Gen X Tara Averill and her Gen Z daughter Fiona Averill ask everyone the same question — what do you wish you knew earlier? — then follow the conversation down whatever rabbit hole it opens.
So far we’ve interviewed a death doula
Gen X Tara Averill and her Gen Z daughter Fiona Averill ask everyone the same question — what do you wish you knew earlier? — then follow the conversation down whatever rabbit hole it opens.
So far we’ve interviewed a death doula
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Nancy Whang spent the first decade of LCD Soundsystem looking like the coolest girl in the world. cool on stage. She was actually terrified. In this conversation, the musician and artist talks about leaving a small town in Oregon for New York with no plan, navigating life as the only woman in a band full of guys, what she learned about taking up space, and how LCD accidentally created one of the last real rituals New York families have left. Plus: why you still have to get off your phone and go to the party. With host Tara Averill and co-host Fiona Averill.
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“I had horrible stage fright the first decade of the band. That cool, aloof look? That was just my face when I was concentrating really hard.”—Nancy Whang
Gen X
Has lived multiple lives — East Village actress, founder of a boutique talent agency, 35 years inside New York's creative industry.
Gen Z
Tara's daughter. A journalism major at Northeastern, she won a Student Emmy for her reporting on overtourism in Spain, contributes to the Boston Globe, and fact-checks her mother in real time.
They don't always agree. That's the show.
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