No Such Thing As A Free Lunch W/ Kate Griffin and Angela Zhang

For our season finale, we explore the iconic bond between a girl with too much money & not enough love and an animal with absolutely zero agency.

Hosts Lauren McQ & Rebecca Rush know from experience that wild hearts can't be broken. You know who else knows that? HORSE GIRLS. What is a horse girl and why does everyone hate them? Why are men so jealous of horses? Barn hierarchies, urban dictionary, reddit, and horse girl humor.

Bonus: horse women

Patreon: Rebecca's horse girl fails -- as an eight year old, as a camp counselor who was exiled to horseback staff, and the toxic barn dynamics that summer in Georgia. Upon google search only the camp's website comes up over and over which we all know is SUS. The stories that were scrubbed from google for only $5 a month! We will also be uploading new bonus eps during our winter break. See you there!

And a huge thank you to our listeners. There would have been no season two without you!

For the penultimate episode of season two: belonging, hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush retreat into the wide world of psychedelics as medicine with special guest Brittany Wilson of Original Instruction School. Brittany is an herbalist and midwife who has lived with indigenous cultures in South America and has been leading ayahuasca retreats for over a decade. The ladies discuss how most plant medicine doesn't get you high, tech bros, the dubious backgrounds of white shamans, Rhythmia in Costa Rica, and group dynamics.

On Patreon, Rebecca interviews Rosemary Gladstar, mother of modern herbalism and founder of California School of Herbal Studies.

Lauren's Teal Swan episode as she brings us into a world she knows as intimately as her waking life -- comic book heroes, heroines, and anti-heroes. The simplicity of knowing who to root for in a land of goodies and baddies. Feeling like as a woman, one had to know more about everything and must always be ready to be quizzed on Star Wars by anyone. The empowerment that comes with identifying with superheroes. Cosplay / comic con / autism overlap and what accomodations could be made by comic cons for their disproportionately neurodivergent fanbase.

Want more personal, nobody but our besties know them stories? Head on over to our Patreon where for $5 a month, you get four bonus video episodes, a master book list, access to our close friends list on Insta, free yoga, and more!

Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush explore the ultimate in topics polite ladies don't discuss, the incredible, edible (maybe) menses. Period huts, red tents, witch imagery, gathering together to tell stories at the end of the month, religious taboos, indigenous practices, cultural taboos, herbal allies, and let us not forget Meghan Markle's work to end period stigma. God save the period!

Rebecca reads a personal essay about getting her first period on the day of her Bat Mitzvah (Today you are a woman. Tomorrow you return to 8th grade. )

On Patreon, Lauren discusses painful periods and the shaming, blaming, and misinformation surrounding them while Rebecca shares some beauty and art hacks.

Go on, have a little pyramid scheme income as a treat. Become a coffee shop missionary and have your church pay you to hang out in one all day. They aren't regular Christians, they are COOL CHRISTIANS. Hosts Rebecca Rush and Lauren McQ wanted to understand WHY people can't just be happy enough with their own beliefs and have to go trying to force them on others. White savior complex, a free ride, and a chance to travel the world made sense. Social media as just a new way for the church to control the narrative. Influencers for Jesus believe that Jesus brought them the abundance they have, and not, say, inherited wealth.

On Patreon Rebecca discusses the joy of messing with missionaries in Thailand.

If there's anything more insiduous than a good ole fashioned American pyramid scheme it's once we involve the wellness industry. Snake essential oil salesman, the real customer is you, the 'salesforce', Anti MLM Reddit (ofc). Hosts Lauren McQ and Rebecca Rush bring you all the wild details on Herbalife,  Doterra, and the satanic panic currently surrounding Mormon essential oil brand Young Living. Oh, by the way, therapeutic grade is totally made up! On Patreon Lauren discusses how she got involved with and ALMOST became a Beach Body coach while Rebecca talks about all the MLM's she's watched ppl get caught up in and how much more sense they made before we bought everything on our phones. Girls from high school in ur dms selling candles.

Find out why the studio Rebecca once called Yoga to SOME People shut down in 2020-- because it wasn't the pandemic. Hosts Lauren McQ & Rebecca Rush present to you the weird world of lesser known yoga cults. Comprehensive reporting and analysis of YTTP scandal & John Friend's anusara. Also, why is LA so ripe for cults (attachment wound, anyone?) Lauren teaches how to avoid accidentally joining a yoga cult, types of yoga cults, and Father Yod and the Source Family.

On Patreon Rebecca interviews her fav yoga teacher who is not a cult leader, Kim Abraham of Kitchen Gallery Yoga in New London, CT.

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Benefit from Rebecca's seven year hyperfixation on controversial spiritual teacher Teal Swan. A stream of consciousness interview guided by cohost Lauren McQ. The Deep End documentary, the Gateway podcast limited series.The completion process, synchronicity, saying hard things, where does all this knowledge come from, implanted memories, and more. 

Content Warning: Suicide.

On Patreon Rebecca details her completion process experiences.

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Call Lauren & Rebecca now for your free tarot reading and sue us later! The psychic hotline boom of the 90's and lawsuits of the 2000's. Miss Cleo, Hotline (doc), CaliforniaPsychics.com, The best reddit has to offer on the topic, the types of people that call psychic hotlines, and a behind the scenes look at both a con man and a person who genuinely believed they were helping people. AND! What it's like working at a psychic hotline in 2022! On Patreon Lauren and Rebecca divulge juicy details from personal psychic readings.

Cohousing: Is It The Post Covid Cure All We Need?

With the way the pandemic floored the rate of skyrocketing costs of living, the anguish of our isolated lives, and the terrors of climate change it wasn’t shocking to me to find out that applications at Bergholt Hall, one of Britain’s oldest farming communes increased six-fold the past year.

Intentional housing, or cohousing, typically exists in communities small enough for everyone to know each other, where there is shared space and gardens along with relatively smaller stand alone single household units. 

Some, like Lost Valley in Oregon, founded in 1988, serve as an educational and conference center, some, like Mariposa Grove in Oakland, seeks to provide community, affordable housing, and the sharing of resources for those living in the bottom 30% of income in the Bay Area. 

Whatever the vision and mission that unites them, cohousers firmly believe that cooperation allows them to live lighter on the planet, is easier, more interesting, more fun, and more economical. 

While more people may be drawn toward cohousing in the coming years even more may learn from them and make small changes in their life toward community and sustainability.

ALSO! The shadow side of community. On Patreon they discuss times & places they felt truly a part of a tribe.

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