Spiritual Practices of the Disgruntled Artist

Ari Hader and Olivia Spirz
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Your hosts, Ari Hader and Olivia Spirz, interview fellow artist about their spiritual practices and how it helps them with their art and career!

  1. 10/27/2025

    Sarah Lindsley: Burlesque Dancer, Costume Designer, Artist, Spiritual Re-Finder

    In a fun and sing-songy intro, Olivia and Ari discuss Faryn's spiritual practice of the zoom out/zoom in meditation. Then they get into a discussion about why typically more women are into manifestation than men, Olivia's recent callback experience, and Ari's unblocking work. Our interview is with the multi-talented Sarah Lindsley who found, lost, and re-found a renewed sense of their spirituality. Sarah talks about growing up being very involved in the church, how the 2016 election affected their beliefs, and how they've connected the dots between spirituality, sexuality and creativity and how each is informed by the other. Follow Sarah @xoxo.ferale.fatale and @party.city.skeleton Follow Empowerment In Heels @empowermentinheels Follow us @spodapod Email us at spoda.contact@gmail.com

    1h 57m

  2. 10/13/2025

    "More women, right?" Faryn Pearl, Female Director, Story Artist, Cartoonist, Nice Guy

    We start with a very fun intro by Olivia and Ari in which we discuss last episode’s spiritual practice (Josh Brown’s artist dates) as well as crows (be nice to them) and Magick (we love Magick). Our guest, hilarious and delightful human Faryn Pearl, gets vulnerable about how her first enormous directing opportunity drove her into her darkest days, the pressure of being a female director in a very male-dominated world, and opens up about her trying to figure out her own spirituality. Follow Faryn for hilarious comics and more @farynheit13 Follow us @spodapod Email us with all your thoughts at spodapod.contact@gmail.com Stay sane and live well! xo, us Beautiful music by: Doug Harvey

    1h 45m

  3. 09/29/2025

    Authenticity As Spirituality: Improviser, Writer and Story Editor Josh Brown

    In this episode of SPODA, Olivia and Ari start with a recap of last episode's spiritual practice, indulging! They also discuss how this episode kind of messed Ari up a bit, and we continue along Ari's Questioning Journey. Our guest, Josh Brown, delves into his upbringing with two parents of different religions, his love of "The Artist's Way," his journey from acting to writing, and how his spirituality is from the inside out - and it all starts with authenticity. Beautiful music by Doug Harvey Follow us @spodapod Email us at spoda.contact@gmail.com Follow Josh @joshrileybrown Josh's Improv Teams: @croptopprenupimprov @midnightdinercomedy

    1h 26m

  4. 09/15/2025

    "I believe in chaos and magic": Actor, Voice Over Artist, Spin Instructor, and Thinker Kristina Mueller

    The episode kicks off with Olivia and Ari discussing Jeff D'Elia's spiritual practice from the last episode of creating a playlist to get back in touch with your inner teenager. Amidst many giggles (and Olivia's KICKASS impression of Tom DeLonge), they discover they have a song in common on their playlists (magick!). We curtail, seamlessly of course, into a discussion of if you can divorce the art from the artist. Our guest, Kristina Mueller, discusses her life over the past few months and how it has informed her belief in her chaos theory (Kristina's Kaos Theory). She also discusses making decisions from her body and not her mind, and how overthinking has held her back. *A note: the audio in the interview is great for our guest, but very poor for Olivia and Ari. We're sorry about that, we had a technical issue, but the next one will be better! Follow us @spodapod Email us at spoda.contact@gmail.com Follow Kristina @itsmemueller Beautiful music by Doug Harvey Also, a plug of our own: if you're listening and enjoying, please drop us a little review. Reviews really make our little podcast reach more artists in need of some spiritual rejuvenation and every single review is so so appreciated. Thank you so much!

    1h 21m

  5. 09/08/2025

    Crashing Out, Living Like Your Future Self For A Year, And Not Being Friends With People Who Don't Think You're Talented - Olivia and Ari on the dark place and getting out of it

    In this special crash out episode, we begin with the epic career crash out Ari had when a bad night of performance happened with someone important in the audience. This forays into a new year long goal of Ari living like their future self for a year, which includes  not being friends with anyone who thinks they’re untalented for a year (weird? Great? You decide!). Olivia shares her own crash out story and how she wish she handled it differently, and then we get reallll specific on what would make us happy. If you’re in the dark place right now - this is the episode for you.  And remember: the dark place doesn’t last forever. The light will always break free. We love you, SPODA Beautiful music by: Doug Harvey Follow us @spodapod Email us at spoda.contact@gmail.com

    1h 7m

  6. 09/01/2025

    "Everybody is each other's guardian angels" : Head Writer, Human Golden Doodle, Seeker Jeff D'Elia

    In an uncharacteristically short intro, Olivia and Ari touch on last episode's spiritual practice, Keara's "finding God in the small moments." There will be a much longer episode released next week about Keara's practice and how it helped both Ari and Olivia in separate career spirals. The interview is with head writer and story editor Jeff D'Elia. He touches on being guided by his inner child, how he emerged from his 2 year slump, things he's learned about being a Hollywood writer, the spiritual affirmations his mom put on his shower wall, being baptized in the Christian faith as an adult, and more.  Follow Jeff @jt_delia Follow us @spodapod Email us at spoda.contact@gmail.com Send us all of your thoughts! Beautiful music by Doug Harvey.

    1h 33m

  7. 08/18/2025

    SPODA: Keara Maryn, Stunt Woman, and finder of God in the small moments

    On this episode of SPODA, Ari and Olivia talk about Samantha Barrios' practice of daily journaling and how some spiritual practices are for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. We also discuss how Lion's Gates Portal (August 8th) went this year, and the magic of helping others.  Then we bring on our first stunt performer on the pod, Keara Maryn. We talk about her journey from navigating the dance industry to finding her true passion of stunt performing and all the stops she made along the way. We discuss her ever continuing understanding of her own spirituality and how she finds God in a cup of coffee and the people she surrounds herself with. Follow the kick ass Keara at @keara.maryn *The subject of depression and self punishment are talked on this episode* If you've been trying on these spiritual practices with let us know! Email: Spoda.contact@gmail.com Insta:@spodapod Hosted by Ari Hader and Olivia Spirz Beautiful music by Doug Harvey

    1h 44m

  8. 08/04/2025

    SPODA: Samantha Barrios, Actor, Director, Producer, Ray of Sunshine

    This episode starts with Olivia and Ari talking about Jake Elitzer's spiritual practice from last episode that they tried on for size, asking "is it true? Is it absolutely true?" in moments of doubt. Then Ari opens up (and hyperbolizes) about being one of the older cast members in the show she's doing. Olivia and Ari agree to a fun challenge of manifesting something for each other. Then we get into the episode with our guest, Samantha Barrios, who is so full of joy and also very strong in her faith. We discuss getting re-aligned, treating an artist's life as though it is the "actor excursion package," fear of success, death and visits from loved ones departed, almost becoming a nun(!) and so much more. Honestly, we tried to edit this so that it would be shorter but it's all gold so we couldn't. Beautiful Music by: Doug Harvey Follow us @spodapod and email us how your spiritual practices are going at spoda.contact@gmail.com Follow Samantha Barrios @tsamanthab  and at SamanthaBarrios.com

    1h 54m
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