The Book Stoop Podcast

The Book Stoop

Row House
Past the corner bodega and down the block from the fresh cuts barbershop, you’ll find a brick row house at the intersection of Literature Place and Social Justice Blvd. Hosted by Amanda Lytle for Row House Publishing, each episode of The Book Stoop features the latest on book culture, nerd culture, current events, and more with best-selling authors, change-makers, and risk-takers that will leave you feeling plugged in and lit up. So grab your favorite cuppa, and tune in for hot takes, chill vibes, and quality conversations on the stoop.
Shawna Gann: True Colors Consulting, Organizational Fairness, and Leading with Intention
As a Certified Diversity Professional and Scholar-Practitioner, Shawna Gann successfully marries business psychology, learning theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles to support organizations as they advance DEI practices in the workplace and in everyday social situations. Though she works with employees at all levels of an organization supporting the many dimensions of diversity, she specializes in racial ambiguity, authenticity, and belonging. Through her world travels...
Sep 6, 2022
30 min
Julianna Rose: 420 Tarot and the Tool Box for Magic Making, Creativity and Spirituality
Julianna Rose (she/they) is an illustrator and magic tool maker. They have studied world building, time traveling, and tarot at the Cecilia Weston Spiritual Academy. They have created artwork for children's books, ad agencies, grocery stores, and apparel. Julianna enjoys smoking weed and snacking, gardening, pulling tarot cards, having deep conversations, hiking, swimming, and magic making. They are mixed race (Korean and white) and currently live in the desert with their partner and dog, Shi...
Aug 30, 2022
26 min
Nancy Torres: Say It With Me (Dilo Conmigo) + Embracing Our Feelings
Nancy Torres is an Author, Childhood Educator, and Meditation Guide. She loves inspiring and supporting children in their academic and social-emotional development. Nancy received a B.A. in Corporate Communications from Baruch College, City University of New York, and received an M.A. in Childhood Education and Special Education from New York University. Nancy speaks both English and Spanish, and lives in New York with her husband and two sons whom they are raising bilingual.In the conversati...
Aug 23, 2022
24 min
Nōn Wels: You, Me, Empathy + One Heart at a Time
*Content Warning: topics include abuse, anorexia and suicidal ideation*Nōn Wels is a writer, doggo lover, creator of the You, Me, Empathy podcast, and founder of The Feely Human Collective, a space to grow and grapple with the wonders of empathy, vulnerability, and emotional curiosity. In the conversation today, we hear the backstory to the You, Me, Empathy podcast, and what brave safety means to Nōn. We speak about using our privilege, uplifting others, leading by example, and what keep...
Aug 16, 2022
32 min
Sonali Fiske: Sacred Listening, Sacred Rage, Speaking Up and Speaking Out
Sonali Fiske is a woman-identified, Sri Lankan-born, California-grown leadership mentor, radio talk show host, spoken word artist, writer, international speaker, and mama to one teenaged-son. Her everyday work is to fortify and amplify revolutionary BIPoC voices in a collapsing white-dominant, colonized landscape. Sonali specifically mentors trans and cis womxn and non-binary and gender nonconforming people who are open to being in femme centered space. Her other devotions are centering racia...
Aug 9, 2022
29 min
Jess Bird: Safety in Oneself, and Being More Than Mostly Happy
Jess Bird is a self taught artist + illustrator, making magic in her hometown of Rochester, NY. She started her instagram and shop Bless the Messy in 2014, in an effort to connect back to herself and others during the darkness of depression. Exposing herself as a messy, in-process human figuring it out, she uses her illustrations to convey what she’s learning, how she’s feeling, and how she moves through the world around her. Her hope is that people feel seen, validated, and less alone. She s...
Aug 2, 2022
29 min
Rosa Lowinger: Wandering to Belong, Deadlines and Deliberate Design
Rosa Lowinger is a writer and art conservator most well-known for Tropicana Nights: the Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub, the definitive book on Havana’s pre-Castro nightclub era. Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Rosa has an M.A. in art history and conservation from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, and she is a fellow of every major international conservation organization. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is chief conservator at RLA Conservation, LLC, a firm she founded that s...
Jul 26, 2022
30 min
Asha Frost: Finding One’s Own Medicine + Reclaiming One’s Power
Asha Frost is an Indigenous Medicine Woman and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is the best selling author of You are the Medicine, and has guided thousands of people through profound and lasting transformation. Asha is from the Crane Clan, the totem of leadership, and believes in holding space from vision and heart. As an energy healer, homeopath, and mentor, Asha has blended her life experience with her innate gifts and the wisdom of her Ancestors. She loves shari...
Jul 19, 2022
24 min
Daniel J. O’Brien: Flip it Horizontal, and Learn to Walk Away - An Illustrator’s Perspective
Daniel J. O’Brien is a Trinidad-born author and illustrator currently residing in New York with his fantastic partner, Ashleigh, and their loyal but nervous dog, Obbie. He holds a BFA in Illustration from The School of Visual Arts. With that and his love of everything folklore, nature, and science, he is continually fueling his passion for illustration. He uses his honed ability to bring forth exuberant and whimsical illustrations full of life, and vibrant color. Daniel has written, illu...
Jul 12, 2022
31 min
Rawiyah Tariq: Community, Defiance and Creating a Delicious Life
Rawiyah Tariq is a Black, gender non-binary, fat, disabled and neurodivergent artist and kink aware professional. Their roots are in queer, poly-amorous, fat community. Their tone is reflective of these roots and their work is informed by how these intersect with their Blackness. Magic, massage, storytelling and performance art are tools they use to liberate, heal and reclaim space for marginalized communities. They believe in cohesive and somatic healing and holding practic...
Jul 5, 2022
29 min
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