Shows / Magic Thread Media
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The Earth on Edge: The Climate Movement with Harriet Shugarman
Harriet Shugarman is a multiple award-winning author, influencer, and connector in the climate movement. Harriet is the Executive Director of ClimateMama, an…
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Tips on Team Collaboration and Strategic Alliance w/ Bo Brabo
How do you collaborate with your team? Do you take the time to ask their opinions, check in with them, find out what they need from you as their leader?In this…
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Gail Nelson-Holgate: Broadway, Blues, and the Edges of Versatility
The incandescent Gail Nelson-Holgate is a versatile singer-actress, equally at home with Opera, Broadway, Theatre and Clubs. New York Credits include…
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The Edges of Indie Theatre
Joan Kane (director/producer/dramaturg/writer/actor) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus, a theatre company in New York City.Joan was awarded Best…
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Is It Possible To Be Your Authentic Self At Work w/ Sean Moore
How comfortable are you at work? Do you feel that you can truly be yourself or do you show only a version of yourself for fear of being judged by colleagues?In…
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Pushing the Boundaries of Understanding the Foster Care System & Celebrating Resiliency with Rob Woronoff
Rob Woronoff is committed to celebrating the strength and resilience of children and youth involved with the foster care system through the powerful medium of…
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Pushing the Boundaries of Jazz - and Life - with Laurie Krauz
Bronx born and bred Laurie Krauz thrills audiences with her award-winning, blues-influenced jazz vocals and her powerful emotional range. Blazing new musical…
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The Future of Middle Management and Employee Wellbeing w/ Roly Walter
Since the COVID pandemic, the way people work has changed and some may be wondering, is there a place for middle managers in the workplace and if so, what role…
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Using Astrology To Understand Our Edges
In Sandra's debut show, she interviews Heather Roan Robbins, world renowned choice-based astrologer, creator of the Starcodes Astro-Oracle deck, and author of…
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Get Results By Being Curious, Connected and Creative w/ Valerie Hope
Being a curious and creative learner has set Valerie apart from becoming an accomplished leadership coach and professional speaker.For the past 20 years…
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Episode 80: On feeling at home, loving, and letting go
Sean Saifa Wall, a somatic practitioner and an intersex activist, speaks about dreaming, celebrating life and death, loving and letting go, and feeling at home.
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Episode 79: The stigma of drug use and blackness
Ifetayo Harvey, Founder of the POC Psychedelic Collective, speaks about drug use, slavery, vulnerability, depression, and the epidemic of untreated trauma that…
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Episode 78: On oppression, justice, love, patience and what its like to receive the gift of music
Dia Luna, a California native painter, songwriter, and seer, speaks about what it's like to receive the gift of music, its process and how it brings people…
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Episode 77: The relationship between the body, the nervous system work and the ancestor work
Clementine Morrigan, a writer, creator, and facilitator of the popular workshop Trauma-Informed Polyamory, speaks about spirituality, sexuality, love and…
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Episode 76: The Practice of Slowing Down
Tai Fenix Kulystin, a white, queer, fat, trans genderqueer coach dedicated to building better relationships, releasing trauma, and exploring spirituality…
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Episode 75: Healing the ancestral wounds
Oscar Pérez, a ritual leader, spiritual teacher, and mentor speaks about shamanic traditions, unintended grief and rage, and healing.
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Episode 74: On eldership, ancestral work, blackness, and healing arts practice
Naya Jones, a geographer, healing arts practitioner, and ritual artist, speaks about eldership, ancestral work, justice, and the healing arts.
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Episode 73: Decolonizing Aliveness
Sobey Wing, a multi-racial settler, President of Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society, and Chair of the Cross Cultural Protocols Working Group of Youth…
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Episode 72: Using our bodies to liberate our bodies
Laura Levinson, a movement artist and healer, speaks about the erotic, the ungovernability of pleasure and of our raucously alive bodies, death, and grief.
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Episode 71: Dwelling in the mystery of not knowing
Michelle Embree, a professional Tarot card reader and teacher, speaks about Tarot reading and the connection between storytelling and healing.
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Episode 70: What is the meaning of life?
Mars Gradiva, an ancient interstellar traveller, idea vessel and a professional enthusiast making queer liberatory astrology, tackles the meaning of life, the…
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Episode 69: Magic, art modelling, tokenism, cultural restraints and the activism around gender and sexuality
Jezmina Von Thiele, a Romani and Sinti writer, dancer, art model, healer, academic, activist, and educator, speaks about taking back the power of her heritage…
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Episode 68: On weaving the threads of adornment, feminism, storytelling, archaeology, and blackness
Ayana Omilade Flewellen, a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a storyteller, and an artist, talks about archaeology and the enslavement and sexual exploitation…
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Episode 67: On the connection of grief work, erotic embodiment and the intersection of birth and sex work
Katie Spataro, a full-spectrum doula, a somatic sex educator and a holistic pelvic care provider speaks about her healing practices, ancestral lineage, the…
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Episode 66: Playing with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist
Ra Malika Imhotep, an open-hearted collaborator on a number of projects at the intersections of creative expression and Black liberation shares her experiences…
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Episode 65: "This harm can be held in a circle and I can address the person who caused this harm with support.": On sexual trauma, restorative justice and empowerment.
