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The Numinous Podcast
Hosted by Carmen Spagnola · EN
The Numinous Podcast is a show about intuition, spirituality and the mystery of life. The host, Carmen Spagnola, is an intersectional witch and clinical hypnotherapist who has smart, soulful conversations with interesting people. The lineup is diverse, the topics are eclectic, and the people are down-to-earth (mostly).
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TNP329 Find Your Song with Erinn Doncaster
1w ago01:13:11Tap to summarizeGrab a hanky because I am living close to the waterworks lately, folks! 😭 I was not able to keep it together through this interview and that tracks completely because I don’t actually believe in trying to suppress emotions and I don’t mind crying in the middle of an interview at all. Especially because it’s not everyday you know your guest is going to hold you in such deep care and dignity. My guest today is the warm and wonderful, Erinn Doncaster, here today to share about their new venture, a project called "Find Your Song". Erinn's combined background in music education and event production, as well as AOP Social Work, trauma counselling, Somatic Experiencing, and group therapy has culminated in this project that weaves together the threads of their rich experience. Erinn is a non-binary, queer, newly disabled, white settler with way-back roots in the Scottish Hebrides via eight generations in Nova Scotia. Find Your Song is a series of musical collaborations and explorations including the upcoming Songwriting to Meet the Moment retreat, happening November 19-22 in Nanaimo, BC, on gorgeous Vancouver Island. Registration closes on August 22, so I’m glad we managed to align schedules so you all can hear why Erinn’s work is so much more than it seems! Just listen, you’ll understand what I mean. Find Your Song: findyoursong.co facebook.com/findyoursong.co instagram.com/findyoursong.co Songwriting to Meet the Moment registration: findyoursong.co/post/songwriting Karla Mundy & SongRoots: songroots.ca Sarina Partridge: sarinapartridge.com https://sarinapartridge.bandcamp.com/album/songs-to-re-root-and-remember-album https://www.patreon.com/sarinapartridge Sarina's interview with Anderson Cooper about Singing Resistance: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BmrPcjfwA/ Singing Resistance: instagram.com/singingresistance ✨✨✨ The threads we're weaving between this podcast and the Stoner Story Witch Podcast: "Mona is an Ancestor Now", The Numinous Podcast "Music as Oracular Bridge with Colette Baron-Reid", The Numinous Podcast "Memos with Friends: Taming the Werewolf Within with Carmen Spagnola", Stoner Story Witch Podcast "Tending Ourselves and Each Other with Spaciousness & Creativity with Carmen Spagnola", Stoner Story Witch Podcast ✨✨✨ Pre-order my book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition, (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype) ✨✨✨ Join us in The Numinous Network for 12 Days of Trancework starting August 3 Remember, I'm teaching my Trancework Practitioner Mini Certificate again this fall! (Likely the past time for a few years.) Thanks for listening!💖
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TNP328 Balancing Burnout & Needs with Mara Glatzel
2w ago01:04:53Tap to summarizeMara Glatzel is an intuitive coach, teacher, podcast host + the author of Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs + Reclaim Your Sovereignty and she's inviting you to a slumber party for burnt out baddies (eldest daughters/sisters/girls). Take Mara's Needs Quiz! (Fun and informative!) Mara teaches eldest sisters, people pleasers, and chronic overfunctioners (her absolute favourite people) how to take up SPACE, deeply tend to their needs, and cultivate unshakable self-trust. Through her online programs, workshops, and retreats, Mara supports folks yearning to reconnect with their humanity and create ambitious lives filled with meaning, without abandoning themselves in the process. Check out her website and get on her mailing list to learn all about her summer retreat. ✨✨✨ Pre-order my forthcoming book, How to Connect Come join us in The Numinous Network
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TNP327 Music as Oracular Bridge with Colette Baron-Reid
3w ago01:07:34Tap to summarize(Content note: Adult language; also brief, non-specific mention of sexual assault.) 🎉It's Colette Baron-Reid Day*!🎉 Sixty eight years ago, she began a life journey that has seen her rise to the height of publishing success as a bestselling author and oracle deck creator. Today, she is coming full circle in more ways than one: it's her solar return, it's her new album's debut, and it's a puzzle piece slotting into place that had been missing for decades. In this conversation, we get to hear why Colette left the music industry 22 years ago and what has changed so that now, at 68 years old, she's no longer "too old for the industry". Listen to the new album, My Dark Church, on Bandcamp. *Observances for 🎂Colette Baron-Reid Day🎂 include: Pull an oracle card, tap into your own intuitive interpretation; make some art, bonus points for intention-setting as you do it; cuddle a cute Pomeranian while you introduce your friends to each other and build networks of solidarity and support to raise up your community and industry; sing if you feel like it, swear if you want to; embrace change, like, actively; take a creative risk and keep looking forward, "raise your eyes up". ✨ *** Pre-order my forthcoming book today, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype) <– Thank you so, so much for your support with this one! 🙏🏻💖 Join us for 12 Days of Trancework in The Numinous Network (9am PT/12pm ET, Aug 3 - 15, 2026, 30 min sessions, camera on or off, recordings available immediately afterward with no time limit to re-play)
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TNP326 Genderqueer Menopause with Lasara Firefox Allen
4w ago01:03:06Tap to summarizeWE WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PERIMENOPAUSE. WE WILL NOT STOP ADVOCATING FOR UPDATED INFORMATION, GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE, AND A SERIOUS OVERHAUL OF FIRST LINE TREATMENT TO CURRENT MOST PROMISING PRACTICES IN MENOPAUSAL SUPPORT. Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW (they/them/Mx.) is an author, educator, and certified menopause doula and coach specializing in gender-affirming menopause care. As Founder and CEO of Genderqueer Futures LLC, they train healthcare providers, therapists, coaches, and allied professionals to deliver inclusive, trauma-informed menopause care for people of all genders. Lasara is the author of Genderqueer Menopause (North Atlantic Books, 2026) and the forthcoming Magickal Menopause (Llewellyn, 2027), and host of The Genderqueer Menopause Coach podcast. They present nationally at conferences, including the UCSF Transgender Health Summit, GLMA, and NPWH. Lasara's next Gender-Affirming Menopause Care Certification Course, an 8-week IAOTH-accredited live cohort for providers, begins November 3, 2026. Links: Everything Lasara: https://linktr.ee/lasarafirefoxallen GAMC Certification Course (Nov 2026 cohort): https://bit.ly/GAMCFall2026 ✨✨✨ Pre-order my book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype) Give The Numinous Network a try
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TNP325 {Dispatch: July 3, 2026} Mona is an Ancestor Now
Jul 300:49:33Tap to summarizeContent Warning: pet death. Also, Dispatch episodes feature the background noise of me doing chores around the farm which may cause aggravation for folks with sensory processing sensitivities. Please look for a transcription within your podcast player. Madonna (Mona) Spagnderson (2013 - 2026) This is the story of how Mona was promised to me in return for not leaving my husband. This is the story of Mona's trauma recovery. This is the story of how our dog required us to become better people, more healed people. This is the story of how Mona told us she was ready to go. This is the story of how we grieve. This is the story of the fundamental role of ritual in our lives and how we do it when the time has come. This is the story of how to do it when my time has come. This is the story of our good girl, Mona, who became an ancestor on June 30, 2026. Click here to see Mona's In Memoriam video on Instagram Click here for my sad songs playlist on Tidal
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TNP324 {Dispatch: June 25, 2026} Let's Talk Business (and Marketing)
Jun 2600:48:40Tap to summarizeLet's go on a farm tour and talk business! Today I am choring, checking the horses' water, the kunekune pigs' water, and saying hi to the chickens, then on to the fields to harvest wheat and barley to dry for wheat weaving kits this fall. I'm sharing quite transparently about my income, my debt, my marketing and my foundational business philosophies. I do want to note: - As with all dispatch episodes, the background noises may not work for everyone. The pig grunts may get tiresome and the chickens may cause a startle response. Please search your podcast player for a transcription! - I say several times in this episode "you have to do events", but I want you to hold that term, "events", very lightly. I don't mean you HAVE to host