The Questions Bar: Girlfriends raise a glass as they ponder the questions of the day

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August 31 2026

In our podcast and video show on The Questions Bar, we invite you to listen in on a chat with girlfriends talking about topics that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts

Meet our hosts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope Katz Gibbs in Washington, DC.

On Season 4 of The Questions Bar: We are featuring healers who are helping others go deeper into their practice of finding joy and inner peace. Our guests are wellness specialists, life coaches, therapists, authors, and others who provide insights, tips, and exercises to guide our audience on their own healing journey.

Our 4 questions include: 

  • Tell us about your own healing journey — where did you start? Where are you now?
  • What advice do you have for others on how to get on the path?
  • In your practice, what have you found works best to help you stay sane and find joy?
  • Based on your work, please share 4 tips for our audience to put into practice today!

About our guest: Alexandra C. Salas, PhD is an educator, entrepreneur, and wellness practitioner. In addition to writing, she enjoys teaching, traveling, and exploring other passions and interests. Learn more: alexandra-salas.author-pages.com

Alexandra’s books include:

  • The Language of Wellness: A Guide to Wellness Literacy and Sustainable Well-Being
  • Mapping a Sustainable Life for Caregivers: Pathways to Harmony and Well-Being
  • Mapping a Sustainable Life for Caregivers Companion Guide: Checklists, Reflection Exercises, and Planning Tools for Sustainable Caregiving, and Numbers and Sense: Ensuring Student Success One Cohort at a Time.

You are invited: Would you like to be on The Questions Bar? Let us know what’s going on in your world!


About Alina Z: An award-winning Board Certified Health Coach, Chopra Life Coach, Detox Specialist, and former chef, named creator of the #1 Best Diet in America by Harper’s Bazaar, Alina holds a degree from Parsons School of Design and a Master’s in Communication, blending style, soul, and science into one transformational experience. Through her signature Wholistic Self-Discovery Coaching Program, Alina helps high-achieving women reconnect with their true purpose by transforming how they eat, dress, and live. Alina’s philosophy? When you eat to nourish your soul and dress to express your truth, you shift your inner state — and from that space, everything changes. Peace returns. Confidence rises. Sparkle comes back. Learn more: alinaz.com.

About Hope Katz Gibbs: The founder and president of Inkandescent® Inc., a national PR firm and publishing company that this long-time journalist founded in 2008, Hope is on a mission to help entrepreneurs supersize their small businesses. She and her team of 10 publish online magazines (InkandescentWomen.com and BeInkandescent Health & Wellness: BeInkandescent.com), produce dozens of podcast shows on InkandescentRadio.com, and film, direct, and produce videos featured on Inkandescent.tv.Inkandescent also promotes and publishes books, including her own titles: PR Rules: The Playbook — an entrepreneur’s guide to supersizing your small business using the 8 Steps to PR Success™ — and Why Divorce: 5 Reasons to Leave. Learn more: Inkandescent.us.

Current Number of Episodes: 21

Welcome to the Questions Bar — Inkandescent’s new podcast and video show that invites you in to listen in on a chat with two girlfriends talking about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope Katz Gibbs in Washington, DC.

Two of the founders of the Empowered Together Network, on InkandescentWomen.com, began talking offline about the impact of the current administration on their lives. That conversation inspired Alina to suggest “Let’s start recording these! I bet other women feel just like we do and will benefit from knowing they aren’t alone.”

And so the Questions Bar was born. 

While the episodes are recorded and produced by our editor, Nelson Benavides, the plan has long been to start rolling them out every Tuesday at 2pm EST. Each episode has a theme — love, kindness, don’t lean in, and more. Listen, watch, and if you’d like more, we are happy to share the transcript with you.

There’s more: Starting this summer, we plan to take your questions and also invite other girlfriends to be on the show so we can talk about the issues that we’re all facing around the world in 2025.

Join us and raise a glass as we celebrate the power of sisterhood on The Questions Bar!

About Alina Z: An award-winning Board Certified Health Coach, Chopra Life Coach, Detox Specialist, and former chef, named creator of the #1 Best Diet in America by Harper’s Bazaar, Alina holds a degree from Parsons School of Design and a Master’s in Communication, blending style, soul, and science into one transformational experience. Through her signature Wholistic Self-Discovery Coaching Program, Alina helps high-achieving women reconnect with their true purpose by transforming how they eat, dress, and live. Her philosophy? When you eat to nourish your soul and dress to express your truth, you shift your inner state — and from that space everything changes. Peace returns. Confidence rises. Sparkle comes back. Learn more: alinaz.com.

About Hope Katz Gibbs: The founder and president of Inkandescent® Inc., a national PR firm and publishing company that this long-time journalist founded in 2008, Hope is on a mission to help entrepreneurs supersize their small businesses. She and her team of 10 publish online magazines (InkandescentWomen.com and BeInkandescent Health & Wellness: BeInkandescent.com), produce dozens of podcast shows on InkandescentRadio.com, and film, direct, and produce videos featured on Inkandescent.tv. Inkandescent also promotes and publishes books, including her own titles: PR Rules: The Playbook — an entrepreneur’s guide to supersizing your small business using the 8 Steps to PR Success™ — and Why Divorce: 5 Reasons to Leave. Learn more: Inkandescent.us.

