Do It Today: Recent Episodes

Kara Cutruzzula

DO IT TODAY is a podcast hosted by Kara Cutruzzula, who asks friends and notable figures across creative industries about what they're doing that day—and how they're going to do it. It's an up close look at process and practice, a reminder for you to do your most meaningful work, and a mini dose of encouragement in 20 minutes or less.

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Kara talks to Kat Jackson, the senior director of Audible Studios, who has worked in the storytelling space for two decades and oversees all production in the U.S. as well as Canada, Latin America and Brazil. She's also an educator, mother of two, and fierce Tough Mudder competitor. Big moments include how she found a career she loves, why "being good enough isn't good enough," how audiobooks encourage accessibility, and the inspiration and gratitude you experience while competing in an eight-hour obstacle course.

Find your next favorite book on Audible!

  • The Meaning of Mariah Carey, written and read by Mariah Carey
  • Born a Crime, written and read by Trevor Noah
  • I Can’t Make This Up, written and read by Kevin Hart

Fun people, stuff, and books mentioned:

  • An assortment of things is called a klondike, according to Kat's grandma!
  • Charles de Montebello, owner of CDM Sound Studios
  • Maysoon Zayid, comedian, actress, writer, and disability advocate
  • Find a Tough Mudder event near you
  • The Tough Mudder Holy Grail
  • Amelia Boone, obstacle racer and endurance athlete
  • Sean Corvelle, Tough Mudder start line MC and motivational speaker

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of three motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to board-certified dermatologist Dr. Aegean Chan, who opened her own practice in Santa Barbara, California, has published in medical journals, and runs one of my favorite Instagram accounts with skincare advice. Big moments include balancing parenting with her career, her social media cutoff time, creating realistic to-do lists, and treating responsibilities like glass balls and plastic balls—and accepting you can't always juggle them all.

  • Visit Aegean's website
  • Follow Aegean on Instagram @DrAegeanChan
  • Aegean's practice, California Dermatology Group

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of three motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks with author Michelle Wildgen, whose newest book Wine People was published August 1. She's the editor of the food writing anthology Food & Booze, and the former executive editor of the literary journal Tin House. Michelle is also a freelance editor and creative writing teacher and co-runs the Madison Writers' Studio with novelist Susanna Daniel.

Big moments include being in a no-reading writers' group, her hot take on prescriptive advice, the magic of a blank-page revision, field trips for Wine People, and why pasta is almost always the answer.

More about Michelle:

https://www.michellewildgen.com/

Buy Wine People, published by Zibby Books, on Amazon and Bookshop

Fun stuff mentioned:

  • Madison Writers' Studio — they have virtual and hybrid sessions!
  • "Thoughts on Editing and Being Edited" in Tin House
  • "A Practice Guide to Starting a Group of Your Own" in Poets & Writers
  • Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists (Buy on Bookshop)
  • The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of three motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to Tony Award-winning producer, manager, and educator Erica Rotstein, who's currently represented on Broadway as a co-producer of Parade and Just For Us. Big moments include embracing radical candor, the idea of emergent strategy and being able to pivot your plans, and why she wants to build all of her work around relationships.

More about Erica Rotstein

http://ericarotstein.com/

Take workshops on producing theater with Erica and her Business of Broadway partners Rachel Sussman, Heather Shields, and Sammy Lopez. (They're wonderful!)

https://www.thebusinessofbroadway.com/

Shows, books, and resources mentioned:

  • The musical The Appointment at WP Theater
  • Broadway-bound musical Water for Elephants, directed by Jessica Stone
  • The book Radical Candor by Kim Scott
  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
  • Author, poet, and activist Sonya Renee Taylor

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of three motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to Dorie Clark, a keynote speaker, consultant, and author of four books, most recently The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. She has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Dorie is also a musical theater lyricist and member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop (where we met!). Big moments include a new fitness routine and myofunctional therapy, the power of four-way wins, how she uses forcing functions to make progress on her musical, and more.

More about Dorie Clark

https://dorieclark.com/

Follow Dorie on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec/

Buy The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

https://dorieclark.com/books/

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of three motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to actor, singer, and writer Samantha Massell, who is starring as researcher Rosalind Franklin in the world premiere of the new musical Double Helix by Madeline Myers. Big moments include the four-year journey of Double Helix, treating creative projects like they're non-negotiable, her script for saying "no," and how plants and word puzzles create the structure of her day.

