Rodaysha Red Ashes is a local drag performer who turned shyness, anxiety, and a casual conversation at Home Depot into a stage career that changed their life. In this episode, we talk about what drag actually teaches you about confidence, how sobriety reshaped their relationship with performing, and how their indigenous heritage shows up in everything from their drag name to the beaded earrings that start conversations.

This is one of those conversations that covers a lot of ground, from the nerves that never fully go away to the community that carries you through the hard parts. Rodaysha is honest about all of it.

Rodaysha Red Ashes

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Chapters

00:30 How Rodaysha discovered drag

02:52 First performance and getting started

04:30 Performance as a lifelong pull

05:59 Where the confidence actually comes from

09:00 What drag means to Rodaysha

11:02 Evolving as a performer and the drag clown

13:20 Indigenous culture in drag and the story behind the name

16:24 How drag shaped their identity off stage

18:30 Sobriety, substances, and choosing yourself

21:57 Why the people around you matter

23:40 Advice for drag beginners