In our final episode of Season 2, CICO peels back the curtain to welcome our editor, the incredible Amelia Hruby, as a guest on the show. A writer, educator and podcaster with a PhD in philosophy, Amelia is the founder of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio for entrepreneurs and creatives. She’s also the host of Off the Grid, a podcast about leaving social media without losing all your clients. And in this episode, she not only answers Alaina’s questions, but turns the mic back around to ask Alaina some of her own.

Highlights

🔮 The Eight of Cups: what it means to leave behind something good to make room for something even more expansive

🔮 The value of making creative work for ourselves first

🔮 The intricate ritual Amelia created to start her business, and what it did for her ability to trust herself

🔮 Our personal journeys of putting the woo in work, and how we are always walking the path

🔮 What two seasons of this podcast have taught me: how the conversations have changed my relationship to technology, to delight and to what leadership can actually look like

About Our Guest

Amelia Hruby is a writer, educator and podcaster with a PhD in philosophy. She is the founder of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio for entrepreneurs and creatives. And she’s the host of Off the Grid, a podcast about leaving social media without losing all your clients.

Resources

1. Softer Sounds

2. Off the Grid podcast

3. My Tiny Tarot Practice podcast

4. Pleasure Reading podcast

5. Thought of You podcast (with Taylor Elise Morrison)

6. Many Moons - annual lunar workbook by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

7. Moonbeaming podcast by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

8. CHANI Year Ahead workbook / app - Chani Nicholas

9. Lindsay Mack - Tarot Teacher

10. Cult Mother Tarot - Hannah Graves

11. Meridian Tarot 

12. Manon Blackbeak - Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas (SPOILERS) 

13. Northern Lights / The Golden Compass  by Phillip Pullman (SPOILERS)

14. Pablo Neruda - "A Dog Has Died"

15. The Craft (film)  

16. BRB Tattoo - Folkestone

17. Eight of Cups - RWS Deck

18. Queen of Wands - RWS Deck

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Speaking with Hae-jin Marshall is like a mini-restoration for the soul. Hae-jin is a multi-sensory experience designer, energy healer, and co-founder of Applied Wonder, where she works to develop calming immersive spaces for corporate offices, hospitals, and schools. Applied Wonder uses light, sound, fragrance, and haptic design to help people restore their nervous systems in 15 minutes flat. In this episode, Hae-jin shares her mystical origin story, and explores why a nature-centered world view is key to working well. If you are struggling with burnout, or just in need of a mental break, this one is for you. 

Highlights

🔮 What happens when you build multi-sensory immersive spaces that are specifically designed to bring people back to themselves

🔮 The science of restoration at work: how a 15-minute sensory experience can drop your heart rate and sustain that effect after you return to your desk

🔮 Why most of us are walking around as heads without bodies, and how to change that 

🔮 Lessons from the Zen Tarot, or what it means to act from consciousness rather than compliance

🔮 The simplest tools for a regulated nervous system (and they’re free!)

About Our Guest

Hae-jin Marshall is a Mystic, Artist, and the co-founder/co-CEO of Applied Wonder. Her interdisciplinary creative practice blends tradition and science to create physical multisensory experiences and environments for mind, body, heart, and soul coherence.

Resources

1. appliedwonder.com

2. Hae-jin on Instagram

3. "The AWE Space Study: Wellbeing Innovation, Transformative Change" - Applied Wonder’s Published Research

4. S2 E3: “Creating Magical Space — with MIT Researcher Cassie Lee”

5. Eight of Cups - RWS Deck 

6. Xena: Warrior Princess

7. Osho Zen Tarot: The Transcendental Game of Zen 

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Tree Carr, a high priestess witch, transpersonal psychologist, death doula, author and speaker, joins the pod to discuss her new book Technomancy: Tech Magic and Spells for the 21st-Century Witch. For Tree, a smart phone is a wand, a scrying mirror. It’s a magical tool that we can wield to connect with our intentions and manifest the magic we make. But how we use these tools matter, and Tree shares her perspective on building a healthier relationship to the tech that seems to be taking over our lives.

