Emmy-nominated filmmaker, renowned public speaker, and writer Tiffany Shlain is no stranger to technology. Not only is she founder of the Webby Awards and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, but much of her wor

Shameless with Nadia Bolz-Weber

May 25th, 2020 40m 37s

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a bad ass: A Lutheran pastor and the founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver, the author of three (!) New York Times Bestsellers, she has a podcast, a huge following and she just doesn’t look like your typical pa

The Apology with Eve Ensler

Apr 22nd, 2020 39m 33s

Eve Ensler is most well known for The Vagina Monologues, a play she created that has been performed around the world countless times. She’s also a feminist, activist and author. We spoke about her groundbreaking, heart wrenching book, The Apolo

Courage with Debbie Millman

Mar 12th, 2020 50m 2s

Debbie Millman’s resume is impressive, to say the least: Designer, artist, brand consultant for some of the most recognizable companies, author of six books, host of the first-ever and longest-running design podcast, Design Matters. It’s easy t

Boys & Sex with Peggy Orenstein

Feb 6th, 2020 48m 43s

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Peggy Orenstein has spent a good part of her career focusing on girls and young women in groundbreaking books like Cinderella ate my Daughter and the infamous, Girls & Sex. As the #metoo movement

Best of 2019

Dec 30th, 2019 31m 50s

Tania Ketenjian: This year has been an amazing one in the world of SHAMEBOOTH. We are approaching our 24th podcast episode, we produced a portable booth that Paula has been lugging around with her around the country (and soon to the border), we

That's Mental with Amanda Rosenberg

Dec 18th, 2019 53m 16s

The holiday season can be a lot of things: joyful, connective, fun. It can also be downright isolating and lonely, especially for those who struggle with mental illness. Our most recent guest, British-Chinese comedy writer Amanda Rosenberg, kno

Surviving Domestic Violence with Leslie Morgan Steiner

Oct 23rd, 2019 58m 2s

On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States — that's more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year. In this episode, we speak with Leslie Morgan

Back To School with Nicole Hockley

Sep 18th, 2019 1h 6m

This was one of the toughest episodes we have ever produced: Speaking with Nicole Hockley of Sandy Hook Promise about the tragedy that came into her life when there was a shooting at her son’s school, Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut

Scratching the Surface of Race

Aug 13th, 2019 51m 58s

As we know, shame finds itself everywhere, as does its sister, Pride. In this episode, we are touching on two key places where shame & pride seems to rear its head: Education and race. Our guest on the show is a graduate of Harvard University,

Get Proud with Matthew Clark Davison

Jun 26th, 2019 34m 31s

It’s PRIDE. Millions of people, literally, are descending on to New York for the 50th Anniversary of Pride, and people around the world are taking to the streets to shed their shame and get proud about who they are and who they desire. It’s pow

Near Death with BJ Miller

May 24th, 2019 1h 8m

Death. It’s the one thing that is absolutely inevitable in our lives. And yet, it’s the thing we try and escape the most. Until we get ill, or tragedy strikes, and it becomes all too real. That’s what happened with BJ Miller. A stunning, athlet

How To Be Loved with Eva Hagberg

Apr 22nd, 2019 57m 45s

Eva Hagberg is a journalist, professor, and author. She has a Ph.D. in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley and has written for the leading publications: NY Times, Tin House and countless others. So yeah, she’s a badass. And for a long

Shame ain't all bad with Joseph Burgo

Mar 18th, 2019 56m 56s

When we see the word shame, it pricks up our ears. We want to know more and we want to understand what people are saying, and doing, about it. Because guess what? We want to eradicate shame. Let’s do it! Wait, wait, what’s that you say? There a

Nipping Shame in the Bud with Jennifer Berger

Jan 23rd, 2019 43m 44s

Do you remember the first time you thought there was something different about your body? Maybe it happened before you were even verbal. You noticed you were taller, or your fingers were longer, your hair was curlier. And, as a toddler, you wer

Getting Heavy with Kiese Laymon

Dec 19th, 2018 47m 31s

Kiese Laymon’s Heavy: An American Memoir has been hailed as “a tapestry of heart and heartache” (Boston Globe), “raw, cathartic” (O Magazine), “staggering” (Elle.com), “stunningly honest” (The Atlantic) and “a refined, warm, generously poetic l

Finn Deerhart - Ain’t no shame in gay

Nov 10th, 2018 1h 2m

You are born in the south, raised moving from small town to small town because your father is a minister in the church, you’re gay and you know it but you can’t come out, and all you hear from your family is how homosexuality is a sin, an abomi

Seeing Trauma with Katie Albright

Oct 8th, 2018 56m 15s

We all know that child abuse is shitty, and we all know that it exists. If awareness is part of the answer, then why does it continue to be a local and national epidemic? How do we care for the abused, and YES, the ABUSER so that the cycle can

Dawn Nickel from She Recovers

Sep 14th, 2018 35m 14s

Let’s face it- we’re all recovering from something. Do you hide away in the kitchen feeding that chocolate addiction, do you need to get high to make love, is there something that you are compelled to do that keeps you away from being free? The

MILCK can't keep quiet

Jul 30th, 2018 49m 49s

In this episode of SHAMEBOOTH Podcast we follow one artist’s journey out of shame and silence into unrepentant, uncompromising, balls-to-the-wall self-honesty. Her generational anthem “Quiet” went viral at the Women’s March January 27, 2017 r

Homelessness with Doniece Sandoval

Jun 22nd, 2018 34m 50s

If there is one place where we see a whole lot of shame, it’s in the condition of not having a home, of being homeless, houseless, unhoused. Those that are without a home feel ashamed, we as bystanders feel ashamed for not doing anything about

What Is Shame with Eve Ekman - Part 2

May 24th, 2018 34m 28s

Okay, so, our conversation with Dr. Eve Ekman was so good we had to make it a two parter. We also have some amazing stories from the the booth and also from the street by our intrepid producer Regina Bediako - listen closely to the section that

What Is Shame with Eve Ekman - Part 1

May 10th, 2018 44m 5s

For our 6th episode of SHAMEBOOTH, we are getting back to the basics, so to speak, and asking the deceptively simple question, what the heck is shame. Our guest is Dr. Eve Ekman who has been working in the field of emotions for over a decade an

Gender and Sexuality with guest Ash Beckham

Mar 27th, 2018 25m 38s

We all have our closets - I mean our emotional ones - where we hide things away not wanting anyone to see. In this episode, we're discussing coming out of those closets and not allowing our shame to limit who we are and what we can be. Through

The foundations of love with Charlotte Kasl

Feb 17th, 2018 51m 44s

Ahhhh, love. Boy oh boy do we carry a lot of stuff around love. Who do we love, who loves us, how were we loved, what is loving, who am I allowed to love, why is it important, why is it the most important thing. Is it? We speak with author and