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Prides Hollow Short: Granny's Whorrible Situation

Prides Hollow Story Series by Award-Winning Storyteller Kelly Swanson - September 14, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
They said they didn't do it on purpose. But I'm not sure. Come find out what happened to Granny Jean over at the Piggly Wiggly. It's a hoot! Just more gossip from the small town with the big heart, where the people stay but the gossip travels. Remember - you didn't hear it from me! Support the...

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Prides Hollow Short: Homer Strips Again

Prides Hollow Story Series by Award-Winning Storyteller Kelly Swanson - September 07, 2022 04:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Oh for heavens sakes. Somebody needs to go check on Homer. He's at it again. You can take the man out of Vegas, but you can't take Vegas out of the man. I'm just saying. Just another bit of gossip from the small town with the big heart. Where the people stay but the gossip travels. Just remembe...

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Prides Hollow Short: The Booblet Recall

Prides Hollow Story Series by Award-Winning Storyteller Kelly Swanson - August 31, 2022 13:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Warning! Everybody who bought The Bodacious Booblet from Barbara's Gift Shop, DO NOT USE IT before listening to this important message.  Just more quick gossip from the small town with the big heart, where the people stay but the gossip travels.  Support the Show.

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Prides Hollow Short: The Pigeon Abduction

Prides Hollow Story Series by Award-Winning Storyteller Kelly Swanson - August 24, 2022 16:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Bless Birdie's heart. He means well. But sometimes a bird in the hand is not worth two in the bush. Join Kelly for another quick bit of gossip in the small town with the big heart - where the people stay but the gossip travels. Support the Show.

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Prides Hollow Short: Bitsy's Waxing Party

Prides Hollow Story Series by Award-Winning Storyteller Kelly Swanson - August 19, 2022 23:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Join us for a little gossip in Kelly's small town with the big heart - where the people stay, but the gossip travels. In this Prides Hollow "Short" Kelly fills you in on Bitsy's home waxing party. We promise you will never go to one of Bitsy's home parties again! Enjoy the laugh! Support the show

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Prides Hollow Short: Bitsy's Waxing Party

Prides Hollow Story Series by Award-Winning Storyteller Kelly Swanson - August 19, 2022 23:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Join us for a little gossip in Kelly's small town with the big heart - where the people stay, but the gossip travels. In this Prides Hollow "Short" Kelly fills you in on Bitsy's home waxing party. We promise you will never go to one of Bitsy's home parties again! Enjoy the laugh! Support the Sh...

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The Eighty-Ninth One… and Jacob Soule (The Plant Prodigy)

GENERATION RIPE - August 12, 2022 15:35 - 23 minutes
Episode 89 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is botanist, exotic plants expert and TikTok sensation Jacob Soule. When people ask Jacob Soule what he did during the COVID pandemic, he has a more interesting answer than most: he became TikTok famous.  His @theplantprodigy account has alm...

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The Eighty-Eighth One... and Pleasant Gehman

GENERATION RIPE - July 22, 2022 12:31 - 1 hour
Episode 88 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is multi-disciplinary artist, writer, professional dancer, actor, psychic, musician and painter Pleasant Gehman.   A Hollywood rock ‘n’ roll icon, during the 1970s, she was one of the first punks in Los Angeles, documenting the scene she help...

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The Eighty-Seventh One… and Elisa Stancil Levine

GENERATION RIPE - July 08, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes
Episode 87 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is author and decorative artist Elisa Stancil Levine.  Elisa Stancil Levine spent her childhood in a canyon on the American River, upstream from the site of the California Gold Rush. She left school at sixteen and as a single mother in Sacram...

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The Eighty-Sixth One... and a revisit with Joseph La Corte

GENERATION RIPE - June 24, 2022 07:59 - 1 hour
Episode 86 and Wendi and Dfernando revisit their Episode 20 guest interview with 4-time Emmy Award nominated costume designer Joseph La Corte.  Following his passion for costume design, Joseph La Corte has worked on some of the most groundbreaking projects in film and television. From period an...

