Welcome to 2025! At what can be a really tricky time of year I’m very happy to share an extremely beautiful, profound and life affirming podcast with you today.

My guest today is Samantha Poulter better known as Logic1000. It really is a deeply moving one, we cover some fairly heavy stuff, such her experiences of psychosis, trauma and recovery but she has such a pure heart and warmth about her it actually never felt heavy to hear. This one’s a special one, it's not everyday you hear someone talking candidly about their experience and so crucially their recovery from psychotic illness. Same describes how she was so anxious she couldn't even take a train to work on her own when she was catapulted into the spotlight with her first major release " Dj Logic, please forgive me"

Sam had been diagnosed with Schizophrenia at age 25 and after a lot of hard work and support, she’s now in her late 30s, is living a fulfilled and love filled life, she’s mother to her young daughter Genie and an internationally acclaimed producer and DJ who’s just come from tour with Peggy Gou, last year she remixed Dua Lipa, Shygirl and released her post partum inspired album” Mother” she makes incredible music, and she also has the most incredible life story that I can’t wait for you hear.

In this episode we cover:

• Sam's introduction to electronic music
• Developing self trust and overcoming paranoia
• Having an allergy to mood altering substances
• Her experience of psychosis and how that presented for her
• Receiving a diagnosis for Schizophrenia
• The effects of trauma on body and mind
• The profound effect of Somatic therapy on her relationship with her partner and herself

And much more!

Back 2 Life is on instagram @Back2lifepod it's created, produced and hosted by Milly on Air @Milly_on_air_ and you can follow Sam @Logic1000____

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 Back 2 Life a podcast that explores the intersection of healing, creativity and electronic music.

It's hosted by Milly on Air a Bristol based DJ and promoter who wanted to connect with and learn from other people who, like herself are navigating being on a healing path, whilst being actively involved with the traditionally hedonistic world of dance music. In this podcast you will hear candid, honest accounts of recovering from mental illness, trauma, addiction, burn out and more and how their own creativity and musical careers have changed along the way.

In this episode Milly speaks to the wonderful incredibly talented, wise, warm and funny Dj, producer and promoter Stevie Cox, originally from Manchester Stevie is now firmly embedded in the legendary Glasgow scene, where she’s a resident ant the mythical Sub Club, she’s also released on optimo music and runs her own queer club night called Love Cycle alongside dance atmos.

In this conversation we cover a lot from her unplanned  journey into DJing to what lead to her embarking on a healing journey, which has seen her harness multiple modalities from Reiki, pschedilics, shiatsu massage, and talk therapy.

We also touch on:

-Adhd

-Abuse in the music industry

-PTD and CPTSD

-Somatic thearpies

-Aruvedic philsophy

-Spirituality

-Plant medicine and psilocybin

Tigger Warning: We also touch on some subjects that may be triggering for you, namely narcissistic abuse and also childhood abuse so if you’re feeling that may be a bit raw for you please go carefully of try another episode instead, there’s lots to choose from.

Guest @steviecox_

Host & creator @Milly_on_air_

Podcast @back2lifepod

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Emma Marshall aka Emma The Alchemist is the founder and creator of a methodoldgy rooted in rave culture called Movement is Medicine, newly relaunched as Mim HQ an organisation that focusses on the health benefits, emotional and physical , of dancing to percussion driven club music.

Movement is Medicine bridges the gap between science, fitness, movement, music and rhthym to enhance wellbeing, nervous sysyem regulation and process stress or trauma through workshops, dance classes and education- also as she says in this epiosde, it's a vibe it's a fun and a joyful way to look after yourself.

Whilst experiencing a severe burnout and multiple mystery illnesses in her mid 20s  Emma went on a quest to to heal herself, she travelled the world, tried many different modalities and researched the hell out of it, becoming an expert in stress, neuroscience, somatics and combined all that she learned with passion for rave culture and Movement is medicine was born.

Back 2 Life is a podcast is all about healing, mental health and recovery in its many forms, particularly within the world of electronic music. Milly ( Milly on Air) created the idea for this podcast came out of her own experience of starting DJing when I was in recovery from addiction and multiple other mental health challenges.

