Santigold, Olivia Wilde & Rebecca Walker Talk Motherhood On "Noble Champions"

Philadelphia native, Santigold (aka Santi White), is now hosting a podcast from Talkhouse called Noble Champions. Santigold once described her music as, "spanning punk rock, hip-hop, and dance music," and her genre bending talent may be a major reason why she's been a force in the music business for more than14 years.

In the latest episode of Noble Champions, out via Talkhouse, host and creator Santigold welcomes friends and fellow artists Olivia Wilde and Rebecca Walker to the podcast. Together they share their experiences as mothers who are creatives, discussing the challenges and constant balancing of the two roles, how to tend to the needs of your children while also making space for yourself, as well as the concept of working mothers "having it all," as they ask the big question of whether they can thrive in their art, careers and mothering to the extent they all aspire to. 

 

Check it out here: https://pod.link/NobleChampions

It's a revelatory and captivating conversation that spans 45 minutes, with Wilde reflecting on the effects of the pandemic and the ways in which women may unknowingly participate in perpetuating parts of the patriarchy, while Walker talks about being the child of another creative mother - author Alice Walker (The Color Purple) - and much more.

If you haven't heard it yet, each weekly installment of Noble Champions has been related to a song from Santigold's new album Spirituals. Today's inspiration comes from "My Horror," and follows previous episodes with Questlove, Angela Yee & Tunde Adebimpe on Black Music, plus Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) & Sanford Biggers on the relationship between art and spirit. Next Monday will feature Saul Williams and Mary Annaïs Heglar on race and climate change, and the rest of this first season will include artists, activists and progressive thinkers like Idris Elba and many more, in an effort to expand your mind, feed your soul and push culture forward.

 The podcast's title is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, who was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Kandinsky once said that periods during which art has no noble champions are ones of retrogression. Santigold and "fellow champions" try to make sense out of our world, and push culture forward. 

Talkhouse has been become known for artist-centric, first-person programming with Santigold's Noble Champions, as well as Kimbra's Playing With Fire podcast. Talkhouse's recent podcast series also include Björk: Sonic Symbolism and Listening, plus new seasons from Sing For Science, That's How I Remember It With Craig Finn, and the recent addition of A Little Bit Culty.