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Tub Talks by Secular Sabbath
by Genevieve Medow-Jenkins
Tub Talks is the podcast born out of the global community Secular Sabbath, directly sourced from the founder Genevieve Medow-Jenkins’ childhood at Esalen Institute, where she soaked in the hot springs with different characters from all walks of life and talked as the waves crashed against the rocks below. At first, Tub Talks existed exclusively at our event experiences, but now, Genevieve sits down in her tiny clawfoot outdoor bath with artists, collaborators, thinkers, friends, and family to talk about creativity, personal practices, philosophies on life, and why it’s worth living today. Every guest brings their own idiosyncratic awareness to their industries, navigating the fast-changing landscape of our cultures, and personal practices to maintain wellness. Through these conversations, we have come to know that there is something to learn from everyone, and we are able to access that even more deeply when we strip down together, and relax in the bath. Follow along for new episodes
Episodes
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Tub Talks Featuring Ry X: Musician and Artist
This week we soak with RY X, a multidisciplinary artist who creates from a place of raw vulnerability and reverence. Over the last decade, his music has traversed folk, electronic, orchestral, and ambient worlds—infused always with heart and soul. In the bath, he reflects on the early days in...
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Tub Talks Featuring Jacqueline Suskin: Writer, Poet, Educator
Jacqueline Suskin is a writer, poet and educator now based in Detroit, Michigan. She has released many poetry books, two artistic creation books, and is now teaching young people in Detroit at the intersection of art and nature. Yet the move to Detroit is recent. Only a little bit ago, she was...
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Tub Talks Featuring RHYE (Michael Milosh): Musician
Michael Milosh (RHYE) is a lifelong musician from Toronto, Canada. He learned to play cello at 3 years old, having had a father who dedicated his life to teaching and playing music. RHYE is the musical project of Mike’s that has garnered the most worldwide success, but as I reveal in this bath, I...
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Tub Talks featuring Chantel Jeffries
In this Tub Talks, I get to soak in the unique wisdom of Chantel Jeffries. Chantel is known in the world for seemingly disparate things: being a DJ, investor, entrepreneur, and social media creator. She is simultaneously a mystery. However, this bathtub conversation is a treasure chest of…
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Tub Talks Featuring Raquelle Stevens: Bestselling Author, Film Producer, and Educator
At 18 years old, Raquelle Stevens came to Los Angeles on a whim. Her family was moving from Chicago, and she felt called to take the risk alongside them, understanding that what is beyond our comfort zone is often what is good for us. Raquelle’s story is one of following the signs. It begins with…
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Tub Talks Featuring Illangelo: Music Producer, Carlo Montagnese
Carlo Montagnese, known in the music industry as Illangelo, has been exploring his musical landscape since childhood. He is best known for his work with the Weeknd in creating The Trilogy, and songs like “The Hills” which has accrued billions of streams. Hitting major mainstream professional...
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Tub Talks featuring Orville Peck: Country Music Artist
Today we're diving into the remarkable journey of Orville Peck, who is best known as a one-of-a-kind country artist who's been captivating hearts with his soulful music and creative, inclusive spirit. Our story with Orville begins with an unexpected connection that occurred during the heart of…
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Tub Talks featuring Pablo Piekar: Esalen Massage Therapist + Executive Coach
In this podcast episode, Pablo and I dive into his history with Esalen Institute and beyond. Pablo Piekar came to Esalen Institute in the late 1980’s for what was supposed-to-be a Gestalt workscholar month. He ended up staying there for 16 years, working as a Esalen Massage Therapist and workshop...
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Tub Talks featuring Nitsa Citrine: Creative + Alchemist
For our season finale of Tub Talks, we soak with my first friend ever in life, Nitsa Citrine. Nitsa and I became friends upon her birth, 9 days after mine. Our parents all met at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and created us there, with her mother famously even sharing her breast milk with me from...
