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Show notes are available at ⁠QueenofPeaches.com⁠. Today I am delighted to be in conversation with two organizers from the Critical Thinking Witch Collective, Alex Wrekk and Maya Amatvult. Alex and Maya were kind enough to join me in my digital studio to talk about the work they’re doing with the Crit Witches, specifically in the lead-up to the annual Con that’ll be happening this September 27th, 2...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com . I just wanted to pop in here quickly and let all you lovely listeners know that you’re not going to be seeing any fresh episodes in your feed for a short while so that I can turn my attention to some other creative projects that I’ve had simmering on the back burner. And honestly, I just want to give my podcasting muscles a proper rest, rather than...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com . Today I am simply delighted to be in conversation with Jeanette Elaine Dubois. Jeanette is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and has 25 years of experience cutting a wide variety of projects for film and television. She’s worked on the Emmy Award-winning shows Super Soul Sessions with Oprah Winfrey and Artbound on PBS, as well as Emmy-nom...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com . This week I am absolutely thrilled to share my conversation with the writer Michael O’Donnell. Michael is the author of the novel Above the Fire . Published by Blackstone Publishing in December 2023, Above the Fire crystallizes the relationship between a father and son as they survive a winter of isolation. The book has received starred reviews from...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. This week I am absolutely thrilled to be in conversation with Hayley J. Croom of Paintbox Soapworks. Queer, witchy, feminist, and leftist-owned since 2009, Paintbox Soapworks is devoted to making small batch soaps, skincare, and bath products in unique and irreverent scents. It’s a one-person show, and each product is made by hand using vegan friendl...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com . For this first episode of 2024, I’m really excited to share my conversation with Hollywood costume supervisor Sara Walbridge. Sara is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago and has been steadily working in Hollywood for over 20 years. Some of her best known TV projects include Love and Death, Barry, GLOW, and True Blood , a...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Rather than release a normal interview episode today, I thought I’d just put a little audio trinket in your stocking, so to speak. I’d like to read a short selection from a book called "Atargatis," which is by the English writer, lecturer, hypnotherapist, and Reiki Master Paul Weston. Featuring original musical accompaniment by Brian Cremin...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today I’m incredibly psyched to share with you my conversation with science writer and medical intuitive Allison Clark. Allison is a heart-centered, holistically-minded healer who takes into consideration all aspects of a person—not just their body and not just their soul. Her approach is an alchemy of years of training, scientific research, and pers...

Show notes are available at ⁠QueenofPeaches.com⁠ . I’m delighted to be in conversation with visual artist and graphic designer Sadie Teper. Sadie is the founder and owner of Twentysome Design . Twentysome is a lady-powered feminist stationery and gift brand. Sadie’s design background enables her to create bright and colorful hand-lettered designs that empower and inspire others to spread the messa...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com . Today on I'll Follow You, I am super excited to bring you my conversation with the author and editor Jerome Pohlen. Jerry has written 23 books for both adults and children, including Oddball Illinois (which is the flagship title of the larger Oddball travel book series), The Apollo Missions for Kids , Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids , Ga...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today I am delighted to be in conversation with pianist and healer Marta Johnson. Marta’s first career was as a professional pianist, mostly working in the classical and musical theater worlds in Chicago. However, a crisis of performance anxiety brought her to the world of inner healing and spiritual growth. And now she uses Internal Family Systems a...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. I am so excited to share with you my conversation with my very dear, very funny, and very brilliant friend Cemal Ozdemir. Cemal spent nearly 30 years with the firm Dauby O’Connor & Zaleski (DOZ), a leader in affordable housing and real estate accounting, starting there as an intern in 1993 and ultimately becoming Chief Executive Officer in early...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today on I’ll Follow You , I’m in conversation with two of the most influential people in my musical life, Ed Bialon and Don Graves. Ed and Don were members of my dad’s band, the Terry Felus Trio , for about ten years, from the early 1970s through the early 1980s. The Terry Felus Trio was known and loved around Northwest Indiana as a great party band...

Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com . Today on I’ll Follow You, I’m super excited to share my recent conversation with author and journalist Saga Briggs. If you’re listening to this on the day that the episode initially goes live, Saga’s first book will be officially published tomorrow, Tuesday, September 19. It’s called How to Change Your Body: The Science of Interoception and Healing...

Please visit QueenofPeaches.com for full show notes. Francesca Kritikos is the author of the chapbooks It Felt Like Worship (published by Sad Spell Press in 2017) and Animals Don't Go to Hell  (published by Bottlecap Press in 2021) as well as the forthcoming full-length collection Exercise in Desire (which will be published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press in early 2022). Her poetry has also app...

Visit QueenofPeaches.com for full show notes. Pascuala Herrera was a Professor and Accessibility Specialist at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, for almost 30 years and was selected as Distinguished Faculty, the highest honor given to a faculty member, in 2019 and is now faculty emeritus. She is currently also a full-time consultant and author of Not Always a Valley of Tears: A Memoir of a Lif...

Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes. S. Elizabeth is a writer, curator, and frill-seeker. Her essays and interviews about esoteric art have appeared in Coilhouse, Dirge Magazine, Death & The Maiden, as well as on her own occulture blog Unquiet Things, which intersects music, fashion, horror, perfume, and grief. Born of the strange and fraught relationship between an astrologer and...

Complete show notes are available on QueenofPeaches.com . Tim Clarke has performed throughout Europe, North America, and the UK, including close to 1,000 appearances on London’s West End stages. He’s had leading roles in productions including Jesus Christ Superstar, Blood Brothers , The Buddy Holly Story , Dusty—The Musical, The Glenn Miller Story, and The Demon Headmaster. Tim’s television roles...

Complete show notes are available on QueenofPeaches.com . Today, I’m in conversation with my very dear friend, singer Hilary Webb. Originally from Schererville, Indiana, Hilary began studying voice at the age of 13. She earned her bachelor’s from Ball State University, where she studied with Mary Hagopian, and she earned her master’s in vocal performance from the University of North Carolina at Gr...

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Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! Myan Binder is a healer, clairvoyant, animal communicator, and spiritual  teacher. She has studied painting at the University of Wisconsin and art  direction at the Miami Ad School and has taught everything from  preschool to ESL to adult refugees. Currently, she teaches classes on all things psychic, including energy awareness, how...

Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! Today I’m delighted to be in conversation with Brian Westfall. Brian is the proprietor of the shop Rare Birds Musical Oddities . Rare Birds is a shop dedicated to those elusive, beautiful, and  lovingly weird pieces that will bring character and vibe to your recording dates, home studio, and performances. Vintage guitars, basses, and synths; c...

Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! Today I’m welcoming back to the show my first repeat guest--who also  happens to be the human I’m sheltering in place with--the writer,  musician, and scholar Brian Cremins. Brian’s joining me today for a recorded version of an ongoing conversation we’ve been having basically since we first met a little over a decade ago, all about our fa...

Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! I’m delighted today to be in conversation with my very good friend and former colleague Yuval Taylor. Yuval is the coauthor of the books Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop and Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music . His writing has appeared in the Guardian , the Antioch Review , and the Oxford American , amon...

Visit QueenofPeaches.com for show notes! In my attempt to bridge the gap between not wanting to add to the noise about the coronavirus situation, but then also not wanting to ignore its presence in our lives either, I thought that a conversation with my brilliant friend Erin the Psychic Witch might be unique and helpful. Erin is a gifted psychic teacher and healer with two decades of experience in...