I'd Rather
be Home.

Elizabeth Starks is co-founder of Bovina Farm & Fermentory, a Dutch Colonial farmhouse in the Catskills where she and husband Jake Sackett open their doors each week to serve home-cooked meals with house-brewed beer.

In this episode, we spoke with her about how her home was built for hosting, gathering, and celebrating throughout all of the Hudson Valley's seasons.

Steve Soderholm is a perfumer, drummer, and co-founder of Ranger Station, known for its award-winning candles, colognes, and room scents.

In this episode, Steve shares how designing fragrances is similar to songwriting and how to use scent to trigger memory, create emotion, and transform how we experience home (plus his tips for scenting your home.)

Rumaan Alam is a best-selling author, father, and acute observer of life. His novels include Leave the World Behind, That Kind of Mother, and Entitlement, and his work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times.

In this episode, we explore how he uses homes in his writing—as characters, symbols of identity, aspiration, and tension—and talk about the serendipitous connection we had when the home we designed that became the film set for Leave the World Behind.

Tze Chun is a curator, collector, artist, and founder of Uprise Art, a women-led NYC gallery helping people collect original work by emerging artists.

In this episode, we talk about how to choose art you love, making collecting more accessible, how to live with art at home as a parent and what she loves most about her own home.

Dana Cama is a conservation-focused wildlife photographer for Natural Habitat Adventures that lives full-time in a converted Sprinter van with her two dogs. From bear camps in Alaska to swimming with whales in Baja Sur, she captures intimate moments in nature to fund and protect fragile ecosystems.

In this episode, we explore her nomadic lifestyle, eco-tourism work, and how glimpses of climate disaster at a young age led her to her life today where she calls the outdoors home.

Natalie Hinds is an Olympic Bronze Medalist, 5x World Champion, and 20x All American swimmer, as well as a textile artist and advocate for diversity & representation in swimming.

In this episode, we talk about creating a home for healing, the meditative spaces she values, how rest and recovery supported her comeback, and what her dream pool and gym might look like.

Kasey Klimes is a designer, researcher, and technologist who has shaped city planning in Europe and led AR projects at Google. Now developing AI to improve education and workplace productivity, he explores how environments shape who we become.

In this conversation, he connects philosophies of urban strategy, home design, and digital systems to show how our environments—physical and virtual—define us.

Lachlan Turczan is an artist who uses water, light, and sound to create installations that reframe how we perceive space and objects. His work spans galleries from LA to Milan, hotel installations in the Catskills and Saudi Arabia, and site-specific pieces for iconic homes.

In this episode, we talk about the trippy, technical ways natural elements and technology merge in his art.

Grace Erickson is a florist, creator, and the founder of The Yellow Flower Truck, a restored ’50s Ford she converted into a flower shop on wheels. What began as a personal hobby has blossomed into a career bringing joy across LA.

In this episode, we talk about her dream garden, how flowers shape her home, and how her passion for flowers helped her create community and a business around it.

Tina Roth Eisenberg (better known as SwissMiss) is a designer, entrepreneur, and community builder. She founded CreativeMornings, the world’s largest face-to-face creative community, along with ventures like Tattly and TeuxDeux.

In this episode, we talk about how community makes a city feel like home and how opening up and inviting people in fuels creativity and a joyful life.

As Beverage Director of John Fraser Restaurant Group, Amy Racine oversees the drink menu for over 20 restaurants across the country, from Tatiana at Lincoln Center to The Terrace at The Times Square EDITION. She was recently named Sommelier of the Year by Wine Enthusiast.

In this episode, Amy shares how someone who develops experiences for hosting thinks about hosting at home, the best drink to have ready for guests, and the one item she’d steal from her restaurants for her own space.

Scott Richards is an artist, collector, and surfer from Newport Beach who creates objects and artifacts celebrating surf culture, place, and imperfection. With a background in graphic design and a passion for the hand-crafted, Scott’s work preserves places worth remembering.

In this episode, we talk about his connection to the water, how he separates life and work, his love of community, and plenty of surf talk.