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Aug 2020
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How to Make Dolly Parton Cry with Shima ...

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Samara chats with the award-winning reporter and producer of Dolly Parton’s America about ALL the delicious behind-the-scenes on the hit pod series with Jad Abumrad, plus finding her own voice on the mic, the superpower of being okay with being hated, and how to land a kickass money ask.

 

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

Samara on IG: @samarabay

Cat on IG: @catburt & @doublevisionprojects

 

Shima’s latest projects: wnycstudios.org/people/shima-oliaee

 

Quote from: diannahardy.com/

 

Michaela Coel’s speech: youtube.com/watch?v=odusP8gmqsg&app=desktop

 

Virgina Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: indiebound.org/search/book?keys=a+room+of+one%27s+own

 

Anna Deavere Smith’s Talk to Me: indiebound.org/book/9780385721745

 

Alain de Botton quote from this gorgeous pod episode: howtofail.podbean.com/e/alain-de-botton-c19/

 

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