Best Of Alter Ego Podcast

German Doctor, Uwe Albrecht, and Athena talk about duality, living in expanded states of consciousness, and healing through a comprehensive system which Uwe developed, named Innerwise. Innerwise began from feeling dissatisfied with the scope of possibilities offered by conventional medicine, and the hope to be able to create a kind of medicine that is more in tune with our present time. Innerwise...

Bronkar Lee is a beat boxing, inverted juggling, speaker, author, coach extraordinaire. He didn’t meet his biological father until age 28, and his journey to and beyond that point has been a big driving force in becoming the peak performer he is today. We’ll take that journey with him, all the way to the now and how he is able to let his true essence come through while being on stage in front of t...

Frank Shankwitz, the founder of the Make a wish Foundation, shares his transformational journey with us. Before going on to create Make a Wish, he literally died, and was brought back to life with another chance, and the mandate: Give Back.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BeAlterEgo Follow us on Facebook @alteregopodcast  

You’re stuck on a farm in the woods, the gate is locked, and you can’t get out of this secret marijuana farm until they let you out. The only reception is a 20 minute drive on top of a hill where you need to use some janky device to boost your reception up to one bar… That was my world. So many people reached out to me, wanting to know how making the Secret Life of Marijuana series went down! You’...

Meet real people, people just like you, who have found a way for this fringe lifestyle to support them over the years. I was graciously let into 4 farms over the course of these interviews. Some of these farms are already in the process of legalization, some aren’t. To see the behind the scenes of these operations was enlightening, and I got the sense that I was seeing a time capsule of what will...

Commonly referred to as “trimmigrants”, trimmers come from all over the world to Northern California for a short period of time to make some quick cash. They spend months on back-woods farms to process the marijuana after it’s been harvested, and manicure it from the raw plant into the smokeable bud. Jenna has been doing this for almost a decade, working from farm to farm, off the grid. The scope...

On the cusp of legalization, an anonymous female marijuana grower shares a rare behind-the-scenes view into her life. At the very end of her 9-month-long season, we talk about weed, what it’s like to live in the woods, shrouded in secrecy, in the heart of the emerald triangle: Humboldt county. Humboldt is world famous for growing the most incredible marijuana available on the planet. Listen in to...

Have you ever felt under-qualified? Like you don’t know what you’re doing? Like an imposter? It’s more common than most of us would like to admit. Many of us begin something new by feeling the need to prove ourselves. Logan Sullivan shares how he overcame the Imposter Syndrome in his career with an Alter Ego that knew what it took to do his job, even though he felt severely under-qualified when he...

Jordan and I met at Burning Man and have known each other for several years. We rather quickly get around to the surprising normalcy of being inside a sex dungeon camp, internal conflicts of belonging, how he got his name as “Momentum”, and his walk across the country to win back an ex-girlfriend, only to find himself in the process.  

All of us want love. For some, early on in our lives the channels of love and approval got fused together. I learned early on that I was “bad” and “a sinner”. So if I just changed what I wanted to do, how I expressed myself, and who I was, THEN I could get love. Many of us seek affirmation, approval, and acceptance as a substitute for love. We can even go as far as to create an inauthentic alter e...

She's bad! She's bad! You know it… She's Devra Gregory: One of the most successful female Michael Jackson impersonators there is. Dev talks about expanding her mind into the role of becoming a celebrity, and gives the behind the scenes of the spiritual aspects of her life. Michael Jackson. Wicca. Dance. She's bad!  

The ouroboros is a symbol from ancient Greece, adopted down through history into alchemy, depicting a serpent or dragon eats its own tail. I get down and dirty with you. Facing fears, exponential development, and the growing pains that accompany us all.  

Magic. Sleight of hand. Mentalism. What is the importance of Alter Ego in Magic? Today we hear from Magician Joshua Logan, who performs magic for audiences around the world! He’s been published in Magic Magazine, Wired Magazine, has developed magic videos for EllenTube and DreamworksTV. This year on April Fools Day, Joshua Logan and Doug Hofkins opened up Boardwalk Magic, California's newest magic...

