Today we’re joined by Brinn Daniels; she shares her experience from growing up a theater kid, into studying and making films, becoming a professor of cinema arts, and now, at long last, a stand-up comic. Brinn has a lot to say about teaching creative kids, and finding her voice in a new art form she has always wanted to try.

Brinn Daniels is a Nashville-based comedian and filmmaker. She teaches filmmaking at Lipscomb University and freelances as a director, cinematographer, and editor. Brinn is also a producer with the Nashville-based group Clean Comedy Collective. When she’s not making people laugh she enjoys spending time with her husband and their three children.

Learn more about Brinn on her website www.brinndaniels.com or on instagram @brinn_does_comedy

Joseph Terrell joins us this week, talking about life on the road as a touring musician, writing songs, and loving and learning music traditions the old fashioned way.

Joseph Terrell has spent 10 years singing, writing songs, and playing guitar with Americana quartet Mipso. His debut solo album "Good For Nothing Howl" (Sleepy Cat Records) features talking roses, screaming oak trees, and the fortune-telling powers of persimmons.

You can learn more about Joseph on www.mipsomusic.com, Sleepy Cat Records, or find him on instagram @jomoterrell

Chef, actor, artist, poet, dreamer Jason Little joins us on the podcast this week. A true multi-hyphenate, Jason talks about how he’s found himself through many different creative professions, hobbies, and pass times, and how each pursuit has led him on to the next one.

You can learn more about Jason on instagram, and if you’re in the Raleigh, NC area, we highly suggest you try some of his yummy food… @vagabond_foods

Virgil Wong is on the podcast today! Virgil’s expansive work has found him in the intersections of visual art, medicine, VR, and AI. As you will hear in this episode, his career has been defined by being endlessly curious, intellectually bold, and a dedicated teacher and mentor.

Virgil Wong is a visual artist and digital technologist who combines traditional media with immersive and interactive technologies to explore themes of health and mortality. He trained in Renaissance painting techniques at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), human anatomy at the University of Rome Medical School, eHealth strategy at Harvard Medical School, and cognitive technologies at Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, CBS, NPR, Prevention, Forbes, and The Huffington Post.

Virgil is the co-creator of VirtualNDE.org, a virtual reality simulation of near-death experiences (NDEs), a phenomenon in which patients feel their consciousness leave their bodies in a kind of otherworldly experience. He also co-founded Medical Avatar, a digital health company using artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) to support health behavior change. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, and Deitch Projects in New York City.

In addition to his art projects, Virgil is a healthcare and technology leader who has been a keynote speaker for the American Heart Association, Health 2.0, and the Strategic CIO Forum. He is a managing partner at the world’s largest technology research and consulting firm, and he previously served as the Chief Digital Officer at HGS, a customer experience (CX) and AI company. For 15 years, he was head of digital at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, where he developed websites and applications for patient care, research, and education.

Since 2000, Virgil has been an adjunct professor teaching AI, VR, AR, digital design, photography, and interactive media to graduate students at The New School and Parsons School of Design. He received The New School’s Faculty Mentorship Award for Outstanding Teaching.

For more information, please visit http://virgilwong.com.

Adrienne Asterita is on the pod today, to share her story of pursuing a life in the theater, learning, teaching, working more jobs than she can count, and ultimately never giving up. She’s in the throws of a thrilling second act (yeah, yeah, we know) in the Colorado theater community.

Adrienne Asterita (she/her) is an Actress, Singer, Voice Over Artist, Teaching Artist, Director, Private Coach, and Mom to 3 awesome kids. She is originally from NY and received a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, studying both Acting & Directing. In NY she most notably worked as the Director of the Musical Theatre Workshop camp at Summers at LREI in Manhattan for 10 years. She also performed in summers stock, regional, and off-off Broadway shows including My Perfect Pet at NYMF, by the creator of the children’s music group she performed with called Junior Jam. She can be heard singing the title track on their album Wake Up! Adrienne also lived in New Jersey where she taught at the Paper Mill Playhouse and New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in the Disney Musicals in Schools program. She moved to Colorado in 2020 and has been very active in the theatre community as a performer and teaching artist. She currently works with Northglenn Arts in the Northglenn Youth Theatre program, and recently directed their big fall musical Sister Act. She has also performed at the Vintage Theatre in Aurora as Madame (Stepmother) in Cinderella, and Helen Bechdel in Fun Home, and is booked for 3 more performing projects in 2025! Adrienne is also a private coach, focusing mainly on audition preparation. She guides her students to focus on their interests in a safe and supportive atmosphere, bringing out their talents, teaching them to relate to the material and make it their own, so they can shine as a unique individual and performer. She strives to make her sessions positive, uplifting, and most of all fun! Adrienne is represented in Film, TV and Voice Overs by the Donna Baldwin Agency in Colorado, and more info can be found on her website adrienneasterita.com.

Dancer, Actor, Singer, Pilates and Gyrotonic practitioner, and thinker Candace Walters is on the podcast today. Candace's creativity has been a constant force through her life, from being raised in an arts-driven household by artist-educator parents, to navigating the professional acting world as a child, to finding herself through the joy and challenge of creative movement, to now revisiting old crafts and exploring new creative outlets as an adult.

Candace is a former professional Dancer, Actress and Singer on and off Broadway. She holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from VCU. She found both Pilates and Gyrotonic Methods to heal various injuries and decided that she wanted to help others feel great in their bodies, too. She specializes in Pre & Post Natal Exc, Post-Rehab movement, helping train Performers, and movement and somatics for general Health and Fitness.

She currently resides in Raleigh, NC and offers Private sessions on Zoom as well as in her home studio. She is excited to be Dancing, Acting, and Collaborating for Performing Arts again.

You can learn more about Candace on her website www.spiralandlinemovement.com