Multitudes

Latest Episodes:

Cultural Appropriation and Spirituality with Pavithra Banavar (Part II) 🪢 Jun 15, 2023

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What would you do when a spiritual system you have found helpful also has problematic aspects? How does cultural appropriation manifest in spirituality?
We talk about these questions, as well as the connection of Hinduism and spirituality, assimilation and Indian culture in America, and the revolutionary importance of rest.
Pavithra Banavar is a spiritual guide, creative visionary and holistic healer. Pavithra, also known as The Clueless Psychic, is the owner of FlowinShakti and host of the Divine Rebel Podcast.
This is Part II of my conversation with Pavithra. Be sure to check out Part I to learn more about Human Design, Gene Keys, and Pavithra's background. Listen here!
Chapter Markers:

1:59 Examining Relationships to Spiritual Systems
10:00 Reclaiming Cultural Lineage
14:18 Pavithra's Relationship to Hinduism & Spirituality
18:28 Reflections on Pavithra's Trip to India

Where can you find Pavithra?
Pavithra's Podcast, The Divine Rebel
Pavithra's Substack, FlowinShakti
Pavithra's Instagram, @flowinshakti
Podcast episodes mentioned from Pavithra's Podcast:
73. "Is Human Design Another Tool of Capitalism?"
67. "5 Issues I Have With the Human Design Community"
Music: Top of the Top by Matt Large
Where can you learn more about Multitudes?
www.multitudespodcast.com
Instagram, @multitudes.podcast
I would love to hear from you! Please let me know if this episode resonated with you by connecting with me on Instagram, or also contacting me via my website. You can support the show as well by leaving a review, and you can do so here!
Transcripts are now live! New episode transcripts will be uploaded shortly after the episode is available. Check out the transcripts page on my website, here.

Human Design and Gene Keys with Pavithra Banavar (Part I) 🪸 May 30, 2023

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What is Human Design? What are Gene Keys? Join me in learning about these systems with Pavithra Banavar.
Pavithra Banavar is a spiritual guide, creative visionary and holistic healer. Pavithra, also known as The Clueless Psychic, is the owner of FlowinShakti and host of the Divine Rebel Podcast.
This is a great intro conversation for those who are newer to Human Design and Gene Keys. We also talk about ways that Human Design and Gene Keys can help you better understand yourself and the people in your life. This episode also covers Pavithra's background, her story, and how she went from working in construction with her brother, to nursing during the height of COVID, to starting her own business.
Chapter Markers
04:26 Human Design
16:13 Gene Keys
22:15 Pavithra's Story and Previous Careers

Where can you find Pavithra?
Pavithra's Podcast, The Divine Rebel
Pavithra's Substack, FlowinShakti
Pavithra's Instagram, @flowinshakti
Where can you find your Human Design Chart and Gene Keys Profile?
Human Design Chart
Gene Keys Profile
Music: Top of the Top by Matt Large
Where can you learn more about Multitudes?
www.multitudespodcast.com
Instagram, @multitudes.podcast
I would love to hear from you! Please let me know if this episode resonated with you by connecting with me on Instagram, or also contacting me via my website. You can support the show as well by leaving a review, and you can do so here!
Transcripts are now live!
New episode transcripts will be uploaded shortly after the episode is available!
Check out the transcripts page on my website, here.

The Music You Love with Prince's Sound Engineer, Susan Rogers 🎧 May 11, 2023

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Legendary record producer, Susan Rogers, known for her work with Prince, chats on Multitudes about your listener profile, her time working with Prince, hit singles, record production and more!
Join me for this fascinating conversation about music.
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” - Stevie Wonder
In this episode we get into:
5:29 | Susan's Time Working With the Musical Icon, Prince
15:31 | Meeting Miles Davis
20:15 | Susan's Experience as a Record Producer
26:26 | Your Listener Profile
33:48 | Active vs. Passive Listening
37:33 | The Triple Crown: The Critics, Musicians, and the Public
42:39 | Albums and Singles
46:27 | Susan's Academic Career
53:03 | Tech Advancements in Music

Links!
📚 You can check Susan's book out here: This is What it Sounds Like
🎵 Add your record pull here.
🎧 The playlist on Spotify for "This is What it Sounds Like"
About Susan:
Susan Rogers holds a doctoral degree in behavioral neuroscience from McGill University (2010). Prior to her science career, Susan was a multiplatinum-earning record producer, engineer, and mixer. She is best known for her work with Prince during his peak creative period (1983–1987). Her discography also includes records with David Byrne, Barenaked Ladies, Geggy Tah, Nil Lara, Robben Ford, Tricky, Michael Penn, Jeff Black, and many others. In 2021 she became the first female recipient of the Music Producer’s Guild Award for Outstanding Contributions to U.K. Music. She teaches psychoacoustics and record production for Berklee College of Music. Her book on music listening, This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, published by W. W. Norton & Co., is available everywhere.
Intro Music:
Sticky Finger by Ballpoint
Vivanda Rica by El Flaco Collective
Tuya by Static Glow Sounds

Outro Music:
Vivanda Rica by El Flaco Collective
Check out the podcast at www.multitudespodcast.com or on Instagram at @multitudes.podcast.

Activism, Authority, and Softness with EbonyJanice 💜 Apr 27, 2023

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“I have no dream job, I do not dream of labor.” - James Baldwin
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender" - Alice Walker

If you're interested in womanism and feminism, the connection between religion and authority, activism, racial justice, and being at ease - this conversation is it!
In this episode we also talk about EbonyJanice's new book, and how her personal life and love of romance were a part of her book writing process.
We ask questions:

What does it mean to be an activist?
How can embracing softness be a form of activism?
What does it mean to decolonize authority?

Who is EbonyJanice?
EbonyJanice is the founder and CEO of The Free People Project and The EbonyJanice Project. She has authored several books, including “Sacred Text for Black Folks Soul: A Book You Should Leave On Your Altar.” The core and center of her work is the professional and personal liberation of Black Women and Femmes. You may know her from numerous guest appearances on Podcasts, Youtube channels, and Instagram Lives, where she talks about Decolonizing Authority, Racial Justice, Black Women’s Body Ownership, and Womanist Theology.

Some of EbonyJanice’s sacred texts and authors mentioned:

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker
Lemonade by Beyonce
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash
Audrey Lorde
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Bell Hooks

Where you can find EbonyJanice:

EbonyJanice’s Website: www.ebonyjanice.com
EbonyJanice’s Instagram: @ebonyjanice

You can support EbonyJanice by pre-ordering her new book, which we discuss in our conversation!
“All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance”

Where Can I Preorder EbonyJanice’s Book? Check out here!

Where you can find me:

www.multitudespodcast.com
Instagram : @multitudes.podcast

Trying New Things, Therapy and Becoming a Comedian with Will Purpura 🎤 Apr 10, 2023

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We're talking about finding the confidence to try (and stick) with new things, meditation, therapy, coming out, relationships, and comedy - a multitude of topics in this episode!
This is my conversation with Will Purpura, a New York based comedian who's been performing all over the east coast for the past eight years.

Will has been featured in the North Carolina Comedy Festival, the Westside Comedy Festival (LA) and the West End Comedy Festival (Atlanta). In 2019, Will was a finalist in both the NC's Funniest competition and Ultimate Comedy Challenge in North Carolina. Will’s jokes have been featured in Points In Case and The Poke (UK).
Chapter Markers:

02:55 | Will's Story Getting Into Comedy
10:16 | Finding Confidence to do Comedy
13:30 | What Will’s Thinking About on Stage
14:47 | Transcendental Meditation and Therapy
23:16 | Sharing Deeply Personal Jokes Onstage
25:33 | Sharing about Coming Out as Bi
30:15 | Liberation with Personal Jokes
31:12 | Developing a Particular Character Onstage
34:50 | Relating to the Crowd
39:00 | Getting Over the Idea of Failing
40:18 | Crowdwork + the Meisner Technique
46:52 | Comedy Blending Into Offstage Life
51:15 | Writing Jokes About Dating/ Relationships
57:10 | Advice for Anyone Interested in Comedy

Music: High Drama by Matt Large
Follow Will on Instagram: @willpurpura
Follow me on Instagram: @multitudespodcast
You can also find me at:
www.multitudespodcast.com

The Beautiful Thing About Dreaming with Tara Rin Burke (Part II) 🤍 Mar 30, 2023

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Discover the multitude of ways that dreaming is beautiful in this fascinating conversation, where we connect dreaming to social justice, tarot, ancestral work, collective dreaming, the linearity of time and more.
This is Part II of my conversation with Tara Rin Burke of The Witches Muse & Co-Creatrix of the Dreamscapes Academy Collective.
Check out Part I (EPS 07) to find out more about Tara, their background, and introduction to dreamwork.

1:54 | Dreamscapes Academy

9:07 | Jungian Psychology Around Dreamwork

13:41 | Tarot and Dreamwork

18:30 | Ancestral Work and Dreaming

23:02 | Collective Dreaming

26:46 | Linearity of Time

28:23 | 2023 Chariot Card in Tarot

31:26 | How to Work and Connect with Tara

32:40 | Stop Hating by adrienne maree brown

Links!

