#BTSPodcast Lynae Cook
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On #BTSPodcast, Lynae Cook explores the "behind the scenes" of people's work. She interviews artists, CEOs, specialists, and activists about the work they do, how they do it, lessons learned, failure, wellness, and their hopes for the future.
Lynae is a musician with a background in marketing, sociology, and photojournalism. BTS was started to humanize workforces, educate consumers, and inspire career options.
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Music is by Benjamin Bethurum: soundcloud.com/bethurum Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/btspodcast/support
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#57: Artist & UCLA MFA Candidate Nehemiah Cisneros
Nehemiah Cisneros earned his BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2021 and was awarded a New Opportunities Fellowship at UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, where he will complete his MFA in 2024. He has work on view at the Rubell Museum in Miami until Nov 2024.
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#56: Talent Manager Matt Meyerson
Matt Meyerson has been working in talent management & public relations for years, largely in the action sports space. We talk about his career, what makes someone good at his job, and so much more in this episode of #BTSPodcast. This was recorded in summer of 2023.
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#55: Dignity & Autonomy in Housing with Sua Hernandez of El Sereno Community Land Trust
Sua Hernandez is the Director of Housing Resilience & Executive Administrator at El Sereno Community Land Trust. She’s been working in affordable housing since the late 90s and is an alumni of Occidental College, with a BA in urban and environmental policy. We talk about differences between co-ops, land trusts, and a community development corporation. Sua shares some of the questions ESCLT staff asks themselves to establish and maintain a culture of dignity and autonomy, and why that's important.
Learn more about Community Land Trusts:
https://www.shareable.net/infographic-the-why-how-of-community-land-trusts/
https://groundedsolutions.org/strengthening-neighborhoods/community-land-trusts
Follow El Sereno Community Land Trust on IG: https://www.instagram.com/elserenocommunitylandtrust/
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Here’s some of the readings Sua mentioned, use these affiliate links that will support independent bookstores & this podcast:
Howards End: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9780141182131
Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities: https://bookshop.org/a/9735/9781477314470
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#54: Award-Winning Journalist, Cerise Castle
Cerise Castle is a multi-award winning journalist best known for her research & reporting around LASD Gangs. She’s been published by VICE, LA Times, LA Mag, HBO, NPR, & Wondery Media. In this episode she talks about what being a freelance journalist means, pitching work, juggling stories, therapy, self-care, & so much more. Be sure to listen to her podcast A Tradition of Violence & follow her across social platforms.
Hear Cerise discuss A Tradition of Violence & her the details of her reporting on Locatora Radio talking more about her work here for condensed context to better understand what A Tradition of Violence is about
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Database of Sheriff-Involved Shootings in LA: https://knock-la.com/life-under-the-gun/
A Tradition of Violence Podcast: https://linktr.ee/atraditionofviolence
Cerise Twitter: @cerisecastle
Cerise IG: @yourmajestcee
The Knock Twitter: @knockdotla
The Knock Instagram: @knockdotla
The Knock Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KNOCK_LA
The DART Center, trainings for therapists to work with journalists: https://thedartcenter.org/
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#53: Comedian & Wrestler, Jay Washington
Jay Washington is a comedian, actor, & former wrestler. You may have seen him in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq or American Gigolo. We talk about parenting as an entertainer, leaving wrestling, finding the right representation, his career in comedy & how comedians get paid, & mental health. Please follow Jay across social (links below) you can watch a YouTube recording of this convo on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/mk15Hed3G-E
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#52: Grief, Death, & the Eco-Friendly Burial with Laura Sullivan Cassidy
Culturalist, journalist, creative coach, grief coach, and multi-media artist Laura Sullivan Cassidy discusses her work around grief, death, & dying, as well as what Recompose does and how states are slowly but surely getting on board with this eco-friendly burial option.
Check out Inelda, which is mentioned as the organization Laura did her training at here: https://inelda.org/learn/end-of-life-doula-training/
A Sacred Passing (end of life care community in Seattle): https://asacredpassing.org/
Laura’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/laurasoftdata/
Recompose IG: https://www.instagram.com/recomposelife/
Laura’s newsletter “Griever’s Ball” https://grieversball.substack.com/
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Customer Reviews
The questions you never knew you had: answered.
I’ll admit although some of the amazing guests touch on subject matter that I’m not readily interested in, Lynae has the unique gift of bringing me as a listener into the room, and makes specific conversations relevant to my own personal experiences. You will laugh, smile, some times freak out about the world but always leave inspired and hopeful! Thank you for consistently renewing my faith in humanity by shining a spotlight on kind, intelligent, innovative humans who work to enrich the world around them everyday!
Breadth and Depth rarely found together as here!
What a charming podcast! BTS gets amazing guests, fantastic on-site interviews, and dives deep into issues ranging from social media to science! Couldn’t think of a better way to spend an hour than with Lynae and her guests.
Amazing!
It’s smart, funny, and interesting. Lynae doesn’t just spit out questions for her guest to answer but it sounds like such a personable conversation.