Is Now A Good Time?

Wesaam Al-Badry is a photojournalist living in San Francisco. He was born in 1984 in Nasiriyah, Iraq. website: http://www.wesaamalbadry.com/ musical notes: Charlie Parr - "Jaybird" [intro] The Cannonball Adderly Quintet...

Lorna Simpson is a stylist and art director currently living and working in San Francisco. website: https://lornaaisimpson.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lopimpson/ musical notes: Spoon - "Inside Out" [intro]...

Simone wrote a piece about how he "solved his quarter life crisis" -- link provided below. Topically the piece has overlap with a number of the conversations I've had for this show and it displayed an admirable candor...

Darrell Williams is an excellent barber and lends a nonjudgmental ear to his clients, I know because I'm one of them. Darrell's mixture of serene wisdom and humor come through in our conversation reflecting on his life...

Nick Carrel - corporate sales turned dog walking entrepreneur . . . Nick went from corporate sales to dog walking via a failed attempt at "following his passion" for Yerba Mate tea. His story highlights the difficulty...

Martina and Britney Abrahams are the sisters behind the podcast You Had Me At Black. They grew up in Bridgewater, New Jersey and despite growing up in the same environment had starkly different experiences. After high...

Io Kleiser is an astronomy and astrophysics PhD student at Caltech and is currently a visiting student at Berkeley. In our conversation we discuss how Io decided to go into the sciences and some of the challenges that...

Dolly Li is a visual journalist at AJ+ - http://www.ajplus.net/english/ - http://dollyli.com/ Dolly's grandfather was persecuted during the cultural revolution in China before her parents eventually immigrated to...

I met Kalin while he was drawing a crowd outside of the Downtown Berkeley BART stop. He was playing the saxophone with a soul and depth that stopped me in my tracks and I had to find out more. He studied at the Berklee...

Willee's path brought him from California to South America and back to California via New Orleans. Over the past few years he worked for the ACLU, Goorin Bros Hat Co. and studied under San Francisco milliner Wayne...

Siggy and Joey are the instigators of DadaConf (dadaconf.com), a conference built around the idea of “Big Dada” -- think Big Data meets Dadaism. Siggy and Joey work in the tech industry but maintain a sense of both the...

Michelle recently received admission to London Film School and moved to London at the beginning of April to begin her program at LFS in May. Michelle was a Digital Marketing Coordinator at Levi's in San Francisco for...

Joel is a QA Software Engineer from southern Mexico (Villhermosa, Tabasco). He currently works at Endless Mobile in San Francisco and in June will be leaving to travel the world starting with a one-way ticket to India...

Allison is Head of Education at 3Doodler and currently lives and works in Hong Kong. "You can do anything that you want but you can't do everything . . . at least not all at once." "It's a lot of shiny objects out...

Jenna is a copywriter at Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. "It's very sad but also very empowering. The worst thing that could possibly happen to me has already happened . So in a way it kind of released...