The Side Woo

We invite back photographer and spiritualism scholar Shannon Taggert to tell us her stories about Freddie Mercury from the Spiritualism community.  She tells us celebrity ghost stories about Freddie, Michael Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, and Elvis. Plus, we dish on the idea of sex with ghosts ( first dibs on Sex With Ghosts as a band name).   About Shannon Taggart  Shannon Taggar...

About Amelia Whitehouse Hello! I am Amelia of The Carnelian Keep- a Tarot Reader, Dream Interpreter, Events coordinator, Podcaster, Illustrator, Tarot Teacher, Writer, and astrology enthusiast- living and working in sexy Edinburgh, Scotland. I have been reading and studying Tarot cards for over 20 years, reading for friends for 12 years, reading for clients in Edinburgh (and globally) for 7 years...

Erica Wallace Moore is an Usui-trained Reiki Master Instructor. She conducts in-person and Remote Reiki sessions with included intuitive guided conversation. She specializes is providing a safe and welcoming environment to utilize relaxation as a focus to connect with inner being and Spirit. She listens and helps to clear energetic blockages, helps clients to discover the vibrational energetic sel...

About Kate Rhoades Kate Rhoades’ lives and works in Oakland, California. Her videos, paintings and publications probe the ever-mutating art world. Her work has been presented in the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Rhoades has participated in exhibitions at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and various venue...

About Shannon Taggart  Shannon Taggart is an artist and author based in St. Paul, MN. In a past life, she contributed to printed publications, including TIME, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Discover, New York, Wall Street Journal, and Reader’s Digest. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and recognized by PDN, Nikon, Ma...

About Jesse Bransford  Jesse Bransford is a New York-based artist whose work is exhibited internationally at venues including The Carnegie Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center and the CCA Wattis Museum among others. He holds degrees from the New School for Social Research (BA), Parsons School of Design (BFA) and Columbia University (MFA). An associate professor...

On this episode of The Side Woo, guest Michael Scott Moore talks about his long-time love of surfing and how it has helped him cope with PTSD in the years since he returned from Somalia.   What he was interested to discover is that Surf Therapy, or Ocean Therpy as it is informally called, is now being used to successfully treat 1000s of veterans and abuse victims around the world.   Sarah continue...

This week on the show, guest Desiree Holman.  Holman is a former art-star turned Nurse Practitioner-in-training. As the Founder of Face, a radical wellness clinic in Oakland, CA, she is trying to help people cultivate better relationships to their appearance through body-positive, age-positive and gender-affirming wellness services.  During their conversation, Desiree and The Side Woo un...

Liz and Sarah talk with Bay Area artist Klea McKenna. Liz fan-girls about Klea's work and the history of photography.  Klea talks about making work as a mom, and how her artwork propelled her through the stress of the pandemic.  About Klea McKenna McKenna was born in Freestone, CA in 1980 and received a BA from the University of California in Santa Cruz and an MFA from the Cali...

Liz and Sarah sit down with podcast host, art agent, and gallerist Emily McElwreath.  They talk about falling in love at a silent retreat, mental health, challenging authority figures, and how to use anger constructively.  Show Notes:  The Art Career Podcast with Emily McElwreath McElwreath Advisory Instagram Show Partners Tech For Campaigns Acorns App About The Side Woo Host & Creator: Sarah...

Liz and Sarah talk to another Bay Area duo, photographers and clairvoyants Alice Shaw and Lisa Sze. Alice and Lisa share their psychic awakening stories, talk about their channeling videos on YouTube where they channel universal knowledge on current events, and the group discusses how there is a push towards creative problem-solving as a "we."  About the Pivot Workshops  Pivot Workshops...

This week Sarah and Liz talk with the dazzling professional witch, tarot reader, psychic medium, and writer Sarah Potter who is giving off Big Venus Energy. They talk about marching to the beat of your own drummer, and what exactly is color magic. Finally, Sarah Potter gives them both tarot readings. Liz asks a question about love and Sarah asks about work - which is very on-brand for both of them...

In this episode Liz gets what she wants: more reveal from Sarah.  Sarah shares for the first time publically that she is a practicing witch and medium.  They talk about overcoming fears while building a relationship with the spirit world, past life trauma, and visions Sarah has had about her family members who have passed, including her father who died in May 2021.  Show Notes Amy M...