Poem: Stop Hating, by adrienne maree brown from Emergent Strategy

Music: Movement of the Unknown by William Claeson

Where to Find Tara:
Instagram: @thewitchesmuse
The Witches Muse
Check out Dreamscapes Academy:
Instagram: @dreamscapesacademy
Dreamscapes Academy
You can find me at:
www.multitudespodcast.com
Instagram: @multitudes.podcast

Reimagining Your Dreams with Tara Rin Burke (Part I) 🌙 Mar 21, 2023

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Where do you think a dream goes when you wake up? Does a dream travel? What do you think about recurring dreams?
In this episode we have Part I of my conversation with Tara Rin Burke of the Witches Muse & Co-Creatrix of the Dreamscapes Academy Collective.
In this episode we talk about Tara, their background, land acknowledgment, dream tending, dreams, and imagination.
Part II coming next Thursday!
Part II will continue the conversation about dreams, while connecting dreams to social justice, collective dreaming, and more.
"I dream a dream that dreams back at me." - Toni Morrison

Chapter Markers:

3:43 | Tara’s Story
8:01 | How Tara Identifies with Being a Binary Witch, Bad Bitch, Sagittarius Stellium, Survivor, Spiritual Artist, Nerd, Yonsei, Story Teller, Deep Listener, and Divine Dreamer
15:10 | Land Acknowledgement
21:07 | What is the Witches Muse?
26:44 | Dreamwork and Dream Tending
32:22 | Dream Practice and Dream Journaling
38:31 | Dreams as Entities, Where Do You Think a Dream Goes When You Wake Up?
42:13 | Recurring Dreams
45:14 | Imagination, Dreaming and the Imaginal Colonial Complex

Links from the Episode!

Poem: When I Met my Muse by William Stafford
Music: Movement of the Unknown by William Claeson

Influencers, Content Creation, and the Fashion Industry with OldLoserinBrooklyn (Part II) 🦚 Mar 18, 2023

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This episode is Part II of my conversation with TikToker, fashion writer, and trend researcher Mandy Lee, also known as OldLoserinBrooklyn.

This conversation covers a multitude of topics such as:

lifestyle content creation
staying private online
talent management vs. managing yourself
Mandy’s thoughts about trends in 2023
influencers
the Kardashians
fashion industry problems
content writing in fashion
the Balenciaga ad scandal
moral dilemmas with problematic fashion designers
tips for anyone interested in working in fashion, editorial and content creation.

Chapters:
01:30 | Being Liked and Your Online Presence
04:02 | Lifestyle Creation vs. Content Creation
08:18 | Staying Private Online
11:49 | Talent Managers vs. Managing Yourself
20:03 | Influencers: Returning to Work + Glamorization
25:40 | The Kardashians, Flaunting Privilege, and Nepotism Online
35:26 | Content Writing in Fashion
44:14 | Fashion Industry Problems
53:55 | Balenciaga Ad Scandal and Problematic Fashion Designers
1:04:50 | Tips on Freelancing, Fashion, Content Creation
Music: Hedged Bet by Far Orange
Links!

Consumed by Aja Barber

The Unpublishable by Jessica DeFino

Where to find Mandy:

Instagram: @oldloserinbrooklyn

TikTok: @oldloserinbrooklyn

Mandy's Newsletter: Cyclical

Be sure to check out Part I of this conversation!
"Going Viral with OldLoserinBrooklyn"
Listen now on:
Spotify
Apple

Where to find me:

Instagram: @multiudes.podcast
multitudespodcast.com

Going Viral with OldLoserInBrooklyn (Part I) 🪩 Mar 09, 2023

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This episode is Part I of my conversation with TikToker, fashion writer, and trend researcher Mandy Lee, also known as @oldloserinbrooklyn.

This conversation covers a multitude of topics such as:

Mandy's story from working in the corporate world to content creation/ freelancing
going viral
forecasting fashion trends
plagiarism
originality
mistakes she’s made along the way

If you’re interested in content creation, freelancing and going viral, you’ll definitely find this conversation insightful and worth listening to.
Part II coming next week!
Chapter Markers:

05:31 | Mandy's Leap from Corporate to Freelancing
19:22 | Starting to Post on TikTok to First Viral Video
21:58 | Going Viral
32:34 | Plagiarism and Content No Longer Belonging to You
37:43 | Challenges of Trend Forecasting, Niching, and Being Plagarized
46:27 | Mandy's Experience with Mistakes in Content Creation

Links!

The Forecaster Who Predicted Indie Sleaze Tell’s Us What’s Next

Articles of Interest Podcast

Where to find Mandy:

Instagram: @oldloserinbrooklyn

TikTok: @oldloserinbrooklyn
Mandy's Newsletter: Cyclical

Music: Hedged Bet by Far Orange

Where to find me:

Instagram: @mulitudes.podcast
multitudespodcast.com

Designing a Movie Set with Madie Hays 🎬 Feb 23, 2023

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Have you ever wondered how a set is designed for your favorite show?

In this episode, I sit down with Madie Hays, who designs sets for tv, film, and theater productions.
Madie Hays is an LA-based Art Director, Scenic & Production Designer currently working mostly in TV and film. You can find her set designs on Apple TV +, HBO Max, and Netflix.
We get into a multitude of topics including: