Essie Jain is an English singer and songwriter, who has been performing and recording music for over two decades. Her songs have traveled far and wide out into the world and gently weaved themselves into the fabric of people’s lives, daily healing practices and stories. She has almost 600K monthly listens on Spotify.

Essie often works alongside her husband, guitarist and long term collaborator Patrick Glynn, for both recordings and live performances. They live in Los Angeles with their daughter Opal.

Most recently, Essie and Patrick made an album of folk songs together, The Rose In Bloom, which was released on March 7th, 2025

Her website Instagram

Essie on Spotify

We talked about:

·      Holding space for people’s responses to our work and boundaries

·      Creative collaboration with our partners

·      Music and healing

·      Making a living as a creative

·      Founding an indie label

In the extended episode just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

·      How creativity prepares us for the challenges of parenting

·      Betting the house on your creativity

·      Channelling the energies of death into music

Resources Mentioned

Creatrix: she who makes

Big Magic – Liz Gilbert

Songs Featured in this Episode

O, I Love You – from Until the Light of Morning

I’m Not Afraid of the Dark– from Until the Light of Morning

The Healing from As I Return

The Blessing from As I Return

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Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history. She is

the host of the internationally beloved podcast, The Witch Wave and the author of

Waking the Witch and What Is A Witch. Her newest book, Magic Maker- The Enchanted Path to Creativity has just launched. She is also co-editor and co-author of the

Witchcraft volume of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series. Her writing has appeared in

numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME.com, and

many more. She divides her time between Brooklyn and the Western Catskills

alongside her husband and their two feline familiars.

www.pamgrossman.com

Instagram @phantasmaphile

Podcast – The Witch Wave

We talked about:

Women and surrealist art

Occulture

Her podcast, The Witch Wave

Capitalism and magic

Being visible as a witch

Being taken seriously by the mainstream media when talking about magic

Witchcraft - The Taschen Anthology

Her new book Magic Maker

Archetypes of magic – Witch, Magician and Magic Maker

Why creativity is vital now

In the Extended Episode – just $3 a month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

We dive deeper into capitalism and magic, bring the Taschen anthology of Witchcraft to life, women artists who are just coming into mainstream awareness and the work of Amy Hale bringing forward the work of Ithell Colquhoun.

Resources

Amy Hale – Creative Magic Episode

Artists mentioned:

Leonora Carrington

Remedios Varo

Hilma af Klint

Ithell Colquhoun

Agnes Pelton

Gertrude Abercrombie

Leonore Fini

Pamela Colman Smith

Waking the Witch

Magic Maker- The Enchanted Path to Creativity

Witchcraft volume of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series – ed. Jessica Hundley

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Sangu Mandanna is a British–Indian author of adult, young adult, and middle grade fiction. She is best known for her fantasy romance novels The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches and A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping.

We talked about:

• Whimsy and cosy fiction
• The magical books that made her
• Her writing process
• Her publishing journey
• The difference between writing for YA, children and adult readers.
• Writing inclusive characters
• Belonging and community
• Writing sex scenes

In the Extended Episode www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

• We dive deeper into neurodivergence, being seen and invisibility
• As well as an additional extract from The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches

Join us for the Creative Magic book club www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

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Sarah Robinson is the best-selling Womancraft Publishing author of multiple books on magic and witches including: Yoga for Witches (now in French, Chinese, Polish and Farsi), Yin Magic, Enchanted Journeys, The Kitchen Witch Companion, The Witch & the Wildwood ,

and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairytale. Her newest book Witch Country: Seeking the Witch in the British Landscape is out on October 31st.

A yoga teacher and author based in in Bath, UK. Her background is in science; she holds an MSc Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard universities. She is host of the Witch Country podcast.

You can listen to Sarah’s popular episode from Season 1 of Creative Magic – Let’s All Run Away and Live in the Woods, and learn from her and myself in the Weaving Magic with Words episode in Season 3, as well as discover some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on my Patreon – for $6/ month.

Join her for her Masterclasses live on Zoom on October 29th and November 5th. Find out more at Womancraft Publishing

Find Sarah online:

Website: www.sentiayoga.com

Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry

Podcast: Witch Country

Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson

We talked about:

The Season of the Witch – whether it’s over commericalised and what it means to us

Time release magic

Social media, performance and authenticity

The importance of digging for roots

Balancing whimsy and the dark history of witch hunts.