Sarah and Liz talk with Aussie Artist Jaq Grantford about her photorealist paintings, working with models of all shapes and ages, recovering from cancer, and what she's up to next. Sarah gives Jaq a tarot reading.  About Jaq Grantford Jaq Grantford is an award-winning portrait artist, with work held in the National Gallery of Victoria, the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) Barcelona Spain,...

In the most woo episode yet, Sarah and Liz talk with Spirit Rescue Specialist Amy Major about helping lost souls cross over, the reality of ghosts and the importance of democratizing access to the metaphysical world. About Amy Major Amy Major is a top professional Psychic, Medium, Rescue Medium, Channel, Healer, Teacher and Published Author. A successful Medium and healer in the New England area f...

Sarah and Liz talk with artist Rema Ghuloum about overcoming great loss, and the importance of art in the face of tragedy. Trigger warning: this episode contains some conversation about addiction, mental illness, and self-harming.  If you or someone you know needs support, the Suicide Hotline number is 800 273 8255. About Rema Ghuloum  Rema lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She re...

Sarah sits down with curator and fellow Scorpio, Robert Cozzolino, to talk about his new exhibition Supernatural America: the Paranormal in American Art which is in its last leg of a three-stop national tour at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.  About the Supernatural America exhibition  America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history—the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the...

Liz and Sarah talk with the co-hosts of the Beyond The Studio podcast, artist Nicole Mueller and designer Amanda Adams.  They discuss their strong Capricorn energy, how to maintain a spiritual connection to art while having a career and manifesting money.  About Beyond The Studio   Beyond the Studio is a podcast about the career paths of working contemporary artists— how they're sup...

makersloft.co Sarah and Liz talk with writer, life coach, and mystic Joanne Menon about the spiritual text A Course in Miracles. How do you let go of your ego in an instant? What do miracles look like in the everyday? Joanne shares her experiences putting ACIM concepts to use in her life and fields questions about the more controversial aspects of the text. About Joanne Menon As a Spiritual &...

On the first full episode of Season 2 of The Side Woo, Sarah & Liz talk about Liz’s aging mom, woo stuff, watching someone discover Queen for the first time on Youtube and more. Plus, another love tarot reading for Liz. About Elizabeth Bernstein Elizabeth Darrow Bernstein, the new co-host of The Side Woo, is an artist, educator, entrepreneur and former gallery director who lives in Oakland, Ca...

Sarah talks with guest Mathew Halpin, friend and residency director of Lakkos Art Residency and Ano Asites Residency on the Greek island of Crete.  Mathew talks about living on Crete as an Australian, how he started up his artist residency, and a little about his new book called AIR, now available on Amazon.  About Mathew Halpin Mathew is an Australian visual artist/ theatre set designer...

Sarah starts the episode with a short anecdote about her run-in with some guitar store snobs, and does a mini-tarot reading for the show.  Then Sarah and guest, the dancer, healer, writer, and former Nes Artist Residency Co-Director, Kerryn McMurdo talk about Kerryn's background in contemporary dance, life in a small town at a residency in the north of Iceland, and her recent experiences with...

Sarah and documentarian Anna Katrine (Kat) Thuesen talk about the challenge of finding the right day job as an artist, red flags to look out for when talking to a new prospective employer, and why everyone should revisit Thuesen's favorite, canonical 80's film, Top Gun, especially the opening sequence.  Bonus content: Kat and Sarah take the quiz, Which Top Gun character are you? The answers m...

Sarah talks with guest, Gabi Magaly, an artist and educator based in San Antonio, TX.  They discuss their shared love of RuPaul's Drag Race, Gabi's MFA show which opened at the start of the pandemic, her relationship to religion, growing up with strong female role models, and Gabi's most recent body of work - a series of portraits of her Mexican grandmother.   About Gabi Magaly&nbsp...

On this, the first episode of The Side Woo podcast, host Sarah Thibault and guest Nikki Nolan talk about the connection between money and energy. Why? Because money touches everything, and money is really about energy, and energy is all there is.   About Nikki Nolan  Nikki Nolan is a Product Designer. She accrued all of her student debt when she got her MFA in Interactive Media at P...