In this episode we cover:

• That we are rhthmic beings and how finding your rhytm is essential to wellbeing.
• How music and drums have been used in many cultures around the world for healing.
• Why house music is so good for our nervous systems.
• The benefits of movement in processing emotions.
• Emma's experience of extreme burn out, preceeded by trauma, and the lengths she went to to find help.
• Why people working in the music industry is particularly vulnerable to burn out.
• Somatic therapy, what it is and how we can learn about body wisdom from the animal kingdom.
• How excercise can help us complete stress cycles.
• How she built her business online
• The innaccessibility of the wellness industry
• The challenge of creating a brand from such a personal place.

And so much more! I found this episode incredibly inspiring and helpful and really appreciate Emma's no nonsense approach and unstoppable energy.

Find out more:

Emma:Instagram @emma.the.alchemist @mimhq.co.uk

Back 2 Life @back2lifepod

Milly @milly_on_air_

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Welcome back to season 3 and we're kicking off with a bang as we welcome international icon, trailblazer and recovery warrior Princess Superstar to the pod!

If you're here for the first time, this is a podcast for people in the electronic music community who are interested in healing, sobriety, mental health recovery and the power of creativity and art. Now you may not know that Princess Superstar aka Concetta Kirschner has been completely sober and in recovery from addiction for over 2 decades…she’s an iconic, convention defying powerhouse of an artist who’s recently enjoyed a phoenix like rise to the top of the charts after a decade out in the artistic wilderness ( but as she reveals in the podcast actually enjoying much more success as human being).

Since 1996 she’s released 8 albums and 24 singles and has had massive hits in the Uk in 2002 with Bad Babysitter. She’s also worked with The prodigy, Grandmaster Flash, Armand Van Helden, Moby and many many more. Late last year her 2006 single Perfect ( exceeder) produced by Mason was featured in the film Saltburn and has since re-entered the global charts, had over a 100 million streams, became the crossover club hit of the year and won a gold disc. It's success has seen Concetta, aged 53 go from working a day job to touring the world… for a record she released 17 years ago. If you follow her on instagram you will know what an absolute legend she is, she’s hilarious, wise, eye wateringly candid, and serves some of the most fiecely iconic looks ever, and she is someone who absolutely makes recovery, and working on your shit look very very cool. In this podcast we cover topics such as:

-Early recovery, how she got sober at the height of her fame first time around.

-Addiction to external validation and feeling truly valuable inside

-The pain of not being seen or recognised as an artist and how she overcame that.

-Relationships and loneliness

-Authenticity and performing in sobriety

-Redefining success- why fame, money and busyness are not her defionition of true success

-Ageing, fillers, toxic beauty standards- why she is celebrating ageing rather than trying to hide it.

-The fear of losing your creativity in early recovery, how she found even more power on the other side of that fear.

and so much more!

Back 2 Life is an independent DIY podcast hosted and produced by Milly on Air, a DJ, broadcaster and person in long term recovery.

Follow us:

@back2lifepod

@Milly_on_Air

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Back 2 Life is a podcast about recovering from mental illness, adiction, burn out, greif, trauma or simply from being human and the role that music and creativity plays in the healing process. Season 2 is foccussed on the world of electronic music with the mission of opening up this urgent yet taboo subject by speaking to artists about their personal journeys.

Music and art can give voice to feelings and experiences that we can’t articulate in other ways, it can bring joy in sad times and enable us to process pain, to find community and so much more. I’ll be talking about all this today with 'ones' who’s real name is Primo he’s just released his debut EP Far Too Long which is "an incredibly emotive and dynamic body of work taking on the themes of heartbreak, loneliness, depression and destigmatizing the all too familiar issues of mental health, giving listeners an unflinchingly raw insight into ones personal diary."

In this episode we talk about:

- his unique approcah to making music

- his jouney through mental health challenges

-how creating music helped him process and recognise his experiences

- healing generational trauma

-finding community through music

-Disscociative Identity Disorder

-co-dependency

-using social media on his own terms

and much more!