All Episodes
Saturday, July 18th, 2026

Season 3: Ep20 Marguerita Cheng, CFP® Pro shares her insights on what 2026 will bring to her life, and the women she inspires to be a financially savvy

Welcome to Season 3 of The Questions Bar!  In our podcast and video show, sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, we invite you in to listen in as girlfriends talk about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope Katz Gibbs in Washington DC. On Season 3, we bring on more inspiring guests who answer 4 Questions that tell the stories of their lives: What are you doing these daysClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
Season 3: Ep20 Marguerita Cheng, CFP® Pro shares her insights on what 2026 will bring to her life, and the women she inspires to be a financially savvy
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Thursday, April 9th, 2026

Season 3: Ep19 Dr. Paula Petry shares her insights on her profound project for children Divine Design: What 2026 will bring to all of our lives

Welcome to Season 3 of The Questions Bar!  In our podcast and video show, sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, we invite you in to listen in as girlfriends talk about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope Katz Gibbs in Washington DC. On Season 3, we bring on more inspiring guests who answer 4 Questions that tell the stories of their lives: What are you doing these daysClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
Season 3: Ep19 Dr. Paula Petry shares her insights on her profound project for children Divine Design: What 2026 will bring to all of our lives
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Friday, December 26th, 2025

Season 2: Ep18 Meet the newest addition to the InkandescentPR team — master teacher Erika Andrea, our new social media manager

Today on the Questions Bar: Check out Ep18 of the show where we interview a woman who teaches that inner-knowing, and not taking shit, guides powerful women to live the life of their dreams! In our podcast and video show sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, we invites you in to listen in on a chat with two girlfriends talking about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope KatzClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
Season 2: Ep18 Meet the newest addition to the InkandescentPR team — master teacher Erika Andrea, our new social media manager
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Friday, December 5th, 2025

The Questions Bar Season 2: Ep17 You won’t want to miss our interview with international powerhouse Andrea Walton, founder of the Concrete Rose Scholarship Foundation

Today on the Questions Bar: Check out Ep17 of the show where we interview women who teach us that inner-knowing, and not taking shit, guides all powerful women to live the life of their dreams! In our podcast and video show sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, we invite you in to listen in on a chat with two girlfriends talking about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and HopeClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar Season 2: Ep17 You won't want to miss our interview with international powerhouse Andrea Walton, founder of the Concrete Rose Scholarship Foundation
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025

Season 2: Ep16 Meet AlinaZ’s inspiration — her mom, Elena Masarsky, a Russian powerhouse who has overcome political and personal adversity and lights the way for other women to do the same

Today on the Questions Bar: Check out Ep16 of the show where we interview a woman who teaches that inner-knowing, and not taking shit, guides powerful women to live the life of their dreams! In our podcast and video show sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, we invites you in to listen in on a chat with two girlfriends talking about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope KatzClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
Season 2: Ep16 Meet AlinaZ's inspiration — her mom, Elena Masarsky, a Russian powerhouse who has overcome political and personal adversity and lights the way for other women to do the same
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Thursday, October 9th, 2025

Season 2: Ep15 Today we talk about Alina’s two new books — “12 Selves” and “Lessons from my Birkin”

Welcome to Ep15 of the Questions Bar, the podcast and video show sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, which invites you in to listen in on a chat with two girlfriends talking about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope Katz Gibbs in Washington DC. The mission of the show: To share tools and experiences to manage stress and find hope in our lives each and every day. InClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
Season 2: Ep15 Today we talk about Alina's two new books — "12 Selves" and "Lessons from my Birkin"
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Sunday, August 10th, 2025

Season 2: Ep14 Jennifer Kurtz Rubin, creator of Petroglyph Ceramic Studio, is our star on this week’s episode of The Questions Bar

Friday, September 5: Welcome to Ep14 of the Questions Bar, the new podcast and video show sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, which invites you in to listen in on a chat with two girlfriends talking about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope Katz Gibbs in Washington DC. The mission of the show: To share tools and experiences to manage stress and find hope in our lives eachClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
Season 2: Ep14 Jennifer Kurtz Rubin, creator of Petroglyph Ceramic Studio, is our star on this week's episode of The Questions Bar
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Saturday, August 9th, 2025

Season 2: Ep13 Artist and Activist Cynthia de Lorenzi answers our 3 big questions this week on The Questions Bar

Friday, August 29: Welcome to Ep13 of the Questions Bar, the new podcast and video show sponsored by Inkandescent Women magazine, which invites you in to listen in on a chat with two girlfriends talking about topics of the day that touch their minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and hearts: AlinaZ in Los Angeles and Hope Katz Gibbs in Washington DC. The mission of the show: To share tools and experiences to manage stress and find hope in our lives eachClick here to listen to the podcast!

The Questions Bar
The Questions Bar
Season 2: Ep13 Artist and Activist Cynthia de Lorenzi answers our 3 big questions this week on The Questions Bar
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