For this week’s episode, Sarah talks with artist Rachelle Reichert. Rachelle shares more information about her process, her undying interest in rocks, and what she does to stay positive despite the bleak news around the climate crisis and industrialization.

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Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

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Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

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For this week’s episode, Sarah talks with researcher Tracy Poff who is doing her PhD on Medical Intuitives. After visiting a medical medium for an unexplained illness in her family, she felt compelled to study transpersonal psychology and then pursue her doctorate in medical intuitive practices. We talk about what exactly that is, how to discern a good one when meeting someone for the first time, and a general discussion of how intuition can inform all our decisions to make us more in tune with ourselves - a favorite topic on The Side Woo. 

About Tracy L. W. Poff

Tracy L. W. Poff is a student of Life whose work in the world is to infuse everyday living with the light of divine context. She holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, and an MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Straddling the worlds of intellect and intuition, Tracy is a soul-centered guide whose quest and teaching is to know thyself. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Transpersonal Psychology program at Sofia University in Palo Alto, California, and the focus of her doctoral research is medical intuition, also known as medical clairvoyance. Medical intuition is a perceptual skill that uses non-local awareness, or extrasensory perception, to assess health conditions of another person. The phenomenon of medical intuition is a fresh area of study within academics and through her work, Tracy hopes to deepen understanding and raise awareness of our intuitive capacity as human beings.

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About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

Sarah talks with artist and activist Amy M. Ho. Amy talks about her work as an art teacher for an art-in-prison program at San Quentin Correctional Facility and how in 2021, her father was tragically killed during a mugging in downtown Oakland. Amy shares how her background in social justice activism with the prison system, has reinforced her belief in restorative justice, despite being touched personally by violent crime.

About Amy M. Ho

Amy M. Ho builds video and spatial installations that bring attention to our existence as both physical and psychological beings. Amy completed her undergraduate degree in Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley and her MFA at Mills College in Oakland, CA. She was selected as a KQED Woman to Watch in 2017, received a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant in 2013 and once won a costume contest at Emmy's Spaghetti Shack dressed as a fusilli pasta. Amy was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Bay Area Now 7 in 2014 and was a 2013 fellowship artist at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. She has previously exhibited at the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA, the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, IL, and at the San Diego State University Downtown Art Gallery. Amy is a trustee at OUTPOST in Norwich, UK. She lives in Bozeman, MT and is currently designing a board game about dogs.   

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About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

This week, to kick off Pride Month, Liz and Sarah talk with trans artist, Eli Thorne. We talk with Eli about his experience coming out and transitioning as a trans man, dating as a man for the first time on the hellscape known as Tinder (where he ended up finding love), the Faustian bargain of Instagram success, and how he feels about becoming a dad with his long-time partner.

About Eli Thorne

Eli Thorne was b.1986 in Harrogate, England, and raised in the mountains of Santa

Cruz, California. He received his BFA at UC Berkeley. Later received his MFA from Mills

College. As a trans paitnter and sculptor, his art practice aims to reconcile and negotiate

his own sense of and relationship to manhood. His work has been shown in various

spaces in the Bay Area; Mills College Art Museum, Southern Exposure, Root Division,

Gallery 16, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, and Et Al. He has given

talks at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and UC Berkeley and was a featured artist in

the KQED Artist series Redefining Pride. Eli currently lives and maintains his art

practice in Upstate, NY.

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Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Host: Elizabeth Darrow Bernstein

Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

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The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

This week Sarah talks with friend of the show, Rachel Dawson. Rachel shares the way her connection to her intuition has evolved throughout her life.

About Rachel Dawson

Rachel Dawson is an artist, educator, and intuitive located in Oakland, CA. She makes connections between her artistic practice and metaphysical processes, seeking to render the invisible visible and to materialize the immaterial. She is interested in how spiritual wellness practices are attached to a “feminine” space, such as the history of witchcraft and its connection to agency, medicines, and

power objects. As an artist, she sees her role as a medium within the feminized space of her intuitive practice and the process of art-making.

