Podcast Episodes

Leanna Renee Hieber

Season 1 Episode 305

Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide, audiobook narrator and the award-winning, bestselling author of over Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy, Supernatural Suspense and Non-Fiction bo…

Published on 10 hours ago

Blair Borax

Season 1 Episode 304

Born on the East Coast, and home to the West, Blair Borax’s relationship with music began unexpectedly in 2016, when a friend gifted her a cheap guitar.

Since then, Borax has become a prolific songwri…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Jesi Bender

Season 1 Episode 303

Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York. 
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Her work leans towards experimental historical fiction that interrogates the tension between language's utility & malleability.

Jesi's gorgeous new boo…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Jen Michalski

Season 1 Episode 302

Jen Michalski currently lives in Carlsbad, California. She graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a BA in English and received her MS in Professional Writing from Towson University. She w…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ophelia Darkly

Season 1 Episode 301

Ophelia Darkly is a DJ, model, writer, performer, and Doll Tarot reader based out of Portland, Oregon. Magic, dreams, and storytelling are the threads that bind all of her creative ventures together.…

Published on 2 months ago

Calvin John Smiley

Season 1 Episode 300

Something Rather Than Nothing Podcast Episode 300!!! We talk ABOLITION.

Calvin John Smiley, Ph.D. is an associate professor of sociology at Hunter College-CUNY. His research and scholarship broadly fo…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Katie Marie

Season 1 Episode 299

Katie Marie is a Cherokee/Choctaw educator, Indigenous Wisdomkeeper, and decolonial guide who works at the intersection of healing, community, and education.

Enjoy this ranging conversation into matri…

Published on 3 months ago

Annabel McConnachie

Season 1 Episode 298

Annabel McConnachie (she/her) is an actress, writer, singer, dancer and content creator. She is originally from Sydney, Australia but is currently based in New York City. She is best known for her wo…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Sophia Hembeck

Season 1 Episode 297

Sophia Hembeck is a bilingual writer and artist based in Edinburgh. She has published three books (Things I Have Noticed, 2020 & Things I Have Loved, 2023 & Thiings That Are Different Now, 2025) whic…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

LIVE at Browsers' Bookstore with Abe Richmond and Pete Dryden

Season 1 Episode 296

This episode was recorded and captured LIVE on Independent Bookstore Day (April 26, 2025) from Browsers' Bookstore in Albany, Oregon. 

Pete Dryden:

Photographer, cabinet maker, professional overthinker…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago