Going Gray in Tinseltown
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsGoing Gray in tinseltown is a celebration of the radical act of aging in the entertainment industry. Hosted by Actress/Writer Mandy May Cheetham and inspired by her decision to stop dying her naturally silver hair, it features a combination of honest stories and heart to heart interviews with women from all areas of entertainment, beauty and fashion. As Mandy documents her bold decision to go gray, she talks with women who’ve done it, who plan to do it, and who intend to dye till they die.
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What if I Die and I Have Not Yet Lived? w Brett Paesel, Author, Actor
August 02, 2019 08:41 - 58 minutes - 75.8 MBMandy May Cheetham talks to Best Selling Author, Actor, Improvisor, Educator, Giver of Life, Goddess with Piercing Eyes, Studio 54 Voyeur, Seller of Pilots, and Teller of Truths Brett Paesel. They discuss her newest novel Everything is Just Fine, and they don't discuss how big of a fangirl Mandy is of Brett's work in Transparent playing Rita.
Do We Need Grey Hair Advocates? w Katie Emery from Katiegoesplatinum.com
July 05, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.9 MBBlogger and grey-haired advocate Katie Emery of www.katiegoesplatiunum.com chats with host Mandy May Cheetham about her experiences letting her natural grey grow in, the women who have influenced her transition, and the pros and cons of becoming the town crazy lady. Mandy asks the question - does spending most of our lives dying our hair make us sheeple?
The Subject, The Object and The Artist
June 21, 2019 10:00 - 21 minutes - 32.7 MBGoing Gray in Tinsel Town: The Subject, The Object and The Artist People keep sending me messages telling me to Be Positive. One message I got today was a link to an article about how difficult it is to be disciplined with your optimism. I didn’t read it. I am starting to feel disdain for people who tell me to think positive and look on the bright side. It feels manipulative. Like something they want me to do so they can feel more comfortable. There are a few people who reach out to m...
I Am Not Asking You To Stop Dying Your Hair! w Karen Rich
June 14, 2019 17:59 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBActress Karen Rich and hostess Mandy May Cheetham discuss the gritty details of going gray in a society that is vehemently opposed to aging. They talk itchy scalps, rejection and dirty looks and why it's important for us to keep showing up in our careers and our lives if we're going to change the stigma surrounding this hair color choice.
Silver Sisters: The Club I Didn't Think I Wanted to Join
June 07, 2019 10:00 - 21 minutes - 33.6 MBGoing Gray in Tinseltown: The Anti-Choice Mandy May Cheetham Apr 16 Month Three Sil-ver Sis-ter / ˈsilvər ˈsistər / noun A precious shiny woman in relation to other precious, shiny women who has been mined from a pit of darkness and called to shine her light upon the world. She has walked through the fire and harnessed the energy of the cosmos as evidenced by her flickering hair. Those who are privileged enough to look upon her with an open heart shall be forever changed, and t...
Wabi-Sabi; Accepting Imperfection w Nancy Nigrosh
May 31, 2019 06:36 - 1 hour - 136 MBNancy Nigrosh, former head of the Gersh Agency's literary department and team member at Innovative Artists has worked in Hollywood since the 70s, and has re-defined her self many times over the course of her incredible career. She discusses working with Martin Scorsese on Mean Streets, re-building after a divorce, and spending her 40th Birthday celebrating the Million dollar sale of a script. She graciously discusses her goal of experiencing aging using the philosophy behind Wabi-Sabi, the J...
Wabi-Sabi; Accepting Imperfection w Nancy Nigrosh
May 31, 2019 06:36Nancy Nigrosh, former head of the Gersh Agency's literary department and team member at Innovative Artists has worked in Hollywood since the 70s, and has re-defined her self many times over the course of her incredible career. She discusses working with Martin Scorsese on Mean Streets, re-building after a divorce, and spending her 40th Birthday celebrating the Million dollar sale of a script. She graciously discusses her goal of experiencing aging using the philosophy behind Wabi-Sabi, the J...
Are Selfies Making Me Miserable?
May 24, 2019 05:59 - 18 minutes - 29.3 MBWhat if You Suddenly had 2 Million Instagram Followers? How would that affect your art? Would you feel compelled to monetize your community’s love for you? Would you post more selfies and ‘lifestyle’ photos to keep the bots and the potential advertisers happy? I’ve been contemplating this recently. After realizing I have been posting in the same way you may throw bread to a flock of pigeons and then run and hide behind a glass wall. Wanting them to fly toward me, and frenzie over the...
