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Trailer - What's Underneath with StyleLikeU from 2023-12-13T14:51:21.377302
What’s Underneath is shedding the binds of cultural conditioning placed on us with regards to how we present ourselves to the world, each episode inspires radical self-acceptance by empowering y...
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Trailer - What's Underneath with StyleLikeU from 2022-03-07T04:02:50.443700
What’s Underneath is shedding the binds of cultural conditioning placed on us with regards to how we present ourselves to the world, each episode inspires radical self-acceptance by empowering y...
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Trailer - What's Underneath with StyleLikeU from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.284807
What’s Underneath is shedding the binds of cultural conditioning placed on us with regards to how we present ourselves to the world, each episode inspires radical self-acceptance by empowering you ...
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Lily Mandelbaum: Letting Go of Control from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.283917
Welcome to episode 1 of What’s Underneath. Each week Elisa Goodkind & Lily Mandelbaum will be facilitating facade-free interviews with diverse non-conformists about their relationship to style, sel...
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Domino Kirke: Trusting Life Without Drama from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.278894
Domino Kirke, musician and co-director/founder of Carriage House Birth reveals the wisdom she’s gained as a doula, including her own physical and emotional limitations, and how our past traumas can...
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Chani Nicholas: Parented by the Planets from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.275278
Coined the ‘Social Justice Astrologer’ and a rock “star” to us, Chani Nicholas’ readings make you feel as if she is speaking to you personally in the deepest, most intuitive, profound, psychologica...
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Mara Hoffman: Letting It Go to Let it Grow from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.270866
We greatly admire New York-based fashion designer, Mara Hoffman. Her designs and principles stand out in a sea of homogeneity and “buy more” culture. The former dancer studied at Parsons School of ...
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Damien Echols: Discovering His Authentic Self After Death Row from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.269781
In this episode, we are joined by a gigantic hero of ours, Damien Echols, who was incarcerated on death row for 18 years and 76 days for murders that he did not commit. We became aware of his story...
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Terence Nance: Has Nothing to be Unapologetic About from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.265538
We sit down this week with the incredibly multi-talented artist, director, and musician, Terence Nance, to get inside his head about things like his HBO series, Random Acts of Flyness, that airs ou...
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Heidi Lender: Breaking Her Fear of Success from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.261699
From being a fashion director for W Magazine to studying yoga and opening her own studio, to growing pot in Northern California, to making a spontaneous move to the magical, middle of nowhere in Ur...
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Lysa Cooper: Making it Cool to Care from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.257504
Superstar fashion stylist turned apothecary healer, Lysa Cooper, reminds us of the authentic New York of yesteryear, a time when phones were at home and ‘living in the moment’ was the only place to...
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Vivian Bang: The Hero of Her Own Story from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.205061
From her grade-school role of “goth weirdo” among a sea of blond hair and floral dresses to playing a myriad of stereotypical Asian-best-friend parts in Hollywood, Korean-American actress and perfo...
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Claiming Her Queerness at 40: High Maintenance Creator Katja Blichfeld from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.201856
Co-creator, writer and director of HBO’s High Maintenance, Katja Blichfeld shares the agony and ecstasy of what has been a lifetime of coming to terms with her queerness. After going to an Evangeli...
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Neema Githere: Choosing Self-Love Over Yale and The Algorithm from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.198579
Born in Kenya of Maasai and Kikuyu roots, Neema Githere has faced the harsh realities of growing up in racist America and, at 21 is proudly living the life of her choosing. With her crown of Bantu ...
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Becoming Herself by Becoming Others: Comedian Chloe Fineman from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.194148
Relinquishing shame and stepping into her fullest self is what impersonating others did for Chloe Fineman once she discovered comedy. But her journey to this comfort within only came after lots of ...
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We’re Back with What’s Underneath: Black Voices! from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.190020
Hello to our StyleLikeU podcast family ? We’ve deeply missed this format of storytelling and are thrilled to announce that in honor of Black History Month, What’s Underneath is back with the extend...
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BLM Activist Janaya Khan is The Future’s Brightest Light & Wants You to Know You Are Too from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.189088
We are grateful to The Honey Pot Co. for sponsoring this episode and standing by our mission to inspire people to accept the skin they’re in and step into their whole, most powerful selves. Check t...
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How Queer Activist Yves Fought For His Life and is Now Fighting For Yours from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.183190
Often mistaken for an ex-convict or a drug dealer with his body and face covered in tattoos, activist and artist Yves Mathieu East has a list a mile long of all the ways he gives back to a world th...
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How Claire Raymond Lost Mobility and Gained Freedom from 2022-02-21T05:45:40.176155
TW: This video addresses the subject of suicide.
For the first interview of our What’s Underneath Pride Series in partnership with @spring.health, we want to thank Claire Raymond (@living...
We Never Knew We Were Pregnant: How Queer Couple Syd & August Found Purpose In Surprise Parenthood from 2021-06-25T17:17:49
Welcome to our next interview of our What’s Underneath Pride Series, in partnership with Spring Health. Today we sit down with queer couple, model Syd Miller and actor August Black. Trigger Warning...
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Saying No to Broadway's Beauty Standards is What Makes Hamilton's Suni Reid a True Star from 2021-06-10T17:57:34
Welcome to our next interview of our What’s Underneath Pride Series, in partnership with Spring Health. Today we sit down with broadway actor Suni Reid as they tell us all about their journey and w...
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How Amputee Domonique Echeverria Found the Strength to Love Life In a New Body from 2021-05-28T17:48:38
TW: This video addresses the subject of suicide and sexual assault. Listener discretion advised.
Welcome to another episode of 'What’s Underneath’ series in honor of Mental Health Awarene...
Losing Both Breasts to Cancer Won't Stop Angela Trimbur From Dancing Through Life from 2021-05-20T18:08:14
TW: This video addresses the subject of suicide. Viewer discretion advised.
Welcome to another episode of 'What’s Underneath’ featuring Angela Trimbur, part of our Mental Health Awareness ...
Aki Hirata Baker Does Not Think She's Better Than Her Depression from 2021-05-13T17:52:10
TW: This video addresses the subject of suicide. Viewer discretion advised.
Welcome to another episode of 'What’s Underneath’ series in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, featuring Ak...
How Star Athlete Rwenshaun Miller Found the Will to Live by Expressing His Emotions from 2021-05-13T17:40:07
TW: This video addresses the subject of suicide. Viewer discretion advised.
Welcome to the first episode of our ‘What’s Underneath’ series in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, featur...
How Putting The Breaks on Sex & Dating Propelled Dronme Davis Into Loving Herself from 2021-04-29T19:17:53
“My style was this monument to my toxic relationship with the patriarchy and my concept of what women are supposed to look like. When I decided to take a break from dating and sex... It changed my ...
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Reckonings Along His Journey to Stardom: Musician Olu of Earthgang from 2021-04-15T07:47:56
In this week’s episode of ‘What’s Underneath: Black Voices’ featuring Olu Fann of Earthgang, he shares the conflicts of identity on his journey to stardom.
If you agree that facades separa...
Bea Dixon is A Boss Who's Embracing Her Masculinity & Liberating The Vagina from 2021-03-18T23:21:31
From working at Whole Foods, to cleaning homes and training to be a pharmacist, everything that Bea Dixon has done in her life has led her to becoming the badass female entrepreneur that she now is...
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How Richie Reseda Found the Courage to Choose Himself Over Patriarchal Prison Culture from 2021-03-11T16:15:10
Despite growing up in a world that told him to conform to the emotionless, violent behavior and gray, blue and black clothing of traditional masculinity, Richie Reseda’s vibrant style and powerfull...
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How Leon Ford Transformed Being Paralyzed by Police Brutality Into Love and Purpose from 2021-02-18T20:44:28
Trigger Warning: This video and writing contains descriptions of police brutality
Love gave Leon Ford the self-worth to transform and transcend being viciously shot and paralyzed by the po...
The Risk of Revealing Yourself: Dancing To Be Seen with Kate Shela from 2019-08-20T15:14:26
In this week’s episode of our podcast, former Fashion Stylist turned Radical Dance Teacher, Kate Shela, wants to be seen for exactly who she is, no matter the “risk.” She exchanged her career in fa...
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Stacy London: A Midlife Renaissance After What Not to Wear from 2019-05-30T04:05:10
Elisa and Lily sit down with inspirational stylist, fashion consultant, author, magazine editor, and former co-host of What Not To Wear, Stacy London.
Style by fire, Stacy’s trademark “Mor...
Too Cute for Two Genders: Activist and Futurist Janaya Khan from 2019-05-23T04:10:02
Their own hero, Janaya’s all-black uniform can be packed in 7 minutes flat in case they are called to the front lines as an activist and organizer, where they have the responsibility of redirecting...
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Sister Leona: A Shirtless Superhero is Setting Women Free from 2019-04-18T04:05:03
The objectification of women, as represented by the sexualization and thus censorship of their breasts, is such a profound form of systemic oppression that Sister Leona sees no other route to liber...
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From Number One to Freedom: WuTang’s RZA from 2019-04-11T04:05:01
Founder of The Wu Tang Clan, Rapper, Producer, Musician, Actor, Filmmaker, Author, Writer and soon-to-be creator of a TV show about his life, RZA (aka Robert Fitzgerald Diggs) is all grown up. From...
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Eat, dress, connect, and love life: Lebanese Filmmaker Pam Nasr from 2019-03-28T04:05:05
In a world that is quick to judge and fear the other, Lebanese filmmaker Pam Nasr doesn’t want to overlook the many ways we can communicate and seek bonds without words, whether it be through the f...
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Amy Yeung: Having Less Has Given Her More from 2019-03-14T04:05:07
“When is it enough?” Amy Yeung has been asking herself this since becoming a mom 18 years ago. Now 55, Amy feels like she is a “naked baby chasing butterflies…every day is so much fun.” Amy already...
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Kamil Oshundara: You Can’t Unsee Me from 2019-02-28T05:37
23-year-old cultural activist Kamil Oshundara invites you to judge her by her cover. An open book when it comes to expressing herself, Kamil’s body is her altar and she is continually designing it ...
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Betsy Huelskamp: An Everest Climber Negotiating Freedom from 2019-02-21T05:10
Often while riding her Harley Davidson and always driven by her immense love for this planet and the cultures that inhabit it, there is almost no wild and untouched place on this planet to which Be...
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Illma Gore: Losing Everything and Gaining Herself from 2019-01-31T05:00
Ilma gore is an Australian-American artist and activist whose work is such a true expression of who she is that she is willing to be banned from the internet and beaten up for her beliefs when it c...
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Ty Defoe: Two-Spirited and Shapeshifting Gender from 2019-01-24T09:00
Ty Defoe is an Ojibwe and Oneida grammy award-winning performance artist, activist, and writer who identifies as Two-Spirit. In Native American cultures, not only is it acknowledged that gender is ...
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Dana Falsetti: A Yogini Dismantles Fatphobia from 2019-01-17T19:39
Dana Falsetti, speaker, writer, yoga teacher of larger bodies, and body positive insta-warrior visionary on a mission to make the world a more accessible place, talks about how her yoga practice wa...
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Wunmi: From Cinderella to Dancing Queen from 2018-09-27T07:05
Singer, dancer, and fashion designer, Wunmi, short for Ibiwunmi, meaning “a birth loved, a child loved, a life loved”, is a force of nature, but it took her a long time before she felt she could st...