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The Eighty-Fifth One... and it's Wendi & Dfernando

GENERATION RIPE - June 17, 2022 09:50 - 15 minutes
Episode 85 and Wendi and Dfernando do some catching up.  Wendi shares she had COVID (get your boosters, kids!), revisiting the original Australian comedy series KATH & KIM, and thinking about some new segments to add to the podcast:  First one is: GORGEOUS LIVING - ways that you can live gorgeo...

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The Eighty-Fourth One... and Mindy Cohn

GENERATION RIPE - June 03, 2022 09:14 - 51 minutes
Episode 84 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is actress and producer Mindy Cohn.  Mindy Cohn was just another student at Westlake School for Girls in Holmby Hills, California when actress Charlotte Rae discovered her while she, the legendary Norman Lear, and the producers of a new NBC s...

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The Eighty-Third One... and Erin Gibson

GENERATION RIPE - April 29, 2022 13:38 - 54 minutes
Episode 83 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is Emmy Award nominated actress, comedian, author, podcaster, writer & director Erin Gibson.   Erin Gibson is an expert at mixing social commentary, political satire, and frank sexual talk into nice, neat little comedy packages. Based in Los ...

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The Eighty-Second One... and a revisit with Tracey Cox

GENERATION RIPE - April 15, 2022 17:38 - 36 minutes
Episode 82 and Wendi and Dfernando revisit their guest interview with world renowned sex expert and best-selling author Tracey Cox.   As one of the world’s foremost writers on sex and relationships , Tracey Cox has toured the world as an international sex, body language and relationship expert....

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The Eighty-First One... and Mimi Kennedy

GENERATION RIPE - April 08, 2022 11:35 - 1 hour
Episode 81 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is actress, author, writer, producer, and activist Mimi Kennedy. Born in Rochester, NY, Mimi first fell in love with acting as a child in community theater, which would lead her to ignite her acting career on stage opposite TV legend Sid Caes...

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The Eightieth One... and Carlos Alazraqui

GENERATION RIPE - March 18, 2022 11:34 - 56 minutes
Episode 80 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is award winning actor, comedian, voice artist, and producer Carlos Alazraqui.   Most may know Carlos Alazraqui as the face of Deputy James Garcia on RENO 911!, but he is also the recipient of the prestigious ANNIE AWARD for Outstanding Achie...

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The Seventy-Ninth One... and a Q&A with Wendi & Dfernando

GENERATION RIPE - March 11, 2022 11:13 - 24 minutes
Episode 79 and Wendi and Dfernando do some catching up on upcoming projects, and the 2022 Broadway revival of FUNNY GIRL, and Pamela Anderson making her Broadway debut in CHICAGO, and those pooping poolside ducks, and there's the Q&A with Wendi answering some questions - from how to get your con...

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The Seventy-Eighth One… and Emme

GENERATION RIPE - February 25, 2022 13:09 - 55 minutes
Episode 78 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is TV personality, brand spokesperson, podcast host, consultant, author, REVLON spokeswoman, keynote, and creative director of her clothing lines - the iconic Emme.   Known for over two decades as the award winning, iconic American supermodel...

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The Seventy-Seventh One... and more with Alec Mapa

GENERATION RIPE - February 18, 2022 13:49 - 45 minutes
Episode 77 and Wendi and Dfernando' s return guest interview is with GLAAD Award-winning actor, comedian and writer Alec Mapa.  Ellen Degeneres has called him “smart, hilarious and funny.”  VARIETY has said, “Alec Mapa is a freak. No one should be this talented. ” With uproarious live performan...

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Episode 11: Bitsy's Brush With Death

Prides Hollow Story Series by Award-Winning Storyteller Kelly Swanson - February 07, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Today we find ourselves in Myrlene, Vyrlene, and Shyrlene's House of Beauty,  where Bitsy is about to tell us what happened to her on that flight back from visiting her sister. You are not going to believe it. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in. We're glad you're here.  For more about the town g...

