Psychedelic Women

By Rainbow Valentine

Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were&nb... more

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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.

Psychedelic Women episodes:

July 24, 2025 Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture BONUS Ep 1: Deep Diving with Dr. M into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3
A deep dive into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Commune. In an intimate After-the-Episode Chat, RV and Dr. M. discuss the Hippie Family Tree, the Haight Ashbury, The Diggers, hippie kids, outlaws, rock stars, Margo St. James, Carol Doda, the Domino Club, San Francisco’s laws around nudity onstage and dancing, plus the SF politics that led to the downfall of the SF counterculture, race relations during SF’s Summer of Love and the Nazi scientist responsible for the largest nuclear meltdown in America – still contaminating the mountains north of Los Angeles, CA...

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56min
July 20, 2025 Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 2: Beat Poets, LSD Chemists, MDA & Murder
In behind-the scenes convos with her former pot-smuggler parents, Rainbow Valentine takes a walk down counterculture memory lane with stories about beat poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Alan Ginsberg, obscenity trials and banned books plus dining with smugglers, counterculture chemists, an airplane full of LSD VIPS, the history of Marin County, California’s sushi and an unsolved murder in the high end restaurant world of 1980’s San Francisco.

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47min
July 04, 2025 Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album: Juanita the Bordello Chef
In a new branch of Psychedelic Women, Rainbow Valentine presents Smuggler Family Album, conversations with her counterculture smuggler friends and family. In this episode RV’s parents (from the podcast Disorganized Crime) tell us about Juanita, a shit-talking restaurateur/brothel owner with a wild west heart of gold who ran her infamous restaurant from her bed; plus stories about the people and places of RV’s childhood in Sausalito and Mill Valley, California in the 70’s and 80’s, where it was estimated that 50% of the population were drug smugglers.

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44min
June 20, 2025 Psychedelic Women EP 6: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 6: The Psychedelic Lightworker
In the final non-bonus episode of RV's mom's story, Psychedelic wisdom galore is dropped as Kathy Mason Lerner dishes more trippy stories from her decade on the groundfloor of the world-famous San Francisco counterculture between 1960 – 1970. True stories about the Beatles, Joan Baez, the CIA, the Charlatans, Stoneground, Altamont, the Avalon, the Jefferson Airplane, Howard Hesseman, a trip-to-Hawaii-gone-awry with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the ongoing battle of good and evil and downfall of the scene; plus, how psychedelics, Big Sur and a VW bus full of redwood led to the birth of host/creator, Rainbow Valentine.

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1h 13min
June 12, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 7: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Psychedelic Eve: The First Woman on Earth to Take LSD
On June 12th, 1943, Susi Ramstein became the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD and she took the tram home (while tripping). To commemorate Susie Ramstein’s tenacity, the world’s leading women-centric psychedelic organization, the Women’s Visionary Council, launched a new psychedelic holiday: Tram Day! In this episode (which drops on Tram Day) Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic historian, Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD and Swiss psychedelic researcher, Susanne Seiler, who uncovered the fascinating history of the Psychedelic Eve aka Susi Ramstein. Discover and celebrate the courage represented by Tram Day by listening to true stories about Albert Hoffman, ergotomine tartrate, Nazis, Sandoz Labs, Novartis Labs, Swiss aristocracy and the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD.

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1h 5min
June 06, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 5: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 5: Do You Believe in Magic?
The late 1960’s in San Francisco unfold and it’s tumultuous. In 1967 the Summer of Love brought 100,000 wannabe hippie teenagers to the City hoping to join RV’s mom’s friend group and the scene starts to fall apart.
RV’s mom is still in the center of the psychedelic revolution, working with KMPX, the first rock radio station in the country, Chet Helms and the Family Dog and the pioneering improv comedians at the Committee when a major pot bust shakes the inner circle of the counterculture to their LSD-soaked core. In this episode RV’s mom tells us true stories about the CIA, FBI, Grateful Dead, Andy Warhol, Tiny Tim, Moby Grape, the Rolling
Stones, Tim Leary, the Lovin’ Spoonful and the dramatic end of her marriage to Howard Hesseman and her new fling with the co-owner of the Straight Theater on
Haight Street – a relationship that got..shall we say, complicated..and changed her life forever; plus more.

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1h 3min
May 30, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 4: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 4: Kathy Sturdy, Psychedelic Bling Builder
There’s an 1980’s song by the Jefferson Starship (formerly the Jefferson Airplane) called “We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll” and it’s about the ground-floor peeps of San Francisco’s 1960’s psychedelic revolution who literally did just that: built 1960’s San Francisco on Rock’n’Roll (fueled by LSD); and Rainbow Valentine’s mom was at the center of that inner circle; doing things like making bling for the Jefferson Airplane’s drummer, tripping with the Merry Pranksters and engineering for first rock radio station in the country, KMPX. In this episode, RV’s mom gets into the mid 1960’s, sharing true stories about actors in the Committee Comedy Troupe falling off cliffs, boating in Mexico with Neal Cassady, chauffeuring Mimi Farina, singing with Joan Baez, designing jewelry for Salvador Dali, gardening with Grace Marchand, working with rock radio pioneers, Raechel and Tom Donahue, the Grateful Dead, Dizzy Gillespie and the continuing saga of her marriage to future-TV star, Howard Hesseman plus much more.

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1h 5min
May 23, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 3: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 3: The Psychedelic Grace'n'Beauty Tutor
It’s the early to mid 1960’s in San Francisco and the folk
music scene is shifting to acid rock; the burgeoning subculture of psychedelic
art, music and comedy is at its finest hour according to Rainbow Valentine’s
mom who often found herself backstage between Janis Joplin and Pigpen after a day of teaching poise at sex-positive activist Margo St. James’s brothel or running errands for concert promoter, Chet Helms or The Committee Comedy Troupe before bellydancing beside Santana at LSD fueled concerts. In episode 3 RV’s mom shares stories about her fascinating life in 1960’s SF...including double dating with the first stripper in America to have breast implants, hosting celebrities before they were famous( like Jack Nicholson) her tumultuous marriage to future TV actor, Howard Hesseman plus the origin story of the Family Dog production company, a shocking possible-murder involving the Mafia and a piano and her secret affair with the Grateful Dead’s grubbiest musician...and more!

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1h 9min
May 16, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 2: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 2: The Bellydancing Bohemian
After being unwittingly radiated in the biggest secret
nuclear meltdown in America, Rainbow Valentine’s mom fled to San Francisco, landing in Beatnik central of the early 60’s where she married a famous, mid-century modern jeweler with access to Stanford-made LSD, became a bellydancing sidekick to a fire-eating Holocaust survivor, made bling for rock stars plus stories about Tijuana, Lenny Bruce, Dizzy Gillespie, the Coffee Gallery, the Committee comedy troupe, Janis Joplin, Mexican wrestlers, illegal gay bars, her third husband, TV actor, Howard Hesseman (of WKRP in Cincinnati) and more.

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1h 6min
May 09, 2025 Psychedelic Women Ep 1: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 1: North Beach Babe
In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than
3 Mile Island that was covered up and never cleaned up and its tragic fallout propelled host, Rainbow Valentine’s Future Mom, Kathy Mason Lerner, to flee to San Francisco where she landed in Beatnik Central aka North Beach, SF. There shemet a Beatnik jeweler to the Jazz greats who had access to LSD made by Stanford University and RV's mom's life on the groundfloor of SF’s psychedelic revolution began. In this episode RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, secret, illegal, gay bars, black-velvet paintings, the Nazi scientist who Disneyland called a hero and much more…

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58min

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How many episodes does Psychedelic Women have?

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