Getting Real with Megan Piphus: From Puppets to Powerhouse; Using her voice to change the world.

Get Real with Caroline Hobby

Nashville Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Megan is a four-time Emmy-winning ventriloquist, singer, and producer—and the first Black woman puppeteer on Sesame Street. She began teaching herself ventriloquism at just 10 years old, driven by a dream that would shape her life. Despite earning degrees in economics and finance and building a successful career in real estate, Megan never let go of her passion for performance. After years of performing on stages big and small—including America’s Got Talent, Kelly Clarkson, TODAY, Good Morning America—Megan joined Sesame Street voicing the beloved character Gabrielle. A mother of two, Megan often speaks about the importance of play, visualization, and staying true to the dreams placed in your heart. She credits her use of vision boards and manifesting as key tools in creating the life she imagined—proof that dreams, when nurtured, really can come true. Her album Cinderella Sweep, is out this July, showcasing and empowering young women. Her story is one of talent, grit, and unwavering belief—an inspiring reminder that play has power, and that our childhood dreams are never too far out of reach.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:16.0	Caroline, she's a queen of talking, hey, what's on your mind?
0:22.5	She's getting real, not afraid to feel.
0:24.6	Take a soul to soul.
0:25.7	Just let her flow.
0:27.1	No one can do it quite like Caroline.
0:31.8	It's time for Caroline.
0:34.5	I'm so excited to be here with Megan Pithas. How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.
0:41.7	Thanks for coming on. I mean, look at your trophies. Are those Grammys and Emmys and some sort of like baseball or golf situation?
0:50.6	They are combined trophies of my fiance and I. So the Emmys are mine. So I've gotten four Emmys,
0:58.0	which I never imagined that would happen. But I worked on a project with the University of Cincinnati.
1:05.0	And they had an existing curriculum called Smart Path where they taught basic financial literacy to kids. And so they found me
1:14.4	through my mother who's an educator in Cincinnati because she used it for her students. And they said,
1:20.6	is this your daughter? She does puppets. We'd love to connect with her. And so we developed all of
1:25.3	these supplemental resources to go with the curriculum and use puppets and songs to further the concepts of supply and demand, the difference between goods and services, how to make a budget.
1:37.5	And those resources and videos and content were put on PBS, and we end up getting Emmys for children's content for them.
1:48.2	So you're like teaching them real life skills.
1:51.2	Yeah, real life skills that I learned in college.
1:54.4	Tell me about it.
1:55.2	This is what we need to be learning at a young age.
1:57.3	Is it still out there?
1:58.3	Can we still find it for our kids?
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