Vadis Turner is an artist living in Nashville, TN. Her work, in recent years, has focused on the transitions a women encounters throughout her life and borrows from the experience of other women. We met on her mother's land for this interv

Growing Up With a Newborn

Jul 13th, 2021 31m 18s

Daisy McGowan lives and works in Colorado as an artist and curator. Being mother to a newborn has spanned over 20 years of her life with her first being born when she was a junior in college. In this episode she describes the way becoming pre

The Ugly Placenta

Jun 29th, 2021 42m 50s

Emilia White is an artist and educator who works through performance, video and writing to express her comedic outlook on life. While the work she makes explores taboo and repugnant content, her personal story has introduced more difficult sub

Hope Junky

Jun 15th, 2021 44m 5s

Jean Villapique is a comedian, actress and writer known for I Love You, Man, IV-Effing, and Key and Peele and plays economics teacher Michelle Jones in AP Bio. In this episode she talks about her long journey trying to become a mother. After

Retreat Into Solidarity

Jun 1st, 2021 30m 53s

Kaylan Buteyn is an artist and mother who has started a movement among other artist mothers. She launched the Artist/Mother Podcast in early 2019 and immediately saw thousands of mothers flocking to the community by listening and posting their

A Second Season of Motherhood

May 18th, 2021 2m 25s

After a long year of COVID, pregnancy and new baby, I'm back for season 2! Join me this summer for a new season of mothers finding the impulse to create after going through all the trials and tribulations of motherhood. I'll have five new int

Bonus: Birth and Body in a Pandemic

Apr 27th, 2020 13m 41s

In this bonus episode I learn from Carly Dothsuk, living in rural Western Kentucky, about what it's like being 8 months pregnant during this COVID-19 pandemic, and how she is preparing for her hospital birth. She speaks candidly about her men

Bonus: Newborns and breastfeeding

Mar 27th, 2020 15m 1s

In this bonus episode, we hear from three mothers of newborns on their experiences with breastfeeding. If you're expecting, some things you'll hear them say may surprise you. And if you've gone through this process, you'll likely be nodding y

Intertwined and Metamorphosed

Nov 18th, 2019 9m 35s

This is the closing episode for Season 1 of this project. I have recapped , in an audio essay, some of my own experience with the transformational power of becoming a mother. Nine women have offered their stories of growth and transformation

18 Months of Motherhood

Oct 14th, 2019 45m 58s

In this episode I speak with Associate Professor of Psychology and Child Development Specialist Venessa LoBue and get some of the back story to her book 9 Months In 9 Months Out. She talks about being in a profession where studying other people

Black Unicorns: Beginning, Jessica Hill

Sep 23rd, 2019 39m 56s

In this episode I speak with West Georgia alumna, and mom of three, Jessica Hill about her ongoing struggle with shaping her career while birthing and raising three kids. Jessica's story does not follow the beaten path. In fact, the path she

Godsmacked! JoLynne Polichette

Sep 2nd, 2019 50m 16s

In this episode JoLynne describes how the trauma of her first birth experience coupled with the empowerment of her second catapulted her into a career as a birth doula. She has also been an activist for policy change in Kentucky by serving on

Bringing Up Baby, Brooke Smart

Aug 14th, 2019 38m 2s

In this episode, Brooke opens up about how the failure of her marriage in the first year of her daughter's life gave her the courage and tenacity to launch herself into a new career. Through a commitment to the 100 days project she gained a fo

Be a Seed, Lily Landers

Jul 30th, 2019 36m 3s

In this episode I speak with Lily Landers, a new mom who has devoted her life to teaching kids. She lives in LA, where she shares her yoga practice with kids in public schools and families in private homes. We talk about her experience teachi

... all this time in the middle? Stacy Dacheux

Jul 16th, 2019 52m 8s

In this episode I speak with Stacy Elaine Dacheux, an LA artist and relatively new mom. Her work reaches deep into an internal well of emotional responsiveness to produce poetic recordings of various moments of her life. In this episode, she

I Contain Multitudes, Annie Campbell

Jun 27th, 2019 1h 5m

Annie is a ceramicist and professor at Auburn University. She has a very unique experience with becoming a mother, as her son was diagnosed with a rare brain condition shortly after his birth. In this episode we retrace the first year of his

#Preserving Curiosity, Justine Riley

Jun 9th, 2019 56m 14s

Justine is a bookmaker and ceramicist living in rural Mayfield Kentucky with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Murray State University. She has an eight year old son she homeschools and feeds from their family’s farm. In this episode, we talk about

Making a Home - Heidi Ortega

May 6th, 2019 30m 12s

Heidi is a Professor of Costume Design at Murray State University where she has been for over 11 years. She has two children ages 7 and 4. In this episode, she talks about the struggles her husband and she have had making a life in a rural to

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