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This space was created for you by someone who gets it – your grief; your foundation-shattering reality; and the question of what the heck do we do with the shattered pieces of life and loss around us. It’s also for the listener who wants to better understand their grieving person, and perhaps wants to learn how to help. Now entering its third season, the Grief and Light Podcast features both solo episodes and interviews with first-hand experiencers, authors, and professionals, who shine a li ...
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Sol Rising

Amanda McKoy Flanagan & Ginny Olivas-Smith

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Sol Rising: All In on Love, Loss, and Connection is a bi-weekly podcast where you will hear candid, honest, vulnerable conversations sure to pull at your heart strings and enlighten your soul! Conversations revolve around our basic, fundamental, human instinct for connection. Ginny and Amanda explore how emotions—pain, fear, loss, and grief, as well as joy, excitement, happiness, and love—work to either create connection or to hinder it, personally in relationships, and collectively out in t ...
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Connect with plant consciousness and the healing wisdom of Nature. In the Plant Spirit Podcast, we explore how to deepen in relationship with plants and Nature consciousness through topics and modalities including: plant spirit herbalism, flower essences, the interconnected web of life, plant spirit medicine, the multidimensional nature of reality, plant communication, plant allies, sacred geometry, mysticism and abundance in Nature, the plant path as a spiritual path of awakening, and how p ...
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A positively star-studded podcast that converses with and celebrates artists from all areas of the entertainment industry (Film, TV, Broadway etc.) who use their platform to make the world a better place. Join The AOK as we sprinkle positivity around like confetti and get to the bottom of what kindness really means. Part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
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Women of Ambition

Alyssa Calder Hulme

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The Women of Ambition Podcast is a place where we explore ambition - first, the radical act of acknowledging it within ourselves, second allowing space to explore what ambition means for each of us, and third moving forward with intention. Host Alyssa Calder Hulme navigates stories of women accepting and thriving in their ambition through guest interviews and reflections.
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There’s never been a musical theatre game show… until now. In The Great Broadway Game Show Competition teams of Broadway stars face off against each other, and the audience, to identify show tunes and win money for charity, all while sharing intimate stories and memories from their lives and careers. Who do you think knows more about musicals? Who can remember all the lyrics to the most obscure songs on Broadway? Tune in and play along with host Todd Graff as he puts everyone’s knowledge to ...
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How can we unlock joy after loss? This episode explores the possibility of experiencing joy after loss and provides guidance on incorporating self-compassion and joy into the grieving process. It emphasizes the importance of honoring each moment, leaning into curiosity, and rewarding the questions that arise. Nina shares tips for cultivating joy, s…
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Actor Noah J. Ricketts joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss playing Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby with empathy, how an airbnb led to him signing on to Gatsby, kindness vs. niceness and much more. Noah J. Ricketts stars as Frankie in the Golden Globe, SAG and Critics Choice-nominated Showtime series “Fellow Travelers.” Addi…
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Returning to the roots of the show, Amanda (in her first solo episode) discusses the dire need for connection right now and provides great tools and tips for sidestepping the emotional booby traps many of us find ourselves in while dealing with our own heightened emotions as well as the heightened emotions of others surrounding the current politica…
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#62 – Have you ever considered giving flower essences to your pet? Join us for a wonderful conversation with Nature Intuitive Kathleen Aspenns on how to support our beloved animal companions with flower essences. In this episode, Kathleen shares wisdom on specific flower essences that can support pets with various challenges such as separation anxi…
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Megan Gluth-Bohan's path to success has been anything but a straight line, shaped by her challenging upbringing and personal struggles. Growing up in rural Iowa below the poverty line, Megan faced dysfunction, trauma, and difficult circumstances. She struggled with alcohol and drug use, which led to her getting kicked out of college. However, she e…
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Tony and Grammy Award-winner Jessie Mueller joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss her incredible career, how Chita Rivera changed her life with an act of kindness, navigating negative voices in her head when she’s recording an album or just in life, and much more. *This episode was originally recorded in July of 2023* Jessie Mu…
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Camille Sapara Barton, author of 'Tending Grief, Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Caring Community,' discusses the importance of tending to grief and creating communal spaces for grief. They emphasize the need to process grief through the body, and draw inspiration from the grief rituals of the Dagara people, who see …
