SiriusXM and Futuro Studios Announce Second Season of Award-Winning Stars and Stars with Isa Podcast

Host Isa Nakazawa returns for a second season of podcast, where she reads notable guests their birth chart 

Show returns after winning Signal Award for Most Inspirational Podcast  

NEW YORK – September 9, 2025 – SiriusXM and Futuro Studios today announced the return of their highly-rated podcast Stars and Stars with Isa, beginning September 23, 2025. 

In Stars and Stars, host Isa Nakazawa interviews actors, musicians, artists and other notable guests while she reads them their birth charts, revealing what the guests can learn from the cosmos about their purpose, relationships, challenges and love language. The podcast holds a near perfect rating of 4.9 on all top podcast platforms and in its first year garnered Gold in the Signal Awards for Most Inspirational Podcast. 

Listeners can expect moments of revelation, intimate conversations, tears and laughter. Some season two guests include rapper Vic Mensa and writers Raquel Willis and J Wortham. Stars and Stars with Isa will release new episodes every Tuesday, starting on September 23, 2025 on the SiriusXM app and all major podcast platforms. 

Season two takes the experience to the next level with full video episodes on Futuro Media’s YouTube channel. This gives audiences a front row seat as Isa and her guests dive into astrology and life’s big questions about love. These full video episodes will be released in tandem with the audio episodes. 

In a statement, Host Isa Nakazawa said: “I am ecstatic to return for Season two of Stars and Stars with Isa, bringing more conversations, insight, and cosmic wonder. A deep bow of gratitude to my team at Futuro Media, SiriusXM, our sponsor State Farm, and especially our dedicated listeners for your enduring support. My intention for this show is to cultivate a community of people who dare to live their questions, engage fully in the search for meaning, and nurture the wise celestial intelligence within us all. In these times of compounding crises, I hope this show offers a space for reckoning, joy, and shared wrestling with both the big and small — uncovering, again and again, our tenacity and depth. At its best, astrology isn’t about reconciling our complexity — it’s about bringing awareness and acceptance to the totality of who we are.”

Stars and Stars with Isa was the first show launched from SiriusXM’s Listen Next program, an initiative designed to develop diverse audio talent and promote inclusivity in podcasting. Listen Next pairs the power of SiriusXM with leading, diverse-led production companies to help the next generation of creators break through the audio landscape and launch successful, sustainable podcasting careers.  

“The immediate critical success of Stars is a testament to the hunger for a singular show like this. One that taps into the zeitgeist and makes meaning of the world through revelatory conversations that are at once funny and heartfelt,” said Futuro Studios’ Executive Editor Maria Garcia. “Through astrology, Isa makes us reconsider our world, our relationships and our purpose.”

“We’re thrilled to be able to collaborate once again with Futuro and bring listeners another season of Stars and Stars,” says Kameel Stanley, Program Director at SiriusXM Podcasts. “Isa’s approach to these conversations are thoughtful, entertaining, insightful and fun –and the production quality is top notch. We’re excited to see the show continue to grow and gain a foothold in the audio space.”

Stars and Stars with Isa is hosted by Isa Nakazawa. Executive producers are SiriusXM’s Kameel Stanley and Futuro Studios’ Marlon Bishop & Maria Garcia. Senior Producer & Sound Design by Nour Saudi. Engineering by Stephanie Lebow and Julia Caruso. Video editing and mixing by Deanna Chapman and Multitude Productions. Music by Sandra Lawson-Ndu. Show art by Aaron Nestor.

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About Futuro Studios

Futuro Studios is a Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast and original programming studio from the journalism non-profit Futuro Media, committed to uplifting voices, stories and perspectives that have been historically overlooked in the world of audio. Futuro’s team of podcast producers, editors, sound designers and engineers have collectively won some of the highest awards in narrative and investigative journalism, and have been at the forefront of critically-acclaimed projects such as Anything For Selena (WBUR), La Brega (WNYC), LOUD: The History of Reggaeton (Spotify), The Last Cup (NPR), and The Sum of Us (Higher Ground), among others. 

About Sirius XM Holdings Inc. 

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America with a portfolio of audio businesses including its flagship subscription entertainment service SiriusXM; the ad-supported and premium music streaming services of Pandora; an expansive podcast network; and a suite of business and advertising solutions. Reaching a combined monthly audience of approximately 160 million listeners, SiriusXM offers a broad range of content for listeners everywhere they tune in with a diverse mix of live, on-demand, and curated programming across music, talk, news, and sports. For more about SiriusXM, please go to: www.siriusxm.com.