Alter Ego Podcast

Commonly referred to as “trimmigrants”, trimmers come from all over the world to Northern California for a short period of time to make some quick cash. They spend months on back-woods farms to process the marijuana after it’s been harvested, and manicure it from the raw plant into the smokeable bud. Jenna has been doing this for almost a decade, working from farm to farm, off the grid. The scope of her experiences make for an interesting journey. From run-in’s with the police, 16 hour work days, to having her life threatened, you’ll not only get a good feel for what the lifestyle of a trimmigrant is like, but really enjoy the telling of it as well.

On the cusp of legalization, an anonymous female marijuana grower shares a rare behind-the-scenes view into her life. At the very end of her 9-month-long season, we talk about weed, what it’s like to live in the woods, shrouded in secrecy, in the heart of the emerald triangle: Humboldt county. Humboldt is world famous for growing the most incredible marijuana available on the planet. Listen in to the typical day of the illegal grower, what the culture and people are like that thrive in the pot scene, the necessary secrecy required, the isolation, and the lifestyle that goes along with this multi-billion dollar underground industry. 

Have you ever felt under-qualified? Like you don’t know what you’re doing? Like an imposter? It’s more common than most of us would like to admit. Many of us begin something new by feeling the need to prove ourselves.

Logan Sullivan shares how he overcame the Imposter Syndrome in his career with an Alter Ego that knew what it took to do his job, even though he felt severely under-qualified when he began. Suddenly, years later, he looks back and realizes that he now IS the person he was pretending to be, all this time!

Logan has worked closely with the United Nations as an advocate, and traveled for relief work to over 55 countries for International Medical Corp, Handicap International, Action Against Hunger, and Oxfam (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief).

Jordan and I met at Burning Man and have known each other for several years. We rather quickly get around to the surprising normalcy of being inside a sex dungeon camp, internal conflicts of belonging, how he got his name as “Momentum”, and his walk across the country to win back an ex-girlfriend, only to find himself in the process.

All of us want love. For some, early on in our lives the channels of love and approval got fused together. I learned early on that I was “bad” and “a sinner”. So if I just changed what I wanted to do, how I expressed myself, and who I was, THEN I could get love. Many of us seek affirmation, approval, and acceptance as a substitute for love. We can even go as far as to create an inauthentic alter ego, which we think will please another, to get love. How does that happen, and what can we do about it?

She’s bad! She’s bad! You know it… She’s Devra Gregory: One of the most successful female Michael Jackson impersonators there is. Dev talks about expanding her mind into the role of becoming a celebrity, and gives the behind the scenes of the spiritual aspects of her life. Michael Jackson. Wicca. Dance. She’s bad!

The ouroboros is a symbol from ancient Greece, adopted down through history into alchemy, depicting a serpent or dragon eats its own tail. I get down and dirty with you. Facing fears, exponential development, and the growing pains that accompany us all.

Magic. Sleight of hand. Mentalism. What is the importance of Alter Ego in Magic? Today we hear from Magician Joshua Logan, who performs magic for audiences around the world! He’s been published in Magic Magazine, Wired Magazine, has developed magic videos for EllenTube and DreamworksTV. This year on April Fools Day, Joshua Logan and Doug Hofkins opened up Boardwalk Magic, California’s newest magic shop on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. He talks about creating an Alter Ego for stage that is unstoppable, and even shares the world premiere description of his legendary “Freak Out” trick.

Artemis Simon is back with a special Q&A episode! We received a lot of questions from YOU after her episode 26: “Sex Work with Ms. Monday Jones”. I recommend listening to that one first so this has context. We talk about everything from the importance of aftercare in BDSM play, to her hard limits and boundaries. Artemis changed my view of sex workers. In her last episode she told us about how sex work doesn’t necessarily mean intercourse, and can sometimes even be about healing, mentorship, education and growth.

Can we decide to get up one day, and change the way we’re living, who we are, and have a completely different lifestyle? Chase did. He went from being a “normal person”,  fitting in the system, wanting to commit suicide, to making a decision: “I don’t want to be this way”. So he started with a bucket list of all the things he wanted to do before he died, and then??… he became that person who would do all of those things, and left his old life behind.