Laura Joyce Davis, Balancing Motherhood and Work
Art Heals All Wounds
04/27/22
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Today, I’m joined by Laura Joyce Davis, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place. What started as a creative outlet to cope with the stay-at-home order of March 2020 has now turned into almost 200 episodes of narrative nonfiction storytelling about reimagining life through creativity and community. Laura and her husband have since expanded into the podcast education space with the launch of Kasama Collective, an intensive podcast training program for female and non-binary audio storytellers, as well as a self-paced online course. We discuss navigating motherhood and creative ambitions, confronting the role of perfectionism in her life, and what inspires her to continue showing up authentically online. Transcription
Topics Covered:
● How Laura started and scaled Shelter in Place and Kasama Collective
● Balance your needs as a creative person with your parental duties
● Why perfectionism isn’t always a bad thing
● Creating community and fulfilling the desire for connection via podcasting
● Being recognized at the International Women's Podcast Awards
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● Kasama Collective Podcast Training
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Previous Episode
Today, I’m joined by independent director and producer Alexi Lacey. She has over 20 years of experience in filmmaking, and her most recent project, Fiji Memory Colonial Time, has been on her mind since she was a teenager. The film explores the complexity of identity when it's been formed by privilege due to the exploitation of other people and the intended destruction of their culture. For Alexi, this was an opportunity to profile her mother's courage, share the bitter truths in their family's history, and the legacy of colonialism in Fiji. We discuss what motivated Alexi to pursue this story, how colonialism impacts our identities, and what she hopes viewers take away from this film. We also touch on the work that she does with issues around the housing crisis, displacement, and gentrification happening in San Francisco.
Topics Covered:
● Why Alexi chose to tell her mother’s story in this way
● How she contextualized the larger legacy of colonialism in Fiji
● Coming to terms with her own identity and how she fits into her family’s history
● How the vision for the film changed over the 13 years of production
● Why she’s so passionate about fighting for housing rights in San Francisco
Guest Info:
- Fiji Memory, Colonial Time website
- Fiji Memory, Colonial Time Twitter
- Fiji Memory Colonial Time Facebook
- Anti-Eviction Mapping Project Website
- Waqa Vuidreketi on Instagram
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Today, I’m joined by avant garde and experimental composer and guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante. You might remember my conversation with his wife, filmmaker Marjorie Sturm, back in season 1 where we touched on how they are creating a home for their children to also explore the arts. Ernesto and I expand on that a little further and discuss how his childhood shaped how he and Marjorie are raising their family. We also get into how his music has evolved since his days in the Mexican rock band, Cielo Azul.
Topics Covered:
● What avant-garde music means to Ernesto
● The role that music played in his family growing up
● The story behind how he joined a rock band at the age of thirteen
● What inspired him to take a different path from mainstream music
● His approach to parenthood
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