Episodes

  • Burn 2024 Down! with Robyn Valentine

    Burn 2024 Down! with Robyn Valentine
    Dec 24 2024
    Grab your wieners, your marshmallows, your bad haircuts, and toss them all on the funeral pyre of 2024.

    Robyn Valentine, co-host of the Coffee & Cauldrons podcast and author of Magickal Tarot & The Apprentice Witch, joins me to review the highs, lows, personal triumphs, and things we'd love to leave behind as we BURN 2024 DOWN to prepare for a bright new year ahead.

    Hopefully.

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    1 hr and 58 mins
  • What is German Christmas Folklore? with Ella Harrison

    What is German Christmas Folklore? with Ella Harrison
    Dec 10 2024
    Ella Harrison is the author of The Book of Spells. She has a degree in anthropology and uses her social media platform to educate and entertain audiences on the topics of folklore, folk magic, and the history of holiday traditions. If you've ever wondered about figures like Krampus or Perchta, this is the show for you.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Is all politics local? with Gregory Royal Pratt

    Is all politics local? with Gregory Royal Pratt
    Nov 26 2024
    They say all politics is local, but that's difficult to believe when every single topic of conversation at our dinner table seems to have national stakes. From the books on our kids' shelves to who reads those books to them to the statues in our parks to who is allowed in our parks, every issue large and small feels like it's operating on some grand scale. It's hard to gain perspective, hard to know what information to trust, especially when some of our politicians are telling us not to trust what we've seen and heard with our own eyes and ears.

    That's where good journalists come in.

    Gregory Royal Pratt is an investigative reporter with the Chicago Tribune. He's made a name for himself covering corruption, triumphs, and everyday heroes in the third largest city in the country. We had a conversation about the power of local journalism, the influence of national politics in small town spaces, and why he wrote a book about Lori Lightfoot.

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    Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • What's really in our food? with Erin the Food Science Babe

    What's really in our food? with Erin the Food Science Babe
    Nov 12 2024
    Thanks to the Make America Healthy Again movement, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation on the rise about food, "chemicals", and whether what we eat is safe. Thankfully, Erin the Food Science Babe is here to help.

    Subscribe to Erin's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodScienceBabe

    Email: contact@headonfirepod.com

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    Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod
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    Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast
    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333
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    YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod

    Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire preorder links
    Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/verity-vox-and-the-curse-of-foxfire-don-martin/21737256
    B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/verity-vox-and-the-curse-of-foxfire-don-martin/1146128413
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • How do you walk the Witches' Road in real life? with Thorn Mooney, Courtney Weber, and Mawiyah Bomani

    How do you walk the Witches' Road in real life? with Thorn Mooney, Courtney Weber, and Mawiyah Bomani
    Oct 29 2024
    The mantel of the witch is one that has been worn by people for all sorts of reasons.

    There are those who don the black hat for political purposes, as a feminist symbol, or a way for those who find themselves on the margins of society in one way or another to reach for the power they otherwise could never hope to have.

    Then there are the people call themselves witches because they cast spells and divine the future and talk to the dead. And still there are others conjuring up new titles or resurrecting old ones all in an attempt to define a personal spiritual path that is inclusive, empowering, and allows for a spark of magic in the real world.

    I summoned three fabulous witches to help me call the corners, cast a circle, and chat all about how to walk the witches’ road in real life.

    Please support today's guests:

    Thorn Mooney
    Courtney Weber
    Mawiyah Bomani

    Order my books, The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft and Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire, here.

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Why do we politicize hurricanes? with Dr. Sam Montano

    Why do we politicize hurricanes? with Dr. Sam Montano
    Oct 15 2024
    Dr. Sam Montano is no stranger to combating conspiracy theories regarding emergency management. She’s been doing it since Hurricane Katrina. She holds a BS in Psychology, as well as Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Emergency Management and teaches the subject at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Her book Disaster-ology came out in 2021. I sat down with her to help parse fact from fiction on what FEMA is, the politicization of climate disasters, and how emergency managers are preparing for the next catastrophe.

    Email: contact@headonfirepod.com

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • What is expertise? with AJ Jacobs

    What is expertise? with AJ Jacobs
    Oct 1 2024
    A.J. Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author known for his immersive, year-long experiments, including The Year of Living Biblically, The Know-It-All, and his latest book, The Year of Living Constitutionally.

    Email: contact@headonfirepod.com

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    Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast
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    57 mins
  • What can rejection teach you? with Victoria Aveyard

    What can rejection teach you? with Victoria Aveyard
    Sep 17 2024
    By all accounts Victoria Aveyard is both an outlier and also as close to the Hollywood version of becoming an author as it gets.

    While the average age for a debut novelist is around 36, Victoria’s debut novel—Red Queen—was published shortly after graduating from college and went on to become a massive, runaway success. And so did all of the rest of her novels. In fact, every one of Victoria’s novels has been a New York Times bestseller, and she even made it onto the coveted Bestseller Series list which is rareified air indeed.

    So it came as quite a shock to her readers when, earlier this year, she talked about having to go back out on submission this year with what will be her debut adult novel. They were even more shocked to learn that she received a number of rejections, thinking, of course, that past performance meant that every future book would automatically receive the green light from any future publisher.

    I sat down with Victoria to have a long discussion about the actual job of being an author, what readers and prospective authors alike get right and wrong about the labor of a creative career, and how to reframe rejection for yourself as just another part of the job.

    Email: contact@headonfirepod.com

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    1 hr and 21 mins