The Nurture Pod

Virginia Edwards

A podcast that questions our current culture's consensus reality and opens a space to dream something new into being. Iris Sullivan Daire (artist, writer, teacher) and Ginger Edwards (mindset coach, owner of North Fork 53 retreat center) host from  their small rural communities on the Oregon coast. They move from playful conversations to  deep dives into how life could be on planet Earth if we allowed ourselves to dream into a new way of relating to ourselves and with each other rooted in the magic of nature.   

  1. Oct 30

    Nurture Pod 67: Samhuinn Puca Ride

    Happy Samhuinn! The Cailleach is now moving through the Northern Hemisphere and winter is on it's way. There are so many traditions, stories, ancestral roots tied to this point of the seasonal wheel. Most tell of the veil being thin and the spirit world mingling with the living.  One of the spirits that emerges around this time in the British Isles is the Puca (or Pucai- plural). These tricksters appear as shapeshifting animals and are notorious for taking unsuspecting humans on puca rides into the unknown. Some come back and some are never seen again.  So listen in to our Samhuinn episode as we take this Pucai ride in all directions, Where you will end up by the end, no one knows! If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

  2. Oct 9

    Nurture Pod 66: New Moon in Libra- Can't get no satisfaction.

    Welcome back to another lunar new moon and episode of the Nurture Pod. As we enter the Samhain portal- the planet Venus does her disappearing act in the night sky and we symbolically enter the underworld with her.  This overseas conversation spirals around the idea of being "satisfiable". Or as the Rolling Stone's put it- I can't get no satisfaction, and I try and I try. This idea of being satisfiable was Inspired by the author, podcaster and visionary thinker Adrienne Maree Brown (author of Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, The Grievers Trilogy, Holding Change, We Will Not Cancel Us and more).  Is satisfaction a deeply held state of being or a fleeting response to the ever changing world and/or a learned discipline like meditation? Or all of the above?  How would the culture around us shift if we were walking around feeling deeply satisfied? Is is even possible? Listen in as Iris and Ginger unpack the layers to find out.  If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

  3. Oct 1

    Nurture Pod 65: Earth Doulas with Ellee Best

    Hello and welcome back to the Nurture Pod. In this episode we invite a new voice into the Nurture Culture conversation. Ellee Best is the Texas based visionary behind the new Earth Doula network. (find out more at  https://www.patreon.com/cw/RitualAlchemist)  Ginger and Ellee met under the Iceland Eclipse portal and could feel that their visions about a beautiful future were aligned. Listen in as Iris, Ginger and Ellee unpack what it could mean to be an Earth (birth and death) Doula in these tumultuous times. If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

  4. Sep 18

    Nurture Pod 64: Weaving the world back together

    In this episode Iris and Ginger are between oceans discussing how to weave back together the disconnection and destruction that western industrial culture is hell bent on.  For the vast part of humanity's time on planet Earth art, music, dance, storytelling, ritual, work, community, birth and death all used to live in our bodies and minds as a village- the fundamental interwoven parts of what it meant to be human. Now in late stage capitalism these are divided, profit driven commodities that we mainly either perform or consume for money.  Can we reclaim our creative energies to heal the divide? What if western psychology is part of the problem?  Trigger warning- there is a brief discussion of sexual abuse and trauma included in this episode.  If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

  5. Sep 7

    Nurture Pod 63: Adoration of light, death and eclipses

    The Nurture Pod returns after a long glacial break in Iceland. Ginger was driving around fjords and dancing under sheets of ice and not anywhere near reliable wifi or a microphone.  Now Ginger is based in Scotland for the fall and the Nurture Pod resumes with a check in on the past eclipse season, the passing of many great souls, and Iris's upcoming collective art installation show the Adoration of Light opening on September 12th at the Astoria Visual Arts Center.  Go check it out Adoration of Light you are near Astoria, Oregon! It is a celebration of the color yellow in all its many plant extract and mushroom dyed art forms.  If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

  6. Jul 30

    Nurture Pod 62: Full moon over Edinburgh

    Welcome back to the Nurture Pod. In this episode Iris and Ginger weave threads between the old towns of Edinburgh and Astoria. Iris tending to her indigo cauldron and Ginger bumping over cobblestones on her ebike.  The late July full moon in Aquarius illuminated many things-some of them will be up for deeper scrutiny in the solar eclipse coming in August. In this podcast you can hear the moon, Jupiter, sun and Pluto all having their say in the warp and weft of words about life and the future.  If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

  7. Jul 19

    Nurture Pod 61: Filling the basket

    Happy late summer dear Nurture Pod! Iris and Ginger are seed saving/swapping tales across the pond again in this episode #61.  In the Northern Hemisphere first harvest festivals begin and (as county fairs and fetes) and with them come all the sweat, swims and blissful blowouts of summer's peak. 2026 seeds are beginning to set for the next years cycle and the harvest of 2025 seeds are coming to fruition. Time to rest a bit now, take stock and expand into the glorious Jupiter in Leo energy.  Ginger checks in from the south of England and Iris from the north coast of Oregon.  If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

  8. Jun 24

    Nurture Pod 60: Happy Summer Magic

    Welcome back to the Nurture Pod. After a brief hiatus Iris and Ginger are talking Solstice vibes- post Solstice. Yes that's how it's rolling. Ginger reports from heart chakra of Glastonbury, Stonehenge and Avebury. It's crop circles, henges, barrows and sacred springs. Iris is calling in from the upper left edge where she is creating, weaving, growing natural dyes and teaching book binding spells. This is happy summer magic! If you are inspired by this conversation please leave us a "tip" in the form of your feedback!  When you rate, review and share our podcast with friends we deeply appreciate it because it makes it more visible for others to find.  To find more about classes and courses Iris Sullivan Daire is offering visit https://www.dreambirdstudio.com/ To find Ginger Edwards coaching and follow her on her Earth Chakra journey visit: https://nurturenation.org Many thanks to the talented Kathryn Claire for the use of her "Bakers Song" as our intro and exit music! Find all of her songs at her https://kathrynclairemusic.com/home

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A podcast that questions our current culture's consensus reality and opens a space to dream something new into being. Iris Sullivan Daire (artist, writer, teacher) and Ginger Edwards (mindset coach, owner of North Fork 53 retreat center) host from  their small rural communities on the Oregon coast. They move from playful conversations to  deep dives into how life could be on planet Earth if we allowed ourselves to dream into a new way of relating to ourselves and with each other rooted in the magic of nature.   

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  • Creator
    Virginia Edwards
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Nurture Pod
  • Show Website
    The Nurture Pod

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