If You Want A Career in This Town It's Naive of You to Go Grey
May 17, 2019 07:31 - 1 hour - 88.6 MBHostess Mandy May Cheetham interviews veteran stage and screen actress, Pamela Hyatt. At 83 years young, Pam explains her philosophy of living 'entheos'; an enthusiastic life, why you should never go to a hotel room with Davy Crockett, and Mandy's hopes that her grey hair will have a trickle up effect from the audition room. Pam is a Canadian stage, screen and voice actress who can be seen currently on the Baroness Von Sketch show on IFC.
Men Aren't Screwing Our Instagram Photos
May 10, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBPhotographer and Photoshop expert Nicole Barton joins host Mandy May Cheetham in a discussion on how Darwin's theory of natural selection has been manipulated to keep women buying beauty products, the differences between what we see as beautiful in other women vs. how we allow ourselves to be seen, and how an Oprah Magazine spread of women with grey hair changed Nicole's perspective on aging and beauty at a young age.
The Meltdown
May 03, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 29.1 MBTo Change The World We Must Focus on The Change and Not The World I had a conversation today with a woman I have become friends with on instagram. She sent me some claps over a Marianne Williamson post I put up about her running for President. I really like this Instagram woman. She posts lovely, honest things, and she is generous and authentic in her messages to me. Being that she is African American I thought she may want to know that Reparations are a part of Marianne’s platform. She...
Grey Roots May Be A Sign of A Nervous Breakdown...
April 26, 2019 08:11 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBEvent planner, Artist and Recovering New Yorker KP Lawless sits down with Mandy May Cheetham to discuss how her inability to train her tresses in middle school has lead to a crippling relationship with her hair. She and Mandy swap stories about how each of their Father's relationships with women have affected their sense of self, and the mortification of going through puberty under the male gaze.
Why Millenial Women Deserve to Get Their Bitch On
April 19, 2019 10:00 - 23 minutes - 35.8 MBAn Actress Goes Gray. I am not my hair. This line from India Arie’s song has been running through my head as a mantra for weeks. The problem is, right now, I am very much my hair. Maybe more so than I’ve ever been. The ego is a tricky little bugger. I had it by the balls about three weeks ago. Admitting that I had a problem — that I was addicted to my image and obsessed about looking younger had this amazing effect on my relationship with my ego. I was totally on to her. I could tell...
Aging is Not A Problem To Be Fixed.
April 12, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 72.5 MBMandy's Guest this week is Megan Vigil. The women discuss Megan's work to find the intersection between her spiritual beliefs and the industry she works in, how our parents influence our beauty ideals, and how words affect water. Based in Los Angeles, Megan has been a licensed esthetician and makeup and eyebrow artist for over 15 years. As a makeup artist, Vigil has helmed numerous projects throughout the US and Europe and has worked with names like Adriana Lima and Emmy Rossum. Currently,...
The Audition
April 05, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 31.8 MBA play-by-play of Mandy's first two auditions with her silver roots shining. Based on her Medium article of the same title. My name is Mandy, and I am a dye-a-holic. It has been 9 1/2 weeks since I last died my hair. As they say in the most famous of 12-step programs. ‘It’s not the drinking, it’s the thinking.’ When I first started acting as my professional career I was 35 years old. I was very worried that it was too late, but, after an insane series of events — losing my business, my...
You'll Never Work in This Town Again!...and Other Stories
March 26, 2019 07:23 - 1 hour - 148 MBMandy's first guest is Alice Barden. A 30 year veteran actress of New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mandy and Alice discuss their concerns about Mandy's ability to work as an actress with gray roots showing, and her ability to go to the grocery store without having a meltdown. Mandy and Alice also discuss the difference between British Actresses and American Actresses and their ability to age like actual humans.
Ditch The Dye
March 26, 2019 06:47 - 13 minutes - 24.2 MBThe premier episode of Going Gray in Tinseltown features a Medium article written by Actress, Writer, Producer Mandy May Cheetham about her public decision to stop dying her hair red and allow her silver hair to grow in. 75 percent of women dye their hair in America. The other 25 percent are infants. I wish I were kidding. Ok, it’s closer to 20 percent infants, 18.5 percent of women in America are aged 0 to 14, but do some math and that leaves only 6 percent of women over 14 who are not d...