Highlights

🔮 What it means to practice magic with and through technology, and why the genie is already out of the bottle

🔮 The smartphone as wand and scrying mirror, and how to start using it with intention

🔮 Why meditation is the non-negotiable foundation of any magical practice, before you buy a single crystal

🔮 The work of witchcraft, and what that requires in terms of trust, self-knowledge, and following what's true for you

🔮 Why consciousness is the real battleground at work right now, and how grounding practices protect your attention in a world that's designed to steal it

About Our Guest

Tree Carr is a published author and TEDx speaker working in Transpersonal Psychology, with a focus on dreams, death, altered states of consciousness, and psychedelic integration. She is a graduate of Alef Trust in their programme for Psychedelics, Altered States and Transpersonal Psychology with Dr. David Luke, and has also studied at MetaIntegral Academy in California with Dr. Sean Esbjörn-Hargens. She is a CPD Crossfields Institute Certified Death Doula, with further studies at Sophia Centre.

Resources: 

1. treecarr.com

2. @Tree_Carr

3. Technomancy: Tech Magic and Spells for the 21st-Century Witch by Tree Carr

4. A Spell a Day: 365 Easy Spells, Rituals and Magic for Every Day by Tree Carr

5. Moon Space - Tree’s online gathering every the full and new moon

6. Samhain Society

7. Carl Jung

8. Sabrina the Teenage Witch

9. Fairuza Balk

10. Beltane

11. Jack in the Green

12. The Moon - RWS Deck

13. The Knight of Pentacles - RWS Deck

14. The Fool - RWS Deck

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If you have made a career change, are considering one, or just want to hear another woman’s story of transformation, you’ll want to tune in for this conversation with Lucy Maeve. Lucy speaks with Alaina about her transformative journey, leaving behind the structured world of banking to embrace her spiritual and creative self, reconnecting with delight and desire along the way. 

Highlights

🔮 The difference between seriousness and delight, and how to start moving from one to the other 

🔮 How to rewire your nervous system after years of corporate life

🔮 The path to change and the bravery of each single, quiet step

🔮 The simplest possible morning practice for leaders who want to show up with more presence 

🔮 What it looks like to follow the thread, and why desires might be a better guide than goals

About Our Guest

Lucy Maeve is a somatic therapeutic coach, podcast host and breathwork facilitator. A former JPMorgan banker, she spent ten years excelling professionally on the trading floor before finding her way back to herself through body-based work. She trained under Dr Gabor Maté and Layla Martin and works at the intersection of nervous system regulation, parts work, Eastern spirituality, and the full aliveness (and wildness) of being human.

Resources

1. LucyMaeve.com

2. Lucy Maeve on Instagram

3. Lucy Maeve on LinkedIn

4. Lucy's own podcast: The Liberated Life - When Did You Last Feel Free?

5. Ten of Cups - RWS Tarot Deck

6. Ace of Pentacles - RWS Tarot Deck

7. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

8. The Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers, PhD

9. Gene Keys by Richard Rudd

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Explore the intersection of technology, AI, spirituality, and magic with Cassie Lee, a researcher at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. Cassie talks with Alaina about the ways in which her experiences as a game designer, along with her personal tarot practice, AI séances and moon circles, all inform her understanding of connection in the modern world. 

Highlights

🔮 How tarot can build a bridge between our structured and organic selves

🔮 Whether AI can be helpful in building spiritual practice, and the difference between open and closed prompts

🔮 The social container as the real source of magic: moon circles, mystic hackers and AI séances in a chapel

🔮 How to bring your whole self into institutions (academia, tech, corporate life) that weren’t built for spirituality

🔮 What to do when the 5s come for you (you’ll have to listen to find out what that means)

About Our Guest

Cassie Lee is a designer exploring how to inspire more face-to-face social rituals in an age of digital disconnection. She is currently a Research Designer at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, bringing facilitation and gathering practices into dialogue with the design of AI and interfaces. One such project – Analogia – is a tarot-inspired card game that uses AI images to prompt deeper conversation.

Resources

1. Cassie on Instagram

2. Analogia by Cassie Lee

3. Crossroads by Cassie Lee

4. TechGnosis, Erik Davis

5. "Interpretive Cultures: Resonance, randomness, and negotiated meaning for AI-assisted tarot divination"(Prock, Epstein, et al, 2026)

6. New Social Forms by The MIT Center for Constructive Communication, in cooperation with Google Xi

7. Making Special by Ellen Dissanayake 

8. Five of Cups - RWS Tarot Deck

9. Five of Swords - RWS Tarot Deck

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Taylor’s episode is rooted in the importance of how language enables us to unmake and remake our experiences. She allows us to walk alongside her as she navigates developing a portfolio of spirituality alongside her portfolio career. 

Highlights

🔮 The portfolio of spirituality: what it looks like to draw from multiple traditions with curiosity and respect, and how to do the research necessary

🔮 Language as spell work, and what happens when you finally get the words for who you are

🔮 Open vs. closed practices, and why it matters which is which

🔮 Hoodoo, herbalism, and ancestral connection

🔮 How to start a spiritual practice when you don't know where to begin

About Our Guest

Taylor Elyse Morrison is a portfolio careerist and PhD student who believes people build identity through action and interaction. She creates the tools and experiences to make that possible. Current highlights include: co-founder of Women Facilitating, founder of Multical, and author of Inner Workout. Taylor draws on her coaching, mindfulness, and academic training to help people and organizations build momentum for what they really want.

Resources

1. Taylor Elyse Morrison on Linkedin

2. taylorelyse.com

3. thoughtofyou.substack.com from Taylor Elyse Morrison & Amelia Hruby

4. Multical founded Taylor Elyse Morrison 

5. Women Facilitating co-founded by Taylor Elyse Morrison 

6. Inner Workout by Taylor Elyse Morrison 

7. Shelby Renee Giles, Astrologer 

8. Black Tarot by Nyasha Williams, Kimishka Naidoo (Illustrator)

9. The Matrix of Destiny - Sublimatrix.substack.com by Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz

10. Queen of Pentacles - RWS deck 

11. That’s So Raven on Youtube

12. Hoodoo in America by Zora Neal Hurston

13. Seven of Wands RWS deck 

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In our first episode back for Series 2, Alaina sits down with Katherine de Vos Devine, an IP attorney and practicing witch. Alaina and Katherine explore the intersections of law, magic, art, and property. Along the way, they weave together the threads of Katherine's witchcraft journey, from childhood exploration, to college mentorship, to her current role as a legal advocate for creatives and witches alike.

Highlights

🔮 How to protect your magic: legally, professionally, and spiritually

🔮 Integrating the witchcraft and the work, and what happens when the two are pushed together

🔮 The ancient history of enclosure — and why it still matters for creatives today

🔮 Using ritual to prepare for high-stakes professional moments

🔮 Burning the boats: how making it hard to go back keeps you brave

About Our Guest

Katherine de Vos Devine has practiced witchcraft for 35 years — tarot, astrology, energy work, writing her own spells — and she's an IP attorney. Those two things inform each other constantly. Her clients are creative professionals building practices beyond clean categories. She can translate "chaos witch doing shadow work for entrepreneurs" into "strategic advisor for mission-driven businesses" when that's what the LLC paperwork needs to say, protecting the sovereignty of her clients’ practices.

Resources

1. "I’ll Keep Calling Myself a Witch, Thanks" by Katherine de Vos Devine

2. @protectyourmagic on Substack

3. devosdevine.com

4. Katherine de Vos Devine on Linkedin

5. Spirit Work by Ren Zatopek

6. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

7. Emperor card - RWS deck 

8. Empress card - RWS deck 

9. Women who run with the wolves

10. Kashia Urbaniak 

11. @thehoodwitch 

12. Silvia Federici 

13. Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore 

14. Ace of Wands card - RWS deck

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Let it go, let it gooooooo

Another week, another card pull!

Join me for a psychic tune-up in the wake of last night’s Full Moon in Leo, and use these three cards to set some intentions and get your mind right for the week ahead.

