Ever felt like a stranger in your own life? Artist Samantha Paige, the creator of Last Cut, did for far too long. It wasn't until she began deep, vulnerable self-inquiry and actively listened to the answers that her life began to change. A young adult cancer survivor and BRCA previvor, who suffered from PTSD and debilitating panic attacks, she finally started making the significant decisions, or last cuts, that made her feel as if her life were her own again. With this new way of being, she ...
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S02.20: Eliza Hope Duran & Juno Ishida: Dismantling the Gender Binary
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Last May, Juno Ishida and Eliza Hope Duran joined Samantha Paige for an honest conversation about living beyond the construct of a gender binary. In this special episode, Juno, a trans male university student, and Eliza, a gender fluid prize-winning poet, share their views about the boxes that society places us in around our bodies, gender and sexu…
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S02.19: Samantha Paige & Lisa Field: Reflections on another powerful season
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Samantha Paige and Last Cut Photographer Lisa Field reflect on the second season of Last Cut Conversations. They discuss the universal threads shared across the many diverse conversations, and the notable moments that made a lasting impression as well. Each Last Cut Conversation continues to be unique and powerful in its own way, but each season al…
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S02.18: Zoe Buckman: A Beautiful Intersection of Art and Activism
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Zoe Buckman is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, activist and mother. Originally from East London, she now lives and works in New York. Buckman powerfully weaves together art and activism into pieces that draw viewers in with aesthetically pleasing beauty, while offering an undercurrent that inspires deeper contemplation on political issues. Buck…
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S02.17: Pidgeon Pagonis: Unraveling the lies, myths and trauma around growing up Intersex
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Samantha Paige first heard of Pidgeon Pagonis’ powerful story of growing up Intersex through a video clip produced by Human Rights Watch. Paige wanted to learn more about Pagonis’ experience of discovering they were Intersex at age 19 and the subsequent deconstruction of a believed identity, gender and (false) cancer diagnosis. In this raw, vulnera…
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S02.16: Kyle Knight: Exposing Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US
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Kyle Knight is a researcher in the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch in New York City. A former media journalist who chose to do reporting work with more policy follow through and impact, Kyle is a brilliant motivator for change. Samantha Paige sat down with Knight to discuss the details of his most recent Human Rights Watch report entitled…
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S02.15: Lily Mandelbaum & Elisa Goodkind: The Mother-Daughter Duo behind the Style Like U Self-Acceptance Revolution
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Samantha Paige met Lily Mandelbaum and Elisa Goodkind, the creators of Style Like U, at their “True Style is What’s Underneath: The Self-Acceptance Revolution” book signing in Los Angeles. Just weeks later, Lily and Elisa interviewed Paige for their Dispelling Beauty Myths video series with Allure magazine in New York. In this interview, Paige was …
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S02.14: Melinda Alexander: The Life Lessons We Aren’t Taught in School
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“I am always refining my truths, and my truths are always changing.” Melinda Alexander Melinda Alexander, aka Mumu Mansion, sat down with Samantha Paige to speak about love, self-healing, parenting and the gift of learning from life’s most challenging moments. Melinda is an all-around lover, mother, healer and social activist who does women’s work …
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S02.13: Charlie Linville: Mind over Matter to the Summit
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“You are what you can mentally achieve, not what you perceive your body capable of.” Charlie Linville Samantha Paige sits down with her friend and inspiration, Charlie Linville, to talk about life-changing last cuts, overcoming trauma, perseverance, adventure and inspiration on the other side of pain. In 2011, while in Afghanistan, Charlie, an ex-M…
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S02.12: Mia Sabel: Stitching Together a Meaningful Life
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Samantha Paige sat down with bespoke leather worker and qualified saddler, Mia Sabel of Sabel Saddlery, in her East London studio. The two talked about how one creates a life that feels like one’s own and the freedom found on the other side of our biggest last cuts. Sabel shares her journey from an existence ruled by an overpowering corporate job w…
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S02.11: Lily Parrott and Laura Stahnke of Migration Collective: Changing the Conversation on Migration
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Samantha Paige recently sat down in London with Lily Parrott and Laura Stahnkhe, two of the founders of Migration Collective. Migration Collective is a group of dynamic and creative women who aim to challenge the current, narrow rhetoric on migration. Through events, film festivals and soon cooking programs, they seek to focus on inclusion, what is…
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S02.10: Sofia Lindvall: Living Up High With Nature
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Sofia Lindvall was born and raised in Harads, Sweden (population: ~600), just 60 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. She is a trained stunt person and daughter to Kent Lindvall and Britta Jonsson-Lindvall, the founders of the TreeHotel. The TreeHotel is a collection of 7 unique tree houses, designed by Scandanavia’s leading architects, where gue…
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S02.9: Arthur Gross-Schaefer: A Man on a Mission to Teach Tolerance, Understanding and Peace
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“For me, it’s [freedom] about taking it as a gift that I have been given privilege, I’ve been given certain assets, certain abilities. How I am going to use those to affect others and to make my life, honestly, a life of meaning? That’s how I define freedom.” Arthur Gross-Schaefer Arthur Gross-Schaefer is a man who literally wears many hats. He is …
