The Craft & Release Podcast
The Craft & Release Podcast is a community for creatives to sharpen their skills and share their stories. Each episode aims to support and connect people working in creative fields. The show focuses on practical growth and personal experiences within the creative community. Listeners can expect conversations about craft, release, and the creative process.
Episodes
Ep 32: The Night Kamala Lost
Jameer is a storyteller who has traveled the world telling true, first-person stories. He’s also a Video Director at Vanity Fair. His story for Release 005: ENDINGS is about covering Kamala Harris’s election night party and finding himself in an emotional powder keg he’ll never forget.
Ep 31: Glynn + Nneka — How Do You Know When It’s Over?
Glynn and Nneka kick off Release 005: ENDINGS with a conversation about letting go, moving on, and the endings that are harder to make sense of. Pulling from the themes in this season’s stories, they swap their own experiences with love, loss, friendship, and the people and places that can be hard to leave behind.
Ep 30: Nip, Tuck, Revenge
Julianne Nassi is an acute care nurse, cringey dog mom, and mezcal supremacist from Harlem. She describes her writing style as “manic episode” and has learned to lean into it—because sometimes creativity looks a little like madness. Her story for Release 004: REDEMPTION + REVENGE, involves a toxic ex, plastic surgery, and the particular satisfaction of getting the last word.
Ep 29: We Shouldn’t Have
Ene is a creative and storyteller at heart whose creativity takes many forms, from cooking to writing, to floral design. Her story for Release 004: REDEMPTION + REVENGE is about a forbidden romance, a friendship put to the test, and what happens when desire complicates everything.
Ep 28: This Time, I Mean It
Gaëlle is Brooklyn-born, Philly-raised, and the daughter of Haitian parents. She’s a creative, a hustler, and a risk taker who would rather try something and be wrong than wonder what could have happened. Her story for Release 004: REDEMPTION + REVENGE is about revisiting the same situation one too many times—and what it takes to finally leave it alone for good.
Ep 27: My Father’s Daughter
Sumitra is an NYC-based writer, textile designer, and mother of two. Her story for Release 004: REDEMPTION + REVENGE follows the evolution of her relationship with her father and the difficult work of forgiveness when family bonds are tested.
Ep 26: Eight Years Too Late
E.M. Gallagher is a writer, New Yorker, former educator, and retired hellraiser. On her Substack, Ugh. Anyway., she writes about the ghosts of her dating past and rants about life at large. It took her eight years to write her story for Release 004: REDEMPTION + REVENGE. It’s about a breakup that blindsided her, what she couldn’t understand at the time, and what became clear years later.
Ep 25: Beefing with Jay Electronica
Grace is a creator and comedian who knows that sometimes a good story starts with a little beef. Her story for Release 004: REDEMPTION + REVENGE is about a night out with friends, a stolen joint, and how she ended up beefing with Jay Electronica.
Ep 24: Glynn + Nneka — Revenge Is Sweet
Glynn and Nneka kick off Release 004: REDEMPTION + REVENGE with a conversation about getting even, getting closure, and the blurry line between the two. Pulling from the themes in this season’s stories, they swap their own experiences with grudges, forgiveness, heartbreak, and the times revenge felt a little too sweet.
Ep 23: To the man brave enough to love me / To the wife
Kam is West African-born but grew up in Harlem. Finding it hard to express herself verbally growing up, she fell in love with the ability to share her inner thoughts and wild imagination with people without having to speak. But every now and then she gets a bit courageous and shares some of her writing.Kam shares two poems for Release 003: LOVE. The first is about accountability, the second is a d
Ep 22: Measure A Year
Kristin is a writer because she writes. She is a lifelong student and educator. Her plants require her to read to them. She combats writer's block with a yoga flow or dancing. Her story for Release 003: LOVE is about the unconditional love between her and her father, now held in a container of grief.
Ep 21: A Discovery of Soulmates
Tiffany is a hopeful romantic and Brooklyn native currently working on her first memoir. Her story for Release 003 is a rendering of an unexpected encounter with a stranger in Paris and the echo of its impact.
Ep 20: All About Love, All About Grandma
Kat is a multidisciplinary creative known for introducing good people to the utmost experiences and communities. Kat’s story for Release 003: LOVE is about the unavoidable relationship between grief and love.
Ep 19: Reflections In Her Eyes
Ẹniafẹ Isis is a woman breaking into herself, a writer alchemizing emotion, and a journey-teller guiding herself and others in the narration of their own stories. Her story for Release 003: LOVE, Reflections In Her Eyes, is told through the lens of a woman breaking into herself, breaking down, breaking up, and breaking through.