Raised in Southern California, she has spent the last two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. When she is not in the studio making art, she is teaching art to gifted middle school and high school students. She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, after she received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been

exhibited in the US, Mexico, and Canada.

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Host: Elizabeth Bernstein

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Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

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The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

This week Sarah sits down with Bay Area artist, Rebekah Goldstein. They talk about the way we define success and failures and look back at an ArtForum article, The Loser Thing, which examines a period in the 90s where failure was at the forefront of people's minds. Sarah and Rebekah discuss whether failure, and it's artistic counterpoint, the masterpiece, are useful in terms of how we look at art. Rebekah shares how her experience becoming a mother and how that transformed her painting.

The Side Woo is now a weekly podcast! Join us every Thursday for ghost stories, mental health confessions and a look at the unseen forces that shape our reality. Follow Sarah's new substack, Art Date, for a weekly behind-the-scenes look at the episodes, along with weekly blog posts about being an artist in LA, finding inspiration and staving off burn-out, as well as other goodies. Subscribing to the newsletter is free. Go to artdate.substack.com.

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About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Host: Elizabeth Bernstein

Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

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The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

This week on the Side Woo we talk with LA-based artist and former long-time Bay Area resident Kelly Lynn Jones.  I was really inspired by Kelly’s story and asked her to come on to talk about how she in 2018 she made the decision to file for bankruptcy for her store Little Paper Planes, which was a super cute boutique on Valencia Street in the Mission District of SF.  It came as a bit of a shock to those on the outside and I was really impressed by how transparent Kelly was while going through this challenging time that many would look at as a failure. But instead, Kelly saw it as a chance to change her life. She and her family eventually moved back to LA where she grew up, and began recommitting herself to her art practice.  Three years after returning, Kelly’s first solo show in LA sold out affording her the chance to pursue her art more seriously than she had for a decade since graduate school.

BONUS: Listen all the way to the end for some special ghost-related content. Spoiler: it involves ouiji boards. Really people don’t use them.

About Kelly Lynn Jones

Kelly Lynn Jones (b. 1977 Los Angeles, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist. She earned a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Jones has shown her work in multiple group exhibitions including The Pit, La Loma Projects, The Lab, Kala Art Institute, The Berkeley Museum, Southern Exposure, Bedford Gallery, NURTUREart, and Charlotte Street Foundation.  Her work has been highlighted in The Wing’s 2020 publication,  San Francisco Chronicle, and Museums Press. Kelly Lynn Jones is represented by The Pit, Los Angeles. 

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About The Side Woo

Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault

Host: Elizabeth Bernstein

Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault

Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle

Sound Effect from Pixabay

The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com

For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email [email protected]

This week Liz and Sarah talk with Glasgow-based, cosmic-pop musician, performer and magickal practitioner Elisabeth Elektra about their magickal tendencies and prophetic dreams, including one in which they dreamt about the bombing of the Machester Ariana Grande concert the night that it happened. They share their love and affinity for both Prince and yes, Freddie Mercury, as well as what they see as the power of performing and music to connect people.

About Elisabeth Elektra

Glasgow-based musician Elisabeth Elektra (she/they) delivers poignant, deeply melodic art-pop anthems. Elektra released their self-produced debut ‘Mercurial’ in 2020 to widespread critical acclaim. Something spectacular, and something different...that’s the best way of describing the music of Elisabeth Elektra. A songwriter, producer, and performer drawing from the cosmic and the familiar to create pop music that’s as addictive and spine-tingling as the stories we’ve been telling for centuries.

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This week we talk with the prolific Carissa Potter. She’s the founder of People I’ve Loved, and the host of the podcast Bad at Keeping Secrets. Carissa’s illustrations are gentle line drawings that tackle big subjects like emotional messiness, boundaries, and the search for meaning in a wild, imperfect world. Her newsletter and podcast interviews get into the nitty gritty of what it means to be alive and exist in a body while embodying the different roles of woman, mother, wife, and artist. We talk about much of this and more in our episode while unpacking the structures and systems we use to try and make sense of it all.

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