Follow ones on ig here @_onmyones

Listen to ones music https://linktr.ee/_onmyones

Follow the pod @back2lifepod

Follow Milly @Milly_on_air_

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Today's guest is the incredible multi- talented Lauren Flax, recently crowned " Underground Hero" by DJ Mag she truly is a hero not only musically but also in her political activism and with work she does with the organistaion Last Night A DJ Saved My Life which gives access to Narcan ( aka Nalaxone) to help reduce accidental overdoses due to Fentanyl. Aside from all this Lauren has been on a true heroes journey personally. she's been on a healing path for 10 year and sober for 6 of them. Lauren attributes her recent success and long overdue recognition to the intense personal work she's been doing in this time and the perspective shift that has enabled her to step into her true authenicity.

This conversation moved me so deeply and comes with a Trigger Warning as she does share about her experience of childhood sexual abuse :

Lauren speaks about:

-Finding belonging and acceptance as a queer person in the rave scenes of Detroit and New York.

-Harm reduction, drugs awareness and her work with Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

-Her creative process

-Channelling pain through music

-The healing power of music

-Taking Ayuhasca and how it changed her

-Forgiveness

-Childhood Sexual abuse

-Shadow Work- facing the darkness inside

-Inner Child Work

-Meditation

-The non linear nature of healing

-Why she chooses to spaek out about her experiences and how that feels.

Find out more about Lauren Flax @laurenflax

Read her DJ Mag cover story here https://djmag.com/cover-features/lauren-flax-intention-everything

Last Night A Dj Saved My Life https://djmag.com/longreads/fight-against-opioid-crisis-us-clubbing

Lauren's bandcamp https://laurenflax.bandcamp.com/

Back 2 Life is created and hosted by Milly on air @Milly_onAir_

Follow the pod @back2Lifepod

Edited and mixed by George Powell

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Back 2 Life is a` podcast about healing and creativity within the world of electronic music. Our purpose is to to demystify, de-stigmitaise and shine a light on the healing process, whether you’re recovering from mental illness, addiction, burn out, greif, trauma... and whatever path you're on. It feels like as a community we’re thinking more about how we can better look after each other and ourselves, which is a wonderful thing.

My guest today is Nadia Anderson, one half of Kiara Scuro (alongside Roise Ama) a DJ and production duo currently taking the world by storm with their eclectic selections and impeccable taste. Outside of Kiara Scuro Nadia is a holistic coach working mainly with women in the creative industries to live more fully and healthily, both mentally and physically. Nadia speaks about the experience of burn out that lead to her pursuing a different more balanced and conscious lifestyle and the challenges of integrating these two paths. She also has ADHD something we have in common snd also talk about in this episode particulary in relation to perfectionism, shame but also the creative gifts of neurodivergence.

In this episode we talk about:

• Nadia's early career
• Being part of a duo
• Asking for what you want ( be more Davina!)
• Burn out
• Feeling like life is meaningless
• The road to recovery
• How coaching helped her
• Authenticity
• Finding meaning and purpose
• The healing circle, how helping others helps you
• Adhd and perfectionism
• Shame
• The male gaze
• hypersensitivity to outside influence and opinion
• Being of dual heritage
• Finding identity and acceptance in music

And more!

Find out more about Nadia;s coaching here https://www.instagram.com/__ayusya__/

Follow Kiara Scuro here: @KiaraScuro

Back to life is hosted and created by @milly_on_air_

Production by George Powell

Follow us on ig @backtolifepod

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Back 2 Life is podcast that exploresthe link between healing and creativity, and this season is focused on shining a light on mental health and addiction recovery within the world of electronic music.

Today’s guest is an absolute legend, if you were clubbing or festivalling in the 00’s you will have danced, maybe cried and probably hugged a stranger to his the incredibly iconic, uber emosh dancefloor anthem Love Story. Which actually celebrates it’s 20 year anniversary this week! My guest today is Bushwacka aka Matthew Benjamin, probably best known as one half of Layo and Bushwacka and now a qualified psychotherapist, founder of Listen Up Therapy.

