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Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtCults, field research, Hunter S. Thompson w/ G. KlasekG. Glasek’s journey jumps from Dunning-Kruger to Sisyphus, Hunter S. Thompson to Adam Curtis. Cultish beginnings led to leaving school in 8th grade and a lifetime of exploration. Not your standard desk-based creative – after reinventing herself through “hundreds of jobs,” G found her niche as a global field researcher, consultant and strategist. This conversation spans both the challenges of sustaining a true ethnography practice in a scale-obsessed world, and G’s one-of-a-kind creation story.N.B: G is also a musician and phonographer – or, in her words, “a collector of sounds.” This episode includes an extract from one of her...
2025-12-0237 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtOwen Booth: Classic horror, subverting PowerPoint, art vs. craftLondon-based Owen Booth, author of What We’re Teaching Our Sons and The All True Adventures...of Daniel Bones, is "low-key obsessed with Frankenstein." Which, coincidentally, makes this episode perfect listening for spooky season.Owen’s short story (with a long title), Frankenstein's Monster is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences, took the Moth short story prize in 2020 and has been adapted for the stage "entirely by accident” more than once (premiering at the Origin Theatre Festival in New York, 2023). Owen's formative influences – vintage horror movies, and Stephen King’s exploration of...
2025-10-3040 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtRoya Shariat: Beauty x sport, fragrance, fusion cookingRoya Shariet pitched to Emily Weiss, founder of Glossier, on the streets of New York, back in 2018. It changed her world. “I got a job offer for a job that didn’t exist, with no job description, to lead social impact at Glossier.” Don’t you just love it when that happens? She stayed for almost seven years – through the wildly successful launch of the You fragrance and the inception of Glossier’s partnership with the WNBA. Heads up, beauty x sport fans – that partnership’s still going strong, five years later. Today, an Iranian-American cookbook and a hu...
2025-10-1640 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtNiche Strategy Special: Alex Morris of Strat Scraps: Winning pitches, digital gardens, drawing monstersAlex Morris, is the VP of Strategy at New York’s Day One Agency, author of the Strategy and Planning Scrapbook and the planner’s cult-fave newsletter, Strat Scraps. He’s also an artist and a collector of relics, trinkets, and inspiration from the digital and analog world. Once described as “Like K Hole but with utility and skin in the game,” I’m hard pressed to put a sharper point on Alex’s incisive read of consumer culture and identity. He’s an Ad guy who doesn’t believe in capitalism, turns down bottled water accounts (“the whole water indus...
2025-10-0242 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtDevin Kelly: Novel writing, the poet's mindset, enduring as an artistIn conversation with Devin Kelly, poet, author, and teacher. Devin joins me fresh from a hard track session with his New York run club. He’s sitting in his grandmother’s tiny old chair, the exact chair he sat down in every night to pen his latest novel, Pilgrims, a tale of two brothers, one monk, and one racing runaway. The story explores a sibling dynamic, but also a journey “to explore the multitudes of personalities that can exist inside a person.”Devin’s got a devoted literary fanbase, born of the personal essays he’s written ove...
2025-09-1757 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtEmily Ash Powell: Leading brand creative, self-publishing, the Topshop eraIn conversation with Emily Ash Powell, writer, creative leader, and brand consultant. Born and raised in South Wales (with the wildly ambitious Welsh-speaking qualifications to prove it), Emily’s career got off to a fashionable start on the Topshop shop floor in Bridgend. In those halcyon days, Emily, just 16 years old in Joanie jeans, watching Friends in the staff room with her excellent boss, Debbie, would’ve had a hard time imagining things ever getting better than that. Plot twist: They did. Since then, she’s worked for tons of huge brands – most recently as Global Head of Creati...
2025-09-0434 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtJozef White: Genre mapping, the myth of the artist, Tabula Rasa RecordsIn conversation with Jozef White, founder of Tabula Rasa Records, a writer and philosopher. Jozef was born and raised in San Francisco and has landed, for now, in New Zealand.Jozef’s creative output thrives in spaces where people move together – whether that's collating collective works that capture a specific time signature, or curating events in person in Tokyo, Amsterdam, and San Diego. The episode kicks off with an attempt to bridge the cultural chasm that splits California and New Zealand. Then we explore ideas from Tabula Rasa's Substack, Inscripta – specifically, three of Jozef’s essays; I...
2025-08-2830 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtLee Glandorf: Sports marketing, brand building, being a twinIn conversation with Lee Glandorf, author of Boston’s best Substack® The Sweat Lookbook, and former Director of Marketing at Tracksmith.Lee is many things: an advocate for women in sport, a writer, historian, runner, rower, mother, marketeer, twin, and all-around creative behemoth who's both accomplished and humble enough to admit that – like all of us – she's still learning.Lee's always been obsessed with the intersection between sports and fashion. "It goes back to being a little girl, and picking my sports based on what we were gonna wear." A girl after my own heart.Rec...
2025-08-1449 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtLucinda Bounsall of Sibling Studio: Strategy, big ‘C’ culture, being a super recogniserIn conversation with Lucinda Bounsall, Strategy Director and founder of Sibling Studio. Lucinda joins me to talk about her specialism in modern subcultures, her thoughts on A.I., anti-mentors, and the power of a good quad graph. She says of her craft, “It’s not like maths, where there’s only one right answer, with strategy there can be many different answers.” Phew. What’s more, Lucinda’s exceptional face recognition skills put her in the top three percent of the general population as a super recogniser. So yeah, she’s probably seen you around. Recommends: Pod...
