Meet the Satellite Sisters

Lian, Liz and Julie are the 3 hosts of Satellite Sisters.

Lian Dolan

Lian Dolan is a writer, producer and podcaster. In addition to hosting and producing Satellite Sisters, Lian the author of four novels: Lost and Found in Paris was published by William Morrow/Harper Collins in April 2022 and three best-selling novels, Helen of Pasadena, Elizabeth the First Wife, and The Sweeney Sisters. She has written regularly for Working Mother Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine and Pasadena Magazine. She graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California with a degree in Classics. She lives in Pasadena with her husband, two grown sons and one big German shepherd.

Learn more: LianDolan.com

Liz Dolan

Liz Dolan has been Chief Marketing Officer for everyone from Nike and Oprah to Fox Sports and National Geographic. Her company Mixed Zone Media works in sports marketing. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the World Athletics Championships Oregon’22, coming to the US for the first time ever. Liz has made a lot of lists: 100 Most Powerful People in Sports, 100 Most Powerful Women in Cable, Marketer of the Year. She might also be the Satellite Sister Least Likely To Host Thanksgiving Dinner. She lives in Santa Monica, California and is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature. She is currently enrolled in obedience school with her dog Hooper.

Julie Dolan

Julie Dolan is the Satellite Sisters foreign correspondent, having lived and worked in Bangkok and Moscow. Julie and her husband now live in Dallas, Texas but she continues to travel extensively including “girlfriend trips” to North Korea, Uzbekistan and Northern Iraq. Previously, she worked at a number of top universities including UCLA, Stanford, Tulane and Penn State. Julie’s alter ego is Urban Nana because she is willing to temporarily relocate to Brooklyn in January to help take care of a grandchild. As Urban Nana she has regular assignments helping her two grown sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law and five grandchildren.

Satellite Sisters History

Satellite Sisters is a weekly podcast produced by Mudbath Productions and sold by True Native Media. It’s an award-winning pep talk for modern women. Hosted by Lian Dolan, Liz Dolan and Julie Dolan, real sisters with very different lives, Satellite Sisters informs listeners daily lives with entertaining conversation, smart advice and positive support. With laughter and friendship, Satellite Sisters tackles current events, family/friends and pets, health and wellness, culture, travel and entertainment, work and careers, life transitions and decisions and bad haircuts. Satellite Sisters began its life as a weekly public radio show created with WNYC/ OPB and syndicated by PRI. Satellite Sisters then moved to ABC Radio where it was a live three-hour-a-day, six-days-a-week talk show for five years. In 2007, it became a pioneering podcast, one of the first for women. Now in its 20th year, Satellite Sisters remains an upbeat, female-forward spot in the media landscape.

In addition to the podcast, the Satellite Sisters have written two books, Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses and You’re the Best: A Celebration of Friendship. They’ve written for O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine and toured with Ms. Winfrey on her Hello, Gorgeous Tour. They were featured on CBS Sunday Morning, The Today Show and in print from People Magazine to The New York Times. They’ve won more than a dozen awards for excellence in women’s media.

Sidekick Sisters

Sheila and Monica, the 2 sidekick sisters, visit from time to time.

Sheila Dolan a is a longtime teacher, currently living and working in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College and has two Masters in Teaching. Her philosophy of teaching is simple: every child can learn, just not on the same day. As the self-styled entertainment reporter on Satellite Sisters, she is a two-time individual Gracie Allen Award Winner. She’s single with an adult daughter and son-in-law. Sheila is a swimmer and once went on a strenuous hike.

Monica Dolan has spent most of her career as hospital R.N. specializing in cardiac care. She has spent more than two decades in intensive care units and operating rooms working on studies for approval of new medical devices. Currently she is a clinical research coordinator for acute stroke trials at a university hospital. She has a B.S. from Georgetown, is single and lives in Portland, Oregon. Monica embraces the damp Northwest lifestyle by going to the movies on Saturday afternoon, reading hard-back books from the library and drinking coffee.

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An award-winning podcast that’s part pep talk, part weekly check-in, like having coffee with a friend.

Satellite Sisters informs listeners daily lives with entertaining conversation, smart advice and positive support.

Satellite Sisters

Another special episode of Lizness School for Satellite Sisters listeners. Two of our side questers on this episode are longtime Satellite Sisters – both stand-up comic Mary Warwick and educator Tara James. You may know them both from the Satellite Sisters Facebook group!

Side Quests are a key pillar of Lizness School. Today on Season 2 Episode 20, 3 listeners share their side quest stories with us. Thank you to Corey DuBrowa, Mary Warwick and Tara James.

More on Corey’s music writing:

Corey’s current book “An Ideal For Living” https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/

Fast Company, Corey in “day gig” mode: https://www.fastcompany.com/user/coreydubrowa

Rolling Stone, the most clicked-upon thing he’s written in the music world:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/live-report-north-by-northwest-110891/

Corey’s new book coming out Spring 2026 is “Twelve Tunes From Urban Bohemia: Portland’s Musical History in Song”

For more on Mary’s stand-up comedy, go here: https://www.marywarwickcomedy.com/

More on Mary Warwick at Erma Bombeck’s Writer’s Workshop

If you want to connect with Tara James about her vision to provide free college counseling to high school students who need it, email us at liznessschool@gmail.com and we will forward.

We are still interested in YOUR side quests, so email us with the deets! Voice memos are welcome, too. liznessschool@gmail.com

If you are new to Lizness School, we suggest you listen to Season 1 to hear all about Liz’s year as a Stanford Fellow. Everything from Neuroscience and Chinese History to Pickleball! Plus a great community experience with her fellow DCI Fellows.

Season 2 is about how she puts her lessons to work in the wild with the help of her millennial mentor Leah Sutherland.

To listen to Liz +. Leah’s recap of Lizness School Season 1, go to our FINALE here.

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