A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Mikaela MacPhail is the Mushroom Alchemist. In this conversation Mikaela will discuss the historical and traditional uses of medicinal mushrooms worldwide including Reishi, Turkey Tail, Shiitake, and Lion’s Mane. She also shines light on the edible mushrooms used for cooking, how to forage wild mushrooms and and ways in which to grow your own.

We also dive deep into the truth behind psilocybin.

Mikaela is a wealth of knowledge around the mushroom kingdom and talks about how the human body can benefit from ingesting mushrooms and the ecological purpose of mushrooms in the ecosystem.

A passionate and creative fungi enthusiast, Mikaela seeks to understand the truth behind mushrooms. It is so refreshing to hear about the fifth kingdom from a woman.

Mikaela is currently working on growing a range of medicinal and gourmet mushroom species. It’s through observing mushroom’s growth that she aspires to harness natures potential for potent medicines.

Mikaela has previously been involved in the creation of Life Cykel mushroom duel extract range and used to grow and sell mushrooms at the local Byron market.

Connect with Mikaela

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @alchemistic.fungi

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Rinat has a bachelor in marketing and social science, and spent her career putting disruptive services and technologies in the hands of millions. Now as an ex-telco marketer, she is doing the opposite.

She is now a mother of one living with her husband in the northern rivers, NSW, Australia. She has spent the past year, volunteering in stopping 5G in the Byron Shire and to work with the community on strategies to envisage a future with safe technology.

Her 5G story is called WeAreNotSAM and you can find her on Instagram revealing telco insider info.

Researcher Brené Brown said it best, because stories are data with a soul. That’s the key ingredient for successful marketing strategies, for activism and for creating positive change through marketing campaigns and initiatives.

In this conversation we talk about the implication of 5G, Safe technology for the future and the right to be heard in this democratic society.

Rinat believes in people power and the right we have to demand safe technology not just for us but for the generations to come.

For anyone who wants to gain more insight in 5G and the effects. A must listen.

Connect with Rinat

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/stop5gnorthernriversnsw/

Instagram: @wearenotsam

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Vanessa Muradian is a yoga teacher, sexologist and the founder of Mia Muse.

Mia Muse is a place online where you can read about sexuality, explore videos, find erotic and buy sex toys.

Vanessa also works in 1-1 therapy and couples therapy.

In this chat we talk about erotism, the effects of stress on your sex, how to get out of your head and get into your bed and acknowledging your pussay.

In this episode, we have a casual conversation about being two sexually liberated women. We talk about Vanessas newest project “Muse Journal” and her insights into orgasmic sex.

Listen, to gain knowledge.

Connect or a book sessions with Vanessa Muradian

Website: https://www.miamuse.com/

Instagram: @miamuse.intimacy

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Hannah Forrester - Homegrown Herbalism, Alchemy with Plants & Planets and Springtime

Hannah has always had a love of gardening. She runs a small business in the Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia called Alchemy of Plant & Sol which she calls her homegrown herbal apothecary.

Hannah handcrafts small-batch, slow-brewed herbal concoctions, lotions and potions that bring health, vitality and awareness to spirit, mind and body.

She grows her herbs, wildcrafts some from Nature and sometimes sourced from other carefully tended gardens, never needing the use of chemicals.

Hannah talks of the importance of cultivating strong relationships with the environment and the effects it has on our health.

In this episode we learn about spring time remedies, Calendula and all its many uses and edible weeds.

Hannah also talks about the importance of growing plants with the planets and the moon and the process of harvesting and creating.

We recorded this episode last year, but it is still full of vital information.

A must listen.

Connect with Hannah

Website: https://www.alchemyofplantandsol.com.au/

Instagram: @plantandsol

Email: [email protected]

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Orly Miller, Psychologist

BPsych (Hons)

Orly is a registered psychologist with experience working with individuals and couples across a range of issues to support healing and enhance wellbeing. She is an experienced facilitator of mindfulness-based group therapies and workshops. She is dedicated to creating a safe space to explore, nurture and heal.

