Why should we make sourdough? Why is it important to farm sustainably? I fanatically need to know not just "how-to", but "why?" When I was fired from the medical system with untreatable infertility I asked a lot of "why's". I found my answers revealed in God's original design (of us and nature)- we were both CREATED HEALTHY and are undeniably connected. My perspective as a Christian color my career as a plant scientist, certified herbalist, and author. My faith in the answers I found in natu ...
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A mother and daughter duo talking about scary stories, cryptids, haunted things, and all things paranormal. We love to talk about scary places we've been or would like to go but are too scared, and finding spooky stories to share with listeners.
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Welcome to #ActuallyICan, the podcast for female entrepreneurs ditching societal norms and building businesses that fit their lives—not the other way around. Hosted by business mentor, alignment coach, and serial entrepreneur Katy Ripp, this show is your go-to for tackling imposter syndrome, pricing fears, and marketing overwhelm—without the burnout. Through candid conversations, Katy and her guests dive into the real challenges women entrepreneurs face. Whether you’re learning to trust your ...
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Join ”Just Johnda” for your dose of The Culture (News, Political, Pop, Celebrities and more) for those of us who like it straight, no chaser. She‘s an attorney, writer, commentator who will talk, debate and have an opinion about just about everything. Book: ”The Parenting Odyssey: Trials, Treasures and Triumphs of Parenting in a Pandemic” Link to Buy: https://mailchi.mp/38d20cee2b50/justjohnda
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I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! You didn't think it was just us and the animals that were created with the capacity of self defense did you?!?! Today I'm talking about the "why" behind the sourdough craze. The design of the seed is nothing less than supernatural- and we would do well to understand and respect it if we wish to eat …
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I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Is God your identity? Can people see Him shining through you? It's a convicting question. How lucky were the Israelites to travel around with a physical presence of God... yet they still took Him for granted and couldn't give Him credit for their very existence... couldn't follow His rules... I can …
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God Graciously Repeats Himself: Exodus 33-36
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11:44I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Do you ever feel like you repeat yourself a lot? If you're a mom, it feels like you should have a few numbered recordings of the things you repeat the most so you can just play them as needed. I find it difficult to master my patience and repeat myself kindly and in love... but God does it... all th…
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Edible Gold Takes On A Whole New Meaning: Exodus 30-32
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16:46I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Did you know that eating gold has a long history- and was once considered both a therapeutic and a way to communicate with the gods? In this episode I dive deeper into the punishment that Moses metes out on the Israelites who decided to disobey God's warning against worshiping false idols. If God pu…
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It's All About The Heart Space: Exodus 26-29
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14:55I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Have you ever said "God put you on my heart today"? It's actually a kind of curious expression- but we all instantly know what it means when it's said. Ever thought about what it really means, or where it came from? An awareness of the importance of the heart space is throughout most ancient civiliz…
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Our Responsibility In Nature: Exodus 19-21
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13:02I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Can we as humans control nature? Much of what is wrong in our current society says we can and we should... medical science seeks to control birth, death and everything in between. Our dietary recommendations are about control over nature... we hear almost daily about man's control over our environme…
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God's Promise on Health and Fertility: Exodus 22-25
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14:11I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Did you know that God made promises to His people regarding health, fertility and fullness of life? I never heard about it...I wonder why? It's a promise "IF"... in other words, we have to do our part to enjoy the blessing. How long have Christians been accepting ill health, assuming it is the conse…
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Quitting a Job to Start a Business: Kelly Endres’s Story of Leaving Nursing
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1:16:36Thinking about quitting a job to start a business but paralyzed by fear and “what ifs”? You're not alone. In this episode, I sit down with my friend and former nurse-turned-entrepreneur Kelly Endres to talk about what it really looks like to go from employee to entrepreneur—especially when you're walking away from a job that felt like a calling. Ke…
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Packing Light- The Dilemma of What To Take While Escaping
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20:17I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Unleavened bread from the perspective of thousands of years looks like merely the consequence of leaving in a hurry. Exodus 12:39 states that no one had a chance to prepare their bread before running, so it would have been all they had to eat- even without God saying they should not eat any leavenin…
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You Aren't Designed To Carry It All Alone: Exodus 16-18
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13:49I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Did you know that God's plan doesn't usually involve trying to do it all by yourself? Moses expected to be a failure with Pharaoh and he wasn't wrong... turns out that there was another heart God was working to touch- and Moses never saw it coming! That change was a critical part of God's plan to pr…
