People at the Core

About People at the Core

From The Greenpoint Palace bar in Brooklyn, New York writers and bartenders, Rita and Marisa, have intimate conversations with an eclectic mix of people from all walks of life about their passions, paranoia and perspectives. Featured guests could be artists or authors, exterminators or private investigators, or the person sitting next to you at the bar.

Publisher

Marisa Cadena & Rita Puskas

Category

arts · comedy · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

30 Apr 2024

Latest episode

25 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

34 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Jul 2026

   Going Online to Get People Offline?: Julia Moak of Greenpointers.com on Career Pivots, Hyperlocal News and Building Community

   Your neighborhood has secrets, and most of them never reach citywide news. We sit down with Julia Moak, the owner and publisher of Greenpointers.com, to talk about what hyperlocal journalism looks like when it is done by people who actually live the story. Julia shares how she grew up in Queens, studied in Manhattan, moved through Williamsburg, and ultimately put down roots in Greenpoint, then made a wild career pivot by quitting a high-pressure tech job and buying a neighborhood news site wi...

2. 

   15 Jun 2026

   You Don't Have to Be in the Same Room to Feel Love: Lauren Schell on Retiring in Florida, Bartending, and Practicing Reiki on Humans AND Animals

   Something weird happened during our Reiki sessions: our dogs got involved. Not “cute background nap” involved, but focused, locked-in, making-eye-contact, breaking-character involved and it made us ask better questions about what Reiki is and why it can feel so real even when you can’t “prove” it with your eyes. We’re joined by Lauren Schell, a respected New York City bartender who now practices Reiki for both humans and animals. We talk about what pulled her toward energy healing after year...

3. 

   31 Oct 2025

   Not Shying Away From the Awful Edges: Tré Miller Rodriguez On Grief, Ghostwriting, Love and Loss

   The night can bend a life. Tré Miller Rodriguez walks us through the moment everything changed—waking to find her husband gone—and the choice to pick up a pen before the pieces even settled. What starts as an obituary and a eulogy turns into a grief memoir that refuses to look away, from the strange etiquette of wedding rings after widowhood to the first shaky attempts at desire and dating. Along the way, Tré names “grief brain,” the fog that shields you while it steals your year, and shows h...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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