The Valley Girls chat with Mark Gerlach, a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt), about what hypnotherapy can and cannot do, (spoiler alert: it won’t make you quack like a duck); whether we can hypnotize ourselves; and the possibilities of astral travel and past-life regression.

A huge thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, ⁠⁠⁠Bryant Home Improvement⁠⁠⁠! With over 20 years of experience in luxury home building, Bryant Home Improvement is dedicated to ensuring quality and efficiency in every project and bringing value to your home - right here in the Hudson Valley.

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Valley Girls chat with author Gail Straub about her newest book, Home Inside the Globe, about what she’s learned on her journeys from Paraguay to Paris, from the Sahara to the Himalayas, solo travel for women, and the indomitable human spirit that connects us all.

A huge thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, ⁠⁠Bryant Home Improvement⁠⁠! With over 20 years of experience in luxury home building, Bryant Home Improvement is dedicated to ensuring quality and efficiency in every project and bringing value to your home - right here in the Hudson Valley.

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Valley Girls chat with Lena Rizkallah, a financial advisor who started her business mid-life, during the pandemic, with no clients, and now specializes in helping women take charge of their money - and consequently, their power. Hear Lena’s take on how women approach investing differently, generational attitudes toward money, and a 5-step action plan for taking charge of your financial future starting now. To start receiving Lena’s newsletter, email her at LRizkallah@contewealth.com

A huge thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, ⁠Bryant Home Improvement⁠! With over 20 years of experience in luxury home building, Bryant Home Improvement is dedicated to ensuring quality and efficiency in every project and bringing value to your home - right here in the Hudson Valley.

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Valley Girls are back for another exciting season! To kick off Season 4, The Valley Girls welcome back Betsy Jacks, a favorite guest from our episode exploring the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, NY, to chat about her post-Cole life. (Spoiler alert: it’s still filled with beautiful art.) Betsy shares her new journey painting full-time and her work that, much like Cole’s, uses the glory of nature, and especially trees, to craft a narrative; in this case, a fresh narrative about women over 50 creating and curating fecund, vibrant, blossoming lives all their own.

More to explore:

• ⁠ExploreThomasCole.org⁠ - a labor of love from Betsy & team to let you get your nose right up to the paintings, too.

• Find Betsy at ⁠current & upcoming exhibitions⁠.

• Read more about ⁠Barbara Novak⁠, a pioneer in the study of American art

• Discover artist ⁠Kiki Smith⁠ and ⁠why you shouldn’t be afraid to make art⁠

A huge thank you to our Season 4 sponsor, Bryant Home Improvement!

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Valley Girls - including Rebecca and Danielle from season 2 segments "A Capital Idea" and "The 411 of Westchester" - are joined by Melaine Rottkamp of Destination Dutchess and Hudson Valley Tourism to wax nostalgic about childhood summer fun and share their lists of must-do Hudson Valley summertime activities. Also check out our ideas in our two blog posts to supplement your own summer wish lists - one for the Capital District and one for the rest of the Hudson Valley!

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Valley Girls soar to new heights with Anne Swaim, Executive Director of Saw Mill River Audubon in Chappaqua, about why the Hudson Valley is a “crazy-good” birding region, why bald eagles are making a comeback, why you don’t need to worry about the baby birds you see on the ground, how to choose the best binoculars for maximum bird-spotting, the collective noun for a group of turkeys, and the zen of birdwatching. Fly over to the blog post for tons of links and resources from Anne!

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Valley Girls chat with Gwyn Corso of Denver Skin Therapy, Matt Eyler of Trinity Martial Arts, and mind-body coach & counselor Jenny Baltazar, MA about how skin care, meditation, community, goal setting, structured routines, and altruism can all be forms of self-care; why self-care is non-negotiable; and doing things to make life easier for your future self.

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Jenny is joined by guest host Brian Gottlock for a special chat with Kathie Bennewitz, Executive Director of Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center in Nyack, NY, about how growing up with the light reflecting off the Hudson River shaped Hopper’s art, how strong women shaped Hopper’s life, and how he didn’t make it big until age 40. Kathie also gave us a ton of wonderful recommendations to explore more Hopper beyond the house and dig deeper into art history in the Hudson Valley. Head over to ⁠valleygirlspodcast.com⁠ for the episode page and a blog post for all the info and resources! And don't miss their amazing current exhibition, "Portal: The Window in American Photography" open through April 27th!

