Why? The Podcast

Ashleigh Renard repaired her marriage by visiting swing clubs with her husband. Obviously it wasn't that simple, and Ashleigh goes into detail in her new memoir, "Swing." We talk with Asheligh about her non-traditional approach to her marriage, telling such a truthful story and answering all of our sex club questions.

For more information or to sign up for Ashleigh's newsletter, check our her website. You can also follow Ashleigh on Facebook and Instagram.

How do you get a NASCAR pit crew to work together as one, to have a successful pit stop lead to a successful race? We talked with Mike Metcalf and Shaun Peet, two crew coaches who have turned the lessons they learned on the track into a leadership program for businesses across the country.

For more information on their DECK Leadership program, you can check out their website. You can also learn more on the site dedicated to their book, 12 Second Culture.

Is there anything better than a perfectly cooked and lovingly topped potato? We don't think so. This week we talked with Tish Dahmer, the executive director of the Idaho Potato Museum; an institution dedicated to all things spud-related.

Who has the world's largest potato crisp? Who can tell you the history of the potato? Where can you get potato ice cream? Look no further than the museum. For more information, check out the museum's website, or follow them on Facebook.

Avis Brown-Riley is a champion both on and off the golf course. Avis  competed professionally on the LPGA circuit, winning dozens of titles as well as being the only African American woman to win both the Junior World Golf Championship and the San Diego Women’s City Amateur Championship. On top of that Avis has appeared on TV's Holey Moley, raised a new generation of golfers and successfully battled cancer.

We talked with Avis about all of these achievements, how the sport has changed and the work she is doing to spread the joy of the game. It was a fascinating conversation.

For more information on Avis, check her out on Twitter or Instagram.

If you life is all out of love, if you're a maneater, or even if you just like pina coladas, wait until you hear this week's guests.

We talk with Baba Bouy and Tommy Bouy from Yachtley Crew, a band dedicated to making sure you are never too far from a little soft rock music. They've toured the country spreading their message and are heading out on their next big tour.

For more information, you can check out their website, and you can also follow them on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Ahoy!

Samantha Cline has always loved being outdoors.  So have a lot of other people. But Samantha is one of the brave few who put her skills to the test by appearing on the popular show Naked & Afraid. After taping, she returned to Virginia where by day she works rescuing wild animals and helping rehab them before returning them to the wild.

For more information on Samantha, follow her on Instagram, and for more on her important work, check out the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center in Roanoke, Virginia.

How does one get into fire eating? What about glass walking? Or burlesque? Our guest this week, Vixen DeVille has the answers because she does all three.

On top of performing, Vixen also teaches others how to do these things. She is a great guide, showing how to maximize your talents in any art form and find your true voice. For more information, or to book a class, check out her website. You can also follow her on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Pamela Aloia is an energy guide, teacher and author. We talked with her about her new book The Current is Only But a Moment, and her work as an energy guide. For more information about Pamela, or to schedule an appointment either in person or on-line, visit her website or follow her on Facebook.

(And if you want to re-visit our interview with Mini Kiss, you can listen to that here.

You probably best know Warren Ellis from his violin playing with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, or with The Dirty 3. Well, now Warren has a great new book out about a piece of gum chewed by Nina Simone before a performance.

It's the journey of this gum that is a tour through creativity, inspiration and the magic of performers and of items and how touching something so simple can really be.

You can order Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis wherever you get your books. For more information on his current tour with Nick Cave and his upcoming tour with the Bad Seeds, check out the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds website. You can learn more about Warren's work to rescue animals and about Ellis Park from their website. And you can follow Warren on Twitter.

Sure, it'd be great to take time every week to stretch and meditate and become all zen, but, honestly, wouldn't it be a lot more enjoyable to tell your instructor to kiss your ass while you flip them off? Lindsay Istace thought so, and that's why she created Rage Yoga, a new take on the traditional New Age music and phrases said in different languages so no one knows what they're saying.

Lindsay talked about the creation of Rage Yoga, its spread and her new book on the subject, "Rage Yoga: Unleashing the Badass Within," available next month. (Just in time for the holidays!) For more information, check out the Rage Yoga website.