Welcome back to a new (and hella overdue) episode of the Love Made Visible Podcast! For this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Rubi Guanlao Morgan. I had met Ruby at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Dallas back in 2020. She’s an amazing writer and spoken word poet. But she is also a therapist! And she was kind enough to talk to me about how she balances those two areas of her life – her creativity and her profession in social work.

You can find Rubi on Instagram to say hi! @rubi.guanlao

And follow this podcast too! @lovemadevisiblepod

Recorded at Boomtown Coffee, Houston Heights.

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For this episode, I sat down with Brian Rama, who owns a digital marketing agency and is a co-creator of the Have a Nice Day market. Brian focuses a lot of his work on highlighting local vendors of color throughout Houston and building connections between the city's incredibly diverse communities.

You can follow Brian on Instagram @brian.rama

And be sure to also check out Have a Nice Day! @haveaniceday.htx

Don't forget to show the podcast some love, too! @lovemadevisiblepod

I'll see y'all in the next episode!

Episode music:

Intro/Outro: "Substance" by RomanBelov

Interlude: "Floating Abstract" by ComaStudio

Interview recorded in Downtown Houston.

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In this episode, I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Ryan McMasters! Aside from being an immensely talented writer and poet, Ryan is one of the kindest people I've ever met, and it was just pure joy to get to sit down with him for this conversation. We talked a little bit about his experience growing up in the Christian church, his years in college, and the experiences that drew him into the poetry community.

Because of time and topic constraints, I had to take out some of the things Ryan and I talked about while I was editing this audio, but we had some really interesting discussions in those parts of our interview, so I'm going to be publishing that portion as a special short episode - or, in Ryan's words, a "conversation lilypad" - at the end of this season. So be sure to subscribe to the podcast and follow it on Instagram so you can keep an eye out for that episode!

You can find Ryan on Instagram here!

@rmcmastewriter

@laughlinesmcgee

And follow the podcast here: @lovemadevisiblepod

Thanks for listening, y'all! See you in the next episode!

Music by RomanBelov

Intro/Outro: "Substance"

Interlude: "Coffee Chill Out"

Recorded at Campesino Coffeehouse, Houston.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.