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Spells And Stories With Stephen Jenkinson

This SoundCloud is the audios taken from my regular YouTube videos and turned into listenable clips.

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Tad Hargrave is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again).

Despite years in the non-profit and activist world, he finally had to admit he was a marketing nerd and, in the end, he became a marketing coach for hippies. Maybe it was because he couldn’t stand seeing his hippy friends struggle to promote their amazing, green and holistic projects. Maybe it was because he couldn’t keep a 9-5 job to save his life.

Whatever the reason, for almost a decade, he has been touring his marketing workshops around Canada, bringing refreshing and unorthodox ideas to conscious entrepreneurs and green businesses that help them grow their organizations and businesses (without selling their souls).  He has also offered most of his workshops on a modified pay what you can basis (a small deposit to attend and then people choose the amount they want to pay at the very end).

This all feels like a minor miracle as Tad spent his early marketing days learning and applying some very inauthentic, high pressure, extremely gross and pushy marketing approaches. This has made him suuuuper allergic to these kinds of approaches because he discovered they made him feel slimy (even in personal friendships), he didn’t sleep well and he’s very sorry to all those people he spoke with back in the day. After a decade of unlearning and unpacking that whole scene – he now feels ready and able to help other people find ways to market that feel wonderful.

My name is Lana Maree. I am a  singer/songwriter, poet and sound healing practitioner.

I channel words, sound and music through the impulses of movement, stillness and listening.

I compose, write and perform solo and also with the groups Star Sister Revival and The Society for Sacred Listening. 

I've produced 2 albums and a book of poetry, Careless Blossoming. I won an award for best song, which was picked up by Snatam Kaur called Peace and Harmony. Two of my poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards, How We Forgive and Blue Resuscitation and one of my poems, A Woman Wilding, is going to the moon for a project that is sending art, music and literature to the moon.

I currently play in 2 groups, Star Sister Revival and The Society For Sacred Listening. I also write regulary on Substack and am currently working on writing stories from my memoir into monologue format for performance.

I love finding new and ancient ways, like singing and creative expression, to reconnect to, and deepen my relationship and connection to others, the Earth and her myriad forms of life and creation.

"Don't follow me, I'm lost." — U.G. Krishnamurti
spiritual activist, lover of poetry & a proud Devonian (& for now, a lawyer)

Spells And Stories With Stephen Jenkinson

Marketing for Hippies