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Have you been on a healing journey for a while and still feel like something is missing? Are you still struggling after years of working on yourself? Perhaps it's because you've been treating only one part of the problem instead of all the parts. Join Amanda and Hope Pedraza, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Certified Holistic Nutritio…
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Happy July! Josh Groban and more stars chat with The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul live from the Jimmy Awards. Robert talks advice for dreamers, kindness tips and much more. Guests in this episode include: multi-platinum singer Josh Groban (Sweeney Todd), Back to the Future star Casey Likes, Dear Evan Hansen star Andrew Barth Feldman, Kenny…
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In this conversation, Blair Kaplan Venables, a grief and resilience expert, shares her personal journey of resilience and how she turned her pain into purpose after experiencing multiple losses, including the loss of both parents and a pregnancy. She discusses the concept of resilience and defines it as 'bouncing forward' from a challenging experie…
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In celebration of Pride month, join us as we reflect on some poignant moments from past The Art of Kindness podcast episodes. Free yourself to see yourself with stars Javier Muñoz (Hamilton), Nina West (RuPaul's Drag Race), Tony-winner J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot), TV producer Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere), T. Oliver Reid (Hadestown…
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How do you keep an open heart after heartbreak, grief, trauma, and other painful experiences knowing that more pain is on the way? How do we love others fully and completely and lay bare the most vulnerable parts of ourselves knowing that loss is inevitable? Ginny and Amanda divulge their own difficulty with this topic, especially Amanda, calling i…
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The first five years of grief: Year One: Shock and Fog Year Two: Year of Permanence Year Three: The Year of Inflammation and New Normals Year Four: The Pivot Year Year Five: The Year of Rebirth In this episode, Nina Rodriguez reflects on the first five years of her grief journey after the loss of her brother. She shares the different stages and exp…
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#61 – Join us for an amazing conversation with interspecies communicator Kara Daniels on how to communicate with trees. In this episode, Kara shares key insights on how tree communication can benefit us as individuals and as a collective in connection with the Earth. She also offers wisdom on gifts and honoring practices for working with trees in o…
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Join The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul live from the 2024 Drama Desk Awards at NYU Skirball in New York City. The Drama Desk Awards, recognizing the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, were hosted by Sutton Foster and Aaron Tveit (Sweeney Todd) with Stereophonic emerging as the most-winning production of the season. In thi…
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We all know about "good vibes." But what are they really? How do we access them? And why is it imperative to tune into these vibrations right now? Join Ginny and Amanda and their guest, Vicki Somoya, MFA, in an enlightening and informative conversation about what high frequency energy is, how to tap into it, and how to transmute your energy to alig…
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Happy dance! Join the Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul live from the red carpet of the 2024 Chita Rivera Awards at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, featuring Broadway legends like Bernadette Peters (ahh!). In this episode, you will hear Robert chat with: Golden Globe winner Debbie Allen (Grey's Anatomy), Norm L…
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Fear. The tiny 4-letter word that runs your emotional show! Fear underpins all anxiety, resentment, and painful relationships that make your life difficult. Can we really rid ourselves of it? Is being completely "fearless" attainable? For most of us, this natural human instinct is here to stay (on some level), so how can we use it as a messenger, s…
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#60 – Join us for a wonderful conversation with Yoga Teacher, Chinese Medicine Practitioner, & Acupuncturist Shereen Öberg on Earth wisdom and recognizing how we are part of Nature, and Nature is part of us. In this episode, Shereen shares about the strength of her grandmother growing up in Nature in the mountains, and how her grandmother offered k…
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Suffs star Hannah Cruz joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to talk her Broadway debut, stage fright, self kindness, finding courage in seeing herself in media, a surprise from Jenn Colella and more. Hannah Cruz is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut. Off-Broadway: The Connector (Robin, MCC), Only Gold (Camille, MCC), Suffs (Ruza, T…
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Join The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul live from the New Dramatists 2024 luncheon at the New York Marriott Marquis honoring Tony-nominated director Michael Greif (The Notebook, Dear Evan Hansen and Rent to credit a few). All proceeds benefited New Dramatists' resident playwrights and their work. In this order, Broadway star guests talk what…
