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Exhausted, burned out, and isolated in your chaotic life? Self-care isn’t enough. Hoorf! Podcast host Elle Billing is a disabled artist and caregiver on the other side of burnout. In each episode, Elle and her guests discuss the challenges of living compassionately with honesty and humor. Honoring Angela Davis’ definition of the word radical – that “grasping at the root” – we are digging at the roots of systemic problems in a conversational format, getting to know our neighbors, and using cr ...
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ZALL GOOD is the podcast where Alexis G. Zall talks to your freaking parents! Alexis interviews entertainers, comedians, social media influencers AND their parents to get the real story behind their public persona.
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Send us a text Content note: brief discussion of mental illness and suicide After six months of planning, Elle is thrilled to welcome this episode’s guest to the podcast! Teisha Gillespie is a marketing director and podcast host. Teisha's podcast, "Not Your Average GOAT," highlights diverse stories of adversity and diversity, aiming to dismantle st…
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Send us a text Content note: discussions of homophobia, sexual violence, military service Guess who's back and ready to dive into the beautiful mess of life and art? It's your favorite chronically ill queer femme, Elle Billing, kicking off Season 3 of Hoorf! Podcast. This time, they're chatting with Charlie Reynolds, a conceptual artist and MFA can…
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Send us a text We did it again! Sixteen more episodes, new and returning guests. It’s time for a summer recess. Hoorf! editor and co-producer Ricki Cummings caps off Season 2 with The State of Hoorf: a behind the scenes audio essay offering a peek at all the moving parts that come together in each episode. This episode has a bit of everything, from…
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Send us a text Chronically ill and dynamically disabled business owner and copywriter Darci Ellenberger joins us this episode for a conversation about running a solo-business while disabled. The thing is, managing a chronic illness or a dynamic disability is already full-time job. With at least 25% of the U.S. population self-reporting some kind of…
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Send us a text Nat Cummings has been doing cosplay for half their life. From appearing at C2E2 as Fiona from Adventure Time in 2016, to creating a themed mini-collection for their fashion class at Whitney Young Magnet High School, Nat has taken their love for costumes and clothing to bold new realms. In this episode, Nat joins Elle to talk about th…
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Send us a text Our personal and brand stories are powerful tools to connect with others, and marketing in the last several years has exploded with story-based strategies for everyone from solopreneurs to huge corporations. Max Kringen, the founder of a Fargo-based story-driven creative studio, joins Elle to talk about the power of story not just fo…
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Send us a text Everywhere you look, “Wine Mom” and other alcohol-adjacent identity branding hits us in the face, marketed specifically to women and femmes as a way to unwind and cope with the ever-increasing demands of contemporary life. In this episode of Hoorf!, Elle chats with Kristy Sarausky, a grey-area drinking recovery coach, about grey-area…
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Send us a text Dancer, choreographer, and documentary filmmaker Dan Watt joins Elle for the first episode of March, which is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. He is eager to share his film Everybody Dance, which follows a group of diverse dancers with various disabilities as they prepare for a recital with an inclusive dance studio, Balle…
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Send us a text Content note: this episode contains swearing, and is a frank discussion about death, directed death, and medically assisted dying. We encourage our listeners to exercise care while listening to this episode. Toronto-based disability advocate and real-life disabled icon Andrew Gurza returns to Hoorf for their second appearance in this…
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Send us a text Content Note: this episode contains swearing Griot Goods owner and exuberant plant nerd Curly Dacs joins Elle for an upbeat episode, where Curly shares some wisdom from the potting bench: people are really just complicated plants. Plant parents of all skill levels (and no skill level at all!) will want to hear what she has to say, so…
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Send us a text Dextra Hoffman’s talent as a portrait artist first captured Elle’s attention when Dex posted a WiP (work in progress) of Kate McKinnon as Holtzmann on Facebook. Elle quickly procured the portrait (which now hangs in their bedroom), spent a Comic Con with Dextra, and asked their brilliant friend to come on the podcast with the hopes t…
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Send us a text Content Note: this episode contains some swears and discusses the occupation of Palestine Hoorf! Podcast co-producers Elle Billing and Ricki Cummings sit down for a long winter’s chat over the holidays. On their minds: the season of Advent, the occupation of Palestine, and their ache for a something better in the world. Join them for…
