Stephanie Graham
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Creative lives, community care, real talk.
noseyAF follows Stephanie Graham through roomy conversations with artists, filmmakers, organizers, business owners, and community builders. The show favors honest process over polished myth, making space for money stress, burnout, neighborhood belonging, public speaking, mutual aid, and the strange courage of keeping a creative life moving.
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noseyAF is a warm, interview-driven show about art, activism, community care, and the uneven work of making a life around creative practice. Stephanie Graham gives the conversations room to breathe. Recent episodes move from mutual aid logistics with Eric Von Haynes to the launch of a 31 Days of Black Business series, from season-ending reflection to talks with artists, coaches, filmmakers, and community thinkers. The show cares about process. Not the tidy version, but the part with doubt, money pressure, shifting plans, improvised support, and the question of how people keep going anyway. Its world is grounded in radio, neighborhood rooms, street fairs, workshops, pop-up cinema ideas, newsletters, family responsibilities, and the daily labor behind public-facing work. The tone is intimate without becoming glossy. Guests are allowed to take the long way to an answer, and that patience is part of the appeal. One conversation tracks Love Fridge and the infrastructure behind mutual aid, including storage, surplus food, hubs, and the difference between charity and shared access. Another follows Anne Rosen through photography, dignity, visibility, and social justice. Nicole Havelka brings burnout recovery and the Calm Calendar Club into a larger resistance to hustle culture. Garland Fuller makes belonging feel practical by asking who is missing from the room. Briana Clearly brings play and discipline to the challenge of making films regularly. Even the solo updates matter, because the show treats reflection as part of the work. A season recap can turn into a frank account of being broke, tired, grateful, and still trying. That looseness gives noseyAF its texture. It is not a lecture series. It is a place where creative people, organizers, and neighbors talk through the real conditions around care, culture, money, rest, visibility, and responsibility.
Made for: For listeners drawn to artists, organizers, filmmakers, and community builders talking honestly about how their work gets made. It suits people who like reflective interviews with social texture, practical detail, and emotional openness.
What sets it apart: noseyAF stands out by treating creative practice and community care as intertwined, not separate lanes. Its conversations stay close to lived logistics: storage hubs, calendars, street fairs, film challenges, neighborhood belonging, and the cost of keeping meaningful work alive.
Want to hear how real artists actually make it work? noseyAF is the show where we skip the glossy bios and get into the messy, creative, human parts of building a life in the arts. I’m Stephanie Graham, an artist, filmmaker, and professionally nosy person, and every episode I talk with working artists, filmmakers, organizers, and culture-shifters about what’s really behind their projects: the decisions, the doubts, the money stuff, the pivots, and the “how do you keep going?” moments. No hustle propaganda. No gatekeeping. No pretending it’s easy. Just honest, energizing conversations that fuel your creative life and r...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Stephanie Graham shows how care becomes concrete through creative work, education, community organizing, and candid conversations about sustaining a life.
On noseyAF: Conversations about Art, Activism, and Social Change, Stephanie Graham uses candid, playful questions to connect creative work with the communities around it.
Stephanie Graham turns creative work into shop talk that sends you back to your own project.
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Mutual aid here is concrete, local, and built from ordinary effort.
Eric Von Haynes makes mutual aid feel concrete instead of symbolic. The episode keeps its attention on the stuff that actually matters: spaces, storage, and the day-to-day coordination that lets resources move without losing their purpose.
A practical conversation about speaking clearly as an introverted founder.
Stephanie Graham and Milena frame public speaking as something people can learn, not a trait they either have or do not have. Milena, who calls herself the Professor X for Introverted CEOs, focuses on helping founders, especially in edtech, sound clear and steady on stage, in…
A live, practical conversation about creative discipline, collaboration, and making work on purpose.
The episode presents Clearly as a Chicago-based director, storyteller, mentor, and the force behind Filmmakers Mixtape, a 12-month challenge built around making one film every month.
A clear look at belonging, messaging, and the people who get missed.
This episode sits on values, third spaces, leadership, and belonging, with a steady question underneath: does something really feel like it is for people?
A reflective conversation about care, teaching, and the everyday work of showing up.
Joe Schubach and Stephanie Graham treat care as something practiced in classrooms, theaters, and community spaces, not as a seasonal slogan. The conversation stays with the work itself: what it means to be a teaching artist, how trauma-informed practice meets experiential…
Practice ownership without the performance mask.
Nosy AF revisits a conversation with Eric Von Haynes about mutual aid and the work behind Love Fridge.
Stephanie announces a new series called '31 Days of Black Business' for August, featuring daily interviews with Black business owners to support and promote their ventures.
The host reflects on completing the longest season of her podcast, sharing personal struggles with financial hardship and lack of work during the year while expressing gratitude to listeners for their support.
Host Stephanie Graham interviews photographer Ann Rosen about her journey from painting to photography, her work documenting families and communities, and her projects focused on visibility, care, and social justice.
This episode features an interview with burnout recovery coach Nicole Havelka about resisting hustle culture and using tools like the Calm Calendar Club to build sustainable lives through rest and energy management.
Stephanie Graham opens warmly and welcomes the guest onto Nosy AF.
Nosy AF goes live from WLPN LP Chicago with Brianna Clearly and lands right in the jittery, funny mood of a real Saturday broadcast.
Stephanie Graham welcomes Garland Fuller with clear enthusiasm.
Stephanie Graham opens with Valentine’s Day and quickly turns it into a conversation about care.
This episode features an interview with health coach Kristal Holmes about breaking barriers and building access to wellness in communities.
This episode features an interview with artist Kimmy Noonen, discussing her journey into art, existential questions about painting's purpose, and how friendship and parenting influence her creative identity.
This episode features a conversation with artist Catie Burrill about faux fur, circus stories, feelings, and soft power, recorded during the host's first day as a radio host on Lumpin Radio.
This episode features an interview with Ebony Janice, discussing her work blending activism, art, and womanism to explore liberation and healing for Black women.
This episode features an interview with Helen Harris, an engineer turned jeweler, discussing her luxury jewelry brand that focuses on storytelling, spirituality, and creating space for Black and LGBTQ+ communities.