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Tierney Talks

Tierney Finster

35 episodes

6 months ago

Send us a text Live from L.A. Stories, a reading and fire relief fundraiser I presented at Murmurs Gallery on April 27th, 2025. Ticket sales benefited Altadena Girls. Featured readers included Wendy C. Ortiz, Anna Dorn, Jasmine Johnson, Alicia Novella Vasquez, Heather Jewett, Tasbeeh Herwees, Taleen Kali, Clement Goldberg, and Marcel Alcalá (you won't hear Alicia included here though–you'll have to wait for her publication for that!). I read something too! Thank you to Gabby Datau and Morgan ...

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Send us a text Live from L.A. Stories, a reading and fire relief fundraiser I presented at Murmurs Gallery on April 27th, 2025. Ticket sales benefited Altadena Girls. Featured readers included Wendy C. Ortiz, Anna Dorn, Jasmine Johnson, Alicia Novella Vasquez, Heather Jewett, Tasbeeh Herwees, Taleen Kali, Clement Goldberg, and Marcel Alcalá (you won't hear Alicia included here though–you'll have to wait for her publication for that!). I read something too! Thank you to Gabby Datau and Morgan ...

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Personal Journals

Society & Culture,

Fashion & Beauty

Episodes (20/35)

Tierney Talks

Live From L.A. Stories @ Murmurs

Send us a text Live from L.A. Stories, a reading and fire relief fundraiser I presented at Murmurs Gallery on April 27th, 2025. Ticket sales benefited Altadena Girls. Featured readers included Wendy C. Ortiz, Anna Dorn, Jasmine Johnson, Alicia Novella Vasquez, Heather Jewett, Tasbeeh Herwees, Taleen Kali, Clement Goldberg, and Marcel Alcalá (you won't hear Alicia included here though–you'll have to wait for her publication for that!). I read something too! Thank you to Gabby Datau and Morgan ...

6 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes

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ÁMEZING Skin w/ANDREA ÁMEZ

Send us a textWelcome back Andrea Ámez! Andrea reflects on her ten years in the beauty industry and talks about relaunching her Anti Pollutant Masque with Aliangé. She walks us through what you can expect from a facial at her West Hollywood studio and identifies what she considers the most special part of her treatments. We discuss tons of products, product formulators, tips, and techniques. We also answer a couple of listener questions. Finally, Andrea shares four non-negotiables everyone sh...

10 months ago

1 hour 37 minutes

Tierney Talks

MAKEUP ARTISTRY w/ Loftjet

Send us a textMakeup artist & photographer LOFTJET joins me to discuss GLAM. He tells me about storytelling through makeup, honing your unique perspective, & having faith that your time will come! We talk about the pleasure of getting lost in routines and rituals (and why no makeup makeup is still a million steps...'cuz it's meditative, duh!). He also discusses disrupting the politics of âgood tasteâ and embracing Salvadoran glamour. Listen to hear what it was like to do makeup on...

1 year ago

1 hour 20 minutes

Tierney Talks

FAT HOT LONGING w/ Emma Specter

Send us a textEmma Specter just published their book More Please: Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"! "More Please" is a beautifully reported journalistic memoir that interrogates and reframes Emma's own relationship with their body. They're also the culture writer at Vogue, where they write about film, TV, books, podcasts, news, body politics, and queer artists and issues. From abortion access in California, Dakota Johnson's performance in "Am I OK?", and being fat...

1 year ago

1 hour 22 minutes

Tierney Talks

Perfume Party w/ NOSE CANDY POD

Send us a textMy favorite heavily-perfumed party girls are in the studio discussing niche fragrances! Welcome Chloe Coover and Maddie Phinney! The noses behind the one and only Nose Candy podcast! This episode is like smoking weed, getting an iced coffee, and going perfume shopping at the mall. Only with two passionate experts at hand!Chloe and Maddie share their approaches to collecting scents. They discuss their fan-favorite friendship. And they recommend tons of fragrances!Nose Candy ...