As a reminder from last week, the spread I use goes:

What am I calling in?

What am I letting go?

What’s most important?

Here’s a sneak peek at what I pulled for us - no beating around the bush this week, tell you what:

Now back to my regularly scheduled Barcelona activities - art, dark chocolate and tapas galore. Let me know how these cards, or your own card pulls, land for you this week down below. 👇

There’s nothing quite like a big sister. And if you don’t have one IRL, this week’s guest in The Coven in the Corner Office is here to the rescue. In our final episode of Series 1, Alaina is joined by Rachel Lowenstein, a culture strategist, autistic exec, and content creator. Rachel is your internet big sister with the insight, the tea, and the gift of being fully, radically herself. From a shared love of fantasy worlds to the wild ride of solopreneurship, Rachel keeps Alaina grounded and laughing throughout this rollercoaster conversation. 

Highlights: 

 💫 Late-in-life autism diagnosis + navigating neurodivergence at work

 🔮 Tarot, astrology & why YOU are the magic

 🌿 Digital gardening > doomscrolling

 🧠 Building safer spaces for “spicy brains”

 🦄 Why dreaming without ROI is the most visionary leadership move you can make

About the Guest

Rachel Lowenstein has spent the past decade reshaping media and advertising through storytelling that drives social change. She has guided leading brands like Unilever, CHANEL, Nike, Google, and UN Women on brand growth through cultural fluency, earning recognition such as Ad Age’s 40 Under 40. Today, she runs her own culture consultancy where she works with brands like Dove and Google on better understanding women and girls to make more creative marketing campaigns.

As one of few openly autistic executives, she co-founded The Neu Project, a consultancy creating opportunities for neurodivergent talent and partnering with companies like Marriott and Google. She also launched #AutisticOutLoud with Getty Images to challenge stereotypes about autism in media.

A sought-after speaker having appeared on stages from the UN to Cannes Lions and a content creator with 110K+ followers, Rachel empowers women and neurodivergent people to live authentically

Resources 

1. The Neu Project

2. Rachel on Instagram

3. Rachel on Tiktok

4. Rider-Waite-Smith Queen of Pentacles 

5. Kendra Falling in Love with Her Psychiatrist

6. Reesa Teesa 

7. Slop Girl Summer

8. Wild Geese Podcast - Anna Howard - “creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling" 

9. Obsidian

10. Co–Star

11. Chani Nicholas

12. Rider-Waite-Smith Five of Pentacles 

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“I don’t need to search for the answers first. I’ve learned to trust that they’re already inside me.” In this episode, Alaina sits down with Lisa Stoney (@lisastoney) strategist, intuitive, and soon-to-be mom. The two get real about blending witchcraft with work. Lisa’s wisdom is not to be missed, whether you are full witch or witch-curious. Dive into the waters of intuition!

Highlights 

🌙  How she stopped overanalyzing and started feeling her way forward

💧 A burnout turned invitation to lean into ritual, body, and intuition

🔮 Tarot, moon journaling, water spells, and how she uses them as part of her working practice

🧘‍♀️ Leading with emotional intelligence, subtle power and feminine wisdom

👶 Letting go of old versions of self to usher in a new chapter.

About the Guest

Lisa is the Deputy Chief Strategy Officer at one of London’s fastest growing creative advertising agencies. She has built and navigated her career from Australia to London, driving creativity and effectiveness behind some of the biggest brands in the world, while running large agency teams. She’s instinctive yet decisive, intuitive yet fearless, endlessly curious and leads with her heart before her head. 

Resources 

1. Kim Krans The Wild Unknown: Archetypes

2. Kim Krans Archetypes: “The Tear” Card

3. “Rain” by Vachel Lindsey

4. Seraphina Pekkala

5. The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker

6. Shirley Barber

7. His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman

8. Kirsty Gallagher

9. Magic of I Journals & Planners

10. Wild Woman’s Way by Michaela Boehm

11. Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

12. Noura Bourni

13. Saturn Returns with Caggie Podcast

14. Chani Nicholas

15. Kim Krans Archetypes: “The Mentor” Card

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