Sarah Chadwick discusses the history of clitoral representation in art with Nina Collins Sarah is a writer and educator interested in the history of female sexuality, challenging the status quo, and humor.  Get Sarah's Book: https://bookshop.org/a/19300/9781736298831 Learn More About Revel: www.hellorevel.com

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#77: The History of the Clitoris

Tulani Bridgewater-Kowalski is in conversation with Christine Pride and Jo Piazza about their new book, We Are Not Like Them, which is also our October Book Club pick! About the Book: Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event--a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. More About Revel: www.hellorevel.com

#76: We Are Not Like Them: Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

 Nina Collins in conversation with Natalie Nixon about her new book, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work. About Natalie: Natalie Nixon, PhD changes lives through ideas so that people build their creative confidence for years to come, make an impact and get paid their worth. She is a creativity strategist, global keynote speaker and author of the award winning The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work, which has been recognized as a game-changing innovation book by Fast Company, Porchlight and Soundview. As president of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC she advises leaders on transformation- by applying wonder and rigor to amplify growth and business value. Clients have included Comcast, Citrix, Living Cities, VaynerMedia and Bloomberg. About the Book: Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it's the key to developing breakthrough products and services. Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist with a background in cultural anthropology, fashion, and service design, says that in the fourth industrial revolution a creativity leap is needed to bridge the gap that exists between the churn of work and the highly sought-after prize called innovation. Nixon says that since humans are hardwired to be creative, it is a competency anyone can develop. She shows that it balances wonder (awe, audacity, and curiosity) with rigor (discipline, skill-building, and attention to detail), and that inquiry, improvisation, and intuition are the key practices that increase those capacities. Drawing on interviews with fifty-six people from diverse backgrounds--farming, law, plumbing, architecture, perfumery, medicine, education, technology, and more--she offers illuminating examples of how creativity manifests in every kind of work. More About Revel:  www.hellorevel.com 

#75: The Creativity Leap

Nina Collins hosts a conversation all about perimenopause with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz. About Dr. Suzanne: Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz is a nationally renowned doctor, expert, speaker and advocate for integrative women’s health. As a partner at Women’s Care of Beverly Hills, she’s performed thousands of deliveries and continues to help women transition through important phases of their lives -from adolescence to post menopause. Her expertise covers all aspects of gynecology including sexual health, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and the science of self care. About Revel: www.hellorevel.com

#74: Perimenopause 101 with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz

Nina Collins is in conversation with Dr. Debbie to learn more about childhood triggers and how they are showing up in our present-day lives – mostly where they don’t belong! Dr. Debbie Magids is a counseling psychologist with a thriving private practice in New York City. “Dr. Debbie” -- as she has come to be known to both her clients and national TV audience -- also runs corporate Wellness Workshops/webinars focused on topics including communicating effectively, managing stress, increasing productivity, and decreasing anxiety.

#73: Dr. Debbie on Triggers

Nina Collins hosts a conversation with Sarah Greaves Gabbadon (AKA Jet Set Sarah) all about Caribbean Travel! From Sarah: I’m a Miami-based Caribbean travel expert, award-winning travel journalist, TV host and self-described “Carivangelist,” who ventures to the beach and beyond to share the diverse culture, lifestyle and people of the world’s favorite warm-weather destination with brands such as Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Islands.com, the U.K’s Telegraph and Canada’s Globe and Mail newspapers. Formerly executive editor of U.S. newsstand magazine Caribbean Travel + Life, I'm now jetsetter-in-chief here at JetSetSarah.com, where my passions — the Caribbean, style and fitness — meet. My not-so-hidden talent? The ability to sniff out a “shopportunity,” wherever in the world I may be. Follow my adventures on Twitter and Instagram, and on Facebook. Learn More More About Revel: www.hellorevel.com

#72: JetSetSarah on Caribbean Travel

Nina Collins interviews Dana Spiotta about her new book Wayward, which we'll also be discussing at September's Book Club. Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels: Wayward (forthcoming in 2021), Innocents and Others (2016), winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia (2011), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Eat the Document (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the American Academy's Rosenthal Foundation Award; and Lightning Field(2001), a New York Times Notable Book. Other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, the Premio Pivano, a Creative Capital Award, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. About Wayward: On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into the Mids--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation.When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life--and her family--as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female difficulty--female complexity--in the age of Trump. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird, off-kilter America, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins. Tremendous new work from one of the most gifted writers of her generation. More About Revel: www.hellorevel.com