1 year ago

1 hour 29 minutes

Tierney Talks

The World's First Vanderpump Rules Historian w/ Lara Marie Schoenhals

Send us a textWelcome Lara Marie Schoenhals! Lara is a legendary podcaster, best-selling writer, and gorgeous funny girl. She created the worldâs first Vanderpump Rules podcast and offers an unrivaled anthropological analysis of the cast. But first we delve into our friendship! From its sweetly erotic origins on a West Hollywood rooftop to our era working together at a media startup in Venice, we giggle our way through memories of pranks, parties, puking, and piercings. If you love listenin...

1 year ago

1 hour 17 minutes

Tierney Talks

Everyday Epiphanies w/ Katrina Kemp

Send us a textWelcome back Katrina Kemp! Katrina is an actor, producer, activist, DJ, and intuitive from LA. Katrina not only shares her own coming-of-age story as a person with pseudoachondroplasia but also speaks to the relatively new project of people with Dwarfism collecting their own history, free from the gaze of average-height people. She explains how people with dwarfism were enslaved for centuries and how being forced to labor as circus performers still inform how theyâre...

2 years ago

1 hour 43 minutes

Tierney Talks

Researching Real Housewives w/ Haewon Asfaw and Ale Lemus

Send us a textHaewon Asfaw and Ale Lemus are friends, abolitionists, and pop culture enthusiasts. In this episode, they explain how practicing abolition together informs the way they watch their favorite Bravo shows together, especially The Real Housewives. Whether youâve watched every episode of every franchise or have never seen the show, our conversation is for you. Listen to hear Haewon and Ale use real relationships from The Real Housewives to articulate ideas about conflict, puni...

3 years ago

1 hour 26 minutes

Tierney Talks

"Nobody Ever Told Me Anything" w/ Rachael "Steak" Finley

Send us a textRachael Finley is the author of the new book âNobody Ever Told Me Anything,â a memoir and survival guide detailing her highly isolated childhood in South Florida and unique coming-of-age experience online. She tells me about exploring the duality of women through writing about her mother, surviving her 11-year-old year squatting alone in a vacation rental while her mom sought out mental health treatment, and broadening her horizons by hanging out at the mall. At th...

3 years ago

59 minutes

Tierney Talks

HAPPY PRIDE with Michelle Badillo

Send us a textHi! Michelle Badillo is back. Watch her as Winnie, the sardonic astrologist in the latest season of "Search Party," streaming now on HBO Max. Michelle has also written for beloved shows including "One Day at a Time," "The Bold Time," "The Great North" and more. Watch her new project, "A League of Their Own," this August. We talk about our relationship and individual writing practices. Lots of chit-chat and tabloid musings. I drink a Coca-Cola and say Lacan when I mean...

3 years ago

1 hour 27 minutes

Tierney Talks

Hi, it's me! Only me!

Send us a textI'm back from a prolonged hiatus with my very first solo ep! What a risk! Tell me how it goes! I talk about losing a friend, traveling for the first time since the pandemic began, turning 30, getting engaged, and more. I also discuss my love of Lindsay Lohan and Anthony Kiedis, the shameless way I engage with Bravolebrities, and my year of only reading memoirs. Please subscribe to the show wherever you're listening. New interviews coming soon! Follow me on IG @TSTAR7 a...

3 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Tierney Talks

"Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles" w/ Beth Pickens

Send us a textWelcome back Beth Pickens! My favorite art consultant, art counselor & lesbian-feminist money coach (she's a Capricorn too!) We celebrate her new book âMake Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdlesâ and discuss some of its core topics â money, time, fear, grief, isolation, education, and asking for what you want. Listen for a chance to win your own copy! Beth shares tons of tips to enhance your experience of both your art and your life. Invest...

4 years ago

1 hour 42 minutes

Tierney Talks

Taking Care w/ ANDREA ÁMEZ

Send us a textHolistic esthetician ANDREA ÃMEZ returns to the show for the first time since launching the ÃMEZ Marketplace and developing her ANTI-POLLUTANT MASQUE w/ ALIANGÃ. We discuss building an independent skincare brand during the peak of the celebrity skincare boom, hand-picking products for her own retail platform and formulating her first masque with protective and reparative properties. We pour ourselves into the topic of perfume and luxuriate in memories of the defining scents o...