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Broadway star Jelani Remy joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to talk all things Back to the Future the musical, the joy of a good backstage prank and much more. Jelani Remy is a NJ native and Broadway performer known for shows like Ain't Too Proud The Life and Times of The Temptations and Disney’s The Lion King. The talent now lights u…
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Have you suffered traumatic loss and are trying to make sense of how and why it happened? Are you seeking a spiritual and practical pathway to move forward? One filled with curiosity as well as grace. Join Amanda and Nina Rodriguez, founder and host of the Grief and Life Podcast, in a heartfelt, introspective conversation around the questions that …
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Janet Gwilliam-Wright , a grief awareness advocate and educator, shares her personal experience of losing her mother and how it shaped her life. She launched the Mother Love Project as a platform for motherless daughters to share their stories, and co-founded Bloomwell Partners, a global training and consulting firm working to build more compassion…
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Lauren "Lolo" Paz, founder of A Soulful Sorrow, discusses the profound journey of grief and finding healing, meaning, and spiritual reconnection after pregnancy loss. She highlights the lack of resources and support for women navigating this complex terrain, and emphasizes the importance of a holistic approach to healing, addressing the physical, e…
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How do you know if you are being authentic? What does it feel like to show up as your true self in all situations regardless of the risk of being judged or losing a relationship? And have you explored your authenticity through the lens of your internal emotional response rather than how you present to the world? Amanda & Ginny take the authenticity…
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How do we free ourselves when we’re confined? How can we heal from the trauma of our lived experiences? THE OCEAN INSIDE ME is an award-winning and Amazon best-selling, spiritual memoir about healing racial trauma as a person of color incarcerated in an almost all-white prison. Amidst harsh conditions and blatant racism, R.G. Shore learned to medit…
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How I Met Your Father star Francia Raísa joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss her life-changing act of kindness to Selena Gomez, paying it forward with her new Modelo partnership and much more. Also, today is Earth Day - please be kind to the earth! FRANCIA RAISA recently starred in the hit Hulu sitcom HOW I MET YOUR FATHER wh…
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#59 – Have you ever tried the ancient skill of listening to plants through your fingertips? I loved connecting with botanical textile dyer Justine Aldersey-Williams on the initiatory journey she experienced while growing her own pair of jeans from seeds into cloth. In this episode, Justine shares about her mythic field-to-fashion creation process a…
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“Not everything happens for a reason, but sacred gifts MAY be found in everything that happens – even (and especially) in the most painful things.” – Not Another Self-Help Book That’s a quote from the newly published Amazon best-seller titled, "Not Another Self-Help Book: Finding Gifts in the Midst of Life's Sh*t," by guest, Lindsey Kane Leaverton,…
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Sherz shares! Sherz Aletaha joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul on the day of the 2024 Solar Eclipse to talk all things making her Broadway debut in Merrily We Roll Along, meeting Meryl Streep, bringing her authentic self to every role and more. Sherz, which is pronounced like “more than one Cher,” is an Iranian American actor, singer, …
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How do you define self-care? Many of us know it goes beyond a girls night out or a spa day. Many of us also know self-care involves boundary setting, or not being a people-pleaser. But have you considered self-care in terms of the choices you make and how the ramifications of that choice affect you? Or the resentment you may hold against yourself f…
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What role does movement play in grief? Emily P. Bingham is a certified grief educator, grief coach, widow, and founder of moveTHRU, which she created after the loss of her husband, Ian, in 2019 to Uveal Melanoma. moveTHRU was born as a way to create new meaning out of her tragedy by helping others heal. Her book -- LOVE AND GRIEF: Find Healing, Mea…
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Broadway star Chilina Kennedy joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss playing Carole King in Beautiful, acts of kindness throughout her life, her new Off-Broadway show A Sign of the Times and more. CHILINA KENNEDY most recently played Billie Jean King in Love All by Anna Deavere Smith. Broadway: Paradise Square, Beautiful: The Ca…
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In this episode, we deep dive into the reality of experiencing life's duality in its fullness as guest, Kera Sanchez, experienced both the birth of her daughter and the unexpected loss of her mother only a few days apart. She shares how her grief left her with no choice but to turn "lemons into lemonade" as she learned to navigate loss and joy thro…
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Mean Girls icon Jonathan Bennett joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to chat following your dreams no matter what, getting out of your own way, jumping into Spamalot on Broadway and more. This isn't an April Fool's joke! Jonathan Bennett skyrocketed to fame after playing heartthrob Aaron Samuels in "Mean Girls." The GLAAD Award winner a…
