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A podcast, hosted by Ara Tucker that explores the intersections of art, culture, commerce, careers, creativity, family, identity and all that fills the spaces in between.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
semiweekly
Average audio length:
41 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
58 episodes
since Aug. 20, 2025
episodic
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Hi everybody, welcome to this episode of I'm Here Too.
In this episode, I talk to the painter Alannah Farrell about creating and sustaining an artistic practice and a life structured around that practice. We talk about community and connection in an increasingly online world, the influence of AI o…
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Hi everybody, welcome to this episode of I’m Here Too. Today, I’m talking to Melani Dziire about her journey from corporate executive to executive coach. We talk about some of the costs of success, including burnout and feeling disconnected from who you are and what you want. As fellow introverts, …
Hi everybody, welcome to this episode of I’m Here Too. Today, I’m talking to Neekta Hamidi about how a career spanning science, technology, philanthropy, and public policy prepared her for entrepreneurship and the lessons she’s learned along the way as she built Mission to Market Studio, an advisor…
Hi everybody, welcome to this episode of I’m Here Too. Today I’m talking to Onyedika Achilike about what it means when you grow up with entrepreneurship as a way of life designed to provide necessities and not a passion project. She shares how her definition of stability has evolved over time and l…
Hi everybody, welcome to this episode of I’m Here Too. Today, I talk to Melody Chu about her journey from Princeton University and Harvard Law School to becoming an attorney and then publishing her debut novel Mathey Girls. We talk about the work of not just writing a novel, but getting it out into…
What if the next chapter is about finally living life on your own terms?
In Season 4 of I’m Here Too, we explore what happens when you:
• Stop waiting for the perfect moment to be yourself
• Drop the corporate armor
• Reclaim your priorities after a major wake-up call
• Break out of the linear car…
What would make you walk away from a Fortune 500 career to become an “old founder?”
In this episode, I reconnect with my middle school buddy, Jon Zweifler. We talk about hitting a ceiling in your career and what happens when you realize there is no “next job” that will teach you something new.
Jon …
In this episode, I reconnect with Sunil Ayyagari, someone I’ve known since we were kids, to talk about time, identity, ambition, and what it looks like to build a life that surprises you.
Sunil reflects on growing up queer in the late 80s and 90s, when stigma and fear shaped what was visible, and h…
If you've ever chased a career path mostly because it was expected, and felt the gap between what you wanted and what you thought you were supposed to want, this one is for you.
Rory Eakin spent a summer in a suit, in an office building, knowing it was wrong. He wanted to want it. He didn't. He sai…
“You have to live as you're going to your objectives. You can't just wait for them.”
Kahwa and I met in elementary school. We grew up together at the same small private school in New Jersey and lost close track when her family moved in middle school.
On September 11, 2001, she was working at the IM…
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