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On this episode of Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit, Dr. Lisa talks with musician and artist Pat Daugherty about life, family, creativity, and the nagging feeling particularly in this time of social media, that no matter what you accomplish, you should probably be doing more.

Pat opens up about his experience with cancer and how facing serious health challenges can change your perspective on the people who matter most. The conversation turns to family, friendship, and the unexpected ways difficult...

When I heard Rachel McCartney making jokes about how ineffective she finds therapists, I knew I had to have her on the show! @rachelmcomedy/ Rachel's Stupid Email List

On this episode of Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit, Dr. Lisa sits down with comedian Rachel McCartney, who has a rather unconventional relationship with therapy. Her basic premise: therapy is great unless you're actually mentally ill, in which case you might be better off with a gym membership and a friend who answers the phone.

Rachel takes us through a childhood featuring a contentious parental divorce, a...

Justin Linville is a huge talent and all around nice guy. The kind of guy that’s great to hang with but also great in an emergency.
He currently works as Director of the Training Center at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective (BCC) as well as performing on their top house improv team, "What Makes You Laugh?" Saturdays at 8:30 PM.

Justin is a great example of a creative person who makes his own opportunities while at the same time making opportunities for others. Justin shares a lot about this super cool project that he's been working on fo...

Loren Munk is an amazing painter and art world chronicler. His art and videos are an amalgamation of art history. The well-known painter, Katherine Bradford said he deserves a MacArthur "Genius" Award and I wholeheartedly agree. As James Kalm, he’s had over 2 million views of his web series covering art, galleries, artists, openings and even some street musicians. There is so much to learn about this former Mormon from Utah. Loren was talented as a child but art didn’t come alive for him until he was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army during the 70’s. Loren...

Lana Siebel is a comedy mentor to me. She hosted the first open mic I ever went to and we just bonded. I think it's the abusive East European family background we both have endured. And just so you know—we still love our parents! They did the best they could and for Lana's family that includes bringing her to America as a child—a huge accomplishment!

I personally respect Lana in particular because of the combo of hard work and talent keeps paying off. She doesn't hesitate to be open about what it takes. As this is h...

James and I had a very deep therapy session about James relationship with his mother and his relationships with women in general. It was highly personal and too revealing to post — so if you didn't hear it live, you missed it — but enjoy this video of James as Artist-in-Residence of Lockheed Martin .

Here's James show on Radio Free Brooklyn: James & Ibhan Radio Show:
Hosted by James Azzaretti & Ibhan Kulkarni LIVE every Sunday at 11:00am

James & Ibhan are Brooklyn Comedians who's lived and performed in the area for close to a decade. These golden voiced gods...

This is the Thursday before the Sunday of Amanda Mehl's fashion show. Here's the headline about it from the Bushwick Daily: Carnaval NYC brings a 70-model fashion procession to Maria Hernandez Park on October 18.

Read the story it's linked to for details.

At the same time Amanda is 8 months pregnant! She's amazing in so many ways. Her drive and creativity seem boundless. We talk about the ideas behind her clothing, how she fosters community, her love of dancing, her relationship with her fashion designer mother, Beverly Mehl and the lifestyle change she's embarking on as...

On this episode of Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit, Dr. Lisa sits down with artist Elizabeth Saloka, aka Betty Rubble, whose career proves that you don’t need an MFA, an art-world game plan, or even a fucking website to become a successful artist. Sometimes you just need a rock.

Soloka’s art practice began about ten years ago when she found a rock that looked exactly like a Nokia cellphone. She painted it, realized rocks were basically free blank canvases, and became obsessed. Now she meticulously transforms ordinary stones into remarkably convincing sculptures of familiar consumer prod...

Dr. Lisa talks to Kathleen Vance and Daniel Aycock, the married couple behind Front Room Gallery , about nearly three decades of surviving, adapting to, and participating in the New York art world. Daniel founded the gallery in Williamsburg in 1999. Kathleen joined a few years later, bringing her own artistic practice and a more strategic approach to the business. They talk about the gallery’s beginnings , the wild Williamsburg gallery scene, art-world parties, sponsorships, the move to the Lower East Side, and the relentless force of NYC real estate.

Then they get into talking how the art business ac...

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Dr. Lisa talks to artist, photographer, educator, and digital-art pioneer Robert L. Bowen about his book The Human Shutter: Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth, and Moving Images. Bowen traces the book back to a strange Marcel Duchamp stereoscopic photograph he encountered in college that completely hooked him. From there, he spent decades investigating stereoscopic photography, early moving images, and the science of human perception. He also digs into the largely forgotten history of early photographers and scientists who were developing photography, 3D images, and motion pictures simultaneously—not as a...