In this episode we fill our tool belt with ways to get through this hard time of isolation. Orly addresses mental health, effective communication and domestic violence during COVID-19.

Orly talks about the importance of addressing emotions, what to do if fear and stress arises and ways we can stay connected to one another.

Listen, to gain knowledge.

Connect or a book sessions with Orly Miller

Website: www.orlymillerpsychology.com

Instagram: @orly.miller.psychology

Or if you live in and around the Byron Bay Area, you can book a session with her at Mullumbimby Psychology.

Orly is running an online Mindfulness of Emotions workshops on June 7 2020. Details and bookings through her website.

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Mei Lai Swan - Understanding Trauma Informed Yoga & Humankindness

Mei Lai Swan is a yoga teacher, musician, and the creator of Yoga for Humankind. I undertook her Trauma informed yoga teacher training in 2019. Yoga for Humankind is a Social Enterprise dedicated to bringing the modern informed trainings to teaching yoga.

Mei Lai is a powerhouse of inspiration. She lives and breathes her work.

She is giving people back their power to connect to themselves and really learn to trust themselves again. She stands aside her students.

In this episode we learn about Mei Lai's background, her work in Indigenous communities, her dedication to mediation and how she discovered trauma informed yoga.

My dream is that Mei Lai and this work makes it way into all schooling systems in this country.

Listen, to gain knowledge.

This woman's words are profound, inspiring and poetic.

Connect with Mei Lai Swan

Yoga for Humankind: https://yogaforhumankind.org/

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yogaforhumankind/

Mei Lai on Instagram: http://instagram.com/meilaiswanyoga

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Mistress Cleo Kali - Inside the Sex Industry, Politics & Feminism

Mistress Cleo Kali grew up on the rural coastal areas of the East coast of Australia.

She is a professional kink witch, sadistic creatrix, futurist FemDom and is Fighting for Risk Aware Consensual Policy in steel toe thigh highs.

"The more work that I do, the more people that I see, the more clients I see, the more clear it is that all that our fetishes are, is just a reflection of our societies we are living in" - Mistress Cleo Kali

She has been a professional Dominatrix for six years and in this chat we explore inside the world of the sex industry.

Mistress Cleo Kali is fiercely intelligent and interweaves the psychological and political structural lense as a way of interpreting the societies fetishes.

In this episode, we talk about life inside the sex industry and Mistress Cleo's dominatrix life and the practical, spiritual and sexual aspects of that.

We delve into the insights of human sexuality, feminism and politics.

Listen, to gain knowledge.

This woman's words are juicy, entertaining and enlightening.

Connect with Mistress Cleo Kali

Instagram: @cleo.kali

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Kate Nelson- Quitting plastics, big picture activism and being a mermaid in a modern world.

Kate Nelson has been disposable plastic free for 10 years. Also known as Plastic Free Mermaid, Kate is an amazing advocate for the sea and her knowledge is vast and expansive.

In this episode we learn about mirco plastics, discuss Kates journey and how she got to where she is, and the revolution Kate is starting and helpful tips on how to get on board.

Incredibly insightful information, A must listen too

This is Kate’s story.

Connect with Kate

Website: iquitplastics.com

Instagram: @plasticfreemermaid

Facebook: /plasticfreemermaid

A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft

Zenith Virago is an educator, facilitator, consultant, speaker, author, marriage celebrant, and Deathwalker.

In this episode, we discuss the truths around death, dying and gay marriage. Zenith brings back contemporary, natural, holistic awareness to death, ceremony and loss.

We also talk about the Vagina Conversations, an annual event that Zenith has been running in Byron Bay for the last four years. The event is a fundraiser for the Mullum Womens escape fund, highlighting domestic violence in our country. It was an honour to talk with Zenith, she is a role model for me and I admire her, her words and her work.

Connect with Zenith:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zenith.virago

Website: https://www.zenithvirago.com/