The place and witch that impacted her most as she researched Witch Country

Some of our favourite good witches from 20th century film

In the extended episode – over 15 mins of extra content just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

The backstory as to why Sarah is “friend of the pod”

Apple magic

Real world social media content making struggles

Witch marks – what they are and how to find them.

An extra extract from Witch Country

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Crowned ‘the defender of female awesomeness’ by Cooler magazine, everything Lisa creates is an invitation home to yourself. To your voice, your rhythms + your own reality.

A reality that’s remembered + respelled by you.

She writes, teaches + shares in the sweet spot between feminine philosophy, sensual creativity + personal myth-making. Her work is rooted in the depth of Hélène Cixous, the erotic truth-telling of Anaïs Nin + the accessible ritual of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.

She is the best-selling author of Witch, Code Red, Love your Lady Landscape, Self Source-ery + Venus.

www.lisalister.com/

Instagram @sassylisalister

Join us for the Creative Magic Book Club www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Today we talked about:

The Importance of Writing and Telling Our own stories

Cyclical intelligence

Her mutism as a child

The witch wound – women being silenced down through lifetimes, ancestral fear of speaking out

Being seen – and discernment as to who we share our skills with

Creating the most magical version of ourselves that our soul most longs for

Navigating paradox

EDS (hypermobility) and magical women

Neurodivergent women and masking

Publishing and self-publishing

Being too much

Prolific

Women in creative process

Join us for a deeper dive in the extended episode – just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Where we get raw and real, and share our personal experiences of publishing and self-publishing

An extract from her book, Witch.

We mentioned

Womancraft Publishing

Code Red

Love Your Lady Landscape

Witch

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Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman is the artist and illustrator of "The Divine Feminine Oracle", The Spellcasting Oracle” and “The Sutras of Unspeakable Joy”. She is a visionary artist who merges magick and technology with traditional mediums to create new interpretations of myth and archetype. Through her work she explores shamanic, astrological and mythological constructs to interpret the liminal worlds of the Divine Feminine, incorporating art and talisman to create a third phenomenon, or magical reality. Her art was included in Witchcraft - Taschen and features in The Divine Feminine Oracle that she created along with Meggan Watterson, on the covers of The Mistress of Longing and Gina Martin’s Daughters of the Goddess series.

In honor of the Great Mother, and as personal witness, she creates all work under the pseudonym "SheWhoIsArt".

www.etsy.com/shop/SheWhoIsArt

Website: www.shewhoisart.com

Facebook: facebook.com/shewhoisart

Instagram: @shewhois

We talked about

The soul in art

Art as a vessel for the sacred

Sacred Feminine perspective on current events

Feminine representation in the Bible and why it goes untaught

Her work with Megan Watterson on the Divine Feminine Oracle.

Her artmaking process – creating light

Symbology of the Feminine

Finding and trusting the real in this post-truth world

In the extended episode – over 45 mins of extra content just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

Perimenopause and menopause – wise woman insight

Migraine and creativity

Symbology – the Alphabet vs the Goddess

Ancient women cave painters

Her twinkle box

AI as a creative and business tool

The female roots of modern Western abstract art

Her religious background

Facebook and IG jail

Balancing our creatrix and business parts

Resources

Burning Woman

The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects

Discover Your Inner Symbols – Masterclass

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image 

Women Who Run With the Wolves and Mother Night – Clarissa Pinkola Estes – listen to our Creative Magic special on Women Who Run with the Wolves

The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed

The Great Cosmic Mother

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Sophie Messager bridges worlds that rarely meet. A former reproductive physiologist with a PhD, she traded her microscope for a medicine drum after experiencing the transformative power of an empowered birth. Her decade-long journey as a doula, birth educator, and author of Why Postnatal Recovery Matters deepened her exploration of the rhythms surrounding women's transitions.

Now a holistic life transition mentor, Sophie guides women through significant life thresholds—from birth to perimenopause and beyond. Her unique combination of scientific expertise and spiritual insight allows her to serve as a compassionate space holder for those seeking to harmonise their analytical and intuitive selves.

Her new book The Beat of Your Own Drum: the history, science and contemporary use of drumming as a path for women’s wisdom, health and transformation is published by Womancraft Publishing and available everywhere now.

Her podcast The Wisdom Messenger

www.sophiemessager.com

We talked about:

Drumming as nervous system regulation

Drumming and birth

Bridging the intellectual and spiritual worlds

Wearing many hats

Intuitive drum and intuitive dance

Women’s life transitions

Reclaiming childhood joys

Neurodivergence and regulation

How we have lost regulation in contemporary patriarchal society.

