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STARGIRL
by Emma Glenn Baker
STARGIRL is a mythology I created to make sense of things. It’s a show about girls who stand out, but it’s also a way to understand the world through patterns, both externally (by examining the type of women who reign over public life), and internally (by exploring how we deploy our own forces of projection). It’s a call to get into your body and follow your intuition—to explore your admiration and judgment of the Stargirls, and let that be a guiding light.Subscribe to the STARGIRL Patreon to unlock exclusive content: https://patreon.com/STARGIRLpodBy @emmaglennbaker
Episodes
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Ep. 100: STARGIRL Forever
Hi everyone! Welcome to the 100th and final episode of STARGIRL podcast ~ *First thing’s first: STARGIRL Merch is here!! Pre-order here; all orders ship late Summer 2026.* In this episode, I talk about my decision to end STARGIRL and what’s next for me. I also share dozens of “Stargirl...
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Ep. 99: Reese Witherspoon with Soraya Beheshti
This week I’m joined by my friend and collaborator Soraya Beheshti to discuss the queen, Reese Witherspoon! We analyze Reese as an emblem of Blonde Ambition done correctly: the inverse of the Taylor Swift “White Girl Ceiling” phenomenon wherein you actually can have it all and emerge as likeable....
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Ep. 98: The Body Series with Kat Sours
Announcement: The Body Mechanics Workshop with Kat and Emma! Details: *Saturday May 16, 2026, 3-5pm at SoHo Pilates *A hands-on workshop breaking down the Pilates principles (respiration, spine and pelvic stability, etc.) and applying them to functional movement (squat, deadlift, lunge, etc.)....
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Ep. 97: Drake w/ Madeleine Kunkle [April Fool's Day Special]
*Full episode (with musical cues) on Patreon* Announcement: Final spots remain for the STARGIRL x Health Gossip retreat on April 18. Tickets here! Happy April Fool’s Day! In this special episode, Maddy and I reflect on the prototypical Stargirl: October’s Very Own, Drizzy Drake! <3 <3 <3 We…
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Ep. 96: Stevie Nicks w/ Stephanie Castaneda Perez
Announcements Reserve your spot at the STARGIRL x Health Gossip Retreat! (More info here) STARGIRL finally has social media! Follow along: Instagram and TikTok Emma is accepting new personal training clients for an April or May 2026 start date. Book your free consult call here to learn more! Show...
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Announcement: STARGIRL x Health Gossip Retreat
Lily Sperry and I are announcing the STARGIRL x Health Gossip Retreat, a one-day, intimate gathering in NYC, in partnership with MERIT Beauty. The event has been months in the making, and we can't wait to bring the worlds of STARGIRL and Health Gossip together in one place. Featuring: yoga,...
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Ep. 95: Courtney Love w/ Ella Simone
Subscribe to the STARGIRL Patreon ~ Follow STARGIRL on IG | TikTok ~ Follow Emma on IG | Substack Just a few short days before the Hole *not-revival announcement, OG STARGIRL listener Ella and I met up to examine the so-called Queen of Grunge, Ms. Courtney Love. We trace the origins of the grunge...
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Ep. 94: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy w/ Amanda Fortini
[Subscribe to the STARGIRL Patreon ~ Follow STARGIRL on IG | TikTok ~ Follow Emma on IG | Substack] This week we are joined by the inimitable Amanda Fortini to discuss the American myth, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Amid this winter’s shitstorm of CBK discourse, Amanda brings us underneath the hood…
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Ep. 93: Eva Chen w/ Ashleigh Carter
This week we ride the spirit of New York Fashion Week to discuss Eva Chen, whose career emblematizes the changing nature of fashion media in the past decade: from Condé Nast darling to Instagram mega-poster to VP of Fashion at Meta. Along with our guest Ashleigh Carter, we discuss Eva’s...
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Ep. 92: The Body Series w/ Parisa Kosari | Client Testimonial
Welcome back to the next installment of my Client Testimonial series, where we hear from my 1:1 personal training clients about their experience working with me, and how they've transformed their body/mind/soul via strength training. In this episode, we discuss Parisa's longing for a competitive...
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Ep. 91: Ethel Cain [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* This week we reflect on the recent significance of the musician Ethel Cain: as the leading musical animator of rural Southern Christian life, a Dark Prophet to rally around, and an idiosyncratic emblem of so many conversations that marked the past few years. We also...
