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Mary Laura Philpott is an essayist whose writing appears in publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, and others. Her debut memoir, I Miss You When I Blink, was named to the #1 spot on the Indie Next List by booksellers nationwide, and featured on must-read lists from Esquire, Newsweek, BuzzFeed, and more. Mary Laura is Continue Reading…

Jamie Varon is a writer with an emphasis on self-love, acceptance, and the daily work of building a life that feels good. Each week, in her popular Friday Letters series, she shares stories on those topics, and she also owns Shatterboxx, a boutique design company with a passion for creating bold branding and inventive, colorful websites. In Continue Reading…

Marielle Hall is an American Track and Field athlete who specializes in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter race distances. She competed in the Women's 5000 meters event at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, as well as the Women's 10,000 meters final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. A two-time NCAA All-American, Marielle is now Continue Reading…

Lindsay Mack is an intuitive mentor, teacher, writer, and the founder of Tarot for the Wild Soul. Hailed by The Wayward as, “one of the most important new voices in the world of modern spirituality and wellness,” Lindsay is the creator of Soul Tarot, a way of interpreting and intentionally utilizing the Tarot as a tool for our Continue Reading…

Emilie Aries is a speaker, podcast host, author, and the Founder & CEO of Bossed Up, an award-winning personal and professional development community where she helps women craft happy, healthy, and sustainable career paths. In her TED talk, The Power of No, Emilie shares how to set healthy boundaries and invest in your sustainable success. Continue Reading…

Kara Jones is a Creative Grief Educator and heARTist behind GriefAndCreativity.com. She co-founded both the Creative Grief Studio and KotaPress, and she’s a Carnegie Mellon graduate who interned for 3 years at Mister Rogers Neighborhood back in the day. For the past couple of decades, Kara has been exploring creative approaches to grief experiences. In Continue Reading…

Chelsea VonChaz is a Nonprofit Founder & Activist whose organization, Happy Period, is on a mission to reshape the outlook on menstruation while providing period products to low-income & homeless communities. In this episode, Chelsea shares the story of how she went from a career in fashion styling to founding her own nonprofit organization to promote menstrual Continue Reading…

Noami Grevemberg is a full-time camper van dweller, outdoor enthusiast, and environmental advocate. She shares 80 square feet with her partner Dustin, with whom she runs the startup sustainability consulting business Cacti and Coconuts. Through her Instagram, Irie to Aurora, Noami shares her truths of life on the road, becoming what she calls an “accidental Continue Reading…

Melissa A. Fabello, PhD is a feminist educator whose work focuses on body politics, beauty culture, and eating disorders. She holds a PhD in Human Sexuality Studies from Widener University, where her research focuses on how women with eating disorders make meaning of their sexual experiences. Previously, Melissa worked as a Managing Editor of Everyday Feminism, Continue Reading…

Our guest today is Tom Grossmith—known to me, and to many of you, by his trail name, Gent. Gent and I met while hiking the PCT last year, and wound up covering over 1,300 miles together. We hiked together, we quit the trail together, and next week we’ll be heading back to the PCT together, joined Continue Reading…

Amy Gahran is a journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. She's the author of "Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life" -- a research-based book about all kinds of unconventional intimate relationships. It covers consensual nonmonogamy, solohood, and much more. For several years, Amy also wrote (under the pen name Aggie Sez) the blog Continue Reading…

Noël Russell is a first generation American, born and raised in California, and ever since she could walk, she’s spent every second of her free time romping in the mountains. These days, you'll often find her camped in the backcountry, hiking along a trail, or traveling around the Sierra Nevada in a converted campervan with Continue Reading…

Nick North is a husband, a dad to 5 kids, and a branding strategist. He also has a history of living as a woman, a wife, a mom, a photographer, a corporate type, and even an Emergency Medical Responder. When he embraced his identity and came out as transgender, he realized just how much gender Continue Reading…

Sirena Rana Dufault is an advocate for the outdoors and wildlife. For over a decade, Sirena has helped to build, maintain and promote the 800-mile Arizona Trail (AZT) and has hiked it twice. Right now, she's in the process of writing a book, Day Hikes on the Arizona National Scenic Trail, which will be published Continue Reading…

Kirby is a mid-twenties public health nerd living in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose passions fall at the intersection of public health, sustainability, and exploring the outdoors. Her type 1 diabetes and hashimoto’s thyroiditis diagnoses in 2014 drove her to pursue those interests full-time, as she returned to school to get her Masters in Public Continue Reading…

Sonalee Rashatwar (she/they), MSW, LCSW, MEd is an award-winning social worker based in Philadelphia. She is a fat queer nonbinary bemme therapist, specializing in treating sexual trauma, body image issues, racial or immigrant identity issues, and South Asian family systems, while offering fat positive sexual healthcare. Popularly known as The Fat Sex Therapist on Instagram, their Continue Reading…

Corinne Oestreich is a professional journalist who has been writing for Powwows.com since 2014. She is Lakota and Mohawk, and is an ambassador for the internet campaign #phenomenalwoman and #phenomenallyindigenous. Corrine is also the founder of the non-profit organization "The Buffalo Project”, a program that seeks to reduce human trafficking and violence against women through empowering men Continue Reading…

Africa Brooke is a Zimbabwean born writer, speaker, mindset mentor, and advocate living in London, and she's a woman on a mission to get us thinking about holistic self-development, identity, mental health, sober living, sexuality, and all things pleasure. In this episode, Africa tells her sobriety story—why and how she quit drinking, all the times she failed to stick Continue Reading…

Ann Shen is an illustrator, author, and designer based in Los Angeles. She started her creative career in her mid twenties, when she quit her job and to go to art school. Since then, she's hit the ground running creating whimsical, colorful work for clients like Disney, Facebook, and Papyrus, among many many others. She's Continue Reading…

Cait Flanders is a former binge consumer turned mindful consumer of everything. Through personal stories, she writes about what happens when money, minimalism, and mindfulness cross paths. Cait's story has been shared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, Forbes, and more. Her first book, The Year of Less, is a self-help memoir that Continue Reading…