2025-08-0737 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtDan Jones: Getting an agent, queer non-fiction, being bad at ceramicsIn conversation with Brooklyn-based Dan Jones, bestselling British author and collaborative writer. Dan’s written over 20 books, with Gin: Shake, Muddle, Stir selling over 200,000 copies, translated into a dozen languages.Longlisted for the Curtis Brown First Novel Award, Dan contributes to The New York Times' Wirecutter and specializes in everything from cocktails to fashion, interiors, travel, wellness, mythology, and LGBTQ culture.With irreverent, well-informed takes on the writing life and the fast-paced bookish scene in NYC, you can find Dan giving The Washington Post hot takes on Princess Di’s style, in flow-mode at the Cent...
2025-07-3044 min
Was jetzt?Update: (Fast) alle für Gaza – warum enthält sich Deutschland?Die Bundesregierung unter Friedrich Merz (CDU) rechtfertigt ihre Ablehnung der internationalen Gaza-Erklärung von 28 Staaten und der EU-Kommission. In dem am vergangenen Montag veröffentlichten Appell fordern die Unterzeichner einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand und das Ende der israelischen Angriffe in Gaza. Merz sehe keinen Anlass, sich dem Aufruf anzuschließen, da Deutschland zuvor im Europäischen Rat eine "praktisch inhaltsgleiche" Position vertreten habe. Der ZEIT-Redakteur im Ressort Politisches Feuilleton Nils Markwardt spricht im Podcast über die deutsche Israelpolitik. Der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) in Den Haag hat eine "saubere, gesunde und nachhaltige Umwelt" zu einem Menschenrecht erklärt. Außerd...
2025-07-2309 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtMorgane Bigault: Visual arts, women in sportsIn conversation with Morgane Bigault, French photographer, videographer, and director. Her visual language is imbued with a documentary aesthetic – raw, considered, and human. She brings a sense of play and restraint to her craft, "limitation can actually open yourself to being more creative." From documenting athletics clubs to Olympians, Morgane both shows and tells, "there's a form of grace in training."Morgane's creative inspirations: Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Barbara, Paco Ibanez, Michel Polnareff, Johnny Hallyday, Ana Cuba, Madeleine Penfold , Pauline Ballet, Florence Pernet, Linda Brownlee, Pia Riverola.MorganeBigault.comSubscribe to th...
2025-07-1725 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtMilo Bragg: Skateboarding, Juno Records, Club RootedIn conversation with Milo Bragg, London-based skateboarder, Juno Records label manager, and label owner at Future Primitive. From communes to cover art, skating to supporting new artists, this one doesn’t miss a beat.In 2020, Milo launched Club Rooted, a mix series of non-floor-focused sound, tapping into a lineage that can be traced back through various scenes—from recent slow or kickass techno and abstract UK bass music to autonomic D’n’B, knackered house, Detroit beatdown, and various strands of electronica or IDM. Lots of Milo's recommendations to immerse yourself here:Juno Club RootedPur...
2025-07-0832 min
Niche ID with Laura MarkwardtLeila Jones of Show Ponies: Glastonbury-on-Sea, Lost VaguenessIn conversation with Leila Jones, Co-Director of Indie Production Company, Show Ponies. We talk about her annual Glastonbury-on-Sea production – now in its fifth year this June. Also, her role in the legend of Lost Vagueness, creative risk-taking, and her formative (and funny) years of 'wild abandon.' See Leila in The Lost in Vagueness documentary. See Show Ponies.Subscribe to the Niche ID newsletter for latest episode updates.
2025-06-0635 min
Informed Life RadioHow to de-EMF Your HomeLearn from EMF experts how to de-EMF your home to protect yourself and your family. Eric Windheim is a Certified Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist and Laura MarkwardtIs a Certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant and Electromagnetic Radiation Specialist.Reference Links:https://windheimemfsolutions.comhttps://homebiome.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2023-09-231h 52
Podcast de Blue Moon Kentucky15- La Countrygramola (Septiembre 2022)Muy buenas amigos, os invito a disfrutar con esta nueva entrega de la Countrygramola, como siempre 16 novedades musicales a vuestra disposición.
Esperando que disfrutéis con esta selección musical, os doy las gracias a todos...
En esta quinceava entrega podremos disfrutar con los siguientes invitados:
1- Robert Creelman & CrossRoad - Waltz At Midnight (2022)
I've Got Bad News On The Run / Dim Lights Turn Bright
2- Peggie Nora - Because I'm Country (2022)
I've Had Enough
3- Roger Tripp - Jesus In a Skirt (2022)
A Bit Like Texas / Sounding Brass & Tinkling Cymbals
4- Paul O'Connor - Lookout Heart (2022)
Lookout Heart
5- D...
2022-09-201h 01
The Country MileThe Country Mile 228PLAYLIST:
Ned LeDoux - Open Road
Steep Canyon Rangers - Sweet Spot
Wade Bowen - Everything Has Your Memory
Brent Cobb - Wild And Blue
Brother & The Hayes - Lady Love
Randy C Moore - Big Bertha
Michelle Rivers - Going West
Laura Orshaw - I Can't Settle Down w/ Jenee Fleenor & Brittany Haas
Junior Sisk - Up There On A Hillside
Paige King Johnson - Honky Tonk Heart
Mario Flores - Home Made Honky Tonk
Easton Corbin - Hey Merle
Steve Markwardt - She Took Me...
2022-06-1100 min