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03/20/24 • 57 min
In this MUM episode, harm reductionist and sex & intimacy coach Cara Kelsey shares their practice of deviancy and its connection to deathwork.
About Cara Kelsey:
Cara Kelsey is a mixed ethnicity, white, polyamorous, trans queer from the desert (O'odham Land) and the bay area (Ohlone Land). They are a harm reductionist, deathwalker, sex and creative relationship coach and somatic bodyworker. They are co-founder and resident deviant of Peace Out Loud, a community project and muti-generational, muti-cultural trans and Black led collective. They co-create spaces for grief, shame, rage, sex and joy and hold containers for unknowing and deep curiousity. They are committed to following Black and Indigenous leadership and answering calls to action and service. All of this work is possible and sustainable through a sacred and substantial grief practice. All of this work is done in an endless pursuit to put their ego to rest.
Link with Cara:
- Siren and Deathling
- Deviance as Holy: a subversive storytelling project told through art and media that is not only focused on, but wholly devoted to, deviance.
- Peace Out Loud
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
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If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
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03/13/24 • 65 min
In this MUM episode, joy witch Justine Anweiler reflects on her close and emotional relationship with her late grandmother, who was the person that always saw her for who she truly was. She shares the witnessing of her grandmother’s double rebirth.
About Justine Anweiler:
Justine is a joy witch, originally from Mohkinstsis, commonly referred to as Calgary, AB Canada – and the founder of The Witchen. Her purpose lies in softening human connection by deepening our relationship with Mother Earth. Most recently, she does this by sharing cultural stories about traditional food and its unique mythology.
Link with Justine:
- The Witchen: The Witchen specializes in oral, visual, written, and digital storytelling. Justine works with expansive entrepreneurs who hold the vision to build a better future.
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
03/06/24 • 61 min
In this MUM episode, life coach Yvonne Chung shares about her experience with major decision-making alongside uncertainty and fear, the impact of living beyond complacency, and waking up through the death portal.
About Yvonne Chung:
Yvonne is a Korean-American child of immigrants whose work lies at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science--the research and the woo. She is a certified coach, self-love mentor, Human Design guide, and dream architect, here to help as many people as she can live fearlessly so they can die without regrets.
Her life has been a series of deaths and rebirths that ultimately led her deeper and deeper into her life's purpose.
In 2017, she quit her corporate job and abandoned the identity and life she was told to have in order to travel the world and discover her own path of purpose and meaning.In 2019, she answered the call of her Soul's Work and began her journey as a coach and guide. In 2021, at 32 years old, she came face to face with her own mortality, catapulting her deeper into her life's purpose.
And in 2023, she left a 7-year relationship and engagement, uprooted her life, and set out on a new life path in Mexico. Over the course of her life, she has had to make choices to leave one life in order to step into another. Life has taught her how to trust the death process and has shown her how deaths (in their many forms) can be initiations and portals toward a more expanded life. Now, her mission is to help as many people discover what it means to really live so they can get to their deathbeds with as few regrets as possible.
Link with Yvonne:
- Free Human Design Masterclass: A deep dive into your Human Design type to learn what it means to live an Aligned, Empowered, & Embodied way.
- More Offerings
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
02/28/24 • 47 min
In this MUM episode, death doula Marta Macbeth shares her experiences with loss and grief, emphasizing the importance of living joyfully after grieving. Marta introduces her new offering Exit Plan, which intends to make end-of-life planning easy and fun, addressing practical aspects such as writing letters, creating videos, and considering important details they may not have thought about.
About Marta Macbeth:
Marta Macbeth’s journey began with her father's sudden death when she was ten, a moment that deeply impacted her. Throughout life, she's faced more losses, including a best friend in her 30s and her mother at forty. In 2022, she grappled with profound grief, bidding farewell to two close friends within a month, followed by the sudden loss of her partner of twenty years.
Now 69 years old, as she enters 2024, she's in a phase of reinvention after a year of navigating grief and joy. Marta is a student of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as a mother, grandmother, and death doula, reflecting the diverse aspects of her life journey.
Link with Marta:
- Exit Plan (free) on March 23
Get ready to tackle the serious stuff in a lighthearted way with Exit Plan - the online event that makes end of life planning a breeze.
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
11/15/23 • 76 min
“Suddenly I just didn't know who I was without that anymore. It was a real unmooring. But I think that I felt completely untethered to this world. I had nothing holding me here anymore, and that was really weird. I did not expect that. I think I expected to be sad about my dad being gone, but I don't think I expected—I literally do not know who I am anymore, and I don't know what my attachment is to life because I've lost so much of my context that I didn't even know was that big of my context.”
Karen Shih is a fellow first-generation Taiwanese American death doula (in the making), a triple Gemini, and a deeply devoted dog auntie.
In this episode, Karen shares about the death of her father, which led to her stepping out of her career to honor her grief.
Karen shares, “After my dad died unexpectedly in October of 2015, I completely hit pause on my life (which is a huge privilege on a variety on levels that I think most people can't do or maybe wouldn't even choose to do if they could). I quit my job, watched a lot of Grey's Anatomy, traveled to Taiwan, and eventually left New York and my life there behind. It felt like I stripped my life and identity down to nothing and had to start from scratch. The next 7+ years felt like a slow incubation as I navigated my inner jungle and surfaced a path and myself choice by choice.”
Learn more about Karen Shih at https://www.life-changing-magic.com/
Follow her on IG @shihster
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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10/11/23 • 60 min
“I feel so clearly called to death and birth work in this primal way of, like, this is what I'm here for now. All of the logistics of capitalism have not been mastered and would love to put the onus of mastery to someone else to just make it possible for me to do this. Because this feels so like even the gentle way that I'm sometimes feeling guided to death work in this place. I love old people and I love talking to people about their reproductive organs and how all of these things go together. And it just seems like only in weird deathy spaces or weird birthworky spaces do I feel at home.”
