Magic Happens with Melody Hu

Brigitte Mars shares her lifelong journey as an herbalist, her insights on natural healing, psychedelics, consciousness, and finding your life purpose.

In this episode of Magic Happens with Melody Hu, Melody sits down with the author, founding member of the American Herbalists Guild, and end-of-life doula for a conversation about following your calling and living with intention.

From her grandmother’s folk remedies to life in an Ozarks teepee, Brigitte reflects on the experiences that shaped her unconventional path. She shares lessons from the flower child movement, the importance of intention and integration in psychedelic experiences, and how her work as a death doula and her reading of The Urantia Book inform her personal perspectives on life and death.

The conversation also explores practical ways to follow your spark: combining what you love with what you’re good at, building a livelihood around multiple passions, and making a list of 100 things you want to do in your lifetime.

For Brigitte, everyday magic begins with intention, service, and a deeper connection to the natural world.

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What happens when you say yes to the unexpected? Actor, Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, and entrepreneur Tasos Hernandez joins host Melody Hu to share how acting, boxing, and business shaped a life full of surprising connections. Tasos reflects on taking a chance on The Bachelorette, building an entertainment company, and finding confidence through boxing. Along the way, he shares why showing up matters, how to lead with fairness, and how saying “yes, and” can turn curiosity into opportunity.

A conversation about following your spark, staying open to the unknown, and discovering that the things you love may connect in ways you never expected.

What happens when a pharmacist begins listening to intuition as deeply as science?In this episode of Magic Happens with Melody Hu, Melody sits down with Tori Rerick — PharmD, medicine woman, and oracle artist — to explore her journey from conventional pharmacy into plant medicine, divination, and holistic healing.Tori shares how childhood imagination, nature, her Norse and Nigerian heritage, and her own mental health journey shaped the work she does today. We talk about the limits of one-size-fits-all healing, learning to trust your own inner knowing, and finding support through multiple modalities.We also dive into Tori’s Follow Your Heart Oracle deck, her relationship with cannabis as both medicine and plant spirit, the intersection of cannabis and social justice, and the surprising connection she later discovered between her oracle work and her Norse ancestry.And near the end of the episode, Tori offers a collective oracle reading for everyone listening.Magic happens when we trust our inner knowing, honor the wisdom that has always been with us, and allow healing to come from more than one path.Hosted by Melody Hu

In this episode of Magic Happens with Melody Hu, I catch up with Dustin Hogard, co-founder of Wazoo Gear — part Indiana Jones, part MacGyver, part entrepreneur, and someone who has built a life around adventure, freedom, and wild capability.We talk about Dustin’s small-town Texas upbringing, his childhood on a ranch, overcoming fear, building a business from scratch, choosing cooperation over competition, and why entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful personal development paths.This conversation also goes deeper into grief, consciousness, survival, and resilience. Dustin shares how losing his mother changed him, what he learned from an intense bullet ant ceremony in South America, and why accepting reality is often the first step toward healing or solving what’s in front of us.At the heart of this episode is a simple but powerful idea: we are far more capable than we think.Magic happens when we look for it, choose courage, and take one step beyond the life fear would have kept us in.

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Welcome to the first episode of Magic Happens with Melody Hu~In this solo episode, I share why I finally started this podcast: how a chance encounter sparked something in me, why curiosity matters, how fear and resistance show up when we’re creating something personal, and how imagination becomes real through small, brave action steps.Magic Happens is a podcast where we'll have curious conversations about creativity, commerce, and consciousness, where we find creative alchemy on stage, in business, and in life.If you’ve been feeling called to start something, say something, create something, or become more fully yourself, I hope this episode gives you a little spark to start that something that you've always wanted to start.