Pondersations with Lilan Bowden

Pondersations is where half-formed thoughts, late-night questions, and mildly unhinged ideas get to stretch their legs. Each episode, Lilan Bowden invites a smart, funny friend to sit down and talk through whatever’s rattling around. No rush, no agenda, just seeing where the conversation actually goes. It’s thoughtful, weird, honest, and sometimes unexpectedly clarifying, like flipping channels and landing on something that feels a little too specific to be random. Ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more pondery goodness at backdrop.fm.

Pondersations with Lilan Bowden is a arts podcast hosted by Lilan Bowden, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Lilan Bowden hosts Pondersations with Lilan Bowden, a arts show with 10 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  "My Mind Is a Beautiful Round Marble" with Lily Du

  May 8, 202644 minS1

  Lily Du (Dirty Laundry, Dropout TV) and Lilan Bowden discover they share more than a neighborhood, they share a brain. Or at least, the kind of brain that loses a thought the moment you reach for it. They wander through ADHD game-recognizing-game, the trap of living for your 80-year-old self, and whether therapy has a cutoff age.Ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more pondery goodness at backdrop.fm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  “Two Girlfriends on a Balcony" with Santina Muha

  Apr 24, 202656 min

  Santina Muha (Freakier Frieday, One Day at a Time, Dollhouse ) joins Lilan Bowden on the balcony for hibiscus drinks, honey-roasted macadamia nuts, and a conversation that wanders exactly where it needs to. They get into the universal need to feel seen, what it's like to carry the burden of self-awareness, and why disability representation in reality TV is so glaringly, inexcusably absent (and what it would take to fix it). Also they get into food intuition as a love language and why sometimes the most generous thing you can do for a friend is just point out the cute, funny things they do. Ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more pondery goodness at backdrop.fm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  “People Pleasing is Just Kind of Lying” with Alex Song-Xia

  Apr 10, 20261h 6m

  TV writer, comedian, and deeply introspective friend Alex Song Xia joins Lilan Bowden for one of those unplanned conversations that somehow becomes the best day. They wander through overextending and under-communicating in love, what it means to let people be disappointed in you (and survive it), and how art can transform a mess of feelings into something another person can actually keep. Plus: ADHD identity, reparenting yourself while TikTok astrologers narrate your season, and why sometimes the most honest version of you is the one holding the microphone.Ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more pondery goodness at backdrop.fm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #6

  " We're Decades Old Friends" with Spencer Williams

  Apr 3, 202641 minS1

  Spencer Williams and Lilan Bowden go way back. Improv troupe, poetry workshops, each other's childhood homes... This week, they follow the thread from college to craft, exploring what it means to pursue a vocation versus a title, how poetry workshopping taught them to let work speak without the maker in the room, and why Spencer's experiential theater gives audiences something most art never does: something wholly, concretely their own to keep.Ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more pondery goodness at backdrop.fm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Episode #5

  " My True Nature is Enchanted" with Lamar Woods

  Mar 20, 202657 minS1

  Two sensitive souls tumble into thoughts of being generous and believing in something more. Comedy writer, rapper, and deep feeler Lamar Woods joins Lilan Bowden for a conversation that wanders from ADHD self-diagnosis and OCD immersion therapy fears to how we feel spiritual and how religion, or the lack of, shapes that for us. Ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more pondery goodness at backdrop.fm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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