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Erik Bergstrom is a comedian, artist, and cartoonist with a very dark sense of humor and, according to Dr. Lisa’s completely unlicensed professional opinion, possibly some complicated shit going on underneath all that pleasantness. Eric talks about growing up in Minnesota, his parents’ divorce, his sister’s death, surviving stage-four cancer, and how the pandemic affected him in a completely different way. Cancer still allowed him to get onstage and turn the experience into jokes; the pandemic took away the audience, the social connection, and eventually the desire to write and perform.<...

Lu Checkowsky has risen to the the top level of creative people from her career spanning legendary ad agency, Weiden + Kennedy, to executive creative director jobs at Comedy Central, MTV and Facebook. Make no mistake, Lu earns this all through extraordinary talent and hard work.

Lu’s worked behind the scene, managing the creative advertising of shows with just about every celebrity you can imagine — all while struggling with a serious eating disorder — at one point weighing almost 300 lbs. while excelling under crazy pressure. Subsequently, she gets seriously ill, forcing her to leave her career. The book she wr...

Quite honestly, this session with Brooklyn based comedian, Joe Palana, is one of the most emotionally powerful that I have done. Joe grew up with a younger cousin that has both Down syndrome and autism. Joe formed a deep bond with him that as it turns out, has directed his life in ways Joe couldn’t have expected as a child. The way Joe articulates his relationship with his cousin really helped me understand that specific relationship, but more broadly, helped me imagine what it might be like to be living with Autism and/or Down Syndrome. It was a...

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Sarah Cascone is a widely known and highly respected art writer with a sharp, curious eye and the writing talent to bring her discoveries to life. She was part of the original team that launched ArtNet News in 2014, where she wrote or co-wrote nearly 6,000 articles. Her work has also appeared in The Art Newspaper, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Interview, and other publications.

There are so many reasons to appreciate Sarah's work, but for me, it's the way she uncovers some of the best...

Laura Parnes is an extremely accomplished filmmaker and artist . (Scroll down for bio—impressive!!) One of the themes in Laura Parnes's work is female adolescence. Here's a quote from an interview with her in ⁠FEMEXFILM Archive⁠: "A really big focus of the work is the romantic vision of a teen peering in on a culture that they haven’t personally participated in and how this holds potential for criticality. But, it’s really tempered by a desire to gain status, power, and agency. "

Bearing that in mind, I wanted to find out about Laura's own upbringing and teen years and...

Katerra Borkowski is an amazingly talented and hardworking comedian, writer and improviser. Katerra’s background is an outlier in the comedy community: she was brought up in foster homes and then eventually got adopted by a white family (she's black) in high school. Resilience people! This is what resilience looks like!

I do think that Katerra has some major internal resources: brains and motivation. She also had some encouragement even though her father committed suicide when she was an infant and her mother had serious emotional struggles. Her mother drilled into Katerra that even though Katerra was in...

Nao Matsumoto had a dreamlike ascension as an artist in his 20's, but eventually a lack of sales for his very-expensive-to-make work stalled, so did gallery representation along with it. Today Nao is a a successful wood worker + fabricator, happily married father of 2children 7+9, with an artist wife, Lori and a shared art gallery, Lorimoto.

We talk about his art practice today, how hiis fabrication feeds him and the long-term affects of his foray into the gallery world. If you want to hear an authentic view of the real ups and downs a professional artist in the art...

I was so excited to have brand new Radio Free Brooklyn host, Nancy Slotnick on the show! She's starting a new show, Dating Cafe, Tuesdays, 3-4pm.. Her goal is getting people off the apps to meet IRL. And have a blast doing it!!

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Facilitating Human Connection by means of Breaking Bread Together.
Earlier in my career I was the founder and GM of a dating-cafe. Yes, an actual brick and mortar cafe where the dates would happen, and an app that accompanied it. We spawned a...

Joseph Arthur's has worked hard, evolved and shares the value he's found in forgiveness. Joseph Arthur is a well known and respected musician.

Joseph grew up in Dayton, Ohio, the son of a lawyer father and insurance salesman mother. It seems as if Joseph had a lot of conflict with his parents, but has some thoughtful things to say about forgiveness. He is someone who works hard on himself, physically, emotionally and spiritually. His creative work is instinctual whether it's songwriting, music,, poetry or visual art.

Joseph Arthur started working in high school with...