Marisa Taborga Byrne, a survivor of incest, shares her experience about the magic of healing from sexual trauma. She also speaks about holistic sexuality, the…
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Episode 64: Ancestral rites of passage with Darcy Ottey
Darcy Ottey of Youth Passageways to how genuine rites of passage that allow young adults to "sit at the big kids table" once they make it through, as well as…
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Episode 63: What happens after you are buried alive? Art, ancestors and black erotic power
brontë velez goes deep: going underground, psychedelics, blackness, sex, remembering and demanding healing. What happens when you start with where you want to…
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Episode 62: Doing the old time spirit work
Artist and Medium Kook Teflon lives a life of connection with spirit. In this interview, she speaks on working in good ways with the spirit of Alcohol, dolls…
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Episode 61: We are all made of stars: Time travel ancestry
Billed as "Your guide to the night sky and friendly neighborhood time traveler, queer elder Stargazer Li writes:"Stargazing isn't about feeling small in the…
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Episode 59: Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
In this episode, Pavini ritually reads the names of the trans dead of violence in 2019.
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Episode 58: Queer and Trans Ritual Magick as Living Art
Ylva Radziszewski and Kiki Robinson of the Living Altar discuss ritual art as magical activism, queer self-initiation, and accessing ancestors (especially…
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Episode 57: "Our grief does not need healing. Our healing needs our grief."
Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief riffs on the necessity of grief fluency and it can help you feel a sense of belonging.
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Episode 56: Hunter's Moon with Murphy Robinson
Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions shares of her journey on the Appalachian trail led her from life-long vegetarian to practicing the ancestral skill…
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Episode 55: "I want to be an ancestor who makes mistakes." On dying consciously, fierce activism and tender learning to the end.
Activist and witch Colleen Cook speaks about her terminal cancer, her experiences with dying, sexuality and community. Colleen provides a gorgeous example of…
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Episode 54: The gender revolution will be podcasted!
Join Dr. Alex Iantaffi, gender radical, ancestral reverence practitioner and host of Gender Stories Podcast as we discuss liminality, the intersection of…
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Episode 53: Your Earthly Queer Nature Belongs Here
In this episode, So & Pinar of Queer Nature share about queer love and learning to belong through weaving webs of accountability with other beings and the…
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Episode 52: Creating art with ancestors
What if we can work with ancestors to create art that inspires and liberates? Seth Eisen speaks about his approach that marries notions of community-driven…
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Episode 51: The erotic and the ancestors of liberation: Renewing our Activism
In this episode, Starhawk discusses how to stay nourished in our fight for justice.
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Episode 50: Connecting with your animal companions beyond the veil
Animal communicator Claudia Hehr discusses the special relationship between animals and humans, how to connect with animal ancestors, and dealing with grief…
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Episode 49: DId you eat your ancestors for breakfast? Microorganisms, your oldest lineage
Environmental Microbiologist and ancestral animist Siv Watkins discusses the power of our relationships with the smalls, and solving ecological crisis through…
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Episode 48: Becoming an emotional grown-up: working with triggers, reactivity & ancestral wounds
Mary Mueller Shutan discusses how to make your own life more easeful through personal skillfulness with emotions and reactivity.
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Episode 47: Punk rock ancestors, queer creativity and being a gender-free godhead
Lynn Breedlove, lead singer of queercore Tribe 8 and the Homobiles shares his secret punk sauce for making a place in the world for your weird self.
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Episode 46: The intersection of race, sexual violence and healing
Annika Leonard of Priceless Incite discusses the intersection of sexualized violence and racial trauma through a personal and professional lens, and her strong…
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Episode 45: Re-Membering our ancestral knowings with our plantcestors
Layla Feghali of River Rose Apothecary speaks here of how to regather ancestral memory and access our embodied memory.
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Episode 44: Race and racism in ancestral healing panel discussion
In this episode, amazing tenders of culture and ancestral healing M'kali-Hashiki, Langston Kahn, and Taya Shere discuss how race and racism intersect with the…
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Episode 43: On being Two-Spirit & Ancestor-honoring Dance
Roger Kuhn is an enrolled member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Chair of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS). Here we discuss dance, the…
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Episode 42: Tarot, Ancestors & brilliant Trans elders
Tarotist, artist and prolific Author Rachel Pollack says "As soon as you allow the power of mystery, you go into another level of existence." In this episode…
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Episode 41: "In the context of my ancestors, I make sense." Norse mystery, song as prayer, and seidr initiation
Maris Orelia of Living Voice Medicine sings, prays and trances in the Norse traditions of her ancestors. In this interview, she riffs on belonging, shares her…
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Episode 40: The place for our wounding is the dirt under our feet: Disability justice, embodied activism and taking care of each other
In this episode, artist, poet, writer and facilitator Naomi Ortiz speaks to the intersection of place, ancestors, activism embodiment and disability justice…
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Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart
Scholar and filmmaker Dr. Susan Stryker celebrates the continuum of trans history, and speaks to queering time through her relationships with both elders and…
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Episode 38: Deadnaming and the Good Death movement
In honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20) Bespoken Bones is showcasing Trans speakers and causes all month. In this episode, Anthony Easton…
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Episode 37: Decolonizing our ancestral body: Answering the ancestral call towards liberation
Spirit worker, medicine maker, priest and activist Lou Florez (Awo Ifadunsin Sangobiyi) speaks to being in community and in being conversation with our…
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Episode 36: Radical education, revamping Catholicism, and Ancestral Eros
Practitioner of wonder Lindsay Sudeikis exuberantly riffs on her former life as a nun, the biblical erotic, and what it is to be in love with life while…
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Episode 35: Communicating through trees: Healing trauma in community
Dr. G Love aka Geryll Robinson discusses the value of communal ancestral practice and ritual to heal transgenerational trauma in community.
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Episode 34: Queer Ancestral Sexual Healing
In this episode, Nick Venegoni of the Queer Spirit podcast interviews me. We discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the…
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Episode 33: Embodied evolutionary history, ancestral movement and deep feeling and healing
Ancestral Movement practitioner Simon Thakur discusses the evolutionary role of empathy, the adaptive qualities of disembodiment, and how moving like our…
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Episode 32: Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling
UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich…