Irish writer, activist and broadcaster Sinead Burke is fast becoming one of the nation’s biggest stars. She most recently became the first-ever little person to grace the Met Gala red carpet along with some of the most famous faces in the world, while she also appeared on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue.
Link: https://entertainment.ie/tv/tv-news/sinead-burke-late-night-with-seth-meyers-428548/
I can remember the moment so clearly. I had just finished speaking on stage. I was almost levitating with adrenalin and walking towards me was one of the people I admire most: Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Link: https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/sinead-burke-podcast
Jessica Cordova Kramer remembers that wintry walk around her East Harriet neighborhood in Minneapolis, the one that helped her come to grips with her brother’s fatal overdose and planted the seeds for Lemonada, a podcast network aimed at guiding the loneliest of listeners in from the cold.
Even before Stephanie Wittels Wachs’ Lemonada Media launched its first podcast on September 25, the network got a shout-out from none other than the New York Times, which listed its “Last Day” offering as one of seven new podcasts to listen to this fall.
Link: https://houston.innovationmap.com/houstonian-stephanie-wittels-wachs-launches-lemonada-media-2641007051.html
The first show from Lemonada Media, a new podcast network started by Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs, tries to understand America’s biggest epidemics by zooming in on one person’s story, starting with his or her last day.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/arts/fiction-podcasts-gimlet-carrie-coon.html
Meet Vogue’s 15 Forces For Change What changes do you want to see in the world? That’s the question HRH The Duchess of Sussex and Vogue posed to 15 women with 15 unique causes – and it seems their ambitions for the planet and its people know no bounds. VOGUE
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Guest-Edits British Vogue’s September Issue “The theme of the edition chosen by the duchess and Mr. Enninful — “Forces for Change” — is written in stark orange print across the front cover, which is made up of a mosaic of close-up portraits by the acclaimed fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh. The lineup includes the actress Jane Fonda, the climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, the author and activist Sinéad Burke and the model Christy Turlington Burns. A 16th panel is mirrored paper, intended to show the reader’s reflection.”” NYTIMES
Sinéad Burke: how an Irish teen blogger went on to become one of Meghan’s 15 most inspiring women Not only does Sinéad host a regular podcast (As Me with Sinéad, via Lemonadamedia.com), she has also been invited to talk at the World Economic Forum, Davos, where she waxed lyrical about the concept of ‘Designing for Everyone’ and had one-on-ones with the likes of Oprah and Joe Biden. She also hosted her own TEDtalk on design inclusivity in 2017. INDEPENDENT
When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Podcast “Jess reached out because she lost her brother the same way,” Wachs tells Houstonia. “When you share trauma with somebody, it’s pretty easy to form a deep bond fairly quickly. I was literally one week from giving birth to my second child, so I was like, listen: I love you, you seem great, but I’m about to pop.” HOUSTONIA
Award-winning podcaster, Jessica Cordova Kramer and best-selling author, Stephanie Wittels Wachs have joined forces to form a new podcast network, Lemonada Media. The network, launching in September, will share an unfiltered version of the human experience, offering content that is raw and real, sorting through the ugliness, weirdness, awkwardness and darkness life can bring. They are entering the podcast ether with three original series: “Last Day,” “As Me with Sinéad,” and “Good Kids: How Not to Raise an A**Hole.” Lemonada will partner with Westwood One to distribute, sell, and market the shows to build audiences across the Lemonada network.
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