More about Samantha:

  • Visit her website
  • Follow Sam on Instagram @smassellsings
  • Double Helix tells the story of the race to discover the structure of DNA in the 1950s and follows the brilliant young researcher, Rosalind Franklin, as she contends with adversity, anti-semitism, and love to uncover one of life's great mysteries.
    Buy tickets for Double Helix, running May 30-June 18 at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, New York
  • New York Times article: Untangling Rosalind Franklin’s Role in DNA Discovery, 70 Years On
  • And Sam uses the app Planta to create her plant schedule!

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of three motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

Buy Do It Today: An Encouragement JournalBuy Do It For Yourself: A Motivational JournalPre-order Do It (or Don't): A Boundary-Creating Journal

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Artwork by Tyler Spangler and music by Kristoffer Bjarke

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Kara talks to composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Steve Wallace about his day. Big moments include working on the arrangements for a new musical adaptation of Animal Farm, how he avoids over-analyzing and gets stuff done, the faith that guides his creative vision, and more.

More about Steve: https://stevewallacemusic.com/

Twitter: @stevewstudio

Instagram: @stevewstudio1

A developmental production of Animal Farm: The Musical — music by Steve Wallace, lyrics by Daniel Abrahamson, book by Sarah Mucek — is running at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center from Nov. 16-20 in New York City. More info here (it's free!).

Mentions in the episode:

  • Watch Hal King, a hip hop/R&B-style musical set in the jazz era of the late 1950s, based on Shakespeare's King Henry IV and V.
  • Steve's first album, Come With Tha Real!
  • Finale, the music notation software

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Artwork by Tyler Spangler and music by Kristoffer Bjarke

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Kara talks to actor and singer Liz Callaway about her day. Big moments include releasing her live Sondheim album, realizing it's never too late to learn something new, creating your own breaks, the joys of starting before you're ready, her favorite reads on creativity, and more.

More about Liz Callaway: http://lizcallaway.com/

Twitter: @LizGoesOn

Instagram: @LizGoesOn

Facebook: LizCallawayOfficial

Watch Liz's YouTube channel

Buy Liz's new album, To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates SondheimListen to To Steve With Love on Spotify
See Liz and her sister Ann Hampton Callaway at 54 Below in November. Tickets here
Buy Liz's Christmas album, Comfort and Joy: An Acoustic Christmas

Follow Liz on Spotify: http://bit.ly/SpotifyLizCallaway

Follow Liz on Apple Music: http://bit.ly/AppleMusicLizCallaway

Mentions in the episode:

  • Billie Jean King's book Pressure Is a Privilege
  • Richard Maltby Jr and the BMI Musical Theater Workshop
  • Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams, and Liz Callaway at Feinstein's in 2001
  • The organizational app Things
  • David Allen's book Getting Things Done
  • Circa Notebooks
  • Austin Kleon's book Keep Going
  • Jeff Tweedy's book How to Write One Song
  • Listen to Stephen Sondheim's 1971 talk at 92nd Street Y
  • Oliver Burkeman's newsletter The Imperfectionist
  • James Clear's 3-2-1 newsletter

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Artwork by Tyler Spangler and music by Kristoffer Bjarke

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Kara talks to book editor Zack Knoll about his day. Big moments include how he protects his creative editing time, maintaining author relationships, fighting the three o'clock slump, and why he organizes his multi-folder inbox while watching Real Housewives.

Follow Zack on Twitter: @zackknoll_
Follow Zack on Instagram: @rack__roll
Mentions in the episode:

  • Do It Today: An Encouragement Journal (which Kara wrote and Zack edited!)
  • Abrams Books
  • Turning on airplane mode and logging out of Outlook while editing
  • Why he creates folders for each book project in his inbox
  • Beating back the three o'clock slump by putting tasks on his calendar

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to Broadway stage manager, producer, and educator Cody Renard Richard about his day. Big moments include navigating a two-show day for Into the Woods, why he brings his full self to work, his "sh*t to get done" list, finding the path he was supposed to walk, and how he winds down after working long hours.

More about Cody: https://www.codyrenard.com/

Follow Cody on Instagram: @codyrenard

Follow Cody on Twitter: @codyrenard

Mentions in the episode:

  • Parade at New York City Center
  • The Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program
  • Into the Woods on Broadway
  • Producing the Tony Award-winning musical A Strange Loop on Broadway
  • Seeing Avenue Q and knowing he wanted to be a stage manager
  • The gateway musical power of Wicked
  • And check out Cody's Tony Award, which arrived since we recorded this episode!

