Am Taylor

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Am Taylor.

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Am Taylor is embarking on a bold new chapter in her prolific career, emerging as a vibrant solo artist after years of fronting successful indie/psych rock ensembles. Taylor is best known as the founding member and front-woman of the Sexual Side Effects (SSE), which formed in Atlanta in 2011 and released its debut album, High Maintenance, that same year. Over the ensuing decade, Taylor and SSE shared stages with the likes of Fuel, Royal Bliss, the Georgia Satellites, Girl in a Coma, Electric Six, Hunter Valentine and many more. She was also a touring guitarist for Brother Grey, and recently began writing songs with punk legend Jayne County for a new forthcoming project. For her solo efforts, she's tapped veteran rock producer Andy Reilly (The Cult, Iron Maiden, Gary Numan) and a host of talented players, to help her execute her creative vision. Instead of releasing this new material as an LP, Taylor plans to issue a new track roughly each month this year, while assembling a stage lineup for upcoming live performances. It's truly a new dawn, filled with exciting possibilities, for this uniquely engaging, musically emboldened artist.

Get to know Am, see videos, buy music and merch at http://amtaylormusic.com

Madame Onça

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Madame Onça.

Madame Onça is a career entertainer based out of Richmond, VA. A veteran show and festival producer, community organizer, singer, author and artist of the acclaimed World Spirit Tarot, she has taught and performed across the US and in Europe. Here in the Corona Times, she is teaching tarot online in accessible, affordable sessions for all budgets and all levels of skill.

You can find World Spirit Tarot with Lauren Onça O'Leary on Facebook, and her website is www.hardestworkingwomainshowbusiness.com

Lee Ford

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with the Lee Ford.

Lee Ford is a Paralympian in the sport of archery, with the Paralympics being the second largest sporting event in the world, right after the Olympics. She has a disability called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, or EDS, which is a connective tissue malformation disorder. Despite this, Lee is an accomplished dancer from ballet to belly dance, one of the first female fire performers in the Southeast United States and a martial artist in the EBMAS system, Wing Tzun Kung Fu as taught by Sifu Emin Boztepe and Filipino Escrima taught by Grandmaster Rene Latosa. Lee was a long time member of Team USA and has competed at World Champion ships, Para Pan Am Games, Para Pan American Championships, the Indoor World Cup series and the Outdoor World Cup. She's also an artist with a degree in Fine Art specializing in three dimensional design, textiles including costume design and silversmithing.

You can support her archery journey at paypay.me/flamegoddess, follow on Twitter @flamegoddesslee, Instagram @flamegoddesslee, and Facebook at www.facebookcom/teamfordarchery.

Nancy Neyhart

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Seattle-based aerialist and coach Nancy Neyhart.

Nancy Neyhart began training in 2004, with early training in corde lisse, circus trapeze, rings, tissu and lyra. After years of studying various apparatus, Nancy’s first love remains her true love – the lyra. She has taught at the Circus Arts Institute in Atlanta under the guidance of Carrie Heller, and at Seattle's Versatile Arts. Nancy enjoys teaching all students especially those brand new to the aerial arts (or to lyra).

Ayako Monsell

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Ayako Monsell, the Hemp Fairy.

Ayako Monsell is a cannabis medicator turned educator in Las Vegas, NV, where she focuses on empowerment through information in the cannabis and hemp industries. She takes advantage of her background in data science to leverage cannabinoid, terpenoid, and flavonoid details while promoting integrative treatment through standardized testing. In her few short years in cannabis, she has been recognized among the valuable Women in Cannabis and resident Hemp Fairy.

Check her at @myhempfairy and MyHempFairy.com

Lola LeSoleil

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Lola LeSoleil. We'll talk about legitude, stillness, act creation, costuming, performing and festivals, and more.

A little about Lola: She's celebrating her 10th burlesqiversary, which is adjacent to her human birthday! The day she graduated and had her student showcase performance, Talloolah Love sang Happy Birthday in her Marilyn Monroe style. Since then, she has gone on to headline and win awards all over the place, and anyone who sees her perform appreciates her energy and poise - and her sense of humor.

Check her IG at @Lola_LeSoleil and her website LolaLeSoleil.com. If you're interested in taking classes from Lola, Burlesque 101 online hosted by Metropolitan Studios: Thursdays 7:30p. https://bit.ly/Burlesque101LolaLeSoleil

Keith Prossick

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Keith Prossick. Keith is an Atlanta-based visionary artist, architect, Burner, and all-around curious person.

You can find him online at:

• website: https://www.keithprossickarts.com

• twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/civpainter

• patreon: https://www.patreon.com/keithprossick

Juliana Finch

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Juliana Finch. We talk about music, self-compassion, and more.

Juliana Finch is a writer and performer whose worked has included theater and film, audio drama, poetry and two decades performing as a singer/songwriter. For the last several months she has been focused on her newest project, a bimonthly newsletter devoted to mental health advocacy and radical self-love called Hey, I Love You.

She can be found all over the internet at @writeplayrepeat and you can support her work on Patreon at patreon.com/julianafinch.

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Michelle Newcome

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and today's conversation is with Michelle Newcome, who is a crisis management and business continuity expert, a technical writer, world traveler, and more.

We talk a little bit about current events, how she got to where she is now, and more. Her Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/thesafetyqueen and you can find her at @MichelleNewcome and MichelleNewcome.com.

Freya West

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and Freya West is an insightful and fantastic performer, producer, and writer.

Freya West has twirled her tassels from Iceland to Albuquerque. She is the director of burlesque at the historic Skull’s Rainbow Room and Nudie’s Honky Tonk, producer of the Nashville Burlesque Festival and headmistress of Delinquent Debutantes, Nashville’s burlesque finishing school. Freya has represented international brands including Dos Equis Most Interesting Show in the World and MAC Viva Glam. Her writing on body image and burlesque has been featured in numerous publications including the Huffington Post. In 2018 Freya was voted in the top 100 burlesque figures in the world on 21st Century Burlesque. Visit her website at FreyaWest.com or become a patron at Patreon.com/FreyaWest

Raymond Carr

Sadie interviews interesting people in Socially-Distant Networking, and today it's puppeteer Raymond Carr.

Ninja Puppet Productions founder and bad-ass puppeteer Raymond Carr has a pretty cool job that has taken him around the world. Learn a little bit about his childhood (clowns!), some of his most memorable projects, and some of the words he lives by. Check out http://www.ninjapuppetproductions.com for more about Raymond, Ninja Puppet projects, and some of the groups with which he's collaborated.

Christy Smith

Sadie interviews interesting people for Socially-Distant Networking, and The Enrichment Project founder Christy Smith is fascinating. Christy revels in music from around the world, rejoicing in any chance to dance – even those 45 seconds alone in an elevator. You might say she moves to live, writes to understand, and breathes to get by. A passion for the tarot began with her grandmother's training at an early age, and she has deepened her journeying practice through shamanic and reiki training. In 2011, pursuing her creative muse through mazes real and imagined, Christy asked a group of women to participate in The Enrichment Project. Polishing their stories into radical rituals for creative living is altering her path through this labyrinth called life.

Deanna Danger

Our first-ever guest is Deanna Danger. Check Deanna out at @deannadanger on all the social media and at DeannaDanger.com.