Gen X Tara Averill and her Gen Z daughter Fiona Averill ask everyone the same question: what do you wish you knew earlier? Then they follow the conversation down whatever rabbit hole it opens.
So far we’ve interviewed a death doula
Gen X Tara Averill and her Gen Z daughter Fiona Averill ask everyone the same question: what do you wish you knew earlier? Then they follow the conversation down whatever rabbit hole it opens.
So far we’ve interviewed a death doula
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Nancy Whang spent the first decade of LCD Soundsystem looking like the coolest girl in the world. cool on stage. She was actually terrified. In this conversation, the musician and artist talks about leaving a small town in Oregon for New York with no plan, navigating life as the only woman in a band full of guys, what she learned about taking up space, and how LCD accidentally created one of the last real rituals New York families have left. Plus: why you still have to get off your phone and go to the party. With host Tara Averill and co-host Fiona Averill.
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“I had horrible stage fright the first decade of the band. That cool, aloof look? That was just my face when I was concentrating really hard.”Nancy Whang
Gen X
Tara Averill landed in New York City at 19 and never left. A 35-year veteran of the city’s creative industry as an East Village actress, Live Bait bartender, and founder of a boutique talent agency. A storyteller at heart, with work featured in Vogue, the New York Times, HuffPost, and the London Times, she’s always mid-reinvention and never gives up.
Gen Z
Fiona Averill is a New York City native currently studying at Northeastern University. A storyteller by instinct, she works across mediums: writing, film, and, yes, the occasional Instagram story. She has a Student Emmy to her name for a documentary exploring overtourism in Spain. Her writing lives primarily on Substack, where she turns her own experiences and observations into personal essays, and occasionally surfaces in professional publications as well.
