Start over each day: life lessons with Sudanë Del Valle
Teen People
03/13/22
•38m
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When Sudanë Del Valle was in her first year of college, she went back to her old high school to attend a graduation ceremony. There, she was scouted for a Teen People fashion shoot by the magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Amy Barnett; whose sister was graduating that year. Sudanë subsequently appeared in the Winter 2005 issue of Teen People—a Special Beauty Issue. Sudanë was photographed for a makeup tutorial featuring looks inspired by different decades, from the 1920s onwards. She represented the 1980s, and was styled as Madonna—wearing a lace headband, pink plastic hoop earrings and lots of mascara! You can see the photo on my Twitter and Instagram at TeenPeoplePod. Sudanë spoke with me about her career path, the next chapter in her life, and how she stays upbeat in tough times. Intro music: by Coma-Media on Pixabay Outro music: by RomanBelov on Pixabay Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.
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“Other Music is like a fun, messy library for music. You almost never find what you were looking for, but you always find something you never knew you wanted.” Jaya Saxena was 17 when she was asked to describe her favourite record store in Teen People magazine's Summer Music Special of 2004. Now in her 30s, Jaya is a published author of non-fiction, and a Senior Writer at Eater.com. Like my earlier guest, Lisa Wong Macabasco, Jaya writes about food and culture. She's not a restaurant critic, she's an essayist. Similarly, she's not a geologist, but she loves gems and minerals (the subject of her book, Crystal Clear!). When I found Jaya, she had forgotten she was in Teen People, so I had to jog her memory with the details. “I was around a lot of adults who worked for these magazines,” she told me, “so I probably did talk to someone.” Jaya spoke with me in October, 2021. She told me about Other Music, her career, and how she's building solidarity with peers in her industry. Digressions: indie sleaze bands (The Bravery, The Strokes, etc.), brick-and-mortar stores and CDs, online safety, queer identities and being "born this way" Podcast notes: Find Jaya's work on her site: www.jayasaxena.com Get her books: www.goodreads.com/book/show/33589940-basic-witches (with Jess Zimmerman) www.goodreads.com/book/show/52593434-crystal-clear www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114400-the-book-of-lost-recipes www.goodreads.com/book/show/30009779-dad-magazine (with Matt Lubchansky) Find me on my site: www.annasoper.ca And on Twitter and Instagram: [at] TeenPeoplePod And on Tumblr: www.teenpeoplepod.tumblr.com Music: Intro: Mild Wild, ‘Line Spacing’. CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Outro (2000s Indie Sleaze Disco-Rock riff) © Anna Soper Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.
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Hometown boy makes good: changing the world with Dr. Ben Barry
March 20, 2022
•46m
"We made it, we're in the Ottawa Citizen!" Dr. Ben Barry is Dean of Fashion at Parsons School of Design in New York. When he was fourteen, Ben founded a modelling agency in his hometown of Ottawa, Canada. Realizing there was an untapped market for models of all sizes, Ben made a name for himself as an agent for models of all sizes. Ben’s agency initially supplied models for the local newspaper, which quickly became his biggest champion. Then TEEN PEOPLE gave him a call. In March 2001, they celebrated Ben on their annual list of "20 Teens Who Will Change the World". This caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who featured the 18-year-old on her talk show. As an adult, Ben shifted into a career in fashion education. He has a BA from the University of Toronto, and degrees from Cambridge University, where his PhD research demonstrated a business case for size diversity in fashion and beauty advertising. Over the past few years, Ben has worked at Ryerson University in Toronto, where he was Chair of Fashion, and Founding Director of the Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change. He remains an Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, in the School of Fashion at Ryerson. Ben spoke with me in the spring of 2021, from his country home west of Kingston, Ontario. Podcast notes: Ben is the co-founder and co-editor of Fashion Studies, an open access, academic journal, which you can find here: www.fashionstudies.ca. Find me online: www.annasoper.ca. This is the last episode of season two, and if you haven't heard my other interviews, please do! I would love to hear your thoughts on this project, so please get in touch, or leave a review or rating on your favourite podcast app. Intro music (edited for length): Fog Lake, 'Roswell'. Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0): www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ @foglake on SoundCloud Outro music: RomanBelov on Pixabay Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.
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