Women Who Rock: The Podcast

Melinda Colaizzi
  • 4.7 (3)
  • Music Interviews
  • Biweekly

Behind every career on stage is a body, a timeline, and a set of choices most interviews never ask about. Women Who Rock: The Podcast puts that front and center, with host Melinda sitting down with the artists, executives, and rising stars shaping the music industry for candid conversations about women's health, motherhood, and what it actually costs to build a career. An extension of the Women Who Rock movement, because the future of women's health starts with talking about it.

Episodes

  1. 5d ago ·  Video

    Lisa Lisa: Breaking Barriers, Battling Breast Cancer, Still Standing

    Lisa Lisa is a freestyle pioneer who shaped mainstream music for over four decades. She brought New York's Latin sound to the radio. She made the hits that defined a generation. But at 21, at the height of her career, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. And instead of stopping, she pushed through. She toured while undergoing chemo. She hid it from an industry that had already made clear she was replaceable. She made it through. And now, with her memoir coming soon, she's telling the full story exactly as she lived it, and using her voice to help other women fight their own battles. This is the story of someone who refused to be silent, and refused to quit. Like Lisa, every woman has a story worth telling. This is hers. Credits: Hosted by: Melinda Colaizzi Produced By: Jesse Naus at Red Caiman Studios. Video Production By: Shawn Jackson Production Assistant: Clay Strickland Production Assistant: Charlie Sensabaugh Copywriter: Amanda Akari Music by: Melinda and the Night Sky Thanks to Gator for providing our set furniture.

  2. Oct 14 ·  Video

    Kalie Shorr: Fight Like a Girl, Own Your Story

    Kalie Shorr wrote Fight Like a Girl in a room with two friends ten years ago. It became an anthem. The song charted independently. She owned it outright. She built her career on zero budget, reinvesting every dollar back into the next project. But when she went to major labels, they said no, and noted they'd "already signed a girl this year". So she kept fighting. She got her masters back from her old label. She re-recorded everything. Only women worked on it. She owns it now, completely. But Kalie's fight goes beyond the music. At twenty, on her first red carpet in the middle of Fight Like a Girl's success, she was diagnosed with endometriosis. She had to manage brutal treatments while touring nearly two hundred shows a year. She moved states just to access healthcare that actually worked. And she's turned all of that into advocacy. She consults other artists on taking control of their work. She speaks openly about women's health research. She's shown survivors that their fight matters, and their stories deserve to be heard. This is the story of someone who refused to let anyone own her but herself. Every woman has a story worth telling. This is hers.   Credits: Hosted by: Melinda Colaizzi Produced By: Jesse Naus at Red Caiman Studios. Video Production By: Shawn Jackson Production Assistant: Clay Strickland Production Assistant: Charlie Sensabaugh Copywriter: Amanda Akari Music by: Melinda and the Night Sky Thanks to Gator for providing our set furniture.

  3. Sep 30 ·  Video

    Jackie Popovec: The Vindys, Pat Benatar & Getting Back to the Music

    Women's health research is underfunded, and Jackie Popovec has seen the numbers. As frontwoman of The Vindys and a long-time Women Who Rock advocate, she's using her platform to help close that gap, while still gigging like she has since she was thirteen. In this episode: sharing stages with Pat Benatar, taking a music video to Tribeca, the new album Trap Door, and why getting back to the music reminds her what all of it is for. Every woman has a story worth telling. This is hers.   Credits: Hosted by: Melinda Colaizzi Produced By: Jesse Naus at Red Caiman Studios. Video Production By: Shawn Jackson Production Assistant: Clay Strickland Production Assistant: Charlie Sensabaugh Copywriter: Amanda Akari Music by: Melinda and the Night Sky Thanks to Gator for providing our set furniture.

  4. Sep 15 ·  Video

    Margot Bingham: What Nobody Tells You About Your Body.

    Margot Bingham has the resume: Boardwalk Empire, The Walking Dead, New Amsterdam, and 16 years without a pause button. But this conversation goes somewhere the credits don't: the decades she spent being told what she felt in her own body was normal. It wasn't. Margot and Melinda talk about the hustle, the hard stuff, and what it actually costs. Every woman has a story worth telling. This is hers. Credits: Hosted by: Melinda Colaizzi Produced By: Jesse Naus at Red Caiman Studios. Video Production By: Shawn Jackson Production Assistant: Clay Strickland Production Assistant: Charlie Sensabaugh Copywriter: Amanda Akari Music by: Melinda and the Night Sky Thanks to Gator for providing our set furniture.

  • 4 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

4.7
out of 5
3 Ratings

About

Behind every career on stage is a body, a timeline, and a set of choices most interviews never ask about. Women Who Rock: The Podcast puts that front and center, with host Melinda sitting down with the artists, executives, and rising stars shaping the music industry for candid conversations about women's health, motherhood, and what it actually costs to build a career. An extension of the Women Who Rock movement, because the future of women's health starts with talking about it.

Information

You Might Also Like