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I’m Stephanie, an artist, filmmaker, and host of the noseyAF podcast. All God’s Favorites is a home for my writing experiments, including essays, short stories, observations, and lists.
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I Make Films for Black People and Everybody Can Watch with Barbara Allen (opens the original)
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Ep 151: I Make Films for Black People and Everybody Can Watch with Barbara AllenTwo little girls saw a movie camera in a mail order catalog and spent a whole week on the phone building a case to bring to their parents. They both got a yes. Fifty some years later, one of them is a filmmaker and the other one is her writer.This week I'm talking with documentary filmmaker Barbara Allen, the person behind Paper Trail: 100 Years of the Chicago Defender, DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis, C
Knowledgeable Failure with Megan Williamson (opens the original)
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Recorded live on Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM, Saturday, September 12, 2026A teacher looked at her painting in front of the whole class and called it a knowledgeable failure. She took it as a compliment.Chicago painter Megan Williamson has been painting for decades and is nowhere near finished figuring out what painting can do. From a hundred Zoom portraits to a room full of circus figures, her work is about looking, searching, and following an idea wherever it goes.What We Talk AboutWhat a teacher mea
All That and a Bag of Chips: 31 Days of Black Business Reflections (opens the original)
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Ep 149: All That and a Bag of Chips: 31 Days of Black Business ReflectionsNo guest. No theme song. Just me, a cup of coffee, and whatever came out of my mouth. 🖤We made it. Thirty-one days, thirty-one Black business owners, every single day of August. And then two days into September, because that's how it goes.This one is unscripted. I sat down and talked off the top of my head about what this series actually took, what it reminded me of, and the thing I realized halfway through that I'm still
Serious Training for Everyday People with Sean Armstead of Phenomenal Fitness (opens the original)
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Ep 148: Serious Training for Everyday People with Sean Armstead of Phenomenal FitnessPart of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤He trained 33 people last Saturday. Starting at 4 in the morning.Sean Armstead is a former Marine Corps infantry officer who served in the Persian Gulf, and he's been running Phenomenal Fitness since 1997. The slogan hasn't changed in almost thirty years: serious training for everyday people. His whole book of business comes from referrals. He calls it old mone
Vintage Is a Form of Luxury with Jennifer Kelly-Nichols of Vintage Frills (opens the original)
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Ep 147: Vintage Is a Form of Luxury with Jennifer Kelly-Nichols of Vintage FrillsPart of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤She was too scared to sign a lease, so she bought a short school bus and painted it pink instead. She'll tell you she cheated a little.Jennifer Kelly spent years as the logistical backbone at Chanel, Tiffany's, and Neiman Marcus before burning out during COVID. Now she runs Vintage Frills, a Chicago boutique organized entirely by color: a red room, a blue room, a n
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