Witch, Please!

HuffPost Personal Director and podcaster Noah Michelson joins Claudia for a totally casual chat about his recent collaboration with Tori Amos and coming out a second time in his life, this time as a male witch. No biggie.

 Phyllis Curott is an attorney, spiritual teacher, and the most widely published Wiccan author in the world. Her books include the internationally best-selling memoir Book of Shadows which introduced generations to the wisdom of Witchcraft and the magic of the Goddess. A graduate of Brown University in Ethics and Political Philosophy and a Trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, she has spent more than forty-five years practicing and teaching Earth-based spiritual traditions.  Her work brings together ancient wisdom, direct spiritual experience, and contemporary insight, offering practical ways to reconnect with the living world and live in alignment with the patterns that sustain life.  In this conversation, we talk about dragons, despair, embodiment, and the wild magic of being fully human. There’s something powerful about naming the hard stuff, staying present, and trusting that even the deepest pain can become the soil for rebirth.If you’re in a season of shedding, this one is for you.

Barbara Howlin refuses to rush. Not because she has it all figured out - because she doesn't want to keep missing her life while trying to keep up. Becauseyour nervous system can’t heal in constant speedplay makes the hard stuff softerthe right path often feels weird before it feels clearThe real work is learning to trust your own pace, even when it looks “backwards” to everyone else.Maybe that’s not laziness.Maybe that’s sovereignty. In this opening episode of the first cycle we explore slowing down to return to one's own internal guidance using tools like Reiki, Human Design, Tarot, Tracking the wisdom of the body or whatever floats our boat.