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Ep. 90: Year of the Horse [teaser]
Hello from the final weeks of the Wood Snake year ;) …. This week, we pick up where we left off with “Metal Season," to dissect the ever-accelerating Chinese-ness of internet culture these days. We talk more TCM (seasonality, womb health, qigong morning routines, etc.), the newly mainstreamed...
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Ep. 89: The Body Series w/ Laura Gunder
This week we’re joined by Laura Gunder, a classical Pilates teacher, ex-professional ballet dancer, and the creator of The Emergence Podcast. Laura shares her story: her career as a ballerina, the identity transformation upon leaving the ballet world, and how she found a new relationship with her...
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Ep. 88: Anne Hathaway w/ Vanessa Lily Chung
This week we’re joined by the writer Vanessa Lily Chung to (finally!!) tackle Anne Hathaway, an unassailable Stargirl whose Dream / Threat has always been totally vague but universally felt. We explore our own girlhood memories young Anne (Princess Diaries, Ella Enchanted, The Devil Wears Prada)...
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Ep. 87: The Body Series w/ Andrea | Client Testimonial
Happy New Year everyone! We’re back with the next episode of The Body Series, a client testimonial with my dream personal training client Miss Andrea! She shares her experience turning to strength training after a decade of the group fitness churn, the long-term, sustainable way she’s approaching...
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Ep. 86: Metal Season [teaser]
This week, I share my observations on the dominant cultural patterns of Fall 2025, most of which can be traced back to the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) craze sweeping through New York and hot girl Internet circles (think: breakfast soup, seasonality, heightened Lunar awareness, lymph and...
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Ep. 85: The Body Series w/ Dr. Aumatma
This week we’re joined by Dr. Aumatma Simmons, a naturopathic doctor and double board-certified endocrinologist, and the founder of the Holistic Fertility Institute and Madre Fertility. Dr. Aumatma shares her journey from conventional to naturopathic medicine, research that complicates the...
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Ep. 84: The Body Series w/ Lily Sperry
Lily Sperry is a writer and brand consultant. She runs the newsletter Health Gossip. In this magical episode, we discuss the origins of her project, the larger esoteric fairy-girl moment we’re living through, and why creation is the ultimate antidote to ennui. Plus, Lily shares her definition of...
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Ep. 83: October Letter: Meaning-Making from the Inside Out [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* Checking in after a busy fall season... in this month's letter, I reflect on the current biggest sources of meaning in my life (work, creative partnership, my marriage, dance, and spirituality), voice my desire to be a formal student again, get nostalgic for the first…
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Ep. 82: Jane Birkin w/ Marisa Meltzer
This week we welcome the writer Marisa Meltzer back to STARGIRL to discuss her new book It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin (out this week!). We discuss the myth of Jane Birkin and Marisa’s project to animate her beyond a 2D moodboard figure, and use Jane as a vessel to revisit classic...
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Ep. 81: Ty Haney [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* Occasioned by her recent return to Outdoor Voices, this week we go long on Ty Haney. We examine Ty’s original mission to separate exercise from performance (and how that was internalized as a “demand” to “play”), revisit the tired, left-of-basic criticism that fitness is...
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Ep. 80: The Body Series w/ Lauren Gerrie
Welcome Lauren Gerrie, a true downtown icon and "The Body Series" embodied ;) Lauren is the co-founder of MOVES dance class, a culinary artist (and formerly Marc Jacobs’ personal chef), a figure model, and so much more. Today she shares her wisdom: how dance helps us to re-inhabit sensuality and...
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Ep. 79: Victoria Paris
The scroll always stops for Miss Victoria Paris! In this Feel Good episode, we explore Victoria Paris’ explosion onto the cultural consciousness and how she became the playbook of how to blow up on TikTok. We reminisce about her early content (inventive workout GRWMs, death by Stairmaster, Suede...
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Ep. 78: August Letter: On GroovyGirl Metaphysics, the Politicization of Fitness, and the Mythos of the Modern Conservative Woman [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* Happy end of Summer! In this month’s letter, I offer my observations on the only cultural conversations that have captured my attention in 2025: New New Spirituality & Overall Metaphysical Vibes: Astrology’s mounting cultural importance, the craze around this year’s 8/8...
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Ep. 77: The Body Series w/ Kaila Yu
This week we’re joined by Kaila Yu, author of the new book Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty. Kaila tells her story: from growing up in Southern California idolizing pinup models to working in the import car scene to appearing in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift...
