Ruth Coker Burks: Hero

Granny witches, folk healing, mountain magic, whatever name you may know it by, these practices have been swirling around the Appalachian mountains  for centuries.  Minda and Jenna sit down with North Carolina folk healer Nikki Chester to discuss her family's legacy of mountain magic and how it interplays with current culture, how she turned her knowledge of natural healing into a business and of course, her 10 cats! Nikki was recently featured in Smithsonian's Folklife Magazine: https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/appalachian-folk-magic?fbclid=IwAR2vC2Q2YhxbG4ZtlvGAUtdKOPwUL13KY9V0kydysgpA72WME6sxgEYldNE

If you want to explore Nikki's healing products, her shop can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/NikkisNourishedByNature?mibextid=nW3QTL

Pictured: Nikki at 9 days old with her Great Grandmother

Find Nancy's grief group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/hopeafterheartache

And The Laugh Academy : http://www.thelaughacademy.com/

The Dead Girls bring in Nancy Weil, an expert on using laughter to combat grief and loss. Recently, Jenna lost her mother after a lengthy battle with cancer. Nancy shares ways to deal that level of grieving with unconventional methods.    

Part 2 of our interview with Gerry and Barbara. The story continues to unfold with the addition of Philomena Lee and her dear son Michael/Anthony.

Pictured: the baby burial site or Angel Plot at Sean Ross Abbey 

Illegal adoptions. Mass infant graves. Sadistic nuns.  Such are the tales from one of Ireland's 18 infamous mother baby homes, in operation from 1920 through 1970, the Sean Ross Abbey. With the discovery of 796 children believed to be buried in a former septic tank on the grounds of the Tuam mother and baby home, investigations have been launched to discover the truth behind these mother baby homes. Minda & Jenna sit down with Gerry and Barbara, both born to mothers in Ireland during this era and survived to tell the tale.  

Cover Image: Barbara's Irish Passport Photo, age 2 years old 

Trigger warning: Rape, Incest,  Nuns 

Chosen as a Messenger from above, Jarred is a world renowned exorcist and haunted house specialist, natural born shaman, medium and clairvoyant. He is also an author of a book titled Jarred Heaven’s Messenger which has a 5 star rating on Amazon, as well as an actor.

https://www.jarredheavensmessenger.com/ 
 

Chosen as a Messenger from above, Jarred is a world renowned exorcist and haunted house specialist, natural born shaman, medium and clairvoyant. He is also an author of a book titled Jarred Heaven’s Messenger which has a 5 star rating on Amazon, as well as an actor.

Minda & Jenna chat with the enormously talented and wickedly funny Apple Brown Betty about Hoodoo (not to be confused with Voodoo), comedy and hearing from family beyond T he Veil.  Brown Betty will make you laugh out loud and think deep thoughts, check her out: https://linktr.ee/applebrownbetty?fbclid=IwAR1yyZaTYPiK6ndDG45ljjGulHVD8y9SoP6vgYEMktM7PfiLUj71jH536_w

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Part 2 of Minda & Jenna's powerful interview with Chad Nance and Carissa Joines, the filmmaking team behind the upcoming docuseries Hometown America.  We continue to unravel the hidden depths of the opioid crisis and it's effects on America's favorite small town, Mt. Airy, NC.  One mother's journey to shed light on the devastation that is being wrought on families touched by addiction, and her brave stand against being silenced.  We also uncover why you never, ever buy a used mixer.  

   Check out the sizzle reel for "Hometown America" :

https://vimeo.com/730348279

Check out the sizzle reel for "Hometown America" :

Hometown America - Sizzle Reel from Calico Bonnet Productions on Vimeo.

Glowing eyes, impressive wingspan, possible lover of lamps.......... Mothfans rejoice! Minda and Jenna chat with Mothman expert Steve Ward about his theories on Point Pleasant, WV's most elusive resident. Bizarre apex predator or interdementional time traveler? Why not both!