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Naomi Shimada: At Home In Her Body and Hashtag “Herself” from 2018-09-20T12:05
We interviewed Naomi Shimada three years ago for the What’s Underneath Project video series. She inspired us then and continues to inspire us daily on social media with her singular embrace of hers...
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Lola Kirke: Prolific Through Self-Doubt from 2018-09-13T12:05
We are super excited to be with the youngest of the three Kirke Sisters, Lola Kirke. We have already featured both Jemima and Domino on our What’s Underneath video series, and Domino was also with ...
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Chloe Garcia Ponce: Creating Her Own Definition of Motherhood from 2018-08-30T12:05
Curandera (Mexican Healer), Chloe Garcia Ponce, was introduced to darkness at 8 years old when her father passed away. “In order to understand or to speak about light you have to experience darknes...
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iO Tillett Wright: Living & Learning His Self-Evident Truth from 2018-08-23T12:05
We reunite with author and activist, iO Tillett Wright, who we first interviewed about four years ago for our What’s Underneath Project video series. In that interview, he told us about his radical...
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Lorri Davis: Falling and Fighting for the Love of her Life from 2018-08-16T12:05
Last week we spoke with Damien Echols who was incarcerated on death row for more than 18 years for murders that he did not commit. It became crystal clear during that interview that the heroism of ...
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Molly Guy: Finding Inner Sanctuary During Her Darkest Hour from 2018-07-26T08:05
Having graced us with both a Closet and a What's Underneath video, Molly Rosen Guy is no stranger to StyleLikeU so we are honored to be sitting down with her again for a very real talk about death,...
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Riya Hamid: Radically Honest About Mental Health from 2018-07-19T08:05
\*Please note that this content contains sensitive information regarding mental health and topics related to suicide. The extraordinary artist, poet, model and mental health activist, Riya Hamid, o...
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Alex Auder: Highly Uninhibited on High Maintenance from 2018-07-12T08:05
Yoga teacher, actress, activist, and (we think) should-be-comedian, gifts us with her company while offering insight into what it was like growing up in the (in)famous 70s New York Chelsea Hotel, d...
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Jacob Tobia: Way Too Much For Capitol Hill from 2018-06-28T08:05
We were so excited to be back in the same room as Jacob Tobia that we could barely contain our finger snaps. This author, producer, and gender-fabulous gem talked to us about pets, pencil skirts, a...
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Ashton Applewhite: Hitting Her Stride at 65 from 2018-06-21T07:05
One of the most absurd things in the world is that we all dread the one thing we absolutely know is going to happen: we don’t talk about death and as a result, we are all terrified of aging. We hav...
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Jesi Taylor: Re-examining Identity After Vitiligo from 2018-06-13T19:05
The physical effects of vitiligo have been life-rippling for Jesi Taylor, guiding their journey towards self-acceptance. First down a path of bulimia as an attempt to control the initial devastatio...
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Alok Vaid-Menon: The Strength of Feelings from 2018-05-31T07:05
Elisa and Lily are joined by gender non-conforming performance artist, writer, educator, and entertainer Alok Vaid-Menon who explains why the creation of the ‘self-other’ as a binary is fundamental...
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Sylvia Maier: Turning Pain into Beauty from 2018-05-24T07:05
Artist Sylvia Maier gifts us with an intimate portrait of her soul as she takes us on a journey from her childhood, growing up in 70s New York as the only daughter of biracial musician parents, thr...
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DJ Louie XIV: Coming Out Again from 2018-05-17T07:05
DJ Louie XIV, who has spent years mixing music for a hyper-masculine crowd, talks about struggling with the shame and hiding that followed him out of the closet and how that has shaped everything i...
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Elisa Goodkind: Reinventing Failure from 2018-05-10T07:05
In the run-up to Mother’s Day Weekend, the irrepressibly unapologetic Elisa Goodkind switches things up by placing the emphasis on celebrating children and acknowledging her self-perceived failures...
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