the start of this podcast coincided with one of the darkest times of her life, and how she was able to find her way back to joy.