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At Boldin, formerly NewRetirement, our mission is to empower everyone to plan and manage their retirement, enabling them to make the most of their money and time. Our podcast explores topics like money, purpose, meaning, lifestyle, and health, featuring insightful interviews designed to help you maximize your life. To dive deeper, we offer “the best” free retirement planning tool and a wealth of valuable resources on these topics, all available at Boldin.com.
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Perfectly Imperfect is the show for those who are searching for growth and acceptance. As two Asian American women, Christine Chen and Regina Fang started having real and raw conversations after work 10+ years ago about our community and us as 20 something women. Now we’ve turned our 3am talks to this podcast where we can openly share thoughts + feels about mental health, friendships, and life lessons we’ve learned along the way. We create meaningful and deep connections that make you feel l ...
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xoxo christine is all about having candid and honest conversations centered around the themes of transformations, breakthroughs, and how do you live your best life right now! Christine shares her life coaching tips, tools, and exercises that get you from "I'm not good enough and I don't know what I'm doing," to fully knowing and embracing your self worth and stepping into your purpose, whether that's in your relationships, career, and any of your goals or dreams!
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This podcast is all about the feels, Man feels! Whether you're a guy struggling to define what the quest and notions to being a 'Man' is or a woman trying to unlock the mysteries of the male mind, this show will be for you. Come join your Asian American host, Jack Chen, ready and willing to dive into what all these trials and tribulations in love, sex, dating, family, society, self discovery, career and life all mean and what they are meant to unlock. It's time to normalize these conversatio ...
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Versa Manos is an award-winning Los Angeles-based talent manager and owner of Gorgeous Media Group. She brings decades of entertainment and media experience to a roster of clients, which include actors, writers, directors, and musicians. She is heavily invested in the industry, serving as an executive member of Film Independent, Women in Film, Hollywood Radio and Television Society, and American Film Institute. She previously served as the President of the Talent Managers Association. Join V ...
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TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer travels the country connecting with agile, testing, DevOps, and security professionals to advance the global software community. Do you want to hear from an expert on the show? Email Owen at ogotimer@techwell.com.
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With the preliminary voting ending today at 5:00 PT, we were treated with a conversation with several filmmakers with films in contention for the 97th Academy Awards. Versa and her fantastic guests cover a range of topics, from the day-to-day business on set, to how to stay driven in a creative field. Finally, they get into the big picture of the e…
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Peter D. Marshall worked more than 40 years as a film and TV director, TV producer, 1stAD. He directed 30 episodes of TV, and 25 commercials. He was 1stAD on 12 movies including Dawn of the Dead, The Butterfly Effect, and Happy Gilmore. He worked with directors like John Woo, Zack Snyder, Phillip Noyce, Ed Zwich, and John Badham. He worked with act…
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Hosts: Adam Rani (@adamthechase) & Christine Chen (@cchenmtf) For more information about Christine Chen: christinewchen.com For more information go to getreelisms.com For more information on ERZULIE go to: erzuliefilm.com HOSTS: Adam Rani Christine Chen Guests: Catherine Argyrople WEBISODE version of the Podcast getreelisms.com Official Get Reelism…
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Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is this "jewel box of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews) t…
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Set in 1977, Johnny Delivers (Guernica Editions, 2024) tells the absorbing story of 18-year-old Johnny Wong—the son of Chinese immigrants to Canada—who calls on the spirit of Bruce Lee to help him navigate the still relevant challenges of racism and how it permeates our interiority, our institutions, our relationships, and our livelihood. Toxic mas…
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Steve Chen welcomes Christine Benz, Director of Personal Finance at Morningstar, to discuss her book How to Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy Retirement. Christine shares practical strategies for retirement planning, including tax-efficient decumulation, dynamic spending, and the bucket approach for managing cash flow and inve…
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Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University English professor and no stranger to Recall This Book, is the author of two books on Victorian literature and one about Jennifer Egan. For this episode of Recall This Story, Ivan reads Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Foxcastle.” It was first published in The New Yorker in 1975 and became the final story in her final boo…
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In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited Taiwanese Queer author, Kevin Chen, to talk about his LGBTQ novel, Ghost Town (Europa Editions, 2022) 鬼地方 and its fever worldwide. In our conversation, Kevin shared with us how he first “come out” as a gay writer in Taiwan in the 90s, and how his writings was influenced by key Taiwanese LGBTQ authors and c…
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Today I talked to Lisa Williamson Rosenberg about Mirror Me (Little a, 2024) Eddie Asher has always lost chunks of time, and the novel opens as he checks himself into a psychiatric hospital, fearing that during one of his lapses, he murdered his brother’s fiancée. Eddie would never harm Lucy – he loves her and feels a special bond with her – but he…
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When seventeen-year-old Christian Bekker killed a poacher, he claimed it was self-defense. But the judge disagreed. He gave Christian a choice: go to prison or leave his home in South Africa and never return. Following his father’s suicide, conservation director Dr. Christian Bekker uncovers a plea from the grave to find out what really happened on…
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Hosts: Adam Rani (@adamthechase) & Christine Chen (@cchenmtf) For more information about Christine Chen: christinewchen.com For more information go to getreelisms.com For more information on ERZULIE go to: erzuliefilm.com HOSTS: Adam Rani Christine Chen Guests: Eve Butterly WEBISODE version of the Podcast getreelisms.com SUMMARY OF TIMELINE 00:00 O…
