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A producer’s eye. A witch’s ear. A survivor’s will. That’s the energy Amy Miranda brings as we trace how she left award-winning media work, named her deepest wounds, and built a living map back to wonder. The conversation centers on her book What We’ve Forgotten, a richly illustrated, interdimensional guide that turns big spiritual ideas into rooms you can actually visit: an Inner Sanctum without gatekeepers, a Library that grounds Hermetic principles, elements, and the clairs, and protective halls that honor timing, truth, and consent.

We talk about how power gets counterfeited by the “uninvited”—patriarchy, colonialism, and extractive capitalism—and what it takes to reclaim the real thing. Amy shares how a soul retrieval reframed her identity as a creator, not a controller, and how lineage work across Filipino, Chinese, Taíno, and Scottish roots helped her name what was stolen and remember what endures. If you’ve ever felt like you “won” the system and still lost yourself, this story offers a different prize: integrity, clarity, and a practical way home.

To demystify the mystical, Amy uses a tech-native analogy: ordinary reality is the front end; non-ordinary reality is the admin panel. Change the backend, shift the experience. That’s how she teaches manifestation, discernment, and iterative healing—debugs, timing, and trust. We also explore choosing love over fear with fierce compassion, why community is a spiritual technology, and how to build a boat together before leaving a sinking ship.

Come for the star at the book’s heart (Sirius), stay for the keys, and leave with language, tools, and courage. If you’re ready to remember who you are and find the others, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a review to help more seekers find their map.

Amy is a witch, medium, and Spiritualist who demystifies the mystical. Before being called to service in healing work, Amy spent over twenty years working in media as a globally awarded executive producer and creative. A few years into the launch of her creative company, Lunch, Amy began to follow her personal breadcrumbs and examine her own ten-thousand-foot view. In working through her own healing journey, she finally named her trauma and transmuted poison to medicine in pursuit of justice and change. Amy likes to say it ran in the family until it ran into her.

Her unique background brings a fresh and wonder-filled perspective by shining a new light on the old ways and bringing a new lens and creative perspective to our collective connectedness. Amy conducts creative healing workshops and ceremonies with clients around the world to help remind them how to reclaim their magic and authentic power.

Public Enemy's Chuck D describes her as "relentless" and Sandra Ingerman calls her "a leader for these times."

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A sacred circle, a living fire, and voices that won’t shrink to fit the frame. We brought together Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani and Sherry Shone “That Hoodoo Lady” to talk about hoodoo as it’s actually lived: messy, embodied, ancestor-led, and unapologetically focused on liberation. The truth about where this work comes from, who it’s for, and why it’s still necessary.

We dig into permission and boundaries with care. Everyone can read to learn history and context; reading becomes a bridge to respect and accountability. Practice, though, is not a marketplace. Hoodoo is born from survival and community defense, not from trends. We unpack how to move from ally to accomplice, how to challenge token panels and soft appropriation, and how to listen to the people who carry the line. Along the way, we explore “reverse engineering” sacred language—reclaiming scripture and spells so they serve freedom, not obedience.

You’ll hear practical, grounded magic you can start today. Begin with a glass of water and your honest words; bless it, pour it to the earth, and let the work travel where it’s needed. Pair that with a mirror ritual that names you as a beautiful ancestor, shifting self-talk from scarcity to sovereignty. We connect these practices to therapy, book lists, and community study, because emotional maturity is part of the craft. If your ritual can’t hold grief, racism, and daily safety, it isn’t practice—it’s décor.

Come sit with us. Learn from the women doing the work before writing the books. If this conversation moved you, subscribe, share it with someone who needs strength today, and leave a review to help others find these teachings. Your words matter—speak them. Your water matters—bless it. Your life matters—live it out loud.

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Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani, a native of New Orleans, is a distinguished writer and spirit woman. Her work has been featured in notable publications like The Crab Orchard Review, Dark Eros, Essence Magazine, and Chicken Bones: A Literary Journal. She is the author of several plays, including Crows Feet, Bourbon, and Men of the AmonRa Society, and co-writer/director of Brown Blood Black Womb. She received the Southern Black Theatre Festival’s 2012-2013 Playwright of the Year award for her play, Spring Chickens.

In 2008, Mawiyah earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. Beyond her writing, she is a respected educator, an 8th Generation Witch, and a Priestess of OYA in the Yoruba spiritual system, addressed as Iyanifa Faniyi Aboyade Omobola Bomani. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Oya N'Soro, an e-zine dedicated to culture and Afrikan Traditional Spirituality.

Mawiyah currently resides in Louisiana, where she conducts Orisa rituals, spiritual consultations, workshops, and divinations. She is working on two new projects: a middle-grade series, The Cool Beans Ghost Hunter Society, which features special needs superheroes, and Dead Man Stew, a poetry collection inspired by Tarot. Mawiyah is also the host of the podcast FishHeadsinRedGravy, which celebrates marginalized people in the esoteric and occult world. She is a recipient of the Critical Mass 8 Literary Award and the KAT Artist Residency. Mawiyah is the author of two books published by Llewellyn Worldwide: Conjuring the Calabash: Empowering Women with Hoodoo Spells and Magick an

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What if your hardest times were invitations to remember who you really are? We sit down with Viv, a Nigerian-based creative, tarot reader, and host of “Perspective with Viv,” to explore how intuition, shadow work, and art can turn displacement into belonging. Raised in a devout Muslim family, Viv built a powerful prayer life before a spark around “vibration and frequency” opened a wider field: dream-led tarot, effortless astrology, and creativity as a channel for healing. Her origin story as an artist carries a cinematic twist—an intuitive push to post her composite photography series placing Nigerian street life in Western backdrops sparked viral attention and major media features. The images reveal more than technical skill: they bridge cultures while honoring roots, showing how identity can be both grounded and expansive.

We dig into the tension between organized religion and spirituality, and why going “beyond the box” matters when the work is to face the shadow and choose love over performance. Viv shares candidly about depression during her England years and how it transmuted into poetry, film, and photography. She breaks down the pivotal moment creativity dulled—when art shifted from soul-first to audience-first—and how she reclaimed voice through tarot, podcasting, and daily acts of remembering. Returning to Nigeria brought another test: would she lose her magic to conformity or anchor her home frequency? The answer arrives in synchronicities, aligned relationships, and a layered creative life that feels mundane and magical all at once.

You’ll hear practical guidance to find your frequency: revisit what you loved as a child, engage what lights you up right now, and keep a creative outlet close while you do the necessary shadow work. Viv closes with a collective tarot reading on justice, mindset shifts, and welcoming abundance without self-sabotage. If you’re navigating identity, faith, or creativity, this conversation offers an honest map back to self.

If this resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review to help others find these stories. Your support helps more people remember who they are.

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Viv is a dynamic podcast host, intuitive guide, and Tarot performer, celebrated for her captivating energy and soothing voice. On her podcast, Perspective with Viv, she delves into self-growth, shadow work, and personal transformation, while shining a celebrating the beauty of art, film, and creativity. Viv also offers insightful tarot and astrology readings and brings her magnetic presence to live events with unforgettable performances. Outside of that I’m a creative who doesn’t fit into a box. I’m also Nigerian and I’m based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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