Best JP Reynolds Podcasts (2024)

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7.6 Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH) 50:01

2M ago50:01

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What’s the truth and what’s a lie? What’s a memoir, what’s a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was n…

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Building a Beauty Empire: Lindsay Gail's Path from Overworked Nurse to Medspa Success 37:58

2M ago37:58

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In this episode we speak with Lindsay Gail, the brains behind Hush Med Spa. Lindsay speaks on her journey building a multimillion-dollar brand while raising 3 young men.By Joe Tomanovich

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7.5 Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH) 50:15

3M ago50:15

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Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are like machines and how South African history resembles some of the most sinister versions of techno-futurism. Masande is the author of two novels: The Reactive, winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2018, a…

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How To Be Masculine In Business - Kaiser Nehal 46:58

3M ago46:58

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In this episode we speak with Kaiser Nehal a serial entrepreneur who went from 500k in debt to building a multi-million dollar roofing company!By Joe Tomanovich

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7.4 Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song 53:37

3M ago53:37

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Omar El Akkad joins critic Min Hyoung Song for a gripping conversation that interrogates fiction’s relationship to the real. Before he became a novelist, Omar was a journalist, and his experiencing reporting on (among other subjects) the war on terror, the Arab Spring, and the Black Lives Matter movement profoundly shapes his fiction. His first nov…

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Fitness, Mindset & Empowering Women - Michelle Game 31:57

3M ago31:57

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In this episode we speak with Michelle Game a serial entrepreneur who manages to conquer her own anxiety.By Joe Tomanovich

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Secrets Revealed! Ex-Con to Multi-Million Dollar Real Estate Developer - Eric Crutchfield 31:22

4M ago31:22

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In this episode we speak with Eric Crutchfield, an ex-convicted felon turned multi-million dollar real estate developer.By Joe Tomanovich

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7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH) 47:41

3M ago47:41

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Brandon Taylor practices moral worldbuilding in his fiction—that means an essential piece of these worlds is the “real possibility that someone could get punched in the face.” Brandon, author of the novels Real Life and The Late Americans, joins Stephanie Insley Hershinow for a wide-ranging, engrossing, and often hilarious conversation about the st…

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7.2 You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW) 58:53

4M ago58:53

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Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even at times from the limits of her own thinking—she is keenly aware of the unfreedoms her novels explore. Katie, author of the award-winning Intimacies (2021), talks with critic Alexander Manshel about th…

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7.1 Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds (JP) 41:58

4M ago41:58

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Anne Enright, writer, critic, Booker winner, kindly makes time for Irish literature maven Paige Reynolds and ND host John Plotz. She reads from The Wren, The Wren (Norton, 2023) and discusses the “etherized” state of our inner lives as they circulate on social media. Anne says we don't yet know if the web has become a space of exposure or of author…

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Redeeming The Health of the World - Justin Roethlingshoefer 44:45

5M ago44:45

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In this episode we speak with Justin Roethlingshoefer, an amazing individual who built a company focused on finding and fixing deficiencies in the body at the cellular level to achieve night and day results for high performing individuals.By Joe Tomanovich

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6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff 44:24

9M ago44:24

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Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theolog…

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6.5 Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW) 48:31

9M ago48:31

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Just days before the release of her latest novel, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, 2023), three-time National Book Award Finalist and The New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff sat down to talk to critic Laura McGrath and host Sarah Wasserman. Although Groff admits that she wants “each subsequent book to destroy the one” that came before,…

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Struggling To The Top - David Carpenter 33:20

9M ago33:20

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In this episode we speak with David Carpenter, a young and driven individual who shares some of the struggles he went through on his journey to the top!By Joe Tomanovich

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6.4 “We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias” 46:11

9M ago46:11

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Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Norton, 2022), which won the Booker Prize in 2022, is a thriller that begins in the afterlife, an uproarious murder mystery set amid the tragedies of Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Its protagonist, a war photographer, has become a ghost with just seven moons to find his killer and give his life’s…

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JP Morgan Uses This Unusual Business Tactic - Bianca Cimino 33:34

10M ago33:34

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In this episode we speak with Bianca Cimino, a busy business woman who still finds the time to look at the stars.By Joe Tomanovich

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6.3 Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV) 41:20

10M ago41:20

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2 tables; 300 novels, 1500 pages of nature description: This is how Tom Comitta created The Nature Book, a one-of-a-kind novel cut from 300 years of English literary tradition. It has no human characters, no original writing, and it is astoundingly good! Tom sits down with distinguished Harvard prof, Deidre Lynch and host Aarthi Vadde to talk about…

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6.2 What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington 39:14

10M ago39:14

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Locus- and Nebula- award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark joins critic andré carrington (UC Riverside) and host Rebecca Ballard for a conversation about the archives, methods, and cosmologies that inform his speculative fiction. Clark’s fiction blends fantasy and horror elements with richly drawn historical worlds that speak to his academic life as a …

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A Man's Guide: Mastering Business and Family 46:33

11M ago46:33

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In this episode we speak with Brandon Abidin, a mortgage tycoon and respectable father figure!By Joe Tomanovich

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6.1 Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH) 41:28

11M ago41:28

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Our season of the weird starts off with a conversation between the writer The New Yorker called “the weird Thoreau”, Jeff VanderMeer, and a scholar of the modernist weird, Alison Sperling (FSU). With ND host Chris Holmes, Jeff and Alison delve into how the ugly politics of Lovecraft’s “old” weird gives rise to the stylistic panoply of the New Weird…

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You Can Have It All! - Nicole Reynolds 21:53

11M ago21:53

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Nicole Reynolds, an emmy award winning news cast producer speaks on how she's able to balance her incredible career to caring for her family!By Joe Tomanovich

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Weirding Out with Kate Marshall 24:26

11M ago24:26

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We kick off Season 6 with Kate Marshall, friend of the show and author of the forthcoming book Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century. Hosts and producers Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde ask Kate about the pulpy literary history of weird tales and learn how in the 21st-century weirdness emerges as both genre and mood. The conversati…

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Becoming Super Human Through Your Gut - Mandy White-Eskelin 56:30

12M ago56:30

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Mandy White-Eskelin, an incrediblly strong woman who managed to turn a medical condition into a flourishing businessBy Joe Tomanovich

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Building A Cleaning Empire - Darwin Fajardo 39:55

1y ago39:55

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Darwin Fajardo, an incredible entrepreneur that managed to turn people's mess into cash! Do you have an awesome story? Apply to be the next Hustle Habits Guest! https://form.jotform.com/230106898945062By Joe Tomanovich

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What It Feels Like Finding Family! - Rea Lynch 42:00

1y ago42:00

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In this episode of the podcast we're talking with Rea Lynch. A strong and powerful woman that has overcome some unbelievable odds and has managed to find success in her field!By Joe Tomanovich

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Helping Others & Building Businesses - Dusky Rogue 1:04:08

1y ago1:04:08

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Dusky Rogue, a young entrepreneur with a hunger to help others in the business worldBy Joe Tomanovich

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Recalibrating Your Mind About Dentistry - Doctor Lulu Tang 35:54

1y ago35:54

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Doctor Lulu Tang is a young entrepreneur who has managed to open her own dental practice during the pandemic. As we speak with her we unravel the trials and tribulations she went through to get started and the ways she was able to overcome them.By Joe Tomanovich

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Business Scaling Simplified - Esequiel Alvarez 30:53

1y ago30:53

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Scaling businesses, building connections, and never giving up - Esequiel AlvarezBy Joe Tomanovich

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5.6 A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV) 43:50

1y ago43:50

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Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Seat (2021) joins Georgetown prof. Nicole Rizzuto and host Aarthi Vadde for a wide-ranging conversation about reversing the gaze. Born in Sierra Leone, Aminatta is of Scottish and Malian ancestry and grew up around the world. Her mixed upbringing led he…

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I Couldn't Walk Or Talk For Months! - Jaqueline Prieto 42:06

1y ago42:06

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Jaqueline Prieto - Entrepreneur who was set on fire and has a new outlook on lifeBy Joe Tomanovich

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5.5 They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra 56:18

1y ago56:18

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Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and host Chris Holmes to talk about her most recent novel, Our Share of Night, her first to be translated into English. Our Share of Night follows a spiritual medium, Juan, who can com…

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Are You Masculine Or Just Toxic? - Charles Flanagan 44:01

1+ y ago44:01

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Charles Flanagan - Fitness trainer who learned about toxic masculinity the hard way!By Joe Tomanovich

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5.4 The Meat and Bones of Life 48:36

1+ y ago48:36

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With the publication of her most recent novel, White Horse, Erika T. Wurth breaks from the realism that characterized her earlier fiction and ventures into horror. White Horse follows Kari, an urban Native living in Denver, as a family heirloom belonging to her long-missing mother launches her into a world of the uncanny: ghosts and monsters lurch …