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Ep 76: The Body Series w/ Meghan | Client Testimonial
Welcome to the first installment of my newest episode type, Client Testimonials, where you hear directly from my incredible personal training clients about their experience working with me as a coach. This week we hear from Miss Meghan, a true dream client based in Austin, TX. Meghan shares her...
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Ep 75: Margaret Qualley with Holly Friend
This week we tackle ingénue Margaret Qualley with the help of my friend and the writer/trend forecaster Holly Friend. We analyze Margaret’s recent re-introduction as an explicit sex object (The Substance, her Bond Girl potential, etc.), and the many intertwined celebrity dramas that make up her...
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Ep 74: June Transits 🪐 Concrete Steps to Strengthen Your Sense of Self
*Full episode on Patreon! Join the STARGIRL Patreon for access to exclusive content <3 * I often get asked how to "increase" or "find" your inner Stargirl. I don't think that's something you can engineer (we feel it when it's over-produced), but I do think there are concrete ways you can…
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Ep 73: Addison Rae II
Happy Addison Week! In this special episode we return to the original Stargirl Miss Addison Rae to review her debut album Addison, out last week. We talk audiovisual worldbuilding, heavy-handed references, her first real live performances, plus the attendant media rollout, Internet hysteria, and...
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Ep 72: The Body Series with Lauren Kanski
Lauren Kanski is the founding coach on Ladder, a strength training app that offers progressive overload training in a variety of modalities. In the five years I’ve followed her on Instagram, Lauren has had a tremendous and direct influence on my life: from getting me curious about the kettlebell…
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Ep 71: Lena Dunham II w/ Girls Rewatch Podcast
This week we’re joined by internet sensations Amelia and Evan of Girls Rewatch podcast to discuss Lena Dunham, two years after we first knighted her as an original Stargirl. We discuss Lena’s work and life post-Girls (Sharp Stick, her new show Too Much, and her marriage, chronic illness, and...
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Ep 70: Edna St. Vincent Millay w/ Kate Bolick
This week we travel back in time 100 years (!) to meet Edna St. Vincent Millay, girl poet and emblem of 1920s Greenwich Village bohemia. We are joined by the writer (and my former professor) Kate Bolick, who wrote extensively about Millay in her 2015 book Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own. We...
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Ep 69: Itsblitzzz [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* Follow STARGIRL on Instagram and TikTok for more! This week we go long on the evolution of Julia, the woman behind the cult YouTube channel Itsblitzzz. We reflect on the many lives she’s lived in her 15+ years online: DIY T-shirt reconstruction guru, yatted...
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Ep 68: The Body Series w/ Sasha Hanway
Welcome back to the next episode of The Body Series, where we go deep on all the best STARGIRL themes: embodiment, warring conceptions of “health” and “fitness,” and what a “mind-body connection” looks like in practice. Today we’re blessed by Sasha Hanway, a coach on the Ladder app and a…
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Ep 67: Catherine Breillat
This week we delve into the relentless and perverted mind of Catherine Breillat, the French filmmaker and novelist who has disturbed audiences for 50 years. Broadly consideredcinéma du corps,Catherine’s movies explore the grotesqueness of sex and the body, depraved sexual longing, petulant,...
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Ep 66: Lily-Rose Depp
This week we go back to basics and investigate what one of the world’s hottest young women has to teach us about our own self hate (!). We revisit the classic STARGIRL paradigm of Ripe vs. Dead and examine the latent Threat of Dead beauty, and traverse Lily-Rose’s metaphorical potential as a...
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Ep 65: Kelela [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* Follow STARGIRL on Instagram and TikTok for more! Today we travel back in time to the early 2010s and delve into the moody, mysterious soundscape of Kelela, the singer and dance music producer who soundtracked my early twenties. We explore her evolution from...
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Ep 64: The Body Series: My Fitness Journey
Happy New Year! In this episode of The Body Series, I share my entire fitness journey: Growing up as a ballerina to college weight gain, inactivity, and depression, finding weightlifting and getting my sh*t together, getting injured, experimenting with different styles of training, and eventually...
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Ep 63: Julie Andrews | Christmas Special
Happy Holidays! In this Christmas Special, we enter the timeless, charmed world of Dame Julie Andrews and my favorite movie of all time, The Sound of Music. We explore how Rodgers & Hammerstein evolved and elevated the musical as a form, the grand folk ideal of Maria von Trapp (vs. the...
