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Susun interviews Anasuya Basil  after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.     For over 30 years, Anasuya has blended holistic nutrition, CranioSacral Therapy, acupressure, and nature-based practices to support wellbeing. She has a special expertise in chronic pain, women's health and CST for babies. Her work combines science-based information with intuition. She pays attention not only to physical symptoms, but also to the thoughts, emotions, and life transitions that shape our health.  She is known for creating experiential circles and health classes that deepen self-understanding and support meaningful personal change.  Anasuya stewards five acres in the foothills east of Chico in Northern California, and enjoys spoon carving, prescribed burning, and wildcrafting herbs with friends.

Susun interviews Maya Zacharow after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Maya Zacharow is a former Professional Wetland Scientist and worked as an environmental licensing and permitting consultant for over 15 years. She has since left her corporate environmental career behind to help clients focus on fostering transformation through deeper connection to our Planet by creation of online summits, cowry shell divination and coaching, and sisters' circles. She is a native of Odessa Ukraine, and lived in the US for decades, but now resides in Abu Dhabi, UAE. To find out more about her, visit her website: www.sisterswellspring.com

Susun interviews Dr. Petra Illig after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.     Dr. Petra Illig is an aerospace medical physician, herbal researcher, and pioneer in the cultivation of Rhodiola rosea in Alaska. Through decades of research and hands-on experience, she has helped transform this traditional northern medicinal plant from a small garden experiment into a thriving agricultural industry. Bridging modern science and herbal medicine, her work focuses on sustainable cultivation, product innovation, and advancing the understanding of rhodiola's health benefits.

Susun interviews Kim Marie & Vive Oldham after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Kim Marie is a Holistic Women's Empowerment and Spiritual Coach supporting women in the second half of life to come home to their Soul, awaken their inner wisdom, and heal their Soul-sickness to live a Soul-fulfilled life as a wellspring that serves the Soul of the World. Through her powerful mentoring, publications, courses, podcast, and retreats, as well as her group coaching program, Solace, Kim brings a unique and magical blend of ancient wisdom, archetypes, Soul-led leadership, and practical spirituality to support women longing to step into the fullness of their authentic Soul expression.   Vive Oldham is a Somatic Practitioner, Voice coach, Artist, Mum, Auntie and Pleasure Activist. Her practice is guided by the work of Marian Dunlea's BodyDreaming - which centres the organic intelligence of the body. She supports women to develop robust, resilient and responsive systems, so they can speak up, create and lead.

Susun interviews Dr. Julie Krull after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Dr. Julie Krull is an award-winning author, speaker, and evolutionary leader exploring what becomes possible as humanity awakens to a more relational, coherent, and interconnected understanding of reality—and new ways of being within it. With a PhD in Counseling Psychology and more than three decades of experience spanning psychology, systems thinking, consciousness, and emergent leadership, Julie is known for her rare ability to translate complexity into clarity—helping individuals, communities, and organizations sense the deeper patterns emerging beneath the turbulence of our time.

Susun interviews Erin Vanhee after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.    Erin Vanhee is an herbalist, bonesetter and wildcrafter. Erin tends a medicinal herb forest sanctuary advancing the interest and sustainability of indigenous plants in restorative therapies.  She provides Lomi Lomi bodywork to her community in addition to wild or wild grown botanicals for pain and stress management. Erin teaches a yearly in person, 8 Month Herbal Immersion and online continuing education for bodyworkers. Her medicines and teachings are available through her life's work at Trillium Medicine in the foothills of the North Cascades in Washington State. Find out more at www.erinvanhee.com

Susun interviews Gregg Westwood after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Gregg Westwood is a former actor, dancer, massage therapist, and spiritual seeker who has developed Depth Integration. Gregg is the author of Rooted Soul and he mentors clients, facilitates retreats and workshops internationally, and creates transformative spaces for embodied soul integration.  His journey in counseling began in 1985 as part of GMHC's Buddy Program in New York City, where he supported caregivers during the early AIDS crisis. He holds a Master's degree in Somatic Psychology and has taught at Heartwood Institute and Naropa University. Additionally, his credentials include certifications in massage therapy, hypnotherapy, Polarity Therapy, and Transformational Therapy (based on the Hendricks Method), along with training in Pilates and Educational Kinesiology and studies in ParaYoga, the Diamond Heart Approach, and the Integrated Beingness Programme. Gregg is the host of the "Healing Trauma through Conscious Embodiment" and "Conscious Embodiment" summits and co-hosted the "Our Souls Speak" podcast. He is also a featured author in "Sacred Medicine" and "Dare to Dream."

