noseyAF: conversations about art, activism, and social change
noseyAF: conversations about art, activism, and social chan…
noseyAF is a podcast about what artists and changemakers actually do. Hosted by artist and filmmaker Stephanie Graham, it’s part conversation, part creative confessional—and always curious.
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noseyAF: conversations about art, activism, and social change
noseyAF: conversations about art, activism, and social change

conversations about art, activism, and social change

I've always been the one asking questions that make people go, 'ooh, good question'. That's exactly what noseyAF is about.

I'm Stephanie Graham—artist, filmmaker, and your host. On this podcast, I dig into the lives of artists, activists, and everyday originals making work that matters.

What was the moment you knew you had to make this project? How do you handle rejection? What did your spouse say when you got into a six-month residency? What's the weirdest place inspiration struck?

These aren't polished success stories—they're honest conversations about what creative life actually looks like, without the highlight reel.

noseyAF is about the full artist life: the culture-shifting projects and the messy pivots, the breakthroughs and the 3am doubts, the meaningful work and the side hustles that fund it.

Subscribe and get in the mix—I'm so glad you're here.

Recent Episodes

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Aug. 18, 2026

Semoine Boyer of CocoaLuxe: Routine to Ritual, and Fragrance for When You Can't Get Away

Ep 134: Semoine Boyer of CocoaLuxe: Routine to Ritual, and Fragrance for When You Can't Get Away Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 She started making these products because she needed somewhere to go when she couldn't actually go anywhere. Semoine Boyer is the founder of CocoaLuxe Home and Spa: candles, body butters, scrubs, oils, and body sprays, all made with fragrance blends she creates herself. She started making them because she needed downtime from being a wife, a mom
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Aug. 17, 2026

Type C Energy and Design With Soul with Sunni of Sunni Aesthetics.

Ep 133: Type C Energy and Design With Soul with Sunni of Sunni Aesthetics. Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 Only about 4% of designers in the US are Black. She named her podcast after that number, and it's gone down since. Sunni runs Sunni Aesthetics, a creative studio doing branding, creative direction, and visual storytelling. She came up through film production and set decoration in Atlanta, flunked out of design school right before the pandemic, spent quarantine drawing
132
Aug. 16, 2026

Sun Food and Decolonizing What We Eat with Radius of RA's Natural Abundance

Ep # 132: Sun Food and Decolonizing What We Eat with Radius of RA's Natural Abundance (noseyAF Classic) Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 This conversation originally aired on Lumpen Radio on July 28, 2025, as Ep #77. Bringing it back for the series. He'll tell you the box never existed. Radius is a musician, photographer, chef, and community builder out of Chicago's South Side. He runs ETC Records, publishes photo zines from his travels, co-founded The Love Fridge Chicago,
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Aug. 15, 2026

We Heal Together with Aya Nikole Cook of Haji Healing Salon

Ep 125: We Heal Together with Aya Nikole Cook of Haji Healing Salon Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 Recorded live on Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM What happens when the person who built the healing space finally has to heal herself? Aya Nicole Cook built Haji Healing Salon because everything she needed growing up on the South Side required leaving the South Side to find. Ten years later, she's in the middle of what she calls a death portal, undoing a decade of go-go-go and rebuild
131
Aug. 14, 2026

From Black and White to Living in Color with Alexis "Lexi" Williams of Aloha Glamour

Ep 131: From Black and White to Living in Color with Alexis "Lexi" Williams of Aloha Glamour Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 A Black woman from Mississippi became a Queen Mother in Ghana. It was not on her bingo card. Alexis "Lexi" Williams founded Aloha Glamour after losing her daughter Lauren Taylor, who was born and died in Hawaii in 2015 while Lexi was stationed there. Everything was black and white for a long time after. When she started seeing color again, she starte
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Aug. 13, 2026

Explaining Investing Through a TJ Maxx Run with Nadia C. Vanderhall of Brands + Bands

Ep 130: Day 13 Explaining Investing Through a TJ Maxx Run with Nadia C. Vanderhall of Brands + Bands Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 She lost her job in the Great Recession and drained her 401(k) before she knew the first thing about money. Nadia C. Vanderhall learned it the hard way, then learned it the real way working in product marketing at a bank, where she kept noticing the products weren't built for the people who needed them most. She started posting what she was l