The Numinous Podcast

{SPECIAL EPISODE} Wildfire Recovery Update: A Special Collapse 101 'Ask Me Anything' session with Carmen & Ruben, hosted by Alysha (Al) Seriani

Sit in on a session with us, surrounded by friends and witnesses within The Numinous Network.

In this episode, we're offering some context about the collapse event we recently lived through - the Bald Range Wildfire. This is an update and some insights into what worked and went well, what we'll do differently in the future, and how we are beginning the recovery and rebuild process.

Go Fund Me for Carmen & Family 

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Ruben's Tools Wishlist

Purchase Carmen's Business Continuity Plan Template for emergencies $25

Book a thought partnership consult with Carmen & Ruben

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Thanks again for checking in 💖

On August 7, our home was completely ravaged by wildfire. 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-support-for-carmen-and-family

Grab a hanky because I am living close to the waterworks lately, folks! 😭 I was not able to keep it together through this interview and that tracks completely because I don’t actually believe in trying to suppress emotions and I don’t mind crying in the middle of an interview at all. Especially because it’s not everyday you know your guest is going to hold you in such deep care and dignity. My guest today is the warm and wonderful, Erinn Doncaster, here today to share about their new venture, a project called "Find Your Song". 

Erinn's combined background in music education and event production, as well as AOP Social Work, trauma counselling, Somatic Experiencing, and group therapy has culminated in this project that weaves together the threads of their rich experience. Erinn is a non-binary, queer, newly disabled, white settler with way-back roots in the Scottish Hebrides via eight generations in Nova Scotia.

Find Your Song is a series of musical collaborations and explorations including the upcoming Songwriting to Meet the Moment retreat, happening November 19-22 in Nanaimo, BC, on gorgeous Vancouver Island. Registration closes on August 22, so I’m glad we managed to align schedules so you all can hear why Erinn’s work is so much more than it seems! Just listen, you’ll understand what I mean.

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The threads we're weaving between this podcast and the Stoner Story Witch Podcast:

"Mona is an Ancestor Now", The Numinous Podcast

"Music as Oracular Bridge with Colette Baron-Reid", The Numinous Podcast

"Memos with Friends: Taming the Werewolf Within with Carmen Spagnola", Stoner Story Witch Podcast

"Tending Ourselves and Each Other with Spaciousness & Creativity with Carmen Spagnola", Stoner Story Witch Podcast

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Pre-order my book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition, (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype)

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Join us in The Numinous Network for 12 Days of Trancework starting August 3

Remember, I'm teaching my Trancework Practitioner Mini Certificate again this fall! (Likely the past time for a few years.)

Thanks for listening!💖

Mara Glatzel is an intuitive coach, teacher, podcast host + the author of Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs + Reclaim Your Sovereignty and she's inviting you to a slumber party for burnt out baddies (eldest daughters/sisters/girls).

Take Mara's Needs Quiz! (Fun and informative!)

Mara teaches eldest sisters, people pleasers, and chronic overfunctioners (her absolute favourite people) how to take up SPACE, deeply tend to their needs, and cultivate unshakable self-trust. Through her online programs, workshops, and retreats, Mara supports folks yearning to reconnect with their humanity and create ambitious lives filled with meaning, without abandoning themselves in the process. 

Check out her website and get on her mailing list to learn all about her summer retreat.

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Pre-order my forthcoming book, How to Connect

Come join us in The Numinous Network

(Content note: Adult language; also brief, non-specific mention of sexual assault.)

🎉It's Colette Baron-Reid Day*!🎉 Sixty eight years ago, she began a life journey that has seen her rise to the height of publishing success as a bestselling author and oracle deck creator. Today, she is coming full circle in more ways than one: it's her solar return, it's her new album's debut, and it's a puzzle piece slotting into place that had been missing for decades.

In this conversation, we get to hear why Colette left the music industry 22 years ago and what has changed so that now, at 68 years old, she's no longer "too old for the industry".

Listen to the new album, My Dark Church, on Bandcamp.

*Observances for 🎂Colette Baron-Reid Day🎂 include: Pull an oracle card, tap into your own intuitive interpretation; make some art, bonus points for intention-setting as you do it; cuddle a cute Pomeranian while you introduce your friends to each other and build networks of solidarity and support to raise up your community and industry; sing if you feel like it, swear if you want to; embrace change, like, actively; take a creative risk and keep looking forward, "raise your eyes up". ✨

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Pre-order my forthcoming book today, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype) <– Thank you so, so much for your support with this one! 🙏🏻💖

Join us for 12 Days of Trancework in The Numinous Network (9am PT/12pm ET, Aug 3 - 15, 2026, 30 min sessions, camera on or off, recordings available immediately afterward with no time limit to re-play)

WE WILL NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PERIMENOPAUSE. WE WILL NOT STOP ADVOCATING FOR UPDATED INFORMATION, GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE, AND A SERIOUS OVERHAUL OF FIRST LINE TREATMENT TO CURRENT MOST PROMISING PRACTICES IN MENOPAUSAL SUPPORT. 

Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW (they/them/Mx.) is an author, educator, and certified menopause doula and coach specializing in gender-affirming menopause care. As Founder and CEO of Genderqueer Futures LLC, they train healthcare providers, therapists, coaches, and allied professionals to deliver inclusive, trauma-informed menopause care for people of all genders.

Lasara is the author of Genderqueer Menopause (North Atlantic Books, 2026) and the forthcoming Magickal Menopause (Llewellyn, 2027), and host of The Genderqueer Menopause Coach podcast. They present nationally at conferences, including the UCSF Transgender Health Summit, GLMA, and NPWH.

Lasara's next Gender-Affirming Menopause Care Certification Course, an 8-week IAOTH-accredited live cohort for providers, begins November 3, 2026.

Everything Lasara: https://linktr.ee/lasarafirefoxallen

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Pre-order my book, How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype)

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Content Warning: pet death. Also, Dispatch episodes feature the background noise of me doing chores around the farm which may cause aggravation for folks with sensory processing sensitivities. Please look for a transcription within your podcast player.

This is the story of how Mona was promised to me in return for not leaving my husband.

This is the story of Mona's trauma recovery.

This is the story of how our dog required us to become better people, more healed people.

This is the story of how Mona told us she was ready to go.

This is the story of how we grieve.

This is the story of the fundamental role of ritual in our lives and how we do it when the time has come.

This is the story of how to do it when my time has come.

This is the story of our good girl, Mona, who became an ancestor on June 30, 2026.

Click here to see Mona's In Memoriam video on Instagram

Click here for my sad songs playlist on Tidal

Let's go on a farm tour and talk business! Today I am choring, checking the horses' water, the kunekune pigs' water, and saying hi to the chickens, then on to the fields to harvest wheat and barley to dry for wheat weaving kits this fall.

I'm sharing quite transparently about my income, my debt, my marketing and my foundational business philosophies.

I do want to note:

- As with all dispatch episodes, the background noises may not work for everyone. The pig grunts may get tiresome and the chickens may cause a startle response. Please search your podcast player for a transcription!

- I say several times in this episode "you have to do events", but I want you to hold that term, "events", very lightly. I don't mean you HAVE to host workshops. But, I mean, at least a 45 minute lunch-and-learn/webinar or SOMETHING, know what I mean? You have to make yourself available to the public if you want the public to fund your life. That's what I'm trying to say. It doesn't HAVE to be hosting events, that's just one example. It could also be your incredibly helpful or entertaining Substack, or your edutainment podcast or whatever. You just gotta MAKE is what I'm trying to say...you gotta DO stuff, otherwise all you have left to talk about is yourself and your boring credentials LOL 😂

My NuMethod Facilitation Training – now taking applications for the fall cohorts

The 1000 True Fans Theory 

Dunbar's Number

Several times I mention a resource available with membership in The Numinous Network

(For example, "Teach Well: Course Design for Healers Who Want to Teach", our Small Business Chat sessions, Peer Supervision, etc.)

I mention how I built my business on 8-10 newsletters a year (for years) and how I maintained a high engagement/open rate. (You don't open 80% of the time in a year? No worries - I've unsubscribed you!)* Sign up for my newsletter here!

**I didn't mention this, but I also have registration now open for my Trancework Practitioner Mini Certificate, a microcredential to boost your confidence and provide support for your therapeutic work.

***I also didn't mention that I have another book coming out soon! How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History or Neurotype). Your pre-order means so much! Without it, I can't do the size of print run that will properly stock stores ahead of the holiday gift season - please pre-order and thank you in advance!

Storytime! This one is about how I won a trip to Greece through Contact Nutrition. I was a wine rep trying to sell relatively expensive bottom shelf wine to Greek restaurants that did not want this wine. Here's what made the difference.

Join us for a mellow summer of Contact Nutrition in The Numinous Network!

Thanks in advance for pre-ordering my next book: How to Connect: Build Strong Bonds and Deep Connections Through Contact Nutrition (No Matter Your Attachment Style, Trauma History, or Neurotype)

A little more "Common Sense for Collapse Times" for you today with something I learned after my business was washed away in the Great Recession of 2008 and I experienced bankruptcy and some deep, deep shame.

I'm talking about navigating capitalism and managing terror and desperation - somehow in 12 minutes I manage to make myself both laugh and cry, while also feeding the horses and sharing, like, 3 different stories and multiple partial tangential thoughts with you. It's an authentic hang-out session. 😅

Come hang out with us in The Numinous Network for some gentle care and deep connection, as well  as some entrepreneurial support!