This week on Meet My Friends, host Lindsay St. Laurent (@filmakeher) sits down with two visionary North Hollywood creators — Celina Lee and Danielle Ozymandias, the founders of The Witch’s Cottage, NoHo’s newest community hub, artist sanctuary, and witchy haven.

Located inside the historic old Federal building, The Witch’s Cottage is being hand-built with intention, magic, and the help of neighbors who saw the sign in the window and simply showed up. Celina and Danielle share how their dream transformed from years of shared messages and Pinterest boards into a living, breathing community space that blends witchcraft, craftwork, storytelling, gaming, baking, activism, and heart.

We talk about the construction process, their origin story, the people who came out of nowhere to help, and what it means to build something deeply meaningful in a neighborhood still recovering its artistic soul.

This episode is about friendship, community, reinvention — and what happens when witches decide to take over a federal building.

✨ Building a community space from scratch 🏚️ Reinventing a historic NoHo building with intention 🧹 Kitchen witchery, spell work & spiritual grounding 🎮 Their Dungeons & Dragons tavern space 🥖 Baking, business, and sustainable creative practices 🌙 How neighbors became volunteers, and volunteers became family 🔥 What The Witch’s Cottage means for NoHo’s future

✨ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewitchscottage1111/

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🌐 Official Website: https://www.witchscottage.com/

🎙 Lindsay St. Laurent — @thewitchscottage1111

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This week on Meet My Friends, host Lindsay St. Laurent (@filmakeher) welcomes back one of the show’s most beloved voices — Lord Hammer, also known as Casey Flammond (@lordhammer14).

In his most grounded and open conversation yet, Casey shares parts of his life he’s never fully spoken about publicly — including his heritage as a member of the Indigenous Lakota Tribe in South Dakota: The Burnt Thigh People.

We also explore spiritual concepts — from rainbow beings and starseeds, to the Indigenous understanding of Two Spirit — and how these ideas helped shape Casey’s sense of belonging, purpose, and growth this past year.

🎬 Documentary — Sioux / Lakota Indigenous History “The Sioux: The First Peoples” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHZTn5Bk3o

🎵 Spirit Medicine Song — Episode Opening “Thunder Spirit – Lakota Healing Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUxXQlKvHs

• 🪶 Indigenous heritage & lineage

• 🌈 Rainbow beings, starseeds & spiritual identity

• ⚧ Two Spirit spirit energy & identity beyond labels

• 💔 Dating while healing & growing

• 🧭 What this year taught him about direction & self-worth

• 🎭 Why authenticity is the real success story

It’s a conversation about roots, identity, healing, and forward motion — one season of life at a time.

🎙 Lindsay St. Laurent — @lordhammer14

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This week on Meet My Friends, host Lindsay St. Laurent (@filmakeher) is joined by podcast favorites Alexandria Walters (@yoalexandria) and Charlie Rojas (Spotify: Charlie Rojas).

What started as a simple recap of our Halloween weekends turned instantly into a plot twist worthy of a season finale: Alex’s ex-boyfriend — yes, the one we’ve discussed here on the pod — is already ENGAGED. And the breakup? Only two months ago.

Charlie arrived at the studio holding the hottest subway-platform tea in North America, and it's NOT EARL GREY. What followed was shock, jokes, emotional processing, and a level of disbelief only this podcast could capture.

Throughout 2025, Alex has generously and bravely allowed us into her real life — the highs, the heartbreaks, the laughter-through-tears — and this moment is one we truly never saw coming. Her openness, humor, and honesty continue to be the heart of this show.

✨ In this episode we cover: 💍 The engagement nobody expected 🚇 How Charlie became the accidental messenger 💕 Alex’s year of growth, vulnerability, and plot twists 🎃 The Halloween conversation we thought we were going to have 😂 And the collective gasp heard around the podcast

Thank you for listening, thank you for supporting, and thank you for being here every week through the chaos, comfort, and friendship.

📱 Follow the friends: 🎙 Lindsay St. Laurent — @filmakeher 🎤 Alexandria Walters — @yoalexandria 🎶 Charlie Rojas — Spotify

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This week on Meet My Friends, host Lindsay St. Laurent (@filmakeher) clocks in for the Halloween night shift at Blockbuster with fellow Canadian and creative spirit Todd Donald (@todddonaldsound).