For a deeper dive, join us for the Extended Episode – just $3/ month, exclusively on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce - where we discuss

Schuman Resonance

Microdosing – drumming and psylocibin.

Resources

The Beat of Your Own Drum

Burnout – Amelia Nagoski

Come as You Are – Emily Nagoski

Jane Hardwicke Collings

The Emerald – The Revolution will not be Psychologized

Jeff Strong

Peter Levine

Women Making Noise conversation series

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Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of over twenty novels, plus novellas, cookbooks, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

She performs in a live music and storytelling show with the #Storytime Band.

She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to smell colours. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.

www.joanne-harris.co.uk/

Author image credit - Kyte Photography

We talked about

• The film adaptations of Chocolat that didn’t happen
• Her cover artwork
• Developing her voice as a writer
• The different forms of magic in her books
• On discovering magical realism
• Imposter syndrome
• Writing and motherhood
• How she writes
• Food as a love language
• Moving beyond the archetype of the white male writer and the assumptions that go along with that.
• Belonging and being an outsider
• Her advice for writers

In the extended episode just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

• Her great-grandmother who was a witch
• Cosy books, current book trends in fantasy and armchair murder mysteries and reading for comfort in a world gone mad
• How she researches her books
• Her current creative rabbit hole
• Plus some of her thoughts on magic from her most recent books – The Moonlight Market, Chocolat and Vianne.

Resources

Chocolat (book)

Chocolat (film)

The Five Love Languages

The Moonlight Market

Vianne

10 Things About Writing

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Victoria Firth is a writer, theatre maker and performer based in Yorkshire. Her work is concerned with embodiment and connection, exploring things lots of us feel but don’t really talk about. Her one-woman show, about childlessness and reinvention, ‘How to be amazingly happy!’ toured nationally; she curated a collection of writing on the presentation of the body – inspired by her live art performance ‘The Butter Piece’; her poetry has recently been published in Northern Gravy's anthology. She is now producing her second play 'Batty!' exploring witches as role models for women othered by social norms and our reciprocal connection with nature. She can be found walking on the moors or wild swimming with her dog Blaidd.

Website: https://www.victoriafirth.co.uk/

BATTY! Information and tour dates: https://www.victoriafirth.co.uk/batty/

Instagram: @msvhf 

Facebook @msvictoriafirth

We talked about:

·      Her new show – Batty, about a midlife woman reclaiming her wildness

·      Making space for our creativity as women

·      Redefining success…and failure

·      The three stages of creativity

·      Becoming a performer in midlife

·      Navigating the inner battle between the creative drive and the need for inner safety

·      “the bell that keeps ringing”

·      The invisible economy of the arts

·      Creativity, magic and being highly sensitive

In the extended episode, just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

·      Perimenopause

·      Structural divergence and patriarchy busting

Books Mentioned

Burning Woman

The Highly Sensitive Person – Elaine N. Aron

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Sarah Detweiler works out of her home studio undulating between her art practice and motherhood. She explores beyond the traditional boundaries of painting by including various hand embroidery techniques and mixed media materials into her work. Motherhood, nostalgia, and themes that touch on the universality of the human experience all have significance in her work.

An award-winning artist, Sarah has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country and virtually. She exhibits regularly at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia where she has had 2 sold out solo exhibitions.

www.sarahdetweiler.com

www.instagram.com/SD_Artifacts

www.paradigmarts.org/collections/sarah-detweiler

We talked about:

·      Hidden Mothers

·      The shame umbrella

·      Weirdness, feralness and domesticity

·      The Creative Rainbow Mother archetype

·      My book The Rainbow Way – the Artist’s Way for creative mothers

·      Creative evolution and getting bored

·      Her definition of success

In the extended episode just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

·      The crossover between ADHD and Barbara Sher’s Scanners and Elaine M. Aron’s highly sensitive person

·      Creative rabbit holes

·      The feral forties and perimenopause and Women Who run with the Wolves

·      Her ADHD puppet alter ego

Books Mentioned

The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood

Creatrix: she who makes

Women’s Bodies Women’s Wisdom – Christiane Northrup

Lynn V Andrews – Jaguar Woman

She of the Sea

Big Magic – Liz Gilbert

The Creative Act – A Way of Being – Rick Rubin

Burning Woman

Women Who Run With the Wolves 

Nightbitch – Rachel Yoder

Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy – A Womancraft Compendium

Refuse to Choose – Barbara Sher

The Highly Sensitive Person – Elaine N. Aron

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