EP 18: International Love
Lauren is a storyteller, writer, stand-up comedian, and artist. Her story for Release 003: LOVE explores the journey of self-love through the lens of body image and a chance encounter that blossoms into a romance spanning London, New York, and Paris.
Ep 17: A Love Conversation with Glynn Pogue & Nneka Julia
Join the Founders of Craft & Release, Glynn Pogue and Nneka Julia, as they kick off Release 003 with a conversation about LOVE.
Ep 16: Two Poems
Black, queer, and concerned with freedom, Solaris J. Capehart is a Liberian poet and abolitionist educator based in Bed-Stuy, they are the result of a divine experiment to combine the gay son and the thot daughter, this is not even their final form. They share two poems celebrating friendship as a sacred technology for survival. We hope you enjoy this episode, and make sure to stick around for the
Ep 15: Say Less
Katie Mack, Award Winning Director, Filmmaker & Writer shares a story about when saying less isn't enough, so you gotta say less. We hope you enjoy this episode, and make sure to stick around for the after-the-release craft interview.
Ep 14: On Friendship
Idinma is a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based creative with a flair for storytelling and community-building. Her story, "On Friendship," explores the lessons learned from navigating friendships both at home and abroad. We hope you enjoy this episode, and make sure to stick around for the after-the-release craft interview.
Ep 13: Where I Went
Ani Otiv is a humor and culture writer. "Where I Went" is about the time she found love on Anime Club Penguin. We hope you enjoy this episode from RELEASE 002: FRIENDSHIP, and make sure to stick around for the after-the-release craft interview.
Ep 12: Close Friends
Britt Franklin is a Queens-bred, hard-of-hearing storyteller and filmmaker, crafting narratives that resonate with the echoes of the past yet embrace the boundless possibilities of our future, offering a unique blend of resilience, innovation, and unwavering hope. "Close Friends" questions the superficiality of social media and the effort we put into growing and sustaining the lifelong b
Ep 11: Lovable
Marwa is a Sudanese-American writer & producer who, through first-person personal essays, examines the magic hidden in the mundane. "Lovable" is about how being a 15-year-old girl is hard; it's even harder when you're in love with your best friend. We hope you enjoy this episode from Release 002: Friendship, and make sure to stick around for an interview with Marwa.
Ep 10: In a Dark Room, Exposed.
Natachi Mez is a resident of dance circles and unlined journals, locating herself through the rhythmic, the written, and the embodied, creating dynamic work that honors the senses, reminding you of her vitality and yours. In Episode 10, Natachi travels to love and with love, illuminating friendship as GPS.We hope you enjoy this episode, and make sure to stick around for the after-the-release craft
Ep 9: A Friendship Conversation with Glynn Pogue and Nneka Julia
Founders of Craft & Release, Glynn Pogue and Nneka Julia, kick off Release 002 with a conversation about friendship.
Ep 8: The Ride of Their Life
WILLIE is an unapologetic Afro-queer entertainer, producer, and community resource activist from Houston, Texas, currently residing in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY. In this episode from Release 001: BODY, Willie takes the ride of their life!
Ep 7: My Mother's Body
Kam is a writer and poet originally from West African Mali who grew up in Harlem. For Release 001: BODY her two pieces explore the challenges and beauty in finding “home” in one’s body."
Ep 6: Moments of Manhood
Cortney is a passionate human and storyteller who’s just trying to figure shit out. In this episode from Release 001: BODY, he tells a story that explores moments of manhood.
Ep 5: Thanks Carmen
Enajite is an eldest daughter. Her story from Release 001: BODY is about a young girl who finds unexpected sisterhood and mentorship via the dark web.
Ep 4: Double Sweet Sixteen
Swati is an India-born, Hudson Valley-raised, and Harlem-based writer, artist, Tarot reader, and fiction editor who is working on a collection of essays called "Love Letters and Other Necessary Fictions." Her story, "Double Sweet Sixteen," is about one woman's journey of wondering what comes first, sex, love, or marriage, and discovering something about her body and her sp
Ep 3: The Miller Sisters
In episode 003, Melinda Hanson shares a story about the fates of a haunted old man and a doomed young woman when their worlds collide in New York City.
Ep 2: Micro-dosing Liberation
In episode 002, Chloe shares reflections on accessing our imagination by making alters of our bodies.
A Body Conversation with Glynn Pogue and Nneka Julia
Welcome to The Craft & Release Podcast! Join co-founders Nneka Julia & Glynn Pogue for a conversation about Release 001: BODY. New episodes drop every Sunday.
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