A student of life, Avé is a writer, full-spectrum doula, public scholar, and wellness guide. Inspired by traditional healing and aerial perspective, the goal is guiding life with abundance towards death in solace. Oriented towards justice, Avé Lanett chooses transformation. With over three decades of multidisciplinary yoga practice, they have committed their life to sharing wellness. Most commonly known for their political, environmental, and social justice work in the LGBTQ community, their methods are rooted in health through Black Liberation. From birthwork to end-of-life support, Avé enjoys serving as a witness of becoming.
In this podcast episode, Avé shares insights on how they experienced their mother's death, their journey with grief, and the truth that experiencing grief requires the privilege of space and safety.
Learn more about Avé Lanett at Blkdreamcamp.co
Follow Avé on IG @themblkyogi, @blkdreamcamp
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
10/04/23 • 73 min
“This particular residency was a thematic one, and the theme was titled Meeting for Teas. So it drew artists curators and thinkers from all over. We all had this time and space to sit with Tea independently, sit with Tea communally, and talk about tea in all the different ways, including decolonizing as an aspect of tea and tea culture. And I couldn't stop crying the first two weeks when I was there, and I didn't even really know what I was crying about. To a certain degree, I kind of did, because the day that I received news that I've been accepted was the same day my Nai Nai passed away.”
Mimi Young, née Lin, is a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium, Tea devotée, writer, and the founder of Ceremonie. Mimi’s work lies at the intersection of animacy and re-animation, intuition and creativity, using symbolic interpretation and ancient Chinese wisdom practices to commune with the Unseen and invite new possibilities during times of uncertainty and change.
In this podcast episode, Mimi shares excerpts from her limited edition artist's book, A Tea Stronger Than Death: Poems of Hurt and Healing While On Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain.
“Created during the 5-week thematic residency, Meeting For Teas, held at the Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, located on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain, this collection of poems and illustrations of grey-scaled cyanotypes (sun prints) is both prayer and journey through light, shadow, and verse, giving honour to the painful and healing moments of locating oneself over and over again, with Tea, the departed, and the more-than-human.”
She also has an upcoming sliding scale 6-week transformational writing series titled UGLY WORDS.
Learn more about Mimi Young at https://shopceremonie.com/
Follow her on IG @shopceremonie
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
08/22/23 • 1 min
Death is a vital part of life. It marks the end of every day and season. It’s present in every exhale and goodbye. It guides you through all your life transitions.
Death initiates you into change – the only constant in life. Without it, there would be no growth, no new chapters, no expansion, no transformation.
Each of us are the heroes in our own journeys. We face our fears as we walk into these death portals, shedding old skins, and re-emerge anew. We do this many times in a lifetime. Our stories hold deep wisdom and offer healing.
I’m Ellen Wong – I’m a storyteller and entheogenic death companion. I walk daily with brave souls through death and rebirth.
I invite you to enter this portal of discovery with me. And together, let’s break our fearful silence and uplift our stories of death and grief , so that we can all be inspired to live our lives, LOUD.
Welcome to Mum.
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Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about private Death/Rebirth mentorship and medicine journey programs.
Join the Medicine Membership to attend a virutal medicine ceremony and integration circle each month, as well as access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by host Ellen Wong.
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04/03/24 • 59 min
In this MUM episode, Death Midwife and Artist Rebecca Mullins shares about death work being collective liberation work,and how her experience of her mother’s sudden passing led to the creation of a ritual offering that supports the dead in crossing over.
About Rebecca Mullins:
Rebecca Mullins is a Death Midwife, Multidimensional Artist, Animist, Grief Guide, Parent, Ancestral Liberator, Energy Practitioner, Conscious Culture/Paradigm Disrupter.
She serves her community from a decolonial, liberatory & Soul centered place. She works with the seen and unseen realms and energies to create art and ritual tools, plus guides people in traversing life and meeting death in a sacred, conscious, compassionate, honest & heart-led way.
Her body of work and service is guided and informed by the elemental, ancestral (human + non-human) and cosmical planes - for this she’s deeply grateful.
From Rebecca, “The prayer I hold for us all is fullness & liberation of the Soul. May the work I create and offer the world empower folks to walk the braiding path alongside one another.”
Link with Rebecca:
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.
Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.
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03/27/24 • 51 min
In this MUM episode, PAT counselor Catherine Warnock shares about Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, ego dissolution versus ego death, and how the sacred mushroom can support in easing the journey towards end of life.
About Catherine Warnock:
Catherine Warnock is a Licensed Professional Counselor registered in the states of New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Colorado. Specializing in helping people resolve their trauma, she developed Emotional Triggers Treatment (ETT) and received training in Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy (PAT) at Therapsil in Canada. Catherine has been offering PAT retreats and plant therapy microdosing coaching services since 2022. She also offers training courses to other healing practitioners interested in learning how to guide clients safely and effectively with PAT for relief from anger, anxiety, depression, guilt/shame, relationship issues, unresolved grief, chronic pain, and end-of-life issues.
Link with Catherine:
- Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Preparation Guide Pamphlet
- PAT practitioner trainings
- PAT client retreats
MUM Offerings:
- Water + Fire Grief Circle: a free 60-minute monthly grief/prayer ritual to support our community
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
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FAQ
How many episodes does MUM have?
MUM currently has 38 episodes available.
What topics does MUM cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts and Philosophy.
What is the most popular episode on MUM?
The episode title 'Devotion to Deviance' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on MUM?
The average episode length on MUM is 64 minutes.
How often are episodes of MUM released?
Episodes of MUM are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of MUM?
The first episode of MUM was released on Aug 22, 2023.
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