Darya Pino has a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California in San Francisco that is almost as fresh and delicious as a summer tomato.  Which is cool.  Because while she was doing the hard work to earn such a wickedly difficult degree, she was simultaneously building her blog-based business Summer Tomato and transforming herself into a food scientist.

A self-described geek who has created for herself an enviable geeked out lifestyle, Darya has many fans.  First among them is Women Are Not Funny Radio show host, Kay Ballard, who in today’s show, retains her adorableness and modesty, but loses all pretense of being cool.  She reveals herself as an out and out fan girl–try not to gag.  But when you think of it, why wouldn’t Kay be a Summer Tomato fan girl?

Through Summer Tomato, Darya has created a framework around health and fitness that anyone could love.  She challenges her Tomato Slice members, her readers on her own blog and on the Huffington Post, and the viewers of her monthly streaming video show, Summer Tomato Live, to “Upgrade Your Healthstyle.”  You may take up the challenge yourself after hearing her explanation of exactly what this means.

Yes, Darya is a foodie and a sci-fi fan–which of these interests inspired her to name her labrapoodle puppy, “Toaster?”  Did she and her internet famous boyfriend actually build their own worm farm? And, could anyone pay her enough to eat a Pringle?  Listen to this show and, you too, will know the answers.

And as a special bonus, Kay shares information about one of her tasty investments.  Yes, listen to this show and you too can become a Puer Tea Mogul.

Featured music is “Hang On Little Tomato,” by the fabulous Portland, Oregon band, Pink Martini.

Join us for a fun conversation that matters.

Are horror movies gaining popularity with women movie goers?  Indie film director Canadian,Sarah MacDonald thinks so.  And she should know.  Sarah is the acclaimed director of two such films, Windows on the Soul and Let Them Eat, an imaginative animated short about violent zombie kittens with murderous laser beam eyes.

Sarah knows a lot about the practical side of horror having grown up on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia where she and her family were without indoor plumbing until Sarah was age of 12.  In fact, it is highly likely that Sarah also grew up without the benefit of hot rollers.  Yikes!   But her remote rural upbringing and voracious love of  reading permitted Sarah to develop her imagination–and a fondness for the Horror genre that continues today.  Her stint at film school sealed the deal and gave Sarah a career path as a horror film director.  A scary and creative path, complete with lurking zombies and a sky full of bats.

Show host Kay Ballard admits to being the World’s Foremost Non-expert on the Horror genre.  What choice does she have but to admit it?  But to permit herself and listeners many high quality future occasions of terror, she scores Sarah’s top ten must see horror movies list.  Bring on the popcorn–and the nail biting!

To receive your own copy of “How to Become a Horror Film Aficionado in Ten Easy and Scary Steps: Indie Film Director Sarah J. MacDonald’s List of Must See Horror Movies” sign up to be on the Women Are Not Funny Radio mailing list.  Our mailing list is called the Awesome Pretties because all of our listeners, of either gender, most certainly are.  To join just click on the button at the upper left corner of this page.

In the meantime, please listen in to a fun and horrific conversation in which Kay reveals that she considers herself the “Female Stanley Kubrick.”

Our featured indie musician is Crissi Cochrane, who sings her enchanting song, “Mexico,” from her latest CD, “Darling, Darling.”

We can’t help but notice that the New Year has more than started.  In fact since it is February, you might say that 2011 is already wearing petticoats.  However, we don’t recommend that you say that, since we don’t exactly know what the expression means.

But our featured guest for this show, the fabulous Dr. Gaby Cora, might know because she knows so much about almost everything.  Certainly she is a beacon of knowledge about all sorts of things that are related to the nexus of mental and physical health and leadership.  Impressively her stress coping tactics permitted her to survive being a guest on this show.

Gaby, Dr. Gabriela Cora, is a medical doctor—a psychiatrist who also has an M.B.A. She’s a nationally known leader in the field of executive leadership. Generously she made a Women Are Funny house call back in December, on the occasion of the release of her new book Leadership Under Pressure: Strategies to Avoid Burnout, Increase Energy, and Improve Your Well-being.  Gaby even wrote the book about the Alpha Female.

At that time of her visit, Gaby had agreed to come by and help you and Kay Ballard write your New Year’s Resolutions, using her brilliant framework, the “Four Pillars of Health.” But it didn’t happen because–well, listen-in to hear the embarrassing and revealing true story about one adorable and modest radio show host who tragically managed to “drop the ball.”

You may think that it is now too late in the year to be concerned about such things. Plus Kay, convinced of her own perfection, usually resists any sort betterment.  Fortunately we learn that Kay has invented the “February New Year’s Resolutions Do-over” for face-saving purposes, and in this episode of Women Are Not Funny Radio, invites you to join her.

Would Gaby approve?

Maybe.  One thing for sure is this fabulously accomplished featured guest is auspiciously in favor of all things auspicious, and wants to lead the way in helping us achieve health as we strive for  success.

Listen in for what is a really fun show about a fun conversation that matters.

Our featured Indie musician is Australian, Elva, singing “When I’m Sleeping.”  She’s here today in advance of the release of her fabulous debut EP–something we eagerly await.

Greetings to the friends and fans and anyone else who should happen to land here.

Quite by accident, or by design, the coming of 2011, also known as Twenty Eleven, happened–just as predicted, and in our opinion, way, way too soon. We simply weren’t ready, and in most respects, we still are not.

But we are strivers, or wannabe strivers, so despite all appearances contrary, we are gearing up for the third season, which possibly will be the Magical Third Season, of Women Are Not Funny Radio.

So what exactly are we doing?