About 12 years ago Gabe Panchero and Sameer Naseem launched their own comedy show, Funhouse Comedy. After a two year run at Passenger Bar, the bar closed and for the past 10 years, it's been running at Pete's Candy Store.

At the time of this session, Funhouse has about 2 weeks left at Pete's. Gabe talks about the ideas that formed Funhouse, the prized life experience it's been, and what's in mind next for the show. Stay tuned!

I learned a lot from Gabe and how his childhood made him who he is today, a hilarious, thought provoking...

Eric Doeringer talks about make lemonade from the lemons of moving his art studio which led to his Richard Prince/Rob Pruitt ebay auction art project. Sean Fader discusses what happened from being a stolen subject in Richard Prince's instagram project. http://ericdoeringer.com/ http://www.seanfader.com/ https://news.artnet.com/art-world/richard-prince-sucks-136358 #RichardPrince #EricDoeringer #ArtNet #PaddyJohnson #art #radio #gagosian

Personally, I’m a HUGE FAN of the Brooklyn Comedy Collective in Williamsburg, so when, Philip Markel, the Founder and Artistic Director agreed to come in for a Dr. Lisa session, I was thrilled. 

Philip is the chilliest version of a Type A personality that I have met. He’s warm, welcoming, exuding a contagious sort of joy. The most obvious question in my mind was “How does he do it all?”, but our session went far past that simple question. Philip is a multitalented, (improv, singing, dancing, writing, teaching) creative person who is running a collective with 3 li...

Will is an incredible artist, writer, comedian, cartoonist, etc. I've gotten to know him a little bit from curating his show, Rooftopolopis at the Dog House Gallery, and seeing him perform comedy. Two things that struck me about Will —to me, he presents as a heteronormative male, albeit, an unusually multifaceted one. I found out that he had an only fans account and that he was queer. One thing I did not know about Will Kiley until I did research on him was that he had an older brother that died.

Will Kiley takes us on his jo...

"My new life is my old life minus the doubts." — Olive Hui

About six months ago, Olive was seriously injured in a hit-and-run car accident. You might not guess it if you met her in person, but as she says, she is still very much in recovery. In this session, we reflect on Olive’s experience, the outpouring of love and support she received, and the remarkable benefit organized and held for her at by Kevin McDonald of Kids in the Hall at The Bell House, a week before this conversation. Look at this lineup — David Cross and mo...

Tom has been on this show several times. In this session we examine Tom's personal transition from being a workaholic radio station director, living in Bushwick to a more balanced, "emotionally healthy" (Dr. Lisa's judgement!!) adult with a job and a partner living in Washington Heights.

Tom was station director from 2015—2021 when he transferred the main responsibilities and Station Director Title to Shane Gasteyer. Shane (check out the episode before this one #396!) has also done a fabulous job of growing the station and keeping the community thriving.

If you want to understand Tom's background and h...

Shane has been part of the station since 2016, so I've known him a long time now. This is the first time Shane agreed to come on my show—we talk about that. We also discuss his childhood with his single mom, boarding school and in my Dr. Lisa opinion, the POSITIVE changes being a father of a 5 year old girl and 10 month old boy, along with his RFB experience and becoming the station director have had on him.

Shane has a great radio show "Everybody Plays the Fool" Hosted by Shane LIVE every Monday at 9:00pm

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NOTE: To get the full effect of who Tom was 10 years ago when he first started the station, listen to this episode with Tom at the very beginning of RFB: May 15, 2015—⁠ Dr. Lisa psychoanalyzes RFB co-founder Tom Tenney

Tom Tenney, the station co-founder, (along with Rob Pritchard), was my first guest patient when I began my show on May 15, 2015 and this session with Tom is exactly 10 years later, this time Tom is my 10th anniversary guest patient so we have plenty to reflect on as well as looking forward. Tom's entire life was Radio Free Brooklyn for many y...

Dr. Lisa delves into Tom's childhood and found out why Tom is driven to do something as crazy as start a new internet station. We find out all about Tom's family and his growing up.

"I find it comforting that, if anything else, what this city gives you is a sense that you're a person apable of making your way in this city, it's really tough and it can be a very tough place to live and work". - David Rogers

This was a really interesting talk I had with one of our newish hosts, David Rogers of the Down in Albion Show. Turns out he moved to NYC from the UK with his wife and 10 year old son about 18 months ago. David has had the wonderful opportunity to reinvent himself from...

To really appreciate the impressive amount of progress Calvin Williams has made in the last six years, I encourage you to listen to one of our previous episodes from April 2020 + July 2020.