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Tub Talks featuring Emily Birmingham: Big Sur local with Nepenthe lineage
Soaking in an indoor bath on the cliffs of Big Sur with Emily Birmingham brings me into deep nostalgia and remembrance of the history of our home. Emily’s family has been calling Big Sur home for the past 4 generations, starting with her great grandparents migrating to Northern California before...
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Tub Talks featuring Aska Matsumiya: Musician + Film Composer
This week we sit in a hot tub for the first time with musical composer and artist, Aska Matsumiya. Aska is at the end of her third trimester of pregnancy as we bathe. Her belly is full and ripe, and the baby is ready to come out any day. Aska shares her experience on approaching early motherhood...
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Tub Talks featuring Austin Bisnow: Lead Singer of Magic Giant
This week we soak with musician and newly inspired home ‘landscaper,’ Austin Bisnow. Austin and I have connected over taking walks with our dogs in the mountains. Today we spend time in the bath, where he shares his path to creating his band, Magic Giant and the magical story of meeting his life...
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Tub Talks featuring Elena Stonaker: Multidisciplinary Artist
This week we soak in the tub with Elena Stonaker, a long-time collaborator and multi-disciplinary artist whose artwork you may recognize from many of our Secular Sabbath environments, such as our giant green snake and larger-than-life mushrooms. Elena is a full-time ethereal artist, living in her...
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Tub Talks featuring Vicki Topp: Esalen Legend + Bodywork Practitioner
This week on Tub Talks, we soak in with one of my Esalen and Big Sur elders, Vicki Topp. Vicki has practiced bodywork for many decades alongside our first Tub Talks guest, Deborah Anne Medow. Vicki shares her journey of landing in Big Sur, as well as her immersion into the world of bodywork...
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Tub Talks featuring Lindsey Ross: Tin-Type Photographer
This week we soak in the bath with Lindsey Ross, the modern-day woman behind the lens of the 19th-century wet plate photography: The Alchemistress. Over the last few years, you may have encountered her unique style of photography at a few of our events where she is typically covered in her…
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Tub Talks featuring Mars: Folk Herbalist + Cacao Practitioner
This week, we sit in the tub with Mars: Secular Sabbath collaborator, folk herbalist and earth lover. Mars inspires us by outlining the path she went through on her journey in coming back to herself and her culture through herbal healing. As she went on to help others heal themselves through her...
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Tub Talks featuring George Augusto: co-founder of STAUD
This week we sit in the tub with George Augusto, co-founder of fashion brand: STAUD, and Los Angeles restaurant and cafe: Kitchen Mouse. He met his two co-founders in the midst of a multitude of other ventures. Ventures that eventually failed, and whose failure led him to where he is today.…
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Tub Talks featuring Sam Borkson: Friends With You artist
This week we soak in the bath with our close friend and co-founder of FriendsWithYou, Sam Borkson. He started the art project FriendsWithYou with Tury many years ago, in order to help people open their creative channels. He shares about how they use elements of fine art to bring cuteness and a...
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Best of Tub Talks: Episodes 1-11
This week on Tub Talks we revisit some of the most insightful conversations that we’ve had in the baths. Listen to our best moments with our first 11 guests as we look back on our favorite talks with Mia Moretti, Sophie Hawley-Weld, Austyn Weiner, B. Hayes, Loria Stern, Scout LaRue Willis…
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Tub Talks featuring Mia Moretti: DJ + Poet
This week we are joined under the oak tree for a soak with DJ and artist, Mia Moretti. A Bay Area native, Mia grew up in an alternative household in Northern California where creativity flowed. Her childhood was colored by her parents’ culture of freedom and exploration, encouraging Mia to follow...
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Tub Talks featuring Sophie Hawley-Weld: Musician of Sofitukker
This week we warm up in the tubs with our new friend Sophie Hawley-Weld. One-half of energetic and colorful duo Sofi Tukker, she’s a creative mind who interweaves culture, identity, and fun into her musical journey. On today’s episode, we dive in deep about our connection to community, mental...
