The Positive Fantastic

Meeting Meghan Walla-Murphy completely changed the way I do my reality. We connected over the ancient art of tracking, and until I joined her in a group of women, all intent on learning how to track the animals and wildlife around us, I had not really opened my eyes to this phenomenally important and intrinsic skill set. Now, I cannot go a day, or hardly an hour without witnessing, listening, and...

A recovering academic, Maggie Ostara, PhD, left her prestigious job as the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University when she realized that she’s not meant to work for anyone else. (She now knows this is part of her Human Design!) Maggie is an Amazon #1 best-selling author, arousing public speaker, beloved teacher, and highly intuitive and skilled mentor-coach. When they work w...

Join Kelly McRee for a dive into how we can collectively heal our grief through community support. Swim with us as we describe the various ways that the medium of water has helped Kelly heal her personal grief. From sailing the seas to floating friends in warm water, Kellyfish has resources to share with you in this episode. 

Feather is working with women to help bring them into their bodies with awareness, empowerment, and healing love. She offers classes and workshops that support this desire for healing in the world. Feather shares more about the ancient jade egg practice in our podcast interview. Additionally, she shares about other Daoist techniques, which I have heard referred to as Sexual Kung Fu in the past, bu...

This is a special birthday edition of The Positive Fantastic Podcast. I’m turning 39 today and in honor of the miracle of birth and birth work, my guest today, is Gloria Gonzales Campise, who, in addition to being a long time friend, sister, and ally in support of all things fantastic, has recently graduated from midwifery school so that she can be a home birth midwife.

Co-founder of the Northern California Women's Herbal Symposium (NCWHS) Terri Jensen shares about the motivations for the creation of the event, gives a sneak peek into what happens at the gathering, and offers some of her own reflections on the evolution of the symposium over its 33 years supporting women and plants communing. 

Alyra Rose has been experimenting in the free range sonic playground of musical alchemy since she was a little girl. Whether she’s bringing spoken word poetry to musicality or looping sound over sung verses, she’s always brewing up some amazing heartfelt lyricism to support us all becoming more embodied, whole humans. This episode showcases several original songs by Alyra in addition to our interv...

Kym Mamazon Trippsmith and Ma Sherry Glaser took their amazing abilities with word weaving play and created a feminist linguistic rebellion. They have been looking at how we want to spell certain words, all witch connotations intended thank you very much, and they spent the pandemic writing down some of their favorite word plays in a pocket book that they have published this summer! Mama's First P...

I interviewed my friend Kelly Costa about her pet care offerings in Sonoma County, California. She recently formalized her offering into a business called “Loving Animal Care.” She utilizes a variety of modalities and over a decade of experience to help people give their animals extra support. We sat down to record this interview in Kelly's dining room while her elder dog "Pumpkin" snored under th...

Meir Schneider, who was declared legally blind by the state of Israel, cured his eyesight such that he now has a California driver’s license and drove to our podcast interview to share about his own journey and how he has devoted his life to helping others heal too. He founded the School for Self Healing in San Francisco and travels the world as an author and educator, spreading his techniques so...

Michelle Vesser offers her guidance as a wise woman with a lifelong practice of tending her inner and outer landscapes. 

Join Luna Hart, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDNP) for a discussion of the ways that she transformed her own diseases and illth to vibrant wellness. She now guides individuals in their own journeys to restore or claim their own wellness practices so that they can enjoy healthy lives. 

We get to sing with Lauren Arrow! This Northern California singer/songwriter shared about her own journey from loving to sing as a young child, through being afraid to sing as an adolescent, and then to eventually reclaiming her voice in the service of song as a grown woman. Now, she has created classes, workshops, and concerts to help us collectively liberate our voices. For the joy of song!

Jen Dalton and I recently sat down for an author chat in her home in the hills of Ukiah to discuss trauma informed friendships. She self published a book about girl bullying this year, and has many offerings to make about the ways that we can both heal from childhood bullying and address the roots of why we bully so that we can dismantle this traumatic girlhood ritual. 

Let your food be your medicine & hear how nutrition consultant Mary Sheila Gonnella recommends not only what to eat for health but truly HOW to eat for optimal health. Learn about what Mary calls "Vitamin T," and the ways that you need more of this in a lifestyle focused on healthy eating. 

This special 4/20 edition of the podcast is a spotlight on CBDs and my friend Molly Hildenbrand’s “Be Rooted Botanicals” business: a small, rootsy, women owned and operated CBD medicinals/topical line of products for wellness and healing. I am absolutely in love with what she has created, and I visit her shop at least once a year to stock up on her creams, oils, and bath salts. Tag along for our c...

Julia Green helps support thriving barnyards by doing farm consultations where she helps farmers and potential farmers to assess their space, their animals, their needs, and the best way to holistically manage all of the above. Drawing on her extensive farmstead experience and herbalist background, Julia guides the way for a happy, healthy, and successful farm. 

Tamara Wilder has made her life's offering to share the skills that connect us all to our ancestral past. Paleotechnics describes the wisdom that Wilder brings forth for people of all ages from friction fire to making string from plant fibers. In addition to teaching a diverse array of skills to people of all ages, she has created a special curriculum that she teaches in pubic elementary schools t...

Yeshe Matthews is a Priestess of the Tsogyal Lhamo Drayang Ling, the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple in Dunsmuir, CA. She is a dharma practitioner and a licensed minister, ordained and initiated in several different mystery traditions. The Temple she created serves Mt Shasta spiritual pilgrims and worldwide Goddess enthusiasts with online and in-person divinations, classes, ceremonies, and retreats. Yesh...

Join Jenava Van Pelt and Mori Natura as we talk about the commitment of having goats. We'll discuss the basics anyone needs to hear before they get goats and flush out the details of what is really required to keep a happy, healthy herd. Combined, these two women have three decades of experience to share about the art and craft of goat midwifery and husbandry. 

My friend Robin Burnside is a wise woman elder who was devoted her life to culinary arts. Everywhere she goes, she leaves happy, nourished people in her wake. Join us as we take a dive into the deep waters of Robin's abiding love of the craft and art of healthy food preparation from her days of being the head chef at Esalen, to catering for rock and roll festivals at the Hog Farm. 

Join Kimber Holmes, male illusionist, for an auditory adventure into the heart of Drag. A lifelong performance artist, Holmes created a drag king persona by the name of Max Manchester. This episode explores the process of becoming "Max" step by glorious drag step. 

Join artist Lauren Sinnott as she explains the recent mural she created on the 200 ft long wall outside the Ukiah Conference Center as it pertains to the local history, the present, and the future of the area. 

Have you ever wanted to grow your own mushrooms on logs you harvested sustainably from the forest? If yes, then this is the episode for you. I'm gonna break down the ins and outs of how to process and cure your logs, obtain your mycelium on plug spawn, and ultimately foster the ideal conditions so that your preferred mushrooms can bear fruit. In this episode, I focus on growing shiitake mushrooms...

Join me for the premier episode of Season 2 of “The Positive Fantastic” Podcast as I interview Lama and Matthew of The Forest People about their radically sustainable mushroom cultivation project in Northern California.