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S02.8: Annie Hawkins: Living with Heart on the Soccer Field and Beyond
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Samantha Paige dialogues with her dear friend, professional soccer player Annie Hawkins, in this touching episode about living life from the heart. Hawkins opens up about losing her father to pancreatic cancer six years ago and how his passing, and possibly more profoundly, how he lived the last months of his life, inspired her to deepen her own de…
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S02.7: Jenna Tosh: Planned Parenthood California Central Coast’s CEO Talks Health Care Reform, Women's Rights, Parenting & Self-care
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Jenna Tosh, CEO of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast, speaks to her dedication to her work and to her other major role as conscious parent to three. Tosh oversees 5 Planned Parenthood locations and is part of the team advocating for health care access for over 800,000 individuals annually in California. In the wake of the ongoing attempts…
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S02.6: Jennifer Yashari: Coping with an Ever-Evolving Disability and Living with Presence along the way
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In this moving episode, Samantha Paige reunites with her childhood friend, Jennifer Yashari, who opens up about living with hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), a rare degenerative disease that causes muscle cells to weaken progressively. Diagnosed in her early 30’s, Yashari, a psychiatrist, has learned to cope with the massive loss delivered…
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S02.5: Mallika Chopra: Living Life with Intent
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Mallika Chopra joins Samantha Paige for a powerful conversation about living life with intent and conscious parenting. In her humble and authentic manner of sharing, Chopra details her self-defined "somewhat messy journey" to deeper purpose, peace and joy in all aspects of life. With anecdotes from her life and conversations with her father, Deepak…
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S02.4: Get Lit Poets: Monique Mitchell and Vanessa Tahay: Peace and Power through the Spoken Word
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Get Lit Poets Monique Mitchell and Vanessa Tahay bravely and vulnerably share how reading, writing and speaking poetry has paved a path to freedom and happiness in their lives. In this raw and moving conversation, these two powerful women detail where they came from and the ways in which they have used their art and voice to cultivate freedom, self…
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S02.3: Alejandro Ameijeiras: From Communist Cuba to the American Dream
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Santa Barbara, California based Pilates instructor and dancer, Alejandro Ameijeiras shares his long, sometimes dark, road to personal acceptance and embodiment of his sexuality, sensitivity and inner power. Born in Communist Cuba to prominent Diplomats in 1963, he grew up in a culture, beautiful in many ways, but far from accepting of individual di…
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S02.2: Sara Mills: Beyond the Boobs--Deconstructing Body Image, Autism & Societal Norms
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Model Sara Mills, best known as “Sara on the Internet,” reached widespread international acclaim with a viral YouTube video highlighting her twerking her breasts to Mozart. Her global Internet fame focused greatly on her silicone implant enhanced breasts, as well as her tattoos and distinct voice. However, along the way, Mills has also openly share…
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S02.1: Ever felt like a stranger in your own life?
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Artist Samantha Paige kicks off Season 2 of the Last Cut Conversations podcast with an honest reflection on this tenuous moment in history and the need for human connection beyond technology. She shares her belief in the importance of raw self-inquiry as a means to healing, connecting and growing in spite of what is happening around us. Samantha sp…
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S01.18: Mother’s Day Dialogue about Big Life Choices, Respect and Love with Samantha Paige and her mother, Jeanne Marks
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In this special Mother’s Day edition of Last Cut Conversations, Samantha Paige and her mother, Jeanne Marks, share about the evolution of their relationship over the years, but specifically open up about the deepening of their bond during this first year after Last Cut’s inception. In this honest and raw exchange, this mother-daughter duo dialogue …
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Samantha Paige and Last Cut Photographer Lisa Field reflect on the first season of Last Cut Conversations. They discuss the universal threads shared across many of the conversations, and the notable moments that made an impression as well. Each Last Cut Conversation has been special and unique. However, Season One’s ongoing dialogue about the signi…
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S01.17: Samantha Paige: Top 10 Things I Learned This Year
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In the final episode of Season 1, Last Cut Creator Samantha Paige reflects on the Top 10 Lessons she has learned over the first year of Last Cut. Ranging from the internal process to the external need for community, this episode is a thorough recap of Last Cut’s primary themes.
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S01.15: Samantha Paige: The Truth in the Body
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Last Cut Creator Samantha Paige reflects on how the truth lives in our body. She candidly shares how her body tends to show her when she is not living according to her truth. This episode is a raw and vulnerable snapshot of Samantha’s recent physical and emotional dance with her body.
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S01.14: Anne Van de Water: Staying Connected
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What’s most true to you? How are you living it? “So the thing that is most true to me is truth and love and love for the truth. The ultimate truth for me is love, which means we are all connected, we are all in this together. I have universal love for each and every individual on this planet, because it is such a miracle that any of us are here.” ~…
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