Susun interviews Kimberly Crail after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.    Kimberly Crail is a Wise Woman, shamanic herbalist and educator who has been teaching natural medicine-making, beginning with a life-changing Shamanic Herbal Apprenticeship in 2008 that transported her from Wall Street to the Weeds.  She also holds an MBA in Finance, a MS in Accounting, BA in Philosophy and Economics, and a CPA license in New York (inactive).   You can book a private consult or sign up for one of her classes at her website: AncientMotherWisdom.com and the Academy of Herbal Medicine at Herbal.Arkhub.com.  Follow her on Rumble where she hosts the Weeds of Wisdom podcast. https://rumble.com/c/AncientMotherWisdom .

Susun interviews Jeralyn Glass after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Professor Jeralyn Glass is an internationally acclaimed singer, musician, and leader in the field of sound healing who has been sharing the gift of music medicine with the world for decades. She began her career on Broadway and went on to sing on opera and concert stages around the globe. Today, she offers a unique alchemical blend of music, meditation, and high vibrational sound. Merging quantum science, bioenergetics, and crystalline sound vibration, Jeralyn helps people experience healing and transformation through sacred frequencies that nourish the body, open the heart, and awaken consciousness. Jeralyn is the creator of the Crystal Sound Healing Oracle, the first card deck of its kind with QR codes linking to recordings of the singing bowls, and the Hay House best-selling book Sacred Vibrations: The Transformative Power of Crystalline Sound and Music. Find out more at CrystalCadence.com and JeralynGlass.com.

Susun interviews Sophia Demas after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Sophia did not want to get married, have children, or write a book; the Universe, however, had other plans. In her penetrating memoir, Sophia examines the events in her life that at first seemed to be a series of coincidences, but upon further consideration she discovered they were building blocks of the miraculous. "The Divine Language of Coincidence--How Miracles Transformed My Life After I Began Paying Attention," chronicles the extraordinary events experienced by an ordinary woman, asserting that miracles are not only possible, but far more common than we may realize.

Susun interviews Tracie Blackmon after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Tracie Blackmon is a suicide loss survivor, prevention advocate, author of Her Name Was Judy, and Founder of Meridian. Tracie’s work focuses on breaking the stigma around suicide, addressing how to talk to children about suicide, and promoting safe, non-harmful public conversations about mental health. She is active in Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and World Suicide Prevention Day, and has been featured in media and podcasts on mental health advocacy Podcast Guests. Her life’s mission is to ensure that no one else has to live in silence after a suicide loss, and to help communities create spaces where people feel safe to speak their names and their stories.

Susun interviews Guest after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.    Carolyn Brouillard has spent three decades exploring consciousness and authentic living. Her work is forged at the intersection of radical rebellion, corporate leadership, and hard-won self-sovereignty. Through practical frameworks for personal transformation, she helps others bring inner truth into lived reality. She is the author of Your Untamed Truths: Reclaiming Self-Sovereignty and the founder of Untamed Press. She also shares personal insights and stories on her Substack, Untamed Truths. Carolyn lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she loves hiking, kayaking, and gathering around a campfire.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions.

Susun interviews EagleSong Gardener after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   EagleSong dances her mischief in the hedge, that luminous place between wild and tended. A lifelong gardener, she has designed, managed and tended high visibility kitchen gardens and farms, commercial gardens, herb gardens & nurseries, and has trained in Healing & Therapeutic garden design. Often called a hawthorn whisperer, she has been researching hawthorns for over 30 years and has traveled to 6 countries pursuing an understanding of "what they are good for." EagleSong is known for her wit and kitchen table wisdom and her incessant need to go outside and play! Today, she enjoys teaching herbs from the ground up wherever she is called. You can find her at - www.eaglesong-gardener.com

Susun interviews Don Ollsin after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.   Don Ollsin is an herbalist, teacher, and environmental educator who has spent more than 50 years exploring the relationships between people and plants. His work has been shaped by herbal medicine, Ayurveda, shamanic practice, environmental education, and the study of attention and consciousness. Through his new EarthSong project, Don invites people into a simple daily practice: pause, say hello to a plant, and notice what happens. His work explores how small acts of relationship can gradually transform the way we experience ourselves and the living world.