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On this episode of the podcast Kara is back from her trip to Seattle and she is telling us about the Freemont Troll and a Halloween party they have in his honor! We are also talking about Aliens and how they don't need ships they can use our dreams as doorways! We are also talking a phenomenon called shared dreaming and this is when more than one p…
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I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Can you be HAPPY as a slave? Yes... you can. Biblically, being enslaved means that someone else is responsible for you. We have long focused on the part of this where the products of your labor are owned by a "master", but in the Bible and throughout much of history, slavery was actually a willful c…
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Hard Hearts Are Made To Soften: Exodus 8-11
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16:47I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Have you ever seen a miracle happen right in front of you, but then rationalize it away? We chalk it up to an active imagination, or tell ourselves that what we saw was some sort of trick to the eye or mind because $cience says it's not possible. Every time we choose to replace our awe over the dail…
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Trusting God's Plan Through A Healing Crisis: Exodus 4-7
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12:06I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! What do a healing crisis and the exodus have in common? It's exactly where my mind went as I read about Pharaoh doubling down on the Israelites workload in the face of being asked to let them go. There's an old adage that "it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better"... and it's universally …
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Moses' Mom and The Power Of Letting Go: Exodus 1-3
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15:39I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Do you hold on to things too tightly? Do you carry the belief that somehow it is your responsibility to hold things together, or save someone or something... and the only way to do that is to hold on? I can't say that I would have had the courage to let go of my son like Moses' mom did... I think it…
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Country Living For God's People?: Genesis 47-50
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13:28I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Joseph has a plan to keep his family away from the illness and influence of Egyptian culture. At the time Israel moves to Egypt, the people there are heavily urban or intensive agriculture focused. They don't place much value on open grasslands.. or shepherds. God's people are called to be separate,…
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Meet Your Business Where She’s At: Next Steps for Any Stage of Building Your Business
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24:03Not sure what’s next when it comes to building your business? Here’s how to get re-aligned at any stage of your journey. In this episode, I’m inviting you to slow down, breathe, and meet your business where she’s at—because whether you’re in year one or year ten, it’s never too late for some business goal alignment. And here’s the truth: you don’t …
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Bloodroot, Eliasomes and a Scientific Argument For Intelligent Design
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22:42I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Plants make all kinds of adaptations to their environment- without a doubt. Occasionally though, a plant's unique ability to cooperate in its environment just might be less about survival of the fittest and more about a clever design that was put in place at the very beginning... the story of bloodr…
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Risking Your Life To Be Sorry: Genesis 42-46
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15:00I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Are you learning your lessons? It's often said that God gives us opportunities to learn our lessons multiple times in multiple ways... that he will continue to give us our lessons until we ultimately learn them. God is a loving parent- wanting the best for us... wanting the best blessings He has ava…
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Are You Living In God's World?: Genesis 37-41
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14:17I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Joseph and his multi-colored coat- it's a popular musical for good reason... it's a great story! I'm personally seeing a different angle on it as I read it this time through. So much is wrong in our world... we can get caught up in it. Doom scrolling is a thing- feeding on the negative, the dysfunct…
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I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Is it possible for a name to set the course of a life? If not, then why are there so many baby name books and websites out there? It's not just because we want to have the coolest name for our child... we want their name to "mean" something... to set the tone of their lives and set them up for the b…
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Mandrakes, Poplars and Infertility: Genesis 30-33
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16:57I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Sibling rivalry leads us to some sinful places because of hurt, jealousy and loneliness. When you add in the emotional anguish of infertility it must be unbearable. Rachel and Leah struggle against their own bodies and against each other, while also vying for the love of the same man... it's a strai…
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Following In Troubled Footsteps: Genesis 26-29
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15:54I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Did you know that we have a sort of auto-pilot when it comes to our food and our behaviors? If we don't think about it at all, we are very likely to repeat what we saw rather than something new. If we saw a disfunctional family, abuse, disrespect, or even poor eating habits and lack of self-care, we…
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Is Email Marketing Still Effective? Here’s How to Do Email Marketing the Right Way with Dawn Richardson
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1:07:31Ever find yourself wondering, is email marketing still effective?—or are we just supposed to dance on reels forever? If you’re overwhelmed by the noise online and craving a marketing strategy that actually works (and feels good to do), this episode is for you. I’m sitting down with Dawn Richardson from Flodesk to dig into email marketing for small …
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I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Do you take your birthright as a child of God with a body that was designed to health (IF you follow his commandments/instructions) seriously? Is it a joke? Or an inconvenience? Esau didn't take his eternal birthright seriously and gave it away for the instant gratification of some soup. Know anyone…
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Designed Temptations: The Apple and The Cucumber
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14:57I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Do you peel your apples or cucumbers? Maybe I can change your mind... It's our first "7th Day"!! This podcast is here in audio, but you can also catch a video version on my YouTube channel. I'm not reading the Bible today... instead I'm heading out into nature to see where I can find God's design fo…
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I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Can you imagine choosing to live in Sodom and Gomorrah? What if you were the only "good" person? How hard do you think it would be to walk the narrow road and keep your focus on God, have a good marriage, raise Godly children? It's not too difficult to imagine right now... Lot is not just a sad stor…
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On this episode we are talking about the haunted Sloss Furnace of Birmingham, Alabama. These furnaces helped power the city for over 100 years. The furnace is said to be haunted by a former forman who was mean and cruel to his workers. His name was James "Slag" Wormwood and people think he is now a demonic spirit who now haunts the furnace and phys…
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God's Miracle, Our Strength?: Genesis 16-18
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11:12I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! When I was diagnosed as infertile- I believed that God could heal me... but I figured he could use some help right? He didn't want me to just sit and listen for direction- he needed me out there trying as many of the great options in His beautiful world as I could... except He didn't. My belief wasn…
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The Land Can Only Sustain So Many: Genesis 13-15
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9:36I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! Are we aware of the land's carrying capacity? Do we overtax it and call it environmentalism by stacking ourselves into cities? Years ago the farmer's market movement began... people instinctively felt a need to make a connection back to their food. That need expressed itself in a need to "know" or "…
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God Has Compassion For Our Emotional Health: Genesis 9-12
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11:10I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! My whole life I've been taught to focus on the rainbow as a promise that God will never destroy the earth again with water... but when we put a human face on Noah and all he's endured at God's request, I see the rainbow as a representation of a depth of love and caring I hadn't seen before. If God p…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Small Business: Tips on What to Keep, Tweak & Let Go
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19:35Feeling overwhelmed in your business? It might be time to let go of what’s not working and finally create space for an aligned, optimized business that supports your life—not runs it. In this episode, I’m walking you through what I like to call a good old-fashioned spring cleaning for your business. I’m sharing how to figure out my favorite approac…
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I'd love to hear from you, text me your thoughts! What's our true connection to the soil? Does it have anything to do with our health? Some of us believe the soil and the weeds it produces are against us- especially while we garden! I see something really exciting here in our health manual how we should view "dirt". If God puts something on your he…
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Leaving Corporate, Moving Countries, and Building a Heart-Centered Business Around Personal Core Values with Claire French
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1:04:33Have you ever felt like you were meant for more—but didn’t know how to get there without losing yourself in the process? In this episode, I sit down with Claire French, a virtual assistant and entrepreneur who left her corporate job, moved across the world to Australia, and built a thriving heart-centered business rooted in her personal core values…
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Haunted Indiana Cemetery and the Clown Motel
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34:33On today's episode we are covering two stories about haunted places! Our first story is all about Stepp Cemetery outside of Bloomington, Indiana. This cemetery is apparently home to a Lady in Black who is believed to watch over and protect the dead people that live in the cemetery. Our other story is all bout the Haunted Clown Motel that is two hou…
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Growing Pains: Why Business Growth Feels Uncomfortable (And What To Do About It)
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19:39Ever felt like the moment you start seeing business growth, things suddenly feel harder instead of easier? Like you’ve finally hit a new level, but instead of feeling excited, you’re questioning everything? You want to grow your business—but why does it feel so uncomfortable when it actually happens? In this episode, I’m breaking down why business …
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#ActuallyICan is Evolving! Here’s What’s Coming Next
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11:05What if you’re doing everything “right” but still feel out of alignment? I’ve been there. And after a full season of podcasting, I realized I wasn’t following my own advice—I was forcing something that didn’t fit anymore. That’s why #ActuallyICan is evolving. In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on my personal shift, my battle with burnout…