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to actor, audiobook narrator, and director Carlotta Brentan about her day. Big moments include prep work and book analysis, why she's devoted to 10-minute breaks, co-directing the new play Vatican Falls, and how she uses Airtable to organize her life.

More about Carlotta: carlottabrentan.com
Follow her on Twitter: @CarlottaBrentan

Listen to Carlotta's award-winning audiobook narration for New York Times and Audible bestsellers: http://carlottabrentan.com/audiobooks

Learn about Fabler, Carlotta's audiobook publishing company for Italian-speaking audiences.

Mentions in the episode:

  • Goodreads
  • Annotating books via iPad (mentioned in Do It Today episode one with Katie Horwitch)
  • Vatican Falls, the play Carlotta is co-directing with its playwright Frank J. Avella. See it at The Tank from Oct. 27 to Nov. 20. Tickets here.
  • Airtable (it's free!)
  • Ice packs, ice vests, icy sports towels — anything to stay cool in the recording booth

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to writer, editor, and freelance guru Tim Herrera about his day. Big moments include encouraging writers and self-employed folks to take time off, overcoming scarcity mindset, and leaving the New York Times to build his own business Freelancing with Tim.

  • Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHerrera
  • Subscribe to Freelancing with Tim on Substack: https://freelancingwithtim.substack.com/
  • Register for Freelancing with Tim workshops on improving your pitches, upping your personal essay game, learning how to build a longform narrative, improving your overall freelance business.

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

Buy Do It Today: An Encouragement Journal

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For more daily encouragement, subscribe to Kara's newsletter: https://brassringdaily.substack.com/
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Original artwork design by Tyler Spangler
Original music composed by Kristoffer Bjarke

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Kara talks to actor and singer Ann Harada about her day. Big moments include one last vacation on Cape Cod, preparing for her Into the Woods return, how she says no to certain gigs, the anniversary of Avenue Q, working with Milky White, and more.

Follow Ann
Instagram: @iamannharada
Twitter: @annharada

Mentions in the episode:

  • Into the Woods on Broadway
  • Schmigadoon! on Apple TV+
  • Encores! at City Center
  • Avenue Q
  • The Muny in St. Louis
  • Milky White and Kennedy Kanagawa
  • Falsettoland produced by National Asian American Theatre Co. in 1998
  • Cole Thompson singing "Giants in the Sky" (cast album available soon!)

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Original artwork design by Tyler Spangler

Original music composed by Kristoffer Bjarke

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Kara talks to musical theater composer/lyricist Adam Gwon about his day. Big moments include building the foundation for a sequence song, becoming a morning person while on the road, writing advice he received from Lynn Ahrens, and more.

More about Adam: adamgwon.com

Instagram: @gwonster

Twitter: @adamgwon

Mentions in the episode:

  • Adam's lyric writing classes at Primary Stages
  • Adam's class at the Dramatists Guild Institute
  • Witnesses, the musical produced in California
  • Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows program founded by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to speaker and flow state expert Diane Allen about her day. Big moments include how to find your own state of flow, vanquishing your inner critic, setting email power hours, tuning out distractions, and more.

More about Diane: dianeallen.com

Contact Diane at diane [at] dianeallen [dot] com for a free 15-minute flow strategy session!

Mentions in the episode:

  • Kara's TED Ideas interview with Diane: "The key to productivity is tapping into your flow state. Here’s how"
  • ​​Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Adam Grant's New York Times article, "There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing"

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to Vanity Fair correspondent and Central Places author Delia Cai about her day. Big moments include her first public literary reading, how she wrote her book in two hours a week, and her middle school glory days writing Harry Potter fan fiction.

More about Delia Cai: deliacai.com

Twitter: @delia_cai

Instagram: @deeeliacai

Preorder her book Central Places

Read Delia's work for Vanity Fair

Subscribe to Delia's newsletter Deez Links

Mentions in the episode:

  • Rax King literary series at No Aloha
  • Torrey Peters' book Detransition, Baby
  • Quizilla (RIP)
  • Delia's short story, "Big Fan" on Catapult
  • Elaine Hsieh Chou

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to writer and email genius Laura Belgray about her day. Big moments include keeping open space on her calendar, her EFAB email method, procrastination, writing habits, her upcoming essay collection, and more.

More about Laura: https://www.talkingshrimp.com/

Instagram: @talkingshrimpnyc

Laura's mastermind group Shrimp Club

Laura's book Tough Titties is coming out June 13, 2023 from Hachette!

Mentions in the episode:

  • Laura's NextAdvisor story 11 Reasons I Wasn't Meant to Have a Business — But Did It Anyway
  • Laura's Money story Here's a Genius Method for Writing Emails That People Always Open
  • 750words.com
  • O Cafe in the West Village
  • Grady's cold brew coffee
  • Suzanne Kingsbury, Laura's friend and editor-for-hire
  • Terri Trespicio, author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You
  • Susie Moore, author of Let It Be Easy: Simple Ways to Stop Stressing & Start Living
  • Author Samantha Irby

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to actor, writer, director, and composer Tyrone L. Robinson about his day. Big moments include strategies for hitting a major deadline, making theater more inclusive, connecting with people you admire, and the importance of your first draft.

More about Tyrone: tyronelrobinson.com

Mentions in the episode:

  • Soul Train
  • Letters From Mayat the 2022 Sound Bites Musical Festival
  • Wordle
  • Colored notecards!
  • NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to journalist and Let's Get Physical author Danielle Friedman about her day. Big moments include conducting rapid-fire interviews, discussing how to write pitches that editors want to read, and three types of story scoops she learned about from our former boss.

More about Danielle: danielle-friedman.com

Twitter: @dfriedmanwrites

Instagram: @daniellefriedmanwrites

Purchase her book Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Mentions in the episode:

  • Danielle's New York Times story about Pilates (published shortly after we recorded this interview!)
  • Danielle's New York Times story about the healing power of strength training
  • Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time by Laura Khoudari
  • Trint transcription service
  • Shoutout to our former Daily Beast boss, Edward Felsenthal, editor-in-chief of TIME @efelsenthal

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to Caveday cofounder, designer, and entrepreneur Jake Kahana about his day. Big moments include developing a killer morning routine, writing better emails, monotasking, and going into the cave to do your most important work.

More about Jake: jakekahana.com

Subscribe to Jake's Email Refrigerator, a wonderful monthly publication he sends to help readers think about their lives, relationships, and work more deeply.

Resources mentioned:

  • Caveday
  • Recent New York Times article on Caveday's popularity
  • The five sentences email habit
  • Inbox When Ready
  • Freedom website blocker
  • Apple's Focus modes
  • Notion

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

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Kara talks to playwright and TV/film writer Will Arbery about his day. Big moments include "gutting" the draft of his TV pilot, learning how to listen in the Succession writers' room, and his ideal creative practice.

More about Will: willarbery.com

Plays mentioned:

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing directed by Danya Taymor, opening this fall with The New Group

Corsicanaat Playwrights Horizons

Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Playwrights Horizons

Bonus! I highly recommend watching this Zoom seminar with Will from April 2020, which taught me so much about organizing your writing life.

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

Preorder Do It Today: An Encouragement Journal

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Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3vHt5pJ

Purchase Do It For Yourself: A Motivational Journal

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Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3vIYYyg

For more daily encouragement, subscribe to Kara's daily newsletter: https://brassringdaily.substack.com/

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Kara talks to writer, speaker, mindset coach, and founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk Katie Horwitch about her day. Big moments include revising the manuscript for her first book, an editing trick we both happen to use, and a method for structuring her week that you'll want to steal.

Follow Katie:

Website: katiehorwitch.com

WANT: WANT: Women Against Negative TalkPodcast: The WANTcast

Book: WANT YOUR SELF released in Fall 2023 by Sounds True

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's a musical theater writer, playwright, editor, and the author of two motivational journals.

Preorder Do It Today: An Encouragement Journal

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Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3vHt5pJ

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Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3vIYYyg

For more daily encouragement, subscribe to Kara's daily newsletter: https://brassringdaily.substack.com/

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Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of two motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.

Original artwork design by Tyler Spangler

Original music composed by Kristoffer Bjarke

Preorder Do It Today: An Encouragement Journal

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3A3PKz1

Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3vHt5pJ

Purchase Do It For Yourself: A Motivational Journal

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QnvDRN

Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3vIYYyg

For more daily encouragement, subscribe to Kara's daily newsletter: https://brassringdaily.substack.com/
Visit www.karacutruzzula.com, or follow her on Instagram @karacut.