workshops. But, I mean, at least a 45 minute lunch-and-learn/webinar or SOMETHING, know what I mean? You have to make yourself available to the public if you want the public to fund your life. That's what I'm trying to say. It doesn't HAVE to be hosting events, that's just one example. It could also be your incredibly helpful or entertaining Substack, or your edutainment podcast or whatever. You just gotta MAKE is what I'm trying to say...you gotta DO stuff, otherwise all you have left to talk about is yourself and your boring credentials LOL 😂 In this episode I reference: My NuMethod Facilitation Training – now taking applications for the fall cohorts The 1000 True Fans Theory Dunbar's Number Several times I mention a resource available with membership in The Numinous Network (For example, "Teach Well: Course Design for Healers Who Want to Teach", our Small Business Chat sessions, Peer Supervision, etc.) I mention how I built my business on 8-10 newsletters a year (for years) and how I maintained a high engagement/open rate. (You don't open 80% of the time in a year? No worries - I've unsubscribed you!)* Sign up for my newsletter here! *I actually haven't stayed on top of this since 2022 but I may resume soon! I love a good purge of my list! **I didn't mention this, but I also have registration now open for my Trancework Practitioner Mini Certificate, a microcredential to boost your confidence and provide support for your therapeutic work. ***I also didn't mention that I have another book coming out soon! How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype). Your pre-order means so much! Without it, I can't do the size of print run that will properly stock stores ahead of the holiday gift season - please pre-order and thank you in advance!
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TNP323 {Dispatch: June 17, 2022} Contact Nutrition is the Glue
Jun 1700:20:22Tap to summarizeStorytime! This one is about how I won a trip to Greece through Contact Nutrition. I was a wine rep trying to sell relatively expensive bottom shelf wine to Greek restaurants that did not want this wine. Here's what made the difference. Join us for a mellow summer of Contact Nutrition in The Numinous Network! Thanks in advance for pre-ordering my next book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype)
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TNP322 {Dispatch: June 10, 2026} What Are You Willing to Do Under Capitalism that Preserves Your Dignity and Your Joy?
Jun 1000:12:22Tap to summarizeA little more "Common Sense for Collapse Times" for you today with something I learned after my business was washed away in the Great Recession of 2008 and I experienced bankruptcy and some deep, deep shame. I'm talking about navigating capitalism and managing terror and desperation - somehow in 12 minutes I manage to make myself both laugh and cry, while also feeding the horses and sharing, like, 3 different stories and multiple partial tangential thoughts with you. It's an authentic hang-out session. 😅 Come hang out with us in The Numinous Network for some gentle care and deep connection, as well as some entrepreneurial support!
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TNP321 Mothers of Magic with Perdita Finn
Jun 801:01:41Tap to summarizeI'm so honoured to welcome back to the podcast, one of my favourite conversations partners ever, Perdita Finn! Perdita is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, and with her husband Clark Strand The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. She teaches popular workshops on connecting and collaborating with both the dead and the animate everything. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains. She is on Facebook and Instagram and writes a popular Substack, Take Back the Magic. Her website is takebackthemagic.com Buy Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of our Ancestors from your favourite bookseller now! Referenced in this episode: Bitch: On the Female of the Species, by Lucy Cooke ✨ Join us for more like this in The Numinous Network
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TNP320 {Dispatch: June 7, 2026} Common Sense for Collapse Times: 10 Rules to Live By
Jun 700:22:19Tap to summarize10 Rules to Live By (for Collapse or Any Other Time) This episode features the best bangers of cowboy logic, farm wisdom, and collapse tips that are getting us through some tough months here on Faulder Farm on Syilx Territory. Pre-order my book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype) 🙏🏻 Thanks in advance! 🙏🏻 Join us for collapse support in The Numinous Network
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