Episode 83: Minisode on NYC Weekend + Secret Writing Projects
In a month gone wild, the Wives are back to talk about the insanity of May, their big fancy night out, breaking cardinal NYC taxi rules and why your projects always deserve their own place on the family calendar.
Also, Chonny and Misha are writing a SCREENPLAY! Help them manifest it, please and thank you.
Episode 81: Minisode Recap On Coachella + Amtrak
The Wives are home from the West Coast and ready to dish on their respective adventures. Misha is talking Coachella, from her fits to top show picks and Chonny gives all the details about her cross-country train trip.
Also, much chatter about grass maintenance, The Last Dinner Party, hot pollen and the Wives' desperate need for a two-week Amtrak writing sabbatical.
Episode 79: Minisode on How Technology Giveth—and Taketh
After a forced week off due to technical issues, the Wives return in full force with new book clubs, traumatic writing life updates, Coachella planning, self-help book breakdowns and all the tangents you’ve come to love.
Also, this is your reminder to BACK UP YOUR COMPUTER.
Episode 53: Minisode On the Show's Theme Song
In this week's little minisode, Chonny is live from rural South Dakota and Misha is finally home(ish) from a wild summer of travel. The Wives answer a listener's question about the Band Wives theme song.
Episode 51: Minisode on Favorite Venues
What are your top choice venues and cities to see a show? In this week's teeny mini episode, the Wives brave home renovations and patchy wifi service to answer a listener's question about their favorite venues. From Minnesota to Portland, Santa Cruz to NYC, there are so many fabulous spots to catch a show...and surrounding neighborhoods to find good eats and reads before you go. Tune in for Misha and Chondra's quick picks!
[And please don't mind the rough audio. Consider it a throwback to the early days of BW!]
Episode 49: Summer's Underway + We're Going To Lisbon
Lots of big news in the world of the Wives this week from officially releasing their creative retreat to Portugal information (only 16 spots left to join us!) summer updates, teaching, and an exciting February tour announcement. There's also beach talk, more travel planning and a VERY rapid shift from attending high school reunions to...planning a living funeral? Grab something cold and listen in to get the scoop.
Episode 47: Minisode on Paradigm Shifts
It's Summertime and the Wives are kicking off with a listener's question about perspective-altering moments and how to recognize them. From spirituality to refusing to take no for an answer, this one is full of learning and unlearning. Also, thoughts on a possible Band Wives book club, the hell that is humidity and did anyone mention Florida is kind of going through it?
Episode 45: Minisode on Breaking Cliches
In Minisode 45, we find Chonny and Misha answering a listener's question about how to be a modern band partner. Also, this episode is not sponsored by Trader Joe's--but it should be--as the Wives talk about their favorite finds in what can only be described as a discussion between two people who have never been inside a grocery store. There's a near perfect dupe for the Glow Watermelon mask, flowers in season and pineapple everything, as well as some very exciting BOOK NEWS!
Episode 43: Minisode on Identity + Vacation Crisis
After a busy couple of weeks, the Wives are back and catching up in an episode with no goals, all banter. Chondra is finally stabilizing after two weeks of festivals, shows and friendship hang outs, while Misha is fresh off the heels of a long wedding weekend--and both are desperate to get some more trips on the calendar, while patiently waiting for the end of the school year. From Paramore to Blink-182, Martha Stewart to Maine (the place,) we are all headed for a breakdown...and that's totally fine.
Episode 41: Minisode On Dating Tips For Dudes
Chondra and Misha are back and answering a listener's question about dating. Also, The Artist's Way, career talk in an alternate universe, Misha's internet marine biology degree and Chondra's addiction to the new Starbuck's Summer game. Take it away, Wives!
Episode 39: Minisode on Body Double Trouble
A day late and a little short, but this week's minisode is jam packed with chatter about life and work stuff, body doubling, Misha's weekend at a monastery, Chonny's flooded basement, many not-sponsored sponsor name-drops, and Alligators 101. Listeners weigh in: Does a full social life help or hinder creativity?
Episode 37: Minisode on Making Love (Less Work)
It's April! The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining and Chondra and Professor Misha are unpacking their bags after Spring Break with friends and family. They're also unpacking marriage, a recent think piece in the Atlantic calling it "serious play" rather than "hard work" and asking what's love got to do with it (except everything!)
Episode 35: Minisode on Letting Go + Letting Keanu
This week, Chondra and Misha are playing catch up amidst the changing seasons, school breaks and general chaos of band wife life. On the agenda: holidays, happiness, being your own book publicist, making taboo art, why you shouldn't read too much into lyrics, sobbing under cherry trees as a form of psychotherapy and the gorgeous abomination that is Spanish moss.
Oh yeah, and Keanu's here too. In our hearts, at least.
Episode 33: The Wives’ Italian Writing Residency
Ciao! In this week's Minisode, the Wives are talking about their voyage to Greve in Chianti, where they tackled driving internationally, starting fires, jumping electric fences, drinking all the vino in town and experiencing Tuscany in the winter time. They came, they saw, they wrote and then...wrote some more. Also, the childlike wonder of attempting new languages, the absolute joy of an imagination retreat and why Chondra + Misha need your help planning their next overseas getaway.
Brainstorm in the rainforests of Costa Rica, find divine inspiration nestled in the temples of Kyoto or settle in for late-night creative roundtables on the train from Salzburg to Vienna?
And did we mention, you're coming too?!
Take the BAND WIVES 2024 CREATIVE RETREAT SURVEY and get ready to getaway with the Wives next year!
Episode 31: On the Records That Made Us (But Certainly Not All of Them)
Season Two is here and the Wives are kicking off with a minisode about music: The good, the bad, the very uncool and the fun albums from childhood that made an impact. If you came here for groundbreaking album discussion, you're in the wrong place, but if you're looking for rants about packing for long trips, existential crises, refusing to wait for the ghost of Virginia Woolf to show up and inspire, and why Jimmy Buffet is a lifestyle mastermind--grab yourself a margarita, strap in and click play.