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Send us a text Content Note: discussions of parental illness and death; mention of su* ideation, discussion of depression and alcohol abuse. Our host Elle and this episode’s guest Nick Josten have known each other since sharing the improv stage in university. Since that time, Nick has lived in Japan, performed stand-up in Reno, and co-starred in an…
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Send us a text Content Note: this episode contains descriptions of a child's coming out from the perspective of a parent, who is candid about her own homophobia. This story is shared with the consent of the (now adult) child, but some of the parent's early conceptions of the queer community are admittedly uneducated. In this episode, Elle shares an…
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Send us a text Austin Foudy is an emerging artist in Boise, Idaho. In this interview, he and Elle exchange some vulnerable truths about living with big feelings, their experiences with alcohol and sobriety, and how painting has given each of them the space to move through their emotions with intention and create something that resonates with others…
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Send us a text Content note: this episode contains swearing. Karina Blackheart is The Crone Herself — a Women’s Leadership and Whole Life Evolution Priestess. Her spiritual imperative is to live exactly as she desires while guiding others to liberate their own truth, purpose and power. She joins Elle this episode to talk about Big Crone Energy, the…
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Send us a text Join host Elle Billing as Hoorf! podcast launches its second season with a special two-part episode recorded on a visit to Idaho, where she connected with guest Brandon Connolly. In part one, Brandon shares his experience as an LGBTQ+ community organizer and activist in the state of Idaho, and how he integrates the essentials of self…
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Send us a text Join host Elle Billing as Hoorf! podcast launches its second season with a special two-part episode recorded on a visit to Idaho, where she connected with guest Brandon Connolly. In part two, Brandon illustrates how his life as an amputee leads to frequent encounters with ableism and inaccessibility, as well as his efforts to address…
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Send us a text We did it! Sixteen episodes, twelve guests, one dog. It’s time for a summer recess. But first, several months and over a dozen episodes wiser, Elle caps off Season 1 with a kind of epilogue in a style similar to how we started, a bit of an audio essay. The State of Hoorf, but less formal, perhaps more rambly, but definitely more grat…
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Send us a text In this season’s penultimate episode, Elle interviews her younger sister Katrina about growing up autistic and undiagnosed, and how learning to navigate both their neurodivergences and their mental health has facilitated a relationship that wasn’t possible 20 years ago. Elle and Katrina have been described as “exactly the same but to…
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Send us a text A recent survey by the ASPCA found that 23 million American families brought home a new pet during the “height” of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media feeds – and let’s be real, our family and friend group chats! – are filled with everyone’s pandemic furbabies. Elle and her deaf dog Winkie came together prior to the first lockdowns o…
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Send us a text Who is in charge of the game? Join Elle and her guest, board game reviewer and game show host Nicholas Leeman, for a conversation about what makes a game. Nicholas groks games; Elle is easily overwhelmed by complex gameplay. Instead of an odd-couple episode, we talk instead about how much control we have over our experiences, what it…
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Send us a text The museum is on fire! You only have a few seconds to save a few priceless works of art– what do you grab? Artist and teacher Connie Solera loves what she loves. And she teaches by that example. What we choose to save from the museum – and by extension what we choose to paint, compose, sculpt, write, create – offers insight into our …
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Send us a text CN: discussion of substance use, alcohol dependency, and recovery; experiences with homophobia. Elle’s long-time friend Karl Dulitz joins the ‘cast this episode to dig into some tender topics. In between the musings about getting old, Karl offers a candid account of his journey through alcohol dependency and the frustrations of acces…
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Send us a text CN: this episode contains content of a sexual nature, swearing, and poop talk Award-winning disability consultant and potato-chip enthusiast Andrew Gurza joins Elle for her most raucous interview yet. It’s an action-packed episode, touching on their dreams of disability-centered cooking shows, the tensions of caregiving and care-rece…