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Vikas Swarup’s new novel, The Girl With the Seven Lives (Simon & Schuster India: 2024), opens with its main character Devi locked in a room, forced to retell her life’s story. Or, rather, her life’s stories–starting in the slums of Delhi, Devi reinvents herself time-and-time-again, with a new name and a new backstory, as she tries to carve a niche …
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Dan Shaked is an actor in TV, film, and theater. He studied acting at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He played an Apple engineer in the movie Jobs with Ashton Kutcher, was in ABC’s Body of Proof, and NBC’s Mysteries Of Laura. Dan is also in the upcoming L…
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Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Yr Dead (McSweeney's Books, 2024), longlisted for The National Book Award and PIG named one of the best books of 2023 by New York Magazine and Electric Lit. They're also the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It winner of the James Laughlin Award fr…
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Today I talked to Chikodili Emelumadu about Dazzling (Harry N. Abrams, 2023). Treasure and Ozoemena are young Nigerian girls forced to deal with spirits after losing their fathers. Treasure is forced to beg in the marketplace as her mother lies bedridden and depressed, and a wicked spirit finds her there and tries to make her his wife. He promises …
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In the poetry collection Prayers of a Heretic (Plain View Press, 2015), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub explores the "crime" of heresy and the condition of existential displacement through the language of prayer and prayerful voice/s. In the first section, "Visits and Visitations," the poet imagines a variety of protagonists in situations of supplication. The…
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This week we are joined by Emmy-winning producer and actor David Millbern. David has been involved in over 120 projects, including the cult classic “The Slumber Party Massacre”, ABC’s “General Hospital”, Daytime Emmy winning “Girls’ Voices Now”, and most recently “Big Rage.” David’s myriad of work and talent allows him to be an excellent advocate f…
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Imagine growing up between Sacramento, California and Logar, Afghanistan; you hear stories about war, watch coverage of the United States’ War on Terror on television, and then visit your family in the very places that the U.S. army invaded and occupied. These experiences shape the work of novelist Jamil Jan Kochai, author of 99 Nights in Logar and…
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How do we become the persons we are? Cornelia Maude Spelman's Solace (Jackleg Press, 2024) seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional legacies and psychological landscapes that shaped the author's life, Solace unfurls in a series of vignettes drawn from diaries and personal stories about her relationship to others as daughter, mothe…
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Today I spoke with Emily Dinova about her new novel The Antagonist (Bruce Scivally, 2024). Dinova, a psychoanalytic candidate working towards a license to practice psychoanalysis, wrote The Antagonist as a way of healing her own trauma. Written as a creative act of revenge, Dinova found herself in a fragmented state while writing the book. “I reall…
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Life is tough for people of color in the early twentieth century—not only in the Southern states, which have put Reconstruction firmly behind them in favor of Jim Crow laws. Even so, Lucille Love, known as the Little Girl with the Big Voice, dreams of making her name on Broadway and eventually moving to Paris, leaving behind the prejudices that res…
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Megan Tennant speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “Little Women,” which appears in The Common’s brand new fall issue. Megan talks about the process of writing and revising this story, which explores the complex dynamics between two sisters in a religious family in South Africa after one sister gets engaged. Megan also discusses …
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Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters have become a familiar sight in the global street art movement, and his paintings appear frequently on covers of the New Yorker. His first book, Flood, won the American Book Award, followed by Blood Son…
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Hosts: Adam Rani (@adamthechase) & Christine Chen (@cchenmtf) For more information about Christine Chen: christinewchen.com For more information go to getreelisms.com For more information on ERZULIE go to: erzuliefilm.com HOSTS: Adam Rani Christine Chen WEBISODE version of the Podcast getreelisms.com 00:00 Reflecting on 'Past Lives' - A Deep Dive 0…
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A Slight Angle (India Viking: 2024), the newest novel from Indian writer Ruth Vanita, is a story about love. Difficult love–her six characters are growing up in 1920s India, which takes a dim view of same-sex relationships, and those that transcend religious boundaries. Like Sharad, the jewelry designer who falls in love with his teacher, Abhik–onl…
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Today I talked to Benjamin Resnick about his novel Next Stop (Simon and Schuster, 2024) A hole opens in the universe and suddenly consumes a building, then a neighborhood, and then the entire country of Israel. Conspiracies and antisemitic paranoia simmer, violence erupts, and life for Jews around the globe becomes even more hate filled. But Ethan …
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What happens when a novelist wants “nonsense and joy” but his characters are destined for a Central European sanatorium? How does the abecedarian form (i.e. organized not chronologically or sequentially but alphabetically) insist on order, yet also embrace absurdity? Here to ponder such questions with host John Plotz are University of Wisconsin–Mad…
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Sparks fly in Megan Staffel’s novel, The Causative Factor (Regal House 2024), when Rachel is randomly paired with Rubiat, a fellow student, for an assignment in their college art class. After a heavenly night together, they go hiking, and he dives off a cliff, disappearing without a trace. Although Rachel graduates with an art degree, moves to New …
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Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his attention to the history and culture of the Faroe Islands. High in the North Atlantic, half-way between Scotland and Iceland, the islands' inhabitants remain closely connected to the Viking settlers who established communities on Faroe over one thous…
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