#71: Author Series: Dana Spiotta

Nina Collins hosts a conversation with entrepreneur and author Mei Xu. They will discuss Xu's professional ventures as well as her new memoir Burn. Mei Xu is a Chinese American entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of three global companies, Yes She May, BlissLiving Home® and Chesapeake Bay Candle®. Xu successfully negotiated the sale of Chesapeake Bay Candle to Newell Brands in 2017, a conglomerate with a $14 billion portfolio of consumer goods. Mei is now focused on helping women-owned consumer product companies grow and prosper with the Yes She May product platform.

#70: Entrepreneurship with Mei Xu

Nina talks with the Revel Co-Founders Alexa Wahr and Lisa Marrone! You'll learn more about Lisa and Alexa and about the Woolfer's recent merger with Revel. 

#69: Meet The Revel Co-Founders

Nina talks with Claire Luchette about her new book!   Claire's work has appeared in VQR, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Granta. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Luchette graduated from the University of Oregon MFA program and has received grants and scholarships from MacDowell, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the James Merrill House. Agatha of Little Neon is Luchette's first novel.

#68: Author Series: Claire Luchette

Rika Khurdayan gives Nina a primer on Cryptocurrency. Rika’s practice involves blockchain, virtual currencies, DSOs/STOs and tokenization of assets. Rika provides strategic, transactional and regulatory advice to a wide range of both established and emerging participants in the FinTech space, and regularly represents token issuers, trading platforms, traditional and crypto investment funds, as well as family offices and managers wishing to cross-over to the blockchain sector. Rika has extensive experience helping clients structure, negotiate and execute their most complex business transactions, with a particular focus on blockchain and FinTech, from traditional venture financing to digitized capital raises. Rika was named to Super Lawyers’ New York Metro Area “Rising Star” in 2018, 2019 and 2020 in Technology Transactions sector and has been involved in many conferences worldwide as panel speaker or presenter on the regulatory aspects of blockchain technology and regulation of cryptocurrencies. Over the years, Rika advised a variety of clients in their development, acquisition, investment and disposition strategies and helped these clients navigate the multiple regulatory regimes, tax laws and legal systems as they move people, financial assets and business interests across international borders.

#67: On Cryptocurrency

Stephanie Staal talks with Amy Sohn!   Amy’s new book, THE MAN WHO HATED WOMEN, was published in July 2021 with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her first book for children, Brooklyn Bailey, the Missing Dog, was published in April 2020 with Dial Books for Young readers to warm reviews like this one. In Fall 2019 she published CBD! with OR Books/Counterpoint. CBD! is a parodic parable written in the style of the beloved children’s book by William Steig, CDB!. Amy is the New York Times-bestselling author of twelve books, including the novels Prospect Park West, Motherland, and The Actress. Her books have been published in eleven languages and on five continents.

#66: The Man Who Hated Women

Nina talks with author Catherine Raven about her new book, Fox ! Catherine Raven is a former national park ranger at Glacier, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Voyageurs, and Yellowstone National Parks. She earned her Ph.D. in biology from Montana State University, holds degrees in zoology and botany from the University of Montana, and is a member of American Mensa and Sigma Xi. Her natural history essays have appeared in American Scientist, Journal of American Mensa, and Montana Magazine. You can find her in Fox’s valley tugging tumbleweeds from the sloughs. Get FOX AND I: https://bookshop.org/a/7661/9781954118003

#65: Catherine Raven

Melody Wilding, LMSW talks about her new book with Nina Collins!   Melody is an executive coach, human behavior expert, and author of Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. She has coached hundreds of private clients, from CEOs and Fortune 500 executives to leaders from the US Department of Education, the Federal Reserve, and the United Nations. She teaches graduate-level human behavior and psychology at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York. Her writing is regularly featured on Medium and in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, and Quartz. Her advice has been featured in the New York Times, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, NBC News, US News and World Report, and more

#64: Stop Overthinking Everything

Nina Talks with Tina Martino   TINA'S ADVENTURE: Traveling the country with two cats full time in a van.   FROM TINA: Sold my house and my car. Bought a van and began traveling full-time in November. Started the big trip in Kingston, NY, and currently in Sedona, Az.

#63: Armchair Travel

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