3 Crones Podcast

Listen as Virginia leads us through a discussion inspired by Mirabai Starr's new book, Ordinary Mysticism.  We cover familiar ground...how the elements inform us and shape our own holy ways and sacred days.

Crones want everyone to lean into their magic!  Take some encouragement from us...you are beyond ready and equipped.

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For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

We've brought an episode out of the vault this month...For the Love of Bees previously aired in May of 2022.  It's a keeper with lots to inspire and uplift you! 
Do enjoy and let us know what you think!

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For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

What a beautiful and expansive conversation.  Susan and Kathleen explore so much rich territory...humane and conscious work in the corporate realm, step-parenting and family dynamics, and a few unexpected ways into spirit and selfhood.  
Kathleen shares how her childhood with an alcoholic mother still informs her identity and choices, creating a functional empathy, as she approaches her 50th birthday.
Filled with tender moments of revelation and some laughter too.  I think you're really going to love this one!

Support the show

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For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

What does one do with "overwhelming gratitude"? 

This is a little mini-sode for you with an unexpected twist.

Here are the word search books Susan is in love with!  I've completed Becoming, Presence and working on Rest.

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For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Under the Flower Full Moon at the end of May, we discuss making innovative changes to ignite peace, kindness and togetherness in our personal lives and in the collective.

We challenge each other and our listeners and at the same time murmer thank you thank you thank you thank you for the sacred spaces and communities we have already established.

The devastation at Rafah hadn't happened yet when we recorded.  But we've been suffering these catastrophes long enough to know that each of us are needed to forge a new way to an enduring Peace.

If you were Queen of the World...
Repeat after me...

Please listen and respond.

Ongoing inspiration (whether you're into astrology or not) from Lorna Bevan of Hare in the Moon.

The source invitation for creating a Womanifesto came from Danielle Dulsky.

Your invitation to retreat with the 3 Crones with every luxurious detail can be found HERE at ocean earth wind fire

Support the show

Please rate, review and share our podcast! We love our listeners so!

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Join Susan this month as she interviews a dear friend, Kristin Bispels, in an episode of Women the World Over.  There is a LOT of sweet, infectious laughter in this episode that is likely to inspire everyone to be grateful for their authentic relationships and joyful exchanges.

Kristin Bispels is the founder and executive director of Inclusive Clay, an organization that provides access and art education to adults with intellectual differences in southeastern Pennsylvania. Inclusive Clay began as a response to a need that arose as her daughter exited the school system and became an adult with a disability in her community. There were few good opportunities for her to participate in her community in a meaningful way. So, they started inviting her friends to make pottery in her basement studio as a means to connect, but it grew into much more than that over time. 

Kristin's tag line for this amazing project is a keeper...
"We are shaping communities, one pot at a time."

And so we talk excitedly about that...how to shape reciprocal friendship, mother/daughter harmony, community engagement, inclusion, creative expression and delight in spirit in our daily lives.  

To learn more about Inclusive Clay, go to inclusiveclay.org and follow on Facebook and Instagram @inclusiveclay . We are shaping communities, one pot at a time.

Inclusive Clay...Enter Here!
Kristin's Work at Deedledoo Studio!

Support the show

Please rate, review and share our podcast! We love our listeners so!

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
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For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

At launch, we promised our podcast listeners that we'd "talk about it all" and then took 25 episodes to tiptoe into a conversation about SEX.  

This month, Virginia and Tamara venture into this vast topic with their musings about sexuality and culture, womanhood and coming of age, the rites we are missing and  hopes for new generations.  

We know this is only a drop in the ocean of intimacy, primal desire and sacred sexuality.  Let us know which waves you'd like to hear us ride next!

Support the show

Please rate, review and share our podcast! We love our listeners so!

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
http:/instagram.com/3cronespodcast

For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Tamara invited us into a talk about NAVIGATION...and it feels just right for this time, sorting out a direction but also a state of being that allows for wild cards and rerouting.

Where are we and where are we headed? 
How can we tell if we are "on course"? 
What tunes our listening to the "still, small voice" that assures our arrival in a reality that suits our soul?

Join us three as we wend our way through the brambles around these questions and more.  Especially at a time when oppression, distortion and destruction fill the daily news...how do we make sense of our lives and go forth?  Or as Virginia emphasizes, "how the fuck do we live now?!"

Kyla J Gent has this gorgeous reel posted December 11 on Instagram...check out the somatic movement and a stunning invitation:  "let life catch you by the heart"!

She's a host for the Human Garage...a myofascial project that has Susan hooked!

And, if you are looking for a daily (or weekly...whatever works for you!) devotional practice that plugs you back into trusting yourself and the "way"...check out these beautiful, spiritual WORDSEARCH books created by Margot & Co.  Susan has worked through Presence and Becoming so far...highly recommend.  You really wouldn't know how good it feels until you try it!

Support the show

Please rate, review and share our podcast! We love our listeners so!

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
http:/instagram.com/3cronespodcast

For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

We love retreats!  We lead them, we take them, we dream them up in our waking hours and in our sleep.  We've been hosting them together for a long time and we've learned so much over the years.

How women NEED retreat.  How everyone is transformed, no matter what.  How traveling to touristy, "best" destinations with other yogis really isn't the ideal anymore, rather a beautiful spot to settle into and rest does the body and soul good.  How once per year is not enough.

Susan will tell you that retreat is your birthright and also your responsibility.  It is a proven way to rebalance, restore, reclaim and remember the essence of who you really are.  And THAT woman...that who-you-really-are woman...is what the world needs now.

We hope you will be intrigued and inspired to join us on retreat soon.  Our January retreat to Old Field Point on the Elk River in Maryland is full; but we are on the cusp of announcing the rest of the 2024 schedule!

Support the show

Please rate, review and share our podcast! We love our listeners so!

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
http:/instagram.com/3cronespodcast

For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.

Tamara, Virginia and Susan are back together all three after a summer hiatus following the passing of Tamara's dear husband BJ.  

True to form, the conversation weaves in and out of every avenue of approach towards life's ultimate questions.

We don't have the answers, but benefit and grow through the asking.

Tune in.  We think you'll be moved and awakened.

Support the show

Please rate, review and share our podcast! We love our listeners so!

For the podcast instagram page and to contact us:
http:/instagram.com/3cronespodcast

For Virginia, Tamara & Susan on insta:
http:/instagram.com/virginiamckinnie
http:/instagram.com/sheentamara
http:/instagram.com/susanleemadden

For Susan's sanctuary in Chester County, PA:
http:/oceanearthwindfire.com

Editing by Tessa Hall.
Cover art by Siobhan Bedford.

We're three Crones, sharing our real-life experiences and insights to encourage all women to step into their truth and agency...no easy feat in a chaotic world; but essential nonetheless. Join our virtual circle for inspiration, en-COURAGE-ment and some much needed laughter.