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Ep 62: Addison Rae Part II | 2024 Year in Review [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* Follow STARGIRL on Instagram and TikTok for more! To celebrate the end of a wild year, we’ve got a special, 2-in-1 episode for y’all: First, Addison Rae Part II: A return to the crux of the STARGIRL project. I delve deep into my ever-evolving, sort of twisted...
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Episode 61: Scarlett Johansson with Biz Sherbert
This week we welcome Miss Biz Sherbert and traverse the personal and cultural impact of Scarlett Johansson, perhaps the greatest sex symbol of the 21st century. We discuss the allure of pre-cultural fragmentation Hollywood, the coveted spot of Box Office Megastar X Indie Darling, and how the...
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Ep 60: Martha Stewart
Happy Thanksgiving! This week we investigate the Queen of Home Arts, Martha Stewart herself. We get inside the late ‘80s suburban decadence of Martha Stewart Living, and examine the Dream / Threat of Northeastern WASP-y frigidity. We also situate Martha in a lineage of STARGIRL domestic goddesses...
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Ep 59: The Body Series with Molly
Announcements: Emma is officially taking on more personal training clients, both in person and virtual! Book a free consult call to learn more here. Listen to Emma as a guest on Nymphet Alumni! A true career high. The next STARGIRL virtual event will be Sunday, December 8 at 4pm New York time....
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Ep 58: Nicki Minaj w/ Enzo Escober
Am I a Nicki fan? This week I’m joined by my friend Enzo Escober for a proper nostalgia trip. We reminisce about the ways that Nicki’s unprecedented, cartoonish female aggression served as real catharsis during our hormonal teenage years, and why her mode of pure id is so endlessly appealing. We...
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Ep 57: October Letter: Fitness Reigns with Zendaya, Livvy Dunne, Sydney Sweeney [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* In this month's letter, we look at a handful of digital assets that have caught my attention this week (and affirm the STARGIRL worldview): Zendaya for On Running, Livvy Dunne's first arty editorial, and our first BTS look at Sydney Sweeney beefed up as a boxer. I also...
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Ep 56: The Body Series w/ Kristen Lynch
This week, I chat with Kristen Lynch, a business and mindset coach (and my former yoga teacher!) who helped me take STARGIRL to the next level. Through mindset and marketing support, Kristen helps her clients turn their “passion project” into a real deal business — we discuss the importance of...
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Ep 55: Marianne Williamson
To those who make contact. . . This week we tackle the original New Age spiritual guru, our beloved Marianne Williamson. We delve into her decades-long search for Maximum Aliveness, and discuss the principles that have most profoundly affected me in her work: personal responsibility, surrender,...
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Ep 54: September Letter: On Patriotism [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* Felt called to share how I’m thinking about the election and, more existentially, about the value of “patriotism” and how I show up in my tiny corner of the Garden. Discussed: On Patriotism, Reverend Orville Dewey (1859) RFK, Jr. addresses the nation (2024) Interview…
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Ep 53: The Body Series w/ Dr. Julia Morgan [teaser]
*Full episode on Patreon* *Announcement* Sign-ups are live for STARGIRL in-person events in September! STARGIRL Yoga 2.0 Sunday, September 8 at 10am in Fort Greene. Meetup + 60-minute, all-levels, by-donation yoga class. Reserve your spot here! 2. Intro to Strength Training Series Every Tuesday…
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Ep 52: Livvy Dunne
*Announcement* Sign-ups are live for STARGIRL in-person events in September! STARGIRL Yoga 2.0 Sunday, September 8 at 10am in Fort Greene. Meetup + 60-minute, all-levels, by-donation yoga class. Reserve your spot here 2.Intro to Strength Training Series Every Tuesday in September, 6-7pm at RS...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
STARGIRL is a mythology I created to make sense of things. It’s a show about girls who stand out, but it’s also a way to understand the world through patterns, both externally (by examining the type of women who reign over public life), and internally (by exploring how we deploy our own forces of projection). It’s a call to get into your body and follow your intuition—to explore your admiration and judgment of the Stargirls, and let that be a guiding light.Subscribe to the STARGIRL Patreon to unlock exclusive content: https://patreon.com/STARGIRLpodBy @emmaglennbaker
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