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Tub Talks featuring Austyn Weiner: Artist + Painter
This week we cozy up in the bath with Austyn Weiner, who we finally had the pleasure of hosting at her first Secular Sabbath earlier this summer. Austyn found herself fully immersed in our sensory soundscape on Shabbat. Now, she’s back for a more intimate conversation where we get to know her: a...
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Tub Talks featuring Hayes Bradley: Musician
This week we squeeze into the bath with Hayes Bradley, known musically as B. Hayes, to discuss his new ambient record “1-9”, his journey into his musical career, and the intimate moments in between it all. Growing up in the Palisades in Los Angeles with his mother and three brothers, music has...
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Tub Talks featuring Loria Stern: Baker + Entrepreneur + Food Artist
This week on the Tub Talks podcast, the innovative chef/baker Loria Stern joins us in a thoughtful soak. Synthesizing her talents in the world of aesthetics, culinary arts, and nature, Loria explains her journey into forging her own career path over the last eight years. We get into the nuances…
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Tub Talks featuring Scout LaRue Willis: Musician
This week on the Tub Talks podcast, I soak within the creativity of artist Scout LaRue Willis. Scout just released her first musical album and went on her first tour. Growing into ourselves is at the heart of our conversation, an art that many spend decades trying to decode. Scout has found that...
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Tub Talks featuring Krotchy: Animation Artist + Model + Creative
On Tub Talks this week, I converse with Sarah aka Krotchy aka Yonk: our multi-named, multifaceted creative friend who, in her words, makes art for ‘out-there’ kids that want to be inspired. Her mediums branch out from animation filmmaking to music, modeling, and acting. Growing up as a...
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Tub Talks featuring Mia Maestro: Actress + Producer + Tea Aficionado
This week on the Tub Talks podcast, we take to the baths with Mia Maestro, who hosts many of the tea ceremonies held over the years at Secular Sabbath in between her full-time acting career. While she has always been a lover of tea, her journey really started over a decade ago when she was...
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Tub Talks featuring Kassia Meador: Surfer + Sound Healer + Polarity Therapist
This week on the Tub Talks podcast, I steep in the bath with Kassia Meador: professional surfer, sound healer, wisdom-seeker, and one of our very first ambient collaborators at Secular Sabbath. We learn about surfing and the cultures around it, riding waves: musically and in the ocean, and…
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Tub Talks featuring Niia Rocco: Musician
This week on Tub Talks podcast we’re talking with Niia Rocco, a multi-faceted singer-songwriter full of artistry, humor, wisdom and a god-given voice. She became a close friend of Secular Sabbath after recording with us for a livestream during the early days of the pandemic. Since then, we have...
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Tub Talks featuring Deborah Medow: Esalen Legend + Massage Therapist
Ever wonder what it was like to spend nearly fifty years living, working, and raising a family at Esalen Institute? This week for our inaugural Tub Talks podcast we’re talking with Deborah Medow the mother of Genevieve Medow-Jenkins, the founder of Secular Sabbath a member-based community calling...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Tub Talks is the podcast born out of the global community Secular Sabbath, directly sourced from the founder Genevieve Medow-Jenkins’ childhood at Esalen Institute, where she soaked in the hot springs with different characters from all walks of life and talked as the waves crashed against the rocks below. At first, Tub Talks existed exclusively at our event experiences, but now, Genevieve sits down in her tiny clawfoot outdoor bath with artists, collaborators, thinkers, friends, and family to talk about creativity, personal practices, philosophies on life, and why it’s worth living today. Every guest brings their own idiosyncratic awareness to their industries, navigating the fast-changing landscape of our cultures, and personal practices to maintain wellness. Through these conversations, we have come to know that there is something to learn from everyone, and we are able to access that even more deeply when we strip down together, and relax in the bath. Follow along for new episodes
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Genevieve Medow-Jenkins
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Tub Talks is the podcast born out of the global community Secular Sabbath, directly sourced from the founder Genevieve Medow-Jenkins’ childhood at Esalen Institute, where she soaked in the hot springs with different characters from all walks of life and talked as the waves crashed against the rocks...
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