Southern Fried Witch

This is gonna be rough, y’all: we are working on sheltering in place and my fam is shoved up into every corner. What you will hear today is fairly unedited, recorded roughly and unfairly for my interviewee, and about as raw as it gets. I ain’t about to not put out a podcast, so . . . let’s talk about love, radical defiance in the face of a monster, and hanging on with spirit. Love y’all!

We are hunkered down, grounding, and attempting the hardest magic of all: peace. Join me for an interview with my second son, the Music Man. Love y’all. Stay home. Seba

Even your morning coffee can take on the sacred. Y’all come sit on the porch and let us muse on how the small ritual spaces in our lives matter—and how we need to protect them from becoming work. Email me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com. Blessed Be, Y’all!

Alright: apparently, there are certain words we cannot use right now that have to do with the current, um, situation that we are all worried about. So. Let’s talk about a certain gremlin, if you will, and how to bless its ass? Y’all know I’m about to pick a winner on that animal spirit topic—so send in your stories about an animal that changed the way you understand their character and their impor...

Y'all, I'm as sick as a dog, but here I am. Time to read those lovely listener emails and think long about what matters! There's a surprise at the end--so suffer all the way through. Love y'all! Write to me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com.

Perhaps the most difficult moment in my life has been learning my worth. Haggling that down demeans my spirit and lays to waste precious magic. Come chat with me on the porch about understanding our worth, standing firm on the weight of it, and determining a fair value for our work and love. The tea is sweet—y’all settle on in! Email me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com and share your own thoughts on...

Of all the podcasts I have done, for some reason, this feels the most personal. Come settle in with me on the porch. We need to talk about the truth when it comes to aging, not some idealistic hogwash. Some of it is horrific. Some of it is heartbreaking. But some of it is just downright fucking beautiful. Welcome to the porch of an aging Southern witch.

Blessed Imbolc! Let’s get real about seasonal depression, loss of hope in general, and hanging in there. Today’s sit n’ sip on the porch is all about sharing the lows, but also the unfathomable (and often hard to locate) hope that resides just under the frozen tundra. I might be sharing too much in this one—but we’re in this together, so . . . Love y’all!

When you believe in things that you don’t understand . . . you might need to kick their ass. Today’s musing on the porch delves into the divide between superstition and the proactive witch. Y’all ready? (Way less chickens are in this episode, but pigs do show up.) The Boogie Man and Seba have a bit of a chat. Come sit on the porch a spell!

Just as soon as I’m done birthin’ chickens, we’ll stop talking about chickens. As a Southerner, my analogies will come from my daily life, y’all. Time to talk about some personal stuff, admit some failures, and trudge on into the truth about failure to thrive. (Extra side note not mentioned in the podcast: Go listen to “Sittin’ by the Side of the Road,” sung by Andie MacDowell, from the movie "Mic...

If you don't like chickens, do not click play. Today we're gonna dig right into the weight of responsibility in the Craft, especially for those of us who have have passed those careless witch years. Y'all excuse the Alabama rain in the background and let's rock a little on the porch together!

Blessed Yule, Y’all! Love chatting about ways to witchify your cleaning habits? Come sit on the porch a spell and dig into some natural, country ways to protect your land while scrubbing your floors. (If this is not your digs, skip ahead about 17 minutes). Today’s episode will then wind around the back forty toward a Pagan Yuletide Carol over a warm fire. Have yourself a merry little Winter Solsti...

Y’all know that moment where we go numb? Where we are just trying to get through the best we can, but our impulse is to throw our armor on and not feel too much? Yeah. That kills our magic. Let’s chat about being present, as much as possible, through the blue days. Let’s witchify ‘ary damn thing, shall we? Send me an email at seba@southernfriedwitch.com with your stories about how you stay awake,...

Tough stuff: Grieving, remembering, and honoring our familiars. Seba shares the life and loss of her sweet Gatsby, the Aussie who became a hero.

Happy holidays! Today we are chatting about being unique and nourishing those magical differences, rather than conforming to the status quo. All misfits to the porch!

We have listener questions! From the magic of wallflower witches to the killing fields of gaslighting, Seba chats back with those of you who have written in... and shares a bit of her own witchy life. Come sit on the porch a spell!

Following your inner compass costs you something, but man, what a ride! Come sit a spell and chat about learning the rules in order to break them, witch style. We are going to take a short ride through homesteading—but we always land back on the porch.

It’s time for a porch chat about aging, generational divides and the spaces in between where magic lives.

Well, it took three days, but Seba worked through her fever and this is what we got. Let's talk about the importance of tradition, how it can become a ritual, and how to fight ancestral trauma in yours.

Poverty does not always equal failure; sometimes a witch's energy is focused on something more important than money.

Living a magical life means that we need to prepare for a good death. Seba chats about the baggage we carry, as well as that which litters our abode. Come sit on the porch a spell!

Let’s chat about resisting dogma, working from your own habitus , and the sacred nature of Land-Witchery.

In memory of Seba's beloved friend and father to her son, Billy the Kid. The Southern Fried Witch website will be going dark on Sunday October 6 as a memorial. We will return on Monday.

Seba answers listener questions and muses on a rooster.