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They say the average woman dies with a pound of lipstick in her stomach. \u201cI have a feeling when I go they\u2019ll find five,\u201d says Davia Nelson of The Kitchen Sisters.\xa0Along with radio and podcasting, lipstick is a bit of an obsession. Over the years of producing and fundraising for our stories, we began to merge the two and started thinking that an intriguing way to raise money for public media storytelling might just be our own line of lipstick.

The Kitchen Sisters are Dreaming in Public of starting a line of lipstick, partnering with the right makeup company\xa0to raise new monies for podcast and public radio producers for stories coming from new and exciting lips. And they are dreaming of chronicling the creation of this line in a podcast series called \u2014 Lipstick Traces. Sort of a StartUp for Makeup.

Ours will be a sound and story themed line of lipsticks\u2014Sonic Boom, Phantom Power, The Truth, Room Tone, The Allusionist\u2026 Lipstick Traces\u2014Dreaming in Public of the power of a lipstick to seed new stories from new rouged lips.

Dreaming in Public is the theme of this year\u2019s Radiotopia Fundraiser mini features. All of the podcast creators in Radiotopia\u2019s Network are producing works about the kinds of stories we might do with enough story-making funds\u2014funds that allow us to to go deeper and further, out on the next limb with our stories.

Your support for Radiotopia, a network of 18 fiercely independent shows, makes realizing those dreams possible. Take a listen to all of the Dreaming in Public stories at radiotopia.fm.

Make your mark. Support The Kitchen Sisters Present and all of your favorite Radiotopia shows. Donate at radiotopia.fm