Unrooted
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsUN/ROOTED is a podcast about home... the places we find ourselves living in and moving through, literally and figuratively, expected and unexpected, temporarily and long term. We touch on belonging, homesickness, gentrification, borders, the history of the places we love, and a lot more.
In season one we go on a cross country move, explore homesickness, embrace a new city, weather unexpected surprises, and become comfortable with uncertainty and new transitions. We have conversations about home with friends near and far and hear the home stories of people across the country and the globe.
Cover art by Deborah Lee @jdebbiel
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Bonus #2: A Walk in the Desert - Choose Your Own Adventure
April 08, 2020 19:43 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBThe second in a series of guided walks/visualizations in order to help us find calm in the outdoors, during a time when we are collectively staying indoors more than ever due to COVID-19. This visualization takes us to the desert, the desert of your choice. Smell the sagebrush, listen to the wind, bask in the warmth, shout across the desert. Bonus episode produced, sound designed, and scored by Julie Hotz.
Bonus: A Walk in the Woods - Alpine Lake
March 25, 2020 19:31 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBSimilar to a guided meditation, here is a guided walk in the woods, to a high alpine lake. In response to COVID-19, most of us are confined close to our homes, in our homes, or wherever we can find a place to hang tight. This means a lot less outdoors time for a lot of us, which can be really tough mentally to be away from places that restore and give us so much, in a time when we need it the most. There is a collective homesickness in the air. So this guided walk is to help take yo...
Part Six: Making Your Way Home (featuring Gale Straub)
November 21, 2019 21:36 - 1 hour - 63 MBFor all the show notes, including pictures of Gale and Lora, go to the episode landing page! UN/ROOTED is back from a little hiatus, a mid season hiatus! We’re picking back up where we left off, just after I’d moved to NYC I was looking for things to make the east coast feel like home, so, when my friend Gale Straub invited me on a snowshoeing trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I clung to the idea like a little life-raft. I talk to Gale about the many things that make up...
Part Five: Homesick (featuring Vanessa Pamela Friedman)
May 24, 2019 23:46 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBMost people have experienced some sort of homesickness. In this episode we talk about both short and long forms of homesickness as I arrive in NYC and settle into a full blown state of missing the west coast. We bear witness to a love story as Vanessa Pamela Friedman moves to the east coast and writes a million love letters to Portland, OR. My sister Shelly looks into her past and articulates different ways homesickness has appeared in her life. Some tears are shed, Cheryl Strayed ...
Part Four: Movement (featuring Mary Ann Thomas)
May 05, 2019 03:10 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBI don’t love packing or unpacking. But I love the in-between movement, the actual act of moving your body from one place to another. In this episode that touches on my drive from LA to NYC, we find a celebration of motion, movement, moving, migration, and all that comes along with it. In this episode we talk to writer, long-distance cyclist, and travel nurse, Mary Ann Thomas, a queer brown daughter of Indian immigrants, about home, home in migration, and home in movement. Follow M...
Part Three: Goodbye
April 17, 2019 09:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBEpisode three of UN/ROOTED is a love letter to anyone who has ever had to pack their stuff and move, to anyone who has ever had to watch friends leave, and to all the friendships that can transcend time and space. In this episode I pack up all my stuff, get ready to move from Los Angeles to NYC, and say my goodbyes. We talk to my childhood friend Bonnie Burke, who moved from Texas to New Jersey as a kid, did she think her move was as glamorous as I envisioned it to be as a kid? W...
Part Two: Payahuunadü (with Jolie Varela)
April 03, 2019 04:17 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBIn this episode I’m delving into the "home of my heart". After pinpointing this home, we talk to Jolie Varela, founder of Indigenous Women Hike. She leads us through the history and landscape of her homeland, Payahuunadü, and tells about the Nüümü people, her journey along the Nüümü Poyo, and about this special place, the place of flowing waters. We learn that the real name of the John Muir Trail is the Nüümü Poyo. Learn more about Jolie and Indigenous women hike: Indigenous Wome...
Part One: Where Home Begins
March 07, 2019 12:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBAs an adult, I’ve had trouble putting my finger on home, but last year really made me take a deeper look into the question of “Where is home?” The idea for this podcast was born out of struggling with the concept of home as I unexpectedly moved from Los Angeles to NYC last year. Instead of trying to sweep the discomfort of homesickness and uncertainty under the rug, I wanted to lean into the questions of "What is home?" and “How do you know you’re home?” I believe everybody has a h...
UN/ROOTED Trailer
February 26, 2019 02:24 - 5 minutes - 5.49 MBUnrooted is a podcast about home—the places we find ourselves living in and moving through, literally and figuratively, expected and unexpected, temporarily and long term. We touch on belonging, homesickness, gentrification, borders, the history of the places we love, etc. In season one host Julie Hotz will take you on her cross country move, we’ll explore homesickness, embrace a new city, weather unexpected surprises, and become comfortable with uncertainty and new transitions. We...