Artemis Simon is back with a special Q&A episode! We received a lot of questions from YOU after her episode 26: “Sex Work with Ms. Monday Jones”. I recommend listening to that one first so this has context. We talk about everything from the importance of aftercare in BDSM play, to her hard limits and boundaries. Artemis changed my view of sex workers. In her last episode she told us about how...

Can we decide to get up one day, and change the way we’re living, who we are, and have a completely different lifestyle? Chase did. He went from being a “normal person”,  fitting in the system, wanting to commit suicide, to making a decision: “I don’t want to be this way”. So he started with a bucket list of all the things he wanted to do before he died, and then??… he became that person who would...

Today’s guest changed my view on sex workers. I wasn’t aware of my stigma toward sex work until I had this opportunity to talk with Artemis Simon. Sex work, I learned, is not ALL about primal, disconnected, base needs. Sometimes its about healing, mentorship, education, growth, and vulnerability. Artemis has offered me a new view: Sex worker as mentor. She works in various forms of Miss Monday Jon...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to walk in the shoes of Marilyn Monroe? Theresa Ireland knows a good deal about that. I have her on the show to share the glitz, glam, and the dirty underbelly of what it’s like to be a professional Marilyn on the streets of Hollywood Blvd. She has been featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC's Night Line, Hollywood Reporter, and LA Weekly. Today she's with us!

She came, she saw something burn, she learned a super important life lesson…she even got a surprise from a white rabbit. What did Michelle bring home from Burning Man? She lays it all out for us here in this candid Post-Burn interview, where Athena and Michelle share some of their favorite takeaways from their adventures to the playa. This is the final installment of a 3 part series where we follo...

Michelle has been Mormon her whole life… until now! Now she's accompanying me to one of the most provocative places on earth: Burning Man. Michelle never could have imagined coming to Burning Man. This episode features recordings of her experiences taken at Burning Man as her world view shifts beyond what she ever could have guessed. This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Listen in to “Michelle Pre-Bu...

Michelle has been Mormon for her whole life… until very recently. And now she's coming with me to Burning Man! Today marks the beginning of a 3 part series where I follow Michelle's journey through the before, during, and after experience of her first trip to the Burn.  We talk about her life, and what has brought her from the place of raising a conservative family in the Mormon Church, to accompa...

Monk, Cookie Boy, Chameleon, Unicat, Fin…Burning Man. It's one of the most talked about communities on the planet. I went again, and took my recorder with me. This year I spoke with people at my camp to talk with them about their Burner Names. Many people adopt a burner name on the playa, usually it is gifted upon you for a variety of reasons. In this episode I hear from some of my favorite burner...

Sean badger is OnyX. Moving as a child from the inner city to a small town, Sean found himself as the only black child in a small white neighborhood. OnyX is a persona, an alter ego he's constructed to help him find balance in a polarized world. It has since helped him cope with his military experiences, and even raising children. If you like the podcast, make sure to subscribe, and leave a rating...

Liat Wexler is a trans man, and Glitter Butch!!! Liat's personal preference is to identify with the pronouns “them, they, and theirs”. To be clear, Liat’s identity as a trans man isn’t their alter ego, it is who they are. But many trans people have had the experience of feeling the need to adopt an alter ego within the context of “societal norms”, and not be the full expression of who they truly a...

Val Dufour is becoming superhuman. He's on a quest to be a breatharian. Val believes that food and water are not necessary for survival, and humans can, through practice, be sustained by vital life force. He shares his journey of belief, desire, and becoming with us.

Miss Anne lives in Victorian times, she wears petticoats, decency skirts, and uses the language of the fan. In modern times, Miss Anne is Anne Osborn; a Historic Reenactress and Costumer. Anne has many alter egos that span from 5k years ago to the present, but the one we focus on is from the Victorian Era. She illuminates subjects from marginalia (historic dirty drawings) to pubic wigs… basically...