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Quietly Fascinated by Freya Last

Quietly Fascinated by Freya Last

By: Quietly Fascinated by Freya Last
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Host Freya Last features interviews artists, creatives, taste makers, culture creators and fun characters with interesting stories. In her New York life she meets many fascinating people and chats with them about how they found their passion, what made them who they are, how they balance that with their lives, parenthood and talks to them about their current projects. Conversations include creativity, growth, parenting, design, art and balancing it all.Freya Last Social Sciences
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  • 6: Quietly Fascinated - Host Freya Last interviews Danie Raffield on her dream renovation project in Cornwall

    6: Quietly Fascinated - Host Freya Last interviews Danie Raffield on her dream renovation project in Cornwall
    Jun 16 2025
    Danie Raffield is renovating a dream cliff top house in Cornwall, England. It is a once in a lifetime project to make a family home with water views. We talk about how she got the opportunity to buy the house, her projects before which gave her an appetite for the project and how she already had experience of building a creative business, as Creative Director of a lighting company, Raffield Design.
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    51 mins
  • 5: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interviews Jackie Robinson from 42 Pressed

    5: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interviews Jackie Robinson from 42 Pressed
    May 13 2025
    In this episode of Quietly Fascinated, I sit down with Jackie Robinson a designer, a letterpress artist and an entrepreneur based just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. Jackie shares how she first discovered the art of letterpress and the determined path that led her to securing her own press. We talk about what it means to build a business around your craft, the beauty of analog creativity, and the power of community in helping bring a vision to life.

    From navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship to staying rooted in passion, Jackie offers a grounded, inspiring look into the life of a modern maker keeping an old-world art alive.

    Are you aspiring to follow your passion and start your own business? This one episode is for you! Jackie demonstrates how following your craft can lead to a dreamy life, building a house in nature and practicing what lights you up the most, each day. Check out Jackie’s work and learn more about her studio on Instagram @42Pressed or at @jackierobinsondesign. If this episode resonates with you, please consider sharing it, leaving a review, or simply sending it to a friend who’d love it too.

    Links from the show about Charleston include:
    Restaurants
    @basickitchen
    @posthouseinn
    @wineshopov
    @bittyandbeauscoffee
    @offtrackicecream
    @flowershopchs
    @cheznous
    @mercichs
    @harkencafe

    Hotels
    @thedewsberrycharleston
    @hotelemmeline

    Art
    @georgegalleryart
    @ravenroxanne

    Boutiques
    @netteshop
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • 4: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interviews Film Editor Katie McQuerrey

    4: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interviews Film Editor Katie McQuerrey
    Feb 28 2025
    Host Freya Last interviews Katie McQuerrey, a Film Editor, having worked with the Cohen Brothers for many years on prominent films such as Burn After Reading, The Ladykillers and No Country For Old Men. Freya and Katie discuss her work and her career. How she got started, what it means to be a woman in the World of film editing and the challenges of the projects she has worked on. She also talks about her passion for dance and balancing her career with children.

    A true rock n roll creative with an amazing humbleness and sense of humor throughout the discussion.
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    55 mins
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