Writers Rotation
Kathie Stamps interviews people in various professions about words and writing.
Episodes
25 episodes since 2023
24 Buffy Lawson: singer-songwriter, home stager, vibe queen
Buffy Lawson was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and began entertaining from an early age. After graduating from high school, she moved toNashville, Tennessee. She began by singing demos for aspiring songwriters and soon started writing her own so...
September 06, 2024
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19:49
23 Jenny Leigh Hodgins: pianist, author, podcast host
Jenny Leigh Hodgins is the founder and CEO of YourCreativeChord, where creativity and inspiration meet transformation. With over 30 years as a performing pianist, vocalist, composer, and educator...
August 23, 2024
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22:08
22 George Jreije: author, writing instructor
George Jreije is the Lebanese-American author of the Shad Hadid fantasy series, the upcoming Bashir Boutros series, and the upcoming graphic novels Tarik’s Bazaar Adventure and Lilo and the League of Librarians,
August 09, 2024
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24:28
21 Jess Janz: writer, community facilitator
Jess Janz is a writer, community facilitator, and creator of Dinner With Strangers, which brings 20 people from different walks of life to share their stories over a meal. Her work examines identity, connection, and what binds us all t...
July 26, 2024
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23:38
20 Juliana Piesco: playwright, illustrator, multiartist
Juliana Piesco is a versatile multiartist whose work spans visual arts, performing arts, and literature. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Juliana studied both Law and Arts at the Universidade de São Paulo. Over the past year, she has embraced a nomad...
July 12, 2024
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23:30
19 Megan Tusing: actor, audiobook narrator
Megan Tusing is an actor, award-winning audiobook narrator, producer and coach raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, now based in Brooklyn. She developed a love of storytelling and a passion for language at a young age wh...
June 28, 2024
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25:27
18 Renee Puvvada: nonfiction book marketer, writer
Renee Puvvada is a nonfiction book marketing consultant, author, and adventurer from Atlanta, Georgia. She has always loved writing, and she started her entrepreneurship journey selling self-published books online. Her most successful b...
June 14, 2024
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22:42
17 Christina Noll: content marketing manager
Christina Noll is a marketing manager with over 25 years of experience in content creation, strategy, and management. Currently, she is a project manager with WG Content, a healthcare marketing agency based in Cincinnati. Previously, she was th...
May 28, 2024
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25:32
16 Liza Holland: communications consultant
Liza Holland is owner of Holland Management Services and host of the “Education Perspectives” podcast. She specializes in communicati...
May 10, 2024
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22:09
15 Neil Kesterson: audio engineer, sound designer
Neil Kesterson has been a sound designer for film, video, television, radio, audiobooks, theatre, games, web, and multimedia since 1985. His very first sound design job was to recreate the Bell X-1 rocket plane breaking the sound barrier, of wh...
April 26, 2024
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25:33
14 Vincent Edwards: business consultant, capital raise expert
Vince Edwards has worked for Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, banking, and financial institutions. In 2006 he started his own consulting firm, Empire Builders.As a business consultant, Vince has worked with companies from every industr...
April 12, 2024
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26:04
13 Sofia Hussein: photographer, writer, editor-in-chief
Sofia Hussein is the founder and editor-in-chief of DINYA magazine. She is a creative powerhouse driven by her love for music, photography, and design. Raised in a multicultural family, Sofia's upbrin...
March 22, 2024
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26:30
12 Henry Chien: investment educator, writer, course creator
Henry Chien is a writer bringing investing insights to empower individual investors. A former equity research analyst, Henry has a decade of Wall Street knowledge. His work has been used by the world's largest trading desks and inv...
March 10, 2024
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23:56
11 Hanna Wheeler: Dutch translator, copywriter
Hanna Wheeler is a Belgian Canadian living in Toronto, where she works as a copywriter and translator from Dutch into English. You can find her at her desk by the big window or in one of a dozen of her favorite coffee shops in the city (her
February 23, 2024
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24:45
10 Donna Ison: playwright, performance poet, author, activist
Donna Ison is a playwright, award-winning performance poet, and the author of two novels, with a third on the way. She also produces activist theatre, including the upcoming "The Art of Audacious Aging." She currently serves as the managing edi...
February 09, 2024
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33:11
09 Natalie Ferris: marketing strategist specializing in story
Natalie Ferris is a marketing strategist, direct response copywriter and the founder of Story Strategies. She's been obsessed with storytelling since second grade, when she used to skip recess to hide ...
January 26, 2024
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23:56
08 Carla King: motorcyclist, world explorer, publishing consultant
Carla King is an adventure travel author, journalist, blogger, speaker, and writing and publishing coach.In 1995, Carla pioneered the art of the internet travelogue (now called blogs) with stories about breakdowns in small towns all arou...
January 12, 2024
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29:53
07 Lisa Van Hoever: solopreneur who writes and designs
Lisa Van Hoever is a writer and the designer behind Local Color Branding. Through Local Color, Lisa accidentally fell into small-business marketing as well, which is where you’ll find her delvin...
December 29, 2023
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21:54
06 Mandy Ralston: writing about autism and behavior analysis
Amanda “Mandy” Ralston is a founder and CEO, award-winning entrepreneur, international thought-leader, and 25-year veteran practitioner and subject matter expert in behavior analysis and autism. She has been certified as a behavior analyst sinc...
December 15, 2023
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24:27
05 Jin Maley: acting, tarot reading, writing, communicating
Jin Maley (they/them) is a classically trained actor who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2012.Jin portrays the Communications Officer Ensign Kova Rin Esmar in Star Trek: Picard. Their other television credits i...
December 01, 2023
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25:27
04 Ted Emrich: writing ahead of time and in his head for sports broadcasting
Ted Emrich is a play-by-play announcer for college football and basketball on ESPN and Westwood One. He has also covered eight Masters Tournaments, three Olympics, three College World Series, and the McDonald’s All-American Boys and Girls Games...
November 17, 2023
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Episode 4
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37:18
03 Lacy Robinson: writing books and training manuals for funeral directors
Lacy Robinson is a licensed funeral director/embalmer and a certified funeral celebrant. She offers funeral home clients more than 15 years of success developing and facilitating customer service training programs. Lacy is a Worsham College of ...
November 17, 2023
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Episode 3
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21:56
02 Tanya Tyler: writing sermons for parishioners and stories for herself
Tanya J. Tyler is the pastor of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Her sermons are on the church's website.She is a 2006 graduate of Lexington Theological Seminary i...
November 17, 2023
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Episode 2
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24:30
01 Sarah Leroux: teaching high school English and loving every minute of it
Sarah Anne Leroux is a new mama and teacher living in Ontario, Canada. She considers herself a creative and feels blessed to have an impact on the future generation of writers. If it's not obvious by her episode, she has truly found her passion...
November 17, 2023
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Episode 1
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21:18