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Jenny wraps up our celebration of Women’s History Month joined by a very special guest co-host, Kingston’s own challah-baking good-time girl Ellen Leifer, for a conversation with Rabbi Sivan Rotholz about the importance of seeing yourself mirrored back to you in spaces of worship and learning; the most bad-ass women you’ve never heard of in Biblical history (and how they were demonized - sometimes literally - for not being compliant); how centering the experiences of women isn’t just for women; and what everyone can learn from Judaism about the importance of community-building and resilience to combat the epidemic of loneliness.

Want to hear more from Rabbi Sivan? Check out our Hudson Valley Holiday Story Hour episode; skip to 20:36 for the story of Judith, the Hanukkah Heroine. (Spoiler alert: it’s possible latkes weren’t originally potato-based but actually made of cheese; “a medieval pancake version of mozzarella sticks.”)

Save the Date! ⁠The Hudson Valley Food and Wine Festival⁠ ticket PRESALE is coming up April 1st & 2nd! Check out ⁠our January interview with Debbie Gioquindo⁠, the Hudson Valley Wine Goddess, for more on the festival!

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

The Valley Girls had the pleasure and honor to chat with historian and writer Holley Snaith about the enduring legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt, visiting Val-Kill, Holley’s photo restoration project at Val-Kill, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Marian Anderson’s legendary Lincoln Memorial concert, the Eleanor Roosevelt School, and how FDR mixed his martinis.

Save the Date! The Hudson Valley Food and Wine Festival ticket PRESALE is coming up April 1st & 2nd! Check out our January interview with Debbie Gioquindo, the Hudson Valley Wine Goddess, for more on the festival!

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The Valley Girls had fun chatting with Brett Barry and Rebecca Rego Barry, two of the four new owners of Purple Mountain Press. Since 1973, Purple Mountain Press has been publishing books about the Catskills right here in the Catskills. Today, their catalog spans the Hudson Valley, Mohawk Valley, Adirondacks, Lake George and more, with works covering history, art, nature, and folklore. We chatted with Rebecca and Brett about Alf Evers, books bound in human skin, our love for our mutual friend Janna Brooke Wallack’s debut novel, Naked Girl, and more.

As heard in the episode:

• The Print House, wine, music, cocktails, & food in the former home of Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, NY

• Did you like Brett’s Washington Irving? Get much more of Brett as Washington Irving on our holiday episode. (Skip to 13:41 for immediate Brettification.)

• OUR Bookshop, Saugerties

• Brett getting the Alf Evers seal of approval

• Press release from Purple Mountain Press

• Kaatscast: The Catskills Podcast with host Brett Barry

• ⁠Silver Hollow Audio production studio owned by Brett and Rebecca

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The Valley Girls chat with radio hostSharif Abdus-Salaam aboutJazz in the Valley, drawing inspiration from our heroes’ heroes, the centrality of Black artists in jazz history, the joy of college radio, Jen’s enduring love of Michael McDonald, and where to catch up-and-coming jazz performers without even having to head into the City. Listen now and then click over to theblog for more, including info about the presenters of Sharif's weekly radio show,Transart & Cultural Services, local jazz venues, jazz greats from past and present, and book recommendations from the episode.
Get your jazz fix every Wednesday at 7 pm:
WKNY  107.9 FM    1490 AM    radiokingston.org
Jazz in the Valley
Host, Sharif Abdus-Salaam
https://radiokingston.org/en/broadcast/jazz-in-the-valley

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What better time is there to talk about flowers than the middle of winter, especially when we're talking about winter tulips! In this episode, the Valley Girls chat with flower farmer Lauren Tamraz of ⁠Alchemy Farmhouse⁠ about impermanence, seasonality, beauty, CSAs, getting little treats, the astonishing number of tulip varieties, and flowers as the artist’s muse and medium.

Check out ⁠@alchemyfarmhouseblooms⁠ on Instagram for an instant mood boost.

