The Radiant Badass with Elizabeth Holmes

Dec 09 2024 147 ep. 14 mins 3

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The Radiant Badass with Elizabeth Holmes is the podcast you need if you miss sitting around your best friend’s basement riffing on whatever comes to mind. Elizabeth’s perspective as a GenXer raised by pop culture and a curious person influences her view on the world whether she’s talking books, music or how to keep your sanity in a rapidly changing world – and she’s happy to talk about all of those subjects.

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Amazonification of Society

Dec 09 2024 14 mins

This episode, Elizabeth has all the thoughts on our “click and buy” society and how it’s ruining everything. She’s not in the best mood. Tune in for her thoughts on this and other things.

I Don't Know, Kiddo

Dec 05 2024 10 mins

Elizabeth is a curious bird. She admits it. She craves context and wants to know the why and what’s going to happen all the freaking time. And, in moments like the one we are in as a society, there really isn’t context or answers. Tune in to Episode 146 where she shares a couple little phrases and are keeping her grounded.

Dave Grohl is a Cheater

Oct 13 2024 12 mins

A few weeks ago, Dave Grohl fans woke up to find an oddly worded post on Dave’s Instagram account announcing that he’d fathered a child “outside of” his 20+ year marriage. Rough confession from the Nicest Guy in Rock. In the midst of our current societal moment when this type of admission gets you “canceled” and our parasocial relationships are out of control, our massi

Radiant Reads: Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!

Sep 09 2024 16 mins

This week’s episode kicks off with a bunch of praise for the pop girlies that released incredible music this summer and got everyone up off their butts and into the Pink Pony Club (playlist in Notes if you’re not already onto this vibe) and then takes a hard left into a Radiant Reads episode talking about Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Pu

Struggle Bus

Aug 23 2024 14 mins

Elizabeth's been on the Struggle Bus lately and something she's noticed is that ridership has significantly increased. Whether it's from this weird economy or just the general instability of society right now, the Struggle Bus is crowded. Elizabeth's got some thoughts on what this all means. Tune in.

Life Is An Audition

Jul 10 2024 12 mins

This week found Elizabeth watching an actor’s roundtable and listening to them complain about how hard auditions are and realizing that’s not a thing that’s unique to an actor’s life. We’re all auditioning for stuff all the freaking time.

Subtle Violence of Self Improvement

Jun 19 2024 15 mins

During treadmill time last week Elizabeth had a major aha moment – not something you’re really prepared for at 6:47 am on a random Tuesday. That’s what she’s talking about this week, so tune in.

Full Body Deodorant

Jun 05 2024 14 mins

While listening to Producer Chris drop some absolute bars in his recent episode Code Words and Canaries on his podcast Getting Work to Work, Elizabeth was hit with his wisdom words when he pondered “have we forgotten how to be human?”. And you may be wondering how that relates to full body deodorant – you’ll have to tune in to find out.

RR: This American Ex-Wife (also: fuck the patriarchy)

May 22 2024 18 mins

Hey Friends – Elizabeth is back with a Radiant Recommends episode. It’s been a hot minute, hasn’t it? She read This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lenz and she’s obsessed. Lenz’s prose opened up Elizabeth’s thinking about the institution of marriage in this society, and she really wanted to talk about it. Along the way, she shares a few other book recommendations (and a movie)

It's Good to Be Wrong Sometimes

May 09 2024 16 mins

Way back in Episode 71, Elizabeth went over a few things she might have been wrong about in the past, like Leonard Cohen and matcha. Cut to today’s episode in which she reveals a few more areas where she’s changed her thinking.