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What do you think of when you hear the word grief? The death of a loved one, a pet, a divorce? Grief manifests in so many ways other than death, such as moving, your children's stages of development, losing a friendship or a wish about how you want something to be. And have you considered why it's so hard to let go, even of the things we know are n…
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World-renowned Opera Singer Sharon Azrieli joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss giving back to arts education, amplifying the Jewish community and more under the kindness sun. Sharon Azrieli is a philanthropist and award-winning opera singer. Born in Montreal, Sharon’s voice has soared around the world, gracing Carnegie Hall, …
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Trigger Warning: Discussion of sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised. What role does creative expression play in navigating the complexities of grief? Eileen Kielty, founder of Kaia Evolutions, a culmination of her life’s work and a love letter to her sister, Katie, who died by suicide in June of 2019. She has degrees in both dance and p…
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Bonus Episode Alert! Podcast history is being made - this is the first ever crossover episode event featuring Robert Peterpaul host of The Art of Kindness Podcast and Samantha Tuozzolo, co-host of Survival Jobs: A Podcast. Samantha and Robert are live on the opening night red carpet of The Notebook on Broadway asking cast, creative and attendees al…
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Tony Award winner J. Harrison Ghee joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss their transformative Some Like It Hot journey, taking intentional time to rest and more. J. HARRISON GHEE won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, making history as the first non-binary actor to be nominated and win in this category for…
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Performer Jasmine Amy Rogers joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss bringing icon Betty Boop to life onstage in Boop! The Musical, battling imposter syndrome, amplifying historically underrepresented voices and more this women's history month. Jasmine Amy Rogers (she/her) recently finished a run as the titular role of “Betty Boo…
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“Grieving room is endangered in a culture that thinks it is more helpful to rush past grief than to lean into it.” Leanne Friesen is the brilliant soul behind the groundbreaking book, "Grieving Room: Making Space for All the Hard Things After Death and Loss." As the curator of the popular Instagram platform, @grieving.room, she has cultivated a nur…
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Broadway performer John Cardoza joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss playing young Noah in The Notebook the Musical and more. John Cardoza returns to Broadway with The Notebook, after originating Younger Noah in its world premiere production in Chicago. John starred as Christian in the National Tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musica…
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"Grief is not this OR that; it's this AND that." - Nina Rodriguez Grief thrusts us into the messy middle, which in time may become the magical middle. But what the heck is it anyway?! The irony of this universal experience is that it's so unique to each experiencer, the answer of what is it depends on who you ask. That said, there are some words, d…
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Have you been in recovery, or working on emotional or spiritual growth for a while, and feel stuck? How do you navigate the inevitable highs and lows, the ebb and flow, of life in general? Do you think that just because you are not where you "should" be, that you are doing something wrong? Andrea Ashley is the host & producer of the top-rated podca…
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#58 – How do flower essences open a bridge for us to connect with plant spirits? Join us for a wonderful conversation with Author, Teacher, & Flower Essence Practitioner Nicholas Pearson on the power of direct experience in working with the magic of plant consciousness in flower essences. In this episode, Nicholas shares about a wide variety of way…
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Portuguese superstar Fado singer Carminho joins The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul to discuss her work on the Oscar-nominated film Poor Things with Emma Stone, the art of fado singing, kindness around the world and more. Carminho is a Portuguese superstar fado singer. Daughter of fado legend Teresa Siqueira, Carminho was immersed in music fr…
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There are losses that rearrange our understanding of life and how we show up in the world. The death of a young person, a baby, a spouse or a sibling can be particularly devastating, due to the traumatic and out-of-order elements surrounding the loss. Surviving one loss can feel unbearable. But all four? Today’s guest shares her story of immense lo…
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Clinically Trained, Mystically Guided. Casey Stevens embodies the philosophy encapsulated in this motto. She is a Spiritual Psychotherapist and Consciousness Coach, and founder of Shrink Bigger. Casey shares her deeply personal journey of transformation, from navigating the loss of her husband and ensuing grief to embracing her true calling as an e…
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