Podcast
The Modern Crone
Hosted by Danielle Van de Velde · ENGLISH
The Modern Crone podcast explores story, insights and experiences from my life as a spiritual teacher, energy healer, seer and medium. In each season of The Modern Crone, I bring the real-deal magic-makers to the table to chat about their lives, bridging the worlds of the visible and invisible, spirit and matter. I share my own stories of people, pilgrimage and paranormal, with the intent of redefining what it is to live a modern spiritual life.Real people, real stories and a whole lot of mind-blowing, spirit-stirring conversations. I hope it inspires!
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The Modern Crone: Season 8: Resurrection with Laila Malone
Jan 2300:38:46Tap to summarizeLaila Malone is currently in Grade 11 in high school. She was born in Dubai and moved to Singapore when she was very young, and has been living here for 14 years. When Laila was 8 years old, she was diagnosed with Leukemia – a huge experience for anyone, let alone an 8-year-old. She is now well and excited about finishing school and broadening her studies in the UK. Along the way, she has accumulated incredible practices and wisdom for resilience, healing and optimism. She is an inspiring young woman, destined for amazing things.Join us as Laila shares:her road to recovery, physically, mentally and spirituallythe importance of acceptance and non-judgementthe role of creativity and books in her healing journeyWhy ritual is so importantimportant guidance for families and young people on a cancer journeyAnd if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! So Grateful for The Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.comStudio and Reel production:Kymberly Sngkymberlysngcm@gmail.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 8: Resurrection with Lana Terigi
Jan 1000:34:25Tap to summarizeLana Terigi is a mother, coach, and intuitive guide based in Nairobi, Kenya, who supports women and individuals through grief and helps young people develop confidence, self-awareness, and emotional resilienceLana’s journey into motherhood began with her first son, Luca, who passed away unexpectedly at 38 weeks, just before delivery. She held him once, and that moment profoundly reshaped her life - her understanding of love, grief, and resilience. Luca’s presence continues to guide her as a mother and as a coach, and his story is at the heart of the work she does today.Across all her work, Lana guides people back to their inner truth and helps them find the quiet strength needed to move through life with courage, openness, and compassion.Join us as Lana shares how her calling rose through the throws of grief; her heartbreaking shock of losing her first child, her coping and healing pathways, the felt presence of her child in spirit, the primal fear after loss, how fear and faith can coexist, the power of ritual, spiritual perspectives and journaling, the importance of remembering, the need to talk about baby loss, her current work coaching families and youth.You can find out more about Lana here:https://academic-life-coaching.com/www.instagram.com/lana_academic.life.coach/And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! So grateful for the Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.comStudio and Reel production:Kymberly Sngkymberlysngcm@gmail.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 8: Resurrection with Surabhi Ahuja
Dec 2701:01:07Tap to summarizeBorn in Faridabad, North India, Surabhi Ahuja has been on a profound spiritual journey for almost ten years. Her awakening began through the experience of hypnobirthing with her first born, which opened her awareness to the power of the mind–body connection and her own energetic depth. Much of her evolution since then has unfolded through her physical body. Experiences such as an ectopic pregnancy, hypothyroidism, chronic allergies, postpartum depression, debilitating sports injuries and a diagnosis of cancer in 2024, became catalysts for transformation rather than setbacks. With each diagnosis, Surabhi chose not to accept the limited perspectives offered by family, society, or the medical system. Instead, she forged her own path—breaking norms and bridging the seen and unseen worlds.Today, she is not defined by her cancer journey or any illness. She stands tallJoin us as Surabhi shares….How her spiritual journey expresses through her physical bodyHer very raw and real experience of being diagnosed with aggressive and advanced cancerHer process of regaining self-advocacy, and constantly choosing life, love and health. We talk about the best ways to support a loved one on a cancer journey (and what not to say), Surabhi’s beautiful conscious connection with the Divine and how she knows when the Divine is speaking with herHer go-to practices to stay grounded, in harmony and healSurabhi’s YouTube channel: Healing with Surabhi:https://youtube.com/@healingwithsurabhi?si=jPVnCCUYHK_m-tEQReading Surabhi recommends:Biology of belief by Bruce Lipton Dying to be me by Anita MoorjaniRadical Remission by Kelly A TurnerPower of now Eckhart TolleUntethered Soul by Micheal A SingerAnd if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! I am so grateful for the The Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.comStudio and Reel production:Kymberly Sngkymberlysngcm@gmail.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 8: Resurrection with Sascha Pierre Heussler
Dec 1400:50:15Tap to summarizeSascha is an entrepreneur, engineer, and science enthusiast. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the National University of Singapore. With a broad interest in science, his career has been a symphony of innovation and interdisciplinary discovery. In 2021 Sascha found himself at the lowest point he had ever been. It was a period of profound struggle, but amidst that darkness, he made a promise to himself: to find a way out, to document every step of that journey, and to share those insights openly. Join us as we get to know this incredible human, his darkest hours and the choice he made for life, the steps he took to reinvent his inner landscape and become a beacon of light for others.Sascha's links:Book:Light Up Your Darkness & Be The Hero Of Your Own Story: A Story Of Personal TransformationIG:https://www.instagram.com/saa_chaa_chaa/And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in! So grateful for the The Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.comStudio and Reel production:Kymberly Sngkymberlysngcm@gmail.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 7: The 21st Century Witch with Lucy Baldwin
Sep 600:50:37Tap to summarizeLucy Baldwin has spent her life exploring relationships, communication, and the human mind.With a background in Cognitive Science and a love for spiritual and philosophical exploration, she co-teaches online courses on magic and shadow work and creates in-person transformational experiences.Lucy is a mother of five, and she and her husband run a few different businesses together.Lucy believes meaning comes from human connection and creating luminous beauty. Her mission is to help others find the intersection of beauty and joy.Join is as Lucy shares her journey into the magical arts, through curious play and working with plant medicine; her beautiful explanations of planetary deities, invocation and evocation, and how we all can be witches; how magic synergises into her busy life as mum of five and tech start up CEO; what she is seeing with the healing of the witch wound in her communities and her direction in supporting the role of the priestess…and so much more.You can find out more about Lucy here:WebsiteInstagramFacebookSo Grateful for the The Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.comStudio and Reel production:Kymberly Sngkymberlysngcm@gmail.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 7: The 21st Century Witch with Bethan Christopher
Aug 2400:56:48Tap to summarizeBethan Christopher is a UK based illustrator known for her vibrant, nature-inspired art. Her work draws on the botanical world, a lifelong study of creative esotericism and her ancestral lineage of Norse and Indian spirituality. She is the internationally published author of Rebel Beauty For Teens, the women's body-love bible Grow Your Own Gorgeousness and founder of Bopha School, a project that provides clean water, menstrual hygiene education and reusable sanitary products to school children in the poorest provinces of Cambodia. Join us as Bethan shares:Her happy and magical upbringing in the wilderness of the Isle of WhiteHow finding a ‘hag stone’ initiated her witchcraft as a girlThe important role that her father played in exploring how story and land weave together and esoteric writingsThe felt presence of her ancestors and lineagesThe essential relationship with land and nature for magicHer beautiful way to work magic for herself and her clientsHer connection with the warrior witch Queen, Boudicca of the first century CEThe critical role of artists and creatives in these times, and the spell-craft of her writing and artHer incredible personal development program development and coaching to help recovering addicts and young women, and how magic and coaching are linked, and so much more. You can find out more about Bethan here:WebsiteInstagramThe Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.comProduction:Kymberly Sngkymberlysngcm@gmail.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 7: The 21st Century Witch with Angell Deer
Aug 10, 202500:51:01Tap to summarizeAngell Deer is an ordained minister, mystic, medicine man, teacher, permaculturist, beekeeper, and lover of all forms of life.He has dedicated his life to remembering, learning, and teaching ancient wisdom through the lineages of Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism. His passion is to weave words and stories, people and places, darkness and light, wounds and love, the ancient and the modern.Angell has also trained as a Veterinarian, Medicine Man, Breathwork Practitioner, Reiki Master, Meditation Teacher, Herbalist, He is the founder of the New York Bee Sanctuary a national non-profit advocating for the preservation of bees & pollinators.He was an advisor for 5 years to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). He has spoken in front of global audiences at the French Davos forum, the French embassy in New York, as the nominee for Entrepreneur of the year by Ernst & Young, at Harvard Business School, Parson School of Design in NYC, awarded the NYC Venture Fellow for best entrepreneur in New