To enjoy Calvin now—I urge you to listen to his weekly 11pm Tuesday show—Lush Vibes or follow him on Twitch @Mejisticlv or on Instagram sounds.by.calvin

Calvin is one of our most popular hosts. He joined RFB in 2018 with his how Lush Vibes Radio close to his 400th episode. Calvin did two Dr. Lisa episodes at a very low point in his l...

PLEASE NOTE: This is PART ONE of a very intense two part session with Calvin Williams. April 2020

This session with Calvin Williams, host of RFB's Lush Vibes Radio is timely inspiration for all of us, because as a society, we are all dealing with health issues right now.

About 5 years ago, Calvin had to deal with losing 3 close relatives in succession and how soon after that he was diagnosed with Type 1, Juvenile Diabetes which is rare for someone in their thirties. Calvin takes us through how he went through the hard years a...

PLEASE NOTE: This is PART TWO of a very intense two part session with Calvin Williams. July 2020

This session with Calvin Williams, host of RFB's Lush Vibes Radio is timely inspiration for all of us, because as a society, we are all dealing with health issues right now.

About 5 years ago, Calvin had to deal with losing 3 close relatives in succession and how soon after that he was diagnosed with Type 1, Juvenile Diabetes which is rare for someone in their thirties. Calvin takes us through how he went through t...

I'm a big Matt Ruby fan and this is his third time on the show!

I have to say—this was pretty funny—comedian Matt and I got high together and went some places I don't think we would have gotten to—for one thing—I said the way he described his dad was hot.

I also check in with him about what Claude AI said when I asked:"What would be good advice to comedian matt ruby from a therapist?"

We talk about a lot of stuff. Matt describes his parents—a free-spiri...

Comedian Matt Ruby and I agree there is a lot Non—Trump voters missed (myself included) about how society views a large group of men. It's not simple, especially since we are all in our info silos. Matt put out a great substack opinion piece on this topic. Even discussing this shit nowadays is risky, but necessary for all of us to understand these issues. I was inspired to listen to this Joe Rogan episode after our chat and it was further illuminating. We MUST UNDERSTAND the other people!

Btw: Did you also know that Matt Ruby is...

I saw Matt do a super interesting comedy show at a yoga studio last month called Misguided Meditation. It was great and he's doing another one January 22 at Yoga to the People – East Village TICKETS HERE He has a great newsletter too = sign up here: THE RUBESLETTER

He's a really great comedian where you walk out thinking about what you were just laughing about. This episode stuck around in my head for a while—like a good acid trip. Matt really shared a lot of personal stuff.

He’s has a very successful career as a come...

Tim Seeberger s his music. As founder/frontman of PopMusic his band is gatherering heat and opportunities. As he has transitioned from a devoted Christian to a devoted queer musician who is also Christian, Tim has experienced a lot of identity adjustments, starting in a new way when he went away to college. He has a good relationship with his family, lots of friends and above all, his music will always ground him. There’s still some work to do on intimacy but he’s only 27.

Also, on a personal level—I really like this music. It has a...

Alvaro Gamboa is an awesome human and a great comedian. He sums up his POV here:, “I have a background in critical race theory. I have a have a degree in that. And so it's something that I find amusing, I guess I could say, where like just trying to find the intersections between race, gender and class and how those play out in our daily, not just in my upbringing, but in our day to day lives and how that affects it.”

You’ll also hear how Alvaro, a good-looking young man, likes the ladies—and I’m here...

Sarah Cummings is a young trans woman who I hadn't met before. She is from a fairly small town and has had to make her own path as she is trans and bi-polar. Sarah is very serious about becoming an accomplished writer. Currently she is an editor at https://sentencedlit.org/

She's been in New York for 3 years. As Dr. Lisa, I'm thinking it must be disorienting to be an outsider until you move to New York and fit in. Going from being an outsider to fitting in will challenge anyone's view of themselves and therefore, their c...

DLG1425 Machine Dazzle can only be 100% who he is — a major reason he is the creative force that he is.

Casey J Salengo has just released his special, "Welcome To The Jungle," so I wanted to hear about his experience and his feelings about completing such an awesome project. Casey is super talented and is hilarious to watch as well as listen to. This special, any special for a comic, is a HUGE project that involves great comedy but with a serious side of production. I really want you ro WATCH HIS SPECIAL cause I want you to be happy! Look for the stuffed fox when you watch it.

Casey and I talked on Dr. Lisa in 2017...