🍿 It’s a Friday night in 1999, the shelves are stacked, the candy rack is buzzing, and the line at the counter is out the door. Together, Lindsay and Todd imagine themselves behind the counter—helping a stream of “customers” find the perfect scary (or cozy) movie for Halloweekend. From cult classics to comfort flicks, this episode celebrates the VHS-era magic of movie nights, friendship, and fall nostalgia.

🎬 Featuring authentic Blockbuster ambience and vintage commercial breaks from the video store’s golden days, it’s the kind of episode that smells faintly of popcorn butter, plastic cases, and your childhood living room.

✨ In this episode we cover: 📼 Our all-time favorite Halloween rentals 🍁 The unmistakable vibe of a Canadian October 🎞️ Why the 90s were the real golden age of Halloweekend 💡 Movie recommendations for every kind of Halloween mood

So grab your membership card, pop in your favorite tape, and be kind—rewind.

📱 Follow the friends: 🎙 Lindsay St. Laurent — @filmakeher 🎤 Todd Donald — @todddonaldsound

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This week on Meet My Friends, Lindsay is joined by storyteller-extraordinaire Jeremy Harlin to keep the Spooky Season celebrations rolling.

They dive into Halloween in the Hood — Jeremy’s Chicago childhood memories of candy, chaos, and real-life scares on the South Side — and swap stories from his time on the open road as a truck driver. Haunted highways, midnight diners, weird encounters... this one’s got it all.

Come for the Halloween nostalgia, stay for the truck stop ghost stories. You’re not just listening — you’re in the room. 👻

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his week, it’s a nostalgic Halloween takeover! Lindsay is joined by her brand-new roommate, filmmaker and actress Nicole Gellman, who (small world!) grew up in the same Canadian town. Together they dive into their favorite 90s Halloween movies, swap childhood costume stories, and revisit Nicole’s lifelong love of Harry Potter — including her hot take that Severus Snape is actually toxic 👀.

For an extra dose of coziness, the two call their Canadian moms LIVE on the pod to talk about costumes, décor, and raising daughters in the 90s. They also share what Halloween looks like in Los Angeles today — plus the hilarious story of how Lindsay and Nicole’s worlds first collided… hint: it involves a Halloween make-out.

On Meet My Friends, you’re not just listening, you’re in the room. Each week, a new friend, a new story, and the same invitation to join the hang. And this fall, we’re rolling out a month and a half of Halloween specials filled with nostalgia, candy, and spooky vibes.

Follow Along: 🎤 Lindsay – @filmakeher 🎤 Nicole – @nicolegelly

Vintage Halloween Music Credits:

• Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Boogeyman — Henry Hall

• The Halloween Song — Bing Crosby

• The Wobblin’ Goblin — Rosemary Clooney

• The House is Haunted — Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra

ock the doors, light the candles, and pour something crimson— it’s the first ever Meet My Friends Sexy Halloween Special and we are not holding back. Host Lindsay St. Laurent summons two of the podcast’s most beloved troublemakers, the devilishly charming Nick and the spellbinding Alexandria, for a night of spooky laughs, monster crushes, and late-night confessions.

Inside the cauldron:

• Costume Chaos – we pitch each other the hottest, weirdest, and most unhinged Halloween looks.

• Would You Rather: Halloween Edition – starting gross and ending gloriously NSFW (vampire bites, werewolf scratches, and a few choices that will haunt your dreams).

• Haunted Mansion Secrets – Nick spills a real ghost story from his first job inside Disneyland’s most famous haunted house.

It’s sexy, it’s silly, and it’s packed with enough giggles to raise the dead. 🎧 Listen if you dare—and remember: smoke pot with your friends on Halloween and you might just summon a candy-hoarding giggle monster (probably you).

👉 Follow & Review: New spooky, steamy specials drop all month and a half long, so subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you haunt your ears. 🕯️ Share it with your coven, your crypt crush, or that one friend who always steals the Reese’s.

Spooky season has arrived on Meet My Friends! To kick things off, I’m joined by Roxanne Chacon, who brings the ultimate local chills: her family’s true ghost stories, all set right here in Los Angeles. From haunted homes to eerie encounters that defy explanation, these tales prove the City of Angels is also a City of Ghosts.

So light a candle, pour something spooky in your glass, and settle in — the hauntings start now.

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