York City by mayor Bloomberg, and was recognized as “Earth Rockstar” in 2022 at the Global Concert for Earth.Join us as Angell shares…His journey from hugely successful tech start-ups and corporate world, to a life of mysticism and meaningHow Shamanism opened his heart to an old familiar feeling of magic His lineage of healing and boyhood in the French wildernessHow he created The Sanctuary in the Catskill Mountains through restoring the original ancient forestHis beautiful intimate reciprocity with the land and botanical realmThe primary question for all of us on earth – what is my collective mission?The essential tension between the darkness and light of the world that births serviceStory, music and foods as the easiest and most profound ways to connect with our ancestors And so much more….You can find out more about Angell here:Sacred Paths websiteFacebookIGThe Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.comPodcast ProductionKymberly Sngkymberlysngcm@gmail.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 7: The 21st Century Witch with That Glasgow Witch, G
Jul 19, 202500:49:28Tap to summarizeG is a Scottish witch, folk magic practitioner, and the voice behind @thatglasgowwitch on IG, where she shares wisdom on Scottish folk magic, creating your own Wheel of the Year, herbal traditions, and seasonal rituals. With over 25 years of practice, she weaves ancient practices into modern life, helping others reconnect with nature’s cycles and the magic of everyday moments.A passionate advocate for dispelling fear and misconceptions about witchcraft, she highlights how these practices are deeply rooted in ancestral wisdom, land-based spirituality, and everyday folk traditions. Her work focuses on practical, accessible magic, drawing from Scotland’s rich spiritual heritage. She grows, crafts, and integrates witchcraft into daily life and brings a deep reverence for ancestral wisdom, blending history, storytelling, and hands-on practice to inspire and empower others on their own spiritual path.Join us as G shares:Her upbringing just outside of Glasgow and the beautiful ancient historical pagan roots of the land; a childhood free from religious dogma and full of folk-magic and Jungian frames; how she found her way to intentional witchcraft and her divine understanding of witchcraft being a personal cultivation of powerful beliefs and practices rooted in animism, ancestry and deep listening. G lives to reclaim the title ‘witch’, from the legacy of the brutal burning times in Scotland and late repeal of the witchcraft act. Scouring the witch trail documents she finds the ancient Scottish practices of her ancestors and brings them back to life. Learn about her relationship with the Scottish goddesses the Cailleach and Brigitte and the gods and goddess of places, and why interest is growing in witchcraft, ritual and ceremonial gatherings in recent years. You can find out more about G here:www.thatglasgowwitch.comIGTikTokYouTubeThe Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 7: The 21st Century Witch with Laura Tempest Zakroff
Jul 6, 202500:49:18Tap to summarizeLaura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Sigil Witchery Oracle, Anatomy of a Witch Oracle, The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, The Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance, and Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience from Revelore Press. Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.Join us as Laura shares her fascinating New England childhood and family philosophy, what ‘the witch’ means for her, how her writing is both an invitation and response to expressed needs in her community, dance as a form of energy transmutation and spell weaving and how the ritual expresses itself through her body, her lovely way of dealing with salty witch jokes online, her energetic relationship with nature and urban environments, the importance of deep listening, how witchcraft is 80% observation, her reciprocal ‘work’ with divine beings and the mighty dead.... and so much more! You can follow and connect with Laura here: www.lauratempestzakroff.comwww.instagram.com/owlkeyme.artsThe Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
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The Modern Crone: Season 7: The 21st Century Witch with Marina Kalkum
Jun 7, 202500:46:30Tap to summarizeMarina Kalkum is an Intuitive Artist and Tarot Reader originally from El Paso, Texas. Her nomadic journey has taken her through Santa Fe, Bonn, Zurich, New York City, Singapore, and currently back to Switzerland. Influenced by her Mexican and Italian roots, Marina’s work reflects a vibrant fusion of diverse cultural and life experiences, often incorporating magical elements.Join us as Marina shares how her art is a form of spell-craft, her beautiful philosophy on death as a constant companion of the witch, her 'becoming' as a witch, how a near death experience initiated her path of shadow magic and brought in Santa Muerte as her principle guide, her deep sentient connection with nature, love of the tarot and so much more...You can follow/contact Marina here:https://www.instagram.com/marina_l_k/The Modern Crone team -Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
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