4 years ago

2 hours 30 minutes

Tierney Talks

Writing, TV & Fast Food w/ Alissa Nutting

Send us a textAlissa Nutting talks about adapting her novel "Made For Love" into a TV series and reflects on writing her singular first novel "Tampa" almost nine years after its release. She tells me about creating a character that engages with being loathsome and going over the top to make your point. We discuss eating breakfast at McDonald's and eulogize the Mexican Pizza at Taco Bell. Toward the end, I endorse a new drugstore lip product, share the perfect spring coffee order, gush about t...

4 years ago

1 hour 40 minutes

Tierney Talks

Britney Spears & #FreeBritney w/ Niko, Saturn & Katrina

Send us a textNiko Karamyan (@nikotheikon), Saturn (@saturnrisin9) and Katrina Kemp (@kueenkatrina) join us after watching "Framing Britney," the new New York Times documentary about Britney Spears. Saturn decodes Britney's ability to use performance as protest, Katrina recounts spending time with Britney and paparazzi in the Valley as a high-school stan and Niko raises questions about the role of the rose imagery in Britney's quest for autonomy. We discuss our emotional responses to the doc,...

4 years ago

2 hours 14 minutes

Tierney Talks

Saturn Return & Synastry w/ Astrologer Erin Taj

Send us a textErin Taj joins us to share astrological knowledge juicy enough for beginners and devotees alike. Taj breaks down fixed, mutable and cardinal signals, explains astrology as geometry and defines what houses mean in the context of your natal chart. She teaches what having planets âconjunctâ and âsquareâ one another means, expands on popular misconceptions of rising signs and discusses favorite parts of her own astrological makeup. Saturn Return, synastry and generational fo...

4 years ago

2 hours 20 minutes

Tierney Talks

Jane Ward – "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality"

Send us a textJane Ward is a feminist scholar and author of the books âNot Gay: Sex Between Straight White Menâ and âRespectably Queer.â She teaches gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, specializing in feminist, queer and heterosexuality studies and creating âscholarship for the feminist revolution.â Jane joins Tierney to discuss her new book âThe Tragedy of Heterosexuality,â a âlesbian feminist diagnosisâ of heterosexuality that exposes the realities of heterosex...

5 years ago

1 hour 17 minutes

Tierney Talks

Erin Christovale, Asuka Hisa, Suzanne Isken, Sarah Williams, Morgan Elder, Allison Littrell, Vanessa Zenedjas, Rudeness, Tatiana Vahan, Abby Kavanaugh, Katrina Carl, Laura Mart, Katherine Ross, Angelique Soave & Klaus Biesenbach

Send us a textTodayâs guests are Erin Christovale, Asuka Hisa, Suzanne Isken, Sarah Williams, Morgan Elder, Allison Littrell, Vanessa Zenedjas, Rudeness, Tatiana Vahan, Abby Kavanaugh, Katrina Carl, Laura Mart, Katherine Ross, Angelique Soave & Klaus Biesenbach. Tierney Talks hosted the first TELETHON For Your Art at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all F...

5 years ago

2 hours 1 minute

Tierney Talks

Chloe Coover, Trevor McFedries, Janet Taylor Pickett, Samantha Taylor Pickett, Tini Stormberg, Zoé Blue M., Jiro Maestu, Jasmine Nyende, Irina Karamyan, Han Donovan, Toryn Seabrooks, Peggy Noland & Emily Barker

Send us a textTodayâs guests include: Tini Stormberg, Trevor McFedries, Janet Taylor Pickett, Samantha Taylor Pickett, Chloe Coover, ZoÃ© Blue M., Jiro Maestu, Jasmine Nyende, Irina Karamyan, Han Donovan, Toryn Seabrooks, Emily Barker & Peggy Noland. Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all Frieze long. Th...

5 years ago

2 hours 30 minutes

Tierney Talks

Saturn, Cyrus Dunham, Martine Syms, Jonny Makeup, Christopher Schwartz, Casey Jane Ellison, Lili Lakich, Jason Correa, Will Boston, Samantha Blake Goodman + Amelian Kashiro Hamilton

Send us a textTierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought the talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth on the Paramount Pictures Studio backlot, all Frieze long. The result is a collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much much! This is the third in a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON ForYourArt. Todayâs gue...

5 years ago

2 hours 13 minutes