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Send us a text Seasoned podcaster (and longtime friend) Patrick Farnsworth joins Elle for a frank discussion on caring in the age of ecological crisis. After 300 episodes of his podcast, Patrick muses on holding multiple truths at once: the realistic urgency of the present times, and the human need for slowness, connection, care, and hope? Subscrib…
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Send us a text CN: this episode contains swearing. Here at Hoorf!, we don’t hustle. Book challenges are not designed for the way our brains and bodies function, so our New Year/New(ish) Books Special Episode offers a spoonie-sized recap of our fav reads from 2022, and a forecast of our TBR stack for 2023. Elle and Ricki manage to squeeze in a decen…
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Send us a text As our bodyminds change, so too do our routines and creative practices. Elle sits down with guest Isabel Abbott to talk burnout, silence, plant care, and carving out small pockets of joy to nurture ourselves. Join in as these two spoonies share a heartfelt laugh over their affinity for a good complaining session with fellow disabled …
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Send us a text CN: This episode contains swearing Elle and her guest Mer Yayanos share a deep, abiding appreciation for their therapists, slow moments with partners, creative collaborations, and butts. Most of this episode is dedicated to the first bits – these two queerdo artists dive into their particular feminisms, sharing parts of their burnout…
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Send us a text Content Note: This episode contains swearing Accessibility doesn’t have to suck! Artist Kim Hopson was born with one arm; she is really, really tired of the limiting narratives for disabled folks, finding herself the recipient of either pity, or the “attagirl!” for performing basic life tasks. What’s more, she’s tired, from parenting…
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Send us a text San Diego-based artist Kat Furtado creates complex layered art out of beautiful, small moments of wonder. In this episode, Kat shares her journey from using art as a way to quiet her mind after the birth of her first child, to becoming a full time artist. It’s a jam-packed episode, full of small moments and unexpected side trips: the…
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Send us a text In this episode, Elle and her guest, queer and autistic theologian Chloe Specht, discuss religious deconstruction, the process of identifying and unlearning harmful doctrines and choosing which beliefs and practices (if any) we carry with us into our adulthoods. While we may find ourselves deconstructing for myriad reasons, this conv…
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Send us a text What is love? And how can we love better if we haven’t first come to an agreement on what love even means? On this episode, Elle and her guest, Chicago poet and Hoorf! editor Ricki Cummings, dig into their shared affinity for bell hooks’ All About Love. Their wide-ranging conversation touches on the frustrations of domestic labor, lo…
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Send us a text Exhausted, burned out, and isolated in your chaotic life? Join artist and caregiver Elle Billing for the introductory episode of Hoorf! as she shares her journey through burnout, illness, and disability, and how she is cultivating connections to heal from the pain and exhaustion of living today. It’s Hoorf! 101, and you’re invited. S…
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Send us a text Exhausted, burned out, and isolated in your chaotic life? Self-care isn’t enough. In each episode of Hoorf! Podcast, Elle Billing and her guests discuss the challenges of living compassionately with honesty and humor. Honoring Angela Davis’ definition of the word radical – that “grasping at the root” – we are digging at the roots of …
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Alexis welcomes comedians and co-hosts Alyssa Limperis and May Wilkerson (Crazy; In Bed) to the studio to discuss why guys don't understand about girls wearing clothes, the pros (and mostly cons) of hosting a virtual reality podcast, and the importance of making your friends, canine and human, at rescue shelters.LISTEN TO CRAZY; IN BEDhttps://itune…
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Alexis welcomes comedians and co-hosts Alyssa Limperis and May Wilkerson (Crazy; In Bed) to the studio to discuss why guys don't understand about girls wearing clothes, the pros (and mostly cons) of hosting a virtual reality podcast, and the importance of making your friends, canine and human, at rescue shelters.LISTEN TO CRAZY; IN BEDhttps://itune…
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Alexis welcomes writer Ashly Perez and her mom Cookie to the studio to chat about what exactly makes someone a professional smilemaker, why it's important to have one desk for fun and one for work, and what led Ashly to pick up and move to Korea for a year before her career took off.FOLLOW ALEXIS G. ZALL:https://www.youtube.com/user/AlexisGZallhttp…
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Alexis welcomes writer Ashly Perez and her mom Cookie to the studio to chat about what exactly makes someone a professional smilemaker, why it's important to have one desk for fun and one for work, and what led Ashly to pick up and move to Korea for a year before her career took off.FOLLOW ALEXIS G. ZALL:https://www.youtube.com/user/AlexisGZallhttp…
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