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The Valley Girls are back for our third season! We're starting off this season talking with Debbie Gioquindo, aka The Hudson Valley Wine Goddess, about all things Hudson Valley wine, cider, and spirits! Debbie calls the Hudson Valley “a craft beverage mecca” with “something for everybody,” and gives us her best advice about enjoying wine. (Spoiler alert: it’s “drink what you like.” )

Head over to our blog for links to more of the places and events we chat with Debbie about on the episode.

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠⁠.

This episode - the last one of 2024 - is packed with stories, poems, readings, and even songs to celebrate the season. We’ve been fortunate to assemble an all-star cast of Hudson Valley creatives to bring you comfort and joy, no matter what or how you celebrate. This Hudson Valley Holiday Story Hour is our gift to you; a small token of our enormous gratitude for your support of the Valley Girls so far. 

We hope you’ll listen all the way through, but if you want to revisit some of your favorite performances, these time stamps should help:
02:40 Excerpt from “The Snow-Walkers,” by John Burroughs; read by Robert Burke Warren
10:12 “Caterskill Falls,” by William Cullen Bryant; read by Mat Zucker
11:35 Excerpt from “The Bells,” by Edgar Allan Poe; read by Tracey Knapp
13:41 Excerpts from ““Christmas Eve” and “The Christmas Dinner,” by Washington Irving; read by Brett Barry
18:24 “My Day” column from December 30, 1957, by Eleanor Roosevelt; read by Holley Snaith
20:36 The Story of Judith, the Hanukkah Heroine; told by Rabbi Sivan Rotholz
28:04 The Story of La Befana; told by Karen Sangaline Pillsworth
37:00 A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement Clark Moore; read by Rebecca Ash
41:19 Day 100 from Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days, by Nina Shengold; read by the author
43:05 “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?,” performed by Lara Hope
46:26 “Angels We Have Heard on High,” performed by John Burton

For an extra bonus, visit this episode's page on our website for our easy mulled wine recipe, using a New York State red blend recommended to us by Paul Brady Wine in Beacon.

Thank you for listening! We'll be back in January for Season 3!

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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from the Valley Girls!

Following our fantastic chat in our last episode about supporting small, local businesses, this week we are talking to David Leifer from David Leifer Photography. We chatted about skinny posing, the importance of lighting, and the ineffability of photography as an art. Jenny and David get technical about file formats and we have a philosophical conversation about whether cameras enhance or distract from our experience of the moment. Shout-outs to past guests Bentley Potter and our favorite baker Anrika Martin.

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To stay up to date and for more content you can find us at ⁠valleygirlspodcast.com⁠, at ⁠instagram.com/ValleyGirlsPodNY⁠, at ⁠YouTube.com/@ValleyGirlsPodcast⁠, and starting this season check out the Newsletter and Pod Squad tab on our website to sign up for our e-mail newsletter and join ⁠our new Facebook Group ⁠so you never miss a thing! All links can also be found in our Instagram bio.

Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠.

The Valley Girls are getting warmed up for Small Business Saturday and exploring all the ways and reasons to support local businesses during the holiday season (and all year long). Join the Valley Girls as we chat with Jess Davis, VP of the Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce; Danielle Centofanti-Davidson, President of the Rivertowns Chamber of Commerce and owner of Main Street Business Strategies (and Valley Girls’ very own Westchester correspondent!); Nicole Andrick, founder and owner of Catskills Candle Studio, and Candace Rivera, owner of The Book & Nook.

While Danielle is busy being a guest on our panel this week, Rebecca is bringing us details about some spectacular entertainment in the Capital Region that you do not want to miss! Click here for tickets!

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To stay up to date and for more content you can find us at valleygirlspodcast.com, at instagram.com/ValleyGirlsPodNY, at YouTube.com/@ValleyGirlsPodcast, and starting this season check out the Newsletter and Pod Squad tab on our website to sign up for our e-mail newsletter and join our new Facebook Group so you never miss a thing! All links can also be found in our Instagram bio.

Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky.

Valley Girl Jenny visited ⁠The Thomas Cole National Historic Site⁠ in Catskill, joined by special guest co-host ⁠Brett Barry⁠ of ⁠Kaatscast: The Catskills Podcast⁠ and ⁠Silver Hollow Audio⁠, and production intern Olivia Sippel, for our very first episode recorded on location! They talked to - and walked the site with - Executive Director ⁠Betsy Jacks⁠.

