What is Alana O’Herlihy Even Doing?

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Photographer, director, mixed-media artist & AOH Studios Founder Alana O’Herlihy joins forces with Kyle to discuss how she went all in on her creative destiny to get where she is today & creates such compelling self-portraits, the iconic David Lynch and his impact on Kyle & Alana’s art, authenticity & careers, why social media is a creative playground, Kyle & Alana’s Balenciaga shoot for Vanity Fair Oscars, Jack Nicholson’s timeless appeal, the key to acting, Alana’s family ties to TWIN PEAKS & her Cosmo cover shoot with Margaret Qualley, tales from BLUE VELVET & the legendary Isabella Rossellini, Kyle’s remedy for anxiety, Alana’s new self-portraiture book I Used to Be Cool and more!

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Executive Producers: iHeart Media, Elvis Duran Podcast Network, and Full Picture Productions Executive Produced for Full Picture Productions by Desiree Gruber + Anne Walls Gordon

Produced by Ben Fingeret, Nora Faber, and Maia Mizrahi
Editing by Mikey Harmon and Nicholas Giuricich
Research by Kimberly Walls
Music by Yatta

Art by Danica Robinson

Additional GFX by Chris Olfers/The Southern Influence
Styling by Dot Bass

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:04.3	What are we even doing?
0:11.0	What are we even doing?
0:13.7	We're here talking with Alana O'Hare-Lahee.
0:17.9	Can I pronounce that properly?
0:19.1	Thank you very much.
0:20.3	On the podcast, this is what are we even doing.
0:23.4	I'm Kyle McLaughlin, your host for the evening.
0:27.0	We are going to talk with actors, photographers, musicians, creatives of all types,
0:32.5	and you fit many of those categories.
0:34.3	Right, yes, this is true.
0:35.6	And we're going to just discuss about the creative process,
0:59.1	which is very interesting to me. So buckle up, hang on, here we go. What are we even doing? What are we even doing? Hi, guys. I'm Alana. Welcome. Welcome, Alana. It's so nice to... Thank you so much for having me. This is so fun. I'm so glad. But before we get to that, I wanted to ask you something. What is your core memory when you realized that you were going to do what you're doing now?
1:06.1	Was there a moment in your life? Was it a culmination? Yes. I think that there was a scary moment when I dropped out of college, where I said to myself,
1:10.8	I have to make this work.
1:13.2	And I don't have a backup plan.
1:14.7	And for me, backup plans are hindering.
1:18.7	So that moment was scary.
1:22.2	And I made sure in that moment, I would do whatever it takes
1:26.9	to make it happen, basically.
1:28.3	I was about 22.
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