We are making some staffing changes–and additions.

We are finalizing the terms of an exciting syndication deal.

We are seeking sponsors.

We are lining up and booking some incredibly awesome guests.

And we are working on all sorts of promotional efforts–some of them zany. Some of them are sure to bring us a dozen or more new listeners. Yay!

So, thank you for your patience and encouragement.  And please remember that it is a huge task to prove irrefutably that Women Are Not Funny.  Unless they actually are.

Our new season will begin on February 4. We are excited and hope you are too.

For now, click on this link to take a sneak peak at a Remarkable Spelling Baby who is intent on helping us promote the show.

And while you are here, please join the Web’s most glamorous and prestigious list–The Awesome Pretties. Consider this your personal invitation. Because, after all, we are certain that like all of our listeners, male and female, you are both!

Awesome and Pretty, that is.

(Women Are Not Funny Radio is in December Hiatus.  Rather, it is in “Hiatus Fail.”  You needn’t look for further proof of this than this page, where astonishingly, episodes continue to appear.)

Popular Women Are Not Funny featured guest, Martha Giffen has established a new enterprise.  It is a forum style website  called Mommy Galaxy and is designed to build a community of moms—moms who want to turn to Martha, and others with substantial experience in the endeavor of motherhood, for conversation and answers to their sincere or troubling or pesky questions.  Martha has established herself as the “Resident Mom” and has installed herself in the corner of the website she has so cleverly dubbed, “Martha’s Corner.”

Kay Ballard, herself a former mother, saw Martha’s new website as an opportunity to have a fun conversation loosely around the topic of motherhood, knowing in advance that Martha is a good sport who permits teasing and welcomes silliness of every sort.  You will enjoy this conversation if you like listening to the occasional impromptu infomercial.  Or if you want an insider’s view of some of the challenges inherent in setting up a forum.  Or if you want to find out whether Kay was able to persuade Martha to rename herself  “Intergalactic Mom,” “Pope Momma,” or “Mother Superior” for purposes of the new forum.

Shannon Glass, today’s featured guest is “Back by Popular Demand.” Wait a minute!  That is a trite and over-used phrase!  And in the case of its use here, in the very show notes you are in the act of reading, it has the additional odious characteristic of being an outright lie!  Sort of!

Because the truth, the actual truth, is that even though there has not been a clamor from our listeners, to bring Shannon back on to the show, undoubtedly that is because our listeners are amazingly polite and not prone to doing clamoring of any kind.

But the truth doesn’t stop there. There is plenty of truth to go around.  In fact, in the vernacular of the street, we are lousy with truth here, which means we have way too much of it.

So here is what happened.  Women Are Not Funny was planning a December hiatus, since we believe that “hiatus” sounds quite “show biz-y” and we are in show biz after all.  Besides, we need time for planning Season Three.  But then, serendipitously, Kay Ballard learned that Shannon was available.  And Kay is the one who made the demand.

Shannon is not a best-selling author.  She is not a politician.  She is not an Olympic athlete.  And, she is someone with more Klout than clout.  But she has redeeming qualities that make her quite worthy.  For one thing, she hates everyone.  And she is among Kay’s favorite guests.

Join us for a fun conversation that seeks to disprove our very premise.

Do you have time to kill?  Actually, a better question is, do you want to murder time?  In this special edition of Women Are Not Funny, Kay Ballard has a conversation with herself.  Kay talks about some recent personal experiences in social media, attempts at garnering traffic and building an audience for the show, and some possible format changes in the upcoming third season of Women Are Not Funny Radio.

How many comediennes are also experts in hedge fund investing for foundations?  Care to guess?  The answer is a number that is decidedly somewhere between “one” and “three million.”   And regardless of the number, our featured guest, Cathleen Rittereiser is among them.  Unless, of course, she is the only one.  An early adopter of social media and its many diverse platforms, to the delight of her many adoring fans, Cathleen brings her unique sense of humor to everything she does.

And Cathleen is political!  When something is outrageous she protests it!   She is entirely against having Robert Downey, Jr. as the voice of Mr. Peanut.  And she is the sponsor of a Facebook campaign for Subway’s Jared on Dancing with the Stars.  Cathleen even volunteers as a political consultant since she is highly interested in the electoral politics of distant states. She has generously recommended that Meg Whitman recover the $140 million she personally spent losing the California gubernatorial race by selling Pez dispensers on eBay.

Cathleen Rittereiser is the author of Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions and Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice. She is also a speaker and a stand up comic.

Join us for a fun conversation that matters!

Everyone deserves a break now and then, and no one more so than you, a treasured Women Are Not Funny Radio listener.

We will be back next week on November 12 with the fabulous Cathleen Rittereiser as our featured guest.

There is a contemporary cliché that feminists have no sense of humor.  If this absurd cliché were true, feminist activist and author Gloria Feldt might possibly be the exception since in good spirit, she readily agreed to demolish the theory publicly via her conversation with feminist confusionist, Kay Ballard. Is it possible that two such dour card-carrying, slogan T-shirt wearing, singed bra owning feminists, like Gloria and Kay, can bring serious hilarity to their serious discussion about the serious topics of leadership and power?

Gloria’s visit to Women Are Not Funny Radio coincides with the release of her newest book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way We Think About Power and Leadership.  It is a bold book that acknowledges the reasons claiming our power is sometimes difficult, but refuses to accept excuses from those of us who fail to do so. In her book and on her blog, Gloria, a nationally known leader, offers valuable, non-coddling encouragement to all women and insists that we walk boldly towards opportunity and embrace the responsibility to lead.

This will be a fun conversation that truly matters.