He’s also still an international DJ and prolific producer as he has been since the late 90s, but he's also a recovering addict. He’s been clean for over 7 years now and shares his experience of recovery from addiction and poor mental health very candidly and helps a lot of people in the process. I was so honored and excited to speak to him he’s got a really powerful and important message to share.

In this podcast we talk about:

-The early days of acid house

-Getting his frst gig

-Writing and releasing Love Story

-Being a functioning addict

-Early attempts at recovery

-Being caught in a relapse cycle

-Going to rehab

-Holistic healing

-His year off social media

-Training to be a psychotherapist

-Combinig therapy with a 12 step approach

Links:

Bushwacka IG @bushwacka / @listenuptherapy

Listen Up Therapy: http:// www.listenuptherapy.com

Host and creator @Milly_on_Air_

Back 2 Life @back2lifepod

Editor George Powell: @george_etc wwww/georgepowell.online/

Love Story (vs Finally) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXSqXaMChe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.beatport.com/release/love-story-vs-finally/3044657

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Happy new year Lifers! Our new years resolution is to bring you even more real, raw, uplifting, inspiring, hopeful and relatable conversations about overcoming adversity, harnessing the healing potential of our innate creativity, addiction, mental health and recovery with people in the world of electronic music. Our fourth guest of the season and first of 2023 in DJ Winggold aka Charles, creator of Unbound Events, DJ, promoter, activist, advocate and if that wasn't enough, by day he's a lawyer! I started following Charles over the pandemic and we have struck up a very lovely instagram friendship in recent months. In this episode we talk about his passion for Afrofuturism, the ideals and values that his party series Unbound is founded on, being a person of colour in electronic music, social justice, his experience of depression and burn out, the perils of the DJ circuit, validation seeking, his powerful experience with a meditation practice and much more!

Follow DJ Winggold @unboundevents

Back 2 Life is hosted and created by @Milly_on_air_

Edited by George Powell.

Follow us on @Back2lifepod

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For the third epiosde I have the incredible Nightwave talking about her healing experiences with psychedlics, ancient amazonian medicines and Kambô, of which she is now a practitioner. In this podcast we talk about her unusual first job, getting into DJing, her own struggles with mental health including being diagnosed with OCD, what she learned about OCD and the routes she's taken to healing through scared rituals with psycillocybin, plant medecine, kambo and more. We talk about how she works with kambo, what it does, the ethics and sustainability of practicing with sacred methods and plants, spirituality/ spirtual bypassing and the similarities between DJing and shamanism!

Nightwave (or Maya) is a Glasgow based DJ, producer, vocalist, club promoter and label boss with a punchy signature sound of acid, Chicago house, Detroit techno and electro fused with heady rave nostalgia and hybrid forms of bass and club music. She's one of my personal faves and has released some really incredible music over the years including her most recent EP " Prince of Flowers" on Optimo. But Maya is also a holistic therapist and Kambô practitioner specialising in women's health, autoimmunity issues and mental health. She says "Most people know me as a touring DJ and music producer but I've also been on a healing path for the last 20 years years pursuing my love of knowledge and passion for all life's mysteries, spiritual development and plant medicines. "

She has been serving Kambô for 3 years and works with a wide range of clients but is particularly passionate about women's physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and addressing the root of the issue which often is trauma or suppressed emotion. She works closely with Indigenous communities in the Amazon and is passionate about the fair and ethical use of these prcatices and medicines.

Maya's Scared Forest Practice https://www.sacredforesthealing.co.uk/about

May's RA bio https://ra.co/dj/nightwave/biography

Instagram @nightwave808

@maya_sacredforest

Her bandcamp and latest release on Optimo https://nightwave.bandcamp.com/album/prince-of-flowers-ep

Back to Life is hosted and created by DJ and Broadcaster @Milly_on_Air

Production by George Powell

Music by Double O

Artwork and logo by Vivandiere

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