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Greetings from your your favorite podcast hosts! On today's episode Kara is telling us all about her cruise to the Bahama's and some of the mysteries and supernatural events that have happened their and in the Bermuda Triangle. I'm sharing about my recent trip to Mexico and some of the creatures and cryptids that like to call Mexico home. Make sure…
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The Single Greatest Choice: How Katie Bryan Went from Wanting a Family to Solo Parenting & Building a Business
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1:18:53What happens when life doesn’t go according to plan? For Katie Bryan, motherhood was always part of the vision—but doing it alone wasn’t. After years of searching for the right partner, Katie realized she was done waiting and took her future into her own hands, becoming a single mom by choice. But her journey didn’t stop there. She not only embrace…
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What Do You Really Want? How to Find Your Life Purpose: Michelle Theriault Part 2
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33:39Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, what do you really want in life? Not what your family expects, not what society tells you, but what truly lights you up and fulfills your life purpose? If that question makes you pause—or sends you spiraling into overthinking—this episode is for you. This is part 2 of my conversation with Michelle Theriault fr…
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On this episode we are talking about a Mexican Folklore creature called the "La Lechutza"! This creepy owl witch creature is said to be a 7 foot owl monster with the face of an old women. The Lechutza will come out at night looking for its victims. It is said it tries to lure you out of your home by making either an annoying whistling noise or cryi…
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How to Trust Yourself & Make a Midlife Career Change: Michelle Theriault Part 1
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50:53Have you ever felt like you’ve checked all the boxes—career, family, responsibilities—but something still feels off? Maybe you’re standing at a crossroads, wondering what’s next. The answer? Learning to trust yourself. But how do you do that when self-doubt keeps creeping in? In this first part of a two-part conversation, I sit down with Michelle T…
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From Teacher Burnout to Freedom: How Brittany Piccola Decided to Leave the Classroom and Start a New Career
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47:37Have you ever felt stuck in a job that’s draining your energy and leaving you wondering if it’s possible to start a new career? In this episode, I chat with Brittany Piccola, a former high school teacher who faced teacher burnout head-on and made the bold decision to leave the classroom and start a new career as a virtual assistant. Brittany’s stor…
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Plum Island,The Devil's Deck, and The Golden Dawn
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40:45Welcome to the latest episode of the Two Scaredy Cats Podcast where we talk about all things strange, unusual and paranormal! What do deer tick's, haunted tarot cards and a secret society have in common? Well we are discussing all three on our latest episode of our podcast. First Kara is talking about Plum Island and some of the crazy things that h…
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Running Toward Your Dreams With Caitlin Kowalke: How to Start a Business From Scratch - Even if You’re Scared!
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1:06:55Ever found yourself Googling "how to start a business from scratch", wondering if you can actually turn your passion into a career? Maybe you've dreamed of turning a hobby into a business but felt paralyzed by fear in business—worried you don’t have what it takes. If that sounds like you, then girl, you’re in for a treat! In this episode, I sit dow…
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Finding the Silver Lining: Victoria Male on Overcoming Rejection, Processing Grief, and Healing Through Creativity
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1:06:36Ever felt like life threw you a curveball so hard it knocked the wind out of you? You’re not alone. In this episode, I sit down with screenwriter and storyteller Victoria Male, who turned her most painful losses into creative fuel. After losing her father unexpectedly in 2017, Victoria left her Hollywood career to pursue writing full-time. Her jour…
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Devils Footprints and Female Hannibal Lecter
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29:16Join us as we talk about the strange phenomenon of the Devil's Footprints which happened in several places in England during February 1855. Mysterious bipedal footprints that were hoof shaped appeared in the snow overnight, in several towns in England. Next we are talking about the unusual case of Katherine Knight who was Australia's female Hanniba…
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Ever feel like your life is one big, epic story? Well, spoiler alert: it totally is! In this episode, I’m diving into the concept of the hero's journey, a storytelling framework by Joseph Campbell. But trust me, it’s not just for your favorite movies—it’s a powerful way to understand your own life transformations. From the "call to adventure" to ov…
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How to Change Your Life Completely, Even if You’re Dealing With Imposter Syndrome with Melissa Fino
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48:00What if the roadblocks in your life weren’t holding you back, but were actually setting you up for a breakthrough? In this episode, I’m sitting down with the amazing Melissa Fino, a high school dropout turned award-winning author and business coach, to talk about how to change your life completely—even when the odds feel stacked against you. Meliss…
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Yosemite National Park Missing 411 and The Slender Man Stabbing Case
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38:44Welcome to Season 5 of the Two Scaredy Cat Podcast! This episode we are talking about The MIssing 411 cases that happened in Yosemite National Park. Most of these cases happened within a couple of miles from one another with eerily similar ways the victims vanished. We are also discussing the Slender Man Stabbing Case were two twelve year old girls…
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