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The Seventy-Sixth One... and Alejandro Patiño

GENERATION RIPE - February 04, 2022 15:50 - 1 hour
Episode 76 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is actor and producer Alejandro Patiño. Alejandro Patiño was born and raised in Southern California.  Since it was expected that he would take over the family business (they owned a successful Market Deli in Compton), he decided to enter coll...

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The Seventy-Fifth One... and a revisit with Randall Slavin

GENERATION RIPE - January 21, 2022 12:07 - 1 hour
Episode 75 and Wendi and Dfernando revisit their guest interview with Hollywood actor-turned-renown photographer Randall Slavin.   Picking up a camera didn't start out as an artistic pursuit for Randall Slavin. While working a dead end job in a gas station, he wandered into a local photography ...

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SELFLESS SERVICE: John Wayne Troxell

Words We Live By - January 21, 2022 08:10 - 25 minutes
If you follow U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) John Wayne Troxell, there's one word that comes to mind: Boom! For almost 38 years, Troxell -- who is a former Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (SEAC) -- brought that big and infectious energy to his U.S. ...

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The Seventy-Fourth One... and Lux ATL

GENERATION RIPE - January 14, 2022 14:21 - 1 hour
Episode 74 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is writer, speaker, cheerleader, and catalyzer of communities for women: Lux ATL. Lux ATL is a former university instructor and lifelong exotic dancer turned itinerant preacher for women’s empowerment through sensual awakening. Through her wo...

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The Seventy-Third One... and Happy 2022 with Wendi & Dfernando

GENERATION RIPE - January 07, 2022 12:13 - 14 minutes
Episode 73 and Wendi and Dfernando celebrate the New Year hanging out in her Long Beach closet and talk about his love of cheese, their peaceful New Year's Eve celebration, Wendi's Annual Rose Pedal Gratitude Walk, Chinese food, and the Vivienne Westwood documentary WESTWOOD, which inspired Wend...

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The Seventy-Second One... and Toni Basil

GENERATION RIPE - December 24, 2021 14:03 - 1 hour
Episode 72 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is legendary multi-award winning singer, dancer, actress, choreographer, and film director Toni Basil. Toni Basil is a multiple Emmy Award winner and Grammy Award nominee and has choreography and directorial credits on over 50 videos and has ...

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The Seventy-First One... and the 2021 Holidays with Wendi & Dfernando

GENERATION RIPE - December 17, 2021 12:50 - 22 minutes
Episode 71 and its the 2021 Holiday Season and Wendi and Dfernando chat about her new film RENO 911!: THE HUNT FOR QANON (streaming on Paramount Plus), her upcoming appearance at SF SKETCHFEST in San Francisco, Heather McDonald, Tova Leigh and her promo material for her new book YOU DID WHAT?, b...

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#152 Decide That You Are a Priority: Lissa Figgins

Starter Girlz Podcast - December 07, 2021 17:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Send us a Text Message. This week we sit down with Lissa Figgins, biz priorities coach and creator/host of the podcast "Repurposed After 40." Lissa says she "teaches women to rethink and realign their priorities to create more balance, profit, and impact in this stage of life." We open this epi...

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The Seventieth One... and Derrick C. Brown

GENERATION RIPE - December 03, 2021 12:11 - 44 minutes
Episode 70 and Wendi and Dfernando's guest interview is award winning novelist, comedian, poet, and storyteller Derrick C. Brown. Derrick first discovered poetry as a young man enlisted in the United States Army. He often found himself spending hours in foxholes needing to pass the time. He beg...

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#151 Creating an Ecosystem: Audrey Young

Starter Girlz Podcast - November 30, 2021 18:36 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
Send us a Text Message. This week we take it outside the studio and sit down with Audrey Young, the COO of One i/e and Ditale Outdoors. Audrey is an experienced multiple-time startup founder and a mentor to startup founding teams, all while being a mom to three toddlers under four years of age....

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