Feist searches for connection in her new podcast Pleasure Studies

Feist is a Canadian indie icon whose latest album, Pleasure, has inspired a cookbook and several fan-led listening events. Now the record is on to the next stage of its creative evolution: a storytelling podcast of the same name, hosted by the artist herself. 

Each episode of the podcast touches on a different theme, such as loss or perseverance, and features three or four people who share their own stories about a difficult journey in their lives. For instance, Olympic hurdler Perdita Felicien, who tripped over the first hurdle in what would be her last appearance on the Olympic track.

Feist sat down with host Tom Power live in the q studio to talk about finding the courage to branch out with this new project, and how it helped her forge through her own challenges.

WATCH | Feist's full interview with Tom Power:

"Our subjectivity really becomes this closed climate ecosystem," said Feist. "We're in a diving bell of our version of reality and in there you can kind of have impunity to justify whatever you're feeling and whatever tendency toward negativity — or just feeling overwrought and overrun. And then, all of a sudden, you see that everyone else is going through the same thing."

Pleasure Studies premieres today and can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

— Produced by ​Vanessa Greco