The ⁠⁠Thomas Cole National Historic Site⁠⁠ covers more than 6 acres in ⁠⁠Catskill, NY⁠⁠, with stunning views, meticulously preserved or restored buildings, interactive exhibits, and of course iconic paintings from the ⁠⁠Hudson River School⁠⁠. Betsy gave us in-depth access on what might just have been the most perfect autumn day the Hudson Valley has ever seen. To experience more of the site and the art, check out our video on YouTube, as well as ⁠thomascole.org⁠ and ⁠explorethomascole.org⁠.

Also check out Brett's ⁠very first episode of Kaatscast from January 7, 2020⁠⁠, where he chatted with Betsy as part of his audio driving tour of the Northern Catskills’ Mountain Cloves Scenic Byway.

Thanks for listening! To help support the Valley Girls, please follow our podcast from our show page, leave a rating and review, and please spread the word and share our podcast with others. We really appreciate your support!

To stay up to date and for more content you can find us at ⁠valleygirlspodcast.com⁠, at ⁠instagram.com/ValleyGirlsPodNY⁠, at ⁠YouTube.com/@ValleyGirlsPodcast⁠, and starting this season check out the Newsletter and Pod Squad tab on our website to sign up for our e-mail newsletter and join our new Facebook Group so you never miss a thing! All links can also be found in our Instagram bio.

Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at ⁠robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky⁠.

Jen’s favorite day of the year is here… It’s Halloween! In this extra special episode, Jen talks with Brian J. Cano, paranormal researcher and ambassador for the Haunted History Trail of New York State, about ghostly and ghoulish happenings up and down the Hudson.

Our Valley Girl correspondents are scaring up some spooky fun for us. Rebecca regales us with a tale of a Cohoes showgirl for whom the show must go on… though she’s been dead for 76 years, and Danielle gives us the insider’s perspective on how to navigate the biggest night of the year in Sleepy Hollow, the Halloween capital of New York. For more information on Danielle's restaurant recs, go to:

Lombardos, Dobbs Ferry: www.orderlombardospizza.com/,

The Parlor, Dobbs Ferry: www.theparlordf.com,

Club Car Grille, Irvington: https://clubcargrille.com/.

And you are in for a real treat as this episode features special theme music perfectly fit for this episode. We have the pleasure and honor of spotlighting a song by local Hudson Valley musician Jonathan Joel, entitled “Sinister”. Jen also sat down with Jonathan and chatted about his music, including the song you’ll hear in this episode. Watch the interview on the Valley Girls Podcast YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrGJ5AuvYIc&t=6s and find Jonathan’s music on Instagram at @jonathanjoelmusic and on YouTube www.youtube.com/@jonathanjoelmusic. And here’s a link to watch Jonathan perform “Sinister” ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwds82XD0xw

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In this episode, Jen chats with David Strout, proprietor of Catch Me When You Can in Saugerties, about antiquing, floral arranging, art, and curating a home you love. Find David at www.catchmewhenyoucan.com and on Instagram @Catchmewyc for more info and for some BEAUTIFUL pictures of his collection!

Our Valley Girls’ correspondents, Rebecca and Danielle, are getting us into the spirit for Spooky Season with happenings in the Capital Region and Westchester. Danielle dares you to outrun the Headless Horseman at the Sleepy Hollow 10k, and Rebecca might not be the only ghoul you’ll meet at a haunted cemetery near Troy.

This episode is sponsored by The Book & Nook, Warwick’s only independent bookstore. Check out our interview with the owner, Candace Rivera, on our Literary Hudson Valley YouTube channel.

Speaking of bookstores, are you signed up for our newsletter? This episode’s edition has our recommendations for spooky season reading. You can sign up for our newsletter to receive bonus content after each episode and join our new Facebook group so you can be part of the Hudson Valley conversation at www.valleygirlspodcast.com/valley-girls-pod-squad. We will never sell your email address or spam you!

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Episode music by Robert Burke Warren entitled Painting a Vast Blue Sky can be found at robertburkewarren.bandcamp.com/track/painting-a-vast-blue-sky.