Honing In
episodes & Show Notes
Honing In is a podcast for creative thinkers where we’ll hone our skills, explore our passions, and nurture our dream projects into being.
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Episode 20: Preserving and Honoring Black Ancestral Wisdom with Gabrielle Felder
Gabrielle Felder is a writer, data analyst, and aborisa born and raised in Orange County, California and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. She explores the history of the African diaspora, drawing from her interdisciplinary background in ecology, anthropology, and data analytics.
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Episode 19: Rekindling The Relationship to Your Creative Practice with Catherine LaSota
Catherine LaSota is a badass creativity facilitator, and she is here to help you build and sustain a creative practice that works for you, taking into account your resources, capacity, deep desires, and unique vision.
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Episode 18: Bringing Our Humanness to the Table with Jen Carrington
Jen Carrington is a gentle business coach and specializes in supporting small business owners to build and run simple and spacious businesses where they can honor their humanness whilst also making a steady and thriving income.
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Episode 17: A Mindful Approach to Routines, Rhythms, and Rituals (Solo Episode)
Today I’m discussing routine, rhythms, and rituals and sharing ways we can create more structure and freedom in our schedules.
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Episode 16: Asking Questions and Telling Stories Through Art with Stephanie Graham
Stephanie Graham is a Chicago-based lens-based artist and podcast host whose work explores social class, subcultures, race, and gender—often blurring the lines between truth and fiction to spark conversation. She’s fascinated by how we connect and how our shared experiences shape who we are.
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Episode 15: Creative Projects and Spiritual Practices with Numerologist Bee Scolnick
Rebecca ‘Bee’ Scolnick is a writer, witch, and weirdo, who wants to help make meaning out of mess. She’s the author of two amazing books on numerology and the popular Substack, swimming in the soup, as well as one-third of the podcast Call Your Coven: Practice Advice for Nonsensical Times.
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Episode 14: Black Queer Feminist Alchemy with Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard
Dr. Eric Darnell Pritchard is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and Brown Chair in English Literacy and Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. They are also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Originally from Queens, NY, they are an award-winning writer, teacher, cultural critic, and self-described Black queer feminist alchemist. Their newest book, Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams, will be published on January 13, 2026.
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Episode 13: The Birthday Episode: Imagining My Year Through the Lens of a Theme Word
It’s my 39th birthday! This solo episode is about the reflection and intention-setting practices I engage with every September. I explore theme words that have guided me, the interplay of my yearly tarot card, and the practices I want to focus on during Quarter 4. Curious about choosing your own theme word for the next year, month, project, week, or day? I close out today’s episode with tangible tools for finding and committing to your own.
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Episode 12: Building a Holistic and Intuitive Life with Michelle Pellizzon
Michelle Pellizzon is a writer, researcher, and intuitive business advisor. Her work spans mediums — podcasting, publishing, teaching — and often explores the liminal space between mysticism and pragmatism. A former professional modern dancer and Feldenkrais practitioner with a background in tech, she blends somatic expertise with creative entrepreneurship.
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Episode 11: Experiencing Joy Through Creative Expression with Emilia Richeson-Valiente
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Episode 10: Contemplating Practice and Presence with Gabrielle Ione Hickmon
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Episode 9: Crafting Albums, Poetry, and a Better Music Industry with Sadie Dupuis
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Episode 8: How Self-Efficacy Can Transform Your Projects (solo)
This episode is all about self-efficacy, or our belief that we’re capable of completing our tasks and achieving our goals. I dive deep into four key psychological concepts of self-efficacy and talk through how each of them has shown up (or not!) in my past and current projects.
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Episode 7: Structuring Knowledge with Research and Art with Camila Galaz
Camila Galaz is a multimedia artist, editor, and creative consultant based in New York. Her work looks at social histories of technology, memory and identity through media archives, and reconsiderations of cultural touchstones and mythologies. She is the creator and co-host of the tech history podcast Our Friend the Computer, a contributing editor of the Millennium Film Journal, and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s art and technology incubator.
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Episode 6: The Power of Curiosity with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist and entrepreneur. After leaving Google and failing as a startup founder, she returned to university to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. She currently runs Ness Labs, an online school for curious minds to learn how to achieve their goals without sacrificing their mental health, with more than 2,000 students. She is the author of the book Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.
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Episode 5: Questing After Earth’s Poetry with Rebecca Maillet
Rebecca Maillet (she/they) is a queer, working class, first generation farmer / floral designer / and a seeker of Poetry in its myriad forms. She is the Founder & Creative Director at Many Graces Farm & Design based in Hadley, MA, and a co-owner of Sub Rosa–a Botanical Lounge & Flower Shop located in Northampton, MA.
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Episode 4: The Magic of Collaboration and Working Across Disciplines with Kalin Morrow
Kalin Morrow is an American actress and dancer based in Europe. Recently, she garnered critical acclaim for her role as The Hooded Woman in NEON’s film CUCKOO, directed by Tilman Singer, and now works internationally in film, tv and commercials. Beyond acting, Kalin is a professional dancer with over 20 years of experience.
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3: Embracing Neurodiversity and Compassion in Academia with Dr. Briana Barner
Dr. Barner is an interdisciplinary critical and cultural communications scholar, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, and the developer of the Black Pod Class.
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Episode 2: Frameworks for Community and Creativity with Cody Cook-Parrott
Cody is a writer, artist, teacher, dancer, quilter, and scholar currently pursuing an MFA at Naropa University. They’re the author of many books (including The Practice of Attention, forthcoming January 2026 via Sounds True), the host of the podcast Common Shapes, and they run a weekly online writing group called Landscapes.
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Episode 1: Welcome to Honing In (solo episode)
In this first episode, I share why I decided to launch a podcast about creative projects where I’ll interview creative thinkers about the journeys they took to develop their art, books, businesses, and other endeavors. I also walk you through a few productivity tips to help you explore your own creative projects with more agency and accessibility.
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