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Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest.Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future  teachers and writers about the Goddess. The California Institute for Integral studies in San Francisco recognized Z's contribution to Women's Spirituality Movement. Today Z lives in Santa Cruz, California, giving workshops and lectures but always making time to smell the roses. She is the founder and director of the Women's Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring Goddess spirituality retreats and festivals for women.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Jacqueline Jones. As the mother of two grown children Dr. Jones has navigated the medical system with her own children. Her expertise as a physician and surgeon with over 25 years experience make her uniquely qualified to give parents mean- ingful advice. Dr. Jones trained as a physician at Cornell Medical College as well as completing her surgical training at University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School. She is listed as one of America’s Top doctors and is a Clinical Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Surgeons.  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lisa Boucher. After short stints where Lisa trained polo horses, worked as a flight attendant, hairdresser, and bartender, she revamped her life and settled in as a registered nurse. For the past twenty-eight years has worked with hundreds of women to overcome alcoholism, live better lives and become better parents. Raising the Bottom is her fifth book. She was prompted to write Raising the Bottom when she realized after twenty plus years of working in hospitals, that doctors and traditional health care offer few solutions to women with addiction issues. She is the mother of twin sons, and lives in Ohio with her husband.  Find out more about Lisa by visiting her website: Raisingthebottom.com You can also follow her on Twitter @LBoucherAuthor and Instagram! 

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Tanya Zabinski.  Tanya Zabinski views life as the ultimate artwork and aspires to live an artful, heartful, and mindful life. She studied art, design, music, and philosophy at Buffalo State College, Parsons School of Design, and Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, and she is a recipient of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Tomie dePaola Award. Using a self-invented reduction process with silkscreen printing, Tanya combines strong composition and flat color to create bold, graphic, eye-catching images. A true community artist, Tanya and her husband, Joe DiPasquale, co-founded the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts in Buffalo, NY.  For 25 years they have run Planet Love (planetlovedesigns.com), their own art-based business, exhibiting at more than 20 outdoor art and music festivals per year. Instantly recognizable to those who know and love her art, Zabinski's prints reach a wide audience through printing on the accessible media of T-shirts, banners and paper. She is a life-long yoga and meditation practitioner, bicyclist, camper, hiker and because she lives in the very snowy hills south of Buffalo, NY, a cross-country skier. To find out more about Tanya and her work, go to tanyazabinski.com   

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Beth Cramer. Beth is an accomplished editor / director producing independent film, commercials, music video and branded content.  Her award-winning documentary "Plan B, Single Women Choosing Motherhood," explores the social picture single motherhood presents and the reason this trend is snowballing among women in their thirties and forties. Cramer launched Brave Films in 2007 making the companies home in NYC and The Hudson Valley. Cramer is a master of melding powerful, emotionally driven experiences in her work. Her portfolio spans styles including dialogue, visual storytelling, music-driven imagery, off beat comedy and evocative fashion/beauty. Cramer has collaborated with some of the worlds leading creative agencies and talent in the industry. In 2017 Cramer was diagnosed with stage IV Ovarian Cancer and her memoir, Why Didn't I Notice Her Before?, documents her experience as a mother, wife, sister and daughter through her diagnosis. Today, Beth lives with her husband and son in the Hudson Valley and spends her time writing and creating.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Cathleena Hailley. Cathleena is an embodiment of the divine feminine who works with the guides. Her coding accesses the womb water of an individual's birth so that they are brought back to their original soul expression, creating a rebirth to allow full expression of the soul's imprint. Having incarnated as an Arcturian, Andromedan, and as a member of the Council of 9 Galactic Collective, Cathleena brings the knowledge of human patterns of existence, along with her extensive knowledge and work with interplanetary and galactic portals. Through this, she accesses human patterning with galactic information, technologies and energies to fully access their original soul's blueprint. Cathleena has a business degree and has worked with many professionals and medical practitioners in her massage therapy practice for over 28 years, she has experienced layers of human patterning, personalities, and life expressions.  Her background in massage, using techniques as Rolfing and Myofascial has allowed her to begin to access more subtle energies connected to the emotional patterning that creates an individual's life. Through her understanding of sacred geometry, she has channeled a vibrational device from the Arcturian collective. Cathleena now uses all of her business knowledge and experience with sacred geometry to align with her resetting the crystalline DNA.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kathryn Ravenwood. Kathryn Ravenwood has studied the Mysteries for 50 years, having always been a seeker of spiritual truths and being filled with the desire to find a deeper knowing and understanding of life. Her long love and study of the esoteric realms led her to the Tarot. Kathryn, or Raven as she is called, offers personal consultation. Kathryn is the author of How To Create Sacred Water: A Guide to Rituals and Practices. She is also a contributing writer to Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling and also Stepping Into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writings on Priestesses. Her writing has been published in Sage Woman magazine and other publications. She maintains a blog with her writings on the Tarot at Kathryn Ravenwood Tarot Wisdom,, Kathryn Ravenwood.blogspot.com  and a separate blog with writings with spiritual hypnosis experiences at Raven Soul Alchemy.blogspot.com. this episode q&a includes: • high blood pressure- using herbal medicine with medication. Not listening to the books motherwort and hawthorn are not drugs, they are food.. • joint breaking down- linden and comfrey, tai chi, what do the knees symbolize for you? • it is worth finding a healer to work with, may have to check out several to find the right one.. • gut bacteria and nutrient absorption.. • nourishing herbal infusions vs supplements.. • balance hormones?