In this episode, she shares her healing journey through her music, finding her religion and gender. She also opens up about her work on The Art of Blowing It. Lydian is a former Nashville Evangelical turned Queer Brooklyn Musician. She has worked off-broadway and in film, written and performed her one-woman show Sunday Clothes, and is the artist behind the music project "Lydian" you can listen to the latest Lydian single, "Jane" on iTunes and Spotify.

Judy Jean Kwon shares her journey growing up in a Korean American video store, where she fell in love with the art of filmmaking and storytelling. She talks about standing out in standup and why she created her ballbusting comedy MILFriend.

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If someone fell from the sky and didn't know what a musical was... What shows would you introduce them to? Actor and writer, Josh Bardier came up with an awesome list of 5 with some honorable mentions.

Josh is a king of Queens; dubbed the mayor of Astoria by his block. Josh is the creator and host of ACTORIA, a spotlight cabaret based on giving his community space to perform for the Love of it all. With his millennial Mister Rogers spirit and his fusion of old soul and electric energy, the New York Times called him a “force”. They were actually writing about a hurricane but... the same thing. Josh is a mental health advocate and has a deep passion for universal equal rights.

His hashtag/mantra is #leadwithlove. You can find him @joshbardier everywhere- he’s the only one in the world.

This week on the podcast I welcome my friend and neighbor open-hearted Josh Bardier (bar-dee-ay). In this episode, we talk about Josh's journey in theater leading him to London then to New York with 3 bucks and a dream. He is a ‘Jack of all trades’ performance artist originally from Worcester, Massachusetts. Acting, singing, instruments, hosting, writing, composing, dancing, spoken word- if there’s a story to tell and an audience to listen to, you’ll find Josh.

Welcome to The Eff Your Fears Podcast! This week we welcome back our guest from last week Kristin Cantwell. We share our top picks for Bada$$ plus-size characters. I would love to hear what you have to say, and before y'all get all crazy on me, these are subjective, and you can have your own feels but share with kindness. And also I know some won't consider Mindy Lahiri plus-sized, but that's how I identify her in my head, and you can't fight with crazy so let me have that :)

In this list, we talk about

Khadijah James (Queen Latifa) in Living Single

Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) in The Mindy Project

Aidy Bryant as a cast member on Saturday Night Live

Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson (Danielle Brooks) in Orange Is the New Black

Fran (Lolly Adefope) in Shrill

Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy) in Gilmore Girls

Ruby Hill Good Girls and as Donna in Parks and Rec portrayed by Retta

Annie (Aidy Bryant ) in Shirll

Carmen (Britney Young) in Glow

Paula Proctor (Donna Lynne Champlin) in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Emmy Hart (Ashley Monique Menard... ME) in The Art of Blowing It

We also have a chat about everything from Shrill with the women's need to take care of a man to fat Monica in the suit to body representation in the 90s.

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Have you ever looked at a Backstage Magazine and thought of selling your eggs?

Have you always dreamed of being a working actor?

Did you dream of having William Morris Agency represent you?

These are things Sonja thought of. She says, “You have to say the things you want and own your goal cause that’s how you get the things you want.”

This week on the podcast is Emmy Nominated filmmaker and actress Sonja O'Hara. Don’t get it twisted, she may look like a quirky manic pixie dream girl in a floral dress, but she is a BEAST of a filmmaker! She creates authentic, edgy, dark, cerebral, and provocative works like Ovum & her Emmy nominated Doomsday. She is nominated for Outstanding Short form Daytime Fiction Program,

In this episode, Ashley Monique Menard talks about the Web series. What are they? Have you created one? Do you have an idea but don't know where to start, or are you in the web series festival circuit already? Ashley brought in the Founder and executive director of the New Jersey Web Fest.

Neem advises young filmmakers as to how to get their work out there and how he deals with fear. Watch neemsthemes.com and submissions for web series end April 18th, 2021.

To submit your project, visit filmfreeway.com/njwebfest

51.Award Winning Australian Writer/Actress/ Speech Coach/Activist

In episode 50 of the pod, Ashley chats with Mariana Cardenas. A Colombian actress, TV host, dancer and Bilingual Interpreter. She started in dance and studied at Fordham University and at Alvin Ailey. For five seasons, she danced her way into the hearts of many with Jennifer Muller/The Works and has performed with the New York City Opera and was a member of Steps Repertory Ensemble. We talk about her extensive dance career and her shift to acting which has turned out to be very fulfilling. She won Best Supporting Actress for the Feature Film "Unspoken" at the New York Long Island Film Festival and Prison City Film Festival.

This week we chat with the star of the stage and screen, Patrick Oliver Jones. From his early roots in Birmingham, Alabama, community theater and coming up in the church choir. The DJ shares his synergy at Disney and the ins and outs of recasting his love interest from a leading lady to a leading man. Since living in New York City, he has performed Off-Broadway and in National Tours, including the pre-Broadway run of FIRST WIVES CLUB in Chicago. For the small screen, he has thrived in national commercials, both on camera and voice-over, and in various network dramas and cable series. While on the big screen, his film work ranges from quirky characters to corporate types.

Patrick is a quintessential leading man! He is thoughtful, intelligent, and the incredible host of "Why I’ll Never Make It," his own entertainment podcast.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-ill-never-make-it-an-actors-journey/id1330237490

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-ill-never-make-it-an-actors-journey/id1330237490

https://www.pojones.com/whyillnevermakeit

In this episode, Ashley Monique Menard chats with Nicki Woodard about her passion for history and the original socialites in her Podcast As the Money Burns. The ladies also talk about overcoming challenges and dealing with fear.

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Here's a bit more about Nicki Woodard: Back in high school, Nicki Woodard first merged her passions of history and media making video documentaries for History Fair (yes, like Science Fair) using her father’s super-VHS studio. Since then, she went on to the University of Texas at Austin, studying B.A. in History and B.S. in Radio-Television-Film. She would go on to earn an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. She worked for 4 years on multiple History Channel and A&E documentaries before exploring other parts of Hollywood.

She has served as a research consultant for USA’s Mr. Robot Seasons 3 & 4 and Briarpatch, as well as helping others develop subjects on other projects. She loves combining history, research, and media. In parallel to her professional development, Nicki spent the summer between her junior and senior year doing a high school program at Brown University and visited Newport, Rhode Island, where she experienced her first love. Shortly afterward, returning home, she lost her brother to cancer and has had a long, complicated life, including a failed marriage.

After her divorce and ending a long-time job, she went to find a project to develop for film and television. She stumbled onto an article about a summer’s events in Newport, Rhode Island in 1929 — a few months before the infamous Wall Street Crash. After further digging, she discovered a world of actual heirs & heiresses whose lives paralleled her own, all except in money. After years of developing that idea, Nicki has turned those stories into As The Money Burns podcast. Thank you, Nicki, for coming on the show and giving me your incredible and legendary bio! Thanks for coming on the show!

⚡⚡Hey Everyone! Welcome to The Eff Your Fears Podcast! Well he's here and He's kind of a big deal... Christophe Zajac-Denek is an actor/stuntman, drummer, and surfer. He is also a little person and the host of the I’m Kind Of A Big Deal podcast.

In this episode, Ashley sits down with Chase Coleman! You've seen him portraying the werewolf, Oliver, in the CW hit spin-off series, The Originals, The Originals, or Billy Winslow in the HBO TV series Boardwalk Empire. Or maybe from his work as heartthrob rock-star Tanner Watts, in CBS daytime The Young and the Restless. Chase has worked as a model, actor, and musician, and he shares some tips as to how he broke into the business and how he deals with ADHD in a high-demand job.

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