Deep Read is a podcast hosted by Phoebe Lovatt, featuring conversations with big thinkers about big ideas.
Each episode is accompanied by a reading list - find...
Writer Nathalie Olah on 'Bad Taste', Consumerism as Identity, Seeking Beauty in an Ugly World
Deep Reading lists for each episode can be found at phoebe.substack.com
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Nathalie Olah is a writer, cultural critic, and the author of 'Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness'. We discussed how complex hierarchies of taste shape our visually saturated era, the commercialisation of the professional class, and the search for beauty in a spiritually ugly world (plus much more).
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Health Coach Daphne Javitch on 'Doing Well', Living with Ease, and How to Feel Better in 2025
My guest today is the LA-based health coach Daphne Javitch, founder of the platform Doing Well. We talked about her definition of optimum health (and the people she thinks embody it), why wellness is essentially a time management issue, and how we can think about wellbeing communally as well as personally. Plus: simple tips for feeling better in 2025.
Please note that this conversation was recorded before the LA wildfires broke out.
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Slow Factory Founder Céline Semaan on Radical Healing, Sacred Rebellion and The Power of Indigenous Wisdom
Deep Reading lists for each episode can be found at phoebe.substack.com
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Deep Read #30 is a conversation with Céline Semaan, a Lebanese-Canadian artist, designer, writer, and the founder of Slow Factor, the environmental and social justice non-profit.
Céline recently published her first book, A Woman is A School. Part memoir, part cultural anthropology, A Woman Is a School tells Céline’s story as a war survivor and child refugee, and creates an archive for the powerful Indigenous knowledge and wisdom of the Global South.
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Brand Expert Ana Andjelic on Visual Culture, Personal Branding and How Luxury Lost Its Soft Power
Deep Reading Lists for each episode can be found at phoebe.substack.com
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Today's guest is renowned brand expert Ana Andjelic, author of the forthcoming book 'Hitmakers: How Brands Influence Culture'. Ana and I talked about personal branding, marketing in visual culture, and what she considers the biggest brand hits and misses of 2024.
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Makeup Artist Marcelo Gutierrez on the Life of the Artist, Warhol's NYC, and his Definition of Glamour
Deep Reading Lists for each episode can be found at phoebe.substack.com
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My guest today is Marcelo Gutierrez, a world-renowned make-up artist and author of the recently published book, 'Nothing Precious'. We spoke about how he learned to see the world through artists' eyes, his creative community in NYC, and his favourite make-up look of all time (among many other things).
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Deep Read is a podcast hosted by Phoebe Lovatt, featuring conversations with big thinkers about big ideas.
Each episode is accompanied by a reading list - find it at phoebe.substack.com
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